Reporter: “Why should English people pay for you to have a house?”
Illegal invader: “Uh give me house, give me anything, give me.”
This perfectly encapsulates these people: they contribute nothing, only leeching off and exploiting the welfare system. pic.twitter.com/GJneqbGS6m
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) May 14, 2026
Frankenstein is transphobic because it is about “a constructed body”, a non-binary filmmaker has claimed.
Jane Schoenbrun, an American director who describes herself as trans and queer, said the Frankenstein adaptations, based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel, are an example of older horror films featuring a “trans monster”.
“This image of the trans monster kept coming up, whether that be Norman Bates or Buffalo Bill or Frankenstein as a constructed body, and there was this lineage of trans people having really complicated feelings about those movies,” Schoenbrun told The Hollywood Reporter.
🇩🇪🔴Foreigner children began spitting on her dog, says a Berlin woman who tried walking through a Friedrichshain park.
"Here you go as a German person, yeah, looking a bit tattooed, looking a bit crazy, just walking with the dog, that’s what a park is for actually."
"But… pic.twitter.com/qFG06PrjTf
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 15, 2026
More than a year after the Buy Canadian movement took root, grocery giants Loblaw and Sobeys are facing increased scrutiny over “maple washing” — the practice of promoting imported goods as homegrown.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) slapped two Loblaw-owned stores in January with $10,000 fines each for maple washing, and one month later, two other Loblaw-owned stores got formal warnings for the same violation, CBC News has learned.
10K fines? The cost of doing business is all.
Since February, there have been two significant reports documenting the extent to which Chinese Community Party (CCP) agents have infiltrated Canadian institutions and community organizations in an effort to woo or strong-arm Chinese Canadians into helping spread Chinese government policies and goals.
The most disturbing aspect of both reports is the willingness of Canada’s Liberal government to turn a blind eye to this level of infiltration and the effects it has on Canadian elections and democratic institutions.
The term “white flight” has a strong negative connotation in polite society. It is a term often used to tar the motives of my father’s generation who, after returning from service in WWII, chose to live in the suburbs rather than return to the confines of the cities in which they had grown up. Their motives were many; however, as white flight continued throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, there is no question that it was driven by the knowledge that city neighborhoods that were formerly inhabitable were falling into disarray with the influx of blacks that had moved there. To say otherwise, flies in the face of what was observed at the time and exists today in tangible form in cities like Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Newark, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to name a few.
A new Statistics Canada study has confirmed what housing researchers and young Canadians have argued for years: the generational ladder to homeownership has not just gotten harder to climb for many Millennials, but for an increasing number, it has been pulled up entirely.
Released last week, the study draws on Census of Population data from 1991, 2006, and 2021 to compare how Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials each fared in the housing market between ages 25 and 39. The study found Millennials more likely to live with parents, less likely to own, and, when they do own, far less likely to own the kind of home previous generations took for granted.
Shame, not guilt, is the currency of scandal. In 2022, on anti-corruption day no less, Belgian police uncovered €1.5m of cash crammed into the suitcases of various senior EU officials. The money was thought to be payment for various political favours. The case is still sub-judice, but the accusation is that, for a rather venal sum, European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili and Pier Antonio Panzeri may have closed down a debate about Qatar’s Human Rights record.
The story is now a common one: an older man disgraced and punished for a “sexist” offence. In an instant, his reputation is shattered. Previously respected in his work, he becomes a target of contempt and hatred. Few defend him in his hour of need, and abundant sympathy is expressed for his alleged victim(s), whose harms are often imaginary.
The controversy surrounding the nomination of E. J. Antoni to head the US Bureau of Labor Statistics briefly brought public attention to a topic that is usually confined to academic psychology. During discussions with interns at the Heritage Foundation, Antoni reportedly stated that men and women differ in intelligence distributions and that males are more likely to appear at the extremes, including very high IQ levels. The comments triggered criticism and media attention, and the nomination was eventually withdrawn. This was not the first time such ideas had cost someone a prestigious position. Larry Summers was similarly pushed out of Harvard after suggesting that inherent differences in ability between the sexes could account for why men tend to dominate at the top end of STEM performance.
On Wednesday, in its Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation v Alberta decision, the Alberta Court of King’s Bench quashed the province’s secession referendum process. In particular, the judge quashed the chief electoral officer’s decision to allow signatures to be gathered to call for a referendum. Whatever your view on Alberta secession, the decision warrants attention for the readiness of the judge to prohibit a democratic process based on Indigenous rights claims.
An Indian man was catapulted 40ft into the air after the roof he was clinging to during a ferocious storm was torn off by gale-force winds.
The man, named locally as Nanhe Miya, from Bareilly, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, miraculously survived the terrifying ordeal on Wednesday but sustained injuries after falling to the ground, according to Indian broadcaster NDTV.
A man was thrown into the air during a violent storm in India after the roof he was holding onto was ripped away by strong winds.
He reportedly survived the incident despite being flung around 40 feet into the air, according to the Daily Mail. pic.twitter.com/hqhsjQhvNs
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 14, 2026
Various experts have been assuring the public over the past several weeks that the risk of a major hantavirus outbreak is low.
This is a known virus, they say, unlike the novel coronavirus first observed in 2019.
It doesn’t pose pandemic potential, they say, because this Andes variant requires prolonged close contact to be transmitted from human to human.
London is preparing for one of the largest and most complex policing operations in recent years as tens of thousands are expected to attend two major demonstrations taking place on the same day in the capital.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed that live facial recognition (LFR) technology will be deployed at a rally organised by Tommy Robinson, but not at a nearby pro-Palestinian march marking Nakba Day, which commemorates Palestinian displacement and loss during the creation of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. The decision has prompted criticism and fuelled claims of “two-tier policing” from political figures and commentators.
As these pages have acknowledged, socialists are smart, advocating for more government by wrapping themselves in the feel-good environment. Determination and imagination, yes, but as this series of columns has documented, much of the broad global warming/cum climate change/cum climate crisis narrative is untrue and designed to mislead.
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