Major European nations come off terribly in the U.S. Department of State’s latest reports on human rights practices, which point to “serious restrictions” on free speech, inconsistent policing and antisemitic violence.
Naturally then, the leftist establishment press, such as Britain’s BBC, has effectively dismissed the annual document as “downscaled.” That’s much easier, after all, than admitting to our failures.
Geezuz! @fancypants_s https://t.co/AoWWpyFtCb
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 14, 2025
Ontario funds free building code course, opposition urges more action on skills gaps
TORONTO — An Ontario college has opened applications to newcomers for a free program intended to address what it describes as a “critical” shortage of building code officials in the province.
The provincial government is funding the training in a move that opposition politicians say is sorely needed, but that they say is just one step towards closing multiple training gaps in the province.
Ford is a pandering prick. h/t Auntie Polly
Federal officials spent at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria, according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy and wine.
The money was for costs incurred when eight women who had traveled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State returned to Canada with their children in 2022 and 2023.
OMG! The Islamophobia! You will wonder why the cops didn’t tase her just for fun.
h/t INGENUI
Young male pedestrians get into a vulgar shouting match with older female protesters.
The pro-Israel demonstration was directed at the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario annual meeting, happening inside the Sheraton Centre.
Aug 12, 2025#Toronto #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/2Vy2ibbLrs
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) August 13, 2025
Donald Trump is preparing to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare earth minerals to incentivise him to end the war in Ukraine.
The US president will arrive at the much-anticipated meeting with his Russian counterpart on Friday armed with a number of money-making opportunities for Putin.
They will include opening up Alaska’s natural resources to Moscow and lifting some of the American sanctions on Russia’s aviation industry, The Telegraph can reveal.
DEI Hire or Drunk? https://t.co/uu03rB8vis
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) August 14, 2025
OC Transpo bus collides with overhead sign at Bayshore Mall
A Montreal lawyer has filed a hate crime complaint after he and his wife, both Jewish, were confronted by a demonstrator at a Palestinian rally calling out “Heil, heil, heil” at them during their visit to Halifax.
Dan Goldstein, 51, had travelled from Montreal with his wife, Liat Lev-Ary, to visit Nova Scotia, and on Aug. 6, after touring the Halifax Public Gardens, they went for lunch. They followed their phone’s map to get to a restaurant, Goldstein said.
Iran has arrested tens of thousands of people after the “humiliated” regime in Tehran ordered security forces to hunt down spies who helped Israel kill the country’s top military leaders.
An appeal to Iranians to turn over “suspicious” people to the police led to thousands of arrests, state media reported, as the country’s top judge said he would deal “decisively and legally” with spies. He spoke a week after Iran executed another alleged spy for Israel.
The crackdown has particularly targeted ethnic and religious minorities in Iran and has drawn condemnation from the UN. Iran has expelled thousands of Afghans, and those arrested have included journalists and human rights advocates, according to the UN.
Statistics Canada’s labour numbers from July indicate that the country’s youth unemployment rate is continuing to climb, reaching numbers not seen since the 2008 recession.
While the country’s unemployment rate remained at 6.9 percent for that month, the rate among those aged 15 to 24 rose from 14.2 percent to 14.6 percent. This is the highest rate since 2010, barring the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada saw employment fall by 41,000 jobs, but the decline was mainly concentrated among the youth, who saw 34,000 jobs lost. Meanwhile, employment among “core-aged” working Canadians between 25 and 54 changed very little.
A new national survey suggests that Canadians anticipate significant changes in technology, the economy, and global politics over the next five years — though the poll shows there is a distinct generational gap as opinions vary widely by age and political affiliation.
The study, conducted by Abacus Data, which polled 1,686 Canadians from Jul. 31 to Aug.7, 2025, found that there was skepticism about rapid adoption of driverless automobiles and pilotless planes.
The idea of doing violence to one’s political opponents has become mainstream on the left. Don’t believe me? Consider the case of one Iman Abdul, a 27-year-old woman who has worked on the campaigns of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick) and New York state Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Of Course). Abdul has just been arrested for calling for an attack on a high school because a large number of Jewish students go to it.
The RCMP say a fourth person has been charged in an alleged human smuggling operation after 44 people were found in “horrific” conditions inside a cube truck earlier this month in Quebec near the United States border.
Tolga Yilmaz, 34, was arrested at Montreal Trudeau International Airport on Aug. 8, allegedly on his way out of the country. The RCMP announced the arrest Tuesday in a media release.
Ogulcan Mersin, 25, and Dogan Alakus and Firat Yuksek, both 31, were charged on Aug. 4.
Among the maelstrom of allegations about two-tier policing, and a justice system where ethnicity still seems to be very much a factor in what sort of justice you can expect to receive, there has been a flash of reassurance for those longing for a return to common sense and fairness.
This came last week, when two officers from West Midlands Police knocked on the door of a suspected ‘anti-migrant’ protester in Coventry. Speaking through the intercom, one policeman tells the resident that they have been sent to deliver a leaflet ahead of an upcoming protest in nearby Nuneaton, where a child was allegedly raped by an asylum seeker.
In the brilliant book MASH, by Richard Hooker (real name H. Richard Hornberger), Captain Walter “The Painless Pole” Waldowski, a brilliant, handsome, and priapic surgical dentist, suffers from what today would be diagnosed as bipolarism, periodically becoming deeply depressed. His doctor friends offer him the ultimate suicide, complete with a huge party and a painless final shot. In fact, it’s a con, for they simply knock him out to help him sleep off his depression, and they even give the well-endowed dentist a blue ribbon award while he sleeps. All ends well.
“We’re going to see a radical lurch to the Right over the next five to ten years.”
James Orr is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge. He is Chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation UK, whose aim is to strengthen the principles of national conservatism in Western and other democratic countries. He was recently appointed chairman of the advisory board of a new pro-Reform UK think tank, the Centre for a Better Britain. He believes Reform UK is the only political force in Britain with a meaningful chance of success that “still believes in the nation.” We recently talked to James Orr in the Hungarian city of Esztergom on the sidelines of the MCC Feszt.
