Robert Bruce Spencer is a Christian American scholar writing on topics including Islam, Orthodoxy, and the Byzantine Empire. The director of Jihad Watch, he is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He has led seminars on Islam and jihad for organizations like the FBI, the United States Central Command, and the U.S. intelligence community.
Olivia Chow stood on the stage at the mayoral debate hosted by the Daily Bread Food Bank and said that Toronto is living up to its full potential. One statistic from Daily Bread’s annual report shows just how wrong Mayor Chow is.
Since Olivia Chow came to office in 2023, visits to food banks across the city are up 47% and came in at 3,760,888 client visits.
On Sept. 16, 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, was visiting Tehran with her parents. She was walking down the street when members of the hated religious police (Basij) jumped out of a car and shoved Mahsa into the passenger seat. They took her to the police station, where she was interrogated and beaten into a coma.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has urged the 10 EU countries that have yet to ratify the bloc’s trade deal with Canada to do so, as he seeks closer ties with Europe after trade talks with Washington collapsed.
Carney made the plea to the 10 countries — Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Slovenia — in an interview with the Financial Times, arguing that closer ties with Europe were the best approach in an uncertain world. He said the trade deal was a “positive initiative” which is good for Europe and for Canada, adding that it would make both sides “more sovereign, more resilient, more independent” and more prosperous.
Viewership for the 78th Emmy Awards cratered by 9 percent from last year with just 6.7 million viewers tuning in, with analysts already speculating the Monday night airtime may have been a factor.
Diversity in crime makes us stronger.
BRUSSELS — Locked in a trade war with President Donald Trump and pivoting pivoting away from the United States, Canada is seeking stronger ties in Europe and Asia as a shield against Washington’s volatility.
On Wednesday, sitting as a guest of honor inside the European Parliament, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received an unprecedented offer: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she wants to make Canada the first “associate member” of the 27-nation bloc.
A number of legal scholars and civil liberties advocates in Canada have begun asking whether this country is sliding toward a more authoritarian style of government.
In 1933, the Gestapo arrested Hannah Arendt for illegally researching Nazi propaganda, and she fled Germany that same year. That was also the year Germany’s government used a fire at the Reichstag to justify an emergency decree suspending civil liberties. It was supposed to be temporary. It stayed in force for the next twelve years.
Greta Thunberg has joined a pro-Palestinian backlash against Ed Sheeran after a rapper was dropped from the British singer’s US tour.
The Swedish activist said Sheeran being “cancelled” showed that “global consciousness has shifted” in support of Palestinian causes.
The controversy erupted after Macklemore, a US rapper, called for a “free Palestine” onstage at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this month while supporting the American leg of Sheeran’s Loop tour.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it is “aware” of an ongoing FBI investigation into a report that hackers gained access to tens of millions of government-issued identity records across North America— including Canadians’ driver’s licences.
Canadians are now being warned to stay vigilant for bad actors that can exploit people’s personal data.
Worried what AI will do to the world? Don’t fret — we got a group of woke elitists who will protect us.
That’s the pitch from Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, who says he has found an outside team that can regulate AI and make sure it doesn’t destroy the world.
It’s a group of globalists who believe in open borders, genderless pronoun and promote “Effective Altruism,” that believe all the world’s problems can be solved with technology.
WTF?
The Canada Investment Summit in Toronto was a good idea. It was an overdue one, frankly.
At a time when global capital is becoming more selective and the country’s economic relationship with the United States is increasingly unpredictable, Ottawa is right to bring major investors, Canadian executives and public-sector leaders into the same room. Canada cannot diversify its trade without first expanding its productive capacity.
Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State, according to new figures compiled by the conflict monitor Acled.
As the US marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks launched by al-Qaida against targets in Washington and New York, the statistics underline the continued expansion of the veteran organisation in parts of Africa – in stark contrast with its relative weakness elsewhere.
Foreign Minister Anita Anand approved Canadian Armed Forces personnel training members of China’s People’s Liberation Army while she served as defence minister in 2023, according to newly released Access To Information records.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the documents also show military officials discussed how to publicly characterize the training, with officers warning colleagues against claiming there was no confirmation Canadian personnel would directly train Chinese troops.
Raids targeting LGBTQ+ activists and organizations took place in Turkey over the weekend. Several people were arrested by the Turkish authorities, and many social media accounts were blocked. The Turkish government’s actions have drawn sharp criticism from across the country and also from Brussels.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had announced the operation as part of the “Decade of Family and Population” scheme, a national strategy proclaimed in May 2025 that was to counter the drastic decline in the country’s birthrate and strengthen the traditional, conservative family view in Turkey.
