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.
The federal government prepared to deploy 30,000 Canadian troops amid fears the arrival of the year 2000 could cripple essential services, shut down public transit and leave northern communities without electricity, newly declassified cabinet records reveal.
More than 400 people were arrested in France on Saturday after protesters supporting high school student grievances clashed with police.
Police fired teargas in confrontations with protesters, as demonstrations across France were boosted by other groups angry over high prices and the fraying of a social welfare system.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and tensions erupted on the fringes of the nationwide demonstrations over absent teachers, decrepit school buildings and police violence.
🇫🇷 City hall in Limoges, France, getting torched…
This has gotten way out of hand now.
Still calling this a protest? My ass.
Writer: Daniyal
https://t.co/2CwA2FRljI
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 17, 2026
Nearly 75% of Canadians surveyed believe Prime Minister Mark Carney should go forward with country-wide infrastructure improvements, before seeking another federal mandate.
In a new Canada Pulse Insights poll, the 1, 531 adults surveyed found that 73% want Carney to fast-track major projects, relax certain environmental reviews, alter labour strikes and deepen meaningful economic ties with Europe.
A failed asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat faces deportation after he was jailed for six years for trying to rape a woman in a terrifying late-night attack.
Mehmet Bulut, 31, was captured on CCTV following the woman into a dark subway in Hereford in the West Midlands at about 4am on Sunday, August 2.
Worcester Crown Court heard Bulut had been lurking near the subway before he launched a violent and sustained assault on the woman.
A drone was able to deliver McDonald’s nuggets, fries, dipping sauce, and even some alcohol to an inmate at a correctional facility in Quebec, CTV News has confirmed.
The items were delivered to the inmate’s cell window at the Special Handling Unit (SHU) at the federal institution in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., the union of correctional officers (UCCO-SACC-CSN) said. The incident, which was first reported by TVA Nouvelles, happened in the early morning hours on Thursday and comes amid growing concerns about contraband getting into correctional facilities in Quebec, including via drones.
Why does France keep giving me material for the BCFF intro every week?
@fancypants_s— Occam’s Razor (@Occams_Razor_CA) October 17, 2026
Just a little bit tone-deaf, wouldn’t you say? Geezuz. 🙄
@fancypants_s— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 17, 2026
h/t Occam and Auntie Polly
I really thought we were done with this evil, yet it persists.
On October 1, All Saints Orthodox Church in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, was destroyed in what is likely another in a series of church arsons occurring across Canada.
It’s a Red Green Aboriginal Ottawa thing.
The state of Canadian politics right now https://t.co/Jact1zmvqz
— Buppy (@B608073353B) October 15, 2026
If memory serves me, while serving in Congress amidst a heated midterm battle in the mid-2000s, I made a cable television appearance where I was asked an “ambush” question. Well, it wasn’t quite an ambush question, because the station in question was left-wing; hence, the anchor’s Pavlovian parroting of the Democrat talking point du jour was really no surprise. The question was something along the lines of “Does every Republican blindly listen to Rush?”
“Who doesn’t love a Canadian power rock trio?” I replied. My interrogator was nonplussed. I elaborated, “Though I do prefer Triumph.”
China is supporting the Iran-backed Houthis as a way to pressure the US.
The militant group is seeking to build a medium-range ballistic missile that, according to a research report, would be made with Chinese components.
The Houthis are seeking to manufacture domestically at least part of the Iranian Khaibar Shekan series of ballistic missiles, which have a range of more than 1,000 km (620 miles), according to Conflict Armament Research, a UK-based investigative organisation that tracks the use of weapons in conflict zones.
Scott Russell doesn’t much look like a revolutionary. A 40-something dad, he’s dressed like he’s headed to work. I meet him on a bridge overlooking an Edmonton freeway. Beneath us, drivers in 18-wheeler trucks zoom by, blasting their horns in support like motorised tubas. Russell waves an Alberta flag, alongside about a dozen other protesters doing the same. Like him, they seem less like rebels and more like archetypal working-class Albertans, with loose-fitting jeans, gritty ballcaps and pragmatic phrases like “git‘r’done”. Yet Russell tells me that, when the day comes, he’ll vote for his province to leave Canada. “I have sworn eternal resistance upon all forms of tyranny against men,” he says, “and the federal government is tyrannical.”
Had the Flydubai attempted hijacking succeeded, it would have made for quite an October surprise leading up to the Israeli general elections slated for October 27. Since that failed attempt, we have learned through interrogations that the co-pilot’s goal was to crash the plane into a terminal of Ben Gurion airport, in which case not only the passengers and crew on the plane, but also potentially thousands of other people would have been killed. In other words, the hijacking was planned as a 9/11 copycat terrorist attack.
In August, Jessica Bowie was arrested in connection with a plot to blow up New York State legislators at the capitol building while pretending to be delivering DoorDash and then in Oct, Benny Caldera Jr. was arrested in a plot to shoot up the Texas State Capitol.
The two terror plots targeting state capitols and legislators in two different states took place less than three months apart and while these are the sorts of terror plots that might have been expected of Islamic terrorists, Bowie and Caldera were Americans, and yet their plots were Islam-inspired.
