Have you noticed how nowadays, whenever you visit a museum, you get hit by a clunking giant ideological hammer? Once upon a time, we went to museums to feed our curiosity and sense of wonder. Today, the people in charge of them seem to believe their job is to make us feel as guilt-ridden and tormented as possible.
In theory, supply management is designed to protect both farmers and consumers — a uniquely Canadian invention meant to ensure stability, fairness and predictability in our food supply.
But 2025 has shown how fragile that promise has become.
Theodore Dalrymple is one of my favorite living writers. He makes complex notions seem obvious and self-evident while employing a sporadic dry wit. His is reliably enjoyable reading that feels like a guilty pleasure.
He has a fascinating history as an English psychologist working in some of Britain’s slums and its prisons. He encounters the modern philosophies through the people who live them, who have really internalized the concept that their crimes were the fault of anything except their own will: their bad upbringing, their parents, their anxiety, their addictions, their ancestry, and so on.
With a spring in his step, senior lecturer Jeroen Ensink left his home in Holloway, London, to send cards to his friends and family, announcing the arrival of his baby daughter. Seconds later his life was over. A young black male (the relevance of which will soon be clear) suddenly pounced on him, and in a state of frenzy savagely stabbed his random victim. Femi Nandap, a psychiatric patient, was arrested and sent to a high-security institution.
When Microsoft co-founder and global philanthropist Bill Gates recently released a 17-page memo recalibrating his position on climate change, he knew controversy would ensue. Still, it is difficult to overstate the impact of his observations, and the alarm, disappointment and bewilderment it has caused.
In some quarters, though, Mr. Gates was met with pure elation. “I (we) just won the war on the climate change hoax,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social-media platform Truth Social. “Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely wrong on the issue.”
A wealthy New Jersey suburb that is home to the state’s new governor-elect has been upended by the arrest of two teenage terror suspects, as details emerged about their alleged plans.
Milo Sedarat and Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel, both 19, were taken into custody on Wednesday, after the FBI uncovered a plot to bomb gay bars in Detroit in an ISIS-inspired attack on Halloween.
The alleged scheme was uncovered last week by the FBI and the NYPD’s Intelligence Bureau, which said the bombing was intended to copy ISIS’s terror attack in Paris in 2015.
Actor Mike Smith, best known as the character Bubbles on the television show Trailer Park Boys, has been charged with sexual assault.
Mr. Smith, 53, was charged by Halifax Regional Police on Oct. 2, according to court documents filed in Nova Scotia’s provincial court. The assault is alleged to have occurred in December, 2017, but the charging documents do not include additional details of the allegations.
Canada’s recent real estate boom—and bust—was followed by an immigration surge charting a similar trajectory. Together, they expose generous high-leverage mortgage programs that shift risk off lender books and onto public and private insurers. These programs enabled buyers with minimal credit and few local ties to purchase homes at peak prices. With values now plunging, the lack of transparency raises questions about how these will perform—and whether the loans amplify the market’s downside risks.
To clarify: the @RBC mortgage pitch explicitly explains that "no money, no job" is not a barrier for "new" Canadians. https://t.co/yc9ETQyy1J
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 6, 2025
The immigration levels plan Prime Minister Mark Carney released Tuesday addresses Canada’s population overload in the same way that partially mending a plumbing leak helps drain a flooded basement. It doesn’t.
Carney intends to give 380,000 people permanent resident status per year from 2026 to 2028 through regular streams; over the next two years, another 148,000 refugees and work permit holders will be granted PR as well — which means not everyone is going home, despite their temporary status. The government will also bring in 385,000 temporary residents (workers and study permit holders) in 2026 and 370,000 in each of the two years after. Altogether, that’s over 800,000 per year.
Actress Jennifer Lawrence is finally embracing what we’ll call the Michael Jordan Principle, realizing Republicans watch movies, too. Jordan’s sneakers statement is probably apocryphal, but it contains a grain of truth that Hollywood has largely ignored for years.
For the past couple of weeks, since Pierre Poilievre appeared on YouTube’s Northern Perspective, members of the dominant media in Canada have sounded like scorched rats howling in protest about his unfair comments regarding former prime minister Justin Trudeau. The problem with their frustrations seems to be more about what he said than about the facts. Poilievre simply recited some basic knowledge that everyone is familiar with. His conclusions irritate members of the Laurentian media because they bear responsibility for helping the RCMP keep this matter underreported.
This is a PSA for wypipo, don’t ever say “colored” to describe our melanated brothers and sisters because it’s offensive, mainly to white liberal women. pic.twitter.com/vNNo5bBIuH
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 7, 2025
OTTAWA — While the numbers of Canadian citizens held in federal prisons continue a downward trend, populations of non-Canadians behind bars continues to rise.
But information on where these inmates are from is largely missing from the data provided by Public Safety Canada – with the national origin of nearly 35% of Canada’s non-citizen prison population listed as “unknown.”
Performance art says so much by saying absolutely nothing at all.
This dance shows our societal direction while considering climate justice and decolonizing spaces. Your thoughts? pic.twitter.com/tlwp8J3Kp1
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 7, 2025
Godzilla would be mightily impressed.
George Soros’s trail of devastation reminds me of Godzilla. In the opening scenes of the 1998 hit monster movie, scientist Nick Tatopoulos is overcome with fear when gazing on giant reptile’s footprints in a Central American country left by the mutant lizard on his way to tear up New York City. I get a similar feeling examining Soros’s monstrous footprint in Bolivia, where voters have just cast off a socialist narco regime he helped Cuba to install before moving on to the U.S.
