A student is raising questions about the Waterloo Region District School Board’s decision to spend $175,000 to rename a high school in Waterloo, Ont.
Grade 10 student Ishan Acharya’s inquiry stems from a vote by the board trustees in 2021 to rename Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School. The reason cited for the decision was that Canada’s first prime minister had a founding role in the residential school system.
The Taliban has formally recognised child marriages under a sweeping new family law regulation that sets out rules for marriages involving minors and establishes specific guidelines governing ‘virgin girls’.
The 31-page article regulation called ‘Principles of Separation Between Spouses’ outlines rules governing the dissolution of marriages under an endless list of religious and legal conditions.
These include child marriage, breastfeeding relations, forced separation, missing husbands, apostasy and accusations of adultery.
Early in 1951, a refugee in Bavaria tried a second time to emigrate to Canada. His mistake on the first attempt had been to write, under “occupation,” the word “teacher.” He’d been a trained teacher before the war, but Canada didn’t need teachers. Asking around, it seemed Canada needed labourers, so when my father wrote “labourer” on the application, he was accepted.
Perhaps no recent controversy symbolizes Vienna’s cultural unease more clearly than the city government’s decision earlier this year not to erect a statue honoring Polish King John III Sobieski. Sobieski led the Christian coalition that defeated Ottoman forces outside Vienna on September 12, 1683, in one of the decisive battles of European history.
The military reprimanded soldiers after they raised concerns about an order to monitor Canadians’ online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, CBC News has learned.
But the military’s top lawyer later warned of risks associated with this kind of monitoring, and a review found it violated the rules, according to internal documents viewed by CBC News.
In March 2020, the Canadian Armed Forces tasked a team with creating anonymous social media accounts to comb the internet and produce daily reports for military leaders that included the status of COVID-19 in Canada, as well as the political discourse and any misinformation surrounding the pandemic.
I hope the officers who authorized this travesty have been rooted out but you just know they’re the DEI NAZIS.
Under the Liberals every Canadian institution is being weaponized against citizens, from CBC, the CAF and the legal system.
We are not a free country.
Tens of thousands descend on London for rival protests
Tens of thousands of protesters have descended on London for two rival marches – the United the Kingdom rally organised by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
More than 4,000 police officers have been deployed to the capital, and they are managing a so-called “sterile zone” between the two marches. Officers are also using drones, police horses and dogs, and have armoured vehicles on standby.
The Metropolitan Police has called it one of the most significant policing operations in years.
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OTTAWA — The federal government and Alberta will try to clear the way for construction of a major new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast by September 2027, as part of a new deal that showcases Prime Minister Mark Carney’s softer approach to fossil fuel emissions in a bid to boost economic development.
Friday’s “implementation deal” follows the memorandum of understanding signed last November that scrapped, suspended and watered down major national climate policies created under Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
🚨OH. MY. GOSH!!!
It has been revealed that the man who has been drawing Swastikas all over Fayetteville NC…
…is actually a BLACK MALE, "Taquon Jameek Vereen"
He was let out on a $1500 bond and then IMMEDIATELY BEGAN WAIVING A GUN AT PEOPLE ON THE STREET.
He was YET AGAIN… pic.twitter.com/cT8OU7i1s2
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) May 15, 2026
🇳🇱 A Dutch town of 9,000 people has been in open revolt for 3 days straight
The plan: drop 110 young male asylum seekers into Loosdrecht, a quiet commune that had zero say in the matter
The response: massive public resistancepic.twitter.com/v9bGtE2ri1 https://t.co/SjCuEMHmWc
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 14, 2026
You wouldn’t think it based on the last few weeks of headlines, but if an election was held today, Doug Ford would win another majority.
Ontario’s Premier hasn’t been able to buy a good headline in the last three weeks, not since news broke that he was buying, and has since returned, a private jet for government use.
After being presented with piles of evidence showing his office systematically allows violent criminal illegal aliens back on the street, Steve Descano, the George Soros-backed Fairfax County, Virginia, Commonwealth’s Attorney, continued to claim his office does everything in its power to prosecute them properly.
AKWESASNE – A federal indictment unsealed in New Hampshire reads like a logistics manual for exploiting cartel-saturated borderlands.
But it is the northern border — the trilateral seam between Canadian, American, and Mohawk lands — and not notorious southern crossings like Laredo or San Diego, that is now drawing increased focus from United States weapons-trafficking agencies.
Pope Leo XIV is doubling down on Christian-Muslim dialogue, emphasizing an “equal” partnership in both traditions toward global transformation. But normative Islam does not view disbelievers as equals. “Pope: Christians and Muslims must work together to ‘revive humanity,’” by Joseph Tulloch, Vatican News, May 11, 2026…
Man, am I the only one getting sick and tired of hearing this type of story every day?
An Indian trucker who had been driving for 16 hours straight when he smashed through a construction zone and killed an Olympic figure skater and mom was given a 2.5 year sentence after pleading guilty in an Ontario court.
h/t patthedog
THE cost of renewables obligation subsidies has now topped £100billion, according to government statistics recently released.
Subsidy payments are increased in line with RPI every year, but at 2025 prices the bill since 2010 has now risen to £101.2billion. Last year alone, renewable generators received subsidies of £7.7billion. Two thirds go to wind and solar farms, which we are told are supposedly the cheapest forms of energy.
