Have you heard of the phrase ‘basic white girl’? No, nor me, until I ran a series of workshops to help teenagers prepare for, amongst other things, university interviews. A number of courses would be mentioned and immediately dismissed by some as ‘basic white girl’ courses. These included: psychology (80% female), English literature (70%) and sociology (77%). (‘Basic white girls,’ I learned, also love side-stripe baggy trousers, Taylor Swift and being pretty.) These subjects represent the extreme trend in universities becoming female dominated: 57% of UK undergraduates are now female. The balance of academic teaching staff at universities in 2022-23 is 51% male and 49% female, but the wider university staff is 55% female. Is it possible that what happened in primary schools, where only 15% of teachers are male and secondary schools (35%), will happen in higher education? Are boys already self-excluding from this female-dominated world?
Author: Blazingcatfur
A wedge has emerged on religious freedom. Pierre Poilievre is on the right side of it
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is making a strategic play for the all-important 905 region of Ontario by talking about … Quebec.
It’s subtle, and so far, it hasn’t resonated much beyond French-language media and ethnic media in Ontario. But a wedge is starting to emerge between Mr. Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney on laïcité: on Quebec’s Bill 21, and where the two parties stand on freedom of religious expression. And that might matter, if only as a matter of principle in some of the most diverse ridings in the country, where the Conservatives have to do well if they want a shot at forming government.
There is a strain of westerner who will defend to the death a Mohammedan’s right to slit your throat.
Palestinian-American billionaire quits Harvard post after lawsuit claims he helped build Hamas terror tunnels, rocket launch sites
WASHINGTON — A billionaire Palestinian-American developer accused by Oct. 7 victims’ families of “aiding and abetting” Hamas has resigned from his position on the dean’s council at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, The Post can reveal, with the school acknowledging the civil complaint “raises serious allegations.”
Bashar Masri stepped down from his post at the Ivy League university days after nearly 200 family members of victims of the deadly attack in Israel sued him in Washington, DC, federal court for allegedly aiding the construction of tunnels and rocket launchers at Gaza-based properties.
Trump is right to take on the free-trade fundamentalists
It’s easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s haphazard tariff barrage as silly and self-defeating, especially after so many days of global market turmoil. But critics among liberal Democrats and Republican free traders still need to address the overriding goal behind the seeming madness. The key strategic objective of Trump’s approach is simple: restoring American industrial power. Opponents of the US president ignore this at their peril.
Trump is organizing a global embargo of China. To get the elites to comply, he did the equivalent of saying, "Nice stock market you got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it." That's what Americans will remember: Unlike in 2008, Trump put us ahead of Wall Street. pic.twitter.com/aUkIkooghL
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 10, 2025
Carney announces reinvigorated gun grab program he says will combat crime, protect communities
Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced his party’s new crime reduction strategy on Thursday, pledging to tackle gun violence and disrupt criminal gangs through tougher measures and increased law enforcement resources.
Central to his proposal is a reinvigorated gun grab program targeting assault-style firearms, along with a broader plan to keep drugs and illegal weapons off Canadian streets.
WTF?
How to film a multi-million dollar movie scene with only 300 euros without even using CGI. pic.twitter.com/ssYsrtB1xR
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 10, 2025
John Ivison: Carney’s rosy energy promises meet the Liberals’ dismal record
I’m reading my six-year-old son Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, with all its delightful nonsense talk about shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.
But, in the words of the Red Queen, life through the looking glass is “as sensible as a dictionary” when ranked against what is happening in the real world.
You Gotta Admit That Trump Is Packing Some Major Cajones
Move over, “Big Balls.” That nickname rightfully belongs to President Donald J. Trump. He’s putting into practice the dictum of one of every real man’s favorite generals, George S. Patton: “Audacity, Audacity, Always Audacity” (to be fair, the pearl-handled butt-kicker may have lifted that bon mot from either Kaiser Wilhelm I or some Frenchman). Trump hasn’t panicked even as his bold plan to remake the economy using tariffs vapor-locked the Dow Jones. In fact, he savagely mocked the Panicans for their drawers-soiling sissiness as the stock market tumbled. And this is a guy with cause to panic – the worst-case scenario for you and me is that our 401(k)s shrink to the size of Robert Reich. If Trump loses, he ends up dead.
h/t DS
Liberal promises just keep happening to intersect with Carney’s business interests
After Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced that Canada’s future lay in “prefabricated and modular housing,” online critics noted that his former company just happens to be a major player in the modular housing industry.
This week, Carney provided more details of his plan to start a new government agency, Build Canada Homes, tasked with constructing 500,000 homes every year. As Carney told reporters on Tuesday, most of those homes would be prefabricated.
“Prefabricated and modular housing will catalyze a productivity boom,” he said.
h/t DS
WTF?
This is from a church in Germany. I wonder which version of the Bible they preach from? pic.twitter.com/uVAJH26NVY
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 10, 2025
Carney says he never heard of pro-Beijing group despite photos with its leaders
Liberal Leader Mark Carney says he had never heard of a pro-Beijing lobby group in the Toronto area despite photos on the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada’s website showing him with members of its leadership.
He was asked Thursday about Peter Yuen, the Liberal Party candidate for the Ontario riding of Markham-Unionville. Mr. Yuen was appointed to replace Paul Chiang, who stepped down after news broke that he had talked to reporters about how someone could take a Conservative candidate and human-rights advocate to the Chinese consulate to claim a bounty put on him by Hong Kong authorities.
PMO staff are in serious damage control mode, trying to kill this story before it gets traction.
A Prime Minister, indebted to the Chinese, supported by them, employing MPs ordering extraditions for them and caught lying for them, is too big to bury.pic.twitter.com/VjQmO45KB4
— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 10, 2025
According to the Pro-China group itself, Mark Carney held an “in-depth meeting” just before he became Prime Minister
Carney is blatantly lying here.#cdnpoli #Election2025 https://t.co/vc63p4QyTw pic.twitter.com/3cSDwOIFbu
— Chase Zaba (@ChaseZaba) April 10, 2025
WTF?
I didn’t know it was possible to be this woke.
Here queen, you dropped your liberal crown! pic.twitter.com/Eq868B1mtO
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 10, 2025
New footage shows ‘tic tac’ UFOs on military radar off California coast in 2023
New footage recorded by a military combat ship’s advanced radar system captured one of four observed “tic-tac”-shaped unidentified objects flying off the coast of California in 2023.
The radar footage was purportedly recorded by active duty Naval officers stationed on the USS Jackson on Feb. 15, 2023, off the coast of San Diego, Calif., who also witnessed one of the objects with their own eyes, according to ufologist Jeremy Corbell, who released the captivating clip Tuesday.
In 2023 the U.S. Navy encountered four “TIC TAC” shaped UAPs off the coast of California. Personnel from the USS Jackson in the CIC (Combat Information Center) filmed them. One of the vehicles of unknown origin was observed exiting the water, transitioning directly into flight,… pic.twitter.com/FUBsiGy60n
— Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (@JeremyCorbell) April 8, 2025
How “Tesla Takedown” Activists Fool the Public
The campaign against Elon Musk’s company is hardly a grassroots movement.
Last month, a wave of more than 200 protests targeting Tesla properties erupted across the United States. The media portrayed this movement, officially branded the “Tesla Takedown,” as a spontaneous grassroots backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s role in dismantling waste and fraud in the U.S. federal bureaucracy. Each of these demonstrations appears to have been sparsely attended, but both the number of protest sites and the timeline of events suggest a coordinated effort.
Why I’m standing up to Canada’s Liberals
Free speech isn’t a lost cause
At a time when reason is desperately needed, Maxime Bernier has become one of only a few voices of reasons in Canada. “We are not at risk. We are a sovereign country,” the leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) told me a few weeks ago.
Seeing an opportunity in hysterical claims that the country is “under attack” from its neighbour, the Liberal Party has rebranded as Team Canada, rallying the country around a patriotism it treated with disdain just a couple of years prior. Rather than lead with prudence, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has echoed the anti-Trump rhetoric. The propaganda machine is in full swing.