Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow blames President Trump for higher food prices in Canada while holding a dozen eggs in the video below.
Yet eggs are supply-managed in Canada. Their price has little to do with the U.S.
No words. https://t.co/EUwo2X16wx
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) September 4, 2026
Almost four decades ago, the Mulroney government concluded the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement with the aim to gain access to the much larger U.S. market. The Chrétien government followed in 1994 with the North American Free Trade Agreement that included Mexico, creating one of the largest trading blocs in the world.
Despite trade frictions from time to time, all three countries benefited from higher economic growth and more jobs by removing many trade barriers, thus enabling import competition to improve productivity. Undoubtedly, NAFTA meant Canada would become even more dependent on the U.S. for trade than it was in the past.
Published in 1996, Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations predicted that, with the end of the Cold War, global conflict would center on the divide between Islamic and Western civilizations. Thirty years later, however, and a quarter-century after 9/11, the principal fault line runs through Islam itself, separating two ideological worlds.
Within Western diaspora communities, Islam has become intertwined with Third-Worldism and postcolonial theory, both of which see Western imperialism as the great evil of the modern era. Meantime, much of the Middle East and Asia has turned toward pragmatism, normalization, and acceptance of Western predominance as a geopolitical reality. The gap between these rival outlooks now exceeds the divide between Islam and the West that Huntington anticipated when his book first appeared.
Tech experts are warning of dire consequences if AI systems continue to escape human control, after hundreds of OpenAI agents went rogue in July and hacked into a billion-dollar company — what some are calling a “warning shot” amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, signed an open letter last week warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become “far more widespread and sophisticated” around the world as models become more capable.
Military superiority rarely decides wars against regimes that measure victory by survival. The Islamic Republic of Iran, since its Islamic Revolution in 1979, has been refining this distinction.
By the first week of April, Iran was losing. Its naval fleet was on the seabed, its aircraft grounded, and American and Israeli aircraft were operating in Iranian skies unopposed. Washington then began granting extensions. Five months later, the Iranian regime is still setting conditions rather than receiving them.
Some Canadian politicians have been caught flat-footed in responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda.
For a year and a half, Canada’s political leaders have known that Trump’s protectionist trade agenda was on its way.
US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and statements given to Reuters.
The development follows reports that commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East.
The air force told Wyden it disabled the advertising identifiers on computers and mobile phones two months ago. US Special Operations Command said in a separate letter that it had “recently” disabled them on its Windows devices. The army told Reuters that advertising IDs tied to mobile devices had been disabled since earlier this year.
Olivia Chow won’t attend a Toronto mayoral debate next week about antisemitism and other public safety concerns, her team has confirmed.
The decision could serve as fodder for critics who have accused the incumbent mayor of not taking anti-Jewish hate seriously, and marks the latest challenge Chow has faced in navigating local concerns about antisemitism in the wake the Israel-Gaza war. Chow has rejected accusations she hasn’t done enough to combat intolerance, and her campaign said Thursday she would continue to work with the Jewish community to fight antisemitism.
OpenAI responded to MRC’s findings, claiming that what MRC found “shouldn’t happen and is not how the model is trained to behave.” ChatGPT is “designed to be objective by default,” according to an OpenAI spokesperson. The AI company did not deny MRC’s findings. Click here to read more.
AI models count President Donald Trump as among the greatest threats to democracy, putting him just a small step below Hitler—but only because American institutions have “constrained” him.
In 1928, Warner Bros released Lights of New York — the first full-length feature film with audible dialogue. That same year, another drama was unfolding. Republican Herbert Hoover won the presidential election by promising higher tariffs on goods imported into the United States.
Nearly a century later, protectionism seems to be back on the screen. The actors have changed, but the script has not. In fact, for Canadians, it’s just a rerun of a bad movie with a clear lesson: counter-tariffs don’t do squat!
Elliot Page has claimed that no roles have been offered since starring in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, adding that “it’s a little tricky for me to get cast now” as a female-to-male transgender actor.
He’d be a good She-Hitler!
The mayor and police in Hamilton, Ont., have decided that some Canadians have the wrong kind of opinions and should not be allowed to rent public facilities.
Last week, Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath declared that the Dominion Society is not entitled to rent city-owned property to hold a conference. The predictable result was to force the group to seek a private venue in which to hold its meeting.
The gun debate is one of those things where both sides are trying to take advantage. I’d call it a game if the stakes weren’t so high. Both sides make arguments, and the other side tries to punch holes in them.
This is reasonable and natural, even if I don’t like how the other side carries out their part.
Still, fair is fair, I suppose, and free speech means they have a right to say idiotic things. That’s just how it has to be.
Canada lost 42,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada said Friday, contrary to economists’ expectations, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.4 per cent.
Statistics Canada said the number of public sector workers fell by 20,000, declining for a third consecutive month. Jobs were little-changed in the private sector.
By region, Quebec was hardest hit, losing 19,000 jobs. Ontario followed with a loss of 18,000.
Statcan’s reporting is suspect as told only weeks ago…
Canada’s Job Market Is Booming If You Ignore Population Revisions
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.
In the United States, there are numerous criminal actions that will earn you a deserved spot among the lowest of the low. Beyond the world of law enforcement, however, there are other social and cultural wrongdoings that in this country, you just don’t do, or else risk the dreaded backlash.
This week, CBS’s Bari Weiss apparently committed the worst of all these social crimes, and her victim was Abdul el Sayed.
