Last night, @ParkBoard did the right thing. Apologized to TGD2S community after emotional discussion. Shared some tears. Disavowed JKR. Will undertake concrete actions to rebuild trust.

Jen Psaki says Democrats must double down on pushing the transgender agenda on Americans, including allowing men to play against girls in sports She says it's not an issue and that men playing against girls in sports presents "no threat to safety or fairness."

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days. Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them. However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created. When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said. The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison? I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges. The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest. Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

A few weeks ago in Saskatoon, I met a four-year old girl named Ari. She asked me, “Can you stop Trump from invading Canada?” Ari is a smart little girl. She is asking the right question. I'm running to lead the Liberal Party and to be Canada’s next Prime Minister, because Donald Trump is posing the gravest threat we have faced since the Second World War.

I think I may post this photo once a week for the next four years to remind the Democrats what a leader who fights for women's rights looks like.

Opinion: The new American threat to Canada’s sovereignty requires a new cultural nationalism. Here’s what it should look like theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

IOC moves closer to ban on transgender women bbc.in/4qS4vxg

The residential school system was a genocide — and its effects are still felt to this day by Survivors, Indigenous families and communities. To deny the hate-filled devastation of the residential school system is harmful and cruel. Thank you @LeahGazan for your work on this important Bill.

DOUG FORD SHOULD be taking American products off the LCBO shelves tonight and setting them on fire on the grounds of Queen’s Park. What a photo opp that would be.

In which Morgane Oger mocks Charlie Kirk’s wife and children:

Trans men have a “gift to give the conversation about masculinity” since they are used to questioning traditional gender ideals, one journalist writes. #LGBTQ lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/masc…

Quite the list of #GiveSendGo donors from Toronto. A Ford Government staffer and a bunch of @UofT faculty & students jump out.

Can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. That's why you lost.

Today, I tabled Bill C-413 to help combat Residential School denialism. In honor of Orange Shirt Day, I extend this gift to survivors and their families on behalf of myself and all my colleagues. May you find justice and healing in the protection of your stories.

Sex is not just a binary, scientists say. Defining it based solely on reproductive cells ignores biology, genetics and human diversity. “These are not hard categories with clear definitions,” says molecular evolutionary biologist Nathan Lents. sciencenews.org/article/biol…

🧵1/4 A Harvard professor has just published a glowing review of Yale Professor Agustín Fuentes’ new book, Sex is a Spectrum, in The Lancet—one of the highest-ranked, most prestigious medical journals in the world. In it, she asserts that the “gametic definition” of sex—roughly, that there are two sexes, defined by whether the organism produces sperm (male) or eggs (female)—is not only “harmful,” but also “sophistry, not science.” (Lancet piece is below.) I hold the gametic view. To the best of my knowledge, this is the view held by most evolutionary biologists. The author of the review has different ideas, and quotes approvingly from Fuentes’ book on the nature of sex: “sex is a biocultural construct. Gamete size represents but one of multiple components and developmental processes—including gonads, hormones, genitals, fertility, mating, parenting behaviour, secondary sexual characteristics, and gender identity.” People disagree about the nature of male and female, and that’s OK. Respectful disagreement among scholars should be encouraged; it often sharpens thinking and research. But The Lancet review goes well beyond disagreement about the facts, and exemplifies one of the main reasons Harvard is being targeted by the government. Nobody wants to be called hateful or bigoted (especially by faculty with fancy endowed professorships), or even tainted by close proximity to views that could be construed that way. But not only has the Harvard professor disagreed with the gametic view, she apparently feels free to publicly impugn the ostensible motives and character of those who endorse it. Without providing any evidence, she asserts that our view is motivated (at least in part) by political aims, and harmful ones. As she wrote in The Lancet: “Although the gametic definition makes reference to biological systems, it is sophistry, not science. Those who promote this definition favour the assertion that sex inheres in gamete (sperm and egg) production because, in part, it facilitates their political aims by fuelling unhinged panic in some quarters about transgender threats to traditional gender roles.” She praises Fuentes for recognizing scientists’ “responsibility to respond to harmful deployments of inaccurate, overly simplistic, and reductionist science by those attempting to naturalise and depoliticise their hateful views.” And last, there’s the link between those who hold the gametic view and bigots: “Like scientific bigots of yore—such as the anthropologist J McGrigor Allan, who in 1869 pronounced in the Journal of Anthropological Science that, ‘Thousands of years have amply demonstrated the mental supremacy of man, and any attempt to revolutionize the education and status of women on the assumption of an imaginary sexual equality, would be at variance with the normal order of things’—the recent favour bestowed on the gametic definition of sex by anti-trans gender traditionalists appeals selectively to science to naturalise and rationalise inequality and exclusion.” The subtext is that in science, simply following the evidence is ill-advised if you (or others who have power over you) think it will lead to social harms. What kind of person would want to hold, let alone give voice to such harmful views as the gametic one?

I have transgender friends and I am not going to erase their concept of self to satisfy the cruelty of this moment.

In a shocking new low for @CTVNews, they are having this disgraced disinformation peddler lie directly to their viewers under the guise of “news”. The Liberal media will do anything to ensure a fourth Liberal term. Remember that the next time they “fact check” Conservatives!

They are chanting about honouring “the martyrs.” They are saying “only one solution, intifada revolution.” Among the unions there supporting this: OPSEU, CUPE, USW. It’s disgusting.

Why weren't we told sooner about the implications of Aboriginal title? The answer should concern everyone vancouversun.com/news/vaughn…

Taitoluistelun EM-avajaiset, mitä ihmettä 😳 Piti varmistaa Areenasta, kyllä se aito video on. #Espoo2023

Paramount to buy Bari Weiss’ Free Press for up to $200M, give her senior editorial role at CBS News trib.al/jBqNCjq

“October 7th Proves We’re Almost Free!”. The crowd goes wild. “Long live October 7th!” Today, downtown Ottawa. No more euphemisms, they are openly promoting terrorism and violence towards Jews. This is intolerable and it is time for Canadians to speak up.

The CBC just asked if the PM would hold on to power for "2 to 3 months in case the truckers came back," Trudeau: "Indeed, that is what we are thinking about." (Translated from French).

Misgendering is cruel and rude, no matter how many edge cases or straw man arguments people can come up with to try to assert otherwise.

nitter.app/MEMRIReports/sta… Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar says Hamas will never lay down its arms. He then vows to annihilate not only the Jews but other nations as well: "Annihilation will be the fate not only of the Jews, but also of their helpers and of the people who trusted them, cooperated with them, and who betrayed their cause and their religion for personal interests.״ Regarding Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Mahmoud Al-Zahhar pledged to destroy the American embassy in Jerusalem and take over the world: ״The Islamic expansion will go beyond what you expect for the benefit of all Mankind, all over the planet.״ This is how Hamas leaders promote war against Israel and the West. This rhetoric has no place in the twenty-first century. Please RT

Opinion: The Blue Jays aren’t just playing for themselves. Because of Trump, they’re playing for all of Canada theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

This is part of a report sent out this week by Beth Davies (@beththelib), the “chief librarian” at the Burnaby Public Library (@burnabypl). She explains that hiring managers “only look at résumés from white candidates if there isn't a sufficient pool of qualified racialized candidates,” adding that “in all competitions to the mid-year evaluation point, there has been a sufficient pool of qualified racialized candidates.” In other words, all white applicants have been rejected solely on the basis of their race. How is this allowed? The library filed an application for a special permit to discriminate based on race when hiring (they call it a “Special Program”) and it was granted by the BC Human Rights Commissioner. Specifically, this “Special Program” means “a five-year term to allow preferential hiring of candidates who self-identify as Indigenous, Black or a person of colour (IBPOC) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻.” Isn’t that something- all positions but her own! Beth Davies the whitey won’t quit for equity, but is fine with other white people losing out on opportunities due to their skin colour.

BREAKING: CBC’s Rosemary Barton called me a liar and pushed false unmarked grave claims on national television. Now the state broadcaster is quietly backpedaling from their misinformation used to vilify Rebel News.

Someone get Mark Carney a Snickers

This is literal madness. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister says, under the Emergencies Act, banks can immediately freeze or suspend bank accounts without a court order and be protected from civil liability. Is this still a free country?

“These are real children who were loved and who would have been held by so many, and whose little spirits have been locked into some big dirty secret that we can no longer hide or deny.” theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

An elected Conservative politician in British Columbia denies the atrocities in residential schools ever happened. This isn't just offensive, it’s shameful. Is this really what Conservatives stand for?

Mark Carney got it done.

Our public affairs really are taking on a Soviet tinge. It's perfectly obvious he's being cancelled because they don't like his views, so asking us to swallow the "safety" rationale is making us complicit in their lies as well as their censorship. nationalpost.com/news/canada… via @nationalpost

Hey New York Times. If you don’t want to send reporters to the scene then all you have to do is watch Canadian TV. Try a bit harder to get the story right.

Oups, @ArielTroster! The code of conduct for Ottawa city councillors states that members must be “committed to performing their functions with integrity, accountability and transparency.”

OnlyFans porn model @jessicawetz6 appears alongside @theJagmeetSingh in a keffiyeh donning video to talk about how they want to throttle & prevent Israel from winning their war & rescuing their hostages. It seems the @NDP has resorted to porn stars for social media campaigning.

His child and partner came out as transgender. Now @RowanJetteKnox writes on confronting trauma and the freedom of coming out as trans himself. His new memoir is out this September. Until then, read his exclusive essay: trib.al/BRERsMB

New polling data shows that support for LGBTQ rights is dropping precipitously in Canada. Though a strategic shift away from abrasive militancy is needed, I fear that community leaders will fail to understand this until it is too late. nationalpost.com/opinion/ada…

We had to ask the players: What does LCS Game Changers mean to you?

If re-elected, our @liberal_party will deliver real relief to Canadians and cut taxes for the middle class—putting hundreds of dollars back in your pocket. Commit to vote today and choose #CanadaStrong: chrystiafreeland.liberal.ca

Indigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools ctvnews.ca/canada/article/in…

Global Affairs Canada @CanadaFP is USAID on steroids Listen to this diplomat giddily talk about how her mission is to spread "intersectional transformative feminism" in Lebanon. Short thread on how Canada's foreign aid is a woke slush fund below 👇

Montreal Church holds worship service & city officials lay fines because Christianity "does not reflect our city's values." Christians: wake up! share.google/9COQWMI39bWWhe6…

I struggle to think of a Canadian ruling class that has ever been this disconnected. Governments are routinely branding "mainstream" opinions as hateful fascism. nationalpost.com/news/canada…

Which rights and freedoms would Pierre Poilievre be willing to hit the override button on?

Trans teacher with Z-size prosthetic breasts dresses as man outside of school, neighbor says trib.al/OD7PfBx

No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada trib.al/v9OWJjC

Vancouver gets it. Leaked documents show that the city paid Musqueam $33,500 to come to meetings and events for the renaming of Trutch street. Residents had no say and nobody except woke, white consultants can read the new name, but who cares? That’s the price of progress!

Tackling the scourge of antisemitism requires a whole of society approach. In February, we are holding a National Forum on Combatting Antisemitism, convening all orders of government, law enforcement & prosecutors to bring even deeper coordination to this fight. 1/2

Elon Musk has Canadian citizenship. Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for its revocation due to his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threatening Canada’s sovereignty. vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0…

Patriotism is surging ahead of Canada Day, and so are flag and flagpole sales ctvnews.ca/canada/article/pa…

JUST IN: A woman who pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh three years ago was sentenced to more than eight years in prison. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wom…

My assistant coach spoke truth to protect my team.Then…they fire her. They took away the only safe space we had in the program.Because she knew that it was right to stand up for the 18 women on the team.Not one man. outkick.com/sports/san-jose-…