It never fails to amaze me how many defensive gun uses never capture the attention of national media, no matter how compelling the circumstances might be. Take this recent incident out of Florida that I stumbled across, for example. An armed felon drags a woman at gunpoint into a grocery store, only to be confronted and ultimately disarmed by an employee who had a gun of her own.
Protesters insist they do not intend to disrupt, as they block a lane of traffic in front of a church wedding.
The limousine waits with its turn signal on.
Oct 12, 2025#Toronto #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/Nymk6c2Mp4
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) October 12, 2025
Canada’s problems resemble those of countries such as Australia or Germany, and appear insoluble without major upheaval.
Canada should be one of the world’s best countries to live in, and for many people it once was. Possessing vast natural resources and reserves of energy (exceeding those of the U.S. on a per capita basis), endless natural space (as the world’s second-largest country), adequate infrastructure, no enemies, a parliamentary democracy, and an educated population, it should face no problems beyond the winters.
But a decade under the former Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has reduced a first-world country to the level of a failing, although not yet a failed, state. The strains of O Canada are giving way to cries of Woe Canada, while the recent book by the journalist Tristin Hopper (Don’t be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All at Once) documents the national malaise with many examples of stagnation, incompetence, and folly. Epithets such as “a woke dystopia” and “the sick man of North America” are now heard. Where did it all go so wrong?
This is so damning.
Did you do it? Were you the person who took her feathers?
How dare you. pic.twitter.com/TPxNh2N1aL
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 12, 2025
Americans are far more likely than Canadians to believe “religion has a positive influence on societal values,” according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies, found just over a third (34 per cent) of Canadians agreed with the statement, compared to 53 per cent of Americans.
It has long been acceptable to discriminate against Christians in Canada so I am not surprised.
White men will get reparations. MAGA women should be appalled.
Does this make you mad? pic.twitter.com/Heng0Z1nFy
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 12, 2025
The increase in antisemitism has been alarming. Now that peace appears to be on the horizon it needs to be studied for what it really is. It has revealed a familiar but poorly understood aspect of human behavior. It is not so much a matter of hatred and evil as you might think. It’s a lot more complicated. It’s ugly, sure enough but so many of the mob seem to be nice normal people in other ways. Nice normal people, though, often are the ones that do the worst things. Certainly, they have been inflamed and insensate – that is what a mob is. But a mob is nothing without the participation of the people who will regret it later.
ABOARD THE MV NUNALIK—Greenland lurked in the distance as Capt. Donald Gibson rushed to the bridge of his cargo ship amid a sudden Arctic storm. Snow lashed against the pilothouse windows while he and his crew struggled to control the vessel and steer clear of icebergs.
Down in the ship’s hold was construction material needed to upgrade the northernmost military outpost, a Canadian spy station providing crucial intelligence on Russia’s military.
After nine days traversing 2,500 nautical miles, pitching on swells from Hurricane Erin, the Canadian-flagged Nunalik had reached its destination—30 minutes late. It was Friday, and dockworkers in the port of the U.S.’s Pituffik Space Base had already gone home for the August weekend. The delivery would have to wait.
From Taybe to Tucker Carlson, Palestinians are trying to drive a wedge between the Christian world and Israel, while Israel’s government appears to be asleep on guard duty.
In recent months, we have witnessed a well-timed campaign led by the Palestinian Authority, civil society organizations and anti-Israel Christian elements – some of them declared anti-Semitic – to undermine the relations between the State of Israel and Christian communities around the world, especially evangelical and pro-Israel Christians whose long-standing support for Israel is not self-evident.
Canada isn’t the strong democracy we like to believe. Behind the peaceful elections and parliamentary rituals lies a system where power is concentrated in the hands of one person: the prime minister.
Since Confederation, Canada has avoided coups and revolutions. Governments have changed hands through orderly elections, a record many countries envy. On the surface, it looks like a stable democracy. But look closer, and the cracks show.
Prince Andrew allegedly told convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “we are in this together” the day after the picture of him with Virginia Giuffre was published.
The Duke of York is reported to have told the late Epstein he was “concerned” for him after the revelations in the media in February 2011 and added: “We’ll play some more soon!”
It appears to contradict a claim he made on BBC’s Newsnight in November 2019, where he told Emily Maitlis he “never had any contact” with Epstein after the pair were pictured walking together in New York’s Central Park in December 2010.
One of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence companies is knocking on Canada’s door, potentially armed with an offer that — under normal circumstances — would be hard to refuse.
OpenAI is building a global network of data centres to store the massive amounts of information collected by its services, including ChatGPT — and Canada’s cheap energy could help with that.
The company believes AI and its associated infrastructure will be the base of future economic development, and it says it wants to help spread what it calls “democratic AI.” It recently launched “OpenAI for countries” to pounce on the opportunity.
We could power AI by putting our millions of unneeded foreign workers on treadmills.
How do they afford it? How do Antifa militants on the streets of Portland afford all the stuff that allows them to spend hours a day in waiting till the night so they can make life a living hell for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers trying to come in or go out of the driveway? And why does the city protect them?
WINNIPEG – Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking the prime minister to scrap Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork.
Kinew says in a letter to Mark Carney on Saturday that while he believes protecting Canada’s vehicle industry is important, he says the country’s approach “has created a two-front trade war that disproportionally affects Western Canada.”
The premier says in the letter that China’s tariffs — widely seen as a response to Canada imposing the electric vehicle levy — have already caused a sharp drop in canola prices and that one vertically integrated pork producer in Manitoba is reporting a $19 million negative impact on an annual basis.
Is Carney leaning east to China?
Taiwan worried Canada may abandon trade agreement – Carney government signals reluctance to honor economic framework deal with Taipei
UPDATE! Is Mr FAFO Dead!
@fancypants_s https://t.co/2WDWN3PSKE
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 12, 2025
Of All the People to Survive in Gaza, You Knew Mr FAFO Had to Be One of Them
Imagine my surprise when the news of the signed Gaza peace agreement hit X, and it wasn’t two hours later that joyful videos of Palestinians celebrating the news flooded in.
Hey, it’s Mr. Fafo! He’s alive! @fancypants_s https://t.co/kxNCPrHn9p
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 10, 2025
