Brampton in about a month.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/jYH8SBbWeU
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 23, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly.
Unfortunately, there may not be a hockey analogy for the challenge Canada faces
Inevitably, but torturously, this unique moment in the history of this country has come to be understood primarily in hockey terms.
“His elbows have mysteriously gone missing,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said of Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday. “He’s not thrown one elbow since he took office.”
A few hours earlier, a reporter had warned the prime minister that his critics might say something like that in the wake of his decision to repeal some of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs against American products — that while Carney had once spoken of Canada putting its elbows “up,” now those elbows might be said to be down.
WTF?
Snoop Dog doesn’t want to see two men kissing in kids movies. Bold move to say this publicly. pic.twitter.com/BeSi5i107U
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 22, 2025
Ontario couple whose teenage son died after 8-hour wait in ER calls for law reform
An Ontario family is calling on the provincial government to introduce legislation that would set maximum emergency room wait times for children after their teenage son died following an eight-hour wait for a doctor in a hospital last year.
GJ and Hazel van der Werken, of Burlington, Ont., said their 16-year-old son, Finlay, had a few days of mild illness and was suffering from migraines before his condition began to worsen. Hazel rushed him to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on Feb. 7, 2024, she said.
And who received treatment in advance of this young man?
WTF?
Welcome to Gavin Newsom's California!pic.twitter.com/21scbAQcnE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 22, 2025
France is in denial about its migrant hotels
The High Court victory of Epping Forest District Council has made news in France. The decision to temporarily block migrants from being housed in The Bell Hotel was covered by newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Figaro.
The latter provided some context to the growing tension in England, noting that the migrants in Epping are just a few of the estimated 32,000 migrants housed in hotels ‘at the expense of the British taxpayer.’
WTF?
Geezuz! @fancypants_s https://t.co/uvA0ajlXlJ
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 23, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
New York: The City That Sleeps
Establishments that used to be open 24/7 now close early. Why?
On a recent Sunday evening, Imad Khachan encountered a problem once unthinkable in New York City. “I had a friend and his wife visiting from overseas,” says Khachan, the owner of Chess Forum, Greenwich Village’s last remaining chess shop. “They stopped by and said, ‘We’d like to go have dinner around nine o’clock.’ . . . I understand it was Sunday, but we really were hard-pressed to find a place that opened till 10 o’clock, let alone 24 hours. I couldn’t tell them where we [should] go. I felt so embarrassed.”
Take it from Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump: In politics, there’s always a chance for a second chance
In the notes for his unfinished final novel, The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously and portentously wrote “there are no second acts in American lives.”
Nowhere is this less true than in politics, American or otherwise.
Indeed, when I met Donald Trump in 1997, he was a has-been who patiently waited alone in the bowels of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to be interviewed by a city reporter for a fluffy human-interest story.
A Thirst for Freedom: The Case for Supporting Iran’s People
For more than 40 years, the people of Iran have lived under a suffocating dictatorship that has stripped them of their freedoms, denied them basic human rights, and crushed any glimmer of hope for a better future. Yet despite the unrelenting repression, the Iranian people have never stopped dreaming of liberty. They have taken to the streets again and again, often at unimaginable personal risk, demanding the right to live in dignity and determine their own future. Each time, they have been met with the full force of a ruthless regime that treats dissent as treason and humanity as an afterthought. This struggle for freedom is not a fleeting political cause — it is the very heartbeat of a nation that refuses to surrender its spirit.
Fed-up Canadians say no one at CRA is taking their call. The union says it’s set to get worse
Many Canadians are complaining they can’t reach anyone at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) by phone to address important tax matters, and the union representing agency workers has joined affected taxpayers in pleading with the federal government to fix the problem.
“It’s just so frustrating and disappointing,” said Krista Tucker Petrick of North Bay, Ont., one of several affected taxpayers interviewed by CBC News.
She said she has been calling the CRA at least twice daily for weeks to deal with her late stepmother’s estate.
h/t DS
Fans loved her new album. The thing was, she hadn’t released one
Last month, award-winning singer Emily Portman got a message from a fan praising her new album and saying “English folk music is in good hands”.
That would normally be a compliment, but the Sheffield-based artist was puzzled.
So she followed a link the fan had posted and was taken to what appeared to be her latest release. “But I didn’t recognise it because I hadn’t released a new album,” Portman says.
‘I was scared’ — American man seeks asylum in Windsor after kayaking into Canada
After kayaking across the Detroit River earlier this month, an American asylum-seeker stepped into Canada unsure of what to expect, but considers the reaction so far positive – including a stranger giving him $100.
“I hate the fact that I did what I did, but what was my choice? I was scared,” said Dan Livers, 51, of Michigan. “I hope to become a citizen.
Scientists Are Removing DEI Language to Keep Federal Grants
Scientists are removing words like “diverse” and “disparities” from hundreds of federal grant renewals to avoid getting flagged in the Trump administration’s focus on eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows.
At least 600 research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health have been modified in the fiscal year starting in October to remove terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion, the Journal analysis found. Nearly all of those projects were multiyear grants that had already been approved but were up for routine annual reviews. The modified grants were worth $480 million this cycle.
It’s the smart thing to do.
BINDA: Global Affairs Canada is incinerating taxpayer cash
Global Affairs Canada has a spending problem.
Taxpayers deserve a full inquiry into the department and Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to take a chainsaw to its $8.6-billion budget.
Bureaucrats at GAC spent taxpayer money treating Canadian women who went to Syria to join ISIS to a luxurious trip back home, according to Global News.