Walmart is getting ready for Truth & Reconciliation Day (Sept 30) — which now recognizes that residential-school kids did come home and weren’t ever missing. pic.twitter.com/J4apgBKY1r
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) August 14, 2025
h/t Mauser
Author: Blazingcatfur
German Progressives Go After AfD Again
Activists and journalists will debate how to “fight the far right” in a government-backed cultural event.
At a time when Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has emerged as the most popular political force in the country, overtaking even the traditional parties that have governed for decades, Germany’s state apparatus—together with allied cultural and media organisations—is intensifying efforts to isolate and discredit it.
A Visit With Occam’s Razor
This is the Live Feed – Rumble Link
New West Bank settlement will ‘bury idea of Palestinian state’
Israel has announced it will build an enormous settlement in the West Bank to effectively “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”.
About 3,300 homes would built between Jerusalem and the Jordan border under the plans announced on Thursday, in direct response to British and French plans to recognise an independent Palestine.
Critics fear the “E1” project will effectively cut the West Bank in two, preventing a contiguous body of land that could form the basis of a viable Palestinian state.
Poilievre launches campaign to stop Carney’s gas car ban
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is launching a national campaign to stop what he calls Prime Minister Mark Carney’s law to end gas and diesel powered cars in Canada, warning it will drive up costs and end rural life.
Speaking at a Prairie farm today, Poilievre said Conservatives will table motions in Parliament, stage events at dealerships, pressure Liberal MPs in their ridings, and circulate petitions.
What does Putin want out of the Alaska summit with Trump?
President Putin’s talks in Alaska with President Trump on Friday will be his seventh US-Russia summit meeting since he came to power 25 years ago. It will, however, be the first to take place during a full-scale Russian invasion of a European country.
Trump has already had at least six telephone conversations with Putin since he returned to the White House in January. Critics have asked why the Russian leader is being rewarded with a summit on US soil while his forces are attacking Ukraine.
However, in Kyiv, Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Zelensky, said that face-to-face talks with Putin would help Trump grasp the depths of the Russian leader’s irrationality and his desire to keep fighting, despite massive losses of his own troops.
Families whose ancestors gave up Indigenous status sue to have rights restored
VANCOUVER — A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Federal Court says the Canadian government wrongfully denies people status under the country’s Indian Act if their ancestors “voluntarily” gave up Indigenous status under laws that predate Confederation.
Plaintiffs Charles Wesley, Christopher Wesley, Sharon Nicholas and Nicole Nicholas filed a statement of claim in Vancouver this month seeking damages from the federal government for “being deprived of the benefits” of status under the act.
It’s a fantasy to think the USMCA will survive
As the Carney government tries to sort out Canada’s relationship with the Trump administration, almost nothing’s been disclosed about the scope, content, timing or ultimate objectives of these talks, even though their outcome – whether success or failure – will be hugely significant for the country.
What we got from Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. relations, as he left Washington last week was that Canada had “a better understanding of the American concerns in the trading relationship…. So we’re prepared to stick around and do the work needed.”
Lots of poverty ahead, just what Carney and his cronies want.
Kidnap, Rape, Convert to Islam, and Marry Underage Christian Girls – Welcome to Pakistan.
The harrowing cases of Mahak Siddique and Alshaba Adnan expose a deeply disturbing pattern of violence, exploitation, and systemic failure in addressing crimes against underage girls from minority communities in Pakistan. Babar son of Mukhtar, operating under aliases such as Ghulam Rasool and Muhammad Babar Ali, emerges as a serial predator who manipulates religious institutions to perpetrate kidnapping, forced conversion, rape, and child marriage. These acts, committed with impunity and aided by accomplices including Muhammad Aftab, Shan Masih, and Khurram Masih, reveal a chilling disregard for human dignity and legal accountability.
The tyranny of the eco-aristocracy
Environmentalism is the ultimate ‘luxury belief’.
It’s not becoming to boast, but I was an extremely early sceptic when it comes to matters ecological. In 1990, I wrote a short play – starring Lesley Manville, who has since risen to stellar heights – for the Royal Court in London. It made a frankly biased, unreasonable, anti-green argument which I have had no reason whatsoever to regret ever since. If anything, I feel even more strongly that environmentalism – which has now ‘grown’ to include those adolescent maniacs who chuck muck over masterpieces – is the ‘luxury belief’ to top them all.
GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s energy minister makes business case for natural gas
Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says he “knows there are buyers” for Canada’s liquified natural gas (LNG) globally, quite the change in emphasis from former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s argument there was no business case for such projects.
Trudeau is a monster, putting his ego before people. Carney is no different an eco-nut.
Scrooge to be portrayed as a ‘British Indian who hates refugees’ in new version of A Christmas Carol
A Bollywood-inspired adaptation of A Christmas Carol will star a version of Ebenezer Scrooge who ‘despises refugees’, the director has revealed.
The musical, which is directed by Gurinder Chadha and based on the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, will feature a ‘British-Indian’ man named Sood as the lead character.
He is described as a wealthy man who hates poor people and refugees on the basis they ‘haven’t worked as hard as him to get where he is’.
More Bad Ads on TV and Cable – A Critique
I received such an outpouring of comments to my recent bad T.V. and cable ads article that I thought I’d give this another shot.
Currently, there are so many bad ads I had no problem finding truly dreadful examples.
First, let’s check out an ad campaign that worked, American Eagle’s ads featuring Sydney Sweeney, a popular young Hollywood actress.
Captain Rolfe Monteith, Canadian teenage volunteer who survived the Arctic convoys
Captain Rolfe Monteith, of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has died aged 101, was one of the teenage Dominion volunteers who crossed the Atlantic to serve in the Second World War, and one of the last survivors of the wartime Arctic convoys.
Inspired by family holidays in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, young Monteith was eager to go to sea. In 1941, aged 17, he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy and soon found himself on his first Atlantic crossing – not yet in uniform – aboard the armed merchant cruiser Laconia with convoy HX 147. The voyage was perilous, passing through wreckage from convoy SC 42, which had recently been mauled by German U-boats off Greenland.
Canadians are torn about whether to put their elbows up or down in U.S. trade war: poll
OTTAWA — Canadians are split on whether Canada should go into trade negotiations with the U.S. with elbows up or down when it comes to retaliatory tariffs, according to a new poll.
The Leger/Postmedia poll suggests that 45 per cent of Canadians still believe Canada’s position vis-à-vis U.S. President Donald Trump should be “elbows up.” That means that Canada should impose counter-tariffs on all new U.S. border levies, even if it risks further retaliation from the Trump administration.
WATCH:
President Trump just made a BOLD statement:
"Canada does what we tell them to do." pic.twitter.com/jrNgWClmKF
— TrendingPolitics.ca (@TrendPolCa) August 14, 2025
I’m not sure faith in Carney is justifiable.