Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has approved the legal framework for Canada’s real-time rail (RTR) payments system, paving the way for a launch in the fourth quarter of 2026, according to Payments Canada. The news: Last week, Payments Canada announced that the bylaw and rules for the RTR system received all necessary approvals and will officially…
Jesse Kelly of “The First” talked with Carol Roth about the massive size of the national debt and how it is rapidly increasing. The US spends approximately $1 trillion annually on paying the national debt’s interest alone. “We have to talk about the national debt. We just hit $40 trillion. That more than doubled in…
California regulators are encouraging utility companies to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to” LGBT-certified businesses.” The efforts are part of a state diversity program that bases procurement decisions in part on the sexual orientation or gender identity of business owners. According to a report by Christopher Rufo at the City Journal, the…
We are the Joke – by Mr. Fish The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the…
“To know yourself as the being behind the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” — Eckhart Tolle In my work as a meditation teacher and spiritual coach, I often talk to people seeking relief from painful patterns such as compulsive thinking, anxiety, fear or self-criticism….
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Do eight weeks of salsa classes sound like an intervention to you? Show up, learn the footwork, rotate partners, move to music with a room full of people you probably don’t know. And at the end of those eight weeks, if you danced as part of this recent study,…
Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) is a legendary warrior and a key player in Rhaenyra Targaryen’s (Emma D’Arcy) war efforts. But in House of the Dragon‘s Season 3 finale, the formidable Sea Snake is all about peace. SEE ALSO: ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 family tree: How Targaryens, Hightowers, and Velaryons connect The episode sees…
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi The first winter, I learned to lie cheerfully. “How are you settling in?” someone would ask, and I would smile and say, “Really well, thank you.” That was the most fluent English I spoke all day. I had left a warm, loud, crowded life…
Defying expectations have never looked so good. Wicked: For Good swoops onto the big screen with just the right amount of magic, mischief, and musical prowess to keep audiences under its spell. Whether you’re an Oz-obsessed fan or a newcomer just following the yellow-brick hype road, this film ensures you’re in for a wickedly fun…
The UK ruling classes, political and Royal, have been holed below the waterline, in a moment that must be history changing with the King’s brother and the Labour Party/present government’s high mandarin both hauled in by the police. The left can’t call foul on the monarchy since they are equally in the frame. Reading…
