For too many around the world, Israel’s war with Hamas is viewed through a lens of moral simplicity: Enough. End the fighting. Bring relief to the people of Gaza. Accept a ceasefire — any ceasefire. Do the “right” thing.
Forget that 50 hostages remain in Gaza. Forget that Hamas vows to repeat October 7. Forget that this week marks one year since six hostages were murdered in captivity — killed in cold blood after yet another round of failed negotiations.
Recently, stories of radicalization and improper behaviour among military personnel have tainted the Canadian Forces’ public image. How can we expect people to sign up in defence of their country when this is what they see?
Yet even before these scandals, recruitment efforts generally have been flatlining. We need to find the right approach to attract young people looking for meaningful challenges.
I doubt pics of “Bad Ass” women soldiers is the right fix for what ails the CAF.
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Kylan Darnell can’t walk out of her sorority house without being stopped by fans. She can’t actually walk out of any house without it happening.
Darnell, 21, is the standard bearer for a lucrative new kind of fame. She is a third-year student at the University of Alabama, a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and the “Queen of RushTok”, the frenzied corner of TikTok which charts the trials of aspiring sorority girls during their August recruitment, or “rush week” and the campus lives that they go on to lead.
“I love my sorority,” said Darnell. “I’ve definitely met my bridesmaids. And it’s also given me a career.”
Parliament should allow free debate on immigration quotas without dismissing calls for reductions as racist, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute said Thursday.
The Ottawa think tank warned that Canada’s reluctance to face blunt disagreements on immigration has left the country “weakened to the point of serious decline.”
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I don't know how police officers deal with them every day. pic.twitter.com/Mho9mAldi4
— Libs Hate Us (@LibsHateUs) August 21, 2025
Ottawa’s annual Pride parade was cancelled on Sunday after it was halted by a local pro-Palestinian advocacy group that blocked the road and demanded to negotiate with organizers.
The group Queers for Palestine — Ottawa (Q4P) halted the parade “with the permission” of the grand marshal, the organization said in a press release issued Sunday afternoon just as the parade was stopped.
“This is what a village looks like!” protesters chanted from Parliament Hill, referencing the “We are a village” theme that Capital Pride was using for 2025.
Recently in the Winnipeg Sun, guest columnist Lawrence Pinsky KC described a scene that should never occur in a Canadian city. At Folklorama’s Israel Pavilion, Shalom Square, held at the Jewish Community Centre, a mob harassed Jewish community members and their guests. They shouted vile sexualized slurs at women and girls, screamed threats like “Hamas is coming for you,” and played recordings of gunshots and screaming children.
My black fatigue can't be any worse. pic.twitter.com/n4k1QDb8PH
— Libs Hate Us (@LibsHateUs) August 24, 2025
A silent recession has arrived for recent college graduates. Over the past two years, unemployment among 22‑to-27‑year‑olds with bachelor’s degrees has climbed to levels seen during economic downturns. A college diploma used to be an ironclad job guarantee. Today it seems more like a lottery ticket with shrinking odds.
This plunge is just the beginning. As generative artificial intelligence improves, entry-level and service sector jobs may increasingly disappear, threatening not just workers but also the cities where they live. Recent research by the Brookings Institution shows how San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., New York and Washington could soon face significant job disruption, thanks to the rise of A.I. In San Jose, a striking 43 percent of workers could see A.I. transform half or more of their tasks.
You don’t have to look far to realize something is deeply wrong in America. Our shelves are lined with food and products that 30 other countries have outright banned. Our children are overweight, medicated, emotionally dysregulated, and chronically ill. Our cancer rates are astronomical. And our government agencies—tasked with protecting public health—are in on it.
Let’s stop pretending this is accidental. It’s not.
Update: SpaceX Starship’s 10th test flight postponed over ‘issue’ after 3 previous failures
Starship Flight 10 Live https://t.co/p1q9Zf1Zjv
— Matt Simpson (@mattinator66) August 24, 2025
h/t PA Cat
Finally re-elected, the Tory leader should prioritize holding the underperforming Liberal government to account over pandering to his base.
He’s back.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is done serving his time in the sin bin and is once again a Member of Parliament, albeit this time in Battle River-Crowfoot instead of Carleton. Upon first glance, not much appears to have changed.
Always punchy, Poilievre has resumed his aggressive tone on social media, chucking up a series of posts attacking Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government on issues like crime, firearms, foreign investment, Chinese ferry contracts, food prices, and a B.C. nurse who was fined an outrageous $93,000 by the province’s College of Nurses and Midwives over her views on gender, with the last issue also earning some retweets of comments made by his caucus colleagues.
It’s been a rough few years for deranged left-wing hacks masquerading as “mainstream” or even “relatively sane liberal” journalists. In an effort to recapture a modicum of respectability, failing media outlets such as CNN and MSNBC have sought to purge their ranks of mindless partisans who seem incapable of forming an original thought that doesn’t involve Donald Trump and the word “fascist.” Time will tell if cutting these freaks loose will be enough to save these floundering companies, but in the meantime, the fired journalists keep reminding us why they never deserved our respect.
Here’s a staggering statistic for you: Nearly 40 per cent of the federal civil service (147,000 of 373,000 federal bureaucrats) made in excess of $100,000 in 2024. The average Canadian made just shy of $68,000.
And that sum doesn’t include the bureaucrats’ retroactive pay raises paid out last year. Nor does it include their very expensive perks or the generous contributions Ottawa makes to its workers’ lavish pensions.
Put aside the political rhetoric coming from Democrats in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles about “authoritarian rule,” “abuse of power,” or “presidential overreach.” What upsets the Democrats far more than their hysterical hyperbole would suggest is that the deployment of National Guard troops and federalizing law enforcement exposes the utter and abject failure of the governments in large American cities to fulfill their basic function of protecting their citizens.
