John Carpay: Quebec Court Ruling a Hopeful Sign of Resistance to Cancel Culture in Canada

John Carpay: Quebec Court Ruling a Hopeful Sign of Resistance to Cancel Culture in Canada

In a free society, should government-owned facilities be available only to people who hold the “right” opinions? The Superior Court of Quebec has given a clear “non.” Justice Alain Trudel has ordered Quebec Tourism Minister Caroline Proulx to pay $60,637 in general and punitive damages to Harvest Ministries International after she ordered the cancellation of its contract to use the Centre des congrès de Québec for a Christian conference.

This case is about whether government officials can use their control over public property to censor (and effectively punish) citizens who hold what are deemed controversial opinions.

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AUBUT: Tear down the ‘House of Mirrors’ — Canada desperately needs a reset

AUBUT: Tear down the ‘House of Mirrors’ — Canada desperately needs a reset

Identifying Canada’s democratic defects is easier than correcting them.

Part One of this series described a political system filled with institutions that appear to restrain government but frequently lack the independence or authority needed to do so. Parliament supposedly controls the government, although a disciplined majority government normally controls Parliament. Senators review legislation but are appointed. Courts protect constitutional rights but act only after someone launches a costly and lengthy challenge. Watchdogs investigate misconduct but rarely impose consequences. Elections allow governments to be replaced, but provide citizens with little control between votes.

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The collapse of the postwar order

The collapse of the postwar order

Since 1945, several pillars of Western life have been taken as given. First, that Western armies can more or less have their way with lesser powers and that guerrilla resistance is all they can expect to face. Second, that immigration means greater cultural diversity and therefore represents a net positive for the nations on the receiving end. Third, that nearly any country can become a liberal democracy, for it is a universal good that everyone aspires to and is capable of achieving.

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Iran Is Betting America Will Cut And Run

Iran Is Betting America Will Cut And Run

Iran has stymied the United States for the moment, even though, by almost any conventional measure, it should be decisively defeated. The American people grudgingly believed their president when he said the conflict would be over quickly. Unfortunately, the enemy got their vote.

Let there be no mistake: Iran has not achieved any victory, much less a military one. It has suffered hundreds of billions in damage and a decimated pool of former leaders. Yet, like a punch-drunk fighter, it still stands. Don’t confuse defiance for victory, though.

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William Watson: Carney not signing trade deal was good, war talk wasn’t

William Watson: Carney not signing trade deal was good, war talk wasn’t

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war , said Winston Churchill, who was well-versed in both. Of course, Churchill never jaw-jawed with Donald Trump, notorious bad-faith bargainer.

Near the end of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s news conference Saturday the National Post’s Christopher Nardi asked whether we were now in a trade war with the United States. “We were attacked,” Carney answered, “You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked.” So we are “at war” with by far our most important trading partner. It was a candid offhand remark that provided the lead to many news reports of Carney’s comments and is bound to have been noted in the White House. Firm action is good. Not signing a bad deal is good. Taunting a hair-trigger megalomaniac isn’t.

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Meet the American Iranians caught in the crossfire

Meet the American Iranians caught in the crossfire

Psychologist Dr Nezhat Farnoody sits in her well-appointed office in Irvine, an upscale, modern city about an hour and a half south of Los Angeles. She and her daughter, Nelly (who is also a psychologist), spend much of their time listening to Southern California’s Persian elite, a community caught between a country that welcomed and nurtured them and their mother country, Iran, with which the US is waging an on-again, off-again war.

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Harry and Meghan will look to become ‘private royals-plus’ while back in the UK and may only stay one year before moving to Canada or Australia, says source

Harry and Meghan will look to become ‘private royals-plus’ while back in the UK and may only stay one year before moving to Canada or Australia, says source

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will seek to have a hybrid private-royal status when they make their return to the UK, it has been claimed.

A source says the Sussexes will put attempts to work out a mutually beneficial relationship with the Royal Family as ‘private royals-plus’ at the top of their agenda.

However, there are now questions over how long Harry and Meghan will even remain in Britain, with suggestions that it could be as soon as six months to a year before the ‘international couple’ decide to leave again and go to Australia or Canada, the insider added.


God no.

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Vancouver, Montreal soccer fans boo U.S. anthem after trade talks break down

Vancouver, Montreal soccer fans boo U.S. anthem after trade talks break down

VANCOUVER — Soccer fans are again voicing their disappointment over trade relations between the United States and Canada by booing the American national anthem.

Jeers echoed through Vancouver’s BC Place ahead of a Major League Soccer game between the Whitecaps and FC Dallas on Saturday as singer Emma Currie launched into the opening notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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Europe’s Jihadi Migrants: Mapping Migrant Involvement in Jihadi Terrorism in Europe (2015–2025)

Europe’s Jihadi Migrants: Mapping Migrant Involvement in Jihadi Terrorism in Europe (2015–2025)

In a warm summer evening in late August 2024, a 26-year-old Syrian national named Issa al-Hasan carried out a mass stabbing at the ‘Festival of Diversity’ in Solingen, Germany, killing three people and injuring eight others.1 The attack took place in front of the main stage during a live performance by DJ Topic, who later revealed that security personnel had urged him to continue his set to prevent mass panic among the crowd. He kept playing for another 10–15 minutes, until the music was finally stopped. Eyewitnesses reported that al-Hasan, who had been in contact with an ISIS handler on Telegram the day before the attack, had shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the assault.2 One of his victims, Ines Wallusch, a 56-year-old pharmacist, bled to death in the arms of her husband after suffering a fatal stab wound to her carotid artery.

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Trump revives annexation comments as governors say tariffs on Canada will harm Americans

Trump revives annexation comments as governors say tariffs on Canada will harm Americans

U.S. President Donald Trump is reviving his annexationist rhetoric after Canada walked away from a punishing prospective trade deal.

In his first comments since talks collapsed late Friday, triggering an escalation in Mr. Trump’s continental trade war, the President posted to Truth Social shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday.

“Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!!” Mr. Trump wrote.

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It Is Not Racist to Notice Things, It’s Actually Racist to Pretend You Don’t

It Is Not Racist to Notice Things, It’s Actually Racist to Pretend You Don’t

As a charge, “racism” is completely irrelevant in 2026. “Wolf” has been cried so many times that even if it were a wolf crying it, no one would believe it or care. I should say “almost no one.” Democrats would still try to make something out of it, and Al Sharpton and Ben Crump would come to perform a little b******t two-step for the cameras and the checks. But otherwise, no one would care because, well, it is not racist to notice things.

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