OLDCORN: Looney Tunes Rachel Gilmore rails against Conservative MPs defending Christian artist Sean Feucht

Looney Tunes Rachel Gilmore’s latest tirade on Twitter/X proves once again that she has little patience for anyone disagreeing with her far-left beliefs.

Christian believers have the basic right to speak and sing in public. No one is forcing Gilmore to participate in American Christian worship leader Sean Feucht’s free summer concert tour.

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Peter MacKinnon: Nurses warned of ‘imbalances’ in ‘colonial’ health-care system

Two centuries ago, liberal theorist John Stuart Mill wrote in his classic, On Liberty, that human liberty requires freedom of conscience, thought and feeling: “absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, practical or speculative, scientific, moral or theological.” His thinking has recently taken a battering, not least in our universities, but that beating is now joined by the foray of the Canadian Nurses Association into political thought.

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Top army commander says ‘completely unacceptable’ behaviour is eroding trust in the Canadian Forces

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Top army commander says ‘completely unacceptable’ behaviour is eroding trust in the Canadian Forces

The credibility and reputation of the Canadian Army is once again being questioned following an investigation into alleged extremist activities involving soldiers in Quebec and revelations of inappropriate social media posts by members of an Ottawa-based reserve unit, the country’s army commander acknowledged Wednesday.

Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright said in an interview with CBC News that the recent twin controversies are eroding the trust the military has worked to regain following the high-profile sexual misconduct scandal, which saw the resignation or retirement of a number of high-profile leaders.


Oh I think it happened much earlier … and it’s called going woke.

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GUNTER: Elections Canada put an end to Longest Ballot Committee’s trickery

So the Longest Ballot Committee has been thwarted — sort of — in its effort to hijack next month’s byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot.

The committee’s stunt of clogging the ballot in the central Alberta riding with more than 200 names worked. By the close of nominations on Tuesday, the committee had convinced more than 200 of its supporters to let their names stand, even though most of them have never been to the riding and have no intention of campaigning.

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Swedish jihadi jailed for life over infamous murder of pilot

The Stockholm District Court on Thursday sentenced Swedish national Osama K. to life in prison for his role in the 2015 murder of a Jordanian pilot who was burned alive by the “Islamic State” (IS) militant group in Syria.

K. was found guilty of participating in the execution by helping to force the pilot into a metal cage ahead of one of the militant group’s most infamous murders. The conviction is the first of anyone tried over the high-profile execution.

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Jamie Sarkonak: It shouldn’t take 16 years to deport a foreign criminal

Gagandip Jhuty, an Indian national, should have been deported in 2009 due to his criminal history, but it was only this July that Canadian officials scheduled his flight out. Why? Because for 16 years, India refused to issue him a passport.

That’s how it works in Canada: anyone being deported needs to have travel documents on hand. So, if they entered illegally and never had such documents to begin with, they can’t be sent home until that problem is resolved. If a country doesn’t want to repatriate the deportee in question, it can simply ignore our requests — for years.

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h/t Patti Jo

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US allies break with Trump to force diplomatic shift on Gaza

As Canada joins France and the UK in announcing plans to recognise a Palestinian state, the US is standing firmly with Israel – but does Trump have a long-term plan for Gaza’s future?

Of all history’s declarations about the Middle East, one that may be less prominent in the global collective memory was in Tokyo in November 2023.

Then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a series of principles for the “day after” the war in Gaza at a meeting of the G7, a group of the world’s most powerful countries.

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Islamophobia Tsar says Mideast war is bringing back anti-Muslim tropes from 9/11

OTTAWA — Ottawa’s special representative on combating Islamophobia says she’s alarmed by a recent revival of decades-old tropes about Muslims supporting terrorist violence.

Amira Elghawaby also said Canadians should not be reluctant to speak out for the rights of one group because of a fear of being accused of ignoring the plight of another.

“In a country as pluralistic and as diverse as Canada, we should be able to get this right,” Elghawaby told The Canadian Press.

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Anthony Koch: Just because I’m a child of immigrants doesn’t mean I support mass immigration

I am the grandchild of four immigrants. On one side, southern Italian peasants from small, scorched villages where life was bitter and short. They came to Canada with no English, no status and no illusions. They worked, they scraped, they built.

On the other side was a family that was expelled from Egypt — cast out, humiliated and dispossessed by the country they called home. They arrived here not to be celebrated but to be left alone, to rebuild in peace, far from the politics that ruined their lives. That is the blood that runs through me. And I will not let it be used as a cudgel against my reason.

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