In the spring of 2025, the separatist Republican Party of Alberta seemed to be making a push.
Months before a revival of separatist sentiment would put provincial politics in a headlock, the fledgling party released a five-point plan for Alberta independence, sent doorknockers into neighbourhoods and announced its new leader would run in a June byelection for a chance at a seat in the legislature.
An asylum seeker who raped a 13-year-old girl in a wood after grooming her on Snapchat has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years.
Abdul Khan, who told police he arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry from Afghanistan in 2015, attacked the teenager a decade later.
A trial last week heard how Khan used the messaging platform Snapchat to groom the teenager by telling her he was a 14-year-old boy – when he was actually 27.
OTTAWA — A senior Public Safety official says the federal government has told its Indian counterparts that there is “zero tolerance” for transnational repression and foreign interference by its diplomats.
In a recent letter to advocacy group Sikhs for Justice (SJF), a top Public Safety official assured the group that the government has “made it clear to senior Indian officials that there is zero tolerance for transnational repression or other illegal activities by foreign diplomats in this country.”
As a lifeguard with two decades’ experience, Mathias Nobel has seen it all while standing vigil at the Heidebad lakeside beach in Halle, eastern Germany.
Whether it be small children swimming without armbands, or parents enjoying a few too many cocktails at his Hawaiian-style beach bar, he has always known how to react.
But this summer, Mr Nobel made the unconventional decision to ban non-German speakers from the lake on the grounds of safety, saying swimmers must be able to understand his instructions and rules.
As a lifeguard with two decades’ experience, Mathias Nobel has seen it all while on duty at Heidebad lakeside beach in Halle, eastern Germany.
However, this summer, Nobel decided to ban people who cannot speak German from the lake on the grounds of safety, saying swimmers must… pic.twitter.com/Q8XmtaMWo3
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 10, 2026
Former Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he believes interference by the Chinese regime is likely taking place ahead of the upcoming municipal elections.
Stewart, who led Vancouver from 2018 to 2022, says little has been done to prevent vulnerabilities that he says China exploited and which contributed to his 2022 re-election loss.
“I don’t think it’s resolved itself, and I’m sure there’s going to be interference in this election too, because nothing’s been done,” Stewart said in an Aug. 6 interview with political podcast host Aaron Pete.
The right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged to a record 42% in a new poll in Saxony-Anhalt, putting the party 20 percentage points ahead of the governing centre-right CDU just four weeks before the state election.
The Insa survey, published on Monday, August 10th, puts the AfD up one percentage point from its previous result, while the CDU of Prime Minister Sven Schulze has fallen two points to 22%.
Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to look at this poll and understand one simple thing: People will not accept a gas tax hike in September.
New polling shows 63% of Canadians oppose the federal government’s plan to hike fuel taxes next month.
Carney suspended the federal fuel tax in April to give Canadians a break at the pumps, saving 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents per litre of diesel.
In a July 29 briefing note disclosed by Blacklock’s Reporter, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty’s department claims it respects indigenous “rights and title” to Aboriginal ancestral lands.
This declaration has not prevented her department from continuing its court battle against an Indian tribe’s claim of ownership over Parliament Hill.
We had it so good. We became complacent. pic.twitter.com/36NxriSu2D
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) August 10, 2026
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) retracted a “biased” judicial guide on Friday that was designed to influence federal judges in cases involving so-called “climate science.” The announcement came following The Federalist’s extensive reporting on the subject.
On the eighth of February 2020, in a private note recounting a telephone call with the former CDC Director Tom Frieden, Anthony Fauci set the fatality rate of the new coronavirus at “more like 0.2 to 0.3% rather than 2.0%”. Thirty-two days later, under oath before Congress, he called that same virus 10 times deadlier than seasonal influenza, roughly 1%; four days after that, the states began ordering their citizens indoors. Those two numbers, and the 32 days that separate them, contain very nearly the whole catastrophe.
As you get older sometimes you realize how odd you are — or at least different. Take me and religion.
According to new polling by veteran sociologist Reginald Bibby, my spiritual trajectory has not been at all normal in North America.
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Has there ever been a dumber clever person than Jolyon Maugham? For someone with a first-class Durham degree who reached the dizzying heights of King’s Counsel, he doesn’t half swallow a lot of bullshit. First he fell for trans-fabulism, becoming one of the noisiest acolytes of the delirious idea that you can have a cock and be a woman. Now he’s fallen for the alleged fabulism of Jason Arday, the disgraced ex-prof famous for his long hair and tall tales.
In Greece, Elisabeth-Jane Ross, a Scottish woman who had come to work with migrants, was murdered and had her body stuffed into a suitcase and left in an abandoned building by an Afghan refugee who had his own refugee charity. In Ireland, Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old woman from upstate New York, hooked up with a ‘Palestinian’ refugee she met at an anti-Israel rally and he beat her to death and then fled. In Norway, Maren Sømme, a 30-year-old woman, was killed by an Afghan refugee previously facing deportation for abusing another woman.
Despite all the trade-war rhetoric and “51st state” comments from the White House, Americans on the whole still have positive feelings toward their neighbours to the north. But from this side of the border, it’s a different picture.
A poll by Canada’s Angus Reid asked people from both countries about their perceptions of the other. It found that almost half of Canadians hold a negative view of Americans, with 29 per cent choosing “unfavourable” and another 19 per cent “very unfavourable.”
