OUR local shopping centre has just installed six new rapid 150 kW EV chargers to replace 50kW chargers.
With strong speculation this week that EVs will face pay-per-mile charges from 2028, these new chargers are a reminder that driving will become not only unpractical but unaffordable for anybody who does not have off-street parking. It is estimated that this is the case for at least 40 per cent of car owners across the UK.
It’s a statistic floated around by high-ranking police officers and Calgary’s new mayor — a relatively small number of people committing a whole lot of crime.
Ahead of a Calgary police downtown safety blitz Nov. 5, Supt. Scott Boyd said the police have a “high system user group that’s roughly around 75 individuals … [who] do a disproportionate amount of crime on any given day throughout Calgary.”
During his campaign, then-mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas used a slightly different number, pledging in his platform to “strengthen community policing with a crackdown on Calgary’s top 100 repeat violent offenders.”
The victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York’s mayoral election was based on hardcore identity politics and undergraduate socialism. The hipster revolutionaries have officially progressed from the college campus to the corridors of power. But do they have any idea what they’re talking about?
Al Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic terrorism have all become politically acceptable.
In 2025, Hamas and Hezbollah flags became regular sights on Ivy League college campuses, a Muslim immigrant who embraced an unindicted coconspirator in bombing plots in New York City became its mayor, presidential envoys chatted with Hamas and an Al Qaeda leader who used to have a $10 million reward on his head visited the White House and met with the president.
A Hells Angels hitman who killed a man in Nova Scotia can’t fathom why the Parole Board of Canada takes his victim’s family’s word over his when it comes to granting him freedom.
Dean Daniel Kelsie is serving a life sentence for the October 2000 shooting death of Sean Simmons in the lobby of a Dartmouth, N.S., apartment building. The court heard Simmons was killed for having had an affair with the wife of a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.
A sudden and unexpected death in New Jersey has now been identified as the first documented fatality caused by a rare tick-bite complication that is becoming more common.
The case, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, sheds new light on alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a little-known, but rapidly emerging, health threat that causes the sudden onset of a meat allergy triggered by certain tick bites.
In the summer of 2024, a 47-year-old unnamed father and airline pilot collapsed in the bathroom of his home and died despite prolonged resuscitation efforts.
They haven’t won in a war, but they’ve changed the battlefield: no longer the streets, but our minds.
From the court records.
Stade de France:
“Against the stadium gate we find a bone. Pieces of human flesh, a hand. Then what could be an arm and shreds of meat. On Rue de l’Olympisme, a finger.”
Then the photo of Manuel Colaço Dias, the first victim of the attacks. His body had “eleven metal nuts, including one in the lung that caused death.”
Next stop: Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge, two restaurants in the city center.
No words.
Please tell me this isn’t real. @fancypants_s https://t.co/VT2UBCZVJw
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) November 14, 2025
The Ontario College of Teachers is facing criticism for pressuring a former Ottawa teacher to permanently surrender her licence over social media posts in which she expressed concerns about gender identity ideology, gender-affirming medical interventions, and women’s sex-based rights.
Burn it all down. (Incognito)
The independent thought alarm went off in the Liberal universe again, and of course, the culprit was Ontario MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith. The MP for Beaches-East York has made a habit of using both his brain and his mouth since he entered politics a decade ago, which is a combination that will earn any MP a permanent seat on the backbench (though Mr. Erksine-Smith did enjoy a brief stint as housing minister in the final and desperate months of the Justin Trudeau government).
Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore.
Case in point, one of the most successful public policies in U.S. history, the World War II G.I. Bill, which financed college educations for military veterans. Signed by former President Franklin Roosevelt, it embodied New Deal generosity even as its chief backers included the racist Democratic Mississippi representative, John Rankin, and the supposedly reactionary American Legion. One secret of its success, like that of Social Security, was apparent reciprocity: It provided benefits for those who made some contribution.
For years, conservatives have comforted themselves with the illusion that the destruction of the West was entirely the doing of the left. They have blamed progressive ideologues, globalists, and utopians for the failed experiment of multiculturalism, the open borders that reshaped their nations, and the cultural relativism that hollowed out the moral foundations of their societies. But this is self-deception. The truth is that the so-called right, the respectable suit-and-tie centre-right parties that governed most of the West for the better part of the last half-century, are just as responsible for the decay of our civilization as their left-wing counterparts. They were not innocent observers. They were in power, and they made the choices that brought us here.
h/t Auntie Polly
Let the words and lyrics wash over you like a golden shower of riches and motivation. pic.twitter.com/x9ckGqOaxk
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 14, 2025
Former immigration minister says Canada’s reputation on welcoming refugees is at risk
OTTAWA — Former immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy, a prominent global champion for refugees, said he believes Canada is putting its reputation as a welcoming place for refugees at risk through recent federal policy shifts.
Those shifts, he said, include the Carney government’s new border security bill, C-12, which would limit the ability of individuals who have been in Canada for more than a year to claim asylum.
It also would give the government new authority to cancel or suspend some immigration documents, including permanent resident visas and immigration applications, in what the legislation calls the “public interest.”
I am sick of these clowns.
Work is compliance with capitalism. Don’t do it, this is excellent advice. pic.twitter.com/NBYb1h9k3G
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 14, 2025
Some were heavily marketed. Many were championed by critics. Most had star power.
But not one of the 25 dramas and comedies that movie companies released in North American theaters over the past three months has become a hit, certainly not in the way that Hollywood has historically kept score. Some have played to near-empty auditoriums, including “After the Hunt,” staring Julia Roberts; “Christy,” with Sydney Sweeney; and “Die My Love,” featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
“To succeed in theaters today, dramas and comedies must have event status — something truly elevated and special,” said Kevin Goetz, an author of the new book “How to Score in Hollywood,” which looks at film bankability.
Jennifer Lawrence had a recent epiphany stating actors were only succeeding in creating division with their unasked for opinions and that she would personally cease to offer hers.
Left unsaid was the impact alienating half of your potential audience was having on the Box Office.
One thing about AI actors they are unlikely to care much about politics.
