The vast majority of Canadians say their high tax bill is eroding their quality of life, according to a new Montreal Economic Institute-Ipsos poll. Fully two-thirds (67%) believe they pay too much income tax, while nearly half say they’re getting poor value in return. Clearly, Ottawa’s fiscal path is unacceptable to most of us.
It’s a billion-dollar industry, illegal and controlled by Chinese mafia networks in quiet rural and suburban neighborhoods across America. If that weren’t concerning enough, it also involves drugs, money laundering, illegal immigration, slave labor, and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) extensive influence in the American heartland. It includes illegal marijuana cultivation in states where the drug has been legalized, and a major FBI bust of a grow house network in New England has shocked the nation with details of the massive scale of marijuana production used to generate profits routed back to China.
The nomination of the radical leftist Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, arguably the capital of global capitalism, is a flashing beacon of the Democrats’ disorder since the election. Mamdani (pictured above) is a self-confessed socialist, and an objectively antisemitic hater of Israel, who wants to “globalize the intifada,” the word denoting Palestinian Arab terrorism and murder.
Imagine, in our incredibly polarized times, a truly unifying issue. A clear problem that everyone from the late great Ed Broadbent on the left to Pierre Poilievre on the right has agreed on. Imagine a policy proposal with 90 per cent popular support.
You can stop imagining. The issue is tax havens. This trick that allows Canada’s ultrarich and big corporations to stash wealth and avoid paying their fair share of tax is almost universally loathed. So after decades of public conversation, years of international negotiations and several pieces of new legislation, corporate Canada’s use of tax havens must be on the decline, right?
Not a chance. In fact, the problem just keeps getting worse.
The skies — and the government — could be hiding more than we know.
An interview with Diana Walsh Pasulka by Ross Douthat
… Douthat: How did that pull you into studying people who claim to have had a U.F.O.-style encounter?
Pasulka: When I was doing my work for the book about the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, that brought me to a lot of archives. I’d go into the archives — and archives are places where things aren’t digitized — and I started to look into how Catholics viewed how souls ascended into Heaven or Purgatory.
What I found was a lot of documents from 1,000 years ago, 800 or 500 years ago, about recorded sightings of aerial phenomena that Catholics had from Europe.
From an interview with Joe Rogan
In front of Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), the seat of the city’s mayor, nearly 400 men—many of them reportedly Syrian refugees—publicly celebrated the recent massacres committed against the Druze community in Syria. Eyewitnesses report that chants included “Out with the Druze!” and “Today we liberate Suweida, we will break the Druze,” along with calls for rape, murder, and ethnic cleansing. Although 65 police officers were present at the scene, they did not intervene.
Syrians celebrating the attacks against Druzes in Germany.
You see here a Syrian with a scissor in his hand and also a Iraqi with a Baathist flag at the beginning.
These "demonstrations" must be stopped by the German authorities. #syria #druzes #kurds #Suweida pic.twitter.com/Yr3EK3afQG
— Diar (@diar_srk) July 20, 2025
The bodies of Christians and Druze are lying in the streets of Sweida, Syria.
The silence from the world is morally reprehensible.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 24, 2025
A Saskatchewan judge has ruled that foreign nationals do not have a guaranteed right to immigrate to Canada, rejecting a legal challenge from an Indian lab technician whose provincial permit was revoked over suspected fraud.
Court of King’s Bench Justice Andrew Davis said in his ruling that immigration decisions fall within the discretion of government and that applicants have “few or no rights at stake.”
(Go Incognito)
The upcoming federal byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot has Jennifer Fossen in unknown territory.
Fossen is the president of the Camrose & District Chamber of Commerce. In the April federal election, it held a candidate forum. Only one nominee showed up to speak to a half empty room.
Three months later, Fossen is hosting another candidate forum, this time in a byelection race featuring Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and the response is, well, off the hook.
A lot of drivers in Los Angeles are now posting Google Maps and Waze screenshots of improved commutes as empirical evidence that deportations are working. No red lines at rush hour? Just thirty minutes from Calabasas to Century City?
Big if true. Is this effect real? How many deportations did it take to perform this miracle?
According to Google AI, quite a few: “In June 2025, immigration judges in Los Angeles County completed 126,930 deportation cases, resulting in 45,902 removal orders and 3,676 voluntary departure orders, according to TRAC Immigration. This means that approximately 39.1% of the completed cases in June resulted in deportation, either through removal or voluntary departure.”
DHS just posted this deportation video
Sound pic.twitter.com/cObBy5R4GW
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 24, 2025
VIA HotAir
PETERBOROUGH, ONT. — I’ve come to think that we Canadians are so polite that even though we now find ourselves living inside a real-life zombie movie, many seem afraid to raise a fuss for fear of offending the zombies.
“Sorry, sir, but I think you’re gnawing on my arm.”
You can understand Katy Perry’s epic fall when you consider she’s technically an astronaut, meant for space. pic.twitter.com/EiGluHYqVM
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 23, 2025
How many Canadians would leave if the door to the United States was held open by a President Donald Trump?
It’s not a rhetorical question anymore. The exodus has already begun. Families are quietly packing up and heading south. People who once wore the maple leaf with pride are asking themselves a painful but unavoidable question: Can I still raise my children here?
(Open incognito)
If you are an eco-sexual, please ask consent before hugging a tree. pic.twitter.com/MhGfUnp1JW
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 23, 2025
For filmmaker Scott Mann, three dozen F-bombs had the makings of a million-dollar headache.
When Mann wrapped “Fall,” a 2022 thriller about two women stranded atop a 2,000-foot radio tower, he figured the hard part was over. Shot in the Mojave Desert on a $3-million budget, the film didn’t have money to burn and seemed on course. But Lionsgate wanted a PG-13 rating and, with 35 expletives, “Fall” was headed for an R. Reshoots would cost more than $1 million — far beyond what the production could afford.
In the past, a director might have taken out a second mortgage or thrown themselves at the mercy of the ratings board. Mann instead turned to AI.
Kamala Harris is still stumbling through the political wilderness after her billion-dollar presidential flameout. With her 2028 White House ambitions rapidly evaporating, the focus is shifting to whether she’ll attempt a run for governor of California. But one man who knows her better than most is already throwing cold water on that idea.
