Canada’s top soldier appears to be having second thoughts about recruiting public servants to augment reserve forces, adding they are already doing enough for defence.
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck signed a document on May 30, 2025, launching a plan to boost both the reserves and what is known as the Supplementary Reserve.
Ottawa must be fearing a Nepal style insurrection one reader suggested.
Instead of singing Little Drummer Boy this season, sing this. It’s quite catchy!
Volume up! pic.twitter.com/b0HS0bIHfZ
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 12, 2025
A Toronto-based advocacy group has filed a legal challenge seeking to prevent the planned raising of the “State of Palestine” flag at Toronto City Hall later this month, arguing that the event violates city policy and poses potential risks to public safety.
The Tafsik Organization, which describes itself as a pro-Israel group focused on combating antisemitism and advancing Jewish community interests, filed an application with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for an injunction ahead of the flag-raising ceremony scheduled for November 17.
Why is it always professors and teachers who are the most vile?
Congrats to our brand new Fort Lewis College chapter!! https://t.co/y1sUW87AEZ
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) November 13, 2025
Far-left protestors have disrupted a peaceful vigil for Charlie Kirk organized by the Manchester pro-life society.
On November 10, the pro-life student organization held a vigil in front of the University of Manchester, England, to honor Charlie Kirk and his contributions to the pro-life cause and freedom of speech. Over one hundred counter-protestors showed up, aggressively chanting pro-abortion slogans to drown out the speaker at the event.
Manchester University pro life society is currently holding a Charlie Kirk memorial with an AfD international member due to speak. A counter protest is currently surrounding the demo pic.twitter.com/ckSfwWsCFL
— Tke Media (@TkeMedia) November 10, 2025
CORRECTION – It was an ADF international speaker, NOT an AfD speaker.
This is a big mess up on my behalf as I read the poster wrong
— Tke Media (@TkeMedia) November 10, 2025
In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, I thought it would be prudent to upgrade my firearms collection. So, for the past two months, I’ve been in and out of my local gun shop, filling out paperwork and purchasing components for a new pistol and a new shotgun. During this period, I’ve gotten to know some of the men behind the counter, and, after one recognized me for my appearance on Joe Rogan’s show, I’ve talked politics with them.
Last week, when I went to pick up a new red-dot sight for the pistol, the conversation turned back to Kirk’s murder—with a twist. One of the gentlemen told me that he believed that the official story—that Tyler Robinson assassinated Kirk as a way to stop “hate”—was fake. I was taken aback, but after asking some questions, I realized that he had accepted some of the schizoid narratives emanating mostly from Candace Owens, who has insinuated that the official story is a cover-up.
The CBC is at a watershed moment, observes longtime CBC insider David Cayley. The previous era of Canada’s publicly funded broadcaster has exhausted itself, Cayley concludes, and in the new era that’s unfolding, what the country desperately needs and deserves is a dialogue, not a monologue.
“Everything ends in time,” he observes, “and I believe that (CBC’s) properties, its idea that it would belong to the audience, that it would stake its legitimacy on the audience, has brought it to a place where it has only one preferred audience — and can’t address the rest of the country, and can’t get outside or above or beyond the assumptions it shares with that audience — so it’s become a kind of boutique.”
Did Hamas lie to US President Donald J. Trump when it said that it had accepted his 20-point plan for ending its war against Israel in the Gaza Strip? Or is the terror group simply trying to buy time to reassert control over the Gaza Strip and prepare for more terror attacks against Israel? Yes and yes. Hamas lied. Hamas is trying to gain time by arguing that it needs to engage in negotiations and discussions about the implementation of most parts of the Trump plan.
Since the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip went into effect in early October, Hamas officials have repeatedly emphasized that they did not accept all the points mentioned in the Trump plan.
The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.
The corporation said the edit had given “the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action” and said it would not show the 2024 programme again.
Lawyers for Trump have threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£759m) in damages unless the corporation issues a retraction, apologises and compensates him.
The party that cries wolf is at it again.
Democrats are back in Congress after their shutdown to launch another anti-Trump hoax.
This time, it’s not a fictional “pee tape” but the old Epstein horse they keep flogging.
On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee Democrats selectively released three emails among 23,000 handed over by the estate of the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to try to implicate Donald Trump, yet again, in Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls.
The federal Liberals want to increase the size of Canada’s military reserves by 10-fold to nearly 300,000 from just under 30,000. And one of the Department of National Defence’s (DND) primary methods for achieving that goal is to encourage more enlistment into the part-time Armed Forces by federal and provincial civil servants.
One of the huge bonuses to having racked up a significant number of years in life is that one gets an amazing perspective on things. For example, I’ve been through a number of dire apocalyptic warnings. When I was a kid, global cooling and a new ice age were going to bring down the curtain on Mother Earth within 40 years. Before the ice had a chance to show up, fears of overpopulation were being spread. Widespread famine was going to do us in.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that his government is sending more critical minerals mining, clean electricity, and a liquefied natural gas project to a new federal office designed to streamline the regulatory approvals process.
Speaking in Terrance, B.C., he announced that six more projects would be forwarded to the Major Projects Office, saying they met the government’s criteria of what constituted “nation-building” efforts to spur development and attract billions more in private investment, which the prime minister said would lead to new jobs.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to designate four violent left-wing groups based in Europe as either foreign terrorist organizations or specifically designated global terrorists as part of a broad crackdown on extremism.
US State Department officials announced the intended designation on Thursday, saying the Antifa groups — Antifa Ost, the International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self Defense — “use force against those they identify as opponents of their Marxist and anarchist projects.”
The province of Ontario did something last month it has never done before — it defunded a supervised injection site because the chaos and disorder it was causing had reached unacceptable levels for the surrounding neighbours.
The injection site is in Parkdale, a neighbourhood on the west side of Toronto. The community’s efforts to get the province to act were detailed in my previous column at the beginning of October. Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones was simply unable to ignore the mountain of photographic evidence featuring prostrate bodies next to piles of used needles as known drug dealers operated nearby.
