We remember the fallen – while foreign criminals mop up taxpayer cash

TODAY, the annual Remembrance Sunday commemoration is held in London to honour the contribution of service personnel and civilians in the two World Wars and successive conflicts. It is a sombre occasion: the military bands stirring, the uniforms and greatcoats immaculate, and the church bells muffled. The crimson poppy wreaths are laid, while thousands of marchers salute the Cenotaph.

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AI, UBI, and the surveillance state

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the economy, boosting productivity while simultaneously threatening widespread job displacement. As AI progresses, a growing number of workers face unemployment or precarious employment, fueling political pressure for Universal Basic Income (UBI)—typically understood as unconditional payments aiming to guarantee a basic standard of living.

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Wraychel Gilmore: A Carney budget for everyone? Not this group – and they are key to our future

Our 2025 federal budget is 493 pages long. The word ‘youth’ appears only eight times. The term ‘child’ appears only six. More than seven million Canadians under the age of 18 who access government services across multiple sectors such as justice, policing, education, national training initiatives, and health care, have somehow been forgotten about in Ottawa.

References to children and youth in this budget are limited to the most extreme efforts of protection or survival. Or, they are mentioned in terms of being the third-party catalyst to dollars that incentivize or assist adults.


Wraychel Gilmore??!!??

The Star is not happy. Carney don’t care about no kids no how anyway.

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Met Police racism report is a capitulation to activists

The Metropolitan Police yesterday published an independent report by Dr Shereen Daniels, “commissioned by the service to examine how the organisation has responded to long-standing evidence of racism and discrimination”. It concludes that the Met is, in fact, systemically racist. What it really reveals, however, is that too many in senior policing roles really have lost the plot.

Using public funds to hire a racial justice activist to write a report about racism is bad enough, but the Met’s own press release skirts the bounds of honesty and integrity when it describes the review as “independent”. Commissioning an activist who makes a living from seeing racism everywhere was always going to end up with a thesis dripping in divisive critical race theory.

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The War Heroes Canada Forgets to Remember

The Nile Voyageurs – First Canadian Contingent to Serve Overseas

Every year on Remembrance Day, Canadians gather to honour the fallen, recalling the iconic battles of Vimy Ridge, Ypres, Ortona, and Kapyong, and the bravery of Spitfire pilots, corvette crews, and infantrymen who clawed through Europe’s darkest hours.

But beyond those famous chapters are lesser-known stories, often forgotten, that reveal the full scope of Canada’s military commitment, from global wars to distant peacekeeping missions and humanitarian crises.

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Christians in Nigeria beg for US intervention… as Trump’s threat interrupted the African leader’s morning espresso

Nigerians mourn Christian victims of Islamic murder cult

Christians in Nigeria have welcomed Donald Trump’s threat to send the US military to the West African nation ‘guns-a-blazing’ – but its leaders are wary.

Nigeria has been roiled by internal violence in the wake of a jihadist insurgency spearheaded by extremist group Boko Haram in the northeast since 2009.

Trump, 79, had already designated Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern,’ but he took his condemnation of the situation in the country even further last week after hearing about it on Fox News, threatening to cut aid and even send in US troops.

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What Was and Is: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

In December 1989, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared, “Hungary knocked out the first brick of the Berlin Wall.” His remarks reveal the increasingly forgotten role Hungarian decision-makers and society played in the summer of 1989. It was Hungary that finally fulfilled what Ronald Reagan called for two years before when he proclaimed, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”. Yet, as the memory of that momentous year fades, its message remains relevant. The Berlin Wall may have fallen, but the divisions it once symbolised still run deep across Europe.

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The problem with greed: Our economic system benefits only those at the very top – but it’s not too late for change

The 21st century – if you hadn’t noticed – has been a pretty rocky ride. We’ve already been through several economic crashes, a global pandemic and an affordability crisis, not to mention wars in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nor is the political landscape much cause for joy: of the democracies around in the 1990s, more than 25 have slid back to dictatorship or authoritarian semi-democracy, while China and Russia are once again ruled by autocrats. The United States every day looks more like the Roman Republic near its end, run by a President openly seeking Caesar’s perpetual dictatorship with even less deference to the Senate.

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Trivializing Religion Left Us Unprepared for Political Islam

It is not intolerant to reject Mamdani’s implicit claim that non-Muslims cannot speak of Muslim wrongdoing.

In my mind today was a man who sometimes joined our family’s Friday night Shabbat meal. He was at that time Chancellor Jim Heft of the University of Dayton, a Marianist priest who has long since moved to LA following his calling. A man well read in theology and philosophy, he also earned my basketball-mad son’s esteem for his appreciation of the game, both as a good pick-up player and as a fan of the usually-excellent teams that UD put forward. My son also appreciated his edgy sense of humor, and my son, in his own gently ironic way, would always call him “Padre.”

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Freeland tasked with tapping Canadian businesses to help rebuild Ukraine

OTTAWA – Seven weeks ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney assigned former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland to be Canada’s new special envoy for the reconstruction of Ukraine.

Canadians haven’t heard much about the job since, and nothing at all about how Ukraine can be rebuilt while Russia continues its wide-scale bombing of critical infrastructure.

But experts say Canada has a major opportunity now to help preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and international law — and to turn a profit in multiple sectors.

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Where is the money to replace Canada’s aging submarines? It wasn’t in the 2025 federal budget

Prime Minister Mark Carney has now climbed into two submarines on two continents – one on a production line in Germany, the other in the water in South Korea – yet the 2025 federal budget, which allocated more than $80 billion toward defence, made no mention of funding towards the much-needed vessels.

The Royal Canadian Navy is in the market to buy 12 conventional diesel-electric powered submarines and the federal government has narrowed the competition to two companies: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and Hanwha Ocean.

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