America’s Sussex-haters are feeling deflated today, as it seems like the Privileged Prince of Privacy may be here on US soil to stay.
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security released Prince Harry’s application for a visa to live in the US – but, for some reason, the Duke’s files weren’t given the JFK treatment.
Instead of a bona fide document dump, we got a few sheets of near-fully redacted pages that could just as easily have been Queen Me-Again’s recipe book.
The mayor of Canada’s largest city and economic capital says she supports removing American flags “wherever possible.”
The office of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told Global News in a statement Wednesday that Chow is OK with the measure, which some municipalities in Ontario are starting to adopt.
“We are proudly Canadian and will never be the 51st state,” her office said.
Tim Walz has claimed that Maga voters are “scared” of his masculinity.
The former vice-presidential candidate said Republicans targeted him during the election campaign because they were fearful he would win over male voters.
Tampon Tim Walz on his masculinity: “I think I scare them a little bit.” pic.twitter.com/oiU36BvGky
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 19, 2025
Having left his gig as UN Special Envoy for Climate and Finance to lead the federal Liberal government, Mark Carney is now in a position to focus his and Greta Thunberg’s global climate crusade squarely on Canada. The crusade, Carney boasted back in 2021 while in his previous role, is worth many trillions of dollars. As he told CBC News at that year’s UN climate conference, “We have banks, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies from around the world — more than 45 countries — and their total resources, totalling US$130 trillion” dedicated to transitioning the world’s economy away from fossil fuels. That dollar figure is higher than global GDP.
Canada started a trade war with China, yet few in Ottawa seem willing to acknowledge the consequences.
Unlike the United States, which often imposes tariffs as a bargaining chip only to later negotiate, China takes a far more calculated and punitive approach. When Beijing retaliates, it targets industries with economic and symbolic significance, ensuring maximum pressure on its adversary.
Move over Mahmoud Khalil, the open borders crowd is about to have a much bigger martyr.
One of the most obvious signs that we were living in a system where immigration law could be openly flouted was the growing number of illegal aliens who would attend rallies, become professional activists and boast of their illegal status knowing that absolutely nothing would happen to them. This phenomenon really took off under Obama and in some parts of the country simply became the new normal. Illegals were untouchable.
The Republic can’t escape colonialism
Today marks the moment, 63 years ago, that France finally ceded control of Algeria. But speak to many in both countries and the war might have finished yesterday, with tensions between Paris and Algiers now higher than they’ve been for years. Consider, among other things, France’s recent decision to re-examine the “special” pact of 1968 that made it easier for Algerians to settle in France, with the Quai d’Orsay also presenting its former colony with a list of nationals it wants to send back home. Algiers reacted indignantly — but Algerian terrorists have attacked several French citizens over recent years, while many French Arabs continue to fiercely resent the land they call home.
On March 9, Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, stood at a podium and announced $272.1 million in new funding for 14 development projects in Bangladesh and across the Indo-Pacific region.
These projects aim to promote gender equality, advance sexual and reproductive health, and expand education and skills training.
The news came and went, barely causing a ripple in most media circles. No outrage. No tough questions. No debate. It was just another line item in the growing list of handouts from Canadian taxpayers to foreign governments and agencies.
Believe the anti-hype. It’s that bad. This latest Disney adaptation was yanked from prerelease marketing duties — the London premiere was axed — for good reason. It represents a new low for cultural desecration and for a venerable 102-year-old entertainment company that now looks at its source material with a pinched nose of disgust.
When the Snow White star Rachel Zegler, during a now notorious Vanity Fair interview, dismissed the Disney original as a politically retrograde “85-year-old cartoon”, she was merely echoing the same clueless company vandals who had, in previous reboots, made Cruella soppy, Mulan sexless and Maleficent misunderstood.
It was a ‘dismal’ sight, cried the Irish Times. It was ‘beyond distressing’. It was ‘enough to curdle many a pint of stout’. ‘The shamrock bowl lies wilting’, the paper wailed, like one of those be-shawled auld women who once stalked the lanes of Ireland issuing dark prophecies to all and sundry. What has happened to stir up such fright and foreboding at Ireland’s newspaper of record? Have the Brits returned? Is a new potato blight afoot? Are the Magdalene laundries reopening? Nope – Conor McGregor went to the White House.
Donald Trump’s bombastic style is hard to stomach, but the need to undo years of waste and corruption is undeniable. Trump’s reforms will speed up an economy that already far outperforms ours. According to the latest IMF World Economic Outlook data, U.S. GDP per capita this year is $89,678 (in “purchasing-power-parity” dollars), while ours is $64,566, just 72 per cent of that. In 2015, when the Trudeau government was elected, our per capita output was 81 per cent of the Americans’. According to the IMF’s forecasts, we’ll be below 70 per cent and still trending downward by 2029.
Several longtime corporate sponsors of San Francisco’s Pride celebrations are pulling their funding for the festivities, leaving Pride organizers searching for another way to raise $300,000.
In the past four weeks, multiple companies told San Francisco Pride, the nonprofit behind San Francisco’s annual Pride Parade and Civic Center celebration, that they would not support the 2025 Pride celebrations. In an interview with SFGATE, San Francisco Pride’s executive director, Suzanne Ford, said she was “really disappointed” by the developments.
Same thing happened in Toronto and of course they Blamed Trump but I suspect Trans advocacy triggered the about face.
Or maybe it’s just that Pride is regarded as an anachronism?
I had forgot about my “banned on YouTube” Pride vids. Here’s a blast from the past saved on Vimeo. Pride 2010 to be exact.
h/t DS
Researchers have uncovered “possible links” between Ontario’s provincial police force and an Israel-based military-grade spyware maker called Paragon Solutions, raising questions about the extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyber weapons.
The new findings were published by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, which tracks and identifies digital threats against civil society, and come three years after a parliamentary committee in Canada called for Ottawa to update the country’s privacy laws in the wake of press reports that the national police force was using spyware to hack mobile phone devices. No laws were ever passed to address the controversy.
The Citizen Lab, in a report published on Wednesday, found a possible technical link between Paragon, which sells a spyware known as Graphite to government clients, and entities based in Ontario, Canada, including one that used the address of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).
This stuff always ends up used well beyond the original intent.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on party leaders to put an end to a second taxpayer-funded pension for prime ministers, arguing it’s an unnecessary burden on Canadians.
“Taxpayers can’t afford to keep covering Ottawa’s perks, and scrapping the prime minister’s second pension would be a good place to start saving money,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF
As we ready ourselves for a truly consequential election, most pundits are predicting that the ballot question will be about who is best able to negotiate with U.S. President Donald Trump. In reality, our trading system is changing so radically that the real question is: who can best adapt to change? I’d argue it’s Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative party.
Poilievre and the Conservative party have demonstrated that they get it. Putting Canadian interests first by building pipelines, quickly developing mines, cutting taxes, investing in skilled trades, equipping and recruiting for our Armed Forces, breaking down internal trade barriers and diversifying our international trade are all policies that the Conservatives have been talking about consistently since the Harper years.
