Porn no longer subject to Canadian content quotas, says CRTC

Ottawa will no longer be imposing Canadian content quotas on the pornography sector, according to new guidelines released by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission.

Buried in a recent update to CRTC protocols is the agency’s announcement that it will no longer be requiring “certification” of adult programming.


What will the Elbows Up people watch now?

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The royals are ‘concerned’ Fergie might tell all on US TV? I bet they are

Might Sarah Ferguson go “rogue” after accepting a “six-figure offer” for a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey? Palace sources have told The Sun that she’s contemplating doing one — adding that the royal family is “concerned”, but feel “there’s not much they can do to stop her”.

Blimey! I’m not surprised at the “concern”, are you? The idea of Ferguson — who was never anything if not a bit “rogue”, even at her best behaved, but now? In the present moment? Booted out of her home, stripped of her titles, her latest children’s book likely pulped, dropped by the charities with which she worked, reputation in the gutter, friends, running for the hills? Now, when she has really very little, if anything, left to lose? The idea of this incarnation of Fergie, spilling unknowable beans? That could cause the royal family real damage. More, potentially, than Prince Harry’s book Spare. More, even, than his and Meghan’s interview with Winfrey.

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GOP lawmaker complains Canada’s defense spending still falls short in the long run

HALIFAX — Republican lawmaker Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says it’s all good and well that Canada is finally meeting its NATO defense spending commitments, but Canada should make up for two decades of back dues — to the tune of $300 billion.

“Can we do a makeup payment for the 20 years of shortfalls as well?” Tillis told a Saturday panel at the Halifax International Security Forum, a international gathering of defense officials and security professionals.


The only money spent will be used to fortify Festung Ottawa against anticipated popular uprisings.

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How the UK Police Criminalised Christian Speech

Forget terror plots, knife crime, or rampant theft, Britain’s police have bigger things to worry about—Christian street preachers. Shaun O’Sullivan, a 36-year-old preacher at the evangelical Awaken church in Swindon, was acquitted unanimously by a jury last week at Crown Court. He faced charges of racial and religious harassment against Muslims for saying the words: “Pray for the Jews and pray for the Palestinians.” This culminated in a six-day trial, costing an estimated £20,000.

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Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee

Thomas King, the award-winning Canadian-American author of such books as the 2020 novel Indians on Vacation and 2012’s The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, is not part Cherokee, as he long assumed himself to be.

In an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail, the 82-year-old writer said he learned he was not Indigenous when he met recently with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, a whistle-blowing organization based in North Carolina that is dedicated to exposing false claims of Native American heritage.

“I’m still in shock,” Mr. King said, speaking from his home in Guelph, Ont.


To his credit …

All my life, I believed I was Indigenous. Now, I must reckon with the inconvenient truth

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Indigenous activist wins court ruling forcing disclosure of band finances

Frog Lake First Nation member Hans McCarthy has won a landmark Federal Court decision giving individual band members the right to access documents detailing how their community’s money is managed.

McCarthy, an indigenous activist, partnered with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) to compel Indigenous Services Canada to release band council resolutions governing the Frog Lake trust fund, which holds revenues from natural resources on band lands.

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Former Zelensky Spox: Ukraine Must Sign Peace Deal To Avoid Even Greater Losses

Things are very bad in Ukraine right now. The former spokeswoman for Ukraine’s clearly overmatched comedian leader says things could get a lot worse if Ukraine’s government walks away from peace this time.

“Every subsequent deal for Ukraine will only be worse — because we are losing. We are losing people, territory, and the economy,” Iuliia Mendel, press secretary for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from 2019 to 2021, wrote in an X post this weekend as negotiators went back and forth in marathon peace talks. 

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’60 Minutes’ Acts as Handmaids to a Feminist ‘Titan’

The self-appointed enforcers of “progressive” media indoctrination are satisfied that CBS hasn’t yet changed the tone of “60 Minutes,” which they call a “crown jewel” of the Dan Rather Network. Tom Jones at the Poynter Institute was pleased that Sunday’s show still featured two “fair and factual” stories that criticized President Donald Trump.

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No, the Picts were not black

Carved in Stone is ‘a storyteller’s guide to the Picts’, the people who lived in what is now northern and eastern Scotland over a thousand years ago. Produced in partnership with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, it draws on the work of an impressive roster of archaeologists and historians. But the real selling point is that the authors are gamers, and the book is designed in part for people who want to roleplay as Picts in games like Dungeons & Dragons.

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Insurrection Chic

Democrats now celebrate the very nullificationist tactics they once decried, embracing a neo-Confederate defiance of federal authority to undermine a president they despise.

Is Jeff Davis the Model?

Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?

The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?

h/t XC

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