CARPAY: How Ottawa ‘nudged’ a nation — Inside Canada’s covert behavioural science campaign

The federal government’s Impact and Innovation Unit (IIU) worked very hard to persuade Canadians to get injected with the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. Modelled after the United Kingdom’s Behavioural Insights Team, the IIU uses social psychology and “nudge” theory to test public messaging and implement other public behavioural interventions.

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Free speech documentary cancelled by London cinema

A London cinema has banned a documentary about free speech because it does not “align with our values and mission”.

Think Before You Post was due to play at Rich Mix in east London on November 25, followed by a Q&A session with contributors, before its producers were informed that the venue had decided against hosting the event.

Tom Slater, the editor of Spiked magazine, the libertarian publication behind the film, said he was sadly not surprised by the decision.

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Report reveals how much Canadians paying for groceries thanks to food inflation

Food inflation continues to top Canadians’ financial concerns, according to the fall 2025 edition of the Canadian Food Sentiment Index by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL), and they’re adapting their diets and shopping behaviours as a result.

The AAL based the bi-annual report on Purdue University’s Consumer Food Insights survey of Americans. The Canadian Food Sentiment Index measures the perceptions and views of roughly 3,000 respondents across the country on issues ranging from food affordability and spending to consumer beliefs and trust.

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Son of Barry and Honey Sherman moves to oust fellow estate trustees

The son of billionaire murder victims Barry and Honey Sherman has gone to court to remove his fellow trustees from control of part of his late parents’ estate, citing “breach of trust.”

In documents filed in Superior Court, Jonathon Sherman seeks to remove the two other trustees from control of a multimillion-dollar trust set up by his late father in 2016, the year before he was murdered. Jonathon states that his reasons are “grounded in alleged breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and failure to act in the best interests of the beneficiaries.”

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Trump’s Transportation Department Necessarily Brings Back Shaming, Thank God

The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation has brought back shaming, and anyone who flies even just once per year should fully support it.

Back in December 2021, aboard American Airlines to Cancún for a Christmas-time family vacation, I asked the flight attendant if the airline had started serving alcohol again. “No,” he said, “not until the passengers start acting right.”

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Wokester women priests drive hundreds of Anglican clergymen to the Catholic Church -study

As a Catholic, I’ve always thought the argument about women priests was a waste of time. There aren’t going to be any, given Catholic Church doctrine. The Vatican is lately stringing the wokester women of the Church along on maybe deacons, but that’s settled, too, the answer will be ‘no.’ It’s hardly something to get upset about. Being a priest is just a role, and it doesn’t give anyone an express route to Heaven if they don’t behave. Why fuss about different roles played and insist on changing tradition which dates back to the Apostles when the idea is to just get to Heaven?

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From Caledon to Mecca and Medellín: U.S. Says Toronto ‘Cocaine Lawyer’ Used Encrypted Chats Inside Wedding’s Murder Conspiracies

TORONTO — On the path to becoming the first Canadian of genuine Latin American cartel stature — a man the FBI has likened to a “modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar” — Ryan Wedding did not simply exploit Canada’s borders, ports and highways to move cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl.

Prosecutors say he became the single largest cocaine importer into Canada, building a billion-dollar enterprise by mastering cryptocurrency money-laundering, legal strategy, paramilitary training and the kind of hardened operational security usually associated with state intelligence agencies.


A Liberal declares Cooper’s research in an earlier piece unfounded…

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‘Punishable by death!’ Trump notes ‘execution’ is traditional penalty for sedition

President Donald Trump on social media has pointed out that the penalty for the refusal of military troops to obey orders is serious.

Punishment up to and including execution.

The response from the president came after a list of Democrats made a video urging federal employees, including members of the military, to refuse to obey what they called, without a definition, “illegal” orders.

h/t XC

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‘Jobs Americans Won’t Do’ — the Lie That Broke a Nation and the Economic and Social Devastation It Hid

Charlotte, N.C., is making headlines this week because dozens of construction sites have gone silent. ICE swept through the region, and the labor force evaporated almost instantly. A major American city discovered, in real time, that its building boom was being held together by workers who couldn’t legally be there. Watching that footage hit me hard, because I’ve seen it before — not on the evening news, but in the slow collapse of my own childhood community.

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KIRKHAM: One man’s land is another man’s great great great grandfather’s fishing village — so what?

The Cowichan followed a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1997, Delmaguukw, which held that in the absence of a treaty ceding their lands, any band is entitled to aboriginal title over any area to which they can prove their ancestors had exclusive possession in 1846.

And the court decided that to assist bands in proving the fact of possession in 1846, the band could introduce 7th generation hearsay evidence, passed down through generations, as to what land was occupied in 1846. This reversed a common law prohibition against first hand hearsay evidence that applies in every other lawsuit that goes before the courts.

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Serbia’s current president is accused of involvement in Sarajevo ‘human safaris’ where foreign tourists paid to be snipers and kill civilians

The scandal surrounding alleged ‘human safaris’ during the siege of Sarajevo has escalated, with the fresh allegation that Serbia’s current president participated in the hunting trips of unarmed civilians.

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in grotesque expeditions where wealthy foreign tourists would shoot at people with snipers during the four-year Bosnian Serb siege of the city in the 1990s.

Between 1992 and 1996, more than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by shelling and sniper fire in the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.


The kind of story you want to see debunked.

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Ukraine is on the verge of political collapse

Defeat, political implosion and civil war – those are the jeopardies that Volodymyr Zelensky faces as Ukraine heads into the most difficult and probably the last winter of the war. Evermore effective Russian strikes against Ukraine’s energy and transport infrastructure are likely to plunge swaths of the country into cold and darkness. Russian troops continue to push forwards slowly and bloodily in Donbas and, more dangerously, on the southern flank in Zaporizhzhia. Desertions from the Ukrainian army are up four times since last year and the number of deserters now matches the number of active fighters. The US has turned off the money taps and Europe struggles to produce the cash Kyiv needs to keep its war effort going.


In WW II the USA had a rough total of 122,354 deserters and conscientious objectors across all service branches.

Of the 72,354 CO’s 37K served in non-combat roles i.e. Medics or in civilian service.

Ukraine just had 100K of young fighting age men literally flee the country joining an estimated total of 650K who have fled since the war began.


Update: Senior US officials confirm details of 28-point plan to end Ukraine war

WASHINGTON — The US’ sweeping 28-point blueprint to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine proposes territorial freezes, troop caps, economic reintegration for Moscow, and a future “Peace Council” chaired by President Donald Trump, senior US officials confirmed exclusively to The Post.

The plan, which Kyiv and Moscow have not publicly accepted, outlines the most detailed picture yet of what Washington foresees as a way to end the war — and was built on weeks of US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s consultations with both the Russians and Ukrainians, the officials said.


I wonder if Freeland is fleeing Ukraine’s sinking ship or will she keep her job as Zelensky’s Bagman?

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DROVER: Canadians deserve the power to fire bad politicians

When Canadians hire someone to represent them in Ottawa, they shouldn’t be stuck with them for four years, even if they do a terrible job.

If you hired an employee who lied on their résumé, broke company rules or stopped showing up for work, you’d fire them.

But when a politician does the same thing, voters are forced to sit on their hands until the next election.

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