One thing voters in Toronto need to decide by Oct. 26 is whether they want a mayor focused on the key, basic services we all rely on. The alternative, as personified by Olivia Chow, is a mayor who focuses on renaming, DEI, decolonization and changing the language city staff use to communicate.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rediscovered the vocabulary of peace at the precise moment his army is taking Ukraine apart, one bridge and one power station at a time.
On September 25, addressing Russian journalists, he said that every proposal for settling the four-and-a-half-year war remained on the table, then attached the condition that empties the offer of content. “We are ready for talks and to wrap them up as soon as possible, but on conditions acceptable for the Russian people,” Putin said. Moscow would first assess what served its own interests.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is the latest Canadian politician to rebuff statements by a high-tech billionaire that provinces would be “better off” seceding from Canada.
Speaking at a press conference in Sherbrooke, Que., on Thursday, Carney addressed Musk’s comments — made Wednesday on X in reply to a post quoting newly elected Quebec Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon as saying Quebec’s independence “will be realized one day.”
Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reported that ABC News quickly deleted an investigative article about the president’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. On Wednesday, it came with the headline, “Trump sons’ investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election.”
Profiting off government contracts! They alleged Anduril, the company investing in a new Baltimore shipyard, had ties to the Trump sons.
Three men have been sentenced to jail terms for a commercial robbery spree in southern Manitoba launched just two weeks after they were accused of killing a 19-year-old man in Abbotsford, B.C.
Twenty-two-year-old Ravdeep Gill of Winnipeg, pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of robbery and Harmandeep Gill, 27, of Brampton, Ont. and Jaskaran Singh, 21, of Surrey, B.C., each pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery for a 10-day crime blitz that targeted gas bars in Swan Lake, Teulon and St. Laurent, and a meat shop in Winnipeg.
h/t AL
Ever since former OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon posted his “we’re all doomed” message in September, positing that AI would “destroy humanity” in the next decade, there has been a healthy debate about how to control AI so that the world can safely take advantage of its promised revolution.
Canada’s economy posted a second consecutive month of job losses in September, pushing up the unemployment rate and offsetting what had been a hot streak for the labour market earlier in the year.
Statistics Canada said Friday the economy lost 68,000 positions in September, coming off a loss of 42,000 roles in August. Economists had expected a gain of 9,200 jobs in the month.
StatCan said job losses were nearly evenly split between full- and part-time work and were concentrated in the public sector.
Hollywood celebrities like Henry Winkler, John Legsizamo, and many others denounced the Pentagon’s proposed plan to livestream the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
But their cool with Trump being killed.
Olivia Chow has announced a plan to lower grocery prices through an outright ban on surveillance pricing and property tax breaks for community grocers but her opponent in the mayoral race is accusing her of rehashing old policies.
“Right now, things are hard for community grocery stores and the families they serve. Food has become too expensive. We don’t want to have mums and dads putting something back at the checkout because they can’t afford it,” the mayoral candidate said at a news conference Friday.
Better hope it’s not Diversity chicken.
The head of the union representing thousands of Mounties says he’s worried the Liberal plan to create a new financial crime enforcement agency will hurt the already strained RCMP.
Rob Farrer, president of the National Police Federation, testified Thursday before a parliamentary committee studying Bill C-29, which would establish a dedicated Financial Crimes Agency (FCA).
The bill, introduced in the spring, is meant to address concerns that Canada falls short on investigating financial crimes including money laundering networks and online fraud, which historically have been investigated by the RCMP through its federal mandate.
They’re gonna miss that dough!
Ukrainian and European officials are set to meet US President Donald Trump’s envoys in Miami on Friday to discuss “new ideas” to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskyy confirmed the meeting on Thursday evening, after a Russian attack on buses killed 30 civilians in the frontline city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine.
Before the strikes in Kramatorsk, a Russian missile hit a five-storey apartment block in the northern Chernihiv region, killing 22 Ukrainians, including five children.
Olivia Chow’s record, when looked at objectively, isn’t one to run for re-election on, so she’s running on fear.
At debate after debate, in pronouncement after pronouncement, Chow is trying to scare voters into believing that her opponent, Brad Bradford, is a monster who will destroy the city.
Chow’s Muslim handlers will not be easily pushed away from the public trough.
Major media outlets apparently left out what seem to be the four most exculpatory words — “our body our choice” — that a former Cornell University student texted to one of her alleged rapists days after the incident.
Her texts actually get worse.
“Sexual liberation” was a classic product of 1960’s youth culture—self-involved and ignorant of human nature. It denied the profound differences between the sexes, including the male and female libido and different emotional responses to coitus. But progressives block any attempt to restore essential norms of sexual prudence and instead layer onto this primal, complicated instinct absurd bureaucratic rules regarding “consent.” Jane Doe is the poster child for the disaster wrought by those self-indulgent adolescents frolicking naked in the mud of Woodstock.
I discuss the Cornell 7 case with @megynkelly:
— Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI) October 8, 2026
The route up the Widowmaker Arete, a 1,700-foot wall in British Columbia, is deceptively described as “mostly easy slab climbing”, interspersed with “short steep sections that can include finger cracks, blocky face climbing”. It requires careful planning, and the right equipment.
When 16-year-old Bryce Vincent Gowryluk found himself facing its sheer headwall last week, he had neither. He did, however, ask the AI chatbot Claude for directions.
Last week, Gowryluk had to be rescued after those directions proved wildly incorrect, in the latest incident to raise questions about the growing reliance on digital maps for wilderness navigation.
