Hey Canada? Ready to grab your ankles again?@fancypants_s https://t.co/9NHsOp0onU
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 19, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
It may be offensive to say ‘husband’ or ‘wife’, council staff told
A London council has advised staff not to refer to married couples as husband and wife.
The Royal Borough of Greenwich council in southeast London has provided its staff with an inclusive language guide which suggests they use terms “spouse” or “partner” instead to avoid offending anyone who does not identify as a man or woman.
The 45-page booklet, obtained by The Sun through a freedom of information request, also asks the council’s employees to avoid welcoming “ladies and gentlemen” if they are running public meetings and events.
Canada’s spy agency has gone all in on the LGBT agenda
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) wants to make it crystal clear: they are all in on the LGBT agenda.
CSIS is Canada’s spy agency—the foreign intelligence service responsible for protecting the nation from threats both foreign and domestic—published a series of posts on August 18 letting everyone know that they are hard at work. Promoting “Pride Season,” that is.
In Canada, we don’t just have “Pride Month,” like other LGBT-colonized countries. We have “Pride Season,” which according to the federal government includes June, July, August, and September.
…for visiting, performing and speaking at CSIS NHQ!
Visit @PSPrideNetwork for details on how to continue celebrating #PSPW2025 with activities throughout this week: Public Service Pride Week – Public Service Pride (2/2)#PublicServicePride #2SLGBTQIA #SafeSpacesMatter pic.twitter.com/NsMANBve42
— CSIS Canada (@csiscanada) August 18, 2025
WTF?
Air India
The goat on top of the plane is perfect.
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 19, 2025
BBC admits Gazan woman who ‘starved to death’ had cancer
The BBC has admitted that a Gazan woman it claimed had died of malnutrition was being treated for cancer.
Over the weekend, the broadcaster reported that the 20-year-old, identified as Marah Abu Zuhri, died after she was evacuated to Italy for treatment while “severely emaciated”.
However, the Israeli military unit in charge of aid, known as the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, claimed shortly afterwards that she had been suffering from from leukaemia.
WTF?
An African couple who claim they are part of a lost African tribe say they are facing persecution after setting up home in Scottish woodlands.
The Kingdom of Kubala claims they have settled in a forest in Jedburgh to reclaim land that was stolen from their ancestors 400… pic.twitter.com/AKaKRblBNQ
— 'Seeing is believing' (@dave24144975) August 19, 2025
Did Canada’s Adoption of UN Indigenous Pact Affect BC Court Ruling on First Nation Land Claim?
A recent landmark court ruling in B.C. upheld the indigenous right to reclaim ancestral lands by granting title and fishing rights to the Cowichan Nation in regions of the Lower Mainland based on their historic territory.
The court’s Aug. 7 decision references case law and a “senior interest” of aboriginal groups to regain the lands, even if they’re now held by government or private third parties. The province has said it will repeal the ruling.
Europe isn’t prepared for peace
Trump’s strategy is clear
There are many more ways in which a peace process can fail than succeed. But for either to happen, it first needs to start. And that is often the most difficult step. But after his big summit in the White House, Donald Trump seems to have pulled off the unthinkable: a summit has been organised between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky which would kick-start peace negotiations.
What did it take to get here? While a ceasefire will not be a pre-condition, the Europeans have been granted some of the assurances they wanted on security guarantees. Whether these can be enforced is, of course, an entirely different matter — but America’s agreement, in principle, to help the Europeans meet their obligations does mark an important shift in this seemingly endless war.
Would Trump walk away if Ukraine were to violate terms of a peace deal?
Michael Taube: Poilievre proved Alberta separatists were never a force to be reckoned with
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre easily won Monday’s Battle River-Crowfoot byelection with 80.4 per cent of the vote. If anyone actually expected a different outcome in this extremely safe Alberta riding, they were fooling themselves.
While his victory wasn’t surprising, the fact that he was in this potentially precarious position to begin with certainly was.
WHISSELL: Barely undocked, Carney’s SHIP takes on water
On June 16, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney surprised all of North America by releasing an official statement declaring that he and Trump had “agreed to pursue negotiations toward a deal within the coming 30 days.”
He raised expectations to beat Trump’s August 1 deadline by a solid two weeks and sign a trade deal with the US.
Palestinian Authority Columnist: Christian Traditions are ‘Nonsense,’ ‘Jesus Belongs to the Palestinians’
The Palestinian leadership is again referencing Jesus as a Palestinian. This time around, they’re insulting Christianity as well. “‘Christians, forget Jesus!’ ‘He is one of us’. Christian traditions are ‘nonsense,’” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, August 11, 2025 …
Gavin Newsom: the chameleon who destroyed California
Gavin Newsom may be saddled with an awful record. But the California governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet – even a frontrunner in some polls – in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. How is this possible?
The simple answer is that Newsom might be the ultimate candidate for the attention-deficient generation. He is a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively – not according to facts, but to whatever best seems to fit the national mood. We witnessed this after last year’s presidential election, when he began ‘bro-washing’ his slick image with some cringe-worthy appearances on podcasts. One of these even included an embrace of gun ownership – a surprise to many of his supporters who had voted for him on the basis of his strong anti-gun record.
Racist Canada should just let everyone in to please the Star
Canada’s immigration approach is becoming more exclusionary. It’s not the direction we should be heading
In 2023, Canada marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that explicitly banned nearly all Chinese immigrants for nearly a quarter century. Many see it as a black mark in Canadian history because it deliberately targeted and expelled the very Chinese labourers who had done the dangerous, back-breaking work of building the Canadian Pacific Railway, only to be cast aside once their labour was no longer needed.
The centenary was a moment of reflection. But since then, Canada has become more restrictive, not less. Rising immigration refusal rates, while not racially explicit, are carrying the pattern of exclusion forward.
About the “author” – Yvonne Su is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University and a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
‘90s Heroin Chic Is Back … For Boys
Eating disorders are on the rise among young males.
While many of us have been distracted by the controversy over the American Eagle ad with Sydney Sweeney and her “good jeans,” we have paid little attention to the ways in which fashion trends are affecting teenage boys and young men. Rejecting the buff bodies and the building of muscle definition of the past, teenage boys and young men have become increasingly attracted to the idea of starving themselves to achieve the perfect emaciated look. Thinness is everything to them, and some of them are obsessively measuring their food intake in order to look like waifish celebrities like Timothee Chalamet. Today’s boys are challenging the gender norm more than ever before.
“These are Worrying Times for My Generation”
Pride Day has just passed in my hometown of Hull. Pride flags were publicly displayed, replacing Union flags; countless posters were plastered on shop windows and adverts invaded social media feeds. One could not miss that the event was approaching. Fortunately, away in Stockport watching football, I escaped the parade of men in dresses; their giveaway cock and balls openly dangling between their legs. This came weeks into Pride Month, a fleeting four weeks dedicated to the LGBTQwerty community. Pride awareness, however, does not stop there. There are more upcoming events in a local town around Hull: the Pride of Beverley, which is also hosting a Dog Walk of Pride – hold me back. It is evident this community is always in the limelight. What for though? Scaring children, exploiting women and playing fancy dress?