A routine Monday morning turned into a harrowing ordeal at the Clément-Roassal preschool in central Nice after an illegal immigrant mother with a deportation order armed with a handgun and a knife held the school principal and a classroom teacher hostage inside an administrative office, physically assaulting them and simulating execution-style gunshots.
In a piece republished by The Hub, Karen Restoule, director of Indigenous Affairs at the prestigious Macdonald-Laurier Institute, described what she calls Canada’s ongoing struggle to address the legacy of the country’s Indian Residential Schools, highlighted by a recent incident involving a white nationalist group peacefully and lawfully demonstrating near BC’s former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Two Afghan migrants followed a 14-year-old girl onto a train before repeatedly sexually assaulting her in the toilets, a court heard.
Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, allegedly ignored the vulnerable teenager’s repeated pleas as they abused her on a mid-afternoon Southeastern service travelling from Kent to London Bridge on February 5.
Rahimi and Sadat deny a total of 20 charges including multiple counts of sexual activity with a child.
In the spring of 2024, nine months before he formally entered politics, Mark Carney made a couple of public appearances to discuss the state of the Canadian economy and the possible paths forward.
And on at least one specific area of policy Carney suggested he would do things differently than Justin Trudeau.
“Personally, would I swap one battery plant for a million, million-five heat pumps?” Carney asked himself rhetorically during a Q&A in Toronto, referring to a series of deals the Trudeau government signed to attract battery manufacturing facilities to Canada. “Yeah, I would. Because that would deliver — let’s deliver stuff for people.”
What a crock. Carney and Brookfield stand to make a tidy profit from the heat pump scam.
The US has launched fresh strikes on Iran on the eve of the midterm elections.
Donald Trump had said he may restart bombing following the Nov 3 vote but on Monday night struck Qeshm Island.
Iranian state media reported five explosions on Qeshm, a strategic target home to an underground missile site and naval base located in the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz.
The grocery industry’s annual “blackout” begins in November and generally runs through the end of January. During this period, grocery chains applying the policy refuse certain price increases requested by their suppliers. For shoppers hoping for relief, that may sound reassuring. But freezing suppliers’ prices does not mean freezing the grocery bill.
A baby elephant named Ellie was discovered alone in the wild in South Africa, having been rejected by his herd due to a severe umbilical abscess and hernia.
Ellie remained lethargic and deeply depressed, showing no will to live. Recognizing that elephants are intensely social creatures, the team introduced him to Duma, a retired service and sniffer dog residing at the sanctuary.
The effect was instantaneous. As soon as they met at the sand pile, Ellie’s demeanor shifted from despair to curiosity. The two became inseparable, with Duma’s playful energy teaching Ellie how to be a joyful calf again. She finally had a chance to heal and enjoy life.
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[📍 Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage]— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 2, 2026
A Quebec man accused of threatening Prime Minister Mark Carney over social media was declared not criminally responsible during a hearing Monday morning.
Ousmane Bah, 45, was arrested in September after he made several Facebook posts threatening to kill Carney, as well as King Charles, U.S. President Donald Trump, and the Supreme Court’s top judge Richard Wagner.
Bah was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm to a person, and promoting hatred against an identifiable group.
It’s Islamophobia Awareness Month & @patcondell’s vintage takedown still is a joy.
So put the kettle on, refresh your glass and relax with five minutes of magic. https://t.co/NA82TvYeTz
— David Atherton (@daveatherton) November 2, 2026
We don’t want all of Canada, especially the French-speaking locations. As President Trump reminds us, they don’t really have much we need, though Alberta looks tempting.
At a campaign rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, Trump intriguingly floated the idea of Venezuela potentially joining the union. After all, they are being a bit more cooperative, and they have massive oil reserves.
As President Donald Trump raised growing concerns about the integrity of Minnesota’s elections, outgoing and shrill Gopher State Senator, Tina Smith, warned that Trump was “laying the groundwork to steal an election.” It was an interesting take from someone in a Democrat Party that appears to actually be doing things to steal an election.
Take the Somali “interpreters” story in Maine, for instance.
Days ahead of the midterms, the investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar comes at an awkward time for Democrats. Because we don’t yet know the legal case, we don’t know whether it’s nonsense. We do, however, know almost certainly that it’s an act of political targeting, with photographers capturing the raid on her Washington DC house earlier this month.
London Emir Sadiq Khan began November on the promising note of announcing ‘Islamophobia Awareness Month’ to “shine a light on the abhorrent hatred and discrimination Muslims continue to face.”
Especially those who run London.
Britain’s political and cultural elites’ bottomless capacity for hating their nation’s past is catching on. So much so that it has been hard to tell if King Charles has been a visiting monarch or a captured fugitive on his tour of the Caribbean this week. It might be the longstanding policy of the British government and the royal family not to apologise for or pay reparations for slavery, but Britain’s former colonies and current Commonwealth partners smell blood.
It looks like the Democrats are headed for a huge victory in the midterms.
This is not surprising: The party in power rarely wins in midterm elections, which often become a referendum on the incumbent administration’s performance. Besides, polling data over the past few months has consistently shown that Donald Trump is deeply unpopular; economic conditions are bad and can be tied directly to Mr. Trump’s unilateral actions on tariffs and the war in Iran. Even in reliably red states like Kansas, Texas, Iowa, and North Carolina, Democrats are in striking distance of an almost unbelievable upset of the electoral map.
Don’t count your mid-term chickens.
