Links - 2nd May 2026 (3 - Left Wing Economics: Canada)

Canadian red tape is worse than Trump tariffs, say industry groups - "Nighbor said over the past decade overlapping government policies, mostly environmental regulation, have “chilled strategic investments” and become “a productivity and competitiveness killer, driving away investment”... “I’ve heard of resource projects that require hundreds of permits, due to federal, provincial and municipal requirements,” said David Pierce, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s vice-president of government relations... “Ottawa is focused on helping a few big players, with every other unwashed business owner stuck in the old, unworkable system.” Canadian businesses face approximately $51.5bn in compliance costs annually, just under $18bn of which is considered “red tape”, the CIFB reported earlier this year. “There’s clearly a disconnect between statements and implementation,” said Brian Kingston, president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association. “The longer this goes on, with no resolution on US tariffs, it will have real implications for investments in this country.” This week, Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s top two telecommunication companies, announced approximately $1bn worth of spending cuts, or 30 per cent, blaming in part the “punitive” regulatory environment. In November last year, Saskatchewan-based Nutrien, the world’s largest potash fertiliser producer, announced plans to build a $1bn port in Longview, Washington, over Canada’s west coast, citing regulations as a key factor in its decision. Heather Exner-Pirot, a policy director at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute think-tank, said Ottawa is promoting critical mineral investment but long approval timelines and a heavy regulatory burden can “add an extra 12-14 per cent to the cost of building a new mine. “Canada could be way richer and stronger than it is,” she said. “Our biggest problem is ourselves.” A mine in Canada takes 20 years to build, according to S&P Global. Carney is also trying to turn Canada into an “energy superpower,” considering its vast oil and natural gas resources, as a pivot to Asian and European markets. But a tentative agreement signed in November between Ottawa and Alberta to build a million-barrel-a-day pipeline missed an April 1 deadline. Industry blames regulatory hurdles, a costly decarbonisation requirement and the lack of clarity around carbon pricing. “Capital goes where it is welcome. And for too long, it hasn’t felt welcome here,” said TC Energy chief executive François Poirier. A spokesperson for Enbridge, North America’s biggest pipeline producer that sends most of Canada’s oil south to the US, said “changes in policy and (the) regulatory environment need to happen”. “Not only for a new pipeline to be considered, but for producers to have confidence to increase production,” the person said... Canada faces other domestic challenges such as stagnant productivity, anti-competitive behaviour and a tax regime that repels investment and inhibits the economy. In July last year Carney pledged to lift intra-provincial trade barriers — which act as cross-border regulations and fees — but the dysfunctional system remains mostly intact due to myriad vested interests. The IMF reported that Canada’s economy could gain nearly 7 per cent, or C$210bn, in real GDP by removing these persistent protectionist mechanisms. “The economic cost is undeniable,” says National Bank chief economist Stéfane Marion in a note to clients last year. “It seems that for Canadian policymakers, ‘regulation’ is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.”"
Of course, left wingers love regulation and hate the private sector, so they dismissed this. Left wing logic: if you want any regulation reduced, it means you want people to die and rivers to be polluted beyond repair, and reducing regulation only increases profits, with no positive spillovers to the economy or workers

“Canada: The Industrial Implosion” v. the United States - "“According to the latest national accounts data, real investment in industrial machinery & equipment [in Canada] fell in Q2 to its lowest level on record (data back to 1981). As today’s Hot Chart shows, the divergence with the U.S. is nothing short of appalling,” wrote Stéfane Marion and Matthieu Arseneau, at Economics and Strategy, National Bank of Canada, in a note sent to subscribers today. “How did we get here? Years of excessive regulation, and a chronic lack of ambition by successive governments in promoting domestic transformation of our natural resources—recently made worse by Washington’s protectionist agenda,” they wrote. Their note included this stunning chart of investment in industrial machinery and equipment in the US and in Canada. Investment in both countries had roughly tracked on a similar trend for decades through 2012, and then the bottom fell out in Canada, while investment in the US continued roughly along trend... “That failure has eroded Canada’s manufacturing base and left us at risk of becoming irrelevant in global supply chains. To Ottawa’s credit, the pledge to quickly ramp up military spending to 3.5%–5% of GDP could help catalyze a reindustrialization. But time is of the essence—if we are to salvage what’s left of the sector. “What Canada needs is a wartime multi-pronged strategy that ends the dithering: a competitive tax regime, a sweeping reduction in red tape, and clear laws on how we intend to develop our natural resources. Clarence Decatur Howe—the architect of Canadian industrialization—showed what determined leadership can achieve. Canada must now draw on that inspiration to rebuild its industrial base before it’s too late.”"
There was a ton of cope from left wingers, even though RBC and even the CBC pointed in the same direction

New oil pipeline to B.C. will take more than an MOU, says RBC chief economist - "Supporters of Canada’s energy sector hoping for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast are going to need more than a deal between Alberta and Ottawa to get there, according to the chief economist of Canada’s biggest bank. “This is an entire sector that has repeatedly been pushed into a position where it could not grow,” Frances Donald, of the Royal Bank of Canada, told a Calgary audience. Donald said industries — including oil and gas — need consistency for an extended period to be confident enough to invest. “It is not one person, but it is a change of culture within a country,” she said. “We cannot expect that to come in one year with one policy or one pipeline.”... “Everybody wants to hear there’s one thing we can do that could change the story,” Donald said. “But that’s not a holistic way to expect business confidence to shift after over a decade of having moved the pendulum in the (other) direction.” For years, oil company executives have argued that a laundry list of federal policies were hindering their ability to build pipelines and expand. Then, Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to make Canada an “energy superpower,” and struck a deal with Alberta that could pave the way for a new oil pipeline to the British Columbia coast. Despite support from governments in Alberta and Ottawa, no private proponent has expressed interest in the project. Meanwhile, a proposed route to B.C.’s northern coast has triggered strong opposition among some First Nations and Premier David Eby... The MOU was critical in resetting the relationship between Alberta and Ottawa, but some analysts are wary that it may not lead to a meaningful endpoint. “I don’t think we can keep on getting further delays, because that just creates more domestic policy uncertainty,” said Mark Parsons, chief economist of ATB Financial. Some players in Alberta’s oilsands remain hopeful, but the remaining pieces — particularly around industrial carbon pricing — may require significant change. It will be difficult for the industry to grow production without “fundamental” changes to government policies and regulations, Jon McKenzie, chief executive of Cenovus Energy, told the Calgary Herald."
How ignorant. Doesn't she know Mark Carney is a master economist who's doing great things for the country and has a long list of achievements, and that MOUs are as good as signed deals involving large sums of money? She must be Maple MAGA!

John Weissenberger: Liberals have perfected the practice of announcing things they will never do - "One time-honoured tradition of inaction, forming a Royal Commission to study the matter, seems to have been replaced by the creation of new agencies. After all, agencies employ more people. The federal Liberals have done this twice in the area of infrastructure alone. Both times, the approach was similar, appoint a senior executive from the private sector then leave them to languish in bureaucratic limbo. The Trudeau government’s Canada Infrastructure Bank, set up in 2017 with $35 billion to be spent over 10 years, was meant to “ de-risk ” projects, enticing otherwise reluctant investors. It’s meagre results came under significant criticism, as did the healthy six-figure salaries of its executives. Now there is the “Major Projects Office,” announced in August 2025, meant to “speed up projects through faster permitting and coordinated funding.” The message seems to be “our process is so onerous we need more process to clear it up,” kind of like downing some hair of the dog the morning after the night before. Critics assert the office has clearly added more regulations and red tape. Similar to the Infrastructure Bank, it employs hand-picked executives earning healthy salaries. Reportedly based in Calgary, it aims to “have offices (that is, offices of the Office) in other major Canadian cities.” The 15 projects referred to the Office, visible on a handy interactive map , are “in process.” The gap between talk and action remains. Carney’s government also appears to be confused about the difference between memoranda of understanding (MOUs), by definition representing the “early stages of negotiations.” and actual binding agreements. The prime minister and his cabinet have burned a lot of jet fuel accumulating economic or trade MOUs, with “agreements to negotiate” at a future date. Carney’s recent trip to India, for instance, reportedly committed to a trade deal by the end of this year. Mark your calendars for a “recommitment” to be announced in the coming months. Many Canadians, mainly Albertans, are scrutinizing one particular MOU, that involves an awaited new oil pipeline to tidewater. Skeptics maintain that, if the Liberals had really changed their Guilbeault-vian ways, they’d have simply approved the pipeline, not saddled the province with yet another Byzantine process. It doesn’t take a tin foil hat to recall that, not so long ago, the prime minister spoke of keeping 80 per cent of our hydrocarbons in the ground. To be fair, Ottawa’s execution deficit derives partly from general societal confusion between talk and action, plus the misguided belief that, if only the right process is applied the desired result inevitably follows. Interminable planning sessions, “stakeholder” meetings and consultations then become ends in and of themselves, benefitting only consultants billing by the hour. The process becomes the purpose. This is exacerbated by some professions, like lawyers, being over-represented in politics, government and the Liberal cabinet specifically. Their yen for rule-making proliferates, effective project management, not so much ( see latest $6.6 billion federal IT blowout). We end up with the worst of both worlds– failed government programs and a hobbled private sector. The experience of previous governments, however, proves effective project planning and execution is possible, starting from first principles. It begins with clear ministerial mandate letters, which holds politicians and bureaucrats to task, firm deadlines, project tracking and budgetary vigilance. The Carney government has 358,000 public servants at its disposal and, inexplicably, spends over $19 billion on consultants. So it’s clearly not resources that are lacking, it’s leadership. Actions speak louder than words, to quote another old saying, so does inaction. On the other hand, it might be better if they did nothing. They’re good at it. Think how easy would it be to, say, stop processing immigration applications, or cripple resource development? That would help a lot. Their dogged persistence in having government do a lot of things badly and preventing others from doing things well — i.e. the Liberal mode of government — is a real problem."

Hey Canadians, want to build a pipeline? Your pension might just help you do it - "Opening up just five per cent of all Canadian government-owned assets to private investors could generate between $25 billion and $50 billion that could then be redeployed into riskier builds of new infrastructure, Bank of Nova Scotia economists said in a report last June. A more ambitious asset recycling program, with a larger number of government-owned assets put on the block, could bring in more than $100 billion. But successive Canadian governments have been reluctant to privatize on the scale embraced by their counterparts in other developed countries, and the lack of large-scale, cash-generating assets available for private investment has driven tensions between Canada’s globetrotting pensions and a federal government that has pushed for years to get them to invest more at home."
Left wingers hate privatization. This is one explanation for lower investment and productivity

Posthaste: This dormant pipeline needs to be restarted for the sake of Canada, economists say - "A natural gas pipeline that has been dormant since 2013 should be reopened, says a new report from National Bank of Canada . TC Energy Corp. ‘s Line 2 has been inactive for more than a decade, but economists at National Bank say now is the time to restart the pipeline, which runs through Ontario and Quebec and forms part of the Canadian Mainline... The trio estimate the additional natural gas from a reopened Line 2 could generate electricity equivalent to 20 per cent of the peak demand in Ontario. Electricity demand in Ontario is expected to rise 75 per cent by 2050 from 2025 due to industrial expansion, electric-vehicle supply chain manufacturing, demand from data centres and an increasing population. National Bank said electricity produced by gas-fired plants would act as a “reliable” stopgap until the province’s new nuclear energy facilities are up and running. Ontario is building the first of four small modular nuclear reactors, with the first scheduled to start operating by the end of the decade. Ontario is also looking at constructing two other larger-scale nuclear projects. Another reason why the economists think TC Energy should restart Line 2 is that a Mainline tolling agreement — the amount charged to ship gas through the pipeline — is set to expire at year-end. Natural gas demand has doubled since the company signed a deal with shippers that runs from 2021 to 2026. At the same time, TC Energy is looking into the feasibility of expanding its Mainline pipeline into eastern markets. Meanwhile, the goals of the so-called energy transition have evolved into an energy “trilemma.” That leaves policymakers seeking to balance energy affordability, reliability/security and decarbonization... “Reactivating and optimizing existing capacity — rather than pursuing new greenfield corridors — is capital-efficient, operationally pragmatic and likely to encounter fewer social and environmental hurdles,” the economists said. Last year in the early days of U.S. President Donald Trump’s assault on Canada’s economy, a Bloomberg poll found that a majority of Canadians supported the government paying for an oil pipeline to transport crude oil from Alberta to eastern Canada."

GOLDSTEIN: Toronto facing stagnant living standards Study | Toronto Sun - "Once considered an economic powerhouse, Toronto today faces rising unemployment, weak income growth and stagnant living standard... The latest data from Statistics Canada shows the city’s economy is struggling with an unemployment rate in the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA) of 7.9% in January, higher than the Canadian rate of 6.5% and the Ontario rate of 7.3%. But the new analysis from the fiscally conservative think tank, which takes a longer-term look at the Toronto economy going back to 2000 and examines recent trends in unemployment, median employment income and before-tax household income, paints a much grimmer picture. It says while the city experienced relatively rapid population and employment growth which may have presented a false sense of vibrancy and prosperity, there has been persistently high unemployment in recent years, particularly since the pandemic in 2020. “The data show that the city has seen economic stagnation and limited growth in living standards since the turn of the century,” the study — “Stagnant Living Standards in the City of Toronto” — by Ben Eisen and Nathaniel Li concludes, disputing previous studies using shorter-term data. In fact, the study says, “by 2024, Toronto’s unemployment rate was 8.0%, 2.1 percentage points higher than the average for all of Canada CMAs and 1.7 percentage points higher than the average for Ontario CMAs” with “the third-highest unemployment rate in Canada, behind only Windsor and Red Deer.” Similarly, the data for median employment income — the point where half of earners make more and half less than the median point — is “dismal” according to the study. It found that from 2000 to 2023, inflation-adjusted median employment income growth in the Toronto CMA decreased by 0.2%, compared to an average of 5% growth for Ontario CMAs and 15.1% for Canadian CMAs. The news was equally bad using the metric of median pre-tax household income — the midpoint of total household income before taxes are paid, where half of households earn more than the median and half less. While the Toronto CMA ranked 11th out of 42 CMAs in 2000, by 2023 it had fallen to 30th place. According to the study, the percentage change in before tax median household income during this period, “shows near complete stagnation in Toronto … “With cumulative growth of just 2.0%, this ranks Toronto at the fifth-worst performance in Canada.”... The study concludes that “far from being an economic powerhouse, the evidence … points to rising unemployment, weak income growth and stagnant living standards in Canada’s largest metropolitan area.” Given that Toronto accounts for about 20% of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product, the study concludes, its “weak economic performance … represents not only a local concern, but also a potential headwind for national economic performance.”"
Time for more left wing policies like "taxing the 'rich'" and regulation on "greed". Government run grocery stores will be a great way to destroy the private sector with taxpayer-subsidised competition
Left wingers keep boasting about Toronto being the economic engine of the province, ignoring the trajectory

We should copy Mexico City : r/FoodToronto - "I remember when they trialed a food cart system in Toronto. It was a failure in the end, but I imagine it wasn't because of poor food. I am googling but can't find details but from memory there were issues about the locations because the hot dog vendors had the best ones and didn't want to give them up. I say we should give it another go, I would love more variety in the street foods available!"
"I had a co-worker who's wife worked in city hall at the time, so I heard a bit inside gossip about what happened. The city official in charge of the health regulations governing the carts put so many rules on them and kept adding more and more (conveniently summarized in a 75-page guide) so that no food cart on the market satisfied the requirements and any potential food cart owner who had bought a cart after it was announced had wasted their money. Eventually one cart manufacturer agreed to custom-make the carts, but they are ridiculously expensive - at least twice the cost of a typical cart used in other cities - and you have to get them through the city procurement office since they're custom-made for Toronto. There were also the location fights you mention, but it was more from brick-and-mortar restaurants than from hot dog vendors. Restaurant owners wanted a guarantee that no food would be sold near them, so carts have to be at least 25 meters away (or 30 meters away if they're a truck) from an existing restaurant, which really limits them in the downtown core or in really any commercial neighbourhood with significant foot traffic."
"Yep, it was called Toronto a la Cart. Launched in 2010 as a 3 year pilot, it died in 2011 due to overregulation on everything. The carts were $30,000 and the annual license $3,500. Some quick Google searching says the carts were really heavy at 360 kilograms, not even towable, required at least 2 people to load and unload from trucks, had a small cooking top, broke frequently and had nothing to protect the cart and food sellers from the weather. There was a single vendor selling the cart, which the City approved without even looking at prototypes or getting feedback from potential food sellers. The licensing cost, cost of the cart, being assigned specific street locations that they couldn't choose and the carts consistently malfunctioning meant every owner went into huge debt. There was only one cart left (also in debt) just a year and a half into the program, at which point the City shut it down. Toronto a la Cart was a total embarrassment. Would love to see the Councillors be named."
"They also couldn't cook with the cart! The food had to be cooked offsite at a commercial kitchen and simply reheated. The owner of the cart had to be there like 80% of the time. Just stupid amount of rules."
"Damn, if you had to put together two reasons why this country isn’t better it’s unnecessary overregulation and government granted monopolies"
"If I recall, it was one asshole who operated a shitty bar in East York (that has since shut down) leading the charge about how carts don't pay property tax and it's not fair for them to compete against an operation with lower overhead."
"That, and it cost a lot for the cart itself because of handwash stations and other requirements on the cart's features."
"All the fees they charged, combined with onerous location restrictions (can't be within X meters of a restaurant, can't have more than one truck per block, etc) meant that it just wasn't worth it to open a cart up even with the program trial. IIRC you had to buy the cart from the city to be eligible as well (and of course, they jacked the price up)."
Clearly, the fact that it failed shows that there is no sustainable demand for street food outside of hotdogs
Time for more regulation to protect people

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "The Liberal party has Patrick Pichette a former Senior VP of Google on stage who lives in Europe by the way, say that if Canadians want to leave Canada to work in the US they need to pay an exit tax of half a million dollars. The guy did the very thing to get a Microsoft job decades ago and paid 30 bucks. Now he wants young Canadians to be trapped here. The Liberals are nuts."
Kirk Lubimov on X - "Liberal boomers just love destroying the opportunities for future generations and pulling up the ladder behind themselves. This guy, Patrick Pichette, who built his career working for American companies, thinks young talented Canadians should not be able to go work for American companies without paying a penalty; "Make them pay if they leave." How about Canada actually competes for talent and develop companies instead of think on how to geographically imprison talent? This from the Liberal Party convention. Oh, and he doesn't live in Canada himself anymore."

Canadians concerned about rising government deficits, believe middle-class will foot the bill: poll - "Recent deficits have added to existing concerns about Canada’s overall debt levels — a problem that spans government, household and corporate debt — at a time when economic growth has been flat. With governments increasingly in the red, 29 per cent of respondents to the Leger poll now expect that middle-class taxpayers will ultimately be on the hook to cover government largesse. Another 25 per cent said “future generations of taxpayers” will take the brunt of costs, while 24 per cent believe it will be the “richest 10 per cent” of Canadians, and 22 per cent believe corporations will have to shoulder the burden... Manitoba (21 per cent), Saskatchewan (21 per cent) and B.C. (22 per cent) were the least likely to say the middle class will pay, with B.C. respondents most likely to say big corporations would have to fill the gap. Conservative Party of Canada supporters were the most likely to say that debt costs would fall to the middle class, at 34 per cent, while federal Liberals were the least likely, at 25 per cent. So far, provincial governments and Ottawa have tried to avoid appearing to put the burden on the middle or lower classes... Andrew Enns, executive vice-president for Leger’s central Canada operations, said there are likely a suite of reasons behind the expectation that middle-class earners will assume the burden of paying back the debt, from Canada’s persistent affordability challenges to historical precedents. While new tax hikes often target the highest-income earners, much of the overall burden from inflation or rising public debts tends to fall on the middle class in one way or another. “ While governments often say they are targeting any tax measures at the wealthy, somehow it always seems to be the more populous middle class that has to foot the bill,” he said... The Leger poll also surveyed people on their views toward forcing government employees to return to the office at least four days a week. Sixty-five per cent of respondents supported the move, while 24 per cent opposed and 11 per cent didn’t know. Of those respondents, 66 per cent said they believe the office is the most productive environment for government workers, while 17 per cent said “at home” and another 17 per cent said they didn’t know. CPC supporters were most likely to consider the office as the most productive workplace, at 77 per cent, while NDP voters were the least likely, at 43 per cent."
Left wingers are economically illiterate, so they keep supporting increased spending

Barrhead RCMP: Grocery theft "off the rails" as cost of living bites : r/AlbertaNewspapers - "What a backwater hole. Now full MAGA, too stupid to even defend their own economy. When the UCP decided to shut down one of their biggest employers (ADLC), there was practically no resistance from their MLA, the town, or the residents."
"Hate to break it to ya but food inflation isn't something exclusive to Alberta and the UCP." "No but they could provide better social safety nets, infrastructures and renewable energies so that everything else isn't so expensive so that their citizens they are supposed to work for don't suffer needlessly. But instead, the oil rich get richer, and the vulnerable take it on the chin"
"As a British Columbian I can assure you none of these things have made anything cheaper for us. I mean I agree with you but our cost of living is higher and our food is equally as expensive. I'm certainly not pro UCP but food inflation, cost of living, poverty and heathcare are all national issues that every province is struggling significantly with."

Kirk Lubimov on X - "🚨Canada's private sector is shrinking while the public sector is continuing to bloat. Over the past 12 months the public sector gained 53.1k jobs while the private sector lost 9.1k jobs. Over 25.5% of employed Canadians now work for the government. One of the highest ratios on record. Completely unsustainable."
The cope will probably be that in uncertain times it's good that the government provides stability.

Detrans after Transitioning at 10 / Trans Mother's Day

iFunny deleted both of these:

"r/detrans. desisted female
I'm so bitter.
The trans community says that if you detransition and regret what you did to yourself you have no one to blame but you. But I was TEN. I was ten years old, obese, and already looked more like a boy than a girl. I despised myself. The internet told me this was the way out, gave me tips on hiding from my parents who wanted nothing but for me to not make a huge mistake. I'm 17 now, my breasts are completely stunted, I have a severe eating disorder, and I've never had a boyfriend. I ruined myself at 10 years old and the community that once encouraged me now turns their back and ridicules me. I'm so bitter"

Norman Osborn: "Aunt may where's Peter?"
Aunt May: "He's been in his room all day calling himself a sigma male and saying based things"
Peter Parker: "Mothers day is for mom's. Not Men in dresses. Your day is April 1st."

Links - 2nd May 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Ryan Dally on X - "#BREAKING Australian imam Mohammad Tawhidi: "When I was a fundamentalist Islamic extremist, I only voted left. Because I saw them as very stupid. I would fear conservatives more, because they have principles. The left has neither values nor principles!""

Report on “religious extremism” focuses on Catholicism, ignores Islam - "A recent document by a European think tank decries the “accelerating financial expansion of movements working to dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.” The report, published by the Brussels-based European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights (EPF), highlights the “anti-rights and religious extremist actors in Europe,” but focuses mostly on just one religion: Christianity. Through this inherent bias, the organization admits the one institution that its members and their allies fear—the Catholic Church—as the organizing force behind the “religious ideologues [who] are executing meticulous, long-term strategies for power.” EPF’s executive committee consists of one member of the European Parliament, along with members of parliament from several constituent states of the EU, with two additional politicians from outside the Union. All of the committee members come from socially left-wing political parties—from a party of the French “center,” Renaissance (founded by French President Emmanuel Macron) to the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party...   The term “Catholic” appears 277 times in the June 2025 document. “Russia”/”Russian” might be the only term that turns up more often (395 times), but this is often in a geopolitical context instead of a religious one (“Orthodox” appears 93 times, a third of the mentions of “Catholic”).  Islam is mentioned just once (outside of footnotes) in a study purportedly about religious extremism, and that single reference wasn’t even in the context of internal European politics. Datta noted that Family Watch International, an American “anti-gender” group,” has been active in engaging with the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) … having served as the catalyst for the 2023 homophobic legislation adopted in Uganda.”...   The accusation is particularly exaggerated in light of recent moves to curb free speech in Germany and religious freedom in Spain, with the former arresting dozens in June over their online insults of politicians, and the latter fast-tracking legislation that would criminalize “conversion therapy.” Despite vocal opposition to the proposed law in Spain, mainly from evangelicals, it would also criminalize Catholic apostolates...   One can take away two overarching messages from Datta’s study and all of his activist sources: All of the roads traveled by “anti-gender actors” lead to Rome, and after 225 years of accruing vast power in Europe, secularists are still intimidated by the Catholic Church and see the Catholic Faith as the main obstacle to their ideological goals."

fatwaislam1.Com : The ruling about offering prayers on the roads - "Yes, the middle part of the road where the people walk is included in the seven places that are prohibited for offering prayer, as has been reported from the prophet. Ibn Majah recorded in his Sunan from Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with him that the prophet said:  "It is not permissible to offer the prayer in seven places: the top of the house of Allah (the Ka'bah), the graveyards, the dung heaps(i.e.,waste areas), the slaughter houses, the restroom, the resting places of camels and the middle of the road." (At-Tirmithi no.346 and Ibn Majah no.747  Even though the chain of narration of this hadith is weak, there are other Hadiths that have been reported that explain the places where it is prohibited to offer prayer. These hadiths are combined with the Hadith of Jabir bin Abdullah, may Allah be pleased with them both"

Quebec passes law banning street prayers

Libs of TikTok on X - "INBOX. Muslim students at @DePaulU in Chicago, chose to occupy the Campus library to conduct their prayer, despite the University designating multiple prayer rooms and a Mosque next door. Students were reportedly very bothered and concerned. We reached out to the university for comment and they refused to respond."

Stolen land? Tell that to the Berbers | The Spectator Australia - "Greens Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi spoke some of the most misguided and divisive words heard in parliament in recent times. She said: ‘We are subject to rules that white people never are’ and claimed that a ‘culture of online harassment, bullying and toxicity now targets everyone who is not a straight white man’.  As Carl Sagan put it, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Following his inaugural speech only days before hers, Senator Fraser Anning copped disproportionate amounts of flak from the media and from Liberal and Labor MPs with lengthy condemnation speeches in both houses of parliament followed by censure motions.  Being a ‘straight white man’ clearly didn’t help him. If anything, it worked against him. By contrast, Dr Faruqi, a self-proclaimed ‘brown, Muslim, migrant’ has copped nothing of the sort for her own divisive words. And that, of itself, is the proof that her portrayal of ‘white privilege’ is dubious at best.  Her speech begins with: ‘We are gathered here today on stolen land’. Wrong. Australia was lawfully conquered and settled by the British Empire in accordance with the international norms of the old world order. That was a ‘might makes right’ world. Whoever could raise an army and conquer land did so. Muslim Arabs and Turks have had their fair share of conquests, as have Christian Europeans. The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 sowed the seeds for the modern concept of territorial sovereignty within demarcated borders. Though it wasn’t until 1928 under the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy that territorial acquisition by force was first attempted to be outlawed through consensus among international signatories.   Otherwise known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact (after its authors US Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand), this 1928 pact of course didn’t succeed in immediately putting an end to all war. In fact, World War II, the most destructive of all conflicts still managed to occur only a decade later. Yet the importance of the pact came in its aftermath.  Shortly after the emergence of the United Nations, its Charter went on to guaranteeing ‘territorial integrity’ to member states. In the process, any territory acquired before the 1928 pact was deemed lawfully conquered under a ‘right of conquest’. Borders essentially became frozen in place and future conquests were made unlawful.  This prohibition was not applied retroactively. Doing so would have thrown the entire world into turmoil since virtually every piece of land has, at some point, been conquered by outside forces – or to use Dr Faruqi’s rhetoric, ‘stolen’.  Since Australia was settled in 1788  – a century and four decades prior to the cut-off point for lawful conquests in 1928  – its territorial legitimacy has never been in doubt. Hence, there are no legal or historical grounds to think of Australia’s founding as land ‘theft’.   As someone who identifies as a Muslim, Dr Faruqi should know of Islamic civilisation’s own territorial conquests far beyond the outskirts of Mecca in the 7th century stretching all the way to Spain in the west and China in the east.  Does she believe the Arabic-speaking Islamic countries that today stretch across North Africa, having conquered and replaced the indigenous Egyptian, Carthaginian, Berber and Nubian civilisations are all ‘stolen lands’? Does she believe that Iran, once home to an indigenous Avestan-speaking Zoroastrian culture, is ‘stolen land’?  There was once an indigenous Hindu civilisation in Dr Faruqi’s own country of origin, Pakistan. Islam was first introduced in the region by Umayyad conqueror Muhammad Bin Qasim in 711. Does she believe that Pakistan is built on ‘stolen land’? One wonders, was Dr Faruqi not aware of Australia’s colonial history prior to her arrival? If so, why bother choosing to migrate to a country whose historical foundations fill you with such moral dread?   It is hypocritical to refer to something as ‘stolen’ while continuing to benefit from its use. It is literally the equivalent of driving around in a stolen Rolls Royce while simultaneously complaining that it is stolen. Since she has a problem with British colonialism, it defies logic why she would leave her country of origin, that was freed from British rule in 1947, to then end up in Australia which still carries the Union Jack on its flag and has Queen Elizabeth II as its Head of State.  Worse yet, she goes on to declare: ‘I bring to this chamber my track record on shaking things up and shifting the agenda on issues as diverse as decriminalising abortion, drug law reform, LGBTQI rights, the right to die with dignity and protecting our environment.’   With the exception of protecting the environment, literally everything else on her list is at complete odds with Islam. There isn’t one credible scholar of mainstream Islamic jurisprudence from any one of the four Sunni (Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki and Hanbali) and three Shi’ite (Ithna Ashari, Isma’ili and Zaidi) schools of thought that has ruled in favour of abortion, drugs, same-sex marriage, gender fluidity and euthanasia.  What Dr Faruqi seems to be following isn’t exactly ‘Islam’. It’s her own ideological fusion tinged with cultural Marxism, third-wave feminism and post-colonialism which she thinks is Islam when she boasts in her speech of being ‘unapologetically… a brown, Muslim, migrant’. This alliance between secular Muslim activists and the far-Left isn’t one based on strict theological, jurisprudential or moral consistency. They’re not united by common values so much as they’re united against a common enemy; that is, Anglo-Celtic, Judeo-Christian Western civilisation.   As long as secular Muslim activists are provided a platform by the far-Left to fight imaginary ‘racism’, ‘white privilege’ and ‘colonialism’, they will continue to appropriate the values of the far-Left into their political goals without shame even if that means deviating from established Islamic jurisprudence.  The radicals are easy enough to identify. It’s their secular counterparts that are often more dangerous in the long run, because they’re the ones who end up being elected to parliament and then use the institution as a vehicle to advance their goals. By her own admission, Dr Faruqi’s speech was precisely that."
From 2018

Mehreen Faruqi v Pauline Hanson: Greens senator tells court attacks on white people not racist - "Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has told the federal court that verbal attacks on white people in Australia are not racist because racism is “tied to power” and in this country, “the power.. is held by white people”... Through her lawyer, Sue Chrysanthou SC, Hanson has accused Faruqi of hypocrisy and political grandstanding in pursuing the legal action while excusing what she acknowledges were racist remarks inside her own party. Hanson accused Faruqi of making or endorsing comments condemning white people. Faruqi was the first witness on Monday in a case that could test the constitutional validity of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which Chrysanthou argued potentially undermined the constitutionally implied right to political communication. The case is also examining what constitutes racism and whether power imbalances play a role in defining it.
Of course, Hanson was found guilty

Liam Out Loud on X - "The Privilege Permission Slip:  Whenever your parents reminded you that something you had was a privilege, what happened next? They threatened to take it away.  This is what those who label you privileged for your skin colour, gender, ancestry, and whatever other identity marker they can find, are attempting to do.  Deeming you "privileged" is laying the moral groundwork for taking what you have.  They are not describing an advantage. They are creating a pre-authorization for extraction.  The label does not describe a condition. It assigns a role: the one who owes. And those who owe can be collected on."

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist on X - "James Talarico had his public middle school students write "Obama memoirs" after Election Night as if they were Barack Obama's children. Disqualifying. Democrats want him to be the next U.S. Senator from Texas."

Reed Cooley on X - "In Maoist struggle sessions, participants often had to write stories from the POV of a “revolutionary hero” or party figure, fabricating personal accounts to celebrate communist victories (i.e., narrating the Long March as if personally involved).  Similarly, Talarico required his students to write from the Obama family’s perspective, narrating Obama’s election as a glorious, triumphant event.  James Talarico borrowed Maoist indoctrination methods to brainwash his students. He then boasted on Facebook about propagandizing his students like this.  When we call our enemies “communists” it’s not just empty sloganeering or hyperbole."

Opinion | James Talarico’s liberal Christianity is dying out. Here’s why. - The Washington Post - "However novel this may seem, it reflects one of the oldest habits of the liberal Protestant tradition to which Talarico belongs: championing progressive social causes just as they are losing favor with the public. Talarico is not a sign of where America is heading but where it has been. Nowhere is this clearer than in Talarico’s views on transgenderism... He stands by a record of statements that includes a 2021 claim that “there are many more than two biological sexes, in fact there are six.” This is a misreading of the great works of gender theory that stand behind progressive understandings of sexuality. Worse, it damages the Christian, specifically Presbyterian, religious tradition to which Talarico and I both belong. Christianity makes certain claims about what it means to be human. We are created in God’s image and made as man and woman, distinguished by the sexual characteristics and complementarity of our bodies. Our bodies are, in a deep sense, who we are. I am not a soul that dwells in a body as an astronaut exists in a spacesuit. I am a body-soul unity. From this perspective, it makes no sense to say that someone is a woman trapped inside a man’s body. Indeed, such a claim can be seen as reflecting a deep misogyny. It denies that a woman’s actual, physical body and all it entails — from menstruation to pregnancy to breastfeeding — has anything necessary to do with being female. As the feminist thinker Janice Raymond has written, transgenderism “not only erases our bodies but also our oppression.” Talarico is articulate and compassionate. But his compassion is limited by his political outlook. He describes Jesus as a “radical feminist,” but rejects the insistence on embodiment shared by historical Christianity and many feminists. Instead, he presents Christianity as perfectly in accord with the respectable therapeutic beliefs of a certain segment of the American elite. It’s all happened before. Over 30 years ago, the feminist critic Camille Paglia wrote “The Joy of Presbyterian Sex” — an unsparing critique of a report on human sexuality issued by Talarico’s denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA). Writing as a lapsed Catholic with pagan sympathies, she argued that Christians who use the Bible to support gay sex not only downplay the distinctiveness of Christianity, they deny the anarchic and transgressive potential of new sexualities. Given that the report’s liberal Presbyterian authors reject so much Christian morality, she pointedly asks them, “Why remain Christian at all?” The same question could be asked of James Talarico. Historical Presbyterianism, a product of the Reformation, could be disruptive. It rejected the papacy. But it did so not because it wanted to abandon Christian teaching in favor of popular tastes. It instead sought to adhere to biblical teaching, regardless of current fashion. Liberal Presbyterianism lost that vision long ago. Instead, liberal Protestants like Talarico have ended up affirming as good and true whatever polite tastes require and abandoning any aspect of Christian teaching that appears to stand in the way of progress. What Paglia called the joy of Presbyterian sex was bad enough. But the joy of Presbyterian transgenderism is even worse, with its confusion about what it means to be a woman. As Paglia perceived, this liberal Protestant attitude ultimately results in an unsatisfying compromise. It requires downplaying the radical potential of Christianity and of sexual liberation. This is one reason why more liberal churches have declined, as more conservative forms of Christianity and less religious forms of progressivism have enjoyed relative strength. James Talarico is right to insist that Christianity doesn’t necessarily align with the views of the GOP. But that is no less true when it comes to the Democratic Party. Indeed, his candidacy raises a question that can’t be escaped by Christians on the right or the left. Does their faith exist merely to support what their party already believes? Or does it call them to oppose any threat to what it means to be human, no matter where it comes from? A faith that is captive to either political party will eventually seem superfluous."

Joseph Fasano on X - "Even making children anywhere in the world *fear* that they might be suddenly destroyed is an atrocious crime against humanity."
Shared by Democratic Socialism Now. Of course, indoctrinating kids with climate change hysteria is a moral imperative

wanye on X - "It comes up over and over again that liberals think conservative types are creating special exceptions for their enemies whenever the conservative has blindly applied their conception of justice.  That’s how you get liberals saying stuff like, “oh I’m sure you’d be jumping straight to execution if this were a white guy“ and then every single time a white guy commits a heinous crime the entire right in unison chants, “execute him.”  Or, to take another example, consider the way in which liberals always think that conservatives want and expect immigrants to behave in a certain way just simply because they hate immigrants, when the conservative is merely applying the same standard to which they would hold themselves in a foreign country.  In these cases and many others, liberals are confused by a straightforward and universal conception of justice."
Basically left wingers are hypocrites and sexist, racist etc, so they think right wingers are hypocrites and sexist, racist etc too

KLEIN: When did “Colonizer” become acceptable hate speech? - "It is directed at individuals based solely on perceived European ancestry. It is not used to describe a specific action. It is not tied to personal conduct. It is applied because of lineage. If we are serious about equality, we need to ask a simple question: how is that not a racial slur?  Under the Canadian Human Rights Act, discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin is prohibited. Manitoba’s Human Rights Code provides similar protections. The principle is straightforward. You cannot single someone out or demean them because of their ancestry. That standard does not contain an asterisk... The selective application of the term “colonizer” exposes the problem. It is not being used as a neutral descriptor of historical systems. It is used to diminish people in the present. It is shorthand for “you do not belong” or “your voice carries less weight.”  That is the language of exclusion."
Lots of people cheer racism against white people, especially when white men are the ones being discriminated against, so

stricture on X - "I dont think I should comment on politics until I can understand why democrats think the things they do about crime and prison. Why would anyone just not think "i'd prefer to not get robbed or beaten up, people who do it randomly on the street should die or go to prison forever""
Seasonal Clickfarm Worker on X - "It’s actually super easy to mentally model progressive thought. Just imagine you really want to be seen as a good person and you lack the moral courage to consider 2nd and 3rd order consequences if doing so might make you look like a bad person."
Hunter Ash on X - "As a former progressive, this is absolutely accurate and caused me endless frustration with my co-partisans. They fundamentally don’t care if their ideas work. They hardly even have a concept of ideas working. Their entire evaluation function is based on social perception and emotionalism which is, in fact, profoundly selfish and unvirtuous. If you care more about feeling like/being seen as good than you do about results, you’re a selfish parasite. Hardly exclusive to the left, but it defines the leftist project in a way it doesn’t define any other political faction."

Steve Stewart-Williams on X - "A new paper reveals significant publication bias in field studies of racial discrimination in hiring. Studies that fail to find discrimination - or that find discrimination favoring disadvantaged groups - are less likely to be published. [Link below.]"
Trust the Science!

Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "BREAKING: The United Nations just nominated the Islamic Republic of Iran to help shape policy on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism. Yes, you read that right. Why on earth are we funding this monstrosity?"
Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "The following countries backed Iran's nomination: United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Spain 🇪🇸 Canada 🇨🇦 France 🇫🇷 Germany 🇩🇪 Norway 🇮🇸 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Australia 🇦🇺 Switzerland 🇨🇭 Austria 🇦🇹 Finland 🇫🇮"

French footballers suspended after refusing to play with LGBTQ+ logo : r/europe_sub - "As I thought, some of those players are muslim. How shocking! s/"

Greg Price on X - "🚨 WATCH: During a discussion hosted by the American Medical Association, a professor of bioethics declares that "every medical institution must demand" that we abolish and defund the police. This organization accredits medical schools and makes half a billion dollars with their CPT coding monopoly that insurers and providers can't get paid without. And they've been completely captured by the radical left."

The nonsense around human rights tribunals is even worse than you think - "When I became the Chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2014, I said some things I was not supposed to say. I made the observation that human rights tribunals had a bad reputation. This wasn’t received well. In my first Annual Report to Parliament, I asserted that “Discrimination is not widely accepted in Canada. It is not acceptable to most Canadians to even hear a suggestion of prohibited discrimination, let alone engage in it.” I still believe that remains true today... I warned that our preservation relied on us making credible decisions. “We have a duty to make decisions that reflect broad Canadian values so that our work continues to be respected and valued.” Human rights tribunals were set up to keep discrimination cases outside of the courts, probably reflecting the idea that these matters were not as serious as criminality. The way the tribunals were originally set up supported the idea that complaints could be heard by a panel of non-lawyers over a few hours, decided upon quickly, and a decision rendered days later. Remedies could include an order to cease prohibited discrimination, pay restitution and perhaps a small penalty for injury to dignity. Now it takes years to get a case through the system. Most provinces have lifted damage limits, and awards in the tens of thousands of dollars for injury to dignity are routinely made. These same administrative tribunals have now been used to put forward class-action style cases resulting in massive awards, including one which led to a settlement negotiated by the government for a total sum of $23.3 billion. There have also been absurd cases, like the transgender woman who filed a complaint after being denied a scrotum waxing at various beauty salons. However, much of the human rights nonsense seldom makes the news. Many frivolous cases are settled at mediation where respondents are faced with paying money to make the complaint go away, or paying much more in legal costs to defend themselves at a hearing. Even if they win their case, they will rarely be able to recover any costs from the complainant. I mediated about 300 cases for the Canadian and B.C. human rights tribunals. At times I felt like an agent of a state-controlled extortion ring, persuading respondents to pay money to settle claims I knew they would never lose at a hearing. I kept track in my 12 years of doing this work. In my opinion, more than half of the complaints had no merit. There are so many cases that have strayed from what I referred to as broad Canadian values. There was the Ontario father who was told that discrimination laws don’t apply to his son because he is white. There have been hate speech cases which have imposed unclear rules about what you can and cannot say. Businesses have been fined tens of thousands of dollars because of pronoun disputes amongst their employees... Far from being a minor administrative matter designed to stay out of the courts, decisions like Neufeld suggest financial ruin could await anyone offending the Human Rights Code, just for doing something like challenging the accepted narrative on transgender issues... It should not be surprising that recently in British Columbia, an opposition member of the legislature proposed a bill (entitled Human Rights Code Repeal Act) to entirely eliminate the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal and the B.C. Human Rights Commission. The first reading of the bill was supported by the Conservative caucus, including one candidate for leadership for the party. Other leadership candidates have not dared to say out loud that they wish to shut down the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, but their criticism of the Neufeld decision and others is starting to send the message that major reform, if not outright repeal, is on the horizon. Human rights adjudicators have an obligation to be neutral decision-makers, giving as much of a fair hearing to the respondent as the complainant. Their role is not that of an activist who wishes to push the progressive envelope. It is important that ordinary Canadians buy into and value our work. If we push too far, the day will come when the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater and the whole system will get tossed."

British-Indian rail worker wins race discrimination claim after colleague left EDL leaflet in locker - "A British Indian Network Rail worker has won a race harassment case after his colleagues left an anti-Islam English Defence League (EDL) leaflet in his locker. Parmjit Bassi - who is not Muslim - was found to be the victim of racism when his co-worker stuffed an EDL leaflet in his locker which asked 'what individuals were doing to protect their children from Islam'... The tribunal ruled that even though Mr Bassi does not follow Islam they were 'clear slights' against his race and that Network Rail managers had a 'laissez-faire attitude' towards them."
The establishment thinks Islam is a race

Canada’s Polite Pogrom

Canada’s Polite Pogrom - The Atlantic

Ted Rosenberg quit teaching geriatric medicine after 30 years because his employer, the University of British Columbia, was too tolerant.

In the days and weeks following the Hamas massacre of innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, students and colleagues alike in his academic community posted fiery condemnations of and expressions of moral disgust toward … Israel. Rosenberg felt that some of these messages crossed the line into bigotry. One note accused Israel of harvesting the organs of murdered Palestinians. Another, from a medical-school resident, warned of a sinister, unnamed group of people “pulling the strings, who have orchestrated every war to ever happen, the ones who profit off of death and sickness.” “ The way I saw it,” he told me, “that level of demonization put the whole Jewish community at risk.”

He did not resign because of the messages, though; he resigned because the university wouldn’t do anything about them. “ I tried to meet with the dean,” Rosenberg said, “and he said, ‘If you feel you’re being discriminated against, put it through the DEI program.’ So I met with the head of the diversity, equity, and inclusion program within the faculty, and she refused to acknowledge that anti-Semitism was an issue. They view Jews as white within their DEI framework.” The faculty of medicine’s dean at the time, Dermot Kelleher, referred Rosenberg to UBC’s Equity and Inclusion website. Rosenberg searched the site for the words anti-Semitism and Jew. Neither appeared.

In his letter of resignation, he wrote, “I have no faith in due process in a faculty that does not even acknowledge the existence or presence of antisemitism/Jew-hatred.” After Rosenberg’s resignation became the subject of media attention, the equity committee of the department of medicine of UBC added a note to its website: “Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia will not be tolerated.”

Hatred against Jews in Canada has spiked to historic levels since October 7. It’s a crisis commonly measured via violence and vandalism. More synagogues in Canada in the past 28 months have been desecrated, burned, shot at, or threatened with bombings than in any other country. Jews in Canada are now statistically more likely to be victims of police-reported hate crimes than any other minority. A Jewish girls’ school in Toronto was shot at on three separate occasions. A Jewish grandmother was stabbed in a kosher supermarket in Ottawa, and a mother in Toronto was assaulted while picking her child up from a Jewish day care. Police have thwarted a half-dozen extremist murder plots since October 7 against Jews by Canadian residents.

These incidents have generated news coverage and sympathetic statements from mayors and members of Parliament, whose proclamations that This is not who we are as Canadians have become commonplace.

Documenting and denouncing shootings and arson attacks are easy. But it’s harder to account for stories like Rosenberg’s, where Jews exit public life without any glass or bones being broken. How many Jewish academics, health-care workers, teachers, and arts-organization employees have left institutions because they no longer feel welcome or protected? Nobody is counting. The diversity statistics collected by these organizations rarely include “Jewish” as a category of self-identification.

Here’s what can be said for sure: 80 percent of Jewish doctors and medical students surveyed by the Jewish Medical Association of Ontario reported experiencing anti-Semitism at work after October 7. In 2024, more than 100 Jewish doctors stopped acknowledging their affiliation with the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine in protest of what they saw as a failure to protect Jewish students and faculty. Almost a third of Ontario’s Jewish doctors say they are considering leaving Canada because of hostile work environments, according to the JMAO survey.

A group of Jewish teachers in British Columbia filed a human-rights complaint against their own union, accusing the BC Teachers’ Federation of ostracizing, bullying, and silencing its Jewish members. A federal report into Ontario’s K–12 schools found nearly 800 anti-Semitic incidents reported in elementary and high schools since 2023, many relating to the conduct of teachers.

One hundred thirty-five cultural organizations across Canada joined the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel. The Toronto International Film Festival dropped a documentary from its lineup that told the story of an Israeli grandfather’s experience rescuing his family from Hamas on October 7, before an outcry forced its restoration. A Jewish film festival was postponed in Hamilton, Ontario, when the theater hosting the event backed out, citing “safety concerns.” The cartoonist Miriam Libicki was banned from the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival out of “public safety concerns,” because years earlier, she had written a book about her time serving in the Israel Defense Forces. (The festival later reversed course and apologized.)

And then there’s Canadian politics.

In 2023, the mayor of Calgary broke with a long-standing local tradition and refused to attend a City Hall Hanukkah-menorah lighting; she said the event had “political intentions” because it “had been repositioned to support Israel.”

The awkward reality is that a main driver of these incidents is a very Canadian aversion to causing offense: The deference of many politicians and institutions to the views of a rapidly growing minority community is too often leading them to reject another minority community. Although relatively few Canadians hold negative views of Jews, opinion polls have found that such views find greater levels of support within the Canadian Muslim community. From 2001 to 2021, the Muslim population of Canada more than tripled, to about 5 percent of the population. Just 4 percent of non-Jewish Canadians agree that Jews are largely to blame for the negative consequences of globalization, but that figure rises to 28 percent among Canadian Muslims, according to a survey conducted by the University of Toronto sociologist Robert Brym. Similarly, only 16 percent of Canadians believe that it is appropriate for opponents of Israel’s policies to boycott Jewish-owned businesses in Canada, but that claim finds support among 41 percent of Canadian Muslims.

Canada is also the birthplace of a new educational framework called APR—Anti-Palestinian racism. APR was developed by the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, and in 2024 the Toronto District School Board, which serves more than 230,000 students, voted to integrate APR into its wider anti-hate strategy. Although a new policy against racism might sound benign, many Jewish groups argue that in practice, APR can function as a form of discrimination and censorship. For example, a group of Toronto teachers had been given APR training by their union, in which they were told that it would be racist, and therefore forbidden, to ask why Arab countries don’t help Palestinians. To the claim that the phrase From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free carries genocidal implications toward Israel, the APR training suggests responding that “Palestinian chants and poetry exist to give Palestinians hope, and are not for others to define.”

David S. Koffman, a historian at York University and the editor in chief of Canadian Jewish Studies, writes that Canada’s Jews are turning inward. “Our assumptions about safety, trust, acceptance, and solidarity have been punctured,” he observes. As a result, he says, more Jewish parents are enrolling their children in private Jewish day schools, and job applications at Jewish organizations are rising.

Which is not to say that Jewish spaces are safe from external judgment and scorn. An anti-Zionist website called The Maple published lists of the names of Canadian Jews who have served in the IDF, as well as the names of Jewish children’s schools and summer camps with which they were associated. The author of these lists, Davide Mastracci, wrote that “the complicit segment of Canada’s Jewish population deserves blame for what they do, not who they are.” Weeks after the list was published, five pro-Palestinian groups launched a campaign to revoke the accreditation of 17 Canadian Jewish sleepaway camps. The groups accused the summer camps of supporting “genocide” and called for “a gigantic change.” Then, both synagogues listed by The Maple as complicit Jewish institutions were shot at.

Among my Jewish friends and family, these efforts to intimidate and alienate Jews, to exclude them from civil society and from public life, and to close down private Jewish spaces are discussed with far more concern and frequency than the regular reports of graffiti and name-calling. Five Jewish families pulled their children from the downtown Toronto public school in my neighborhood last year, after a series of controversies. At least four Jewish journalists left the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, after the paper’s ombudsperson on discrimination and bias wrote a social-media post questioning “who did what” on October 7, and reposted another criticizing North American Jews for “centering their feelings.”

I have a general sense that we’re witnessing a polite pogrom, that Jewish life in my country has forever changed, and that I can no longer take for granted that people like me are represented in Canada’s hospitals, schools, newsrooms, and legislatures. But I don’t know for sure. The data do not exist, and the institutions in question won’t collect them. Perhaps they consider it impolite to ask. 

Links - 2nd May 2026 (1 - Scottish Politics)

Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "Possibly the greatest photo of our era  Or, indeed, any era "
"Holyrood will be better off without selfie-loving Nicola Sturgeon... although I thought she'd already gone! Scottish Conservative Deputy Leader RACHAEL HAMILTON delivers her withering assessment on the former SNP leader (and now frequently AWOL MSP) who has made Scotland a more divided place *Sturgeon taking wefie with bored child*"

Holyrood will be better off without selfie-loving Nicola Sturgeon... although I thought she'd already gone! - "Sturgeon has not shown much enthusiasm for a backbench role at Holyrood, opting instead for a round of chat shows, book festivals, schmoozing with celebrities and lucrative election-night punditry. It’s customary to wish any member who’s leaving well, whatever their party or politics. But in her case, personal good wishes have to be tempered by the knowledge that, as First Minister, she presided over a government that set out to create and deepen divisions. And not only on the SNP’s never-ending obsession with breaking up the UK, though she focused on that relentlessly. She never stopped pursuing it, though most Scots remained opposed, and were even more opposed to a second vote on the matter. She then came up with the absurd idea of a de facto referendum and wasted taxpayers’ money on a doomed Supreme Court challenge. But it wasn’t the only wedge driven into public life during her period in office. The SNP produced hugely damaging splits on a wide range of issues. These confrontations were deliberately manufactured and actively encouraged in an administration notable for its secrecy, evasion and lack of transparency.  The result was a thoroughly poisonous atmosphere. But she never accepted any responsibility, hectoring her political opponents, dismissing all criticism and – the old Nat stand-by – blaming Westminster for any and every failure. The reality was that the failures were entirely the responsibility of Nicola Sturgeon and the government she led. And by any objective judgment they were legion – and often on a colossal scale. Economic growth was hampered by ever-increasing taxes and regulation.  On her watch, Scotland’s drugs deaths soared to become by far the worst, not just in the UK, but in all of Europe. Her government should have responded with shame and urgent action. Instead, as she admitted in a rare moment of candour, her government took its eye off the ball. The SNP complacency on Scotland’s drugs emergency continues, unforgivably, to this day.  Scottish education standards, supposedly her number one priority, slid down international comparison tables on her watch. The poverty-related attainment gap, which she promised to eradicate, widened. The crisis in the NHS worsened constantly, with A&E figures soaring to unprecedented levels, cancer targets that never came anywhere close to being met, and hundreds of thousands of Scots languishing on waiting lists. There were a string of broken promises.  On roads upgrades. On teacher numbers. On ending automatic prisoner release. And on dozens of others, from laptops for children to support for house-buyers. In particular, the SNP’s pursuit of soft-touch justice and their failure to support the police and the courts system repeatedly betrayed victims of crime.  The former First Minister also – in the most callous and dishonest way – betrayed the families of Covid victims by offering assurances which she knew to be untrue about supplying answers. Her shameful deletion of messages covering that period, in defiance of her promises, was one of the lowest episodes of her time in the job. Then there were the big-budget, high-profile scandals. The ferries that ended up hundreds of millions over budget before they even went into service. The malicious Rangers prosecution that cost the taxpayer millions. She set in motion hugely expensive plans for doomed schemes, such as the National Care Service and the Deposit Return Scheme, that were so badly botched that they had to be scrapped.  Perhaps her legacy, fittingly, will be the gender self-ID bill, which managed to be toxic, divisive, unworkable and profoundly damaging all at the same time. It also demonstrated Nicola Sturgeon’s intransigent refusal to heed warnings about flaws in legislation, or to take account of the level of opposition.  Mercifully, it was blocked as unlawful by the UK government – something she had been warned was likely. And shortly after, the grotesque case of a double rapist being sent to a women’s prison gave a concrete example of exactly the kind of problems she had airily dismissed as “not valid”. At long last, she has concluded that standing down as an MSP is now her best option. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to argue that Holyrood won’t be better off without her, too. That’s why the lucrative pay day she will enjoy post-Holyrood will stick in the throat of ordinary Scots."

Scotland’s constitutional future under scrutiny as legal case for de-colonisation set to be unveiled - "A three-day constitutional conference beginning Friday is set to challenge long-held assumptions about Scotland’s status within the United Kingdom, as legal and academic voices gather to explore whether the country should be considered for de-colonisation under international law... The conference will also address whether Scotland has ever been part of a voluntary union with England. The SSRG previously held a similar event in 2022, which drew attention in the pro-independence media.  Among the presenters is Sara Salyers, co-founder of Liberation Scotland and Salvo, a campaign group with over 18,000 members. Salyers is expected to present arguments supporting the inclusion of Scotland on the UN’s list of non-self-governing territories. “After two years of research and legal consultation, we can now make a confident case,” she said. “Countries do not ask for permission to end colonisation—they demand it.”"
I guess the Scottish Parliament in 1707 were traitors

Has Scotland abandoned its belief in free speech and is Nicola Sturgeon to blame? - "Has Scotland abandoned its belief in free speech?  I ask because it seems to be in grave danger when its national library sidelines a book that defends the rights of women to hang onto their safe havens, such as changing rooms or toilets. Or when a prominent politician is involved in a row over a talk she gave at a significant cultural venue simply because of her religious views.  The book in question was Women Who Won’t Wheesht, to which the best-selling author JK Rowling was a key contributor, and which was removed from an exhibition of the Scottish National Library after complaints that it would cause “severe harm to staff” as it contained essays about the fight against Nicola Sturgeon’s proposed gender laws.  And the politician whose views were deemed unsuitable was Kate Forbes, the Deputy First Minister, whose opinions on social and sexual issues earned her brickbats at a major Edinburgh Fringe venue. In a statement that sums up an attitude now becoming commonplace in many areas of Scottish public life, the venue in question, Summerhall, said in answer to critics “… going forward we will be developing robust, proactive inclusion and wellbeing policies that would prevent this oversight in our bookings process (from) happening again”... given her self-appointed role as chief arbiter in this bitter battle, is the current situation a snapshot of life in the Land That Nicola Sturgeon Created?  I’d like to think that it’s a passing phase, given the, at-times, over-heated cultural and artistic atmosphere of the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. But sadly, it appears to be symptoms of a more deep-seated malaise, brought on by the issue of whether trans women should have the same rights of access to venues formerly available only to biological women... It’s not as if she chose to remain neutral. As Jim Sillars, a veteran nationalist and former deputy leader of the SNP, declared that no one did more than Ms Sturgeon to “stoke the fires” of what has become a toxic debate. This occurred when she accused all those who opposed the idea that people as young as 18 could change their gender by a simple self-declaration as being “transphobic, deeply misogynist, often homophobic and possibly racist as well”.  These are not the words of a peacemaker, nor of someone who seeks to present herself as being confused on the gender issue, not least in her autobiography, Frankly, and the newspaper interviews and TV broadcasts that accompany its publication."
It's only deplorable wedge issue politicking when it hurts the left wing agenda

JK Rowling attacks Sturgeon’s memoir and transgender policy stance - "She also mocked Ms Sturgeon’s claim the 2014 independence referendum was not “unpleasant and divisive”, saying: “No s---, Nicola.”  “You, surrounded only by adoring nationalists, flying between public meetings in a helicopter bearing a large image of your own face, enjoying police protection and all the excitement of potentially bringing about your life’s ambition, enjoyed the referendum? I’m amazed,” she said.  “Oddly, this message didn’t resonate too well with No voters who were being threatened with violence, told to f--- off out of Scotland, quizzed on the amount of Scottish blood that ran in their veins, accused of treachery and treason and informed that they were on the wrong side of, as one ‘cybernat’ memorably put it, ‘a straightforward battle between good and evil.”"

Scotland’s fiscal calamity is a harbinger for all of Britain - "If you think the UK has a problem with the public finances, try just a bit of it for size – Scotland.  According to figures published last week by Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS), Scotland’s fiscal deficit widened to 11.6pc of GDP last financial year, more than double that of the UK as a whole, and is higher still at 14.3pc if North Sea revenues are excluded.  By some unfathomable logic, Shona Robison, Scotland’s Finance Secretary, argues that this somehow supports the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) case for independence.  Free of the English yoke, she argues, Scotland would be able to pursue its own productivity-enhancing economic policies, including increased immigration – come again? – and a much reduced rate of corporation tax. Scotland would boom, and the deficit would disappear. Everyone can dream, but sadly, the reality could hardly be more different. If Scotland were made independent tomorrow, its revenues would fall so far short of its expenditures that it would find it virtually impossible to borrow in international capital markets to fund the difference. This would be the case even if the rest of the UK were magnanimous about the divorce and forgave Scotland its share of the national debt, a very unlikely act of self-sacrifice since, without Scotland to bulk up the numbers, the rest of the UK would be left with an unmanageable debt burden.  The grim truth is that an independent Scotland would fiscally be in a completely unsustainable position; SNP policies conspire to make its predicament even worse.  Once the divorce went through, Scots would face years of grinding austerity as the government sought to bring expenditure into balance with revenue. The welfare-based economic model that is today’s Scotland would quickly be rendered unaffordable...  the Scottish Government spends some £2,700 per head a year more than the rest of the UK while collecting only about the same amount per individual in tax.  But Scotland is hardly alone in its various economic shortcomings.  Failure to incentivise aspiration, enterprise and wealth creation afflicts both Scotland and the rest of the UK in equal measure. Long gone are the days when the likes of Peter Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour, could admit to being “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich”.  Today, it’s all about levelling down rather than up... Wealth and aspiration are under attack across the UK as a whole, not just in Scotland.  But it’s even worse north of the border, where higher-rate taxpayers pay significantly more than their English counterparts on a greater proportion of their income.  The quid pro quo for a more highly taxed economy is meant to be better public services, but you’d be hard-pressed to argue this is the case in Scotland. Total public spending last year at 52pc of GDP is at Scandinavian levels, but without Nordic-style welfare and services. NHS waiting lists are longer than much of the rest of the UK, social services are a disgrace, life expectancy is lower and even educational standards – once the highest in the UK – have slipped badly under Scotland’s high spending regime.  State education in Edinburgh is so poor that one in four families makes the financial sacrifices needed to send their children to privately funded independent schools, far higher than the UK average... to be fair, also down to Westminster is the completely insane decision to essentially close down the North Sea oil and gas sector in pursuit of the net-zero pipe-dream.  It might have been SNP policy too, but for an opportunistic change in stance just ahead of the general election aimed at saving seats in Aberdeen and beyond... In any case, the ban steepens Scotland’s fiscal challenge. Offshore oil and gas provide some of Scotland’s highest-paying jobs; Ed Miliband’s assault on the sector threatens lasting damage to income tax receipts, with the growth in renewables unlikely to provide a complete substitute... As it is, Scotland is in the same rut of rising taxation, excessive spending and declining public services as the rest of the UK, but magnified several times over.  The SNP offers no answers on how it would correct the shortfall in the public finances should it ever succeed in freeing Scotland from the English teet.  You might imagine that the cause of Scottish independence would have been finished for a generation or more by the SNP’s inept record in government, topped off as it was by the tragicomedy of Humza Yousaf’s short-lived reign as first minister.  But then along came Reform UK, which threatens to split the unionist vote and thereby gives the SNP another leg up in next year’s Holyrood elections.  Political paralysis seems to be the name of the game almost everywhere these days, but no more so than in Scotland’s disastrous inability to confront harsh fiscal realities."
Time to blame London for Edinburgh's failures

SNP faces £4.7bn ‘black hole’ after surge in benefits spending - "SNP ministers are facing a “black hole” of almost £5bn in their spending plans after presiding over a huge rise in Scotland’s welfare bill and a surge in the size of the state."

SNP has created one-ideology state, says Scottish Tory leader - "The SNP has created a public sector stacked with “yes men and women” focused on protecting each other’s livelihoods and the “failing” status quo, the Scottish Tory leader has claimed.  Russell Findlay said Scotland had become a “one-ideology state” that supported higher taxes, benefits and immigration and was overseen by “a self-serving political elite” in Edinburgh.  In a keynote speech, Mr Findlay said civil servants dared not question the “received wisdom of the SNP paymasters” as they had a “firm stake” in protecting their highly-paid jobs.  He said “self-preservation is everything”, with SNP ministers treating the public purse like “a piggy bank for them and their pals” and refusing to get rid of incompetent employees.  The net result was that Scotland seemed to be “run like a private members’ club” with Left-wing lobbyists acting as gatekeepers “hostile to any form of progress”, he said.  Mr Findlay alleged that a “circular system of approval” existed between the SNP Government and “state-funded” charities and academics reliant on the public purse for their income... Mr Findlay said Holyrood focused on “fringe issues” such as Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to allow people to self-identify their gender, while the SNP ran public services “into the ground”... Mr Findlay said “those who deviate from accepted groupthink are shouted down and shut out”, citing the treatment of feminists who opposed gender self-ID over concerns about the safety of women’s spaces... “Considering all of this, you could be forgiven for thinking Scotland has become a one-party state. It’s not quite. But it is a one-ideology state. The Scottish political establishment believes that taxes must only go up, that benefits must also keep rising, that immigration is always good.” He proposed devolving more power from Holyrood to local communities, including the ability to lower business rates, and a “radical overhaul of transparency”. The Civil Service must also “be outlawed from agitating for the break-up of Britain”, he said."

SNP sheds more than £1m and thousands of members, accounts reveal - "The SNP’s finances have plummeted by more than £1m in less than two years, according to the party’s latest accounts.  Documents published by the Electoral Commission reveal the party’s bank balance went from a surplus of more than £600,000 in 2023 to a deficit of £455,000 at the end of 2024, raising questions over the SNP’s ability to contest the Holyrood elections in May.  They also indicate that a £100,000 luxury motorhome purchased by the party in 2021 as a potential campaign battle bus – and still held by police following an investigation into SNP finances – has lost more than half its value and that an outstanding £60,000 loan from former chief executive Peter Murrell may be “written off”...   The SNP remains by far the biggest political party in Scotland in terms of membership, with 56,011 members on June 1, but the accounts show that under John Swinney’s leadership, the number is down more than 8,500 on the 64,525 they had in June last year. In June 2023, it had 73,936 members, and as recently as 2019, claimed to have around 125,000 members."

SNP backbencher ‘ashamed’ over Scotland’s failure to implement biological sex ruling - "A senior SNP backbencher has said she feels “ashamed” over the Scottish Government’s failure to implement the landmark ruling on the definition of a woman.  In April, the UK Supreme Court ruled that, in the 2010 Equality Act, the term “woman” referred to biological sex, not acquired gender.  The ruling was expected to prompt a slew of policy changes relating to single-sex spaces, but the Scottish Government has yet to issue relevant guidance."

SNP ‘relying on short-term fixes to prevent Scotland from running out of money’ - "Stephen Boyle, the auditor general, said the Government’s accounts for 2024-25 showed that ministers had a record £1bn left unspent. But this was only after the Treasury handed the SNP an extra £2.2bn during that year and Scottish ministers implemented a series of “one-off savings”.  Mr Boyle said the SNP had failed to produce any detailed plans to address a looming financial black hole of nearly £5bn, which he said had been created by “policy choices and higher workforce costs”.  He also warned that the SNP “cannot clearly demonstrate” that its record public spending in Scotland was “delivering the intended outcomes”."
Damn English!

Sturgeon’s government ‘misled’ firms on green scheme, court told - "the fact the Scottish Government was still working out how the scheme would work when it applied for an IMA exclusion in 2023 was “farcical”.  “It was a comedy of errors. Farcical. The whole thing was farcical,” he added."

Agent P on X - "The SNP can fly people in from Gaza for hospital treatment no problem. Meanwhile 19-yr-old Brooke Paterson was left writhing with a DOUBLE LEG BREAK for 5 HOURS before an ambulance turned up. SNP priorities."

SNP hands £1.3m in taxpayer cash to pro-abortion group with ‘extreme agenda’ - "The SNP handed more than £1.3m to campaigners pushing for an “extreme” new abortion law, The Telegraph can reveal.  Engender, the feminist advocacy group, is campaigning to scrap the 1967 Abortion Act and have it replaced with a new “rights-based framework” for abortions.  Critics have described the plan to codify the right to abortion into Scottish law as “extreme” because it would remove the Act’s 24-week limit for a legal abortion, making it possible for women to have an abortion up to birth.  It has now emerged that Engender has received £1,366,833 in funding from the Scottish Government since 2021.  Financial records show the public money accounted for 97 per cent of the group’s funding in the year to March 2024, the most recent year for which the data is available...   It also said any future legislation should not include any explicit prohibition on sex-selective abortion, a move that critics said would effectively legalise the practice in Scotland.  Prof Anna Glasier, chairman of the review, said that the group believed it was “unnecessary” and “potentially harmful” to explicitly prohibit the practice because it would require “intrusive and inappropriate questioning” of those seeking an abortion.  She also raised concerns that it would risk “racial profiling” women from particular communities where sex-selective abortion is thought to take place.  Stephen Kerr, the Tory MSP, said: “Taxpayers will not be happy to learn that their money is being used to push extreme policies. “This is yet another example of the SNP Government using taxpayer cash to bankroll groups that push an extreme ideological agenda. Common sense says we stop this funding of charities to push extreme policies. Taxpayers’ money should be spent on the priorities of the people of Scotland, not on advancing divisive causes that most Scots would find deeply concerning.”"
The government funding special interest groups is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda

SNP politician’s office bugged by her staff

Links - 1st May 2026 (3 - CBC Media Bias)

Meme - Tracey Wilson: "We don't hate the legacy media enough. One guy wins his leadership with 87.4% and it's spun as "survived". The other guys wins with 56% and it's spun as "easily won". They don't even try and hide their bias. This is what happens when they're funded by the government. sos"
"Pierre Poilievre has survived his Conservative leadership review with 87.4 per cent support. In the narrow arithmetic of party politics, it signals vindication. But politics, like literature, is not moved by numbers. The question is not what"
Rosemary Barton: "Avi Lewis wins easily on first ballot with 56% of the vote. He is the new leader of the NDP"
We're told that all the floor crossing shows that PP is an awful leader and should be removed. Weird how he got 87.4% support then.

Melissa 🇨🇦 on X - "HOLY CRAP 🇨🇦 State controlled CBC wouldn’t even let Travis Dhanraj discuss with or bring on Conservative voices This is a MASSIVE scandal End the tax payer funded CARNEY controlled CBC, now. Massive scandal"
If you think CBC media bias is a thing, you're a deluded far right Maple MAGA

Stephen Taylor on X - "Former CBC journalist Travis Dhanraj says CBC Power & Politics host David Cochrane said that Tamara Lich lives in a trailer and that's why she probably has multiple last names."

Marc Nixon on X - "DAMAGING EVIDENCE The explosive testimony by former CBC Reporter Travis Dhanraj confirmed David Cochrane hand picks political guests. Meaning when they CLAIMED Pierre Poilievre refused to appear on CBC David Cochrane did not give Pierre AIR TIME. CBC is complete TRASH. 🗑️"

Juno News on X - "Travis Dhanraj, former host of Canada Tonight, faced roadblocks from CBC management, including restrictions on inviting conservatives. He raised concerns about balance and the Broadcasting Act, but his efforts to address the issue were ignored."
Rachael Thomas on X - "Canadians expect fairness from their public broadcaster.  The CBC receives $1.5 billion in taxpayer funding, yet there are growing concerns that some Conservative voices are being excluded from its programming.  A publicly funded broadcaster should reflect a diversity of perspectives and ensure Canadians hear a full range of viewpoints."

Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM on X - "Looking forward to hearing CBC’s commentary and coverage of the testimony from Travis Dhanraj.  Just kidding! Of course they won’t cover it. It exposes their bias and failures.  Instead, I’m sure they will rely on their usual tactics, silence, suppression, or smears, because what else could we expect from the national broadcaster for 1.5 billion of taxpayer money?   Not credibility or unbiased journalism. That is certain!"

Aaron Pete on X - "This is WILD.  We have a pretty middle of the road  voice confirming what we’ve been speculating on X about for a while.   Mainly that Rosemary and David completely control the coverage of politics on the CBC and the perspectives that get shared.
If it looks like it’s bias
If they talk like they’re bias
If people on the inside say they’re bias
If research suggests their bias
They are probably biased."

Former CBC host says he was silenced and bullied by senior leadership - "Former CBC journalist Travis Dhanraj told MPs Tuesday he was silenced, bullied and intimidated by senior leadership and hosts at the public broadcaster, which he says needs a “wake-up call.”... Dhanraj once hosted Canada Tonight with Travis Dhanraj, a nightly news show on CBC Television, until his departure that sparked a controversy over allegations of perceived bias in news coverage. In letters he made public at the time, Dhanraj accused the public broadcaster of “tokenism masquerading as diversity, problematic political coverage protocols, and the erosion of editorial independence.”...  Dhanraj was one of 10 individuals from seven groups testifying to the committee Tuesday on the state of journalism and the media industry.  He arrived at committee with one binder of documents featuring the CBC logo on the cover and another emblazoned with the word “receipts.”... He also criticized CBC for allegedly trying to get him to sign a non-disclosure agreement after he raised concerns about editorial independence.  “It’s about systemic control, tokenism, selective enforcement, and a toxic culture where intimidation went unchecked,” said Dhanraj, who is of Caribbean heritage.  “I think CBC needs to have, you know, a wake-up call here in terms of accountability,” he said.  Many of Dhanraj’s issues came to a head after he wrote on social media that then-CBC president Catherine Tait had declined to appear on his show amid outrage over generous CBC executive bonuses at a time of attrition at the public broadcaster."
Naturally the trash Facebook page "Save the CBC" didn't mention any of this at all

Finally, proof CBC is biased against conservatives - "before the House of Commons standing committee on Canadian heritage on Tuesday, former CBC host Travis Dhanraj painted a stark picture of how the public broadcaster allegedly abuses its employees, discriminates based on race and systematically attempts to silence conservative voices... he idolized CBC News as a kid.. his April 2024 tweet, in which he publicly stated that his show, “Canada Tonight,” had requested an interview with then-CBC president Catherine Tait. “Shortly after I was removed from the air now on May 7, 2024, Tait told this very committee she was, quote, ‘not aware of any repercussions,’ yet, 24 hours earlier, ATIP records show, her vice-president, Barb Williams, briefed her directly about my situation. That matters, because trust matters,” said Dhanraj. But he said the “tweet was not the beginning, it was the breaking point.” According to him, months before this, “tensions had been building, not over performance, but over control.” He told the committee that, “While I was publicly held up as a bold, diverse host, my ability to lead the very program carrying my face and name was quietly being stripped away.” Dhanraj described how he had pushed for a nightly panel to showcase real diversity, including diversity of thought,” and questioned things like unequal pay, which seemed to be based on race. Worse, when trying to perform his job, he encountered numerous barriers, including interviews that were blocked due to internal guidelines over who could be guests. This wasn’t a one-off, he explained. It was the standard... Questioning Cochrane’s control over his guests led to Dhanraj being labelled as disruptive. Dhanraj told the committee that he has transcripts showing that CBC brass weren’t concerned about his journalism, but the reputational risk he posed to the broadcaster... he was silenced and intimidated by CBC “simply for trying to do my job and fulfill my public service role to Canadians.” It isn’t about one tweet, he told the committee, “It’s about systemic control, tokenism, selective enforcement and a toxic culture where intimidation went unchecked.” Dhanraj said that he fought for real diversity and equal standards,” but “within months, I was pulled off the air, disciplined, restricted from speaking, stripped of my primetime program and eventually out altogether.”... Dhanraj shared a series of statements sent to him from current and former CBC employees, who he said are afraid to speak out publicly... a current employee said that she has “witnessed and experienced multiple incidents of a misuse of taxpayer dollars, favouritism, nepotism, sexual harassment and verbal abuse.” The next statement, which Dhanraj said was from “someone you would all know if I said their name,” read, “Without exaggeration, I experienced toxicity every single day and it was almost always from the same people. It was not subtle. It was not hidden. It was part of the daily reality of working there.”... a former producer, alleged that Cochrane’s “toxic behaviour extended beyond editorial networks and was more often than not deeply hypocritical. While he publicly presented himself as a supporter of diversity, he actively undermined the contributions of colleagues who were minorities.”  The final statement was from a former anchor in Vancouver who claims she was fired because of the colour of her skin. “As a white person, I did not fit the diversity targets they were trying to meet. No concerns about my performance had ever been raised”... there are more examples and that these individuals are traumatized and afraid to speak out due to possible professional repercussions.  Dhanraj then describes his attempt to create a panel that represented diversity of thought but ended up being cancelled. He explained that he was given a list of 43-45 people who he was told were blacklisted. He described how ridiculous it was that he couldn’t call a Queen’s Park reporter for a story because that person was on the list.  Instead, he said there were “continued hurdles and roadblocks set up to really have a certain group of folks in Ottawa in control of who was allowed on programs.” Dhanraj said he was told at one point, “Maybe you can have NDP folks on, but Conservatives are a no.”  Asked about CBC’s policies towards Conservatives, Dhanraj read an instant message conversation he had with his senior producer.  “Can we get a conservative perspective on this?” he asked.  His producer responded: “It is a no to the Conservatives I’m told. We can’t chase anyone from the entire party. The chase is with PnP. So, if PnP is not able to secure … a Conservative, then we are not allowed to.”  He said he was not even allowed to pick up the phone and call Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and that after he had Deputy Conservative Leader Melissa Lantsman on, management threatened to take him off the air.  “If management is not going to do anything. If the president of the CBC is going to come here and expect a tongue lashing and then be able to go back to the CBC and continue to get funding without accountability, these practices will continue,” said Dhanraj.  “Shame is clearly not enough to get the CBC to get the place where they will hold themselves accountable, so it is incumbent upon this committee to do that.”  Before the testimony, Dhanraj asked his former boss, Brodie Fenlon, editor-in-chief of CBC News, to air the testimony live, in order to prove that the taxpayer-funded broadcaster believes in transparency. CBC told the Toronto Star that it would not be airing the hearing. That didn’t matter, because Dhanraj’s own venture, Can’t be Censored, live-streamed the testimony. His colleague, Karman Wong, also held a pre- and post-show discussion with several guests, including Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley and lawyer Kathryn Marshall"

Travis Dhanraj's CBC testimony met with Liberal silence - "Dhanraj’s testimony on what goes on inside of Canada’s state broadcaster should have been of interest to the government, but Liberal MPs didn’t ask a single question of him or about what seems to be their favourite broadcaster... Dhanraj has worked across the Canadian television media landscape for the last 25 years, including several stints at CBC. In 2021, the network recruited Dhanraj to become their senior parliamentary reporter and named him host of Canada Tonight with Travis Dhanraj in 2023.  “Travis’s engaging curiosity and incredible range of experience allows him to translate complex stories into personal terms and help audiences make sense of the news,” said CBC executive Andree Lau when they announced the new show.  While the show had Dhanraj’s name in the title and his face was part of all of the publicity, he said he quickly found out that he wasn’t in control of who he could talk to. “Power and Politics, hosted by David Cochrane, was given gatekeeping authority over which politicians could appear on Canada Tonight,” he said... Dhanraj said he also faced pressure over his “intersection panel” that brought guests with diverse viewpoints together for debate. He held up a page with the images of everyone who had appeared on the panel and said you wouldn’t find this elsewhere.  “We’ve got here one with Raheem Mohammed and Rachel Gilmore. I don’t know if you can get two people very far apart on the ideological spectrum as that. Sheila Copps, Brian Lilley and Faye Johnston, right? We were having the Canadian conversation and this panel was cancelled,” he said. Highlights of Travis Dhanraj's testimony before a House of Commons committee...  While Conservatives asked questions, Liberals ignored Dhanraj and focused on other witnesses less hostile to the Mark Carney government’s favourite broadcaster.  The Liberals, first under Justin Trudeau and now under Carney, have consistently increased CBC’s funding. In last December’s budget, CBC saw a funding increase of $150 million despite the government saying it was time to rein in spending. CBC’s total budget has grown under the Liberals to over $1.4 billion and CBC News has seemingly shown its gratitude for the extra money with increasingly favourable and partisan coverage. As Dhanraj pointed out, CBC should be for all Canadians and it should be a unifying force, but instead it has become a highly polarizing institution in Canada.  “I don’t have to be wanting to destroy the CBC because management and executives are doing a great job of that on their own,” Dhanraj told the committee."
Clearly, the CBC is neutral and has no conflict of interest

Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 on X - "EXPLOSIVE: Some families of victims in the Humboldt Broncos tragedy say the CBC has been censoring, misrepresenting, and selectively editing their interviews.  “We don’t trust the mainstream media anymore,” former NHL player Chris Joseph (@cjoseph23 ) says.  Joseph alleges that the CBC selectively edited their interviews, including those of other families, in ways that suppressed their true views and favored Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, who is fighting deportation to India after running a stop sign and crashing into the team bus, killing 16 people, including Joseph’s son.  “Karen Pauls twisted the narrative, and a lot of media has been like that,” Joseph alleges, addressing her recent coverage of convicted criminal Sidhu about his fight against deportation."

David Knight Legg on X - "Canada’s state owned CBC just ran an American Islamo-leftist C-lister Hasan Piker (online ‘HasanAbi ‘)….. on ‘Alberta independence’ Hasan knows zero about Alberta. But here he is on Ukraine and Oct 7 rape:
Ukraine/Crimea: “What do you call Crimea?" Piker asked in one show. "I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. I call it Crimea River, a Russian river. The annexation of Crimea was absolutely a justifiable annexation."
Oct 7 Rape: “It doesn’t matter if f**ing rapes happened on Oct. 7. That doesn’t change the dynamic for me even this much,” adding that “the Palestinian resistance is not perfect” and lacks “magical bullets” mocking Jewish women as having “rape fantasies” or “rape hallucinations.”
Why is this sick clown being platformed by CBC?   Want to know why so many of us - including the ones like me arguing for more independence within federation - are tired of the decline of Canada even if they’re not separatist, this interview is why.    We have to pay for this CBC schlock. It reflects the eastern state-beta cultural insecurity, needy reliance on American leftist culture, the core institutional decay, the open contempt for taxpayers, and the lack of basic professional production standards.    It’s so tiresome.  It’s like they’re taunting people to separate.   The CBC really couldn’t find anyone better than this hate filled American man-child to talk about Alberta?     Here’s a new pitch for the Feds:   Defund the CBC. They’re making everyone want independence."

Thread by @WiretapMediaCa on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "CBC's tracking fascist fight club: A poorly crafted government propaganda investigation, with clever editing, great audio, and sound bites without context.  🧵Debunk Thread:
1. The CBC depicted the (SS) Second Sons as a shadowy organization operating in secrecy; however, the organization's website can be found with a simple Google search that contains a clear mission statement.
2. CBC conflates their white supremacy "secret society" narrative because, like most NGO's, SS protects membership identity - and for good reason.  The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) claimed that associated members were part of an extremist militia organization that wasn't verified by Canadian intelligence, and they used the CBC to conflate their message.
3. CBC, Rachel Gilmore, Evan Balgord, Bernie Farber, and every other communist continue to call Diagolon a Violent Extremist Militia Group by using early RCMP assessments, but fail to acknowledge the RCMP's final conclusion.
4. The RCMP recognizes Bernie Farber as an agent provocateur, who inflates the truth, alters public perception and manipulates Canadian law enforcement.
5. Like the CBC, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network claims to be independent from the Government, but both organizations receive funding from the Government, and while the CBC claims to be non-biased, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, where CBC gets most of their evidence from is an admittedly biased organization.
6. Evan Balgord claims there are MILLIONS of white supremacists lurking in Canada; however, CBC and their counterparts continue to target the same individuals who have moved the needle on controversial topics, exposing conspiracies as truths. Most notably, the foreign interference scandal, but now that they are unapologetically covering the government's mass immigration policies, they have become targets of another hyperbolic smear campaign by the same players.
7. Finally, Government-affiliated organizations and failed journalists turned influencers continue to propagate a fear campaign that Canadians are facing a white supremacist terror movement, but the only organization that meets CSIS's assessment that constitutes a terrorist organization is the Government itself."

Former CBC insider trashes its one-sided, 'thoughtless cheerleading' - "The CBC is at a watershed moment, observes longtime CBC insider David Cayley. The previous era of Canada’s publicly funded broadcaster has exhausted itself, Cayley concludes, and in the new era that’s unfolding, what the country desperately needs and deserves is a dialogue, not a monologue.  “Everything ends in time,” he observes, “and I believe that (CBC’s) properties, its idea that it would belong to the audience, that it would stake its legitimacy on the audience, has brought it to a place where it has only one preferred audience — and can’t address the rest of the country, and can’t get outside or above or beyond the assumptions it shares with that audience — so it’s become a kind of boutique.”  Between 1971 and 2012, Cayley worked as a producer, documentary-maker and program host at CBC Radio. Much of his career was spent at Ideas, a program that explained current affairs to Canadians and introduced people across the country to a range of themes and thinkers. More recently, he authored The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (and How to Get it Back), a book published this year by publisher Kenneth Whyte’s Sutherland House. It arrives at a moment of particular resonance: The CBC’s British equivalent, the BBC, is embroiled in a bias scandal that cost it two top executives and faces the real risk of a fall from grace...  “I’ll be 80 in March,” he tells me. “You know, I can’t really be cancelled. I’m so old,” he laughs, infectiously. What motivates a man in his 80th year to publish — not just a historical expose of the CBC, but a call to action?  “Well,” he smiles, “T.S. Eliot said old men ought to be explorers. I like that … I have nothing to fear, really.”... when Prime Minister Mark Carney talks about the public broadcaster, he often says “the CBC exists to combat misinformation.” But what exactly does Carney mean by “misinformation,” David asks.  Is it fact-checking — pointing out untrue things being said — or is it “misinformation” when someone says something another person believes to be wrong? David’s book is full of case studies in Canada — situations that became minefields — because the CBC chose to disregard the perspectives of others who think differently and jumped to a “finished view” of an issue. “A finished view,” he asserts, “is an ideology.”  During the COVID-19 pandemic, David explains, so much unsubstantiated stuff was put into people’s heads as science, when it couldn’t possibly be science. “What the public interest demanded at the beginning of the pandemic,” David writes in his book, “was careful deliberation. What the CBC delivered was thoughtless cheerleading.”  The pandemic, he reports, provoked extensive and deep-rooted scientific disagreement, but news of this disagreement never reached the public. What the opponents of quarantines and vaccine mandates were spreading was characterized as “misinformation,” David explains, but governments were allowed to change their message, again and again.  For example, he reports, “the shot was localized in your arm; the ingredients will not spread throughout the body.” Whoops. That proved not to be true.  “The virus was definitely of natural origin and only a dangerous wingnut could believe it may have been manufactured in a lab, right? Whoops! Now the CIA believes that.”  “So there was a constant change in what the story was, right?” he posits. “Well, that wasn’t misinformation, was it?”  David describes the freedom convoy that descended on Ottawa — in response to the quarantines and vaccine mandates — as an emerging public that the CBC didn’t want to hear... Another example, David cites, is NDP MP Leah Gazan’s private member’s bill proposing to outlaw residential school denialism in Canada. “We have a bill in Parliament right now,” David laments, “outlawing a perfectly reasonable view of residential schools.” And, he adds, we have a disgraceful situation in Quesnel B.C., “where the mayor was attacked by his council because his wife read and distributed a book that nobody has read, but if anybody did read it, it would simply be an alternative narrative of residential schooling.” “I don’t think you can have history unless you are allowed to have competing views of history, and not a compulsory narrative,” David asserts. “So if our history is composed entirely of compulsory narratives, and the CBC is full of these compulsory narratives, these orthodoxies that cannot be questioned, then we have effectively no history. It’s too dangerous.” David’s recommendation? “The CBC needs people who are sufficiently engaged — intellectually, spiritually, culturally — that they can face these questions. That don’t just turtle.”... there needs to be a place — withdrawn from immediate political urgencies — where we can think, because thinking is so hard to do.  The CBC could offer up that place, David dares to suggest; a public broadcaster could provide space to accommodate currently antagonistic standpoints.  To do so, David implores, CBC must recognize it has become a monoculture that actively excludes competing points of view and depresses intellectual inquiry."
We're still told that we were never told that the science was settled on covid.

Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast on X - "Wow what a piece of garbage the @CBCNews zero self reflection. Putting fear mongering narratives on Trump instead of asking - what keeps driving the political left to extreme acts of violence?"
Tristin Hopper on X - "I used to naively think it was just obtuseness. Now I know it's because of producers and writers behind the scenes who endorse the violence, want more of it and are willing to provide it cover."
On the Charlie Kirk assassination

The shocking story of a routine CBC hit-piece gone HORRIBLY WRONG - "Meet Jordan Tucker, a former CBC reporter. This is her own profile picture – note the pride progress CBC logo. It’s too perfect.  Last Spring, Tucker attempted to do what CBC does everyday: push a woke activist agenda and pretend it’s real journalism. Tucker interviewed Professor Frances Widdowson on April 1, 2024 for a hit piece. But what she didn’t expect is that Professor Widdowson RECORDED the conversation and posted it in its entirety on her Youtube in July 2025... I helped publish a book called Grave Error. It’s a collection of essays written by top university professors and journalists setting the historical record straight on Indian Residential Schools (IRS). The schools had their problems, no doubt. But the hysteria & accusations – that teachers & nuns were murdering children, secretly burying them in mass graves, committing genocide – is completely, patently false.  Grave Error addresses the media deception surrounding the May 2021 unverified claim that 215 unmarked graves were discovered in Kamloops, B.C., and the moral panic that followed.  It’s a sober analysis of the facts.  Grave Error was edited by Dr. C.P. Champion & Dr. Tom Flanagan. It quickly became a Canadian best-seller, selling tens of thousands of copies despite being completely ignored by the legacy media.  Libraries across the country had months-long waiting lists to read it.  The TRUTH was finally getting out there.  But not everyone was happy about it. Woke activists labeled the book “hate literature” & “Residential School denialism.”  The NDP then introduced a bill to make “denialism” a crime in Canada. In an interview, MP Leah Gazan specifically cited Grave Error and its authors as an example of so-called denialism.  To recap: the media perpetuated at best massive deception and at worst a total hoax about unmarked graves at residential schools.  Canadians now have to repeat the lie that we committed "genocide" and if we refuse, it's a hate crime.  Mao would be jealous of 2025 Canada.  In Maoist fashion, the city council in Quesnel, B.C. denounced Grave Error and censured the mayor – get this – because his wife read the book! The mayor was banned from visiting local Reserves.  (This is how the CBC covered it at the time)  Against this backdrop, Grave Error author Frances Widdowson was invited into the hornets nest to speak to Quesnel council. CBC assigned Jordan Tucker to interview her for a segment.  But as we all know, the CBC doesn’t do journalism. It is an unabashed propaganda machine.
Tucker personifies everything wrong with the woke left and with the modern CBC. The tape shows a whiney, thin-skinned, lazy and incompetent journalist who cannot hold a conversation, let alone conduct an interview or engage in thoughtful debate.  She is intellectually out-matched and woefully unprepared.  Even after it becomes very evident that Professor Widdowson is calm, collected, rational and right, Jordan Tucker continues to act self-righteous, indignant to any pushback and under the belief she is morally superior.  She obviously didn't think the full interview would ever see the light of day...
So let’s go through it.  Jordan Tucker implies and then insists that Frances is being paid or somehow profiting off her City Council appearance in Quesnel. She has zero evidence, so it’s a pure fishing expedition, which Frances easily dismisses.  Next, without a hint of irony, she asks Frances why people would exaggerate claims of abuse at IRS. The answer is obvious. Money.  Kamloops has received at least $7 million since they made these accusations. Widdowson says that the feds have spent a quarter of a billion dollars on related initiatives since the May 2021 announcement of unmarked graves.  Caught flat-footed, Tucker responds defiantly: “There's a lot of other ways to get $7 million.” In one breath CBC accuses Frances of profiting – what, by making a few bucks per book sold? – and in the next breath, they dismiss the idea that a Band could be financially motivated by $7 million, all while taking $1.6B from Canadian taxpayers.  The levels of hypocrisy are truly impressive.  Next, Jordan Tucker makes an absurd claim that 6,000 bodies have been found at IRS.  Pardon?  Perhaps that's how many alleged soil disturbances have been picked up using Ground Penetrating Radar. But those are unproved allegations.  The truth is that zero, yes ZERO bodies have been found... A journalist should know the difference between an allegation and real a crime. But, at the CBC, they don't.  Recall that CBC's chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton made the EXACT same embarrassing mistake on live television during the Federal Leader's debate. The state broadcaster even issued a rare correction. It's also odd that Tucker cited the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report as her source, since that report came out in 2015 – a good SIX YEARS before the 215 unmarked graves story in Kamloops. Also, the TRC report claims 3,200 children died in IRS from 1867 to 2000.  The CBC's incompetency knows no bounds.  Here is where things get really good.  Frances Widdowson, clearly exasperated by Jordan Tucker's ignorance and arrogance, tells her the truth.  “You are a seriously incompetent journalist”  100% That's when Jordan Tucker basically bursts into tears and ends the interview...
if you're curious, THIS is how the same interview was presented to CBC's listening audience. This is not journalism. It’s pure deception and hard woke activism.  This is exactly why we MUST REPLACE the CBC. They are a corrosive institution that peddle harmful lies and are tearing our country apart."

Peter Menzies on X - "So, within two weeks of a budget giving the CBC $150 million and diddly to anyone else, Bell cuts 40 journos on top of the 87 TVA cut. Pretty soon, CBC will be all that’s left."
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X - "Very soon there will be only two kinds of journalists in Canada: Those paid by the government. And those banned by the government."

Jasmin Laine on X - "In 2 minutes, CBC insults Pierre Poilievre, mocks him, defends Carney’s cabinet picks and reminds us how unbiased they are. Weasels… but they did just get a big payday from the Liberals, so get ready for even more of this!"