Singer Cyndi Lauper once encouraged her fans to not “be afraid” to let their “true colors” shine. Since the terrible assassination of conservative thought leader Charlie Kirk, America’s propaganda media have taken that advice to heart.
Case in point: former NFL player and now-CBS Mornings co-host Nate Burleson, who couldn’t help but gaslight Republicans about the issue of “political violence” during a Thursday interview with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
It was grimly fitting that Charlie Kirk was slain on a college campus—source of the “hate speech equals violence” ethic that demonizes opponents and demands that they be silenced.
Not even Utah Valley University is immune.
On August 31, 2025, a Change.org petition titled “Stop Charlie Kirk From Spreading Hate on Utah Campuses” started circulating. Motivated by Kirk’s upcoming appearances at Utah Valley University and Utah State University, the petition embraced the equations favored by student narcissists everywhere when those students seek to censor and exclude …
Between Russia’s military buildup in the North and China’s growing presence in the Bering Strait near Alaska, it’s no surprise Canadians in the three territories are increasingly concerned about Arctic security. But in a striking twist, a new survey found more Northerners named the United States as the most serious threat to the Canadian Arctic, on par with Russia.
Thirty-seven per cent of respondents identified the U.S. as the top threat, compared with 35 per cent who said Russia, and 17 per cent who chose China.
With the advent of the Trump Administration, wokeness in general and DEI in particular are being eradicated, not only in the federal government but in schools and universities across the country. Seeing the trend, and the damage to profitability, businesses across the nation are also eliminating policies and personnel that less than a year ago were said to be essential elements to business success and a just society. It turns out they weren’t all that essential after all.
It is the blackest irony, like a sick joke by the universe, that Charlie Kirk was gunned down as he discussed gun violence. That word – ‘violence’ – was the last he ever uttered. Milliseconds later, violence of the gravest kind was visited on him. Actually, we need to be more specific: Kirk was discussing trans violence in the seconds before his death. He was pushing back against one of his student interlocutors who seemed to downplay the phenomenon of trans mass shootings. The student badgered Kirk to say how many such shootings there have been. ‘Too many’, Kirk replied. Seconds later, his carotid artery was severed and he was dead.
This Is Spinal Tap is now such a deserved comedy behemoth that it’s easy to forget how gradual its ascent to generally agreed greatness was. Only over the years did so many lines and scenes from a low-key 1984 mockumentary about a heavy-rock band (amps that ‘go to 11’, a tiny Stonehenge, a classically inspired piece called ‘Lick My Love Pump’) become part of our lives.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, by contrast, comes amid a loud fanfare – which may be part of the problem, because the result certainly doesn’t live up to expectations that are inevitably sky-high. Then again, the sad truth is that it mightn’t have lived up to lower ones either.
I honestly can’t remember if Kathy introduced me to Spinal Tap or not.
No matter we both loved the original and a quote or two became standard responses within our world’s language.
After spending most of last weekend in Calgary and having the privilege of speaking with scores of well-informed Albertans including a number of prominent political figures, I came away with an uneasy feeling that it is not generally recognized in Canada how politically vulnerable this country is and how vivid and well-founded are the public policy grievances of Alberta. Alberta was a conventional farming and ranching economy until the discovery of oil there in 1947. Today, mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for a quarter of Alberta’s GDP, and 70 per cent of exports, with ancillary benefits to the construction, manufacturing, transportation and other industries.
The term Islamophobia is often heard these days. It was coined by Muslims themselves, especially those who identify as liberal. By it they mean an irrational and extreme fear of Islam in Western societies. Many Muslims argue that this fear is the result of Jewish propaganda against them, once again framing it as a “Jewish conspiracy,” something they have made a habit of doing.
In a striking irony, George Abaraonye, the president-elect of the Oxford Union — the prestigious student debating society known for championing integrity, respect, and civil debate — has faced intense backlash and was reportedly asked to resign from his leadership position following the hateful comments he made about the fatal shooting of the prominent political influencer Charlie Kirk. Shortly after Kirk was murdered by a sniper on a Utah college campus, Abaraonye posted celebratory messages on social media, including “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f****** go” and “Charlie Kirk got shot loool”
Premier Wab Kinew announced Friday that Manitoba will spend $20 million to help build a permanent home for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at the University of Manitoba.
Kinew, who is also minister responsible for indigenous reconciliation, said the centre will provide a place for Manitobans to honour survivors of residential schools and support ongoing healing.
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One of the weirder aspects of the Justin Trudeau-Pierre Poilievre dynamic that dominated the previous Parliament is that a pair of adversaries who looked like opposites in every way were in fact mirror images.
Political lifers of a sort; charismatic; leaders of a movement version of their parties in a moment that sang out for it; susceptible to hubris and insularity that could feed bad political judgment; prone to dividing the world into people who agree with them and people who are wrong and bad.
Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.
Within 24 hours of Charlie Kirk’s killing, an assistant dean at a Tennessee college, a communications staffer for an NFL team, a Next Door employee in Milwaukee, and the co-owner of a Cincinnati barbecue restaurant were fired after posting about it.
They had all used language or memes their employers deemed offensive or insensitive about the 31-year-old conservative firebrand. Kirk evoked strong feelings along party lines, and the fatal shooting in Utah on Wednesday unleashed parallel outpourings: On the right, there were mostly mournful expressions and demands for retribution; on the left, there was mostly condemnation of political violence and suggestions that he had it coming.
The @Panthers are a sh*t organization and should be boycotted. Their communications coordinator, Charlie Rock, mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk. While he's been fired, owner David Tepper can't hire good people on or off the field. pic.twitter.com/h55x4tSguv
— Carolina Opinion (@CarolinaOpinion) September 11, 2025
OTTAWA — Mark Carney is not Justin Trudeau.
He’s also not Pierre Poilievre.
But it’s the prime minister’s migration of Trudeau’s centre-left Liberal party to the political centre — and beyond — that delivers the Conservative leader his primary challenge as he enters a new parliamentary session, armed with a domestic agenda his party insists it was right to focus on all along.
This calm, rational woman is exploding with anger over the fact that conservatives are mentally ill people who are disgusting and hateful. pic.twitter.com/UvBvgOzDpN
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) September 13, 2025
When Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his government’s first five “nation-building” projects this week, the focus was on scale and ambition. The LNG expansion in Kitimat, a small modular reactor at Darlington, the Contrecoeur container terminal in Montreal, and critical mineral developments in British Columbia and Saskatchewan demonstrate that Ottawa is ready to fast-track major projects that strengthen the country’s competitiveness. Energy, infrastructure, and mining are the building blocks of growth, and Carney is signalling he intends to put them at the centre of his economic strategy.
