Pub seen in Reform video told to paint over St George’s Cross

A Lib Dem council demanded a pub remove its St George’s Cross painted on its white exterior an hour after it was featured in a Reform UK promotional video.

Jerry Kunkler, the landlord of Moonrakers Inn in Pewsey, Wiltshire, since 1981 and the county’s longest-serving councillor, painted the current cross on the pub for the World Cup in 2022.

However, he received orders to paint over it almost immediately after it was seen as a backdrop in a Reform video.

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‘This is disgusting’: N.S. Premier slams judge’s order prohibiting poppies while on duty

Nova Scotia’s premier is slamming a recent order prohibiting workers in certain court facilities from wearing poppies while on duty.

In a post on his X account, Premier Tim Houston said the order was issued under the guise that the poppy is a political statement.

“This is disgusting,” he said. “The poppy is not a political statement. It is a symbol of remembrance and respect for the fallen and those who served and continue to serve our country. Poppies have been worn in Canada since 1921.”

h/t MK

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Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith charged with sexual assault in Halifax

Actor Mike Smith, best known as the character Bubbles on the television show Trailer Park Boys, has been charged with sexual assault.

Mr. Smith, 53, was charged by Halifax Regional Police on Oct. 2, according to court documents filed in Nova Scotia’s provincial court. The assault is alleged to have occurred in December, 2017, but the charging documents do not include additional details of the allegations.

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Canada’s Low-Scrutiny Immigrant Mortgages Rebrand Risk As Inclusion

Canada’s recent real estate boom—and bust—was followed by an immigration surge charting a similar trajectory. Together, they expose generous high-leverage mortgage programs that shift risk off lender books and onto public and private insurers. These programs enabled buyers with minimal credit and few local ties to purchase homes at peak prices. With values now plunging, the lack of transparency raises questions about how these will perform—and whether the loans amplify the market’s downside risks.

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Number of non-Canadian federal inmates continues to rise

OTTAWA — While the numbers of Canadian citizens held in federal prisons continue a downward trend, populations of non-Canadians behind bars continues to rise.

But information on where these inmates are from is largely missing from the data provided by Public Safety Canada – with the national origin of nearly 35% of Canada’s non-citizen prison population listed as “unknown.”

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LILLEY: As Conservatives lose MP Matt Jeneroux, Canada’s finances burn

Sure, Fitch Ratings, a major international credit agency, has issued a warning about Canada’s out-of-control debt and spending, but let’s talk about the Conservative Party.

Official Ottawa is in an out-of-control frenzy, not due to the out-of-control spending of the Carney Liberal government but over the comings and goings of Conservative MPs.

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WARMINGTON: All 330 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms have been culled, CFIA confirms

Just call it Slaughterhouse 330.

Only unlike Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, this slaughter house at Universal Ostrich Farms was not an abandoned one used as a prisoner camp by the Nazis in the Second World War but a culling pen built with hay walls and platforms in 2025 on the very farm where some of these ostriches as old as 35 lived for years.

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No data exists on citizenship approved or denied due to criminal records

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration bureaucracy has no data on how often Canadian citizenship was granted – or denied – to those with criminal records.

That revelation comes courtesy of a response to an order paper question filed in September by Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner asking how many citizenship applications have been received, approved or denied from those with criminal records.

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Mark Carney’s budget will make Canada the strongest economy in Eurovision

Look at these simpletons, doddering around waving their budget report cards. They assert that Prime Minister Mark Carney did not deliver on his promise of transformational change, of generational investment. They huff that Mr. Carney has crafted a fairly typical Liberal big-spending budget, with the exception of actual investment in Canada’s military (though the budget is light on details) and plans to reduce the size of the public service by 40,000 jobs by 2028-29.

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Man who threw sandwich at US federal agent found not guilty of assault

A former Department of Justice employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington DC was found not guilty of assault by a DC jury on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

Sean Charles Dunn, a former justice department paralegal, became a symbol of the resistance to Trump’s occupation in the nation’s capital when video of him, clad in a pink polo shirt and shorts, throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent, wearing a bulletproof vest, went viral.

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