A child bride who was due to be executed this month in Iran over the death of her husband has had her life spared by his parents, who were paid the equivalent of £70,000 in exchange for their forgiveness.
Goli Kouhkan, 25, has been on death row in Gorgan central prison in northern Iran for the past seven years. At the age of 18 she was arrested over allegedly participating in the killing of her abusive husband, Alireza Abil, in May 2018, and sentenced to qisas – retribution-in-kind.
The federal health department has confirmed to MPs of the health committee that taxpayer dollars fund crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia under Health Canada’s “harm reduction” programs, after saying this wasn’t the case in October.
Assistant Deputy Health Minister Kendal Weber initially told the House of Commons health committee that funding provided by Health Canada or the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was not being used to purchase crack pipes, when questioned by Conservative MP and health critic Dan Mazier on Oct. 2.
As a student of history, I am struck by the rise and fall of civilizations on this small celestial body we call Earth. Empires have come and gone. Kingdoms have risen in confidence and collapsed in corruption. And today, whether we care to admit it or not, we stand at the edge of the possible unravelling of what may well be the greatest civilization humanity has ever produced: the modern West.
One of the worst “narratives” about Venezuela’s dictatorship revolves around whether the socialist hellhole is a narcostate, justifying President Trump’s emerging military buildup in the Caribbean, including Naval strikes on speedboats transferring state-produced cocaine to the U.S. If the Venezuelan state is, it’s a narcostate.
The Democrat-deep state-news media complex has been spreading the piece-by-piece narrative that they aren’t.
The failure of feminists to disavow Dworkin reveals the movement’s extreme misandry
A friend wrote a couple of days ago to say that he had seen shiny new copies of works by feminist author Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) in Munro’s Books, one of Canada’s premier independent bookstores. One of the books was positioned on a shelf with the cover facing out to indicate that it was being showcased.
It is both shocking and unsurprising that Picador Books decided to reprint three of Dworkin’s texts in the past year, calling her a “prescient and visionary writer” who was “ahead of her time.” Anti-male paranoia is a sanctioned, cultivated taste more popular now, perhaps, than ever before, and Andrea Dworkin is its most notorious propagandist.
A program intended to replace the entire stock of the Canadian military’s aging assault rifles is being sped up, CBC News has learned.
An internal Department of National Defence presentation references a move to quickly order the first tranche of weapons under the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle program.
The commander of the Canadian Army, Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, confirmed in an interview with CBC News that the program, which has languished on the books for years, will now proceed with speedy delivery expected from a Canadian manufacturer.
We are asking schools to act like prisons because we are raising children who behave like inmates. A fight at North Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina made headlines in recent days, because what would have once been a routine scuffle amongst teenage boys turned deadly. It was the last altercation of one boy, because a teenager drove a knife into his classmate, causing the wounded boy to stagger away for a few steps before collapsing. He died not long after.
The release of Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) has provoked a furious reaction from Europe’s legacy media and centrist political leaders. One Guardian commentator went so far as to assert that Trump has ‘declared civilisational war on Europe’.
Menace, addiction and human despair have overwhelmed small towns and cities. Some say it’s getting worse. Some just want to leave.
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Gigi and Nick are stoking a fire on the right bank of Twelve Mile Creek. It is the sunset hour in St. Catharines, Ont., but the atmosphere is damp and heavy from a November morning rain.
There is not another soul in sight, down here in the riverside parklands below a street called Gale Crescent, a few blocks east of downtown. For kindling, Gigi has scavenged an armful of twigs from the municipal shrubbery. She stacks it inside a makeshift hearth of flagstones and tries to get it to catch, but the twigs are wet and will not accept the flame from Nick’s pocket lighter.
NATO chief Mark Rutte has warned that war with Russia ‘is at our door’ as he urged European allies to prepare for action now or risk facing a conflict on the scale ‘our grandparents and great-grandparents endured’.
Speaking in Berlin on Thursday, Rutte said too many NATO members remained ‘quietly complacent’ about the threat posed by Moscow and insisted Europe must urgently ramp up defence spending and weapons production to deter Vladimir Putin.
‘We are Russia’s next target,’ he said. I fear that too many are quietly complacent. Too many don’t feel the urgency.
Jennifer Welch’s rise isn’t mysterious. It just looks that way to Democratic elites confused by a failed-reality-star-turned-podcaster commanding real influence. The reason is that she’s not interested in their rules.
The line “when they go low, we go high” defined how party leaders wanted to be seen during the first Trump administration. As technology kept eroding legacy media’s power, MAGA set about building parallel institutions. The Left, by contrast, stayed inside the gates, relying on the power it already held.
Who the heck is this Jennifer Welch person? What a nasty, foul human being.
She is the insufferable one! Insulting women, Christians, calling Riley a b!tch just for daring to stand up for women and girls.
How dare she call herself a feminist. Evil.
pic.twitter.com/lo4hOnXUlO— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) October 29, 2025
On December 11, 1989, the very first production day for The Red Green Show kicked off, filming the first 26 Winter Poems deep in the Canadian woods.
Start your own journey from the very beginning: https://t.co/K5OPuU05aX #redgreen #chapter11 #possumlodge pic.twitter.com/rrN7RFBYD2
— Red Green (@realredgreen) December 11, 2025
h/t XC
So, thousands of Shared Services Canada (SSC) employees had to forgo coffee breaks and lunches during the month-long Ramadan 2025 to spare a few fasting Muslim coworkers from feeling uncomfortable.
Managers were instructed to schedule key meetings and chats around times when fasting “energy levels were low.” Work wasn’t to interfere with their pre-dawn and post-sunset Suhoor and Iftar meals.
The Christmas Carol (1949) – Vincent Price – HD Restored – Most Complete Version pic.twitter.com/qtIvForeE1
— Classic Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) December 11, 2025
Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals.
Ma said in a statement that he made the decision after listening to his constituents in the riding of Markham-Unionville in the Greater Toronto Area.
“This is a time for unity and decisive action for Canada’s future,” he wrote.
