For the first time, what has happened to John Cleese isn’t funny. Instead, he is living the adage “when you laugh, the world laughs with you; when you cry, you cry alone.” He is because, sadly, he is a voice crying out alone. Alone because Britain of today has done everything it can to intimidate its citizens from crying out at all.
Reuters reported, “A top U.S. bank regulator issued a report on Wednesday finding some of the country’s largest banks unfairly denied services to some clients on political, religious or other grounds, but stopped short of imposing penalties.
“The de-banking report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency covered nine of the nation’s largest banks by asset size. The regulator found each had policies restricting some clients’ access to financial services based on subjective criteria rather than financial risk.”
Four of America’s largest banks relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center in decisions affecting conservative and religious organizations, according to a newly released federal debanking report.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency report, released Wednesday, details instances involving JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, PNC Bank, and TD Bank, all of which referenced the SPLC while denying loans to organizations or closing their accounts. The SPLC‘s map of hate groups lists some mainstream conservative and Christian groups alongside Klan chapters, due to the groups’ views on marriage, immigration, critical race theory, or opposition to radical Islam.
TD was BIG Gay until recently ending support for Toronto’s Pride con. But they still hate Christians.
Nine of the country’s biggest banks spent five years running an outrageous campaign to cut conservatives, Christians, pro-lifers, and Trump supporters out of the financial system, and the federal government now has the receipts.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Debanking Review on Wednesday. Miranda Devine first broke the story in the New York Post. The 47-page report, titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” draws on a hundred thousand complaints and fifty thousand internal bank records from 2020 through 2025. It names JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.
Every one of them hid behind the same excuse: “reputation risk.”
TD has been caught in a string of questionable activities, even colluding with the likes of North Korea and drug cartels.
Frances Widdowson, professor, “academic provocateur” and an increasing terror to higher education administrators, is suing the University of Lethbridge for defamation claiming she was accused of spreading prejudice, hate, disinformation and lies.
Widdowson, who is claiming $3 million in damages, also alleges that she was defamed when the university sent out a notice that it would be holding a sacred smudging ceremony to “dissipate the negative atmosphere brought by this individual to our community.”
That smudging should be worth 10 Million on its own!
President Trump has found plenty to dislike about Canada lately. He slapped 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods and even renamed Lake Ontario.
If the president is looking for another Canadian import worth taxing, he might consider the country’s particularly virulent strain of political correctness. America has certainly developed one of its own, but Canada has put the stuff on steroids: weaker protections for speech, aggressive human-rights tribunals, professional regulators eager to police opinions, and an elite culture remarkably comfortable empowering bureaucrats to enforce ideological conformity.
It seems like just yesterday that Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney – who embodies, literally, the traditionally feminine ideal of beauty that drives anti-beauty feminists into a frothing, jealous rage – sparked controversy over her American Eagle ad which facetiously proclaimed that she has “great jeans.” Now she is facing Left-wing backlash for another teasingly sexualized ad campaign, this time for sports trading app Novig, which launched last month.
Novig is doing an ad with Sydney Sweeney. This is what Nike needs…
pic.twitter.com/kIPGbsWW7x— Seth (@seth_fin) September 9, 2026
A prominent Austrian Covid critic’s 2022 book on ‘transhumanism’ is being threatened with a ban in Germany. German authorities maintain an ‘index’ or list of banned books, which can be owned but not sold in the country. Although the ban is in fact general, the indexing is officially supposed to serve the purpose of child protection, and indexing decisions are taken by the so-called “Federal Agency for Child and Youth Protection in the Media”.
In a free society, should government-owned facilities be available only to people who hold the “right” opinions? The Superior Court of Quebec has given a clear “non.” Justice Alain Trudel has ordered Quebec Tourism Minister Caroline Proulx to pay $60,637 in general and punitive damages to Harvest Ministries International after she ordered the cancellation of its contract to use the Centre des congrès de Québec for a Christian conference.
This case is about whether government officials can use their control over public property to censor (and effectively punish) citizens who hold what are deemed controversial opinions.
…The finding of misconduct concerned a November 2019 board meeting, where Del Grande opposed a motion to add “gender identity, gender expression, family status and marital status” to the board’s Code of Conduct as protected categories. Del Grande suggested that if those terms were included, the board should also consider protecting “transvestite, bestiality, pedophilia, gerontophilia and paraphilia,” among others.
The recent backlash against a now-retracted Amnesty International report on “the anti-rights movement in the U.K.” can be considered a case study in Canadian complacency.
Here’s what happened: On July 8, Amnesty International published a report naming dozens of registered charities, businesses and groups they accused of forming an “anti-rights movement targeting the rights of women and LGBT+ people in the U.K.” The report categorized these actors as either anti-abortion, “ultra-conservative” Christian, involved in “conversion practices,” or gender critical. The list included lesbian and gay groups, like Gay Men’s Network UK, and Lesbian Strength, as well as For Women Scotland (the group responsible for the landmark U.K. Supreme Court ruling stating that women are female) and even Beira’s Place, a women’s crisis centre founded by J.K. Rowling. The groups were accused of “fostering moral panic” with an “aim … to restrict human rights by undermining human rights protections in law and practice.”
A city in Quebec has reinstalled its monument to Samuel de Champlain in a new location, almost a decade after it was originally taken down for maintenance.
The monument to the French explorer was relocated to the parc de la Francophonie, in Gatineau, Que., on Thursday. Previously, the statue was installed at the intersection of promenade du Portage and rue Laval until 2016, when it was removed during construction work in downtown Gatineau.
Peaceful protest is a right that was exercised by some (not all!) of the demonstrators at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia on Wednesday afternoon, July 15 — the location where Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston was speaking to the Annapolis Valley Chamber of Commerce about his government’s economic plans.
Complaints ranged from local library closures to Mi’kmaq treaty rights and marijuana sales to environmental concerns around potential fracking and (uranium) mining.
CBC Nova Scotia #NovaScotia Premier Tim Houston was in Wolfville on Wednesday when protesters surrounded his vehicle, smashing the glass. This happened following a speech to the Annapolis Valley Chamber of Commerce. The CBC’s Michael Gorman reports #Good pic.twitter.com/JQG8IN46kD
— DecolonizeMyself (@DecolonizeMyse1) July 15, 2026
Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen says she has been banned from traveling to the UK after British authorities revoked her electronic travel authorization (ETA), despite it having initially been approved.
The former Finnish interior minister and physician was convicted earlier this year by Finland’s Supreme Court on a hate speech charge relating to her public statements on marriage and sexuality, which reflected her Christian beliefs and included biblical teaching.
This summer, thousands of teenagers taking one of the UK’s most popular English A-level courses will have the opportunity to write about George Orwell’s groundbreaking exploration of poverty and homelessness.
Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933, is still lauded for its unflinching depictions of destitution. One contemporary described it as “a genuine human document, which at the same time is written with so much artistic force that, in spite of the squalor and degradation thus unfolded, the result is curiously beautiful with the beauty of an accomplished etching on copper”.
