Canada’s top soldier appears to be having second thoughts about recruiting public servants to augment reserve forces, adding they are already doing enough for defence.
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck signed a document on May 30, 2025, launching a plan to boost both the reserves and what is known as the Supplementary Reserve.
Ottawa must be fearing a Nepal style insurrection one reader suggested.
On Britain’s authoritarian turn
It is only appropriate that the head of Britain’s government should be Keir Starmer, a human rights lawyer and former head of the nation’s prosecuting authorities, because Britain now prosecutes its own citizens—if they say the wrong things. The ideology and culture of human rights, whether by design or not, have served to make the country safer for criminals, increase mass illegal immigration, curtail freedom of speech, and entrench a sprawling ideological bureaucracy.
The Crown has filed appeals against the sentencing and acquittals of intimidation charges for Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.
The Crown is seeking to replace Barber’s 18-month conditional sentence with a harsher penalty, and has asked the Court of Appeal to either enter a conviction on the intimidation charge or order a new trial on that count, according to a release from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
Lawyers for Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich have filed a notice of appeal in the Ontario Court of Appeal, seeking to overturn her mischief conviction stemming from the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests that took over downtown Ottawa for three weeks.
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been found not guilty of a terror offence after refusing to give police access to his phone in July 2024.
The 42-year-old, who was charged under his real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was stopped by officers at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone while driving a friend’s silver Bentley to Benidorm, Spain.
Robinson refused to give officers the Pin to his phone during the stop, arguing that the device contained confidential journalistic material.
Who raises our children in B.C.? Parents, or schoolteachers and administrators? The latter two seem to think it’s their right. Examples abound.
Because of her political views, B.C. mother Bryony Dixon was barred last year from hosting students with her school district’s international homestay program. She responded by filing a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT). She alleges discrimination on the basis of political belief.
WRPS hosting public info sessions ahead of new tech launch
In an effort to remain transparent, Waterloo Region Police Service (WRPS) will be hosting several public information sessions ahead of the installation of new closed-circuit television (CCTV) and automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.
WRPS plan to use new CCTV equipped with ALPR systems to help prevent and investigate crime.
Every day the screw tightens until it’s too late …
And the little ‘s lying through his teeth. Pure theatre.@fancypants_s https://t.co/tMhAjf5DSw
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 26, 2025
h/t Patti Jo and Auntie Polly
Tamara Lich is not going to jail.
Nor is her Freedom Convoy sidekick Chris Barber.
Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey told a packed courtroom Tuesday afternoon in Ottawa that the leaders of the 2022 trucker’s Freedom Convoy sentences will be served in the community and not behind bars.
On Sept. 10, political commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated. He did not just die, he did not euphemistically “pass away.” He was murdered in cold blood. Even worse, he was viciously gunned down as he participated in the very thing he advocated for: Free and civil debate.
As a society, we have a duty to condemn this violence as barbaric, unjust and anti-human. Not only has some of the Canadian media failed at this basic task, but their response has revealed a pathogen that has infected our culture and politics: The coercive spirit of censorship.
The RCMP wanted a well-known photojournalist kept in custody for months or more after Mounties alleged she assaulted a sheriff following her high-profile arrest at the 2021 Wet’suwet’en pipeline standoff.
Documents filed with the B.C. Supreme Court as part of a civil suit launched by photographer Amber Bracken and The Narwhal media outlet against the RCMP showed how the Mounties tried – and quickly failed – to get Ms. Bracken charged and detained without bail for an incident related to her release from three nights in jail.
The country’s censorship regime is targeting ordinary Britons.
“Free speech is at the lowest ebb it has been in Britain since the eighteenth century,” the U.K. Free Speech Union’s founder and president Toby Young, recently ennobled, told me over lunch at the House of Lords last week. The Peers’ Dining Room was sedate—the average age in the upper house of Britain’s parliament is 70—but beyond the Palace of Westminster’s well-guarded gates, the United Kingdom is in crisis, especially in the realm of free expression. Since Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party returned to power last year, Young’s organization—which offers advocacy and representation for people facing consequences for their speech—has seen membership skyrocket. It’s risen from 14,000 in July 2024 to 35,000 now, he says, alongside a record number of requests for help.
The ruling class must fear rebellion and retribution for their traitorous crimes.
What else explains this attack on citizens?
A 16yr old girl has her flag violently snatched from her by police officers in Newcastle! pic.twitter.com/paoQco4arM
— Billy Moore (@billymooreAPBD) September 28, 2025
THE evil Starmer has been writing in the Telegraph, confessing that the Left ‘ignored immigration fears for too long’.
His response is to offer a plan for ‘patriotic renewal’ (whatever that is) which he asserts is the only thing that will counter ‘the rise of the populist right’. Towards the conclusion of his piece, he writes: ‘For Labour, we are clear that we must absolutely respond to the reasonable concerns about immigration.’
WASHINGTON — President Trump raged Saturday at the bombshell report alleging the FBI had 274 plainclothes in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021 — declaring that the bureau’s former director Christopher Wray “has some major explaining to do.”
The FBI had privately acknowledged the existence of those plainclothes agents, despite a Justice Department Inspector General report denying that they were there, according to a Blaze report on Thursday.
Changes to Canadian broadcasting rules have raised concerns among musicians and free-expression advocates, as artists report being unable to advertise their work unless certain lyrics are altered or removed.
On a recent episode of Liberty Talk with Odessa Orlewicz, Canadian musician Jayme Knyx said he was told that his songs could not be promoted with original lyrics that referenced political dissent and social issues. One example came from his track Freedom’s Call, which originally included the line “The chains of power silence our voice.”
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Unrelated
Canadian Conservative Party MP Leslyn Lewis blasted a new Liberal “hate crime” bill, calling it a “dangerous” piece of legislation that she says will open the door for authorities to possibly prosecute Canadians’ speech deemed “hateful.”
In an X post on Tuesday, Lewis slammed the Liberal government’s Bill C-9, or the Combating Hate Act, in a scathing post.
Lewis observed that the bill, as written, “expands state power to prosecute speech under unclear rules and with fewer checks on government abuse.”
