Jesse Romero, a conservative Catholic podcaster, has some choice words for Pope Leo XIV.
“The Pope should tell us how to get to heaven,” says Romero. “He has no authority over the government; he has to stay in his lane.”
As a Donald Trump supporter, he is angry about criticism made by the American-born Pope and US bishops about his mass deportation policy.
With one in five Americans identifying as Catholic, the Church plays an important role in American life – and politics.
The Diageo-owned property in Amherstburg, Ont., that bottles Crown Royal whisky has been listed for sale as the company prepares to shut down operations at the site early in 2026.
The property, with a 110 St. Arnaud St. address, appeared on REALTOR.ca on Monday, with annual land taxes listed at just over $310,000.
The industrial property, near Sandwich Street South and Alma Street, spans about 25 hectares (70.41 acres) and includes eight buildings totalling nearly 447,000 square feet. The listing notes direct rail access, secured yard space, trailer parking and clear heights ranging from 20 to 26 feet.
The public prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, France has filed an appeal against a December 18 ruling by a criminal court in the case of a 42-year-old Algerian nanny convicted of poisoning the Jewish family she worked for, after the court declined to recognize an antisemitic motive in the crime.
The case dates back to January 2024 in Levallois-Perret, west of Paris, where the nanny deliberately poured cleaning products into several bottles of alcohol belonging to the parents of the children in her care.
h/t MP
Moscow is said to have begun evacuating the families of Russian diplomats from Venezuela as Washington increases military pressure on President Maduro.
An unnamed European intelligence official said Russia was viewing the situation in Caracas in “very grim terms”, the Associated Press reported.
The Russian foreign ministry denied the report, calling it “a lie” and “a western provocation”. Although it said the embassy was not being evacuated, it did not address the issue of whether the spouses and children of diplomats were being flown out.
Alberta Next survey respondents believe the number of temporary and permanent immigrants entering Canada needs to be significantly reduced, and that the province should take more control of immigration to Alberta.
“I would like to go back to a more normal level of immigration, which is about 1% or less of the total population,” Premier Danielle Smith told the Western Standard at the UCP AGM in November. “That’s what we had historically.”
Unfortunately for Ontario residents Doug Ford continues to advocate for the import of cheap foreign labour to help his buddies out.
A college instructor who called the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 an “amazing, brilliant offensive” had her job reinstated by an arbitrator, then resigned from her position.
The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of B.C. (FPSE), which represents faculty at several B.C. post-secondary institutions, called the decision — issued by arbitrator Randy Noonan on Nov. 19 — to reinstate Natalie Knight to her position at Vancouver’s Langara College a victory for academic freedom and freedom of speech.
Oliver JJ Lane, a writer and editor for Breitbart London, writes frequently about the growing censorship regime in the U.K., the public’s distrust of both institutional government and Establishment politicians of all labels, the official cover-up of Muslim “grooming” gangs that target and rape British children, and the increasing backlash of native Britons against a ruling class that prioritizes “multiculturalism” and “diversity” over everything else. A running theme of his articles is that the U.K. is headed for civil war.
‘Here at the age of 39 I began to be old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers; I regularly drank three glasses of gin before dinner, never more or less, and went to bed immediately after the nine o’clock news. I was always awake and fretful an hour before reveille. Here my last love died.’
OTTAWA — For The Bureau’s 2025 Holiday Special, I sat down once again with Jason James for a long-form, two-hour conversation—our second holiday edition—to answer his questions about the elite networks surrounding Prime Minister Mark Carney and the China connections that have quietly defined his ascent.
“Most of the men I interviewed started out as liberals. Some still are. But to feel the weight of society’s disfavor can be disorienting.”—Jacob Savage
It can also be clarifying.
The fur is flying after the publication of Jacob Savage’s “The Lost Generation,” which Matt Walsh called a permission piece, a signal that cultural leaders can or must now admit, within carefully circumscribed limits and without accountability, of course, what the rest of us have known most of our lives: that discrimination against white men has been rampant in North America, with the result that at least one generation of such men were prevented from contributing their talents to key fields such as law, medicine, science, policing, popular culture, media, academia, reporting, Big Tech, business, and many more.
Just for a moment, the vicar became the embodiment of that most useful of recently coined words: enshittification. This normally excellent woman, who runs her numerous parishes with passion and aplomb, had donned a squishy poo emoji hat. She stood within the nave of her 800 year-old church, next to the Advent candle, with a brown coiled fake turd on her head. The enshittified vicar explained to the congregation that the message of Christmas is that God visits us in our “poo-ey lives”. Like the Christ child in the “poo-ey stable”, God becomes manifest in our stinking world. The congregation looked ahead glassily. Perhaps somewhere deep in the recesses of the collective unconsciousness, they knew that sermons, the church, Christianity, vicars, hadn’t always been this way, that there had once been a reverent majesty to a Christmas carol service. Thankfully the sermon ended, she took off her scat hat, and everyone sang the remainder of the carols with gusto.
The House of Commons sat for just 72 days in 2025; the least that Canada has used its Parliament in more than 80 years.
The year’s tally was lower even than in 2021, when the House of Commons saw its sitting calendar obliterated by COVID-19 lockdowns. In the end, however, that year still managed 95 sitting days.
Can’t be all bad.
ROME — Christmas is becoming a new front line in Europe’s culture wars.
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.
The trope echoes a familiar refrain across the Atlantic that was first propagated by Fox News, where hosts have inveighed against a purported “War on Christmas” for years. U.S. President Donald Trump claims to have “brought back” the phrase “Merry Christmas” in the United States, framing it as defiance against political correctness. Now, European far-right parties more usually focused on immigration or law-and-order concerns have adopted similar language, recasting Christmas as the latest battleground in a broader struggle over culture.
I hope they choke on a Season’s Greeting …
Hmmmm