OTTAWA — Canada’s three westernmost provinces won’t see a cent of the record $26.2 billion in federal equalization payments earmarked for 2025-26, a snub that isn’t sitting well with the region’s premiers.
“The federal government has announced equalization payments for 2025 and once again, SK, AB and BC will be helping support the rest of Canada,” tweeted Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe on Thursday, in a message that was quickly amplified by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Russia fined at least seven people for “looking too gay” after a police raid on a nightclub in Tula in February, an analysis of court records by an independent Russian media outlet showed.
At least eight people were detained during the operation, which videos show was carried out by men in military-style uniforms and helmets.
h/t Mauser
Well, well, the ‘Trudeau must resign’ momentum continues to build. Most notably from the pack that ran with him for nine years while this ideological, commie-loving nitwit ravenously gnawed at Canada’s strengths, rights and freedoms, prosperity, and national security.
But beware of the beta wolves, his good lieutenants, who are now menacingly circling the dancing Swiftie alpha leader. These wolves merely rented sheep’s clothing. They worry about one thing and it’s not you. It’s their own survival.
Winnipeg South Centre MP Ben Carr is calling for a change of leadership in the federal Liberal party, becoming the first Manitoba Liberal member of Parliament to call for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down.
“I do not arrive at this decision easily, nor do I make it happily,” Carr said in a letter to his constituents on Friday afternoon.
“I felt somehow as though I would be betraying my party,” he said. “As time has passed, however, and the further I reflected on the conversations I have had with those I represent, I concluded that it is in fact the opposite.”
Senator Sanders is coming out squarely on the side of immigration hardliners by saying that the H-1B visa program for high-skilled immigrant laborers is nothing more than a ploy for the rich to get richer by suppressing American wages.
Mr. Sanders, who is an ardent opponent of President Trump, has inserted himself into a debate that’s divided Trump supporters. Trump’s co-chairmen of the new Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have received fierce criticism from America Firsters since saying that the H-1B program should not only be protected, but expanded.
It’s always about the greater good. For their pocketbooks.
By the time he came up with the idea of bombing a Taylor Swift concert, Beran Aliji’s young life had completely broken down. In July, amid a self-described mental crisis, the 19-year-old Austrian abruptly quit his job as a factory apprentice and isolated himself in his apartment, obsessing, as he later told police, about his own death.
With no money or prospects, and in lieu of close friendships, he began to immerse himself in a virtual world of violent videos and secret chatrooms devoted to the Islamic State. According to phone records seized by police, he began looking to the extremist group first for inspiration and then for practical advice about planning an attack.
A decade ago, the whole of France seemed to unite in support of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical weekly that had fallen victim to Islamist terrorism.
“Je suis Charlie” T-shirts and banners were everywhere. More than four million people joined marches in support of the magazine across the country. And François Hollande, the Socialist president of the day, promised to defend freedom of expression in the name of the caricaturists and writers among the 12 victims of the attack.
It has not worked out that way, at least according to Charlie Hebdo’s surviving journalists. “During this past decade, the French left has beaten all the records of cowardice and denial,” wrote Laurent Sourisseau, known as Riss, the cartoonist and director of Charlie Hebdo, who was injured in the 2015 attack.
It is amazing how many reports, meant to scare the public into compliance, are so wrong. No matter how often this occurs, most of the media just repeats what they are told, which makes them worthless, and dangerous.
Every year around Christmas time, Islamic jihadis take the opportunity to victimize Christians on or around one of the holiest days of the Church year. The international media and global “human rights” organizations generally take little or no notice, as they operate according to a paradigm in which Christians are always white oppressors and Muslims are always brown victims. Any story that doesn’t fit that narrative is swiftly consigned to the memory hole. And so as in other years, these stories got little notice, and the global jihad against Christians and Christianity continues virtually unopposed.
The Russian-British satirist and author Konstantin Kisin has popped up in a video chat with Youtuber and podcaster Chris Williamson with a damning verdict on Britain’s prospects while being led headlong into the crippling consequences of taxation and a Net Zero fantasy.
Kisin starts right out with the view that “at the moment” Britain is “f***ed”.
Grooming gang victims spoke out today to demand a public inquiry and tougher sentences for abusers amid a social media war waged against Sir Keir Starmer by Elon Musk.
The row began yesterday after Jess Phillips rejected a request by Oldham Council for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation, suggesting it would be best for the local council to investigate the issue instead.
Mr Musk, 53, has said Ms Phillips ‘deserves to be in prison’, while Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said a full national inquiry into organised grooming gangs is ‘long overdue’.
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As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau begins 2025 with his future plans unclear, the governing Liberal Party struggles with plummeting approval ratings and dwindling voter support.
A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests that Chrystia Freeland, the former finance minister who resigned in December, could offer a glimmer of hope as the party considers its next steps.
OTTAWA – After six years of costly indecision, the federal government will spend more than $400,000 to dispose of a Canadian Coast Guard vessel that spent more years as a “dead” ship than a seaworthy vessel.
Built in 2013, CCGS Corporal McLaren M.M.V. will have the unfortunate honour of having spent the majority of its 10 years of service as a boat-shaped hunk of metal more accustomed to dry land than swelling seas.
The same angst and disgruntlement that brought the Nazis to power can be seen in today’s woke leftist youth.
For years now we’ve heard that even moderately conservative Republicans are “far right” and deserving of the “Nazi” label. And Republican presidential candidates routinely are tagged with the “Hitler” label. The only time the label is removed is when the left finds it useful to contrast “good” Republicans with bad. So, for example, the onetime Hitler aspirant George W. Bush became “statesmanlike,” sort of, when it became useful to contrast him with the new boogeyman, Donald Trump.
A more subtle form of this labeling comes in the form of comparing our current situation to that of the Weimar Republic — Germany’s first attempt to create a constitutional democratic republic similar to our own, instituted after World War I in 1919. Despite high hopes, the new republic was troubled throughout its short life, riven by radicalism on both the left and the right, catastrophically failing in the end, and giving way in 1933 to Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship.
