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Jane Stannus

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Legal organ harvesting is just a PR campaign away

Summertime, and the living isn’t as easy as it used to be. The dying, though, is getting easier, especially if you’re in France, Canada or New...

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Jane Stannus

Trump is smoke-signaling with his forest fire tariff

The latest incursion into American airspace is forest fire smoke from Canada. An invasion, according to President Trump. And the man with a tariff for...

19.07.2026 10

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Jane Stannus

The brutal excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X

On Wednesday, the largest traditional Catholic order of priests in the world, the Society of Saint Pius X, consecrated four bishops without a papal...

03.07.2026 30

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Jane Stannus

The brutal excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X

On Wednesday, the largest traditional Catholic order of priests in the world, the Society of Saint Pius X, consecrated four bishops without a papal...

02.07.2026 20

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A new leaf / Time for Americans to give tea a second chance

“Last night,” John Adams confided in his diary on December 17, 1773, just after the Boston Tea Party, “3 Cargoes of Bohea Tea were emptied into...

02.07.2026 20

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Who stands to gain in the pistachio wars?

If you’ve ever lived in Marseille – where the habit of exaggeration is imbibed with mothers’ milk – you’ve heard about the sardine that...

23.06.2026 30

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Shell shocked / Who stands to gain in the pistachio wars?

If you’ve ever lived in Marseille – where the habit of exaggeration is imbibed with mothers’ milk – you’ve heard about the sardine that...

15.06.2026 30

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Jane Stannus

Who stands to gain in the pistachio wars?

If you’ve ever lived in Marseille – where the habit of exaggeration is imbibed with mothers’ milk – you’ve heard about the sardine that...

14.06.2026 30

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Jane Stannus

Who stands to gain in the pistachio wars?

If you’ve ever lived in Marseille – where the habit of exaggeration is imbibed with mothers’ milk – you’ve heard about the sardine that...

13.06.2026 30

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Jane Stannus

The Catholic Church has turned on the faithful

The Catholic world has been in an uproar since February, when the Society of Saint Pius X, a Catholic order of traditionalist priests, announced its...

13.06.2026 20

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Jane Stannus

Canada is misremembering the Komagata Maru incident

Another day, another act of national self-abasement from the Canadian government. On 23 May, it was all about the Komagata Maru incident, ‘a...

01.06.2026 20

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Color blind / Farewell to America’s artificial food dyes

Start saying your goodbyes, America. Tartrazine-tinted pickles, oranges with a Citrus Red No. 2 spray tan and maraschino cherries glowing with...

28.04.2026 30

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Jane Stannus

Does Mark Carney believe in democracy?

Mark Carney is swaggering about Canada with his new majority government, acting as if he’d just received a landslide mandate from the electorate....

16.04.2026 50

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Rich pickings / The joy of spring greens

Many of us, if told we must live by foraging in the wild, would quickly go toes up – from fear, not malnourishment, like the birds in Ol’ Paul the...

15.04.2026 30

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Has Canada’s bilingualism gone too far?

Two young Canadian pilots were killed in a tragic accident on 22 March. What should have been an occasion for sober reflection, compassion and prayer,...

05.04.2026 40

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Jane Stannus

Canada wants to make quoting the Bible illegal

Easter is almost here – and Canada’s Liberal government has chosen this sacred season to display its utter contempt for Christianity. It is...

01.04.2026 50

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Jane Stannus

Holy war / Canada wants to make quoting the Bible illegal

Easter is almost here – and Canada’s Liberal government has chosen this sacred season to display its utter contempt for Christianity. It is...

31.03.2026 30

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Jane Stannus

How Mark Carney sold Canada to China

As Can Force One moved toward Chinese airspace, the delegation’s electronic devices were powered down and secured in signal-blocking bags. Burner...

24.03.2026 60

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Jane Stannus

How Mark Carney sold Canada to China

As Can Force One moved toward Chinese airspace, the delegation’s electronic devices were powered down and secured in signal-blocking bags. Burner...

23.03.2026 70

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Jane Stannus

Why was Canada so afraid of misgendering a trans shooter?

12.02.2026 50

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Extortion / Indian gangs are terrorising Canada

02.02.2026 60

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Jane Stannus

Extortion / Indian gangs are terrorising Canada

01.02.2026 40

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Jane Stannus

Quebec is trying to ban Jesus from Christmas

22.12.2025 50

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Jane Stannus

The inconvenient Indian / The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man

29.11.2025 60

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Jane Stannus

The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man

29.11.2025 60

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Jane Stannus