A few years ago, I was in New York with my 21-year-old daughter. We visited museums, ate at great restaurants, did some shopping. During our trip, she found a pair of sandals made of embroidered Chinese fabric and fell in love with them.
But that summer, I noticed she never wore them. When I asked why, she said: “I just feel like there’s a chance I’ll offend someone.”
A poet was dropped by a parish church magazine after she sparked anger for writing about migrants and overweight benefit claimants.
Diana Hunt, a regular contributor to the Uplyme Parish News, penned two poems on the state of modern Britain, taking aim at “benefits scroungers”, “boat loads of illegals” and fat people who say they cannot afford to eat.
But a number of residents in the small village of Uplyme, on the Devon-Dorset border, took objection to what they felt were her less than charitable tones.
Bob Gale has resigned as chair of the Regional Municipality of Niagara amid calls for an apology from local anti-racism groups that claim he owns a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book.
Gale submitted on Wednesday a letter to Rob Flock, the Ontario minister of municipal affairs and housing, stating that his resignation was effective immediately.
“Today, a member of the communist party circulated a dated document that listed my name as the owner of a historical book found in many libraries,” Gale wrote in his letter to Flack.
Earlier Wednesday, the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association and the Justice 4 Black Lives Niagara issued a joint release alleging that Gale purchased and owned a copy of “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s political manifesto, signed by the Nazi leader.
It’s an historic document. The latter day Nazi Karens would burn all of us at the stake on the flimsiest of pretexts.
h/t Patti Jo
If you ever find yourself confused by the complexities of the ever-evolving hierarchy of oppression, the ‘compassionate’ left is happy to fill you in. Certain identity markers – particularly race and gender identity – place you comfortably in the upper layers of the victimhood trifle. But having a life-inhibiting neurological disorder? That, it seems, gives you little more than the soggy sponge at the bottom.
This would be funny if weren’t so infuriating.
The people in the comments here would do well to watch some of the numerous documentaries made on John Davidson since he was a kid – or his BAFTA winning biopic – before casually condemning a man with life-long chronic Tourette’s as a racist. https://t.co/daIfIxqnmt
— Damo (@concretemilk) February 22, 2026
Clip from the film about his life
I Swear is a British film about John Davidson, a Scottish man with severe Tourette syndrome, following his journey from a misunderstood teenager to an adult who campaigned for awareness and acceptance… pic.twitter.com/5Y8BKNrm3K
— ScenesThatSlap (@scenesthatslap) February 23, 2026
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling a recent ruling by a B.C. tribunal “insane and Orwellian” after a former school board trustee was ordered to pay $750,000 for speaking out against sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum.
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 to the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association after ruling last week that he had violated the Human Rights Code by publishing content that it deemed “discriminatory” and exposed LGBT people “to hatred or contempt.”
In March 2019, Caylan Ford was considered a star candidate for the United Conservative Party in Alberta as the NDP government under Rachel Notley called a general election. Despite her young age, Ford had a formidable resumé, including a master’s degree from Oxford University and a record of employment with the Canadian foreign ministry as an international affairs specialist. As a young, accomplished woman, she tempered the list of UCP candidates, which was predominantly conservative men.
Before the end of that month, however, Ford was abruptly forced to resign as a candidate and became a political pariah. She had been struck by cancel culture, and there was no recovering politically.
A controversial comedian is no longer performing at a city-owned venue in Kitchener.
Ben Bankas was scheduled to perform at the Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts on March 7. On Wednesday, a city spokesperson told CTV News the event rental had been “relocated” and ticket holders were notified of the change.
Bankas’ website says the shows will be held at Elements nightclub in downtown Kitchener instead.
h/t Patti Jo
Europeans Turned into ‘Second Class’ Citizens
December 15. France. Two men, Jacques Baud and Xavier Moreau, who commented online about the war in Ukraine, discovered that they were among 12 people being sanctioned by the European Union for allegedly spreading propaganda for the Russian government. Some of the 12 people are propagandists, just not them. No evidence so far has proven that they had any ties with either the Russian government or Russian intelligence agencies.
A former Ontario teacher says she has settled a defamation lawsuit against her previous school board after the board chair called her “transphobic” when she tried to raise concerns about the content of some books in school libraries.
The Ontario Court of Appeal had in November 2024 permitted Carolyn Burjoski’s defamation lawsuit against the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) and former school board chairman Scott Piatkowski to proceed, after the school board appealed an earlier court decision allowing the case to go ahead.
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says Canada isn’t considering a ban of the social media platform X, though his office says discussions about X’s deepfake controversy are under way.
The platform, which is owned by Elon Musk, has drawn global criticism over sexualized deepfakes created by X’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, which have proliferated in recent weeks.
OTTAWA – The cancellation of a planned event at York University has led some Conservative MPs to accuse students there of attacking free speech.
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says he was denied permission to hold an event on campus on Friday.
But the York University Student Centre says its decision was “not politically motivated in any way” and the event simply didn’t meet its requirements.
British comedian Ricky Gervais is standing up to the transgender mob and pushing back against criticism of his jokes about transgender people, among other topics.
Comedian Ben Bankas’ I Said What I Said tour has hit another roadblock as his show scheduled for Sault Ste. Marie has been cancelled.
The show, which was originally set to take place at the Sault Community Theatre Centre (SCTC) on March 6, was cancelled after the local theatre board reviewed Bankas’ content.
Sorry Sault we need a new venue. It’s wild being discriminated against by the “anti-discrimination” people. pic.twitter.com/r39WtTeMJr
— Ben Bankas (@BenBankas) December 10, 2025
I didn’t suspect, when I became a nurse, that I was entering a profession wherein I would be unable to express my political views, in my private life, without being fired and put through interminable legal hell. But that’s what I got, in British Columbia.
This is from a story about the scalping of British settlers and militia by Mi’kmaq warriors in what became known as the “Dartmouth Massacre” on May 13, 1751, from John Wilson’s eyewitness account: “These Indians chain the unfortunate prisoner to a large thick tree, and bind his hands and his feet, then beginning from the middle of the craneum, they cut quite round towards the neck; this being done, they then tear off the skin, leaving the skull bare; an inflammation quickly follows, the patient fevers, and dies in the most exquisite tortures.”
