Nothing corrodes political credibility faster than pretending a problem doesn’t exist. Especially when that problem is one that voters feel in their bones. And nothing angers voters more — or accelerates their distrust — than denying the reality that life is getting more expensive.
You can stall, spin, or distract from this fact. But eventually, the bills come due.
Last week offered two striking examples of just that.
The BBC has told President Trump’s lawyers that it would fight his lawsuit for up to $5 billion, claiming nobody in America watched its misleading Panorama programme and it didn’t damage his reputation.
The broadcaster’s lawyers have responded robustly to Trump’s threat to sue billions for dollars in damages with a letter that clearly sets out the belief that it has no case to answer.
The media loves a good dramatic story to report.
When Conservative MP Chris D’entrement crossed the floor to join the Liberals, journalists licked their chops at the prospect of covering all the apparent dysfunction in the party that led up to his decision.
The federal government is expecting the budget to pass a final confidence test by a slim majority Monday as Liberals work behind the scenes to corral enough opposition votes to avert an election.
A senior Liberal told The Globe and Mail Sunday that Prime Minister Mark Carney does not have the votes at this point to win a confidence vote.
There’s always hope.
Calgary’s mayor says he will move to amend the city’s current national flag policy after concerns were raised over the raising of the Palestinian flag at City Hall.
Mayor Jeromy Farkas said he will be making an “urgent” motion to change the current policy, which allows for flags of countries recognized by the Government of Canada to be raised on their national days. Farkas said the amendment will prohibit the flags of other countries from being raised at City Hall.
THE Home Secretary and others, including former Conservative leader Lord Hague, have suggested copying Danish asylum policies. But which of these policies, if any, have actually worked for Denmark?
From confiscating asylum seekers’ jewellery to negotiating offshore processing in Africa, Denmark has enacted some of Europe’s strictest measures in pursuit of a ‘zero asylum seekers’ goal. Supporters credit these tactics for driving asylum claims down to a 40-year low. Yet a closer look at key initiatives shows their impact is far less dramatic than promised.
After months of insisting tariffs had nothing to do with rising grocery prices, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course this week, rolling back duties on more than 200 food-related products.
The list is broad: beef, coffee, cocoa, spices, bananas, orange juice, tomatoes, tea, and even certain fertilizers.
I never thought that I would agree with Michelle Obama, but she has a point. America doesn’t deserve her presidency.
We’re a sinful nation and we have a lot of problems, but we don’t deserve an even angrier and less talented Obama.
Michelle Obama says “We ain’t ready” for her or a woman president otherwise Kamala Harris would’ve been elected. And don’t look at her to run because America “has a lot of growing up to do” and men don’t feel like they can be led by a woman…we saw it in the last election. pic.twitter.com/xYRlzBdQDN
— Ermias (@ErmiasAlem) November 15, 2025
The Great British high street is now synonymous with decay, crime and exploitation.
Little exemplifies the UK’s decline as much as the death of the great British high street. With nothing left to buy or browse, they have become anti-social, run-down and depressing. And yet liberal journalists and establishment politicians remain in complete denial. Either they are truly ignorant of what is going on in Britain’s most disadvantaged communities, or they simply don’t care.
Prime Minister Mark Carney rolled out a second wave of “nation-building projects” on Thursday and an oil pipeline from Alberta was not on the list.
Patience is wearing thin in western Canada, even as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is “still working” with the Carney government to advance a bitumen pipeline to tidewater.
Healthier babies, fewer cruel diseases, a better start for every child: it all sounds irresistible. This week, the Times reported that gene-editing techniques are now being considered for routine use in human embryos. Each step is presented as modest and benign, yet beneath the soothing language lies a shift that takes us from caring for the sick towards treating children as projects to be optimised.
Hi All!
We have had some cache issues with the blog which we hope are solved as of this writing. For the last several hours the blog was not presenting the latest posts, a cache reset fixed it, I hope.
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20 years of posts (Over 226K of em) make for a very unwieldy blog, it’s causing problems for my host.
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Nigeria’s Christians are being pushed to the brink of extinction – and could be wiped off the map within two generations without urgent international intervention.
That’s the chilling warning from Emeka Umeagbalasi, the outspoken founder of Nigeria’s International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety). And he’s not mincing his words.
The veteran activist says a silent, systematic genocide has swept Africa’s most populous nation for nearly two decades – a ‘long-running, coordinated campaign’ of killings, kidnappings and church burnings carried out mostly by Islamist militants and enabled by the Nigerian state itself.
Fully developed babies are aborted in the eighth month of pregnancy.
That’s what an abortion counsellor with Toronto Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic casually revealed during a videoed undercover investigation into the availability of late-term abortions by RightNow.
Recent data from both sides of the border show that Canadians are travelling to the U.S. in much smaller numbers, thanks to an ongoing trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of annexation, more intrusive border crossing requirements and a weak Canadian dollar.
But U.S. tourist destinations are fighting back with a variety of schemes to lure Canadians back across the border, either by tugging at their heartstrings or their pursestrings. Here are a few of them.
