Germany’s controversial Section 188 of the Criminal Code has come under renewed scrutiny after courts imposed substantial fines on citizens for insulting Chancellor Friedrich Merz online.
According to prosecutors in Heilbronn, a Facebook user was ordered to pay a fine of more than 2,000 euros after referring to Merz as “Lügenfritz” (“Lying Fritz”) in a comment posted under a police announcement about the chancellor’s visit to the city last year.
OTTAWA — Ottawa Police Service (OPS) officers are effectively being warned against exercising their discretion to inquire about potential criminality related to “controversial” and “political” matters, a lawyer told the Western Standard.
Bath-Sheba van den Berg, a lawyer representing Const. Helen Grus, a detective with the OPS found guilty of discreditable conduct in March of 2025 following an internal professional disciplinary tribunal, said the OPS’s persecution of her client would undermine police officers’ willingness to take initiative with inquiries involving informal orthodoxies of political nature, including those revolving around “COVID-19 vaccines” marketed as “safe and effective” by all levels of Canadian government and ancillary institutions.
Britain is no longer divided by ordinary politics. It has split into two rival nations which loathe each other, obey different moral rules and receive radically different treatment from the state.
Last Saturday’s rival demonstrations in London exposed that divide with unusual clarity. On one side stood ‘Unite The Kingdom,’ the event organised primarily by now-veteran nationalist campaigner Tommy Robinson. At this, thousands of people who are angry about immigration, national decline, and the feeling that their country is being transformed without their consent gathered in order to display their frustration and patriotism.
Two women say they were targeted by a CBC- and APTN-produced comedy series that conducted prank interviews with people who have expressed controversial opinions about Canada’s residential schools.
Frances Widdowson and Lindsay Shepherd, two public figures who have been critical of the coverage of possible unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site in B.C., shared social media posts this week detailing how they say they were tricked into prank interviews.
It was only a prank says the CBC which has forgiven itself.
In truth it was a government attempt to smear people for having the “wrong views”.
CALGARY — Questions are being asked about taxpayer-funded activism and media ethics after former Mount Royal University professor Dr. Frances Widdowson and author Lindsay Shepherd alleged they were specifically targeted in an elaborate prank operation.
THERE’S a perverse irony in that a notorious hate preacher heading for the Finsbury Park Mosque or Darul Uloom in Bury to pray for the eradication of the Jewish race will have a UK immigration officer stamp his passport with a welcoming smile and wave him merrily on his way.
Arrive at the same desk as a cultured, civilised Christian democrat, hoping to share a message of hope, brotherhood – and perhaps warning – with a vast crowd of British patriots? Prepare yourself for several silent hours in a stark, locked room before being marched by grim-faced British oberleutnants and thrust on to a return flight home.
Labour has banned seven “far-Right agitators” from attending Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally this weekend.
Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has barred the seven entry to the UK based on the view that their presence is “not conducive to the public good”.
With all having been outspoken on immigration, race or sexual issues, the Home Office has cancelled or refused their electronic travel authorisations entitling them to come to Britain.
I wonder if Starmer will still be PM by the weekend?
Staff inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Privy Council Office took part in a confidential federal meeting to discuss which reporters should receive government accreditation and which could be denied access, according to Access To Information records released this week.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the March 10 meeting, involving officials from the Privy Council Office, Global Affairs Canada, Treasury Board, Canada Revenue Agency and the immigration department, focused on creating a more unified federal media accreditation system amid growing concerns over independent journalism and alternative media outlets.
“Our own government told us a medical treatment was safe – and it killed babies.”
Defense Lawyer Bath-Sheba van den Berg provides one of the top 10 quotes from Silencing Detective Grus – World Premiere, Ottawa May 19, 2026
Get your tickets now. Link in comments. pic.twitter.com/0ut3rYAomw
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) May 8, 2026
On Jan. 28, 2022, Richmond, B.C., teacher Nicole Kowal-Seafoot told a colleague before a class presentation that, “I might be losing my job today.”
More than four years after she lost her job, for a presentation that was in favour of the self-styled “Freedom Convoy,” which protested vaccine mandates at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a labour arbitrator ruled that the Richmond School District’s decision was excessive.
Kowal-Seafoot’s presentation to her Grade 6 and 7 students featured a caricature of former prime minister Justin Trudeau with his head on a chicken.
Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich announced she has filed a lawsuit against the Ottawa Police Service and Crown prosecutor for their “malicious prosecution” of her.
“This isn’t just about me; it’s about stopping this kind of abuse so no Canadian ever faces it again,” Lich said in a statement on X April 29.
The lawsuit has also been filed against the Ottawa Police Services Board, the Attorney General of Ontario, the two Ottawa Police Services detectives assigned to the mischief case, and His Majesty the King in right of Ontario for “malicious prosecution and negligent investigation.”
🚨BREAKING: Ottawa Police command officers pushing new internal charges against Detective Helen Grus over documentary appearance.
Two highly placed sources, neither of them Detective Grus nor anyone on her legal team, advise this reporter that @OttawaPolice command has held two… pic.twitter.com/lnPvarAly2
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) April 30, 2026
Remember when you, a conservative-leaning, patriotic European, were ridiculed and laughed at for fearing that the game was being rigged, that the Left was coming after you, and that the days in which political institutions at least tried to simulate ideological neutrality were gone? Remember being portrayed by the press as a tin foil hat-wearing simpleton for fearing that Chat Control wasn’t actually—or, at least, not primarily—about destroying the horror of child sexual abuse, but, rather, about social, ideological, and therefore political control? Do you recall being painted as a silly conspiracy theorist for doubting that Marine Le Pen’s judicial prohibition from running for the presidency was really just the impartial courts doing their work? Well, the crumbling German government is tired of keeping up appearances: if it has its way, as in all likelihood it will, right-wing critics of the establishment will soon find it difficult to buy a house or any other form of real estate, for that matter. This will be done, they say, in the name of liberty and democracy.
German YouTubers Niko and Tino are currently under investigation by German authorities after they posted a video criticizing Islam.
If convicted, they will face up to THREE YEARS in prison.
WTF is going on in Germany??? pic.twitter.com/fqw3HbE1LV
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 13, 2026
It’s easy to see why the Carney government wants to overturn the unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeal condemning the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act (EA) during the trucker convoy demonstrations in February 2022.
The appeal court’s Jan. 16 ruling – upholding the 2024 judgment of Justice Richard Mosley that the government’s actions were unconstitutional and unlawful– is a devastating indictment of what the Liberal government did, reflecting many of the arguments made by the protesters.
A poet was dropped by a parish church magazine after she sparked anger for writing about migrants and overweight benefit claimants.
Diana Hunt, a regular contributor to the Uplyme Parish News, penned two poems on the state of modern Britain, taking aim at “benefits scroungers”, “boat loads of illegals” and fat people who say they cannot afford to eat.
But a number of residents in the small village of Uplyme, on the Devon-Dorset border, took objection to what they felt were her less than charitable tones.
