CBC executives advised journalists to avoid using the term “terrorist” in coverage of Palestinian violence, citing its political sensitivity, according to a newly released internal letter.
The 2023 letter by George Achi, then CBC’s director of journalism standards, explained the broadcaster’s reluctance to label attackers as terrorists.
h/t Mauser
An associate professor in Quebec is raising concerns to members of Parliament about the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) criteria used to determine who qualifies for research funding.
In a submission to the Commons science committee, Maryse Beaumier of the University of Quebec in Rimouski told MPs that DEI practices in federal research funding agencies are compromising funding decisions, which are being influenced by “criteria unrelated to science, excellence, and merit.”
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration is taking back control of Washington, D.C., by returning policing control to federal control after decades of city government failure.
Trump signed an executive order invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, which allows his administration to take control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. Along with invoking Section 740, he declared a pubic safety emergency in the nation’s capital. He also signed a memorandum to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directing him to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to help clean up crime in the city.
In January, Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s public inquiry on foreign interference recommended that politicians check to see whether the people they meet are listed on the foreign-agent registry.
Good idea. But there’s a hitch: There is still no registry.
And there won’t be one before the end of 2025.
A foreign agent registry will interfere with the grift.
In nature, systems operate in dynamic equilibrium. There is a flow and balance, a yin and yang to all parts. We see the same process in the evolution of societies as the wonders of modernity flow throughout the civilization.
What does this have to do with immigration? Everything. With modernity the old immigration thinking based on only more and more bodies is in direct conflict with present physical and technological reality.
President Donald Trump has just made clear that there will be consequences for those countries that now propose to recognize a “Palestinian” state. He has said that it will be difficult to make a deal on reducing tariffs on Canadian goods after Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada would at the UN General Assembly meeting in September announce its support for a “Palestinian” state.
Do you think Liz Truss is right about Carney? pic.twitter.com/3qVjKW7WtO
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) August 11, 2025
Russell T Davies, TV writer, famed homosexual and the smuggest of luvvies, has hit out at Donald Trump. Apparently the evil oaf in the White House is trashing gay rights. He ‘is literally out to get us’, Davies says, conjuring up an image of The Donald lurking around gay bars with a baseball bat. Apparently, Trump wants gay folk ‘gone, defunded, completely invisible’ and ideally ‘biologically altered to become as straight as him’. The funniest thing about this rant is not its fact-lite delirium but its gall. For everything Davies accuses Trump of doing to gays is actually being done by a movement Davies himself supports – the trans lobby.
On Thursday, a B.C. superior court judge gave at least half a billion dollars’ worth of government land in an 800-acre zone in southeast Richmond to the Cowichan First Nation, and lit a fuse that could lead to the obliteration of private landowners’ legal title in the area.
This case of “land back” in action (Cowichan Tribes v. Canada) casts a shadow over the country’s property system. It jeopardizes the default means of owning land in Canada — the estate in fee simple, where owners have exclusive rights to sell land — wherever Aboriginal title is found to exist.
The historic town of Jumilla was on the frontline of conflict between Muslims and Christians when the Moors were kicked out of southern Spain in the 13th century.
Muslim migrants may have felt more welcome in recent years when they have lived largely happily alongside their Spanish neighbours, and enjoyed freedom to worship.
But a decision by Jumilla town council to effectively ban religious events from being held at public sports’ facilities has threatened to ignite community tensions.
Donald Trump has issued a warning to the EU from Scotland: “On immigration, you better get your act together.” He added, “You’re not going to have Europe anymore.” The U.S. president has told European leaders to their faces what almost everyone already acknowledges in private. The Great Replacement was not a conspiracy theory. It is a sad reality. And perhaps Trump’s words are a good opportunity to go back to the beginning and, frankly, answer the big question that concerns all Europeans: When did we lose Europe?
The defamatory non-stop claim that Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, committed genocide against indigenous people, including Indian Residential School children, is the most scurrilous slur hurled against him by his critics. Accordingly, it is necessary to examine this claim using the gold standard for doing so: the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The Convention lists five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” any one of which constitutes genocide.
If vending machines could talk, the ones on Toronto’s Huntley Street might have some stories to tell.
Stories of despair and desperation, but also tales of discretion and self-dependence.
Located next to Casey House, a specialty hospital in Toronto that cares for people living with or at risk of HIV, the machines don’t distribute soft drinks, but instead provide supplies for people who use hard drugs, such as sterile needles, pipes and naloxone kits, as well as items for sexual health, such as condoms. They have seen high uptake, giving out 14,082 free kits since they were installed a year ago, but have also attracted controversy, with some local residents saying they’re contributing to social disorder, open drug use and violent behaviour in the area, near Jarvis and Bloor.
On Monday morning President Donald Trump officially invoked Home Rule and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in command of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.
… The no longer Great and no longer White North last week appointed a new president of the Public Health Agency of Canada. One of the direst threats to public health is childhood obesity. So, naturally, Ottawa chose Nancy Hamzawi (cq), an overweight, physically unfit Muslim woman, to lead the fight against it.
Literally everything about his life has gotten worse with Trump as president. pic.twitter.com/XZsXBYTaeu
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 9, 2025
