Matt Ridley recently argued that the defining political struggle of our age is no longer simply Left against Right. It is top-down control against bottom-up freedom. Government should protect rights, enforce contracts, and set fair rules. It should also possess enough humility to let people solve their own problems.
That argument could have been written for Alberta.
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An elite police squad which was set up to monitor social media in the wake of the Southport riots has flagged more than 100 posts to local forces.
The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team was created earlier this year to surveil online platforms for signs of “protest-related activity”.
It was founded by ministers in response to the national unrest following the 2024 Southport murders, which prompted a series of anti-immigrant riots.
Big Brother is a Muslim.
In British Columbia’s northwest, the constitutional trappings of Canadian governance are being replaced and the public is not having a say.
Across the province, more and more First Nations governments are making claims to vast swatches of land. Some of the most consequential claims are those of the Tahltan Nation, which has identified 95,933 square kilometres of land as its own territory. That’s about 11 per cent of the entire province. The consequences will be much greater than mere land transfers.
The song lyrics were the first red flag. The way he’d ramble about Tinie Tempah or Eminem, or how black artists like Beyoncé were sexualized by white men, without offering any evidence to substantiate his claims. Or else there were the film clips, from Fish Tank and Kidulthood, which he’d tell us to discuss without offering guidance on how to do so. And this was if he was even in the classroom at all. He often arrived late and left early, once teaching for a single hour when four were scheduled.
There’s one American industry we’ve, so far, been unwilling to defy. That needs to change
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration and the turn of the United States from ally to threat, a grand disentanglement has been underway. The systems that once connected the liberal world order — in defence, in trade, in our alliance networks — are being torn up and rebuilt. And as painful as those changes are, they are obviously necessary to preserving Canadian sovereignty, and the changes are, to a greater or lesser extent, underway. But the biggest challenge, the hardest change, is in technology. Canada has woken up, after thirty years of integration, to find ourselves a digital colony.
Yes Canada has made many tech contributions that have improved the world but decolonization would bring us back to a virtual stone age.
Doug Wilson spent decades wandering in the American wilderness, a pastor searching for congregants, followers, even sparring partners who could give him a platform to present his new vision for his country and its churches.
Little about Mr. Wilson suggested he would find what he was looking for. He was a walking and talking anachronism, possessed of a thick beard and a dense theology that drew on the thoughts of 16th-century Protestant Reformers. His church hymnals brimmed with 18th-century songs, their lyrics written to bolster the very British empire the U.S. violently rejected at its birth.
Is higher education worth it? Canadians and Americans share a common answer. Abacus Data’s most recent Precarity Mindset report indicates that, in both countries, only 18 per cent of the population say a college or university education is “definitely worth it.”
Just more than 20 per cent think it is “generally worth it.” The public skepticism builds from there. Thirty-seven per cent of Canadians polled say it depends on the “program and school,” 13 per cent indicate “costs now outweigh the benefits,” and nine per cent argue that the “system is broken.”
Foreign ministers of Arab and Islamic countries gathered in Jordan on August 5 and 6 to issue yet another series of condemnations of Israel. Reading their statements, one could easily conclude that there is only one party responsible for violence, instability, and suffering in the Middle East: Israel.
Hamas? Barely relevant. The Hamas-led October 7, 2023 massacre? Apparently not worth mentioning. Palestinian terrorism and incitement against Israel? Not on the agenda. The need to dismantle Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups? Evidently not a priority.
Canada’s economy is booming, as long as you ignore the actual data and upcoming revisions. Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows seasonally adjusted employment climbed by 75,000 jobs in July. The unseasoned reality was a little less savoury, showing a 6-digit decline in the same month, along with rising unemployment. The picture may be even worse than presented, with a Big Six bank projecting substantial upward revisions to population estimates in just a few weeks.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing questions after his $300 million superyacht didn’t rush to help passengers stuck on a ship in Alaskan waters, according to a report.
The 387-foot monster ship, Launchpad, didn’t act on requests for assistance when a 21-foot skiff ran out of fuel on a trip between Petersburg and Juneau, Alaska, on Monday night, the Alaska Beacon reported.
Police say that they have made a third arrest in connection with shootings at synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan in March and are no longer seeking additional suspects.
The shootings took place over the span of about 20 minutes in the late hours of March 6 and the early hours of March 7.
… That suspect has been identified as Chris Perreira, 23, of Barrie.
Iranian media is reporting a top official’s claim that there will in fact be no more pretense at negotiations with President Donald Trump.
What has happened repeatedly over the last few months is that Trump offers the ayatollahs a generous deal, and they almost immediately come out with more extravagant threats against the “Great Satan” America, because terrorists prefer endless jihad for Allah to money. So one hopes that Trump can stop listening to jihad-loving Qatar’s advice and follow through on his original and praiseworthy plan, which was to destroy the Iranian regime entirely. Imagine how it would change the Middle East if Iran’s government were friendly to U.S., as so many of its people are.
A former informant for a Marxist-Leninist military junta that ruled Ethiopia for 17 years, and who acknowledged that people he reported on were arrested and imprisoned, with some of them subjected to interrogations, beatings, and torture, has won another chance at staying in Canada.
American intelligence experts believe Russia was behind an attack on a German airport last week with a drone laden with explosives, US media have reported, as Berlin remained silent on the likely culprit.
Last week’s security emergency prompted the interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, to break off his summer holiday in Italy and rush to the scene in the eastern city of Leipzig, as he spoke of a “new level of danger” for Germany.
Dobrindt called the incident, in which a quadcopter with semtex plastic explosives attached was found next to a Ukrainian cargo plane at the major shipping and military hub, part of a “professional hybrid threat scenario” by a well-equipped foreign actor.
A Montreal man has been arrested for allegedly making death threats towards Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Marc Porlier, 51, appeared at the Montreal courthouse on Aug. 8.
He was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm to a person under section 264.1 of the Criminal Code, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
