A ruling by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal which
imposed a penalty of $750,000 on a trans heretic is as chilling in its
implication as it is draconian in its punishment.
The extraordinary judgement creates a hierarchy of beliefs
in that if a person says they are transgender then everyone is obliged to
believe them, regardless of any skepticism. To do otherwise is to deny their
existence, says the tribunal.
The ruling has all the hallmarks of the Spanish Inquisition:
a government-sanctioned body seeking to compel people to conform to a certain
orthodoxy on pain of punishment. The tribunal isn’t yet using the Iron Maiden
but by imposing such a large cash award the financial pain is considerable and
punitive.
The man at the centre of the case, Barry Neufeld, was
ordered to pay compensation of $750,000 to be distributed among the LGBTQ
members of the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association, the group that complained
about him.
The tribunal claims that it is balancing the rights of free
expression against the evils of hate and discrimination. The judgement,
however, is heavily weighted in finding Neufeld guilty, but when it comes to
freedom of speech the “fix” is in early.
The ruling says that merely denying the existence of trans
people is not, on its own, hate speech. But it says, “speech which denies the
authentic existence of trans and gender diverse people bears a hallmark of hate
against them.”
In essence, if a Canadian now questions whether someone is
transgender, then the ground has already been prepared for them to be accused
of hateful and/or discriminatory conduct.
By creating a hierarchy of beliefs, the tribunal is setting
a dangerous and chilling precedent.
By creating a tribunal, you are setting a dangerous and chilling precedent, one where some unaccountable and unelected chair-moistener can cater to the whims of an emotionally stunted grifter who relies on such tribunals to not only pacify their tantrums but line their pockets, as well.
A Conservative motion to restrict health-care benefits to
failed asylum claimants was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, with the projected
cost of a federal health program for refugees expected to increase to $1.5
billion by 2030.
“Under the Liberals, the Interim Federal Health Program
(IFHP), the program that provides benefits to asylum claimants, has morphed
well beyond its initial intent of providing care to a small number of
legitimate refugees who are fleeing to Canada from war zones into a massive
boondoggle that provides care to bogus asylum claimants,” said Conservative
Immigration Critic Michelle Rempel Garner, who tabled the motion.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer published a report earlier
this month that broke down the rising costs of the IFHP, which has ballooned
from $226 million in 2019 to $1 billion in 2025. The total projected cost is
expected to climb to over $1.5 billion in 2030.
The PBO also projects that the number of beneficiaries will
continue to grow and will reach over 680,000 eligible beneficiaries in 2029-30.
The program has basic and supplemental health care coverage.
The basic coverage includes hospital services, services from medical doctors,
registered nurses and other licensed health care professionals, ambulance
services and lab and diagnostic services (such as blood tests and ultrasounds).
The supplemental coverage includes psychologists,
occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech language therapists,
assistive devices like prosthetics, mobility aids and hearing aids, home care
and long-term care, urgent dental care and limited vision care, medical
supplies and equipment. The program also provides prescription drug coverage.
Rempel Garner’s motion calls on the federal government to
review the program to find savings for taxpayers, restrict federal benefits
received by rejected asylum claimants to emergency life-saving health care
only, provide an annual report to Parliament of the IFHP program and pass
policies to immediately expel foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes in
Canada.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab told reporters that her
government introduced a co-pay model in the federal budget, specifically for
supplementary coverage. She also said her government will continue to uphold
the constitutional, humanitarian and international obligations that Canada has
as a signatory to the United Nations convention on refugees.
“We want to still protect those refugees and those people
that are claiming the help and need from Canada that legitimately deserves to
be protected, including the children,” she said. “We will continue to do that.”
Just as Canada approaches the 10th anniversary of legal
assisted suicide, the country is on course to soon record 100,000 total deaths
from Medical Assistance in Dying.
This means that in addition to now charting MAID as one of
its leading causes of death, Canada will also become the first country of the
modern era to measure its total euthanasia deaths in the six figures.
The 100,000 figure has recently been popularized by Canadian
anti-MAID activist Kelsi Sheren. She stated in a recent op-ed that her country
is “about to kill its 100,000th citizen through Medical Assistance in Dying.”
The number was picked up by various anti-euthanasia
organizations, and was repeated by Sheren in a podcast appearance on the show
Real Talk With Zuby.
“This spring, we’re about to hit our 100,000th individual,”
she told host Nzube Udezue, a British rapper who goes by the stage name of
Zuby.
And the estimate is indeed in line with the official
trajectory of Canadian MAID deaths.
In Health Canada’s most recent update on MAID deaths, the
agency stated that 76,475 Canadians had died via assisted suicide as of Dec.
31, 2024.
At the time of the report, new MAID deaths were coming in at
a rate of 45 per day; the annual number of deaths charted in 2024 came to
16,499. Thus, even if MAID approvals have plateaued in the interim months,
Canada would be on track to pass its 100,000th MAID death by the first week of
June.
This would be only a couple weeks shy of June 17, when
Canada will mark the 10th anniversary of the passage of Bill C-14, the Act of
Parliament which first legalized doctor-assisted suicide.
The government's greatest trick is fooling a gullible public that is it directing its own demise.
Left-wing activists are planning to stage a protest at the Buchenwald concentration camp on the anniversary of its liberation—accusing the memorial’s managers of not being “anti-Israel” enough.
The demonstration, organised under the banner “Keffiyehs in Buchenwald,” is set to take place on April 11th, the date the camp was freed from Nazi control in 1945.
The group is demanding the right to wear the keffiyeh—widely associated with the Palestinian cause and, in some contexts, pro-Hamas activism—at the site. Their campaign follows a ruling last year in which a German court said the memorial has the right to refuse entry to those wearing the scarf. Memorial director Jens-Christian Wagner has stressed that the keffiyeh was not automatically banned, but that “when it is used together with other symbols … to relativise Nazi crimes, then we would ask people to remove those symbols.”
A woman who claims to have been barred from the memorial last April asked ahead of the planned protest: “How can it be that the genocide against the Palestinians is now being denied in this very place?”
Because there is no genocide of the Palestinians and this pantomime certainly has no place at a former death camp, you b!#ch.
Buried in the federal government’s 600-page Bill C-15 is a
provision that gives cabinet ministers discretionary power to exempt a company
or individual from any act of Parliament for a three-year period, except for
the Criminal Code, for the purposes of what’s called a “regulatory sandbox.”
The provision is proposed under amendments to the Red Tape
Reduction Act, legislation that was first passed under the Stephen Harper
government in 2015.
Regulatory sandboxes are a tool used by federal regulators
that allow industry to demonstrate the real-life impacts of a new product or
service in the marketplace under a temporary set of rules and controlled by
regulatory supervision.
The exemptions in question could be given by a minister if
they are within the public interest, the benefits outweigh the risks and “would
enable the testing of, among other things, a product, service, process,
procedure or regulatory measure with the aim of facilitating the design,
modification or administration of a regulatory regime to encourage innovation,
competitiveness or economic growth.”
The exemptions have been the subject of criticism from
opposition parties and Canadian civil, legal, and environmental groups, who
call the provision the “King Henry the VIII” clause, “draconian” and
“offensive” to democratic institutions.
Earlier this month, Finance Minister François-Philippe
Champagne defended the measures, which he said were a key ask by innovators,
particularly in the tech sector.
But the Canadian Civil Liberties Association said the
original language in the bill suggests the powers would go beyond just
regulatory sandboxes.
“It does not streamline regulation,” said Anaïs Bussières
McNicoll, director of the fundamental freedoms program at CCLA. “It applies to
almost every piece of federal legislation and regulation, and it truly
dynamites the rule of law itself by creating a two-tier legislative system
whereby laws debated and enacted by Parliament can be suspended for political
convenience with little to no accountability or transparency.”
The CBC prompted protests from Seoul by repeatedly identifying South Korean athletes as Chinese at the Winter Olympics. It was the biggest gaffe of its kind since the Government of Canada put up German flags to welcome a delegation from Belgium: “We want people of all backgrounds, identities and abilities to feel valued, seen and heard by CBC.”
I thought multiculturalism was supposed to make people more savvy.
Looks like Canada is skillfully handling East Asia... with Justin Trudeau mistakenly referring to Japan as China... twice ... alongside Shinzo Abe. (From a CBC article.) pic.twitter.com/Xc9alanLUs
But Conservatives say the proposed change is meaningless as
Bill C-9 remains stuck in committee study while parties argue over a
controversial deal between the Liberals and Bloc Québécois to remove the
religious exemption from hate-speech laws.
Bill C-9, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government’s first
major justice bill, proposes to create a new offence for intimidating someone
to the point of blocking their access to a place of worship or another centre
used by an identifiable group. It would also criminalize the act of promoting
hate by displaying a hate or terror symbol, such as one tied to a listed
terrorist organization or a swastika.
(Sidebar: which is a symbol of the sun in Buddhism, by the way.)
But the legislation has been stuck in the Commons justice
committee since November as Liberals, Conservatives and the Bloc argue over the
effects of a major amendment passed by the government and the Bloc.
The Liberals agreed to a Bloc proposal to amend C-9 to
remove what is commonly referred to as the “religious exemption” to some hate
speech laws.
Currently, section 319 of the Criminal Code exempts
individuals from being convicted of promoting hateful or antisemitic speech if
they expressed “in good faith” an opinion “based on a belief in a religious
text.”
While the amendment was meant to secure Bloc support for the
bill, it led to an uproar from Conservatives, civil rights and many faith
groups, further stalling the legislation.
Since then, committee meetings on C-9 have been cancelled at
the last minute or have been set aside to study another bill as parties
negotiate a way forward behind the scenes.
Conservative MP Andrew Scheer speaks to the media at a foyer
of House of Commons in West Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb.
10, 2026.
On Monday, the Liberals presented a new olive branch to
Conservatives by proposing to add “clarifying language” to the bill that aims
to address the concerns raised “sincerely” by faith groups, legal experts and
civil society, Liberal MP Patricia Lattanzio told committee.
Scrap the whole damn thing.
It's a censorship bill and wedge for more censorship.
A federal hate crimes bill would outlaw “obstruction” of Indigenous sacred sites including purported unmarked graveyards, says a Department of Justice memo. Attorney General Sean Fraser made no mention of it when he introduced Bill C-9 An Act To Amend The Criminal Code last September 19: “Why isn’t Indian Residential School denialism proposed in this bill?”
Blacklock's Reporter says the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations attempted to withhold these financial records under the Access to Information Act.
The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation received $12.1 million after announcing in 2021 that 215 unmarked graves had been discovered at the Kamloops Residential School.
That number was later revised to 200 “potential burials.” However, no human remains have been recovered to date, despite internal memos noting “requests from families to return bodies.”
Originally granted nearly $8 million for fieldwork, record searches, and site security, funding increased by more than $4 million, described as “robust and comprehensive” in council meeting minutes.
Expenses included $405,000 for administrative costs, $37,500 for marketing, and $100,000 to hire two trauma counselors for six months.
Another $532,000 was spent on security, while funds were also allocated to publicists, architects, and engineers for projects such as a Healing Centre, a museum, and a culturally supportive nursing home for indigenous elders.
The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations pressed the First Nation for details on archaeological and forensic progress but noted the complexity of such work.
“We are not seeking to intervene in this matter but are trying to understand the approach,” wrote acting director Mandy McCarthy, who inquired about exhumation and DNA testing protocols.
Despite these questions, details about the spending remain censored, and records reveal little evidence of direct fieldwork to locate graves.
The CBC is entitled to conceal internal details of corporate spending under the Access To Information Act, says a federal judge. The ruling came on a legal challenge by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation to find how much the CBC spent on advertising while executives pled financial hardship: ‘Disclosure could result in political interference and pressure to modify its spending.’
Tennyson's Arthur knew the time of Camelot was over.
He did not retreat into hesitance or illusion as Sir Bedivere did, but embraced resignation.
After ten years of a collapsed economy and experiencing a moral descent from which no civilisation ever returned, all the things that have happened to Canada are signs of decrepitude, of a failing nation that rested on past laurels, that destroyed itself but its pride will not let it accept the obvious:
Remember, not all Canadians suffer TDS. Sane Canadians realize it’s just a game they usually win. The last time the USA men’s team won was The Miracle on Ice. In all, Canadian men have 9 men’s team gold medals. The USA has 3.
What really shocked Canadians is the realization that 49 of the 50 states are better off than Canada financially. They accept that America in whole has a better economy. What galls them is that those southern states are better off. The TDS crowd believes slavery is still alive in the SEC states. ...
So why are Canadians allowing all those people in who are a drag on society? Poverty is a choice. Sudden success takes time, energy and commitment. Alabama is an overnight success 80 years in the making.
Unable to deliver on the economy, Ontario Premier Doug Ford allowed bars to open at 6 AM on Sunday for the big game. He said, “Let’s all come together, support local businesses and cheer on Team Canada!”
His bread and circuses through beer and a hockey game failed to deliver the thrill of victory. Meanwhile sweet home Alabama, where the skies are so blue, got sweeter.
Bread and circuses, indeed.
Let these serve as distractions from the larger issues, some being that arrogance and sloth are making people unwilling to accept new realities instead of strive for a better future.
Mexican government officials are warning residents that
Jalisco State, including popular tourist destination Puerto Vallarta, is not
safe for travel at the moment.
Global Affairs Canada issued a warning to people in the area
that criminal groups have set up roadblocks with burning vehicles throughout
the state. The agency says there are just under 19,000 Canadians in Mexico at
the moment, including nearly 5,000 in Jalisco State. However, they note those
numbers are estimates, as they come from a voluntary registry of Canadians
abroad.
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My parents winter in Puerto Vallarta. Have for years.
They are currently barricaded in their condo, the military keeping rebels from entering their property.
They have food and power, and have taken in 2 women who were stranded.
That said, in Canadian politics these days, one of the primary tools used by Orwell’s all-powerful government of Oceania known simply as “The Party” – “doublethink” or the ability to hold two contradictory views at the same time – is on full display.
How else to explain the Canadian public’s acquiescence to Prime Minister Mark Carney calling China our greatest security threat in April 2025 and a strategic partner in January 2026?
To hold these two contradictory views simultaneously requires not only doublethink but the practical application of Orwell’s “memory hole” in 1984, the mechanism by which the Party systematically destroyed the historical evidence of its previous positions when they contradicted its new ones.
In this case, the historical evidence – barely a year old – is that of Canada’s foreign interference inquiry, which reported in January 2025 that China “is the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canada’s democratic institutions” and sees Canada as “a high-priority target.”
To believe that threat has abated, one has to believe that the admission of 49,000 Chinese-made EV vehicles into Canada annually will cause China to rethink, in the words of the foreign interference inquiry, targeting “members of Chinese Canadian diaspora communities for the purposes of repression, influence and forced return of … individuals to the People’s Republic of China.”
That it will no longer deploy “a wide range of tradecraft to carry out its activities, one of which is to use a person’s family and friends living in the PRC as leverage against them.”
And that China will cease using “its diplomatic missions, PRC international students, community organizations and private individuals, among others, to carry out its transnational repression activities” in addition to its standard operating procedures of industrial espionage and intellectual property theft.
In his now famous Davos speech, Carney justified such doublethink by proclaiming that Canada will, going forward, “actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be.”
In reality, when it comes to China, Canada’s position is to actively ignore China as it is, in favour of a China we wish it to be.
As John Robson described it in an excellent National Post column last week titled, “In Mark Carney’s Canada, nothing matters”:
“Given firm evidence that Chinese Communists are subverting our elections, penetrating our institutions and intimidating our citizens, we do nothing whatsoever. The police don’t swoop. The promised foreign agent registry never materializes. Politicians don’t stop flying to Beijing. Exactly as if being conquered doesn’t matter.”
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First, the Trudeau-Carney government decided to fill the ranks of the Canadian Forces with newcomers who do not necessarily share our values, history, traditions, and culture.
Then, the Trudeau-Carney government cut ties with the USA and strengthened ties with China, the country… https://t.co/wAdNkJKA5V
Canada is now known as the country that kills for fun:
OH CANADA: The answer to your nation's health care crisis is NOT to kill the most vulnerable Canadians. The fact that Canadian authorities would even consider euthanizing children without parental consent is shocking enough, the fact that they actually do it is monstrous. https://t.co/zXoYLMC1pSpic.twitter.com/iejXhXRyRK
MAiD Recruiters in the hallways of Hospital Emergency wards. Kingston, ON, Canada: 92 year old man - Mr. B - offered MAiD instead of HealthCare. Recommended to him - “It’s time to let go. It’s time to have an ascension into eternity, a peace and tranquility”. They even have 2… pic.twitter.com/mJdCQVBhOi
PM Mark Carney pushed back on the notion that Canada was founded on Christian faith, offering a different perspective from U.S. officials who frame Western nations as rooted in Christianity. Instead, he described Canada as a multicultural country. pic.twitter.com/yH0crjLiNn
For eons, Canadians have viewed Alabama as a small state
that, save for a few pockets, is dirt poor. All anybody seems to know about
Alabama is that Montgomery and Birmingham were the centre of the civil rights
movement. In 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from a
Birmingham Jail,” he called Birmingham “probably the most thoroughly segregated
city in the United States.”
So, it was a shock when Canadian economist Trevor Tombe and
the International Monetary Fund ran the numbers in 2023 and 2024 and concluded
that Canada had, in fact, become poorer than Alabama.
To measure this, they calculated gross domestic product
(GDP) per capita. In simple terms, it’s the size of the Canadian economy in a
given year divided by the population. The same was done for Alabama. After
adjusting for foreign exchange and some cost differences in both countries, the
average for Canada’s 10 provinces was estimated at at US$55,000 in 2022, the
same as Alabama. Shortly after, the IMF found Canada had actually fallen behind
the southern state. (Canada has since edged ever-so-slightly higher than
Alabama; the numbers are volatile from year to year.)
The timing was terrible for the Canadian psyche. Home prices
were on an astronomical trajectory, inflation made everyday items such as
groceries far more expensive and there was deep resentment toward Ottawa.
Canadians could probably stomach having their living standards slip relative to
the broader U.S., the epicentre of the world’s tech revolution. But Alabama?
For an ego check, The Globe and Mail travelled to the Deep
South to understand how this happened. Immediately, it was obvious Alabama is
misunderstood. In Huntsville, there are as many Subaru Outbacks as there are
pickup trucks, and the geography in Alabama’s two largest metropolitan areas –
Birmingham and Huntsville – looks nothing like the historical imagery. …
Alabama is also home to five million people – the same
population as Alberta – and its economy is booming. The state’s unemployment
rate is now just 2.7 per cent, versus 6.5 per cent in Canada, and its major
employers include Airbus SE and giant defence contractor Northrop Grumman Corp.
The state has also morphed into an auto manufacturing powerhouse with plants
from Mercedes-Benz AG, Toyota Motor Corp., Hyundai Motor Co. and more. In 2024,
Alabama made nearly as many vehicles as Ontario. …
But being on the ground in Alabama, it was obvious that
Canadians need a wake-up call. They tend to view the economy through a
historical lens – this is a G7 country that has long punched above its weight.
Yet capital is global now and competition for it is fierce. If Canada isn’t
careful, places such as the Deep South will continue to steal jobs. The Eli
Lilly plant awarded in December could have just as easily gone to Montreal, a
pharmaceutical hub.
In other words, it might be time to eat some humble pie.
“People have a lot to learn from Alabama,” Mr. Hughes says.
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The average native born Canadian is a blithering buffoon unbothered by the complexities of the economics of growth and unchecked mass migration. The critical mass of sane Canadians is forever gone and replaced by parasites and the hosts who unconditionally love them. https://t.co/U8w7zoqt09
Mexican government officials are warning residents that Jalisco State, including popular tourist destination Puerto Vallarta, is not safe for travel at the moment. ...
The federal government says there have also been shootouts and explosions, though it’s not yet clear if there are any injuries. Global Affairs Canada is advising Canadians in the area to keep a low profile and shelter in place, and monitor local and international media to stay informed.
In a post on social media, Pablo Lemus Navarro, the governor of Jalisco, said that federal forces conducted a raid in Tapalpa, a town about 400 kilometres inland of Puerto Vallarta, Sunday morning.
That raid, Navarro wrote, led to “confrontations” across the state.
The Associated Press is reporting that the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, was killed in that raid.
The U.S. State Department had offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest of El Mencho. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is one of the most powerful and fastest-growing criminal organizations in Mexico.
This is precisely why Canada should never win an international hockey tournament ever again.
People - like this media dipshit - who so quickly throw the greatest player and ambasador of the game under the bus for political virtue signalling lose the right to gloat about hockey. https://t.co/62u3Gqs6EM
What has been lost, aside from professionalism, is the kind of composure needed to stomach a loss and revel in a victory.
If anything, this game - indeed, the winter Olympics - have shown Canada as it has become: no longer a fledgling nation that put its entire weight into any effort and either succeeding or failing with grace, but now a group of self-important, self-entitled blowhards who labour under the delusion that the world thinks it's so pretty and special because it's not the US, but is now met with the reality that the world is finding its tantrums and ego tiresome.
A one-time top-up payment will be coming to Canadians who receive the GST credit.
The “Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit,” which was first announced late last month as part of a number of the government’s affordability measures, passed the final vote in the Senate on Thursday. ...
The finance department says the benefit will provide a one-time top-up payment “as early as possible this spring” worth 50% of the credit.
The regular value of the benefit, which is paid to lower-income Canadians, will also see an increase by 25% starting in July and continuing for five years.
The top-up is expected to help more than 12 million Canadians so when combined, the measures mean a family of four will receive up to $1,890 this year — compared to the annual $1,100 current credit — and about $1,400 annually for the next four years.
Meanwhile, a single person eligible for the new benefit would receive $950 this year compared to $540.
The Conservatives have called the top-up a “Band-Aid solution,” but nevertheless, helped speed the bill through the House last week.
(Sidebar: then you're not really helping, are you?)
In November 2025, Canada’s supply management system deliberately destroyed millions of litres of perfectly good milk in Ontario, even as grocery prices remained high and food banks reported record demand.
That destruction was not an accident or a processing failure. It was the predictable outcome of policy.
We don't have to trade with China:
While Russia remains a military threat in the Arctic, Canada’s security officials told a House of Commons committee this week that they remain primarily focused on China’s threats to economic security in the North.
“Russia has a tremendous interest and focus in the Arctic,” Paul Lynd, assistant director at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told the foreign affairs committee on Thursday. “However, they are of less concern than, say, the activities of China and other hostile state actors at this time.”
"A bold diplomatic voice is really crucial," Oxfam Canada executive director Lauren Ravon told a panel she hosted on Parliament Hill earlier this month.
No, you're just killing black people off.
Racist.
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Canadian doctors are considering euthanizing newborns under certain circumstances as a form of “healthcare.” When Dr. Louis Roy advocated for this in 2022, it sparked widespread outrage and the proposal appeared to be dead. It wasn’t. When the Daily Mail pressed the CMQ last year, it confirmed it still endorses the recommendation. It recently stated that euthanasia for babies with “severe deformations” or “extreme pain” may be medically justified. Public outrage, as usual, has faded in the shadow of Canada’s euthanasia bureaucracy.
Infant euthanasia isn’t yet law, but given the expansion of Canada’s euthanasia laws, it soon could be. In 2016, Canada legalized “Medical Assistance in Dying,” or MAiD, for terminally ill adults. Five years later, its Parliament lifted the requirement that a patient’s death be “reasonably foreseeable.” By 2022, lawmakers were discussing euthanasia for minors and in psychiatric cases, and next year MAiD for mental illness will become legal.
When a government grants permission to end a life, where does it stop? “Once you start legalizing, there is a risk that a significant number of physicians normalize this practice. It’s like putting fuel on the fire,” says Trudo Lemmens, a law professor at the University of Toronto, who now regrets supporting Canada’s original MAiD laws. Wesley J. Smith of the Discovery Institute think tank asks the question: “If killing is an acceptable answer to suffering, why limit the killing to adults?”
It’s been a long journey, but for the first time in history Israel has sent a bobsled team to the Winter Olympics — the 2026 Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy.
The team is led by American-Israeli AJ Edelman, who has poured in years of sweat and sacrifice to make this possible, even fundraising on his own to secure the resources necessary to compete.
Edelman was also the first Orthodox Jew to compete in the Winter Olympics, representing Israel in the one-person skeleton sled at the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Affectionately named Shul Runnings after the 1993 comedy film about the Jamaican bobsled team, Cool Runnings, the nickname plays on the Yiddish word shul, meaning synagogue.
Also - not a good look:
This is a watershed moment in Canadian history.
This is when the rest of the world realized what Canada’s true national character was: not the polite, friendly nation we pretend to be, but entitled, thin-skinned cheaters who scream “how dare you film us!” the second our… pic.twitter.com/YR2uASaOte
