The more time you spend on social media, the angrier everyone seems. No matter which platform you use, people appear to be in a state of perpetual outrage.

Whether it’s personal attacks made against politicians, criticisms of long-established businesses, or drive-by smears against churches, there’s no shortage of negativity online. If this truly reflected how most people felt about those around them, it would be a depressing state of affairs indeed.

Perhaps this is why people who spend most of their time on social media are more likely to be depressed than those who don’t.

Fortunately, the real world is quite different from social media. I was reminded of this fact when hanging out at Summer in the City this past weekend.

Opponents of an Ile des Chenes AI date centre were elated at the start of June when plans for the facility in their community were shelved. Concerns over noise, energy needs and water consumption were all factors for people living in the area to be squarely against the proposal.

But the battle against such facilities may be far from over.

Local activist Christie Little said she knows there’s more to do.

“I was elated when the project here got squashed, but I’m not naive. This isn’t over. We need governments and regulators to seriously reconsider what they’re doing. We can’t have these things in Manitoba. We need to be smart about this,” she said.

When FIFA, soccer’s governing body, awarded the 2026 World Cup to Canada, Mexico and the U.S. in 2018, their joint bid to co-host represented three countries working together in perfect harmony. Thanks to one deranged, deeply unstable person, that North American unity is long gone.

Leave it to the panoramically ignorant and colossally evil president of the United States to singlehandedly take a ton of happiness out of the World Cup of soccer, the biggest sporting event on earth.

First there was the tale of Somalian referee Omar Artan. Despite having a proper U.S. visa and a diplomatic passport, Artan, Africa’s 2025 referee of the year, was questioned for 11 hours by U.S. customs officials and shamefully denied entry into the United States for the World Cup.

Then the Trump regime forbade the Iranian team to practice in the U.S. This meant Iran has to fly back and forth to Mexico to train. No other team in the tournament has that kind of burdensome travel schedule, enforced solely out of spite and hate.

At first blush the decision by Hanover School Division to pass a policy that would see parents exercise their control over their children’s health and counselling in school, despite them being of mature minor status, seems like a positive.

It’s also being applauded by many who see any relinquishment of control of their child as a takeover by somebody else.

Unfortunately, those in favour of the decision and the trustees themselves have entirely missed the point.

Mature minor designation is commonly applied to those 16 and over and is meant to apply to someone who has the mental capacity to make their own decisions.

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

-John Keats

Have you heard the following statement? ‘All truth is God’s truth’. How about this? ‘All beauty is God’s beauty’. And finally, what about further yet the idea that ‘beauty is truth’? This concept that “beauty is truth” points out how aesthetic qualities like elegance, symmetry, and simplicity can be indicators of fundamental reality and truth. This guiding principle can be found in diverse groups like philosophy, physics, and literature. Physicists and mathematicians often argue that if a mathematical equation or physical theory is beautiful, elegant, and simple, it is likely to be true. Albert Einstein famously stated that the only physical theories he was willing to accept were the “beautiful ones”.