How our prime ministers became kings

How our prime ministers became kings

Canadians can be forgiven for feeling smug when they look across the pond at the disarray in British politics. The United Kingdom has had six prime ministers in 10 years and, if things go as expected, will soon have a seventh.

What a mess. The Canadian political scene is so much calmer, more settled, more stable. But is our way of doing things really so superior?

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NYC Socialist ‘Leader’ Is Billionaire CCP Propagandist’s Niece

NYC Socialist ‘Leader’ Is Billionaire CCP Propagandist’s Niece

As socialist candidates surge in New York and New York City, it’s worth noting that one leader of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapter is the niece of Neville Roy Singham — a propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party and ardent supporter of Maoism and socialism.

The NYC-DSA made headlines this week after candidates it endorsed won their congressional primaries. Winners included Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, who are both DSA members, as well as Brad Lander (who was backed by Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders, though he failed to receive a formal DSA endorsement).

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Iran Is Never Going to Stop Shutting Down the Strait of Hormuz

Iran Is Never Going to Stop Shutting Down the Strait of Hormuz

Iran only has one card to play and that’s shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. So it’ll never stop doing it.

Iran’s leaders, unsatisfied with billions in oil sales, access to cash, and promises of sanctions relief and $300 billion in the deal, are trying to charge for access to the strait, meanwhile despite the waivers of oil sales, they’re attacking ships passing through the strait to show they’re in charge.

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Quick-release bail laws undermine faith in Canada’s justice system

Quick-release bail laws undermine faith in Canada’s justice system

Since mid-April, Joseph Kidd of the Northern Alberta city of Grande Prairie, has been arrested on sexual assault charges three times and released shortly after each arrest, only to allegedly reoffend within a matter of days.

Anyone wondering whether the justice system is failing Canadians need look no further than the Kidd case. Should the charges against him stand up in court, you’d have to wonder why he was put back on the streets to reoffend after the first time, much less the third.

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South Africa’s warning for Britain

South Africa’s warning for Britain

As Britain reacted to an eruption of anti-migrant violence in Belfast earlier this month, seeing images of burnt-out terraced housing and hearing accounts of African nurses apprehended at checkpoints, a parallel story was unfolding 6,000 miles away, albeit on a much larger scale. In the Sherwood suburb of Durban, South Africa, some five-dozen immigrants from Malawi were taking refuge in a field beside a mosque, having been chased from their homes by protesters demanding they leave the country.

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Do Europe’s populists have a Trump problem?

Do Europe’s populists have a Trump problem?

It seems incredible that what could be described as a ‘he said / she said’ between US president Donald Trump and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has become an international incident. In the aftermath of Trump claiming Meloni ‘begged’ him for a photo at last week’s G7 summit in France (a claim categorically denied by the Italian PM), Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani cancelled his scheduled meeting with US counterpart Marco Rubio next month. The rhetoric between the two countries has only escalated since, with Trump accusing Italy of being an ungrateful ally.

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The Western Surrender: Canada is the wokest country in the world

The Western Surrender: Canada is the wokest country in the world

Each of the major Anglo states is struggling with shame for their past, and, to cope, has turned to a new philosophy of anti-West, anti-white, decolonial, self-obliterating multiculturalism that elevates foreign above familiar. But it’s Canada, of all places, that seared this way of thinking into its Constitution and social matrix without democratic debate.

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‘You used me as a punch bag…then played the victim’: Manchester Airport attacker is jailed for three years as policewoman punched to the face brands him a ‘coward’

‘You used me as a punch bag…then played the victim’: Manchester Airport attacker is jailed for three years as policewoman punched to the face brands him a ‘coward’

The policewoman left bloodied and sobbing from a broken nose after an attempted arrest at Manchester Airport turned violent has today branded her attacker a ‘coward’.

As university dropout Mohammed Fahir Amaaz was jailed for three-and-a-half years, Lydia Ward accused him of showing ‘not one ounce’ of remorse for using her ‘as a punch bag’.

Delivering her powerful statement directly to the 21-year-old, the officer – now promoted to sergeant – told him: ‘You changed my face.’

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AUBUT: ‘The Tell’ — when every crisis ends with more government power

AUBUT: ‘The Tell’ — when every crisis ends with more government power

Public unrest is usually treated as a problem the government must solve. Disorder appears, the public grows anxious, politicians step forward, and the state promises to restore calm. On the surface, it sounds reasonable. Isn’t that what government is supposed to do?

But what if unrest is not merely a problem for the government, but an opportunity? What if fear, anger, and division become the raw material from which governments manufacture more power?

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All quiet on the eastern flank? Nato leaders fear they can no longer rely on US help if Russia attacks

All quiet on the eastern flank? Nato leaders fear they can no longer rely on US help if Russia attacks

A nightmare scenario has been playing on eastern European minds with increasing intensity since Donald Trump returned to the White House: what if Russia attacks and the US does not join the fight?

On the rare occasions the question is posed out loud, nobody much likes the answer. In mid-May, at a gathering in Tallinn, the US undersecretary of state Thomas DiNanno was asked directly whether American troops would fight if Russia invaded the Baltic states. He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, then gave a meandering answer. It did not include the word “yes”.

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Liam Ferguson: Concerns over cutting back therapy sessions for refugees are misplaced

Liam Ferguson: Concerns over cutting back therapy sessions for refugees are misplaced

The Canadian government’s recent cut to mental health services for migrants has some progressive professionals criticizing the decision. They argue that the remaining funded hours per year are not enough for migrants to “heal from their trauma.” There are two questions that should be asked. The first is why professionals such as psychologists and social workers are concerned about who receives funding for their services. The second is why the Canadian government is funding the services at all.

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The Commies Mount An Across the Board Push

The Commies Mount An Across the Board Push

A decade ago, it was all “Russians! Under my bed!” everywhere. Those Russians were fictional, for the most part, part of a campaign organized by Clintonistas to explain away her humiliating defeat, and magnified by various Deep State operatives into an effort to discredit and weaken the first Trump term. (The previous sentence counted as conspiracy theory then; now it’s unexceptionable truth, like so many of those conspiracy theories.)

But while the Russians weren’t actually calling the shots, the the Latté Communist Party, more officially known as the Democratic Socialists of America, has been seeking out election victories everywhere. And winning some.

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Liberals claim to be the party of law and order now. Inside the party’s about-face on crime

Liberals claim to be the party of law and order now. Inside the party’s about-face on crime

After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face and enacted stricter policies to tamp down on crime rates that have become a political liability in some vote-rich parts of the country.

While much of the public’s attention has been focused on the U.S. trade dispute and persistent affordability concerns, the Liberal government’s legislative agenda in the most recent parliamentary sitting was heavily weighted toward a crime crackdown.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser restored some mandatory minimum sentences, mostly targeting firearms and child sex crimes, and tightened bail laws designed to keep more repeat, violent offenders locked up for longer.


Law and order? As in a surveillance state with two tiered justice.

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