The first thing Lana Ponting remembers about the Allan Memorial Institute, a former psychiatric hospital in Montreal, Canada, is the smell – almost medicinal.
“I didn’t like the look of the place. It didn’t look like a hospital to me,” she told the BBC from her home in Manitoba.
That hospital – once the home of a Scottish shipping magnate – would be her home for a month in April 1958, after a judge ordered the then-16-year-old to undergo treatment for “disobedient” behaviour.
Attempts by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to play a key role in plans to form an “international security force” for Gaza pose a serious threat to US President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to disarm Hamas terrorists and augur poorly for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.
A key requirement of Trump’s 20-point plan to end the Gaza conflict is for Hamas to disarm and end its malign control of the Gaza Strip. Only then will negotiations begin on finding a lasting ceasefire agreement and rebuilding the enclave for an enduring peace after two years of brutal conflict.
When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the creation of his Major Projects Office (MPO) in August, he said it would unleash projects essential to the national economy “at speeds not seen in a generation.” The MPO would achieve this in two ways, by streamlining regulatory approval of new projects and unlocking private-sector investments in projects that would boost the country’s GDP and reduce our dependence on trade with the U.S.
Major American cities have been failing to make things better for residents after decades of Democratic rule. Rather than trying to vote for something different, those cities keep trying to elect even more left-wing Democrats. Now, they have turned to the failed ideology of socialism.
Katie Wilson, a self-described socialist, defeated incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell earlier this week. Wilson, like new New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, ran on affordability while supporting policies such as rent control, which creates housing shortages and thus increases housing costs. Like Mamdani, Wilson wants more taxes.
OTTAWA — A Canadian taxpayers’ watchdog is taking the federal government to court.
Announced Thursday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is launching a legal challenge meant to reveal the true cost of Canada’s gun buyback program — beginning with a request for the court to rule on a long-delayed access-to-information request.
At 7:00 AM Eastern Time on Saturday, MSNBC officially rebranded to MS Now, and before lunchtime it had already hurled its first Nazi comparison. The offending party was Prof. Jason Stanley, who told Ali Velshi that local police departments need to thwart ICE just like a local policeman thwarted the SA, or Brownshirts, during Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany.
Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada isn’t ruling out diversifying its fighter-jet purchases from more than one company in order to fulfil capability requirements.
“We’re grateful for any forthcoming offer that comes forward,” McGuinty told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday. “If anybody walks into Canada tomorrow from a sovereign wealth fund or with a joint venture in mind or is looking to set up a company in Canada to create 10, 20, 30, 40, 50,000 jobs, game on.”
What a load of BS.
All over the country, big-hearted Americans have generously given their tax dollars to ostensibly “help the homeless.” California, swimming in tax dollars, lost track of more than $24 billion of homeless spending. Spending on homelessness is being plundered. A new study confirms that at least some of those tax dollars are being hijacked and delivered to extremist political groups.
OTTAWA – As provincial governments wait to hear details of Ottawa’s new immigration targets, some are warning that coming cuts to the number of international student visas will put colleges and universities in a tighter financial bind.
“The federal government’s decision to unilaterally proceed with another change impacting international students continues to force post-secondary institutions in Ontario, and across the country, to make difficult decisions regarding their long-term success and sustainability,” Spenser Maki, communication adviser for Ontario Immigration Minister David Piccini, said in an emailed statement.
Boo Hoo.
British voters across the political spectrum are much more likely to hold strong views on immigration and even ethnic homogeneity than Americans, with 70 per cent of right-wing voters saying it’s bad for society “if white people decline as a share of the population”.
A Cold War KGB agent deemed “inadmissible to Canada on security grounds” has won another shot at staying in this country.
Vladimir Popov contacted the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) shortly after he arrived in Canada on a visitor’s visa in August 1995 to tell the Canuck spy agency he’d been a member of the Soviet Union’s Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) from 1972 until 1991, according to a new Federal Court review. The judge examined Canada’s public safety minister’s March 2024 decision that denied Popov ministerial relief that would allow him to stay in this country because the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) “was not satisfied that (his) presence in Canada would not be detrimental to the national interest.”
Why not? Not the worst we’ve let in.
Several Antifa members have been indicted and seven more charged in an attack on the immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4.
Immigration minister reiterates threat to cut social assistance for asylum seekers
Due to the “sustained arrival of a significant number of asylum seekers” in Quebec, Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge is reiterating his threat to cut social assistance if Ottawa does not reimburse him for the associated expenses.
He refused to say when he would carry out the threat.
“When people have their work permits and months go by, they remain on social assistance, they don’t have jobs, they have trouble putting down roots here, and ultimately, the Quebec government will significantly reduce social assistance so that these people are encouraged to go to another province,” the minister explained at a news conference on Thursday morning.
Rest assured Chow and her puppet masters are licking their chops at the prospect of acquiring more bargaining chips.
At least 120 people, mostly police officers, were injured as thousands marched through Mexico City to protest against the government of Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
The demonstration on Saturday was organised by members of generation Z, but ended with strong backing from older supporters of opposition parties.
“For many hours, this mobilisation proceeded and developed peacefully, until a group of hooded individuals began to commit acts of violence,” said Pablo Vázquez, the security chief for Mexico City.
Anti-Sheinbaum crowd in Mexico City used metal barricades to ram into the line of riot police that were holding shields. Much of the security wall protecting the National Palace has been torn down. pic.twitter.com/5XabOdqRXt
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 15, 2025
Female officer dragged to safety by Gen Z protesters after being ‘seriously injured’ in Mexico City riot
Total chaos in background as walls fall to protesters https://t.co/D0V6eE0o7I pic.twitter.com/3xprcJw6Cv
— RT (@RT_com) November 15, 2025
Whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget is passed by the House of Commons on Monday or defeated – which would prompt another election and yet another distraction from Canada’s affordability crisis – it won’t make any difference to financially struggling Canadians.
