KLEIN: $871,000 in expenses for just seven indigenous leaders, Indigenous whistleblowers demand to see the books

If I had been the one to raise these questions, the cancel culture crowd would already be in full attack mode. But they can’t dismiss what’s happening now, because it’s not outsiders doing the talking. It’s Indigenous people themselves, standing up and demanding to know where the money has gone and why their communities are still struggling. Their voices are brave, their questions fair, and their message simple: the truth has to matter more than politics.

(Incognito)

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Cat on a wire

Xavier, twist tie and my chair

This is Xavier’s favourite toy, yes a twist tie.

He has played with it every day for weeks always with the same goal.

He deliberately bats it under the garbage can so he has reason to reach into the unknown and pluck it out again.

Except he isn’t always successful retrieving it.

That’s when he sits watch beside the can and meows plaintively until I am forced to rescue his twist tie.

No lie I have done this 10’s of times for him.

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Ostriches Executed for No Good Reason

On Friday, “professional marksmen” in Canada gunned down almost 400 ostriches. Birds that were clearly disease free; just more victims of the Canadian government’s totalitarian overreach. Deja vu- “the truckers rally.”

As most of you know, Robert and I have a soft spot for ratites, which is the family of flightless birds that lack a sternal keel (as did dinosaurs) that ostriches belong to. In fact, our pet emu is another member of that ancient lineage of birds. There are only five groups of ratites left in the world (ostriches, emus, kiwis, cassowaries, and Rheas). They have a special place in the animal kingdom. Ratites may be the closest living relatives to the dinosaurs and truly are fascinating.

h/t SC and Auntie Polly

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How Trump could hamper Zohran Mamdani’s New York agenda

Just moments after Zohran Mamdani won his battle to become the next mayor of New York City, the rising political star zeroed in on his next fight: taking on the president of the United States.

In his victory speech on Tuesday, Mamdani turned to the cameras to directly taunt the president: “So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up,” he said.

Minutes later, Trump responded on his social media site Truth Social: “…AND SO IT BEGINS!”

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WTF?

Hmmm …

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Chicago Mayor Urges UN To Investigate What He Says Are Human Rights Violations in America

Brandon Johnson – Loves Looting

Chicago’s mayor is urging the U.N. Human Rights Council – a body whose members include notorious abusers such as China, Cuba, Russia, and Qatar – to investigate what he describes as a “worsening human rights crisis” in America under the Trump administration.

The United States, meanwhile, on Friday became only the second country ever to refuse to cooperate with a routine review of its rights record by the council, which the Trump administration has accused of a “deep anti-American bias” and a disproportionate focus on Israel.

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Mark Carney’s budget is blind to the real causes of Canada’s problems

On November 4, François-Philippe Champagne described the 2025 federal budget as “generational.” In doing so, the finance minister offered a rare example of plausible political hype, without the usual hyperbole.

The challenges facing Canada are profound, and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has responded with a massive surge in military spending and a suite of significant investments in housing, infrastructure and AI — investments only partially offset by widespread cuts to other areas.

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Criticism of Islamic cult is a protected belief, judge rules

Criticism of Islam is a protected belief under equalities law, a judge has ruled.

Patrick Lee, 61, was found guilty of misconduct by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) last April over posts on X. After a four-year disciplinary process, he was banned from the professional body and ordered to pay nearly £23,000 in costs.

The trade body ruled that 42 of his posts that criticised Islam, including calling the Prophet Mohammed a “monster”, were “either offensive or inflammatory or both”, adding that 29 were “designed to demean or insult Muslims”.

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Adam Pankratz: Land rights confusion a mess of David Eby’s making

In the never-ending saga that is now land title in British Columbia, another bomb has been set off. It has come to light that the Secwépemc First Nation is seeking a declaration of Aboriginal Title to the entire City of Kamloops, a city in British Columbia’s interior of over 100,000 people, along with the surrounding area, including the ski resort of Sun Peaks, an area with an assessed value of at least $43 billion. While no decision has been made on this claim, the Cowichan ruling from August, which declared fee simple titles and interests in the City of Richmond “defective and invalid” in the title area, has sparked a flurry of interest and panic.

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Syrian killers who treated victims like dogs get away with murder

After militias called for the so-called remnants of the Assad regime to be ‘crushed’, massacres were turned into memes. Families fear they’ll never get justice

The widows saw their men forced to bark like dogs before they were killed. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians saw their final degradation, too, as well as the faces of the killers, as the deaths were broadcast on social media.

When Hadeel Nakher saw her husband Qais, 50, and son Ahmed, 30, for the last time on the screen of her phone, they were kneeling by a verge with two other captives, her brother-in-law and a neighbour, being beaten with belts and kicks by a group of armed men. “Bark, bark, bark, you bastards!” a jeering Sunni fighter yelled into their faces as the blows rained down. “I don’t hear you barking.”

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