The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks – which killed nearly 3,000 Americans (and other nationalities) – may seem like yesterday’s news to some, but their impact remains today.
Indeed, 9/11 was a serious warning to America and the entire West of how terrorists and other bad actors wishing us harm can easily exploit our immigration systems.
U.S. President Donald Trump continued his rant on Truth Social Sunday afternoon, claiming he had “revived and saved” the automobile business in America via tariffs, calling Canada “one of the worst abusers.”
“One of the Worst Abusers is Canada. I don’t want Canadian cars, I don’t want Canadian parts, I don’t want Canadian anything. They’ve been ripping us off for decades, and it’s going to stop,” Trump wrote in the post.
How do you say ‘Wir Schaffen Das” in Arabic?
‘This is not just a drama’, said Labour’s then safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, of the hit TV show Adolescence last year. ‘It’s a disturbing glimpse into the minds of thousands of young boys warped by the violence and abuse they are witnessing every day online.’
The statement was puzzling in many ways – not least because Adolescence quite literally was ‘just a drama’. However brilliant the young Owen Cooper was in his portrayal of a troubled boy who had stabbed a female classmate, however compelling the script, Adolescence was a work of fiction. Yet here was the minister responsible for tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), treating this tale of a murderous, manosphere-obsessed schoolboy like a piece of academic research.
48 researchers were poached from the US, where policy changes have left scientists feeling unsupported.
Canada has awarded 64 global scholars with C$504 million (US$362 million) in funding to relocate their work to Canadian universities and advance projects in areas such as health and artificial intelligence.
Some 48 of the researchers were poached from the US, including from elite institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other 16 researchers are coming from 12 other countries, including the UK, Germany, China and Japan.
Canada just spent half a billion dollars poaching 64 academics, three-quarters of them from the U.S., and then CTV put the most revealing quote on TV
Talia Bettcher (trans philosophy / gender studies) is leaving Cal State LA for a taxpayer-funded chair at Waterloo because, in… pic.twitter.com/CqN1PjoPU5
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 30, 2026
It seemed like an ordinary day for 16-year-old Hannah – instead it marked the start of a months-long nightmare that would see her abducted, gang-raped and held captive as a sex slave.
Yet even worse was still to come – her Boko Haram captors would strap a bomb to her body and ordered her to carry out a suicide attack.
Remarkably, in a twist of fate that sounds more like a Hollywood script than real life, Hannah (not her real name) managed to escape. Now, she has chosen to tell the Daily Mail her extraordinary story of survival.
Back in July, during a K-Days pancake breakfast, a far-left protester screamed at Premier Danielle Smith, “You’re a f****** fascist!” and “f*** your fascist pancakes!”
Who even knew there was such a thing as “fascist pancakes?”
Jesus Christ, people. https://t.co/jPAaqb3rqv
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) August 30, 2026
h/t Mauser
Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth exposed me to a culture very different from the one that nurtured me. Growing up as a grammar schoolboy in 1970s and ’80s England, I absorbed the importance of personal restraint; emotional self-control in public; privacy; acting with honesty and fairness, even to one’s own hurt; and respecting others regardless of their social status or opinions. At the level of society, such personal values promoted freedoms—of speech, of religion, of expression. All of that is gone, at least from the class that presumes to define the country’s mores and morals.
US forces have struck two Iranian launchers on Iran’s Larak island, a US official said, marking the first known American strikes on Iran since late July.
“Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait of Hormuz,” the BBC’s US partner CBS News quoted US Central Command (Centcom) spokesman Cdr Tim Hawkins as saying.
The IRGC said Sunday’s attack killed and wounded several people, and vowed “response and punishment”. It later said it had launched an attack on US military targets in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
Chris Scott sat in the driver’s seat of his 2001 Monaco Dynasty motorhome last week, bumping along the network of rural highways in southern Alberta.
The vehicle creaked a bit. Some leather-covered furniture was cracking, and some cabinet drawer latches didn’t work anymore.
It’s like Alberta, Scott said: you can ignore problems and let them get worse, or you can pay attention to them and fix them.
Just what the hell are the Canadians thinking? Do they think that if they cry enough, America’s going to roll over? We’re now in another trade war with them, and the Canadians are whining, and the Democrats — who never side with America — are whining right along with them. It’s about time to be done with the country that is touted as America’s best buddy but is actually tied for its most annoying next-door neighbor. They cry that America is being mean because it’s looking out for its own interests. How dare America expect Canada to pull its weight on its own defense? How dare America not want to perpetuate unfair and unbalanced tariff and trade rules in perpetuity? And how dare America not recognize the moral superiority of a country that, if it were a stereotype, would be a fugly, sexually dysfunctional wine woman with a “Hate Has No Home Here” sign on the front lawn of the condo it shares with five cats, all named after characters in “Twilight.”
Following the collapse of trade talks between Canada and the United States continentalism is apparently dead in Canada, again. It would not be the first time that the demise of North American integration has been celebrated prematurely.
In the 1911 federal election, the then-protectionist Conservatives triumphed over the Liberals and their program of conditional commercial reciprocity, which meant equal tariffs on identical goods traded with the U.S., rather than free trade.
Portland Public Schools welcomes students back with a drag queen
.@PPSConnect is introducing your children to alternate queer gender identities
Straight up grooming.
Absolutely SICKENING
DEFUND THEM @usedgov pic.twitter.com/SLP3TzcnnC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 30, 2026
Jon Ronson and I were friends for 25 years. In 2008, I got him on Twitter, telling him it was a utopia where people played hashtag games and got stuck in lifts. I invited him to sit in on recordings of Father Ted, Paris and The IT Crowd. That was before the trans wars – and online life turning toxic.
h/t Patti Jo
