As Canada closes out 2025, the Conservatives are suddenly polling higher than at any point since the swearing-in of Mark Carney as prime minister.
In the last days of December, several pollsters posted year-end results finding that the Conservatives and Liberals would be neck and neck in a federal election.
The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury has been urged to scrap plans to spend £100m over the Church of England’s historical links to slavery.
In a letter seen by the Sunday Times, a group of Conservative MPs and peers has urged Dame Sarah Mullally to stop the Church from spending the money.
They claim the funds can only legally be spent on churches and the payment of clergy wages.
In a statement, the Church Commissioners said that arrangements for the fund were being “developed transparently – in line with charity law”.
Canadians have grown accustomed to a lot when buying food.
Shrinkflation has reduced package sizes.
Skimpflation has diluted quality.
Loyalty programs increasingly resemble surveillance rather than savings.
Prices often feel disconnected from what is happening at the farmgate.
EXCLUSIVE — In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump was doing nonstop rallies, many of them outdoors despite an assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him bloodied after a bullet struck his ear.
The rallies felt more like festivals than political events, with crowds gathering hours early amid music and pageantry. Local heroes, union leaders, elected officials and retired military officers cycled through as warmup speakers, firing up the audience between tracks like Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond,” Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.,” Trump’s walkout anthem.
While Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged in a year-end interview with CBC that former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change plan was a $200-billion flop, the roots of that failure predate Trudeau.
They go back to then-prime minister Jean Chretien signing onto the United Nations Kyoto accord in 1998, committing Canada to economy-killing climate targets which – as top Chretien aide Eddie Goldenberg later acknowledged – the Liberals knew they couldn’t achieve.
Caroline Ellison, the former girlfriend of crypto swindler Sam Bankman-Fried, is set to be released from prison just over a year into her sentence.
The 31-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison in September 2024 for wire fraud and money laundering, after admitting to helping Bankman-Fried’s FTX platform steal billions from clients.
According to Federal Bureau of Prisons records seen by the Daily Mail, Ellison is now set to be released from custody on January 21, 2026, nine months before the end of her original sentence.
We are about to embark on 2026. Should we look ahead with optimism, pessimism or trepidation? Essentially, it is unknown as the crazy man in the White House continues his rampage, destroying what were warm relations between Canada and the United States and turning them to ice.
Most Canadians know how to deal with ice so we should have the upper hand. But first let’s look back at what Donald Trump has done to change the temperature. Past actions foretell the future, so they say, and in Trump’s case it’s a good bet that his actions will only get worse.
At some point even the Elbow People will have to acknowledge that rule by the Liberal Party clique, including Carney’s tenure has been a disaster for Canada.
In Canada the LPC is the Great Satan and Trump but a junior one.
West Side Story should only be watched by children over 12 because it features “transphobia”, a regulator has ruled.
Sexism, racism, violence and sexual threat are other issues that have led to the classic 1961 film musical being changed from PG to 12 by the British Board of Film Certification (BBFC).
Films are regularly reviewed to ensure that their certificates are appropriate for the current audience. The home entertainment rating of West Side Story was changed to reflect that the language and attitudes of the 1960s are less acceptable in the modern world.
That “regulator” should be beaten with sticks.
One question separates announced but purely hypothetical nuclear power plants from those that actually stand a chance of being built: Who’s going to pay for them?
In China and Russia, which dominated reactor construction for the past few decades, governments provided the funds. Advanced economies placed much greater emphasis on private capital. That approach was intended to impose greater commercial discipline and protect the public purse but led to very few reactors being built in the West.
Scary
Well said. @fancypants_s https://t.co/bzbWNccNzo
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 28, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
As most of the country wound down for Christmas, the Trump administration had other ideas. On Tuesday night, the State Department announced sanctions against five Europeans. The charge? Not corruption, terrorism or espionage. Instead, it was crimes against freedom of speech.
After Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, announced the sanctions, Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, followed up with details of the five individuals, who include the former European commissioner, Thierry Breton, and two British citizens, Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford.
She said Ahmed, head of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, and Melford, chief executive of the Global Disinformation Index, were guilty of “extraterritorial censorship of Americans”. “Our message is clear,” she said: “if you spend your career fomenting censorship of American speech, you’re unwelcome on American soil.”
Trucker caught with cocaine at MTO scales: Lambton OPP
Another truck driver has been arrested in the Sarnia area and charged with smuggling drugs into Canada, but this time at a Ministry of Transportation inspection area on Highway 402 and not the Blue Water Bridge, Lambton OPP say.
Harmeet Dhamoon, 43, from London, has been charged with importing cocaine and possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. The accused has been held in custody and is due back in court on Tuesday, police said.
Civil servants who have knowingly let foreign sex offenders into Britain would be prosecuted under a Reform UK government, and face losing their jobs and pensions.
Nigel Farage’s party said it would legislate to create a new criminal offence of “dishonestly determining an asylum claim”, punishable by up to two years in prison.
Under the policy, civil servants found to have committed the offence would also face a number of potential sanctions, including being forced to give up their civil service pension, and dismissal for gross misconduct.
It should apply to any civil servant who allowed a Muslim to enter the UK.
On Boxing Day, a pro-Palestinian mob took over the Eaton Centre, one of Canada’s busiest and most iconic public spaces, chanting for “intifada” in the heart of Toronto. Not on the fringes. Not quietly. In the middle of a mall filled with families, workers, tourists, and holiday shoppers.
This did not happen in a vacuum. And it cannot be dismissed as just another protest.
Hamas supporters take over the Eaton Center in Toronto on Boxing Day.
This happened last year too by the way.
How were the police so unprepared yet again? https://t.co/qzrUPAbBSx pic.twitter.com/o8ZBvYFXUG
— Bruce (@bruce_barrett) December 27, 2025
"Found her alone on the street, now she has a 54K home and a whole lot of love pic.twitter.com/ziEgeGUKfQ
— We don't deserve cats 😺 (@catsareblessing) December 21, 2025
