It was Mark Carney who convinced Marienelle Mariscal to invest in crypto. Or so she thought.
In April, when Mariscal was stuck in her Toronto home, unable to work while awaiting surgery, she stumbled across a video on social media that appeared to show the prime minister urging viewers to invest in cryptocurrency. Mariscal was intrigued.
“I was hoping that I can just get some money while I’m at home recuperating,” the 41-year-old said.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said there will be no more wars after Ukraine if Russia is treated with respect – and claims that Moscow is planning to attack European countries are “nonsense”.
In a marathon televised event lasting almost four and a half hours, he was asked by the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg whether there would be new “special military operations” – Putin’s term for the full-scale war.
“There won’t be any operations if you treat us with respect, if you respect our interests just as we’ve always tried to respect yours,” he asserted.
With US-Canada trade talks still on hold, American officials have laid out their clearest demands yet for keeping free trade in place between the two countries.
The list includes further opening the Canadian dairy market to US farmers, and overhauling an online streaming law that the US says “discriminates” against American tech and media firms.
The US also wants Canadian provinces to lift their ban on selling American liquor, which was put in place earlier this year in response to the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
A US judge has blocked Michigan from enforcing a 2020 order that would have shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac, the channel connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Reuters reported that on Wednesday US District Judge Robert Jonker ruled that oversight of pipeline safety and the protection of the Straits is a federal responsibility, effectively preventing Michigan from shutting down the pipeline.
Retired Army Chaplain Brad Lewis (Col.-R) got emotional this week when he heard War Sec. Pete Hegseth’s order to return the Chaplain Corps to religious ministry. Hegseth said the Chaplain Corps role has been “degraded” in recent decades, and he gave the example of the 2025 “Army Spiritual Fitness Guide” that mentions “God” once, but “playfulness” nine times in 112 pages. Although most people in the military, 82 percent, are religious according to the guide, God has been nearly replaced by secular humanism. Hegseth eliminated the use of the guide this week and announced he is simplifying the faith coding system.
“Are you crazy?” Tom, my seventy-year-old neighbor, asks as we wait in line at Frank and Joe’s Deli. “Do you want to see the return of polio and iron lungs?”
“No,” I answer quietly. “I just want to make sure that what we’re doing to our kids is safe.”
h/t handy n handsome
For more than 36 years, Tim Rees has been considered the most heinous of criminals — a child killer.
The 62-year-old emerged Thursday from the downtown Toronto courthouse into the wintry sunshine, that yoke of shame finally lifted after the Crown withdrew the murder charge against him.
Good God.
Islamists are waging a low-level holy war against ordinary Germans and their traditions.
The ‘fact checkers’ have been busy in Germany. For weeks, they have been working overtime to dismiss claims about the slow death of the German Christmas market. ‘No, Christmas markets are not being cancelled en masse’, writes the fact-checking team at public broadcaster ZDF. Another ZDF article warns that ‘fake news about Christmas markets is going viral’. The message is clear: move along, nothing to see here.
A section of the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy titled “Promoting European Greatness” warns that Europe faces the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure,” making the continent “unrecognizable in 20 years or less.” It blames (among other issues like economic decline) transnational bodies like the European Union for undermining “political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
In a UK Guardian piece last weekend called “The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction,” columnist George Monbiot argued that, contrary to the White House view that European migration policies are “creating strife” and leading to “loss of national identities,” what will save European civilization from erasure is – wait for it – more mass immigration.
In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providers
When the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columbia with strong counter-cultural roots. “The community that I live in, home birth is something a lot of women prioritise,” she explains.
Then Cardinal stumbled across a podcast from the Free Birth Society (FBS). One episode in particular, she says, made an impact: “Unpacking Ultrasound With Yolande Clark.” In it, the Canadian ex-doula Yolande Norris-Clark falsely links ultrasounds to autism and ADHD and states that “ultrasound damages and modifies and destroys cells”.
A convicted German neo-Nazi, whose gender change before a scheduled prison sentence caused uproar, has applied to change legal identity again while remaining on the run, Marla-Svenja Liebich told Euronews in an interview.
“I want to separate my private life from my public persona,” Liebich said.
Do you know what the Jewish community in Australia (not to mention Canada, the UK and across Europe) have been asking for over and over again? Stop Muslim mobs from harassing and terrorizing Jewish schools, shops and communities.
REMINDER: This crowd of Pro-Hamas Australians were standing outside the Sydney Opera House screaming “Gas the Jews” just one day after the October 7 Massacre.
One. Day.
We were still sifting through the ashes of Be’eri searching for our loved ones.
This was never about land. pic.twitter.com/ePXZKsqqar
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) February 13, 2025
h/t PA Cat
Katy Perry’s ex-husband, Russell Brand, questions whether Perry’s current choice in men is on the right… course.
To put it plainly, Brand, at a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event in Phoenix, Arizona, publicly announced his disapproval of Perry’s relationship with Trudeau.
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Two weeks ago Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. The event went unnoticed in Canada and left barely a ripple in U.S. media. But two months prior Gouvea, a noted Brazilian gun-control activist and head of the University of São Paulo’s “diversity and inclusion committee”, had been observed wielding what looked like a rifle close by Temple Beth Zion, a synagogue in the Boston suburb of Brookline, during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
After fleeing security guards, Gouvea was arrested with what turned out to be a pellet gun. He told local police he had been out “hunting rats”; one of his shots had shattered a car window. Within days, Gouvea was charged with four offences, his visa was revoked and a U.S. Department of Homeland Security official denounced “brazen, violent acts of anti-Semitism like this.” In November Gouvea struck a plea deal over his illegal use of the air rifle. Early this month he was re-arrested by ICE and, to avoid the humiliation of deportation, agreed to leave the U.S. “voluntarily”.
Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention.
Many people can’t have read it, because it is full of incendiary details which demolish the case for mass migration.
The MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not a political body, and its board is comprised of sober, sensible academics, who have set out to model ‘net fiscal impact’ – the costs, or benefits to the taxpayer of different kinds of migration. It’s worth noting that they do not seek to model second- or third-order costs of migration, such as housing costs, crime or long-term suppression of wages and birth rates.
