The second half of your life begins when you realize there is nothing stopping you from going to the park and making yourself a poke bowl while dressed like a loofah. pic.twitter.com/EdyEyQRGN5
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 18, 2025
‘My home is worth millions – but my own kids are priced out of this city’
Before Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and threatened its sovereignty, the Canadian psyche was consumed with another major issue: housing affordability. With an election on the horizon, voters are wondering if any party has a plan to fix what has become a generational problem.
Willow Yamauchi says she was just a “regular” person when she and her husband bought their family home in Vancouver 25 years ago for a modest sum of C$275,000 – around C$435,000 ($312,000; £236,400) in today’s dollars.
That same property is now worth several million.
In the city in Canada’s pacific northwest, Ms Yamauchi’s story is as common as the rainy weather. The average price of a detached home in Vancouver in 2000 was around C$350,000. Now, it is more than C$2m.
Did Katy Perry just kill feminism?
On Monday, 6 celebrities formed an all-female crew aboard a Blue Origin space capsule for a suborbital space flight that lasted 11 minutes. The women included the wife of Jeff Bezos, singer Katy Perry and CBS presenter Gayle King. Public reaction was not what Bezos expected for him or his company, which is an imitation of Musk’s SpaceX.
Like the race card after Obama, the female card has been revoked thanks to unlikable people like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. Abusing power with prosecutions of Trump by Fani Willis and Tish James also was unhelpful.
Hilarious pic.twitter.com/u3DfwNv1ct
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) April 17, 2025
Ouch! Some nasty cuts!
I’m a Plastic Surgeon. This “Gender-Affirming” Procedure Is a Scam
Often performed on minors, “top surgery” creates permanent and disfiguring changes.
I am a plastic surgeon. Over the past 35 years, I’ve seen many of my colleagues abandon the most basic premise in human biology: that there are two, immutable sexes. Their capitulation to “queer theory” has resulted in children receiving needless, dangerous, and life-altering surgeries—all based on the lie that people can change their sex.
Not exactly #WorldStarHipHop …
West Kelowna golf course operators want restitution after on-course fight
The owners of a golf course in West Kelowna say they are demanding restitution from those involved in a physical altercation on their course earlier this week — an incident they describe as a desecration of the property and a breach of community values.
The confrontation at Two Eagles Golf Course and Academy was caught on video Monday and has since circulated online. It shows a heated dispute between two groups of golfers, escalating into shouting, shoving and punches, as others attempt to intervene.
The course is located on Westbank First Nation land and is under Indigenous ownership.
Canadian golfers get into a fistfight after one group accused the other group of playing too slowly, resulting in a broken jaw.
The incident happened at the Two Eagles Golf Course in West Kelowna, outside of Vancouver, Canada.
Tension had been rising throughout the outing due… pic.twitter.com/FYq1GATAEx
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 17, 2025
h/t DS
FSU gunman’s chilling family secrets explode as distraught biological mom makes bombshell claims
When reports began circulating that an active shooter was on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Anne-Mari Eriksen was one of countless distressed parents trying to make contact with their loved ones at the school.
At this stage, she was desperate to find out if her son was okay, but as details emerged through a press conference on Thursday afternoon, a new nightmare emerged – her son was responsible for the carnage unfolding.
Phoenix Ikner, 20, was identified later by cops as the shooter, with authorities revealing he was the son of sheriff’s deputy Jessica Ikner and had used her weapon to kill two people and injure another six.
Matthew Lau: Reading, writing and revolution in Ontario schools
Judging by a teachers’ union magazine, the keys to education are not math, grammar or history but climate-change activism
The miserable state of Canada’s K-12 public education, well documented by international tests showing steadily declining scores for two decades, already has many parents deeply concerned. Their equanimity will not be improved by the Spring 2025 issue of ETFO Voice, published by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario. It expresses no concern that 50 per cent of Grade 6 students fail to meet provincial standards in math and contains no plans for improving academic achievement. Instead, the ETFO seems singularly focused on moulding Ontario’s public-school children into a generation of Greta Thunbergs.
Ford could fix this but won’t.
Meet the Man Who Murdered the Democratic Party
A pair of earthshattering, history-altering, Chris Christie-sized stories broke this week, but they’ve (mostly) skated beneath the political periphery. That’s because you can’t grasp the sheer enormity of the consequences until you connect them together.
On their own, they’re inconsequential, back-of-the-page news stories — scarcely soliciting a shoulder shrug from political wonks. But together, as a one-two punch, it will change American politics forever.
And it will murder the modern Democratic Party. There’s been a slow-moving coup… but nobody’s noticed!
TDSB investigating allegations that lunchroom supervisor showed kindergarten kids graphic Gaza video
Toronto’s public school board is investigating allegations that a lunchroom supervisor showed graphic video of the war in Gaza to kindergarten kids, leaving students traumatized and parents outraged.
The incident is alleged to have occurred last week at Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave Junior and Senior Public School, and the lunchroom supervisor is currently on leave.
“These allegations are very troubling and a thorough investigation is underway to understand what occurred,” said Ryan Bird, spokesperson for the Toronto District School Board.
This article is so lacking in details it is clear the Star wants you to believe the perp was a Jew.
Rapists can no longer claim to be women
Rapists will no longer be able to identify as women following a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court.
Forces are now expected to begin recording criminals’ birth sex rather than preferred gender in official crime statistics following the ruling, which stated that trans women are not the same as biological women under equality laws.
It will end a situation where some police forces record rapists as being women, even though the legal definition of the crime requires a penis.
Carney Liberals would continue UNRWA funding
OTTAWA – Just days after news reports emerged of a cash-strapped Hamas unable to fund its genocidal war against Jews, Canada’s Liberal Leader suggests a financial infusion may soon be on its way.
When asked during Wednesday’s French-language leader’s debate if a Liberal government would continue funding the terrorist-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA,) Mark Carney said that it would.
Sad what happened when the U.S. ended its $300 million annual funding for UNRWA https://t.co/Fubi2g1Yfr
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 17, 2025
New Pornographers Drummer Charged with Possession of Child Pornography
American drummer Joe Seiders, part of Canadian indie-rockers the New Pornographers, has been arrested for alleged possession of child pornography with his bandmates declaring they are “shocked, horrified, and devastated” by the news.
HAUBRICH: Carney needs to leave Ottawa’s expensive and failed gun policy behind
Liberal Leader Mark Carney rebuilt his party by scrapping failed policies like the carbon tax, but there’s one apparent failure he’s doubling down on.
Carney announced that, if elected, he will “reinvigorate the implementation” of Ottawa’s gun ban and buyback program.
Carney should be listening to law enforcement experts and scrapping the expensive and ineffective gun buyback, not doubling down on the failed policy.
Joe Biden drops ice cream and misnames Ukraine on Harvard visit
Joe Biden made a clandestine visit to Harvard University “marked by gaffes”, according to the student newspaper, which said he referred to Ukraine as Iraq and dropped an ice cream.
The former president held a private seminar with 50 politics students that was kept secret until his arrival. But when word got out, a group of pro-Palestinian students assembled to protest outside the building.