‘Queering outdoor education’: BC teachers encouraged to view nature as LGBT propaganda

British Columbia’s public school teacher’s union has proposed a solution to those who object to radical sex education curriculum: just make everything queer – including the outdoors.

Tristin Hopper of the National Post broke the story this week in his Canadian politics newsletter, “First Reading.” A BC Teachers’ Federation publication, Teacher Magazine, featured an article by Jody Polukoshko titled, “Queering outdoors education.” Polukoshko is “a Vancouver teacher and past president of the Vancouver Elementary and Adult Educator’s Society.”

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Why the rich and powerful couldn’t say no to Epstein

It was one of the big set-pieces in Washington in 2019.

All eyes were on Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who was testifying to a US House of Representatives committee about his former boss.

A Democratic member of the committee, Stacey Plaskett, was preparing to question Cohen and was seen on camera texting someone on her phone.

This week, the public found out the identity of the other person in that exchange – the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Why Doug Ford wants Mark Carney to show the west ‘some love’

This is a love story.

In May, Ontario Premier Doug Ford implored his ally, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to show the west “some love.”

Ford reasoned that, after a decade of prime minister Justin Trudeau’s fractious relations with some western provinces over environmental and energy policies, it was time for a change in tone from Ottawa.


Wake me when the pipelines are built.

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Copper Thieves Are Wreaking Havoc Across America

LOS ANGELES—Rahdeese Alcutt, an AT&T investigator, once managed line repairs for the telecommunications company in this sprawling city. Now, he is the copper police.

Thieves have wreaked havoc in the area, prying open manholes, chipping away at asphalt and climbing trees and poles to cut and steal—and then resell—copper wires that transmit electrical signals for phone and internet lines.

Alcutt patrols the streets and relies on sensors and geotrackers to get alerts when the lines are being tampered with or removed. Information about some thefts is reported to an AT&T security hotline. He has even received tips from local gang members who are tired of their internet going out.

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Environment minister insists Ottawa not rolling back climate policy in wake of Alberta MOU

Following the historic signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Ottawa and Alberta to lay the groundwork for a new oil pipeline — and the resignation of longtime cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault over the issue — Environment and Climate and Change Minister Julie Dabrusin insists the federal government is not rolling back its climate policy.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith committed to a series of measures aimed at strengthening cooperation on major projects and outlining the conditions that need to be met before a new oil pipeline to the Pacific to proceed.

Just hours later, Guilbeault — who served as environment minister for nearly four years under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, resigned from the prime minister’s cabinet declaring his strong opposition to the MOU.

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Afghan “refugee” apprehended pre-jihad

Afghan national admitted via Operation Allies Welcome charged with making terroristic threat, DHS says

Mohammad Dawood Alokozay Muslim Terrorist

An Afghan national was arrested this week after posting a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area in Texas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News.

Court records show that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged at the state level with making a terroristic threat.

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Danielle Smith’s oil deal with Mark Carney was supposed to quiet Alberta’s separatists. Too bad they didn’t get the message

The long-awaited agreement inked between the federal government and Alberta this week was expected to clear the path for a new oil pipeline, renew focus on carbon capture and, it was hoped, cool the jets of the province’s increasingly vocal separatists, eager to chart the prairie province’s path out of confederation.

Too bad the separatists themselves didn’t get the message.

“This is the complete opposite. This just got everyone angrier,” says Mitch Sylvestre, head of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), one of a handful of groups pursuing independence and the backers of a pro-separation referendum question that is currently before the courts.

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Fall of Zelensky’s top aide – reboot for Kyiv or costly shake-up?

Andriy Yermak was a constant, looming presence in Ukraine’s government – a seemingly immovable figure on the political stage.

Despite his towering frame, you might not always have spotted him. Yet, wherever President Volodymyr Zelensky was, Yermak was often not far away.

As his chief of staff, Yermak wielded enormous power at the top of government and was even trusted to negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf at peace talks with the US.

But as his influence grew, so did public resentment of the power this unelected official held. His political career came to an abrupt end on Friday, hours after anti-corruption investigators raided his home in Kyiv.

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Canada Is a Magnet for Hamas Members and Ottawa Refuses to Act

Last week, a Global News investigation uncovered that roughly 450 individuals with various roles inside Hamas have ties to Canada. These include Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and others with relatives or associates here. CSIS did not confirm if these individuals are currently under scrutiny. Global reported the agency “was investigating Canadians in Middle East terror groups, but declined to elaborate.”

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moves to ‘cut off’ illegal migrants from tax benefits, cross-border money transfers: ‘No place for you in our financial system’

The Trump administration is working toward cutting illegal migrants off from federal tax benefits and money transfer services, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday.

“At [President Trump’s] direction, we are working to cut off federal benefits to illegal aliens and preserve them for U.S. citizens,” Bessent wrote on X.

As part of the effort, the Treasury Department will propose new regulations “clarifying that the refunded portions of certain individual income tax benefits are no longer available to illegal and other non-qualified aliens, covering the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Additional Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, and the Saver’s Match Credit,” according to the the Trump administration official.

Imagine a Canadian pol standing up for Canada like the Trump admin does for America. It just doesn’t happen.

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Steven Guilbeault was never going to last in Mark Carney’s cabinet

The news that Steven Guilbeault quit Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet shouldn’t shock anyone who has followed the Quebec environmentalist’s long, combustible relationship with realpolitik. If anything, the only surprise is that the ending wasn’t scripted months ago.

During the last federal campaign, I noticed two posters standing only a few feet apart in the Montreal riding of Laurier–Sainte-Marie. One belonged to Guilbeault. The other to the local Green Party hopeful, Dylan Perceval-Maxwell. His sign carried an unusual footnote: “P.S. Voting for Steven Guilbeault is also voting green.”

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