It was once the jewel in the tarnished crown of the BBC – remember those Christmas idents of 2009, when David Tennant charmed a devoted nation with his reindeer-drawn TARDIS? But this week, the BBC announced that not even its heralded ‘festive special’ would go ahead. As it stands, the show’s future looks uncertain, with the BBC reported to be inviting production companies to pitch for a role potentially co-producing a new series.
Albert Einstein wrote the following in a letter to his son in the 1950s about American politics: “There’s something amazing about America’s democracy, it’s got a gyroscope, and just when you think it’s going to go off the cliff, it rights itself.”
Some 70 years later, we see that gyroscope is once again at work.
“Let’s go to where I stabbed this dude,” Robert Rundo tells the camera outside a convenience store in Queens, N.Y., wearing a backward hat and sunglasses as he aggressively chews gum.
In the short propaganda video for his California-based Rise Above Movement, which was posted in February, the native New Yorker is almost gleeful as he recalls the moment. In a detailed play-by-play of this “street warfare” incident, he describes how, in 2009, he battered and stabbed an alleged member of a Salvadoran-American street gang known as MS-13 over a territory dispute in his childhood neighbourhood. The camera shakes while the 36-year-old delivers his stand-up; the footage, which appears digitally altered to look gritty, is interspersed with images of him doing pull-ups with his shirt off and boxing in a gym. The video’s bland title, “Where I’m From: White Working Class Queens,” gives the game away in its opening text: “A fascist in the concrete jungle.” “Fascist” is clearly not meant derogatorily.
In Canada the CBC and its hate group allies have lead the moral panic over “Active Clubs” because it’s racist for White people to associate with one another.
U.S. Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers has again spoken out on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in Canada, this time commenting on a tribunal ruling that found views opposing “systemic racism” theories are not grounded in political or legal principles.
The decision involves a Simon Fraser University political science professor who was denied a job because he did not support DEI.
The B.C. human rights tribunal decided against holding a hearing on the issue last month. Adjudicator Devyn Cousineau said in her April 15 ruling that the educator had no reasonable likelihood of proving that he was denied the position because of his political views, because opposition to DEI did not constitute a political stance under the law.
An elementary school in Winnipeg will send students home with “family gifts” this week, instead of traditional Mother’s Day and Father’s Day presents, part of a new trend among some Canadian schools downplaying or eliminating the traditional parental celebrations.
Grade 1 and 2 teachers at Sage Creek School in Winnipeg informed parents of the change last week, just days before Mother’s Day.
Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan has defended his casting decisions for his upcoming epic The Odyssey following online backlash.
With the release of the newest trailer last week, online chatter attacked the film for some of the casting decisions, such as rapper Travis Scott. Speaking with TIME in a lengthy profile, the acclaimed filmmaker said he wanted Scott as a symbol for stories like Homer’s The Odyssey being passed down as oral poetry.
The late great author Michael Crichton gave Hollywood one of its biggest franchises, Jurassic Park — still going strong — and the television monster hit ER. Most of his novels became major films, including The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Rising Sun, and Timeline. Yet today, were Crichton a live white male instead of a dead one (he died in 2008), producers would ban him for having opposed their woke mind virus before it metastasized.
No one is wondering that it will be a woke mess. It just is.
CALGARY — The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is responding to criticism over temporary signs that were posted in northeast Calgary in the Punjabi language as part of an effort to combat extortion crimes targeting the South Asian community.
In a statement to the Western Standard, CPS said it had placed “ten temporary signs in select northeast Calgary locations for a two-week period, which began on Wednesday, April 22, 2026,” adding that the locations were chosen based on current intelligence about extortion activity in the city.
h/t Mauser
Becky Hamber, 46, Brandy Cooney, 44, had pleaded not guilty to charges involving boys in their care
It seems no one dared upset the twisted lesbians.
What one expects when visiting an archaeology museum are vestiges of the past, the remains of the civilizations that preceded us, and the traces our ancestors left in history. What one does not expect to find are woke narratives more typical of a Netflix series, but that is what we can find in some Spanish museums thanks to the nefarious ideological work of Minister of Culture Ernest Urtasun.
Most people who have been paying attention will have realised by now that identity politics, which over the past 10 years reached unprecedented heights of fanaticism and compulsory observance, has had a devastating effect on race relations in the UK and throughout the West. Coercing people to label and perceive themselves on the basis of skin colour, to regard themselves as either oppressors or oppressed, has fostered division and resentment. The cumulative effect has been increased levels of racism and belligerent rancour all round, with everyone now seeing themselves as victims of prejudice.
From around 2010 to the present, a woke supremacy took charge on many American college campuses, upending a traditional emphasis on a lively but civil dissemination of time-honored ideas and discovery of new ones, replacing it with ideologically driven support of a leftish agenda.
A Canadian university is advertising five research positions, but applicants must be a part of the LGBTQ+ community to apply.
Memorial University of Newfoundland posted five new Canada Research Chair (CRC) positions that are open to current employees of the liberal arts school, but there’s a catch.
In order to be eligible to apply, the applicant has to be a member of an equity group, including the 2SLGBTQIA+ people, a woman, Indigenous, a racialized person, or a disabled, according to the job postings viewed by the Daily Mail.
Canadian Universities & Stage 5 Suicidal Empathy – No Straight White Men! Let me tag @MemorialU. pic.twitter.com/fS536qhtES
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) April 22, 2026
Human rights commission must reconsider case of woman who was refused service in Tagalog
In Saskatchewan, the authorities are currently deciding whether to treat Tagalog like an official language.
It all started at the Starbucks in Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital. Vanessa Casila, a Filipina woman, tried to order in Tagalog. The employee taking her order refused, saying she would receive a formal reprimand from the manager if she went along with it. Casila then filed a human rights complaint, claiming that the “English only” policy amounted to discrimination based on race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, and nationality.
When I became the Chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2014, I said some things I was not supposed to say. I made the observation that human rights tribunals had a bad reputation. This wasn’t received well.
In my first Annual Report to Parliament, I asserted that “Discrimination is not widely accepted in Canada. It is not acceptable to most Canadians to even hear a suggestion of prohibited discrimination, let alone engage in it.” I still believe that remains true today.
h/t Patti Jo
