Four years on, the courts have ruled, the money is gone, and
not one person has answered for any of it.
By Bruce Scholl — Unscrew the News
A wound closes when you take the dirt out of it. Leave the dirt in
and it festers, and it keeps festering no matter how many times you tell
the patient he’s healed.
That is where Canada sits in August 2026. We are five and a half
years past the first shot going...
The History and Benefits of Ridicule, Shame, and the Public-Square Trial
We never stopped shaming people. We just changed venues.
Walk through any medieval market town and you’d find the stocks in the square — not hidden behind the courthouse, but front and centre, where the ridicule could do its work. The punishment wasn’t the wood around your wrists. It was the neighbours. The laughter, the rotten vegetables, the fact that everyone you’d ever traded with...
Drew Barrymore praised Sydney Sweeney's bravery with the most masculine compliment she could find. Nobody blinked. That's the whole story.
By Unscrew the News | Commentary
Sydney Sweeney was on The Drew Barrymore Show recently. She's playing Christy Martin — a real boxer, a real survivor, a woman who took punches for a living and kept getting up. Genuinely remarkable story.
And Drew Barrymore, overcome with admiration, paid her the highest compliment she had.
Basically: "You've...
There is a moment in every crisis where someone has to step forward. Not because they have all the answers, but because waiting is no longer an option. For most of human history, that someone was clearly defined. Today, that clarity is fading — and the cost is becoming impossible to ignore.
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Making decisions has become passé.
For most of human history, the male role was simple and unforgiving — protect the tribe, feed the tribe....
The White Rose, the Long Story of Alberta, and the People Who Refuse to Be Quiet
By Bruce Scholl
Unscrew the News
History has a way of remembering its dissidents slowly, and then all at once. For years, Sophie and Hans Scholl were known mainly to historians and to the families of those who had lived through the Third Reich. Today their names are recognized across the world — not because they won, but because they chose...
The phrase "bread and circuses" comes from the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal, writing around 100 AD in his Satires. He observed that the Roman population — a people who had once wielded genuine political power — had grown complacent, easily pacified by two simple things: food (panem) and entertainment (circenses, referring to the chariot races at the Circus Maximus). Juvenal's critique was sharp and pointed, but notably, his contempt wasn't directed at the...
After generations of inter-regional tensions, Western Canadian provinces are considering independence.
https://fast.visegrad24.com/articles/the-great-canadian-split-can-the-federation-hold
A reflection on inheritance, freedom, and why Alberta’s referendum effort matters now.
Alberta’s push toward a referendum is not only a political tactic—it is a test of whether Canadians who still believe in earned independence and local self-determination can rebuild the conditions for a decent life when the national project no longer seems willing to protect them.
My family came here with a dream of a better life. I remember the stories from my father’s parents...
Time to Speak Up: Concerns About Mass Immigration in Canada from a Hardworking Taxpayer's View
Hey, I'm Trent from Calgary, just a regular guy trying to get by. I work hard every day, pay my taxes, and watch as more and more of my money goes toward policies I don't agree with. When my grandparents immigrated here, it was about building a life in a country with room to grow—integrating, working without endless supports, and...
