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NDP MP Leah Gazan calls for criminalizing residential school denialism

NDP MP Leah Gazan is calling on the federal government to criminalize residential school denialism, a move that could have serious implications for freedom of speech and journalism in Canada.

Gazan wants the Liberals to adopt her private member’s bill as government legislation, arguing that criminalizing denialism would protect residential school survivors and prevent hate.

The call comes amid controversy over Rebel News merchandise featuring slogans such as “Dig Deeper” and “Still No Proof.” The shirts call for further investigation into unmarked grave claims at former residential school sites, not the denial of the harms associated with residential schools.

But Gazan’s demand raises an important question: where does legitimate scrutiny end and criminal speech begin? Journalists must be able to investigate claims made by public institutions, particularly when those claims have significant consequences for public policy and spending.

Drea Humphrey has launched ReconciliationOverreach.com, an initiative to investigate spending and accountability within what she describes as the reconciliation industry.

Criminalizing questions about residential school claims risks discouraging the very scrutiny that journalism is meant to provide. Survivors deserve dignity, but that should not come at the expense of open debate or the public’s right to ask questions.

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Report says there’s too many ‘dirty jokes’ in the Canadian Armed Forces

A Department of National Defence report has found that the Canadian military still tolerates too many off-colour jokes and microaggressions, despite a decade-long culture change campaign. Tamara Ugolini and Lise Merle covered the Blacklock’s Reporter story on Tuesday’s Rebel Roundup.

“The military tolerates too many off-colour jokes despite a decade-long campaign of culture change,” Ugolini read from the report. “Sexualized jokes and microaggressions are often overlooked.” The report found that “subtle forms of inappropriate behavior, microaggressions, exclusionary comments, and informal grey-zone behavior continue to undermine psychological safety,” and concluded that “inclusion is not yet embedded” and that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts “are often seen as performative.”

Both hosts were incredulous.

“This is the state of the Canadian military, ladies and gentlemen,” Ugolini said. She traced the term “microaggression” back to around 2011, when it first entered public discourse. “Now here we are where this is the biggest concern of our military — the same military that can’t recruit or retain anybody.” Merle added, before bluntly stating it’s “What happens when you put weak people at the head of the military. This is what happens to a military inside of 11 years after a whole bunch of lily-livered, hand-wringing, weak-wristed liberal aristocrats take over.”

The broader context makes the report’s priorities look even more disconnected from reality. Recruitment and retention are at all-time lows. The military has opened its ranks to foreign nationals because it cannot attract enough Canadians. And in the name of expanding access, the military has also broadened eligibility to include recruits with anxiety disorders and other conditions. 

“You want to talk about psychological safety?” Ugolini said. “You’ve just expanded recruitment to include people who are inherently psychologically unsafe because they suffer from anxiety. I don’t want someone who is going to be cowering in the corner at the slightest threat to be at the front lines.”

Merle summed it up: “We could be invaded and they could take us over by lunchtime.”

Ugolini also raised the question of cost — how much public money has been spent over the course of a decade on DEI reports, evaluations, culture change campaigns, and the bureaucratic machinery behind them, while the fundamental metrics of military readiness have gotten worse. “The priorities here are just so absolutely absurd.”

The department’s culture change campaign, the report notes, began in 2015 with efforts to weed out what it called “problematic behavior.” Eleven years and apparently no shortage of reports later, the main finding is that soldiers are still telling jokes the DEI office doesn’t like.

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Globalist Canadian PM Mark Carney Tells New York Times He’s Prepared for Military Action from America – Also Reveals His Scheme to “Diversify” Away from U.S.

Far-left globalist Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears determined to destroy whatever is left of the close friendship his nation once held with the United States.

On Wednesday, Carney gave an exclusive interview to the leftist New York Times, where he detailed his vision for pulling Canada away from America.

Carney started with a startling revelation: he and his country have been prepared for potential military action with America for roughly a year, should Trump move toward a military invasion.

He took Trump’s threats of making Canada the 51st state seriously, and carefully examined the possibility of a U.S.-led military invasion. Carney declined to discuss in detail what that involved.

Of course, this is just crazy. But Carney says not preparing for something so ludicrous would be “irresponsible.”

“I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk,” Carney told the Times.

“That’s just risk management,” he continued. “That’s not a base case, but it would be irresponsible not to prepare.”

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Green Slush Fund won’t seek return of $34 million paid to ineligible projects

Sustainable Development Technology Canada will not try to recover approximately $34 million paid to five projects its own review found were ineligible for funding, according to a written response to Parliament.

The response, signed by Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, says the review examined 173 projects with help from three independent third parties. It found five projects ineligible under SDTC’s agreement with the Crown and a sixth that received funding for some ineligible costs. The five projects received about $34 million since 2017.

SDTC’s board decided against pursuing repayment after consulting legal counsel. It said the recipients had negotiated and carried out their funding agreements in good faith, and that recovery was unlikely to succeed or serve the public interest.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada issued SDTC a notice of breach over the ineligible projects, then sent a letter accepting the board’s approach.

Conservative MP Luc Berthold had asked how much of the $400 million in funding cited in his question had been recovered, who repaid it and what further recovery efforts were underway. The department’s answer provides no total recovered, no list of repayments and no recovery timetable. It also does not say that the entire $400 million was paid to projects later found ineligible.

The Auditor General’s 2024 audit found serious failures in SDTC’s handling of public money, including $59 million awarded to 10 ineligible projects among the 58 it examined.

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Leaked memo reveals federal prisons handing out drug-testing kits to inmates as ‘authorized health materials’

A leaked internal memo posted on X shows Correctional Service Canada (CSC) is rolling out a new “harm reduction” supply program in federal prisons that includes paper straws for snorting drugs, foil for smoking them, and rapid test strips to check for fentanyl, benzodiazepines and xylazine — all handed directly to inmates by Health Services staff.

The internal FAQ document, dated April 2026 and set to take effect Monday, September 21, lays out exactly what the Liberal government is now supplying behind bars:

  • Paper straws, described as “biodegradable” and intended for “inhaling substances in powdered form or inhaling vapour from heated substances”
  • Foil, specifically manufactured “for smoking substances” and reportedly thicker than the ordinary household kind
  • Drug-testing strips for fentanyl, benzodiazepines and xylazine, so inmates can check the potency of their illegal drugs before using them

According to the memo, inmates are allowed to keep up to three pieces of foil, two paper straws, and two of each type of drug-testing strip in their cells at any time and handwritten notes on the document suggest these limits aren’t even strictly enforced, with one annotation reading “not one in one out just garbage.”

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‘She did not consent’: Police investigate Ontario grandmother’s MAiD euthanasia

An Ontario grandmother’s assisted death is under police investigation after her family alleged the 83-year-old was confused, tried to back out and never clearly consented before she was given a lethal injection.

Brigitte Stegemann died through medical assistance in dying (MAiD) on July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton, Ontario, after being diagnosed with stage-four stomach cancer in February.

The case was first reported by veteran Kelsi Sheren on Substack before the Daily Mail published a detailed account of the family’s allegations.

But her granddaughter and longtime caregiver, Brigitte Kranendonk, alleges serious failures occurred in the days leading up to her death.

Two days before the procedure, Kranendonk said she bluntly asked her grandmother whether she understood she was going to die Friday.

Stegemann began crying and said, “I’ve made a mistake,” according to her granddaughter.

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Ottawa spent $1.9 billion housing asylum claimants since 2017, but cannot say how many are currently housed

The federal government has allocated approximately $1.9 billion to help provinces and municipalities house asylum claimants since 2017, but Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada cannot say how many people are currently living in facilities supported by the program.

The figures were disclosed in a response to an order paper question submitted by Conservative MP Fred Davies.

The Interim Housing Assistance Program pays provinces and municipalities to provide temporary accommodations and other housing support for asylum claimants. Eligible expenses include temporary housing, coordination, support services and the construction or acquisition of housing facilities.

Despite the program’s $1.9-billion price tag, IRCC said it does not have access to operational or client-specific information showing how asylum claimants move from hotels into municipally owned or controlled housing.

The department also said it cannot confirm how many people are presently housed, how many have left the system or the real-time capacity of facilities receiving federal funding.

Since January 2025, recipients have been required to report the number of asylum claimants supported twice per year.

As of May 2026, IRCC estimated that approximately 15,000 claimants received housing support between January and September 2025. Municipalities and provinces projected they would support roughly 40,000 claimants between January 2025 and March 2027.

Those plans include more than 1,500 bed spaces and 350 transitional-housing or reception-centre units.

Toronto reported supporting 7,030 asylum claimants, followed by Ottawa with 3,490 and Peel Region with 3,170. Other recipients included Durham Region, Hamilton, York Region, Waterloo Region, London, Halton Region, Simcoe County, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.

IRCC said jurisdictions must report twice annually on expenditures and outcomes. The department acknowledged, however, that it has no real-time information about how many people are occupying the federally funded spaces.

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Euthanasia bills will be used to mass murder the mentally ill and the poor as part of the Great Reset’s global depopulation plan

The approved mass slaughter of the disabled, the poor, the frail, the old, the unemployed and the unwanted is, with quiet certainty and to the eternal shame of politicians, becoming global. It is part of the Great Reset and it is an essential part of the depopulation programme.

They call it doctor-assisted suicide, and it’s already available in a number of countries (notably and with most seemingly uncensored enthusiasm in Canada and Holland) – but the concept of death by doctor is spreading fast, and like everything else bad that is happening, it is global. Opposing this sinister, contemptible and malevolent new movement is one of the most difficult challenges we face in the years ahead.

Voluntary euthanasia, aka assisted dying, aka “death by doctor,” really began in earnest in Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg at the start of the 21st century. (Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942, but only in a vague sort of way in that helping someone kill themselves is legal if the person helping does not have selfish motives.)

After Belgium and Holland allowed death by doctor, there was a hiatus of several years and then came a sudden and seemingly inexplicable explosion in the number of countries succumbing to pressure and introducing similar schemes of their own. (The explosion was inexplicable only to those who do not realise that “death by doctor” is an essential part of the Great Reset.)

Euthanasia was legalised in Canada in 2016. In Spain in 2021, Austria in 2022, in Portugal in 2023, in Colombia in 2022, in Cuba in 2023, in Ecuador in 2024, in Australia in 2025, in New Zealand in 2021, in Jersey in 2026, in Uruguay in 2025, in France in 2026 and in recent years in 13 states in the USA. Legislation is being drafted in Germany and Italy.

In Britain, the pro-euthanasia supporters have for years been pushing hard for new legislation in Britain – for legislation which would undoubtedly legalise the mass murder of the weak and the innocent.

The supporters of “doctor-assisted dying” bills have repeatedly tried to push their lethal legislation through the British Parliamentary System. And each time wise, humane heads have ensured that they have failed. (Curiously, although the most recent two attempts received massive help from the Labour Government, the Labour leaders, knowing that patients prefer their doctors to try to keep them alive rather than to kill them, never had the courage to promote the death-by-doctor bills as official government Bills but preferred the proposed legislation to be presented by backbenchers and then given quiet support in an unsuccessful attempt to ensure it was passed.)

The latest “legalised euthanasia bill,” surely one of the most badly conceived, misleading and dangerous pieces of legislation ever introduced into the British Parliament, was, in September 2026, yet again rejected.

The one certainty is that a small number of people pushing this deadly legislation (more than a few of them professionals, employed to promote “assisted dying”) will be back for yet another attempt at pushing through legislation which will, I believe, eventually result in the disabled, the mentally ill and the poor being killed as part of the global depopulation plan which is part of the Great Reset.

This is already happening around the world. And when similar legislation suddenly appears all around the world, and a clear pattern has emerged, I find myself being suspicious about the motives of those promoting the Great Reset.

When politicians or the public reject “death by doctor” legislation, they are told to vote again. And again. And again. And again. Normally once would be enough. Politicians don’t usually bring back legislation which has been rejected once, let alone five times.

Five times in recent years there have been attempts to introduce “death by doctor” laws into the UK. And five times the attempts have failed.

But the promoters of “death by doctor” bills will try again, despite the fact that the idea of allowing doctors to kill patients is unpopular both with doctors and with patients. No one wants this damned legislation except a few insane fanatics working towards the Great Reset and global depopulation.

“Death by doctor” bills are, like those monsters which used to scare children in the 1960s, never allowed to crawl away into a corner and die quietly. “Death by doctor” bills will always be back because euthanasia (or whatever the politicians choose to call it) is part of the Great Reset.

Every time one of these bills gets rejected, there is another vote, and another vote – in the same way that voters who choose the “wrong” answer at the ballot box are, these days, asked to try again until they get it right (particularly if the vote affects the European Union in any way).

The supporters of this dangerous legislation, which will allow doctors to kill patients who have been convinced that death is their only answer, will say that they will only offer euthanasia to a small number of patients who are in terrible pain and who are desperate to die.

And some naïve and ignorant campaigners may think that’s what will happen.

But in every country where doctor-assisted suicide has been made legal, the rules about who can be killed have been quickly changed – with the parameters being extended and the original restrictions brushed aside.

What starts out as an apparently well-meant service for the few quickly becomes nothing less than the mass murder of people who are regarded by the conspirators and their slaves as a useless drain on society.

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Toronto Judge Acquits Man Who Attacked and Choked 7-Year-Old Girl While Shouting About Allah, Naked, Because He Was in a ‘Cannabis Psychosis’

An Ontario judge has acquitted a Toronto man who threw a seven-year-old girl to the ground, punched her, and choked her in her family’s driveway after he argued the attack was involuntary because he was in a cannabis-induced psychosis.

The man, Ahmed Baig, did not dispute that he attacked her.

Justice Mara Greene found him not guilty of assault causing bodily harm and assault by choking because he was so high at the time.

The attack happened August 2, 2023, in North York.

Greene wrote that Baig left his house wearing only a towel after vaping cannabis at home for anxiety. The towel fell off as he chased the child in the driveway.

“On August 2, 2023, Mr. Baig exited his residence wearing only a towel. He ran into the street, and as he did so, his towel fell off. Now fully naked, Mr. Baig chased a family who lived across the street. He ran into the driveway and picked up a seven-year-old girl. He threw her to the ground, punched her and strangled her. He then abruptly left the driveway, and a short time later was arrested by police. At the time of arrest, he wore only a t-shirt.”

The attack was captured on video.

The girl’s mother told the court he said both “I will kill you” and “I won’t kill you,” according to a report from the Toronto Star.

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SHOW ME YOUR ID: Carney doubles down on sweeping internet regulation bill

Prime Minister Carney says his government will push ahead this fall with sweeping social media regulations that would create a new federal Digital Safety Commission and impose new rules on online platforms.

“We are fighting for Canada to lead the world in building the smart, safe digital tools of the next decade,” Carney told Liberal MPs ahead of Parliament’s return.

“This fall we will press ahead with the Act to protect Canadians online,” he said.

Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, was introduced by Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller in June.

The legislation would create a Digital Safety Commission with regulatory and enforcement powers over the online platforms covered.

It would require regulated platforms to address seven categories of “harmful content,” including child sexual exploitation, any content that ‘foments hatred’, incites violence or promotes terrorism or violent extremism.

The legislation also targets content that “undermines, weakens or destroys fundamental institutions or political, economic or social stability in Canada” when it could cause a serious risk to the health or safety of the public.

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