A 77-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s has been granted protection “against the likelihood of death at the hands of her husband” by the B.C. Supreme Court.
The case involves a woman, identified as E.W., and her husband, identified as T.W., in court documents. T.W. is a strong advocate for medical assistance in dying (MAID) and even spoke openly about a “Death Plan” for his wife, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2017, Justice B. Smith wrote in his reasons for judgment.
@fancypants_s I have a feeling Kathy would have appreciated this. https://t.co/pa4RylFfw5
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 19, 2025
“Christianophobia”—understood as hostility, discrimination, or violence directed against Christian people and symbols because they are Christian—is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly visible and serious across Europe. A report published by the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) on December 1st highlights an often underestimated reality: the rise in anti-Christian hate crimes—physical, legal and social—profoundly affecting the religious freedom and daily lives of Christians on the continent.
The ECLJ and the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) have compiled data showing that no fewer than 2,211 anti-Christian crimes were committed in 2024, including 274 physical assaults, across a panel of 35 European countries studied.
With the Trump administration seizing Venezuelan oil tankers, demanding the “return” of oil and other assets and threatening war against the Maduro regime, the fate of the world’s largest proven reserves is once again in doubt.
As a result of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela has been all but frozen out of the international oil market, despite having more known oil than either Canada or Saudi Arabia.
If the oil were to start to flow again — as it did before the arrival of president Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro — it could have profound effects on Canada.
It was a Sunday afternoon in April 1996 when a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles killed 35 people in the Australian tourist town of Port Arthur.
The massacre almost 30 years ago, which ushered in some of the strictest gun laws in the world, feels like a bygone age for many Australians.
But the Bondi Beach attack on Sunday, which left 15 dead, rekindled memories of the Tasmanian tragedy – none more so than for leading gun control advocate Roland Browne.
Making your citizens prey for Muslims is a swell idea.
h/t Mauser
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 19, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
It was Mark Carney who convinced Marienelle Mariscal to invest in crypto. Or so she thought.
In April, when Mariscal was stuck in her Toronto home, unable to work while awaiting surgery, she stumbled across a video on social media that appeared to show the prime minister urging viewers to invest in cryptocurrency. Mariscal was intrigued.
“I was hoping that I can just get some money while I’m at home recuperating,” the 41-year-old said.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said there will be no more wars after Ukraine if Russia is treated with respect – and claims that Moscow is planning to attack European countries are “nonsense”.
In a marathon televised event lasting almost four and a half hours, he was asked by the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg whether there would be new “special military operations” – Putin’s term for the full-scale war.
“There won’t be any operations if you treat us with respect, if you respect our interests just as we’ve always tried to respect yours,” he asserted.
With US-Canada trade talks still on hold, American officials have laid out their clearest demands yet for keeping free trade in place between the two countries.
The list includes further opening the Canadian dairy market to US farmers, and overhauling an online streaming law that the US says “discriminates” against American tech and media firms.
The US also wants Canadian provinces to lift their ban on selling American liquor, which was put in place earlier this year in response to the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
A US judge has blocked Michigan from enforcing a 2020 order that would have shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac, the channel connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Reuters reported that on Wednesday US District Judge Robert Jonker ruled that oversight of pipeline safety and the protection of the Straits is a federal responsibility, effectively preventing Michigan from shutting down the pipeline.
Retired Army Chaplain Brad Lewis (Col.-R) got emotional this week when he heard War Sec. Pete Hegseth’s order to return the Chaplain Corps to religious ministry. Hegseth said the Chaplain Corps role has been “degraded” in recent decades, and he gave the example of the 2025 “Army Spiritual Fitness Guide” that mentions “God” once, but “playfulness” nine times in 112 pages. Although most people in the military, 82 percent, are religious according to the guide, God has been nearly replaced by secular humanism. Hegseth eliminated the use of the guide this week and announced he is simplifying the faith coding system.
“Are you crazy?” Tom, my seventy-year-old neighbor, asks as we wait in line at Frank and Joe’s Deli. “Do you want to see the return of polio and iron lungs?”
“No,” I answer quietly. “I just want to make sure that what we’re doing to our kids is safe.”
h/t handy n handsome
For more than 36 years, Tim Rees has been considered the most heinous of criminals — a child killer.
The 62-year-old emerged Thursday from the downtown Toronto courthouse into the wintry sunshine, that yoke of shame finally lifted after the Crown withdrew the murder charge against him.
Good God.
