Human Rights Wasn’t ‘Proactively’ Raised During Carney’s China Visit: Privy Council

During Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China in January, the issue of human rights wasn’t “proactively” raised during discussions with Chinese officials, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO).

“Topics of human rights and foreign interference were not brought up proactively by the Canadian Prime Minister,” says a document tabled in the House of Commons on March 13 by the PCO, which is sometimes referred to as the prime minister’s department.

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Unseen by Orwell, ‘everlasting’ England on her deathbed

GEORGE Orwell’s 1941 essay England Your England, written at the height of the Blitz and at a moment in English history when it was not unreasonable to think that the nation and its distinctive culture might not survive, contains the following sentence:

‘The Stock Exchange will be pulled down, the horse plough will give way to the tractor, the country houses will be turned into children’s holiday camps, the Eton and Harrow match will be forgotten, but England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.’

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Commissioner Duheme’s Repression Denials Will Not Restore Public Trust

OTTAWA — Commissioner Mike Duheme’s recent interview with Vassy Kapelos, in which he stated there is “no credible intelligence” indicating foreign interference in Canada, was likely intended to reassure Canadians. Instead, it risks doing the opposite — particularly for diaspora communities who have long warned that foreign state actors operate within Canada’s borders.

They lie about everything.

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How smart are battery-operated semi-trucks?

Tesla Transport Truck

I remember how excited the media and customers were when the ugliest truck that ever existed came out, the Tesla Cybertruck. It came out in 2023.

Musk predicted they would sell 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks. In 2024, Tesla sold around 40,000; in 2025, around 20,000. I wonder why vehicles that are expensive, won’t go very far on a charge, are ugly, and take much longer to charge, would have trouble selling.

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Ottawa promises Canadian-made flags for Canada Day after years of foreign souvenirs

The federal government says this year’s Canada Day celebrations will feature Canadian-made paper flags after years of criticism over departments purchasing patriotic items from overseas suppliers.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Department of Canadian Heritage confirmed it is seeking up to 1.5 million hand-held paper flags manufactured in Canada as part of the federal Buy Canadian policy.

(Incognito)

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Ukraine’s allies are falling away

As Ukraine emerges battered but unbowed from the third and most terrible winter of the war against Russia, its people have proved that they can survive and fight on even as Vladimir Putin’s troops destroy swathes of their country’s heating, transport and electricity infrastructure. But one thing that Ukraine cannot survive without is money – and that, the European Union seems critically unable to provide.

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Is the truth out there? US registers aliens.gov as Trump pledges UFO files release

It was a gift to conspiracy theorists.

Last week, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the alien.gov and aliens.gov web domains, adding both to the official government website registry.

But the move also comes at a time when official US government interest in UFOs – or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), as officialdom prefers to call them – has never been higher and is firmly rooted in fears over national security in the age of drones, terrorism and international conflict.

Hmmm Military footage

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Kill Krazy Kanadians Endorse MAiD For Those Suffering Mental Illness

Canadians’ support for medical assistance in dying (MAID) remains robust even when mental illness is the sole underlying condition, and it has strengthened over time rather than faded.

According to research conducted by Environics Research for Dying With Dignity Canada (DWDC), 80 percent of Canadians support eligibility for MAID where mental illness is the sole underlying medical condition, a level consistent with previous years.


Is that only because Whites are the overwhelming majority of MAiD patients?

A total of 15,927 people who received MAID responded to the question on racial, ethnic or cultural identity. The vast majority (95.6%) identified as Caucasian (White). The second most commonly reported racial, ethnic or cultural identity was East Asian (1.6%). These percentages are close to those reported for 2023 (95.8% Caucasian; 1.8% East Asian).

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Masculinity Experts “Map the Manosphere” and Find Nothing Good

Or, Why we can’t hate gender studies enough

Nothing beats a threat narrative for a gender studies academic in search of relevance, and what more urgent than the dark corners of the internet where men (and the women who love them) allegedly spread misogyny and male supremacism.

Many academics now claim expertise in this area of gender studies, probing the volatile fragility and violent anxieties of manosphere men, and calling to repentance all who resist the feminist future. Many of these academics are women, making a sweet living warning about male “hate,” but there are plenty of male feminists as well, crusaders against others’ toxicity.

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Polls show Americans dislike Canada more than ever, and that’s bad news for the trade war

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadians’ affection for the United States tends to rise and fall with whoever’s in the White House. It dropped for president George W. Bush, rose for Barack Obama, and then plunged during Donald Trump’s first term, only to rise again with Joe Biden. In the first year of Trump’s second presidency, however, Canada’s fondness for its southern neighbour has plumbed new lows.

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Am I an extremist?

On Monday, the Communities Secretary Steve Reed rose in the House of Commons to unveil ‘Protecting What Matters’, the government’s new ‘action plan’ to ‘strengthen social cohesion’ and ‘tackle division’. According to the accompanying press release: ‘Millions of families, friends and neighbours will feel a stronger sense of community, unity and national pride thanks to renewed efforts to stamp out extremism, hate and division announced today.’

I was not among those millions. Conspicuous by omission in the announcement was any mention of Islamism. The impression given by the minister was that ‘those who try to divide us’ and ‘subvert our shared values’ are not the Muslim students mourning the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader or people like Mothin Ali, the deputy leader of the Green party, who tweeted on the day Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Jews: ‘White supremacist European settler colonialism must end!’ Instead, it is politicians like Nigel Farage and Katie Lam who draw attention to the small boats and the grooming gangs.

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At 90, David Suzuki says he has done everything he could to protect the Earth, but fears he has fallen short … How bout selling a house or 3?

5 homes? That’s a lot of homes.

For decades, David Suzuki has been a familiar face and voice in Canada — known for his rare ability to make complex scientific and environmental issues understandable.

That gift reached millions through The Nature of Things, the iconic CBC television series he began hosting in 1979.

Over time, he became known not only as a scientist and broadcaster, but as a passionate and outspoken environmental advocate — one of the first major public figures to call for urgent action on global warming.


Hey Grok! How many homes does environmentalist David Suzuki own?

… In summary, the most commonly cited figure from detailed reporting is four homes in Canada (with one co-owned), sometimes extended to five including the Australian property. This has been a recurring talking point in debates about his personal carbon footprint versus his public messaging.

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