In February, 50-year-old Hamit Coskun was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” to the Islamic faith after burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London. A KC told the National Secular Society that the charges were “plainly defective”, while the NSS accused prosecutors of reintroducing a blasphemy law “by the back door”.
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has formally severed its relationship with the Trudeau family, concluding a chapter marked by controversy over foreign donations.
Blacklock’s Reporter says while a 15-month federal audit found no wrongdoing in the handling of a $140,000 gift linked to Beijing interests, the foundation announced it has completely restructured its leadership and governance to preserve its independence.
Trudeau Foundation @fdnPETF passes 15-month federal audit but cuts all ties with Trudeau family.
Alexandre Trudeau, brother of former PM, removed as exec director after endorsing 6-figure donation from friends of Chinese Communist Party.https://t.co/tVCQB6546L#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/MTDklG4SDc— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) April 14, 2025
If the Liberals’ basic campaign strategy was to transfer Justin Trudeau’s politics into a new, less objectionable host — less objectionable to some, anyway — then they can only be said to be knocking it out of the park.
Nothing has noticeably changed back at HQ with respect to their communications strategy: Trump, abortion, gun control, all the greatest hits are on shuffle. Carney spouts nonsense somewhat differently than Justin Trudeau did, but the nonsense comes just and thick and fast: About whom he’s met in the past , about the name of the Montreal school where 14 women were slaughtered in December 1989 , about his involvement with Brookfield when it relocated its headquarters to the United States .
Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties
Five years after the pandemic’s start, millions of Americans are still struggling with long-lasting symptoms of Covid-19. Cognitive difficulties are among the most troubling and common symptoms in people both old and young.
These ailments can be severe enough to leave former professionals like Ken Todd unable to work and even diagnosed with a form of mild cognitive impairment.
I first spoke with Todd, a 56-year-old former Showtime executive in New York City, in 2022 for a column on long-Covid patients grappling with crippling fatigue.
h/t DS
THIS Labour government has many delusions, but perhaps most astonishing is that it seems to believe we still live in the pre-internet era. That’s the only possible explanation for Jess Phillips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, sneaking into the Chamber on Tuesday afternoon, hours before the Commons broke for Easter Recess, in the hope of brushing the betrayal of grooming gang survivors under the carpet.
Like any democracy, Canada has had national elections on any number of issues. Parties have differed over unemployment, interest rates, deficits, taxes, national unity, bilingualism, health care, crime, scandal, and leadership. Leaders have made their case and voters have made their choice, sometimes narrowly, sometimes decisively.
Rarely, though, has an election campaign turned on foreign affairs. It reflects our modest stature in the world. The election of 1911 was about tariffs and the navy, the elections of 1917 and 1940 about war and conscription. In 1963, it was nuclear missiles. In 1988, it was free trade with the United States.
Vassy Kapelos "But if I think if a conservative had answered that way, they would have been labeled, you know, an affront to democracy."
Kory Teneycke "I think Carney's got a few big tells, and that was one of them. Whenever his personal ethics or credibility are put in the… pic.twitter.com/GTsx11Mc4S
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) April 14, 2025
The “most transparent administration ever” is reportedly breaking the law and evading FOIA requests from Judicial Watch for trying to access some of the Jeffrey Epstein documents.
Here’s the story, from Colin Kalmbacher at Law & Crime…
Pro-life activist Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted earlier this month for standing outside an abortion clinic with a sign reading: ‘Here to talk, if you want.’ She was fined £20,000 for twice breaching the clinic’s ‘buffer zone’.
Fear of Donald Trump and loathing of his tariffs have obscured other vital issues in this federal election campaign. And none is more vital than restoring confidence in Canada’s broken immigration system.
“Broken” is the right – if politically loaded – word. Even the Liberals agree that their open-door policies toward temporary workers and foreign students badly damaged the immigration system.
The issue is whether the Liberals have correctly diagnosed what went wrong and can be trusted to fix it, or whether the Conservatives could better do the job.
Immigration, all 3 mainstream parties pander. All 3 are scared to death to do what’s right.
Carney even hired “100 Million 3rd World Migrants Mark Wiseman” to destroy Canada and Poilievre didn’t have much at all to say about it.
Corporate Canada and our political class are evil.
This is not how to unify a nation.
An ‘adult diaper lover’ terrorised local nurseries by dumping soiled nappies outside their gates.
Abbi Taylor, 46, also known as Martin Tarling, identifies as a woman and finds ‘comfort’ in climbing into clinical waste bins.
Taylor also smears excrement onto milk bottles and onto the walls of nurseries, prosecutors said.
OTTAWA — Canadian intelligence reported in 2021 that Beijing planned to interfere in Canada’s next federal election with disinformation suggesting the Conservatives “will follow the path of … Donald Trump”—a narrative now echoed in a clandestine dirty tricks operation exposed inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s campaign.
The warning comes from a classified CSIS bulletin dated December 20, 2021 and marked Secret, distributed to Canadian departments including Global Affairs Canada, the Privy Council Office, the Communications Security Establishment, and Five Eyes intelligence partners. The report was based on information from Chinese consular officials in Canada.
A Conservative MP is raising concerns about potential election interference within Canada’s correctional system.
Larry Brock, MP for Brantford-Brant, shared an image of a document on X on Sunday.
This document was found behind bars and handed over by a prison guard.
Are the Liberals seriously trying to win over convicted criminals by targeting Conservative crime policies?
When you wonder why crime is on the rise, just remember that the Liberal Party is, yet again,… pic.twitter.com/XM14w92WcP
— Ron Chhinzer (@RealRonChhinzer) April 13, 2025
The ongoing trade war with the United States and Justin Trudeau’s exit as prime minister have significantly altered the political landscape for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, but some believe his path to victory lies in a sharp focus on the cost of living and trade tariffs, placing their hopes on the upcoming leaders’ debates—where they expect him to “wipe the floor” with Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
From the people who turned your Mustang into a Prius and made it so your dishwasher does not actually wash dishes comes a new villain, not quite straight from central casting, in the imaginary war on the planet: dogs.
“We are all too aware of the negative effects of cats,” Australian academics Bill Bateman and Lauren Gilson write at The Conversation, “both owned and feral, on wildlife…. Our pet dogs seem to get a free pass.”
With all the charm of Almira Gulch and the subtlety of Michael Vick, Bateman and Gilson argue that man’s best friend really sits, and rolls over, as mankind’s great enemy.
As the U.S. goes head-to-head with China in an unforeseen trade battle that will raise the cost of almost everything south of the border, many Canadians are wondering what it means for their wallets.
While experts worry about the Canadian economy slowing down, and many predict global costs are headed up due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, some argue Canadian prices on electronics, clothing, food, appliances and other consumer products will not immediately skyrocket as a result.
In fact, RBC is currently predicting that inflation at the end of 2025 will remain close to the Bank of Canada’s target of two per cent.
