The triangle of sadness in personal finance is houses, groceries and vehicles.
Nothing in the outlook for 2026 suggests major relief is coming on any of those fronts, which leaves you to take action yourself.
After five years of oppressive inflation, you’ve likely pared down your grocery spending as much as possible. Selling your home to cut living costs is no real option, either; it’s a last resort and opens up a new set of problems.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe Awards added a Best Podcast category for its awards show in January. They began from a short list of the top podcasts, about 25 programs, but that included shows the left hates, like Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and #1-rated podcaster Joe Rogan. Right-wingers never win awards!?
In the real world, a green energy economy can only be financed through the strategic sale and use of fossil fuel power.
The memorandum of understanding between Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney on building a new bitumen pipeline to B.C. with the goal of selling our oil to Asian markets — as opposed to at a perpetual discount to the U.S., where 97% of all sales now go — recognizes this.
More than half a million illegal aliens have been deported and more than two million altogether have left the country since Donald Trump took office.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the latest deportation numbers for this year, which include 600,000 illegal aliens deported and nearly 2,000,000 who agreed to the generous federal government deal for self-deportation.
BREAKING: 600k illegals have been deported from the interior of our country in less than 365 days, with another 1.9 million self-deporting, totaling over 2.5 million illegals gone. A monumental achievement!
We are just getting started. pic.twitter.com/SGGBXeM8je
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 10, 2025
Canada has become the first country to list the extremist network 764, known for preying on young people online, as a terrorist entity, the federal government announced Wednesday.
Ottawa added four new organizations to the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities:
In a statement, the government says 764, Maniac Murder Cult and Terrorgram Collective use social media and online gaming platforms to “recruit and radicalize individuals, spread propaganda and violent extremist narratives and incite violence both online and offline.”
More than 8-in-10 households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota are on one or more forms of American taxpayer-funded welfare, new data published by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals.
Employers of immigrant skilled trades workers are concerned for their businesses after the Ford government cut part of an immigrant work program over fraud concerns.
Nasir Ali, owner of Insultech Ltd: Mechanical Insulation and Firestopping and Arafco Mechanical Services Ltd — located in Brampton and Mississauga — believes “the main issue is not for these workers, the issue is for the business owners.”
“I had 47 guys, now I have only 32 guys, so how can we manage the jobs,” said Ali. “I have a chance to get more projects, but I refuse it because we don’t have enough manpower.”
Everywhere you look we’re being scammed by foreigners.
The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on Thursday.
The House of Commons rounded on Donald Trump’s national security strategy, which stated that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and vowed to help the continent “correct its current trajectory and promote patriotic European parties”.
Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament’s joint committee on the UK government’s national security strategy, warned: “The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered.”
Opposition parties howled with anger over reports that Prime Minister Mark Carney will appoint his friend and fundraiser Mark Wiseman as Canada’s next ambassador to Washington. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called Wiseman a “corporate crony” and an “elite” — two things that actually might help him in Washington and with the Trump administration.
He’s one of the scumsucking slimeballs behind the Century 100 initiative.
Fired MSNBC host Joy Reid played Grinch on social media this week, sharing a video claiming beloved Christmas anthem “Jingle Bells” was written “to make fun of black people.”
In the video she shared to her 1.3 million Instagram followers, a man in a Christmas sweater and Santa hat stands on the streets of Medford, Massachusetts near a plaque marks the site where James Lord Pierpont is believed to have penned the song in 1850.
🇺🇸 JOY REID SHARES VIDEO CLAIMING "JINGLE BELLS" WAS WRITTEN "TO MAKE FUN OF BLACK PEOPLE"
They really can't let people enjoy Christmas.
Fired MSNBC host Joy Reid shared a video to her 1.3 million Instagram followers claiming the beloved Christmas anthem "Jingle Bells" was… pic.twitter.com/EM4NaVjZPW
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead trade negotiator says the administration is considering breaking up the three-way free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, moving toward separate deals instead.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Wednesday that the Trump administration is keeping all options on the table for the future of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) as it comes up for renewal in 2026.
But Greer, who plays a key role in all trade negotiations, including the looming review of CUSMA, is laying out a strong case for separate bilateral deals with the country’s northern and southern neighbours — a move that would end 30 years of North America having a unified free trade agreement.
Nothing new really the US and Mexico nearly shut Canada out the last go round thanks to Freeland.
The ‘coalition of the willing’ can barely defend itself, let alone protect Ukraine from Russian aggression
Sir Keir Starmer’s blatant attempt to undermine the Trump administration’s Herculean effort to end the Ukraine conflict would be a great deal more credible if he and his European chums had the military clout to back their alternative diplomatic offering.
While leaders of Starmer’s so-called “coalition of the willing” were at pains not to criticise US president Donald Trump directly, their unstated intention during their Downing Street summit this week was to encourage Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to resist Trump’s land for peace proposal.
None of England, France or Germany can control the Muslim invaders within their borders, Russia can’t be too worried about them.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow professes herself perplexed as to the motivation behind a petty, mean, cowardly thief stealing sacred scrolls from the doors of Jewish seniors.
Is Chow so arrogant that she fails to recognize it is because of her, and politicians like her, that this kind of antisemitic criminality happens?
I hate Chow.
Erika Kirk has furiously slammed ‘evil’ conspiracy theorists for making revolting claims linking Turning Point (TPUSA) staff to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The chief executive of the non-profit organization, who stepped into the role after her husband’s murder, warned that she would not allow her colleagues to be targeted by online trolls.
Inflammatory claims by provocateurs, including Candace Owens, have led to threats against TPUSA staff.
YES!!!! @MrsErikaKirk just DESTROYED those making money defaming her, TPUSA, and anyone Charlie Loved!!
Hey Candace Owens she is talking to you!!! pic.twitter.com/mpH68f8i4O
— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen) December 10, 2025
When the Conservatives tabled a motion asking the House of Commons to “take note” of the memorandum of understanding signed between the federal and Alberta governments and express its support for the construction of a pipeline, the Official Opposition presumably hoped, one way or another, to make trouble for the Liberal government.
According to the logic of these things, the Liberals only had two bad options.
If Mark Carney and his cabinet decided to vote in support of the motion, they no doubt risked highlighting dissent about a pipeline among Liberal backbenchers. At the very least, it is hard to imagine how Steven Guilbeault could have supported the Conservative motion.
