U.S. military officials have seen a 75% decline in Mexican drone sightings at the U.S.-Mexico border in the two weeks since debuting a high-energy laser weapon system to disable the small unmanned aerial systems, according to a new report.
Military stationed at the border in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas used a new type of technology on Aug. 25 and 26 to take down three suspicious drones in U.S. airspace, likely operated by the cartels on the south side of the international border.
As NDP MPs meet in Toronto for their fall caucus retreat, the party is still in rough shape politically and financially.
Federal New Democrats are digging themselves out of their election debt. Their leader still doesn’t have a seat in the House of Commons. And their tiny caucus enters the fall Parliamentary sitting even smaller, after one MP joined the Liberals and another left.
But that’s the one-sided view of the party held by those in the Ottawa political bubble, as NDP Leader Avi Lewis often likes to say. He and others say the New Democrat movement is ripe for a revival — and they think the city of Toronto offers a path forward.
… Working with business owners, increasing bike patrols, working with our community response group and our gun violence reduction as well. Looking at ways to where we can identify individuals that are known – we call them ‘trigger pullers’ in our community, uh, identifying them.
h/t Patti Jo
The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security, as the transatlantic partners seek to build a new alliance to offset the global power politics dominated by the US and China.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the top executive of the EU, is expected to announce the plans at her state of the union address in Strasbourg, France, Sept. 16, according to people familiar with the preparations. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the speech then address European lawmakers the following day.
h/t SB
LONDON — Britain will ban the import of goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to a person familiar with the policy deliberations, and possibly impose sanctions on companies involved in an accelerating building boom in the communities, which are considered illegal by much of the international community.
The moves, expected to be announced Tuesday by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, mark the starkest break yet from the U.K.’s traditional role as a staunch supporter of Israel and show how Israel’s actions in the West Bank and its war in Gaza are straining long-standing alliances.
Update – Canada joins Europeans in pledging ban of Israeli settlement goods
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on a range of US goods came into effect on Tuesday, with no sign of a trade deal on the horizon.
The counter-tariffs will apply to nearly C$28bn ($20bn; £15bn) worth of American products, from steel to furniture to cotton T-shirts, and will be as high as 50%.
Fresh fish and lobster were also on the list, but Canada later omitted them after pushback from its seafood industry – a sign of the tricky balance it has to strike as it retaliates against its largest trading partner.
Both US and Canadian officials have said they would like to strike a deal, but no movement has been made to resume talks after they collapsed in late August.
Just a few days ago, Daniel “Tommo” Thomas let a group of fellow far-right sympathisers in the north-west of England into a secret. “Groups of men all across the United Kingdom are joining up as one, as one group of resistance,” said Thomas, who served a prison sentence for attempted kidnapping and is a former bodyguard to Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. “Something is about to go down and it is about to send a fucking shock wave. What is the end goal of all of this? It is to start something that will then snowball. Once we pull this off it will then snowball across the country.”
Imagine that. The illegal alien horde boats set off from Normandy.
This is the moment @RealDannyTommo gets the info of the invasion of Portsmouth and runs to the sea to block it, encouraging help as he goes.
Upon arrival the traitors of Britain had a whole set up to bring the invaders in!
Well done Danny and all involved stand up for the UK.…
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 7, 2026
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning Canadians that the country’s pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse.
In a national video address set to be released Tuesday — hours after Canada’s retaliatory tariffs kicked in — Carney reiterated Canada’s plan to respond to the U.S. trade war by striking new trade deals with other countries to become less reliant on the U.S
Carney feels your pain. And he wishes more for you.
Carney: “This is about who we are as Canadians. It’s about our livelihoods and the country we leave to our kids. Adversity only makes us stronger. It always has. We are maîtres chez nous.” pic.twitter.com/L2u0vII0hz
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson_) September 8, 2026
The Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday after staff went on strike over female workers being removed for the visit of a Hindu religious group, workers and management said.
A delegation of around 100 people linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) group visited the landmark in the French capital on Saturday.
Staff union representative Diane Davoine says as they arrived at the monument, women were told to move.
OTTAWA — Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are set to take effect on Tuesday and with an American response almost inevitable, trade watchers are warning Canada should prepare itself for economic pain.
“We may be in an escalating war, and the question is who’s going to have the greater threshold for pain in this, and are Canadians ready for it because it’s going to be painful,” said Fen Osler Hampson, professor of International Affairs at Carleton University.
The hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is seeking a pact with Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats so it can form a regional government.
The AfD has been trapped by a firewall policy in which Germany’s centrist parties refuse to co-operate with it at the state or federal level. But after a sweeping election victory on Sunday night, cracks are starting to appear.
Rebels in the German chancellor’s party want to lend their support to the hard-Right AfD, The Telegraph understands.
Canadians are split over Ottawa’s plan to spend $81.8 billion on national defence over five years, with supporters pointing to sovereignty and national security while critics say affordability and housing should take priority, according to Privy Council research.
“Reactions were mixed,” said the federal focus group report Continuous Qualitative Data Collection Of Canadians’ Views.
Thousands of asylum seekers are making bogus claims in an attempt to stay in Britain involving shared partners, VIP connections and generic political dissident scripts.
Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds have allegedly tried to claim asylum because they are all apparently in a relationship with the same daughter of the Kurdish prime minister.
Scores of Pakistani men also suggest they cannot go home because they are in a gay relationship with the same man, who provides letters supporting their claims.
I was in my fourth year at Western University and very involved in the student newspaper, the Western Gazette, when the Trudeau government passed the Online News Act in 2023. This was the Canadian law requiring tech giants to pay outlets for hosting their news.
It was a well-intentioned attempt to save Canadian journalism. And indeed, Google agreed to a $100-million annual payout to help sustain media outlets across the country. But in response, Meta decided to simply block news content altogether from Instagram and Facebook for Canadians.
Preliminary results from the Sunday vote in Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany show the landslide win of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) securing around 43.8% of the vote, earning 39 seats in the 83-member state parliament. Although not an outright majority, the result may be the beginning of the end of the monopoly on power of mainstream establishment forces in Germany.
Official results are expected on Monday night, but the power dynamics are already clear: a huge win for the AfD, and devastating news for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Voters have clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with the CDU that has governed the region for 24 years: the Chancellor’s party securing only 17.2% of the votes. Merz is expected to discuss the results with his cabinet today and gather a crisis panel in the capital.
