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.”
This is the moment a migrant paraglides into Europe from north Africa – a day after another died trying the same stunt.
Police were still searching for the sub-Saharan man today after he vanished shortly after landing at the Benzu viewpoint in Ceuta close to its land border with Morocco.
Spanish cops said today people smugglers charging migrants to make the risky air crossing were being given courses lasting just a few minutes instead of the 80 to 100 hours of training normally considered appropriate before risking their lives taking to the skies.
🇪🇸‼️🚨 MIGRANTS PARAGLIDE INTO SPAIN
Migration into Ceuta continues, slower but ongoing!
Previously trucks brought people to the border and told them to go to Spain; now traffickers push people in paragliders towards Ceuta.
Crazy… this footage reminds me of something. https://t.co/hHl9r6Jrci pic.twitter.com/fJ9xFnVtxj
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 9, 2026
OTTAWA – Defence Minister David McGuinty has acknowledged that the procurement review of F-35 fighter jets is a “point of debate or dialog” as tense trade negotiations with the United States continue.
When asked by reporters in Ottawa on Monday about whether the F-35 decision is part of the trade war, McGuinty said that “acquisition of that size would normally be a point of debate or dialog between two sovereign nations.”
“This is not the only factor involved in a multi-party, multi-element, multi-stakeholder type of negotiation. This negotiation with the United States is extremely complex,” he added.
When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union the Wehrmacht had in use trucks from virtually every nation they had conquered.
Few were suitable for “Russian Roads” and repair was a logistical nightmare.
I fear our air force of many nations will be just like that.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen have made a joint appeal for a tougher European approach to migration, bringing together two leaders from opposite sides of the political divide.
In “A joint message for Europe”, published on August 10, the conservative Italian premier and centre-left Danish leader said Europe must both curb uncontrolled immigration and defend its Christian cultural heritage. “We do not accept uncontrolled immigration to Europe,” they wrote.
Matt Ridley recently argued that the defining political struggle of our age is no longer simply Left against Right. It is top-down control against bottom-up freedom. Government should protect rights, enforce contracts, and set fair rules. It should also possess enough humility to let people solve their own problems.
That argument could have been written for Alberta.
(Incognito)
An elite police squad which was set up to monitor social media in the wake of the Southport riots has flagged more than 100 posts to local forces.
The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team was created earlier this year to surveil online platforms for signs of “protest-related activity”.
It was founded by ministers in response to the national unrest following the 2024 Southport murders, which prompted a series of anti-immigrant riots.
Big Brother is a Muslim.
In British Columbia’s northwest, the constitutional trappings of Canadian governance are being replaced and the public is not having a say.
Across the province, more and more First Nations governments are making claims to vast swatches of land. Some of the most consequential claims are those of the Tahltan Nation, which has identified 95,933 square kilometres of land as its own territory. That’s about 11 per cent of the entire province. The consequences will be much greater than mere land transfers.
The song lyrics were the first red flag. The way he’d ramble about Tinie Tempah or Eminem, or how black artists like Beyoncé were sexualized by white men, without offering any evidence to substantiate his claims. Or else there were the film clips, from Fish Tank and Kidulthood, which he’d tell us to discuss without offering guidance on how to do so. And this was if he was even in the classroom at all. He often arrived late and left early, once teaching for a single hour when four were scheduled.
There’s one American industry we’ve, so far, been unwilling to defy. That needs to change
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration and the turn of the United States from ally to threat, a grand disentanglement has been underway. The systems that once connected the liberal world order — in defence, in trade, in our alliance networks — are being torn up and rebuilt. And as painful as those changes are, they are obviously necessary to preserving Canadian sovereignty, and the changes are, to a greater or lesser extent, underway. But the biggest challenge, the hardest change, is in technology. Canada has woken up, after thirty years of integration, to find ourselves a digital colony.
Yes Canada has made many tech contributions that have improved the world but decolonization would bring us back to a virtual stone age.
Doug Wilson spent decades wandering in the American wilderness, a pastor searching for congregants, followers, even sparring partners who could give him a platform to present his new vision for his country and its churches.
Little about Mr. Wilson suggested he would find what he was looking for. He was a walking and talking anachronism, possessed of a thick beard and a dense theology that drew on the thoughts of 16th-century Protestant Reformers. His church hymnals brimmed with 18th-century songs, their lyrics written to bolster the very British empire the U.S. violently rejected at its birth.
Is higher education worth it? Canadians and Americans share a common answer. Abacus Data’s most recent Precarity Mindset report indicates that, in both countries, only 18 per cent of the population say a college or university education is “definitely worth it.”
Just more than 20 per cent think it is “generally worth it.” The public skepticism builds from there. Thirty-seven per cent of Canadians polled say it depends on the “program and school,” 13 per cent indicate “costs now outweigh the benefits,” and nine per cent argue that the “system is broken.”
Foreign ministers of Arab and Islamic countries gathered in Jordan on August 5 and 6 to issue yet another series of condemnations of Israel. Reading their statements, one could easily conclude that there is only one party responsible for violence, instability, and suffering in the Middle East: Israel.
Hamas? Barely relevant. The Hamas-led October 7, 2023 massacre? Apparently not worth mentioning. Palestinian terrorism and incitement against Israel? Not on the agenda. The need to dismantle Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups? Evidently not a priority.
Canada’s economy is booming, as long as you ignore the actual data and upcoming revisions. Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows seasonally adjusted employment climbed by 75,000 jobs in July. The unseasoned reality was a little less savoury, showing a 6-digit decline in the same month, along with rising unemployment. The picture may be even worse than presented, with a Big Six bank projecting substantial upward revisions to population estimates in just a few weeks.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing questions after his $300 million superyacht didn’t rush to help passengers stuck on a ship in Alaskan waters, according to a report.
The 387-foot monster ship, Launchpad, didn’t act on requests for assistance when a 21-foot skiff ran out of fuel on a trip between Petersburg and Juneau, Alaska, on Monday night, the Alaska Beacon reported.
Police say that they have made a third arrest in connection with shootings at synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan in March and are no longer seeking additional suspects.
The shootings took place over the span of about 20 minutes in the late hours of March 6 and the early hours of March 7.
… That suspect has been identified as Chris Perreira, 23, of Barrie.
