Peter Menzies: Canada’s free and independent press is (mostly) dead—now what?

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to imagine that Canada would become a country within which the overwhelming majority of journalists are paying their mortgages and feeding their kids thanks to the government.

Way back in the 2010s, a scenario such as that would have been considered so morally repugnant, so ethically objectionable and embroiled with conflicts of interest, that it would have been dismissed with a wave of the hand as not just unlikely but impossible.

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Carney, Trump trade barbs, talk tariffs in first face‑to‑face at the White House

Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump opened their first in‑person meeting Tuesday with a brisk handshake outside the Oval Office, then shifted to a lively joint press conference that set the tone for a new chapter in Canada-US relations.

Moments earlier, Trump had used Truth Social to accuse Ottawa of taking “$200 billion” a year in US subsidies and enjoying “FREE Military Protection,” adding that America needs “NONE” of Canada’s cars, energy, or lumber.

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H/T XC

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WTF?

h/t Mauser

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The best argument against multiculturalism is staring you in the face

Whitechapel Market London

Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic

When it emerged as the guiding organisational principle of the British state, multiculturalism was sold, in the words of the hugely influential Parekh Report, as “perhaps the country’s biggest single national advantage”. The arrival of peoples from all over the world, bringing with them their unique perspectives, cuisines, religions, dresses, and cultures, would allow Britain to move on from “a narrow, English-dominated backward-looking definition of the nation” into something altogether more vibrant and exciting. Multiculturalism was to “widen a society’s range of options and increase its freedom of choice, for it brings different cultural traditions into a mutually beneficial dialogue and stimulates new ideas and experiences”. All those within society would thereby gain the opportunity to escape the narrow constraints of the culture they happened to be born into, instead becoming free to choose from the plethora of practices they would encounter every day, in doing so creating all sorts of dynamic new cultural mixes.

h/t Patti Jo

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Carbon Capture: The Scam Agreed Upon

Don’t be surprised at this, but your tax dollars are being spent to subsidize a burgeoning industrial complex bent on producing… nothing of value.

Welcome to the world of carbon capture and sequestration, which is modern capitalism’s answer to Holland’s 17th-century tulip craze.

In case you’re thoroughly unfamiliar with all this, here’s a quick synopsis: chemical plants, oil refineries, and other manufacturing and industrial facilities generally emit carbon dioxide either directly out of smokestacks or indirectly due to using a lot of electricity.

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Canadian universities have an Islamist problem

In what was once considered an inconceivable scenario, a London-based law firm acting on behalf of Hamas submitted a legal challenge to the U.K. Home Office demanding its removal from the British government’s list of proscribed terrorist groups.

The case has a Canadian connection, too: Charlotte Kates, co-founder of the Vancouver-based terror group Samidoun, contributed an “expert report” as part of the legal challenge “against the criminalization of Palestinian resistance in Britain.”

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Does The European Union Actually Expect Radical Islamists to Reform Themselves?

The European Union’s decision to grant the Palestinian Authority (PA) a sum of $2 billion to assist them to “reform themselves” can only be the result of willful blindness, cognitive dissonance and what by now can only be ascribed to a proud European tradition of Jew-hate.

The PA, despite claiming to be secular, is saturated with an Islamist mentality in support of jihadists. The PA plays the West by displaying a veneer of reasonableness, victimhood and the bogus claim that it would, in an ever-extending future, accept some kind of peace with the Jews. This fiction is supposedly backed by an equally bogus claim that it would be willing — under conditions which would always be suicidal for the Jews to accept — to establish a two-state solution in Israel’s ancestral homeland.

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Pakistan vows to retaliate after wave of Indian missiles hits country

Loud explosions have been heard in several places in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir as India said it had attacked “terrorist infrastructure” in nine sites and Pakistan vowed to respond to the strikes.

Pakistani officials said that a child was killed and two other people injured in missile strikes early on Wednesday.

After the explosions, power was blacked out in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, witnesses said.

Get ready for the riots in Toronto.

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Prince Harry is pleading for reconciliation — but the royals are just as sick of his victimhood as everyone else

Hard Done By Prince

Prince Harry is ready to reconcile with his family.

You know those apparently racist pigs who have deliberately tried to trap him and his family. The father who didn’t hug him. The brother and sister-in-law who basically tied him up and dressed him in Nazi garb. And yes, that same brother who “assaulted” him, tossing him onto a dog bowl.

To those rotten folks, the benevolent Prince Harry will see you now. After publicly airing enough grievances for two decades worth of Festivuses, he’s ready to mend fences.

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HUNTER: Why was U.S. teen accused of Riverdale murders in Canada?

The 17-year-old accused of gunning down two Toronto men in Riverdale last month is an American citizen, the Toronto Sun has learned.

Cops say the boy — who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act — was arrested Saturday and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Investigators believe that Quentin Caza, 18, and Jeremy McNeil, 20, both of Toronto, were lured to the Riverdale area around 11 p.m. on April 15.

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SHOCK REPORT: FBI ‘Butchered’ Probe, Lied About Congressional Baseball Shooter’s Motives

A report released by the House Intel Committee today excoriated Andrew McCabe’s politicized FBI for botching the probe into the 2017 Republican Congressional Baseball practice shooting. James Hodgkinson opened fire on members of Congress on June 14 of that year, injuring six people, including Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), who was critically injured.

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Doug Ford slams Alberta Premier Danielle Smith over possible separation vote

As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepared to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Premier Doug Ford took a thinly veiled shot at his Alberta counterpart over her threat of a referendum on separation.

“This is a time to unite the country, not people saying, ‘oh, I’m leaving the country,’” Ford said Tuesday morning in a speech to a group promoting the skilled trades.

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