It seems like only yesterday that the Toronto mayoral election appeared to be a foregone conclusion. Olivia Chow, in spite of her left-wing ideology, fiscal irresponsibility and tax-and-spend mentality, had led in the polls from the start. She had outpaced and outlasted an assortment of potential challengers, including former mayor John Tory, and was on the cusp of victory.
A few days ago, I wrote about the ‘Palestinian’ professor in Glasgow who has promoted by the media and by former SNP Pakistani First Minister Humza Yusuf after his claims that he had lost 42, 70 or 7 billion family members in Gaza, and has now been fired after being accused of intimidating female students into sending him intimate photos.
I don’t think Woke Charles is fit to govern.
Two weeks out from the midterm elections, JD Vance finds himself at the lowest point in his career so far. A war with Iran that he privately opposed — how vigorously is debatable — has turned into a genuine quagmire. Tehran’s (predictable) closing of the Strait of Hormuz has spiked gas prices, putting inflationary pressure across the economy and making a mockery of the Trump administration’s affordability agenda. Democrats are way ahead in the polls, and competitive in places, like Texas, where they shouldn’t be. The podcast bros have soured on him, the populists accuse him of being too close to Big Tech, the Groypers point out that he’s (literally) in bed with Big Hindu. And Donald Trump still withholds his endorsement for 2028.
On the first bitterly cold night of October, a group of women are warming their hands by a bubbling cauldron in Coldwater, Ont. They’re talking about witches. More specifically, they’re talking about why thousands flock to the Coldwater Witches Walk every year.
“There are a lot of women here who are being who they want to be for one night,” says Jodi Derrick, a local resident and Witches Walk devotee. Derrick came to the event on the evening of Oct. 16 with her friend, Christine Nicholls, and Christine’s sister, April Brown. The three women shared drinks and laughs at her house before donning their witches hats and heading downtown.
All signs point to Thomas Markle Sr possibly being a ‘sex offender of the grossest kind’, according to a Philippines minister.
Authorities are currently trawling through a trove of child abuse images that allegedly belong to the 82-year-old former Hollywood lighting technician.
In an update on its investigation, Philippines interior minister Jonvic Remulla said the forensics data is expected to be completed in a week, but ‘right now all signs point to a possible sex offender of the grossest kind’.
An airport security screener allegedly bypassed mandatory screening procedures for dozens of airport employees to reduce her workload, according to evidence presented in Federal Court.
The case involved a security guard working for a contractor of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), who was accused of manipulating a handheld device used to randomly select airport personnel for additional security checks.
I smell DEI.
Wes Streeting has said Britain must be ready for war in 1,000 days as Russia intensifies its hybrid warfare against Nato.
The Defence Secretary warned that Britain’s enemies could be in a position to attack the country by 2030 and it must “be ready with our allies to fight and win”.
Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Streeting said: “My defining priority… is to make sure that this country is ready to fight and win a war.
On a crisp fall day in 2022, I sat in a meeting room at the Château Laurier in Ottawa with executives from some of Canada’s largest apartment companies. We were there to discuss what could be done for tenants facing rising rents and evictions in some of their buildings. They were clear: Their job was to make a profit and uphold the interests of their investors. They called it their fiduciary duty. With respect to tenants struggling to pay the rent increases these same companies were imposing? We are not social services, they said. They were being honest, and we should take them at their word.
It’s a good piece that explains the transformation of housing into a corporate asset.
And Mr. Carney accidentally let us see it with our own lying eyes.
What drags it down is that weaponized mass immigration is never mentioned as a cause of the housing shortage.
I guess it’s the best we can expect from a former UN Special Rapporteur on housing.
On Oct. 5, Quebec voters returned the separatist Parti Québécois to power after more than a decade in the wilderness. Its leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has promised a third referendum on sovereignty during his first mandate. On Monday, Albertans voted on whether to take the first step toward a referendum on separation.
The NYT calls the French riots "populism". The New York Post blames “grievances” like mass migration. These aren’t Marxists and they aren’t a populist movement. They’re Africans, and the media is inventing a cause for them. https://t.co/adzk2fFuwt
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) October 24, 2026
Given its corpulent government and inexplicably entitled populace, I’ve long been in awe of the fact that France functions at all. In the past four weeks, the verdict is belatedly in: it doesn’t.
Early estimates of the riots: 1,500 shops damaged, destroyed and/or looted; 1,000 police officers injured; at least 1,800 arrests; innumerable cars burned; multiple architecturally irreplaceable public buildings set alight or vandalised.
Two versions of the ‘unrest’ have emerged. For the left-wing press, ‘mostly peaceful’ minors protesting poor educational provision were joined by ‘mostly peaceful’ adults protesting the cost of living – who were then infiltrated by masked outside ‘agitators’ of totally unknown identity who looted and set stuff on fire.
Epic moment. France: 5 patriots vs 100 Antifa and immigrants who burn and destroy everything. They did not back down an inch —they fought like lions. Then the police intervene to defend them. This is France waking up. They are heroes. https://t.co/sk1goEHq6d
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 25, 2026
The typical far-left French protester, part 6. 🇫🇷 https://t.co/YvavJlHVUM
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) October 23, 2026
DETROIT — Former president Barack Obama took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods Saturday during an impassioned speech at a Democrat campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, ahead of next month’s U.S. mid-term elections.
Obama mocked the current president’s tariff war with its northern neighbour while jokingly referring to Canada as a “well-known evil empire” and the home of Martin Short and maple syrup.
A few decades ago, there seemed to be only two choices on origins: If you doubted that Darwinian natural selection of random mutations could explain all the magnificent species in the living world — including intelligent, conscious humans — you had to believe that the Grand Canyon is only a few thousand years old. And if you saw the story of Noah and the ark as an allegory rather than as history, you had to believe that everything in the universe is the product of blind, unintelligent forces. I remember seeing a T-shirt with a picture of the Grand Canyon on the front. On the back was the message, “Six thousand years or four billion years — you decide.”
