Is Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a dead man walking? Perhaps not yet, but after MP Michael Ma’s shock floor crossing last week, he is certainly limping. The defection reignited the conversation about Poilievre’s leadership that started at budget time, when Conservative MP Chris d’Entremont defected to the Liberals and fellow MP Matt Jeneroux resigned to sit as an independent, bringing the Liberals within sight of a majority government.
Who?
Authorities are under mounting pressure to track down the ‘organized’ tubby at-large suspect who killed two people and injured nine more in a horror shooting at Brown University.
The bungled response from law enforcement has been widely criticized in the days following the incident on Saturday, including the release of a ‘person of interest’ who was found not to be the killer.
Cops had also previously announced that they had a suspect ‘in custody’ in the aftermath of the killings before walking back the news, and shared conflicting reports of a secondary shooting that were ‘unfounded.’
Now this is a sh*tshow
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career. I was thirty-one, I’d been in Los Angeles for five years writing scripts. There had been minor successes, a couple of small projects optioned, and I’d recently started writing with my best friend. We were writing constantly, making each other better, building momentum.
Success felt close. Back then it always did.
We’d written a pilot script that a veteran showrunner had agreed, in a very theoretical, very Hollywood sort of way, to “come on” to. That project had fizzled, so we were surprised when an executive emailed us out of the blue to meet. The showrunner explained he’d submitted us for an upcoming writer’s room he was going to run—the exec had loved our pilot and wanted to hire us.
This was it, the moment our careers were supposed to take off. We’d put in our time—I’d been tutoring SATs and reselling tickets to make ends meet while I wrote—and five years seemed par for the course, based on the slightly older guys we knew who’d made it.
But of course, by 2016, we were already too late.
The Shitification of society continues apace.
h/t Patti Jo
Ford Motor Co. says it will take a US$19.5 billion write-down and scrap several electric-vehicle programs, marking one of the most significant retreats yet by a major automaker from large-scale EV production amid weakening demand and major policy shifts under U.S. President Donald Trump.
EV Subsidies
Timing is everything.
The Liberals won a series of elections under Justin Trudeau in part by promising to significantly lower carbon emissions, and offering a more credible plan than their Conservative opponents. That plan, headlined by consumer carbon pricing, helped boost support for the Liberals and drain support from the Conservatives, particularly among swing voters in suburban Canada, in federal elections in 2015, 2019 and 2021. Carbon pricing was, at least in theory, quite popular.
Carney is a liar and has left the pipeline’s fate in the hands of the usual suspects Natives and Green-Nutters.
What a mess. This little phrase seems unequal to the task of describing the situation Britain finds itself in after decades of multiculturalism and liberalism.
In a – perhaps surprising – spirit of compassion and generosity, I find myself feeling for some of the liberals who are now regularly being mugged at scale by reality. There is very little time to draw breath nowadays, to reset and forget, between what are still described as ‘incidents’. The Bondi Beach massacre followed on from the news of the two Afghan asylum seekers jailed for raping a girl of 15, which followed the news of the migrant hotel worker stabbed to death with a screwdriver, which followed the attack on a Manchester synagogue … all set against the continual background rumble of the rape gangs.
If there’s one conclusion we can draw from the recently released National Security Strategy put out by the Trump administration, it’s that the current crop of Americans in power really do feel like victims of the world that America created.
In that strategy, the White House outlined the Trump administration’s priorities, outlooks and hoped for direction. While it’s common for U.S. presidencies to release high-level documents of this kind, this year’s version is, to put it mildly, a serious vibe check. Taken in toto, the strategy is a rationale for America to withdraw its support for the world order as we know it, and instead take a role that is overtly transactional and self interested. This is an America that sees global leadership not as being a chief among equals, but rather one in which the top dog barks while the rest of us are expected to roll over. One in which American strength and wealth are not built by mutual alliances, but rather through zero-sum infighting.
This is stated quite explicitly in the document, which I implore every Canadian to read fully and understand.
The Star has a surplus of hysterical types.
The shock that after 80 years America isn’t going to pay everyone’s way is just too much to handle.
A foreigner homeless man named Mohamed Morray Bangura, LURED a police officer with a fake 911 call and then stabbed him in Bellevue, Washington, sending the officer to the hospital.
Washington State harbors criminals and illegals who attack cops pic.twitter.com/IaeQWd24V4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 16, 2025
Fifteen years ago, young Canadians were among the happiest and most optimistic people in the world.
No longer. They have soured on their lives and their future, and the reasons are directly related to the public policy choices their elders have made to make themselves feel virtuous.
I get it. Some days I feel masculine and I will ask that you refer to me as “he” but on the days I feel girly, please use “she.”
I’ll update you accordingly. pic.twitter.com/q9UbBCo8Tb
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) December 16, 2025
Spain keeps breaking population records, quarter after quarter. As of October 1, 2025, the country had 49,442,844 residents, according to the Continuous Population Statistics of the National Statistics Institute (INE). On paper, Spain is thriving with nearly half a million more people in a year and over 100,000 added in just three months.
Spain grows, yet Spaniards fade. Behind the headline figure lies a demographic paradox. The expansion is driven by immigration. Foreign-born residents now exceed 9.8 million, close to one-fifth of the total population. Meanwhile, the number of people born in Spain continues to shrink, dragged down by a decade-long negative natural balance. Births can no longer compensate for deaths and have not since 2017.
They gathered to celebrate Hannukah, the Jewish festival of light—a family event in a park by the beach on a Sunday.
The exact details of what occurred remain murky. What’s known is that two men, Naveed Akram and his father Sajid Akram, took out guns and began shooting at the Jewish families. At least 15 are dead, and 42 have been hospitalized.
Remember. This was Sydney on October 8, 2023. pic.twitter.com/49WYk7TPoA
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) December 14, 2025
Just like Canada.
Welcome Everyone! Christmas is just round the corner and we’re back with the annual Reader Fave Carols – 2025 edition.
Post your faves in the comments and our elves will gather them up for posting every evening through the Big Day.
I’ll start us off, enjoy!
Boney M. – Mary’s Boy Child
Angels We Have Heard On High – Foxes and Fossils
Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas
Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
On December 14, on the holiday of Hanukkah — a time of celebration — a slaughter of innocent Jewish families took place at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach, in Sydney. Fifteen victims were murdered and 40 more wounded. One of the attackers, a Muslim immigrant named Sajid Akram, was killed by police; his son Naveed, the second attacker, was shot by police before being arrested.
The situation could have been worse but for the actions of Sydney’s police force and the quick work of a very brave unarmed bystander, Ahmed El-Ahmed, a Muslim man who tackled and disarmed one of the terrorists.
Umm, why did @BrownUniversity just scrub its entire website of Mustapha Kharbouch (Free Palestine, LGBTQ activist)? pic.twitter.com/GjnJ9vxmjS
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 16, 2025
h/t XC
