Like many postsecondary students, Charlotte Fowler is careful about how she spends her money.
Her books and clothes are bought locally, often from thrift stores. She takes a pass on the $6 baskets of blueberries. And as much as she’d like to get behind the Buy Local movement and avoid anything from the United States, she said spending extra isn’t something she can afford.
A primary school has scrapped its annual Easter celebration and service in order to “respect diverse religious beliefs”.
The announcement has been criticised in online comments, with one suggesting that Christmas celebrations will be cancelled next.
Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, Hants, sent a letter to parents and carers informing them that neither their Easter Bonnet Parade nor their Easter Service would be held this year.
It's uttery insanity.
Mark Wiseman advocates for doing away with immigration vetting. Just let 'em all in! No paperwork needed.
THIS is the guy advising Carney on immigration and other issues? pic.twitter.com/aKhc7Gmkho
— ExpatCan (@CanadaNoFuture) March 22, 2025
We’re jumping ahead a few steps but let’s give you the play.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has nine demands, nine U-Turns she wants the federal government to take.
She gives the new federal government, when it is elected, six months to move on these issues.
Modern day sculpture making! pic.twitter.com/rAN9QwkPBM
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) March 22, 2025
H/T MAUSER
Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for an international force to support a ceasefire in Ukraine has been dismissed as “a posture and a pose” by Donald Trump’s special envoy.
Steve Witkoff said the idea was based on a “simplistic” notion of the UK prime minister and other European leaders thinking “we have all got to be like Winston Churchill”.
In an interview with pro-Trump journalist Tucker Carlson, Witkoff praised Vladimir Putin, saying he “liked” the Russian president.
Steve Witkoff has no background in diplomacy but has turned out to be the most effective American diplomat in a generation. Here’s how he’s trying to resolve the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine.
(0:00) What Witkoff Has Learned as Trump’s Global Negotiator
(4:10) Negotiating With… pic.twitter.com/7AUh4gvwke— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 21, 2025
LOL Liberals fire the Brown guy for the billionaire white guy from the UK! https://t.co/0Gbtu991MH
— Rex Glacer (@rexglacer) March 23, 2025
H/T Mauser
Sunday’s edition of the Financial Times included the oft-made observation that Canada is brimming with potential, and the oft-made conclusion that this country would be much better off if it simply developed its God-given gifts.
The article, Unlocking Canada’s Superpower Potential by Tej Parikh, made the bullish case for this country’s future prospects: Canada is geographically huge and loaded with natural resources — on paper, at least, it has the makings of an actual global superpower.
A dark web user has claimed responsibility for briefly hacking New York University’s website Saturday, and replacing it with what appeared to be student test scores and an apparent racial epithet.
Instead of the usual images of college athletes and the Greenwich Village campus, the site instead featured a black background with green writing showing a message along with charts of what were purported to be SAT and ACT scores and GPAs for students in 2024, divided by race.
h/t Mauser
The Liberals’ carbon tax ploy is utterly shameless. For years they’ve been telling us that the Carbon Tax was a hallmark of Canadian patriotism, that it was the best way to save the planet, that it was really a “price on pollution,” which would ultimately benefit the little guy, in the form of a rebate in which Canadians would get back all the money they paid in, and more!
Meanwhile big, faceless Captain Planet villain corporations — who are out there wrecking the planet for the sheer fun of it! — will shoulder the whole burden.
Claims of a violently jealous love triangle, an attack with a carving knife, free-flowing beer and sexual harassment. At the remote research stations of the Antarctic, the human condition is challenged by the most basic urges.
The recent plea for rescue over safety fears about an allegedly unstable colleague at an ice-locked base is the latest instance of dramas and abuse that are as old as Antarctic research.
An uneasy calm has been restored to South Africa’s Sanae IV station, but winter is coming. Months of darkness and brutal weather will increase pressure on the nine-strong crew who are isolated until the end of the year.
If Mark Carney and the Liberals are best equipped to take on U.S. President Donald Trump in a tariff war, why have they stolen their election platform from Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives?
This ongoing theft has reached farcical levels, given that the Liberals’ economic record of their 10 years in power, as well as Carney’s own statements before entering politics, indicate they don’t believe in what they’re promising and will abandon most if not all of it if re-elected.
Cambridge University has become embroiled in a row over claims that scientists including the late Professor Stephen Hawking benefited from slavery.
The university’s Fitzwilliam Museum is holding an exhibition titled Rise Up, which covers abolition movements, rebellions and modern-day “racist injustices”.
It claims that figures including George Darwin, Charles Darwin’s son, were supported by investments in the slave trade.
Is the carbon tax dead in Canada? Yet-to-be-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney has not actually eliminated the fuel charge paid by consumers and low-emitting businesses, which only Parliament can do. But he has lowered its rate to zero. On the other hand, he intends to raise carbon taxes on big emitters. This week, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre upped his “axe the tax” ante to the federal tax on big emitters but would leave the provinces and territories in charge of their own schemes.
This column is prompted by the refusal of the Powell River newspaper, the Powell River Peak, to publish an advertisement for a talk to be given on March 30 in Powell River by Frances Widdowson, a contributor to the excellent book “Grave Error.” It was an honour to have been asked to contribute a foreword to that book, which was a carefully researched collection of learned and impartial opinions about the controversy in 2021 over the so-called unmarked graves of Indigenous children near the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The excuse given in writing by the publisher of the Peak, Kelly Keil, on March 17 for refusing to advertise this event was that “Grave Error” “appears to centre around the denial of well-documented historical facts regarding residential schools, which contradicts the overwhelming evidence provided by survivors, historical records and independent inquiries.… Our advertising standards require that we do not publish content that promotes misinformation or undermines established historical facts. This is not an issue of limiting free expression but rather of ensuring that our platform is not used to spread content that distorts history and may cause harm, particularly to Indigenous communities.… We cannot in good conscience facilitate the promotion of material it denies documented historical atrocities.“
