Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
As we head toward the midterms in this last month of October, it’s time to reflect on who are the leadership of what we would call the democratic socialist-Islamist new basis or alliance with or absorption of the Democratic Party.
On October 10, 2026, the Hilton Toronto Markham will host a training session. The trainers are Muslim elected officials from the United States. The trainees are Muslims in Canada. The subject is how to capture political power for Islamic interests.
The session is called “From the Masjid to City Hall”. The convention is the 24th Annual UMAA Convention, organized by the Universal Muslim Association of America, a Shia Muslim NGO with consultative status at the United Nations. The theme: “The Next Chapter: From Identity to Impact.”
Arecent survey shows that a majority of young, Democratic women believe that “the challenges that women face in American society” are due in great part to the behaviors or actions of men.
There was a time when I thought Canada’s immigration policies were superior to the United States’.
For decades, we have placed far too much weight on things like family reunification, and far too little on recruiting talent. For decades, Canada had more selective policies, and it benefited greatly.
Europe is getting the full cultural enrichment treatment. Keep voting Left and you will have nothing Left. https://t.co/XoVmxlIP0N
— Chris (@Chris91138742) October 2, 2026
The Special Relationship has seen more special days. Earlier this year, President Trump delivered his verdict: “How is the relationship? It’s the relationship where, when we asked them for help, they were not there. When we needed them, they were not there. When we didn’t need them, they were not there. And they still aren’t there.”
Trump was referring to divisions between the US and UK over the wisdom and conduct of the war in Iran. (Even amid a spat, though, he can dish out praise. Just this week, following the arrest of five men outside RAF Fairford, used by American bombers to strike Iran, the President said the UK authorities had done an “amazing job.”) But his remarks landed at a moment of divergence in the US-UK relationship that extends well beyond Iran. Washington has imposed and reimposed tariffs on Britain. Last year the UK paused intelligence-sharing that could have assisted American strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean, which London views as illegal. Trump has branded the deal to hand the Chagos islands to Mauritius an “act of great stupidity.”
BC govt employees also on fentanyl? https://t.co/7LFTcsTW8M
— Nestor (@UncleNestor22) October 2, 2026
TORONTO — Ontario government officials who inspected three career colleges found evidence suggesting third parties were completing the coursework — sometimes entire courses in one day — and a few students who couldn’t name their school or program, they alleged in reports filed in court.
Inspection reports for three Academy of Learning locations are among hundreds of pages of documents that make up the record in a court challenge as the schools seek to overturn a government decision that cut off their ability to offer financial aid.
I can smell the 3rd World through my computer.
h/t Patti Jo
In 1862, The Lancet published a lengthy analysis titled “The Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health.” The invention of the railroad was also the invention of railway accidents, which media of that day covered in lurid detail, but that was the least of it. Experts back then warned that as trains got faster, passengers would suffocate, or that looking at unnaturally fast-moving scenery could permanently compromise visual processing. Other experts warned that the human body was fundamentally unsuited to tolerate such unprecedented speeds.
Canadians are skeptical of the federal government’s proposed plan to privatize some of the country’s major airports, according to a new Nanos Research survey for CTV News.
According to the data, more Canadians oppose allowing private investors to operate Canada’s four largest airports than support it.
“Very cautious. It’s a mixed bag,” said Nik Nanos, founder and chief data scientist at Nanos Research.
1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones recently penned a column in The New York Times where he revealed that she purposefully gave her daughter a poor education in order to align with her left-wing beliefs. Defending herself on PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Thursday, Hannah-Jones insisted her decision was “for the collective and common good.”
Building another oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast has always been in the national interest – on Thursday, it became official.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, standing in Fort McMurray with Premier Danielle Smith, declared that the West Coast Oil Pipeline, now known as Pacific Link, would become the first project deemed in the national interest under the Building Canada Act.
The US Coast Guard has announced that it intercepted a large cargo ship carrying fuel bound for Cuba, as the Trump administration’s crippling oil embargo against the island nation continued.
The vessel named Grace was stopped on 5 September in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Mexico while using tactics to evade authorities, the Coast Guard said. The New York Times reported that the ship was 91 metres (300ft) long.
“Grace was transiting to Cuba, carrying fuel, and was believed to be employing tactics common amongst the dark fleet,” the Coast Guard said in a statement.
Since the beginning of the Canada-U.S. trade war early last year, travel south of the border is still far from recovering.
In January of 2025, the month before U.S. President Donald Trump announced there would be sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods, Statistics Canada found more than 3 million Canadians returned from the United States. That plummeted to about 2.3 million in January of this year, with a return to pre-trade war numbers still far off in the most recent statistics from April.
A normalcy will return.
An immigration judge ruled Wednesday that federal authorities can deport the leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque on national security grounds.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked federal immigration law in June 2025 to determine that Salah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, could be deported because his presence in the United States could have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences. Government lawyers cited Sarsour’s decades-old convictions in Israel, including for throwing rocks at Israeli military personnel and attempting to procure weapons, in arguing that he posed a national security threat.
