Students from St. John Paul II school in Grande Prairie walked out in protest of their social studies teacher after she disputed whether graves were found at Kamloops Indian Residential School.
On Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Amy Davidson shared a social media post from Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada and a cabinet minister under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
I hope their parents are publicly shamed.
At a Senate campaign rally in a red-leaning Michigan county this weekend, a young man asked Democrat Abdul El-Sayed if he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.
The heated exchange quickly went viral.
“Sure. Yeah, absolutely,” El-Sayed replied. “Why are you asking the question?”
Voter: “Abdul, will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?”
Abdul El-Sayed: “I haven’t seen you disavow them.” https://t.co/FLRmRNYelc
— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) October 17, 2026
EDMONTON — Here are the 10 questions Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is sending to a provincewide referendum on Monday.
Question 1: Do you support the government of Alberta taking increased control over immigration for the purposes of decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritizing economic migration and giving Albertans first priority on new employment opportunities?
It does not look good for the separatists, Albertan’s are faced with a revolving door as is Quebec’s independence movement.
France awoke to scenes of widespread damage on Sunday after a day of riots and demonstrations, with shopfronts shattered, burnt out cars, charred bikes, and piles of glass and debris on the pavements of Paris.
Police arrested about 1,800 people on Saturday as some 550,000 demonstrators took to the streets for protests that were largely peaceful.
They were demonstrating against rising fuel prices, the cost of living and deteriorating public services, including schools.
Just a little looting etc…
@fancypants_s
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 18, 2026
Food for thought …
The Suffield Research Centre is in the heart of Alberta’s Big Sky country and is also blessed with Canada’s sunniest skies, making it the perfect testing ground for one of Canada’s most critical areas of innovation: drone and counter-drone technology.
Once the main training ground for the tank crews of the British Army, the British gradually withdrew and left entirely by 2024.
But today, the base is buzzing with activity as militaries urgently rearm with new technologies.
Adozen local people and a uniformed military police officer (“Do you mind if I sit in?”) took their seats at the back of the handsome wood-panelled courtroom that doubles as the Falkland Islands’ legislative assembly. Outside, it was a typically blowy early evening. It may nominally be spring in the south Atlantic, but Stanley harbour, with its dark grey water speckled with historical shipwrecks, was a cauldron of swells and churn.
Six of the assembly’s eight members – five men, one woman – waited patiently at a row of desks and microphones. The heating had been turned up to just short of uncomfortable. Behind them, a portrait of King Charles. From the other walls, dusty photographs of governors, of varying popularity, gazed disinterestedly at the scene.
Nothing new to add except confirmation that 4 military members are casualties.
Conservatives who complain the Parliamentary Press Gallery is anti-Conservative and pro-Liberal may be surprised to learn two of Canada’s top political journalists agree with them, to some extent.
Bob Fife, the recently retired parliamentary bureau chief of the Globe and Mail, and Globe and Mail political columnist Andrew Coyne, also a regular on CBC‘s ‘At Issue’ political panel, made the observation in recent interviews with B.C. political broadcaster Aaron Pete, chief of the Chawathil First Nation, on his Nuanced podcast.
h/t Mauser
In a dark underground hideout, dim light spills from a handful of oil lamps. A comrade fiddles with a rifle. A red flag hangs on one of the roughly hewn stone walls, bearing a hammer and sickle on a white star — the symbol of the ChineseWorkers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Weapons are scattered on the ground. One is picked up, and soon the action moves into the snowy forest, where gunfire erupts among the trees.
Such a scene could fit in a new installment of “Call of Duty,” the popular first-person shooter game that transports players to battlefields past, present, and future. But it is actually from “The Defiant.” The game is currently being developed by the Chinese studio Hoothanes Technology in Hangzhou. It tells the story of Chinese forces fending off the Japanese army in the 1930s and 1940s.
Former finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland believes her resignation — which spurred Justin Trudeau to step down — was ultimately a good outcome for the former prime minister given his plummeting popularity.
While her book, Unreliable Boyfriend, is meant to be a guide for dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, it also outlines how her political relationship with Trudeau declined in the final months of his government.
It did unfortunately.
Fatalities and injuries at CFB Wainwright; Edmonton hospitals under code orange
Canada’s defence minister has confirmed that there were people killed and injured in an incident Saturday afternoon at CFB Wainwright.
“I’m saddened to share that there have been both fatalities and injuries as a result of an incident on the base,” David McGuinty said in a statement.
Details remain sketchy, unconfirmed reports of as many as 10 dead and up to 150 injured.
https://t.co/SlGUrysUIi
— Jeff Semple (@JeffSempleGN) October 18, 2026
National Defence statement …
When Holly Passmore heard a knock at her front door at about 11am on July 4 last year, she assumed it was an Amazon delivery.
Instead, the 44-year-old mother-of-two from County Durham found two plain-clothes police officers on her doorstep wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel.
“They said it was a safeguarding matter,” recalled Ms Passmore, who cares for her nine-year-old son, Rex, who has severe autism, while studying for a master’s degree.
The UK is a nut house.
What is the UK’s Prevent program?
The UK’s Prevent program is a government-led, multi-agency early intervention initiative designed to stop vulnerable individuals from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Managed by the Home Office, Prevent operates as the preventative branch of the UK’s broader CONTEST counter-terrorism.
Just your typical public transit ride in Mississauga. https://t.co/SiuVYjp9tT
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) October 17, 2026
The relationship between Alberta and the federal government has faced its share of political and economic conflict over the years. Some Albertans would argue more than its fair share.
From the drawing of the province’s boundaries to natural resource control to the creation of the National Energy Program to pipeline cancellations and political representation, generations of Albertans have expressed feelings of alienation.
Through the glass, the lesson goes on without them.
Schoolgirls in headscarves stand in the yard, faces at the window, watching classmates they can no longer sit with.
Some wipe tears from their eyes.
