Libya’s top religious authority has declared a fatwa against Nike for promoting symbols associated “with polytheism”.
The Dar al-Ifta has issued a ruling that bans Muslims from buying, selling or wearing clothing bearing the sportswear brand.
It said that wearing clothing displaying the logo amounted to the worship of more than one god, because Nike is named after a Greek goddess.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said the United States is “asking less” and “offering more” in negotiations aimed at a trade deal that he says are making progress.
But he cautioned still more headway needs to be made.
Mr. Carney, speaking to reporters Tuesday at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, said U.S. negotiators have backed off a position that regarded French-protection laws as trade barriers as well as proposals that would have restricted Ottawa’s ability to sign trade deals with countries.
Republicans braced for a day of recriminations Wednesday as they woke to a midterm rout in states across the nation, with Democrats reclaiming both the Senate and House by stunningly wide margins.
In private calls and texts, Republicans lamented strategies they now viewed as inadequate — like the southern redistricting gambit — or politically damaging, like launching the war in Iran.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump spent the latter half of election night trying to distance himself from his party’s electoral debacle, after weeks of urging voters to go to the polls as if he were on the ballot.
Ontario’s colleges and universities minister said Tuesday he will not be releasing a government-commissioned audit into student financial aid usage at career colleges.
Nolan Quinn announced last month that he had engaged KPMG to audit the sector following concerns about rising usage in the Ontario Student Assistance Program. Preliminary findings from that audit alarmed the government enough to refer the matter to the Ontario Provincial Police.
But Quinn does not intend to make those findings public, he said.
Ford has to go.
Doug Ford is investigating Canada’s Learing Center.
(A school on the 3rd floor of a commercial building that got HALF of all of the education grants for the entire province of Ontario)
….but now we lear that he wont make the results public.
Get rid of these dinks. https://t.co/U5obY5QomJ
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) November 4, 2026
For two years, the world has weathered President Trump’s domineering unilateralism, enduring up-and-down tariffs, a war with Iran, aggression in Latin America, abrupt reversals on Ukraine, and a fusillade of demands for allies including Canada, Germany and Japan.
Now, with Democrats having taken control of Congress as nearly all of Mr. Trump’s preferred Republicans fall to defeat, many countries are debating what to expect from yet another case of American political whiplash.
Jason Kenney has now joined CBC’s U.S. midterm Decision Desk audition as the token western wanker
He scolds Alberta separatists and the Canadian right for being “inspired” by MAGA’s “burn-it-down” style, declaring tonight’s results prove even Americans are tired of it. Soft both-sides-but-mostly-one-side framing on trade, then the usual gentle lecture
This is the same CBC that spent weeks sneering at Ambassador Hoekstra for warning Canadian politicians to “keep your nose out” of American races. Now it’s using a former Alberta premier to explain U.S. House and Senate math and why Canadian populists are wrong — while submitting to Carney’s demand to join Eurovision and treating actual Canadian politics as the B-reel to their U.S. big tent
Hoekstra’s complaints look a lot less unhinged when the CBC is treating American midterms as its own election night @jkenney
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) November 4, 2026
Ahead of Thursday’s budget, when the Carney government will release new immigration targets, business groups are lobbying to open the system back up again.
The government should send a clear and unequivocal message: no.
Canada is a country built on immigration, but starting in 2021, we let the system get out of control. Despite Mark Carney claiming that his government has curbed the excesses, the numbers in all but one category remain well above historic norms.
What? This is nuts. @fancypants_s
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) November 3, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
In 17 days this autumn the Royal Navy ran three operations against Russian ships around our coast. Announced together on Monday, they combine well.
First, the intelligence ship Viktor Leonov loitered off the Outer Hebrides, “closely monitoring Nato warships” during Exercise Strike Warrior. Merlin helicopters from Culdrose were flown up to Prestwick and tracked her for 10 days. Second, HMS Dauntless and the patrol ship HMS Tyne shadowed the Russian frigate Neustrashimy through the Channel as she escorted sanctioned cargo ships. Third, HMS Tyne sailed from North Shields to pick up the landing ship Aleksandr Shabalin, nursing a shadow-fleet vessel and a tug towards the Baltic, with an 815 Squadron Wildcat overhead.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is one of the smartest and most successful people in the world. Yet even he has fallen for the myth that China’s economy runs primarily on renewable energy. In a recent interview discussing China-US competition in the field of AI, Schmidt boldly remarked that “China has infinite energy, most of it renewable.”
He is one of Scotland’s most famous inventors having revolutionised the world with his creation of the telephone.
However, Alexander Graham Bell’s descendants are up in arms after the Canadian government rewrote his legacy amid claims over his views on deaf people and selective breeding.
The eminent scientist’s designation as a National Historic Person in his adopted homeland of Canada has been reviewed and edited while a commemorative plaque at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia will have its wording changed.
A lot of the swings we’ve seen lately by provincial electorates, including Alberta, British Columbia (BC), and Quebec, are acting akin to a chemical equilibrium. When things get too out of whack, and too much instability is introduced into one side of the political equation, voters across Canada try to re-establish the balance.
To some extent, that means voting for an ideal, an ideal that is different for different provinces.
Two teenage males of non-Danish ethnic origin face multiple charges including gang rape of a 14-year-old girl over more than seven hours, rape of a 13-year-old under threat of a knife, and related offenses involving other underage girls, according to an indictment obtained by the Danish newspaper B.T.
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani has asked the ethics commissioner to consider the relationship between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Telesat Corporation CEO Dan Goldberg following the awarding of a $2.3-billion military satellite deal.
The letter, posted online, argues that Goldberg and Carney have a relationship dating back two decades, that has included running a marathon together in London, and more recently, Goldberg attending the swearing in of Carney’s cabinet.
Straight from the source. https://t.co/KlKbDflRkt
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) November 2, 2026
On Aug. 19, 1942, 200 Hamilton men were slaughtered on the beaches of Dieppe in France in an ill-fated commando raid.
They were among the 900 Canadians massacred on those rocky beaches that terrible day.
But, the pain was felt most acutely in Hamilton. The losses of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry were the most of any single regiment in our nation’s long, bloody history.
Estella Quintanilla? Remigration Now.
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Good. Let us do some awareness of our own.
A girl’s tongue nailed to the table for threatening to talk. A kettle of boiling water held over a pinned down girl’s face. Another threatened with a gun to blow her face off. A girl told her family would have their throats cut and be decapitated. Oxford victims scratched, choked, beaten, branded, burnt, gang raped, assaulted with knives and a baseball bat. Girls locked in bedsits like animals, no food, no toilet. Deliberate addiction to hard drugs and alcohol. Pregnancy as punishment, then backstreet abortions. A 13 year old found on examination to have been raped more than 50 times. A 12 year old, Samantha, abducted in Oldham, thrown out of a moving car, then locked in a room and raped by five men for nearly 24 hours. Another 12 year old was doused in petrol and told she would burn if she talked.
Now the pattern. Average age of the convicted, 29. Most of them married. Most of them with daughters the same age. Not confused boys. Grown men who knew. Mainly from Pakistan.
For a quarter of a century the word was racist. Not a case, not a report, not a counter argument. Just the word, thrown at every parent, every councillor, every copper and every journalist. It worked. Councils wrote reports commanding that culture must not be mentioned. Police told mothers to do the detective work themselves. The victims were called prostitutes. The Crown Prosecution Service refused to take Rochdale in 2009.
A twenty minute film was made for exactly this, paid for by the state, trialled in a few Sheffield schools and left on a shelf for nearly twenty years. The man in it is Asian, not even Muslim, and still that was too much.
Meanwhile the borders are wide open and the queue keeps growing. Eritrean, Sudanese, Afghan, Somali, Kurdish, Albanian and Roma names now sit in the conviction lists alongside the Pakistani ones. But the boats bring more than rapists. Two IRGC operatives who arrived by small boat were charged in 2026 with plotting an attack on Jewish targets in Manchester. An Iraqi already convicted of Islamic State membership came in on the identical route. Nineteen suspected of terrorist activity, some with Daesh links, were picked out of Channel arrivals, and officials admit Islamic State fighters could use it too. Every new cohort brings its own version of the con, and nobody at the top is counting.
Islamophobic is the new word doing the old job. It is not an argument. It is a stop sign. For twenty-five years the pattern was known, the reports were written and the cases were coming through the courts, yet naming the men who did it was treated as the greater offence. The same refusal continues. Inquiries are narrowed or delayed. Police and councils still treat the ethnic pattern as a problem of messaging rather than a problem of crime. The result is plain: networks that rape, traffic and torture girls on an industrial scale have operated with relative impunity, while those who document the pattern face the greater official hostility.
That is the cost of the word. A twenty-minute film was commissioned by a government agency, trialled in Sheffield schools and then left unused because the perpetrator was Asian. The girls it was meant to warn never saw it. The pattern it illustrated has not stopped.
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Be aware.
— Christian (@InTheTrenchesUK) November 2, 2026
