TORONTO – The number of empty horse stalls inside the stables that line Toronto’s historic Woodbine Racetrack is increasing.
Three years ago, Woodbine Racetrack was home to roughly 1,900 horses. That number is now 1,600 and dropping fast, as Canadian breeders, thoroughbreds and buyers gallop south of the border, lured by U.S. tax breaks that are beginning to decimate Canada’s industry.
We’re learning more about the extraordinary bravery exhibited by a dad who heard gunshots and ran toward them inside a Bend, Ore., elementary school and stopped a murderer. And there are more heroes to celebrate in this tragic story. Sadly, however, we’re not learning much from the politicos in that largely leftist state whose default position is to blame the gun and not the malicious and sick person who murdered three children and at least one teacher and wounded others at Silver Rail Elementary on Thursday.
On Monday, Albertans will vote on whether their provincial government should begin the legal process toward a future, binding referendum on separation from Canada. After months of debate, political positioning, and speculation about whether a highly motivated separatist minority could produce a surprise, we have one final survey before the votes are counted.
And the evidence is increasingly pointing in one direction.
The left-wing UK government is reportedly planning to introduce an internet tax to prop up the financially struggling BBC public broadcaster.
Currently, everyone who watches broadcast television in Britain must pay the government an £180 ($239) annual licence fee, whether they watch the BBC or not. The fee was originally used to fund the BBC’s radio broadcasts, but was later expanded to incorporate TV following the Second World War. Now, amid the rise of streaming services, the left-wing Labour Party government is said to be planning on extending the effective tax to the internet.
Carney’s minions are salivating.
Recently the first Canada Investment Summit put 167 projects before global investors and set a target of $1 trillion in new capital over five years.
The pitch was for pipelines, mines, ports and data centres: large projects seeking big cheques. It is the right ambition for a country whose most important trading relationship has been put in a blender.
It is also incomplete.
She stood at Volodymyr Zelensky’s side for two years as one of his closest aides. She wrote a book crediting him with bringing hope to Ukraine and giving her a voice.
Iuliia Mendel is now using that voice to condemn the Ukrainian leader, calling him “the biggest obstacle to peace”.
Her deeply controversial – and highly contested – message is that the war cannot be won, and Kyiv must surrender.
The rape allegations that destroyed professor Steven Galloway’s career a decade ago were never actually tested. Indeed, the woman who made them isn’t planning to defend their accuracy in a defamation trial scheduled to start next month.
If it sounds like you’ve heard about this case before, you probably have. Galloway, an author and member of the University of British Columbia creative writing program, had an affair with a grad student older than he was, starting in 2011. Both of them were married at the time. It ended sometime in 2013 — and then, the student began telling people she’d been raped.
$62 million was paid out to two Christian groups to build up and settle a sizeable portion of the Somali community in Minnesota, which eventually led to the growth of the Somali population in the state.
h/t handy n handsome
Four days before the latest test of this 159-year-old Confederation — a nation that has given the world both insulin and Céline Dion — Mark Carney went to Calgary to make the case for carrying on.
“Canada isn’t perfect, but we are the best,” he said. “And we are getting better.”
A day before Carney arrived, Naheed Nenshi, the leader of Alberta NDP and the former mayor of Calgary, was asked what he wanted to hear from the prime minister. Nenshi said Carney needed to make the argument that “Canada works.”
Canada works for grifters not Canadians.
Police have fired teargas and clashed with protesters supporting high school student grievances, as demonstrations across France were boosted by other groups angry over high prices and the fraying of a social welfare system.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and tensions erupted on the fringes of the nationwide demonstrations over absent teachers, decrepit school buildings and police violence.
Over the last two days I went on Fox News and Newsmax to warn Americans about what’s happening in France. Today, the images speak for themselves.
October 17, 2026. In Marseille, France’s second-largest city, a mob smashed through the doors of City Hall and stormed the lobby chanting "It’s the revolution, we’re taking the Bastille." Shortly before, rioters had trashed a municipal police station, breaking windows and throwing smoke bombs inside. Shops on the main avenue were vandalized and barricades were set on fire. In Paris, masked black bloc crews fired mortar fireworks at police at Place de la République while tear gas filled the square. There were 166 arrests nationwide by midday and more than 600 protests across the country, after weeks of blockaded high schools. The Yellow Vests are back.
Now here’s what every American needs to understand. What are these people demanding? More: higher wages, higher pensions, more public spending, more state. That’s in a country where the government already spends more than half of everything the economy produces.
This isn’t an accident. It’s where 45 years of socialism lead. Since 1981, left or right, every French government has grown the state. Macron is just the final, most polished version of the same system.
Socialism doesn’t create prosperity. It creates dependency. When people rely on the state for everything, every disappointment turns into anger at the state. And the state cannot allocate capital. It doesn’t risk its own money, and it never goes bankrupt when it’s wrong. It just borrows more and taxes more. Productivity stalls, wages stagnate and prices rise. Then people take to the streets demanding even more state. The loop feeds itself until it breaks.
America, watch closely. If the Democrats fully embrace socialism, this is the trailer for what comes next. History is accelerating. It took France decades to get here. It won’t take you nearly as long.
Vote for less government, never more.
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) October 17, 2026
Report of the Yellow Vest movement allying with the “students”.
Lyon, France – tourist office set on fire. This is Europe, these are criminals. https://t.co/VsHcAOZ3Nz
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 17, 2026
h/t Mauser
Federal immigration policy, and its effects on the ongoing housing and affordability crisis, is front and centre in Canadian politics once again.
First off, Prime Minister Mark Carney, while speaking outside of Canada to journalists at the New York Times on Sept. 23, suggested his Liberal government is looking to increase immigration following efforts to reduce numbers since forming government in 2025.
Who except a few twisted self-flagellants would vote for their own erasure?
No one.
This is a criminal act against the citizens of Canada.
NEW:
The top 10 Countries with the largest decline in share of White population over the last 20 years. https://t.co/QIPTxgLhFK
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) October 17, 2026
The life of Maryam Yarmohammadi came to a violent end in the early hours of October 5, when the 28-year-old mother of two was attacked with knives by her brother and husband on Qeshm Island in southern Iran. Her genitalia were mutilated. She died shortly afterward in hospital. Both her husband and brother were arrested.
Media reported that about 50 relatives gathered outside the hospital to protest the arrests. They reportedly believed that death had been the “least severe punishment” Maryam Yarmohammadi deserved.
One of the ringleaders of the thwarted Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole after the Parole Board of Canada found he no longer showed “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.”
Zakaria Amara, who helped recruit members for a group that aimed to storm Parliament Hill and bomb several locations around Toronto, has been on day parole with multiple conditions for four years, and the board upgraded his release after reviewing his case last week.
h/t Mauser
US President Donald Trump has used his presidential authority to block numerous sanctions on Russia that were recently passed by the US Congress in an effort to punish the country for its war on Ukraine.
In an executive order on Friday night, Trump said that it is in the US “national interests” to withhold some of the sanctions. Trump signed the sanctions bill into law in September, and it was due to take effect on Sunday.
It comes days after Trump said the US would import Russian diesel in an effort to bring down US energy prices before the midterm elections in November, which will decide which party controls Congress.
Raise your hand if, like me, you’re on social media frequently enough to see enlightening, sensible messages that you, in contemporary terminology, endorse with a “like.” Now, raise your hand if, like me, you come across views that boggle your mind, are laden with bizarre support for antisemitism, extremism and/or political violence and you wish you could express your disapproval with something other than a “like.”
