A year ago, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was called a traitor.
Now Smith is compared to Hitler’s Nazis.
And she is not compared to the Nazis by the usual unhinged social media bottom feeder.
No.
Smith is slimed by the former premier of Alberta. That’s Rachel Notley.
Smith is also slimed by the former deputy premier of Alberta. That’s Thomas Lukaszuk.
On 20 February 2012, Coté Arias met Morrissey at a fan meet-up in Santiago, Chile. The former Smiths frontman signed her forearm in spiky capitalised lettering, which Coté later had traced permanently on to her skin with ink. Her years-long plan for the tattoo, which had started with her founding Morrissey’s Chilean fanclub, had worked. “Morrissey had such an impact on me growing up,” she says. “I struggled with shyness and lacked confidence for much of my life, and his lyrics helped me feel seen while transitioning into adulthood.”
From crumbling healthcare to the housing crisis, Canada’s refusal to control its borders is a recipe for social collapse and the bureaucracy is to blame.
Mass immigration is threatening the social and economic well-being of the entire Western world. One needs only to look at the catastrophes in Europe, as decades of unchecked immigration have led to entire sections of cities becoming unhabitable to locally born citizens, while race riots and demonstrations choke cities regularly. Integration has become nearly impossible as migrants cluster into introverted communities of their own and refuse to adapt to cultural norms within the democracies they entered.
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The crazed gunman who was shot dead after trying to enter Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and a gas can has been identified as a North Carolina artist who was reported missing by his mom.
Austin Tucker Martin, 21, of Cameron, North Carolina, was killed by law enforcement in the early hours of Sunday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.
He was reported missing by his family to authorities on Saturday.
One weird kid.
h/t PA Cat
The walls of Parliament shook this week with yet another floor-crossing of Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal caucus. This wasn’t just a procedural shift in the halls of Parliament, it is a stark symbol of a new, unsettling reality in Conservative politics.
While floor-crossing is a historical reality and, let’s be honest, Liberals have crossed to the Conservatives before, the difference here is the context. The toxic reaction surrounding this crossing exposes a genuine bottom of the barrel moment for the political discourse, particularly within the Conservative movement.
I do not think it honest to declare yourself a moderate and a conservative after a decade of the LPC’s corrosive rule.
Lessons from Lepanto: confronting Islamism, authoritarianism, and the crisis of Western resolve.
On October 7th 1571, two great fleets collided off the coast of western Greece in one of history’s greatest naval battles –and one of the most consequential for the history of what we once were pleased to call “Western Civilization.” As part of its ongoing campaign to claim Europe for Islam, the Ottoman Empire assembled a huge fleet of war galleys, intending to wrest control of the Adriatic Sea — and ultimately, the entire Mediterranean — from the several Christian powers, notably Venice and Spain.
To counter this threat, Pope Pius V called into existence the “Holy League,” a coalition based upon the combined naval resources of Venice and Spain. Under the leadership of Don John of Austria, the illegitimate half-brother of King Phillip II of Spain, the fleet of the Holy League won a resounding victory, known to history as the Battle of Lepanto.
Health care was looking grimmer by the day back in 2023 in a rural corner of western Canada.
Family doctors had retired or moved, starting a chain reaction that cut in half the number serving the 12,000 residents of the Alberta town of Stettler and its surrounding county, also called Stettler.
People with preventable problems, but without family doctors, sought help in the town hospital’s emergency room. Then the emergency room began shutting down on some days because of a doctor shortage, forcing the unlucky to drive 50 miles to the nearest city.
About 450 people came to a hastily called meeting at the hockey arena.
This is horrible. @fancypants_s https://t.co/d6RvHwh5mo
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) February 22, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
In less than two weeks, two deadly shootings — both allegedly by transgender-identifying biological males. One was a school rampage in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that killed eight people, and the other a targeted family attack during a youth hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where two of the alleged shooter’s family members were left dead.
h/t handy n handsome
Maybe don’t do 40 MPH on the sidewalk on your e-bike pic.twitter.com/gv6mMA2god
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) February 22, 2026
Hollywood’s future may hinge on a ruthless calculus: whether audiences continue to value human presence, or embrace flawless digital performances unconstrained by flesh, time, or cost.
I recently reflected upon two differing perspectives on what artificial intelligence would bring to the entertainment industry, specifically screen actors. As with prognostications of AI’s impact on other vocations, especially white-collar ones, the two views were almost diametrically opposed, as if the modern Roman Coliseum of social media were showing a “sword-and-sandal” flick starring Pollyanna and Cassandra locked in mortal combat. Yet while both individual positions had merit, only one can be accurate.
Starring in the role of Pollyanna is Ben Affleck.
I found this AI generated video titled “30 iconic dresses that made Old Hollywood unforgettable” tonight on Instagram and decided to post it FYI.
Could you please let me know in comments if you'd like me to post more AI videos like this one on our page or not?
Thanks! Neil pic.twitter.com/xt3HwndvFH
— Hollywood Golden Age of Cinema (@HGACinema) February 16, 2026
In light of President Trump’s recent threats to Greenland, there was considerable interest at last week’s Munich Security Conference in the last great “ungoverned”, “interstitial” region of the world: the vast Arctic. Alas, the emerging manner of “governing” the Arctic is not only militaristic, but exceedingly incoherent in its militarism.
The ostensible response to America threatening to annex Greenland is to increase Nato’s presence and interest in Greenland. And the ostensible response to Russian Arctic ambitions or actions is, again, to increase Nato presence and interest in the Arctic. In short, more Nato presence appears to be a fix-all to Arctic threats emanating from allies and adversaries alike.
The House of Windsor has an admirable Teflon quality that has enabled it to survive constitutional crises from the abdication of Edward VIII to the death of Princess Diana. But the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may yet prove to be the downfall of the monarchy and the British establishment which it props up.
The prospect of the former prince, who for now remains eighth in line to the throne, standing in the dock of an English crown court that bears his brother’s coat of arms, while detectives continue to extend their investigation across the royal estate, is likely to ignite a constitutional crisis that the royal family cannot survive. For the tax-paying public, watching aghast, it is hard not to sense a decades-long conspiracy of silence and self-interested self-protection as well as a strong whiff of rotten corruption at the heart of the state.
In February 2025, Canada listed seven transnational organized crime groups, primarily Mexican cartels, as terrorist entities, noting “their drug trafficking activities are a risk to national security and must be stopped.” In a follow-up media interview, senior RCMP officers confirmed that all listed groups were active in Canada and “very much involved in crime impacting Canada.”
The move sparked significant debate. Critics argued that terrorism is ideologically motivated, seeking political or social change through fear, whereas organized crime is driven by profit and pragmatism. While cartels use terrorist-like violence, it is typically to protect markets, eliminate rivals, or deter state interference — not to alter political structures. In this view, cartels and terrorists occupy different ends of the threat spectrum.
While much of the world’s attention remains fixed on Iran and its Shi’ite axis, another geopolitical realignment is taking shape — more quietly, more pragmatically, and potentially just as consequential for the US, Israel and the Middle East.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched an ambitious diplomatic offensive aimed at unifying the Sunni world under Ankara’s leadership. The objective is not merely reconciliation with former rivals. It is the construction of a Sunni diplomatic and strategic “wall,” or “noose,” around Israel, replacing the Iranian “Shi’ite crescent” with a new configuration of Sunni power.
