The jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been allowed more than 1,250 social phone calls and 80 prison visitors during his time at HMP Woodhill, a court has heard.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court after breaching an injunction. He is currently seeking to launch a legal challenge against the Ministry of Justice over his segregation from other prisoners at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes.
Is there any public benefit to the “advancement of religion”? Under the Charities Act 2011, places of worship can achieve charitable status if they demonstrate that their activities are for the public benefit. But what if the views espoused in such settings cause harm to wider society?
This is an urgent question, because yet another mosque has fallen foul of the rules. This time it’s the An-Noor Masjid and Community Centre, a registered charity in Birmingham which posted a video of a preacher who effectively condoned domestic violence and marital rape. Mahamed AbdurRazaq was advising a congregation on what a husband could do if his wife refused to have sex with him.
The Bank of Canada has made no secret of its efforts to explore a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a “digital dollar” issued and controlled by the central bank. The Bank of Canada is not alone. To date, 134 countries and currency unions have explored a CBDC, and 66 countries are already in advanced stages of implementation.
In 2023, cash accounted for a mere 11 percent of total payments made by Canadians. Consumers increasingly tap their credit and debit cards at checkouts, send e-transfers, or use online banking to pay bills, make investments, and donate to charities. For many Canadians, metal coins function less like a currency and more like a locker or shopping cart token; paper bills are for birthday cards, not for “serious” transactions. New legislation in Quebec empowers law enforcement to presume that cash sums of $2,000 or more are the proceeds of unlawful activity.
With its dreadful $43 million opening, Snow White now holds the record for the lowest debut weekend of any of Disney’s live-action remakes.
The previous record-holder was 2019’s Dumbo, which opened to $46 million.
Instead of watching the Snow White movie, watch this instead. pic.twitter.com/YCq4iW5HnQ
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2025
For the Liberals to portray themselves as “Team Canada” in this federal election displays a level of shameless hypocrisy, given how they sneered at Canadians during their decade in power.
Led by a self-righteous and hypocritical Justin Trudeau — who took every opportunity to bash Canada, Canadians, our institutions and history — they are in no position now to don the mantle of ginned up patriots because they have a new leader in Mark Carney and an election ad with Mike Myers touting their mutual love for Canada.
The ballot question… what it is that people are thinking about, when they vote…
The conventional wisdom is that it must be who — Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre — will best be able to protect Canada against US President Donald Trump.
After a long stretch of dominance in the polls, the Conservative Party of Canada now finds itself the potential underdog. Mark Carney, Canada’s newly appointed (but not yet elected) prime minister is kiting his international credentials, shaking hands with the king and a Europe keen on stability.
This dramatic shift in voter sentiment sparks lively banter among political pollsters. Nik Nanos predicts the upcoming federal election in Canada between the Liberals and the Conservatives will be akin to a “knife fight in a telephone booth.” Others speculate on the duration of leadership honeymoons; they don’t last forever but sometimes they last long enough.
In a little more than five weeks, either Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre will be the prime minister of Canada.
But it is abundantly clear that this election campaign is more than a faceoff between the Liberal and Conservative leaders.
It’s also going to be a tug of war between change and stability — and which one of those forces is ultimately most important to Canadians at this tumultuous time for the country.
Why is TikTok allowing Trump supporters to post content? And some of them are monetized!
This liberal female displays signs of mid-stage TDS compounded by social media addiction. pic.twitter.com/VjwGPdWdQq
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2025
Let’s say, if just for the sake of argument, that the outcome of the federal election depends on how the vote goes in Ontario.
Because that’s the way it usually goes, and nothing in the dynamics of this campaign suggests there’s a compelling reason to expect it to be different. Conservative Leder Pierre Poilievre can sweep all of Alberta and the best he’ll pick up is two Liberal seats. Ontario has 74 Liberals, more than three times the total for all of western Canada. That being the case, Poilievre has considerable work to do to if he wants the province to help make him prime minister.
Well, I’ve reached the end of the internet. That’s enough for me for a while. pic.twitter.com/j5PdWFOjBe
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2025
The Chinese scientist who was imprisoned for secretly creating the world’s first genetically-engineered babies has claimed he will be remembered as China’s Charles Darwin for ultimately eliminating natural selection.
He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific world in 2018 when he said he had rewritten the DNA of two twins, Lulu and Nana, told The Telegraph that he had no regrets over the controversial experiment.
An investigation by Chinese authorities – which also revealed a third gene-edited baby – resulted in a three-year prison sentence.
In 20 years, gene editing in human embryos will be as popular as iPhone pic.twitter.com/BWoJ52h6ei
— Jiankui He (@Jiankui_He) December 21, 2024
A new class divide?
Why Western intel agencies help Putin and Xi keep their darkest secrets.
Scientists who, in 1978, quickly concluded the previous year’s global flu pandemic originated in a lab leak in China or Russia chose not to advertise their findings. Their overriding priority: protect diplomatic relations with Russia and China.
“A laboratory release was the most likely origin,” wrote clinical pathologist Martin Furmanski in a 2014 revisitation of the incident, “but they were content not to publicize this.”
By the time many of your read this, Canada is expected to be into a federal election. And the front-runner is a man who has never been elected to public office and has never faced Parliament.
He isn’t even an MP. And he is keen to call a general election because he doesn’t have to go through a byelection where he would be the sole focus of public scrutiny.
As Elon Musk pursues his “draining the swamp” in Washington, D.C., his plan to reduce the size of the US federal government may have a number of unintended consequences.
To be sure, few people might disagree with ending payments to millions of people who continue drawing their Social Security benefits years after having died and been buried.
Even fewer might approve of channeling millions of dollars in aid to NGOs in such emerging economic giants like India and Indonesia, not to mention sinkholes such as Afghanistan or active anti-American states like South Africa.
