Rachel Gilmore on X - "TLDR: Ben Mulroney DONATED nearly the maximum allowable amount to the Conservative Party of Canada — and is now the interim host of one of Canada’s top political shows. I’ve got the receipts:"
Jonathan Kay on X - "I hear his dad was a Conservative too Still waiting for confirmation"
Shaughn.SGT(ret) on X - "So what. Is he not allowed to donate? Liberal party donates BILLIONS to the CBC to ensure they have his back. And YOU know it."
Yukon Strong πΊπΈ on X - "Lol Didn’t you have the leader of the NDP in your dorm room? You are only concerned about bias in media when it doesn’t benefit you"
π½π£ππππ π βπ πππͺ π on X - "And you got fired from @globalnews for making up lies about war veteran James Topp. The resulting lawsuit ending with you getting canned."
The Danneskjold on X - "Why is the left so terrified of conservatives having a voice?"
4-Year-old Given Gift by Classmate, Nothing Prepares Mom for What’s Inside - Newsweek - "The fact Nyla’s friend stole her mom’s credit card might be surprising on first reading, but it’s fairly ordinary behavior for a child her age and shouldn’t be taken as evidence of anything serious. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, children up to the age of 3 often take things “because they don't understand fully the difference between what is mine and what is not.” They don’t do so with bad intentions. Even from the ages of 3 up to 7, Johns Hopkins Medicine notes “this age group will trade things without regard to value.”"
Millennial therapist has 1 question for boomer parents—"Respectfully, why?" - "“Many boomers grew up believing that love is shown through providing and protecting, not through verbal affirmation or vulnerability.” She added that boomers often keep personal or medical information private because they were raised in a culture where independence, emotional restraint, and handling problems quietly were seen as signs of strength and love. Many genuinely believe they are protecting their children from worry by minimizing or delaying updates, and they view sharing health issues as burdening others or exposing vulnerability. Meanwhile, younger generations—raised with more openness around mental health and the normalization of sharing life events—interpret that silence as exclusion or lack of trust. So, while boomers are trying to care by shielding, their children feel more cared for when they are included."
Parents found dead with toddler cuddling them - "A two-year-old boy was discovered covered in blood and cuddled up to his parents, who had been shot dead in their family home. Firefighter Justin and his wife Amber Hicks, were killed by their neighbour, Matthew Scott Lanz, while the child was upstairs sleeping... The couple’s child was unharmed and Lanz was unaware that he was asleep upstairs... When officers arrived, bodycam footage showed the toddler trying to play with them to get their attention. He was covered in blood and was in unchanged nappies, left to wander around the house for 12 hours, not understanding that his parents were dead."
Anthony Koch: We need a Pierre Trudeau of the right to remake Canada - "There are moments in a nation’s story when a single leader bends the arc of its history toward a new destination. In Canada, no figure accomplished this more sweepingly or more deliberately than Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Agree with him or despise his legacy, and I remain firmly in the latter camp, Trudeau was not merely a prime minister. He was a founder. He took a country with deep British institutional roots, a Westminster state shaped by inherited constitutional tradition, civic restraint, common law sensibilities, and a political culture that still thought of itself, quietly but undeniably, as part of the wider Anglosphere, and he transformed it into something wholly different. The Canada Trudeau inherited was a British dominion in constitutional form and temperament, Anglo in its civic habits and historically conscious of its lineage. The Canada he left behind was a centralized, rights oriented, technocratic state bound more by judicial doctrine than by tradition, more by universalist abstraction than by concrete inheritance, and more by administrative management than by civic duty. Like all successful revolutionaries, Trudeau understood two truths conservatives have spent half a century failing to grasp: that a country can be remade decisively from the top, and that if you want to remake it, you need a governing philosophy capable of surviving long after you are gone. Trudeau understood both. The modern conservative movement understands neither. And until it does, it will continue to win elections (and maybe not even that) while losing the country. To understand Trudeau’s achievement, one must remember what existed before him, which is becoming difficult in a country where national memory, for most Canadians, seems to begin sometime around 1967. Before Trudeau, Canada’s history stretched back through Confederation to centuries of British political development, Loyalist settlement, parliamentary custom, and the incremental evolution of self-government under the Crown. This was a political culture that prized continuity over rupture, convention over novelty, and a restrained state over ideological experimentation. It was not perfect, and it was not always conscious of itself, but it was coherent. Trudeau judged this inheritance obsolete. He believed Canada needed a clean intellectual foundation, a new identity, a new mission, and a new centre of gravity, not one rooted in history but one engineered deliberately from first principles. And he set about building it. He redefined national identity through official multiculturalism, bilingualism, and a civic mythology centred on rights rather than responsibilities. He replaced older Anglo-French dualities with a post national narrative in which Canada’s meaning flowed not from its British constitutional heritage or its Western civilizational roots but from universal abstractions administered by an ascendant technocratic elite. He dramatically centralized federal power, expanding Ottawa’s role far beyond what previous generations would have considered legitimate. And then he performed his masterstroke: he constitutionalized his revolution. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms ensured that Trudeau’s ideas would govern Canada long after he no longer could. Bureaucracies can be trimmed. Agencies can be abolished. Budgets can be changed. But a constitutional philosophy, once entrenched, reproduces itself through courts, administrators, educators, journalists, and activists. In every meaningful sense, Trudeau built a system in which his ideology would win even when his party lost. For 50 years, Conservatives have responded to this generational project like bookkeepers rather than statesmen. They managed within the framework instead of challenging the framework itself... Conservatives allowed a thousand years of political development, from Magna Carta to Westminster, to be replaced by a political culture in which every question is judicial, every debate is technocratic, and every civic norm is treated as if it was invented in 1982. You cannot defeat Charter liberalism with tax credits. You cannot counter a post national myth with slightly different language about economic growth. You cannot dismantle a centralized, judicialized, bureaucratic state by nibbling at its edges. And you cannot overturn a generational project without a generational project of your own. Conservatives often rail against Trudeau’s legacy, yet they refuse to face the most important fact about it. It is coherent. It is totalizing. It is embedded structurally. It is a whole worldview encoded directly into the bones of the political system. And when you have no counter philosophy, the dominant philosophy wins by default. And yet Canada is once again ripe for remaking. The economic foundations of the Trudeau settlement have begun to erode. The multicultural model he championed is fracturing under the weight of incompatible expectations. The central government he strengthened has become bloated, unaccountable, and increasingly incompetent. The technocratic elite he trusted has lost legitimacy. Public institutions from universities to the civil service to agencies of regulation are tired, misaligned, strangely insulated from the people they are supposed to serve. And because Trudeau remade the national narrative so thoroughly, most Canadians have no memory, either culturally or institutionally, of the country that existed before his revolution. A society severed from its past is easier to reshape. It is also easier to rebuild once the reigning ideology loses credibility... Trudeau’s Canada was not inevitable. It was chosen, and built, and institutionalized. Neither is anything about our current malaise inevitable. Canada is not doomed to declining productivity, collapsing homeownership, fraying civic bonds, and a public sector that becomes more expensive as it becomes less competent. But escaping that path will require a movement that does what Trudeau did. Articulate a governing philosophy. Drive it through the machinery of the state. Embed it structurally. And refuse to apologize for exercising power in service of a national vision. Trudeau reshaped Canada because he believed in something and he had the courage to act on it. If Conservatives want to repair the damage and build a Canada worthy of the people who live here, work here, and stake their futures here, they must stop treating history as something that happens to them and start treating it as something they can shape."
Another United flight U-turned over the Atlantic after someone dropped a laptop down the side of their seat - "a United spokesperson said the flight diverted "as a precaution to retrieve a customer's laptop that had fallen in between the seat and the side wall." "Maintenance crews retrieved the laptop, inspected the aircraft, and the flight later departed for Washington Dulles," they added. Online aviation enthusiasts picked up a message sent from the plane's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which said the laptop had fallen by a business-class seat. This would pose a safety risk due to the laptop's lithium battery. If overcharged or damaged, it can result in thermal runaway, leading to rapid temperature increase. Since the laptop was inaccessible, the crew might not know if it had caught fire until it was too late. That's the same reason many airlines have tightened their rules on power banks this year."
Flight attendant's simple hack to sneak more bags on a plane revealed - "According to Miguel, 'duty-free bags don't count as carry-on baggage', so gate agents tend to turn a blind eye, according to The Mirror. Holidaymakers can either bring a duty-free bag from home or purchase one at the airport's duty-free shop... However, the system is not foolproof as staff are trained to spot duty-free tricks. It comes as from November, Ryanair staff have been told that they will receive an increased bonus of just over £2 (€2.50, up from €1.50) for every passenger they catch trying to sneak an oversized bag onto a flight. The bonus they can earn is unlimited – previously it was a maximum of €80 (£69) a month. Passengers caught with excess hand luggage on their flights could face a £75 fine. Other tips to avoid paying for additional baggage include wearing bulkier items and vacuum-packing your luggage."
New scam targeting airline passengers, results in a reported “influx” of fraud. How it works and why your baggage tags are key - "According to the Redditor r/Limp_Jeweler_2026 (1), scammers watch for people at the airport to throw their baggage tags away. Then, the scammers dig the tags out of the trash to get all their baggage details and im
personate the traveller at baggage claims... One commenter warned not to throw your baggage tag away in your hotel room, either. “As a former hotel employee, there have been a few instances of fraud using bag tags found at hotels too.” Another remarked that “Japan had secured bag tag disposal receptacles near the secured exit of baggage claim … this explains why.”... Personal data on boarding passes can be hacked as well... they can “shoulder surf” in line at the airport, collecting personal data from your boarding pass — such as your six-digit booking code or frequent flyer number — just by looking over your shoulder"
Western Lensman on X - "Voto Latino Prez: "When they see Barack Obama, people remember a time in America where there was unity." These people are beyond parody."
Jesse Kelly on X - "Remember that when the communists say this about the Obama era, the “unity” they speak of was you finally being defeated. All this Trump stuff that came after is like a bad dream for them because they thought Obama finally ended you for good. They can’t wait to go back."
TMZ on X - "Michelle Obama Says If She Were Single She'd Love to Stay at Airbnb CEO's House | Click to read more π"
talk ball on X - "You can be the first black president in American history and your wife will still be on a podcast dreaming about being single… There is literally zero hope out here I’m out"
Fugees’ Pras Michal jailed for 14 years after illegally funneling millions through Obama election campaign - "Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a member of the Fugees, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. The conviction stems from his role in illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions into Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign."
Million Dollar Point - "When the United States military abandoned the Vanuatuan island of Espiritu Santo after occupying it as a base during World War II, it left behind infrastructure works such as roads, buildings and runways. But its oddest legacy might be the millions of dollars of goods it dumped into the ocean—just so the French and British couldn't have them... When America left the military base after the war, the remaining goods—everything from weaponry to bottles of Coca-Cola—were offered to the French and British at a very low price, 6 cents to the dollar. However, the colonizers were going on the assumption that should they refuse to buy the items, the U.S. military would be forced to simply leave them behind for free."
Joe Adam George: Canada is a magnet for Hamas members and Ottawa refuses to act - "roughly 450 individuals with various roles inside Hamas have ties to Canada and are currently under scrutiny by CSIS. These include Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and others with relatives or associates here. Among them is a dual Canadian-Lebanese national, Usama Ali, who has allegedly sat on Hamas’s powerful Shura Council since 2019 — the body that selects the terror group’s leadership and shapes its strategy. Ali is sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury and is reported to also head Hamas’s Turkey-based Investment Office, managing an estimated $500 million in assets through real estate and construction companies. Another individual, Omar Alkassab, arrived in Winnipeg as a refugee in 2016, as part of former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s resettlement program for over 100,000 Syrians escaping civil war in their homeland. According to intelligence sources, he has ties to Hamas’s money-moving operations, including a cryptocurrency account used to channel funds into Gaza. The exposΓ© yet again confirms a long-running trend: Canada remains one of the most vulnerable western jurisdictions for infiltration by Hamas-linked operatives, and the aftermath of October 7 has deepened the country’s exposure. For years, Hamas has exploited Canada’s poorly regulated financial and immigration systems with almost astonishing ease to wash money and move it across borders. Canadian nationals and underground currency exchanges are known to have laundered funds for the group. Hamas also channels donations from sympathetic charities through cash couriers, front companies, bank transfers, hawala networks, and mainstream money transfer services. In 2014, the Harper government listed the Muslim charity IRFAN-Canada as a terrorist entity for funnelling over $14.6 million in support for Hamas. Since the October 7 attacks, Hamas has taken advantage of compliance loopholes to fundraise through recognized and emerging online financial platforms... The structural problems in Canada’s financial systems are not abstract. The U.S. Justice Department’s historic $3-billion fine against TD Bank — the largest fine ever imposed under the Bank Secrecy Act — was a blunt warning about the systemic failures in Canada’s financial oversight. As Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Wally Adeyemo put it, “From fentanyl and narcotics trafficking, to terrorist financing and human trafficking, TD Bank’s chronic failures provided fertile ground for illicit activity to penetrate our financial system.” The Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada estimates that between $45 and $113 billion are laundered through the country every year — an astonishing figure that indicates Canada’s significance as a financial artery for international criminal and terrorist networks. None of this should surprise anyone familiar with Canada’s history as a destination of choice for terrorist groups seeking to raise funds. As far back as 1998, former CSIS director Ward Elcock cautioned Parliament that the country risked becoming “an unofficial state sponsor of terrorism” through inaction. His words have proved prophetic. However, this is not merely a Canadian issue. Hamas and its ideological progenitor, the Muslim Brotherhood, have spent decades cultivating networks across western democracies, exploiting charitable sectors, legal systems, immigration frameworks, and political sensitivities. A series of international cases that have come to light this month alone illustrates how widespread and deep-seated this threat ecosystem has become. Germany arrested a fifth suspect tied to a Hamas cell plotting attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets across Europe. In Turkey, a Brotherhood-founded charity reportedly siphoned off $500 million raised in the name of humanitarian aid for Gaza. The Australian government quietly handed $27 million to an Islamic organization whose leader had urged Muslims to wage jihad and fund fighters against Israel. In Minnesota, massive welfare fraud committed by the local Somali community, allegedly redirected millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to the terror group Al-Shabaab, which has historical ties to the Brotherhood. Swedish journalists exposed a network of Brotherhood-linked individuals who stole more than $100 million through private schools, with one former MP diverting money to Islamist-aligned operations in his native Somalia and even sex clubs in Thailand. These examples reveal a global Islamist financial ecosystem that sees Western democracies as fertile terrain. Canada, unfortunately, is among the most permissive environments of all. Despite repeated security warnings, the federal government remains reluctant to tackle the Islamist extremism and financial crime networks operating within its borders. Fear of political backlash continue to paralyze policymakers at a time when institutional reforms are needed most."
Singapore orders TikTok, Meta to disable former ISA detainee's accounts over posts inciting racial tensions - "Authorities have ordered TikTok and Meta to disable in Singapore the accounts of a former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee, after he repeatedly made posts stirring up discontent within the local Malay/Muslim community against the Chinese community. Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff, who renounced his Singapore citizenship in 2020 and is now an Australia citizen, has incited feelings of “enmity, hatred, ill-will and hostility against, contempt for and ridicule of different racial and religious groups in Singapore”... the 54-year-old posted a TikTok video on Jun 19, falsely alleging that Malay/Muslims were forced to move away from Islam and assimilate into the Chinese community in Singapore... Zulfikar was detained under the ISA in 2016 for his promotion of terrorism and online glorification of the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and his actions had contributed to the radicalisation of at least two other Singaporeans. He had also called on Muslims to reject the constitutional, secular, democratic state in favour of an Islamic state governed by Syariah law, and believed that violence should be used to achieve this goal if necessary, said MHA."
Police order TikTok, Facebook to disable ex-ISA detainee’s accounts over inflammatory posts - "a video posted on Facebook on July 18 claimed the Chinese in Singapore were colonial settlers, not migrants, and that Singapore’s ideology had insulted, degraded and oppressed Malays... He had received state grants and unemployment benefits from the Australian government."
I saw someone claim it was hypocritical to ban him but not Critical Spectator. For some reason.
IN FOCUS: Singapore confronts emerging threat of far-right extremism - "Another 16-year-old Singaporean, who identified as a white supremacist and aspired to attack minority groups overseas, was issued a restriction order in November 2023. A Secondary 4 student at the time, he had self-radicalised by online far-right propaganda, and wanted to further the white supremacist cause, even though he was of Chinese ethnicity. And the third and latest case involved 18-year-old Lee with the sonnenrad tattoo. He identified as an "East Asian supremacist", believing that Chinese, Korean and Japanese ethnicities were superior... The ISD also explained in January last year how far-right ideologies could be adapted to fit the Singaporean landscape: By promoting an "us-versus-them" narrative that can create deep societal divides, amplify prejudices and encourage acts of violence towards minorities or "out-groups"."
Of course, far-left ideology does exactly the same thing. Yet...
David Coletto π¨π¦ on X - "70% of Canadians say they’d accept slower economic growth if it meant more economic independence from the U.S. That sentiment cuts across age, region, and party lines — a rare point of unity. π¨π¦"
Mikal Skuterud on X - "Proposition: slower economic growth increases the likelihood of annexation."
When you hate the US so much, you accept a worse quality of life that increases the outcome you fear. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face
Jon Villeneuve on X - "No, it is not a good idea for Canada to keep "poking the bear" with the United States. The only people who think that's a good idea are severely misinformed about our economic realities. Or so rich that they don't care what happens to the vast majority of Canadians. All they seem to care about is playing in their own Marvel movie as some sort of a superhero and "fighting Trump." But this isn't a movie. It's real life. And hardworking people are getting devastated by the egos of people like Ford and Eby and all the fools cheering them on. Want to make Canada stronger? Build Canada. Roads. Railways. Ports. Pipelines. Factories. Trim down the public sector. Lower taxes. Cut regulations. Delusional thinking helps no one."
It may be a tough pill to swallow for many Canadians but Canada has a lost decade and it has nothing to do with Donald Trump. Donald Trump just exposed it even more. : r/CanadianConservative - "Canadians have always suffered from “superiority complex” that comes from their total lack of superiority. The only thing that has kept Canada together as a nation has been that “superiority complex” and their national identity which is “we aren’t Americans” That anti Americanism has been engraved into the mind of every Canadian, and led them to believe they are superior to their American cousins just because they have “free healthcare” The elite have always stocked that fire because if they don’t then Canadians might start wondering why they can’t afford a house , can’t get jobs and why their social mobility has been eroding, and answering these questions won’t end well for the elite. Also answering these questions will force Canadians to realize they have been sold a lie for decades upon decades, so it’s easier to pretend it is someone else’s fault rather than admitting their guilt."
It may be a tough pill to swallow for many Canadians but Canada has a lost decade and it has nothing to do with Donald Trump. Donald Trump just exposed it even more. : r/CanadianConservative - "Canada has been tariffing all US imports for decades. Canada also has a very protectionist economy, Canadians want have full access to the US market without giving any access to the Canadian market. I live in the US, BMO has over a 1000 branches in the US offering retail banking, but not a single US bank is allowed to operate in Canada. TD has over 1100 branches in the US, but do you see Wells Fargo or PNC bank in Canada ? Empire operates Safeway and IGA stores all over America but American grocery chains aren’t allowed to enter the Canadian market. So much for free trade eh ? DJT finally had enough of Canada piggybacking on the US economy and ripping off America!!!"
