Sharan Kaur: Why 2025 changed everything in Canada’s political playbook

As we close the book on 2025, the Canadian political landscape is not just altered, it is unrecognizable. For those of us within the “bubble,” this year served as a reminder that the old playbooks are obsolete.

In 12 months, we witnessed the fall of a populist juggernaut, the erasure of a major party’s official status, and a pivot toward an economic realism that only few saw coming.

If 2024 was defined by anxiety, 2025 was the year of the “Great Realignment.” A year in politics can seem like an eternity, yet change often arrives in a heartbeat. Looking back, we see the moments that snapped the trajectory of the country. These “small waves” have provided a rare opportunity to recalibrate priorities and capture the quiet frustrations of a changing electorate before the tide turns again.

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Federal Investigators Discover Minnesota’s Somali Daycare Fraud Dates Back a Decade

A federal fraud investigation into Minnesota daycare centers has uncovered a troubling discovery — the scheme may have been operating undetected for more than a decade.

The discovery was unearthed from evidence in a 2018 fraud case out of Hennepin County against multiple daycare centers for allegedly swindling the government out of more than $1 million. A video of a 2015 Fox 9 KMSP report alleged that low-income parents would sign up their children for daycare services, which would then claim reimbursement for those services that were never provided.

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Toronto hate crime suspect denied refugee status in 2018

Osman Azizov Muslim Sex Predator

One of the Toronto men recently charged with alleged hate and extremism-motivated crimes targeting women and Jews was denied refugee status more than seven years ago, according to court records.

Government records obtained by Global News show that Osman Azizov is an Azerbaijani citizen who, accompanied by his parents, crossed into Canada between official border points near Lacolle, Que., in 2017.

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Firefighters Could Have Prevented the L.A. Wildfires, but California Rules Made Them Save Plants Instead

One year ago, just after midnight on New Year’s Eve, a small brush fire broke out in Topanga State Park above the Pacific Palisades outside Los Angeles. Within hours, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) arrived on scene and began digging handlines to stop its spread. The eight-acre fire—ignited by a 29-year-old former Palisades resident, who has since been charged with arson—was quickly brought under control. By 4:46 a.m., the department declared it “fully contained,” with “no further updates anticipated.”

But the fire was never fully extinguished. A week later, on January 7, it reignited and burned more than 23,000 acres, destroyed 6,800 structures, and killed 12 people in what became L.A.’s worst urban wildfire catastrophe.

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So…

Alive but not kicking so much…

Got a script for penicillin, a weeks ration.

Am currently a twitchy thing that aches all over.

Very difficult to eat so I bought ice cream. Ice cream always helps.

Xavier is kind of leaving me alone though it was a tense few days. He is not medically certified in any jurisdiction I am aware of.

They will run some tests to see if I should consider the small, medium or large bag of cat food.

I will be blogging. Just to defy Satan. Thank you all.

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Learning From the Past, Leading in the Present

Using military history to restore competence and integrity to senior leadership.

Eventually, the American public is going to realize that, in too many cases, its armed forces are being led by senior officers who are either moral cripples or uniformed incompetents. Worse, very few have been held accountable for their deficiencies. That is not true in all cases, but many of our four-star leaders have proved unequal to the tasks assigned them. This is a damning assessment, but I am not alone in that judgment.

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LILLEY: Canada’s national unity under threat as we head into 2026

In 2026, Canada’s national unity will be put to the test in more ways than one. We have separatist movements gaining steam in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec and a separatist agitator running the provincial government in British Columbia.

As Norman Spector, a top advisor to former B.C. premier Bill Bennett and chief of staff to former prime minister Brian Mulroney says on a regular basis, a Canadian PM has no more important job than keeping this huge country together.

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Tens of thousands of Ontario public servants return to office full-time next week. Here’s what that could mean for Toronto

Nearly half of all of Ontario’s 60,000 public service workers are set to return to the office full time next week after years of hybrid work arrangements.

They’ll join tens of thousands of other employees from banks, tech companies, and the telecom sector who have also been called back to the office in recent months, as part of a trend that is shifting away from remote work.

Statistics Canada data shows that for the fourth year in a row, the proportion of employed people mostly working from home is falling and as of May of last year, 76 per cent of all workers in Toronto were commuting.


How much worse can Toronto traffic get?

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Teacher shocked by students’ lack of basic classroom skills: ‘It’s scaring me’

Are kids these days doomed?

A concerned middle school teacher recently took to social media to explain the lack of reading and problem-solving skills in her teen students.

“I don’t understand how these kids ended up at this point,” a Dallas, Texas, teacher named Ms. L said about her 8th-grade students in a now-viral TikTok video.

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Green Party settles with commission over exclusion from federal leaders’ debate

The federal Leaders’ Debates Commission says it has settled with the Green Party after the party vowed to challenge its removal from the spring election debates.

In April, the commission, which is tasked with organizing the French and English debates, rescinded an invitation for Jonathan Pedneault, then co-leader of the Greens, to appear at a pair of leaders’ debates in Montreal.

What a waste of time.

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