#nationalpost — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nationalpost, aggregated by home.social.
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Far-right AfD wins German state election with best-ever result
https://nationalpost.com/news/far-right-afd-wins-german-state-election-this-is-democracy"That has isolated it in Europe, even among far-right peers. France’s Marine Le Pen ended cooperation with the party in 2024 after an AfD lawmaker said in an interview that not every Nazi SS member should be considered a criminal. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy has embraced transatlantic ties, has kept her distance given the AfD’s closeness to Russia."
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Why are the #Habsburg jewels in #Québec?
"Zita chose Quebec City for three reasons. Of supreme importance to her and Karl was their Catholic faith, and she wanted a strong Catholic culture where she could easily attend daily Mass. Second, her children had already begun their education in French and, while her household was conversant in a half-dozen languages, she preferred them to continue in French. Third, there were some relatives in the area."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/hidden-for-more-than-80-years-in-canada-habsburg-jewels-shine-again
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"[T]he danger in times like the moment we are living in right now where passions are high is to create a binary where unless you are blindly uncritical of the government you are disloyal. This is wrong, but conservatives must guard against the impulse to go further and sink into a national form of self-loathing that leads you to siding with a foreign president insulting and demeaning our country."
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Combined federal, provincial debt to exceed $2.4T this year: study
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/federal-provincial-net-debt-fraser-institute"Provincially, Manitoba has the highest combined debt as a share of GDP at 91.3 per cent in 2025-26, and while Alberta experienced the largest increase in that regard (21.5 per cent), its debt as a share of GDP remains the lowest in Canada (8.1 per cent)."
Often when people discuss gov't debt in Canada, we only think of the feds, but that's a mistake.
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:flag_trans: #Transphobie et #queerphobie au #Canada :nonbinary_flag:
En juin dernier, une éditorialiste du #NationalPost a qualifié le financement d'une recherche sur la transphobie «d'astroturfing».
Le PostMillenial, en référant à une campagne de sensibilisation sur les enjeux #2SLGBTQIA, parle maintenant de «purge».
Les mots mis entre guillemets par le PM ne figurent apparemment nulle part dans les documents du gouvernement.