The European Union has over four-hundred-fifty million people. The non-E.U. nations of Europe — including the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, and Albania but excluding Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Turkey — have another hundred million people. Combined, Europe has over two hundred million more people than the United States and over four hundred million more people than the Russian Federation. As an “associate member” of the E.U., Canada would give Europe another forty million bodies.
A Jury Has Rebuked Kristin Knouse for Defaming Former Lover David Sabatini
For the past five years, vocal members of the American scientific community, led by a bitter MIT Professor of Biology, Kristin Knouse, have been determined to prevent one of the world’s top molecular biologists from doing his cancer-related cell research.
The situation got so bad for David Sabatini that he thought he might never work in America again.
What a nightmare!
I’ve being seeing these forever but still pains me to read them
— David M. Sabatini (@DMSabatini) November 1, 2026
Why are so many teens being treated as terrorists?
What is going on with Britain’s children? Last year, more than 6,000 under-18s were referred to Prevent, the UK government’s counter-terrorism scheme, with a record number reported for being obsessed with mass violence and extremism. Believe the headlines, and we are raising a generation of committed terrorists and murderous nihilists. But scratch beneath the surface, and a far more complex picture of adult failure begins to emerge.
Why Weren’t We Warned?
In my day, being young was dominated by three basics: sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.
Boy, that world has changed.
Seems like our kids aren’t having much sex these days.
Drugs? Yes, mostly of the prescribed type.
Donna Kennedy-Glans: Paternalistic Indian Act should have been abolished long ago
I’m a lawyer. And I’ve been watching Canadian governments talk about ending the Indian Act for most of my adult life.
In 1969, Trudeau and Chrétien actually tried it. Their white paper proposed scrapping the statute, ending separate legal status and treating First Nations people as ordinary Canadians. Indigenous leaders called it assimilation and killed it; the paternalistic act stayed.
Attempted murder probe after petrol bomb thrown at French riot police
French officials have opened an investigation into the attempted murder of a police officer and Germany’s interior minister has called for harsh penalties after peaceful and mainly youth-led protests across Europe ended in violence.
In Portugal, police – some with dogs – cleared protest camps with baton charges, while security forces in Switzerland were attacked with paving stones.
#FranceWatch🇫🇷: Today, CHAOS punctuated by Molotov cocktails exploded at Paris’s Porte de Charenton.
PRES. MACRON CONTINUES TO SUBORDINATE FRANCE TO HIS OBESSION WITH TRYING TO BE RELEVANT ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE. https://t.co/XYTpA9lkJa
— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) November 1, 2026
New information challenges military’s account of deadly Wainwright fire
n its account of the deadly fire at CFB Wainwright, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) describes an extraordinary chain of events on Oct. 17.
The base, it says, was monitoring a common grass fire that erupted in “uncommonly strong winds,” with flames soon devouring a kilometre in just 30 to 60 seconds.
The military called the event “entirely anomalous.”
Don’t expect calm after the US midterms
US technology shares were sliding again yesterday. The drop, as the Financial Times puts it, marks ‘a continuation of a volatile month for the sector as investors fret about the sustainability of the debt-fuelled AI infrastructure boom.’
Elon Musk has been raising the alarm. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) has reported some disappointing news, as have Meta and Amazon. The great fear is that all the circular financing which has sustained the AI boom – tech companies lending money to themselves through various ‘vehicles’ – is about to be exposed, and that institutional investors (pension funds and so on) will start to panic. The trillions spent on AI data centres and computing power could start to freeze up.
PRINGLE: The quiet pastor dropping truth bombs on Canadian fascism
I saw a video on YouTube that had 800 views in ten hours. Only 24 hours later, it had skyrocketed to over 5,000 views.
The incendiary title (for many church people) of the YouTube video is “Pastors Should not be Afraid to Speak up about Alberta Independence.”
A person you probably have never heard of is one of the bravest pastors in the province and quite possibly the entire nation.
France’s Unrest Should Make Americans Ask: What Are We Asking People to Join?
Watching businesses burn in France, I think about the person who built them. As a restaurant owner, I know what it means to pour blood, sweat, and tears into a business. I think about employees who need their next paycheck and owners whose bills will arrive even when customers cannot.
The demonstrations in France have involved grievances about living costs and public services, alongside violence and destruction. Those events do not establish a single explanation as the source of the unrest. We should resist forcing the evidence into our preferred narrative. But they should raise a question Americans ought to consider: What holds a country together when its people become this angry?
Terry Newman: Standing alone is brave, actually
The 21st Canada-European Union Summit kicked off in Montreal this week, and so far, it looks like Prime Minister Mark Carney and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen forgot to compare notes.
In her speech, Von der Leyen, once again, used the term “associate member” and said that Canada and the EU could “build a partnership that comes closer to membership than anything we’ve done before.”
What is that supposed to mean?
WTF?
Translation – It’s been a long time since I saw a description so true to its content. The title was: “Poland Explained” and the lady really did explain it. If someone thinks that in the West they’re doomed to mainstream media, liberal propaganda outlets, they’ll be in for a rude awakening.
Dawno nie widziałem opisu tak zgodnego z zawartością. W tytule było: „Polska wyjaśniona” i babka rzeczywiście wyjaśniła. Jak ktoś myśli, że na zachodzie są skazani na mainstreamowe media, liberalne przekaziory, to się grubo przejedzie. https://t.co/p0KFmTmHGG
— Szymon Woźniak (@SzymonIgoronco) October 31, 2026
Inside the tumult before Rep. Haley Stevens, a Democrat, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race over her former primary rival Abdul El-Sayed.
DETROIT — Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens told a longtime friend Saturday evening that she planned to attend a church service the next day in Detroit with her former rival, Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. She even texted the friend, a senior Democrat, the church’s address.
The church service, led by Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-South Carolina), one of the country’s most powerful Black lawmakers, was meant to show unity, signal that the acrimony spilling over from a contentious primary had ended and highlight the two campaigning with Black voters, a key voting bloc that backed Stevens in the primary.
A Democrat did the right thing.
Not this one.
🚨🚨 JUST NOW: Deranged Abdul Supporter tackled a Jewish girl (@basedinmalibu) at free speech event.
She was SWIFTLY arrested, resisted and then said “I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER!!” As she was loaded into the police vehicle. https://t.co/Sfs7ltt3Vs
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) November 1, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump offers Rep. Haley Stevens (D) a spot in the Republican Party, and Speaker Johnson is worried for her safety after she backed Mike Rogers
Wow!
TRUMP: "I’d LOVE to have her. Mike, you talked to her!"
JOHNSON: I sent her a note…I told her how courageous she was…she’s a good person…I encouraged her to stay safe. 🙏🏻
Think about that. A sitting Democrat congresswoman endorses a Republican, and the Speaker of the House feels he has to tell her to stay safe!
BECAUSE THE LEFT IS PSYCHO.
Her own mother says Haley was chased out of a park and called a "Zionist pig" this year
She should leave the party.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 1, 2026
WTF?
ALERT: The man who allegedly shot another man in a Spirit Halloween store gets beaten up by the victim’s family while he’s already handcuffed.
The incident happened in Madison Heights, Michigan, when police were called to the store for an active shooter situation.
Police arrived and arrested the suspected shooter and were trying to put him in his car when the suspected family members of the victim attacked him.
🎥: metrodetroitnews | IG
— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) October 30, 2026
h/t handy n handsome
Donald Trump continues to daydream about swallowing Canada whole
Two months after Mark Carney halted trade talks with the U.S. and days before midterm elections, Donald Trump is suddenly predicting the bilateral impasse is about to end: ”Canada’s working very hard to make a (trade) deal with us. And, I hate to say this, but we have all the cards.”
Trump’s comment helps explain why the U.S. to date has failed to achieve a trade deal with Canada following its announcement in January 2025 of its one-sided, winner-take-all America First Trade Policy. The U.S. president insists Canada is now willing to give the U.S. whatever it wants.
The Star’s contributors are often bewildering.
