On Thursday, the White House put out an image of a bald eagle pinning a Canada goose under its talons and added a statement that managed at once to be obsequious, vulgar, and untrue.
“President Trump said it best: ‘Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!” Canadian leadership chose retaliation over partnership — and America is no longer willing to carry them.”
Optimistic for a US publication.
An enraged Wisconsin parent was cited for tripping a 9-year-old football player during a youth league game when he became “upset over a play,” as the child’s coach declared it the “most cowardly act I’ve ever seen.
Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come to act as one in the creation of North America’s auto industry.
News this week of Donald Trump’s escalating trade spat with Canada has everyone worried. Political and economic leaders and observers labeled the move an act of “hubris” , blamed Trump’s “ego”, and called the escalation “insanity”.
“We don’t need Canada, they need us,” Trump declared.
When Justin Cowgur, a city council member in Centerton, Arkansas, was asked two years ago to vote on a contract to install Flock license-plate readers, he found it easy to say yes. The Republican wine seller believed the artificial intelligence-powered cameras — which record passing cars’ plates into a database that officers can search to investigate crime — could help ease the strain on their understaffed police force and keep his bedroom community safe.
But lately, he’s come to regret the deal, saying he no longer trusts the company with the huge amount of data its roadside cameras collect. Earlier this month, after a parade of residents voiced concerns about their privacy and the system’s risk of abuse, he and other members voted unanimously to cancel the contract.
In the days leading up to Mark Carney’s first budget last fall, the prime minister delivered an address that included an ominous but vague warning about needing to make sacrifices in the face of American antagonism.
The budget came and went, and it was never made clear what Carney had had in mind. Now, Canadians are about to learn what his statement really meant — and it’s not pretty.
Most economic modelling of the fallout from the current trade war has shown acute pain in specific areas, as well as some mild, temporary hurt in the broader economy, followed by a recovery.
Hundreds of foreign nationals are desperately waiting to hear from loved ones thought to be caught in the deadly flash flood and mudslide along the Nepal-Tibet border.
Sisters Shreya and Ashna Ahuja are among those anxiously waiting for some news of their parents, Deepak and Madhu Ahuja, who had travelled from Texas to Mount Kailash on a group pilgrimage.
“It’s only been one day, but it has felt like much longer,” the sisters tell the BBC. “We just love them a lot and want them to come home.” One of the siblings spoke to their parents just before the floods struck.
That house held and all survived.
Terrifying footage shows a flash flood sweeping through the Nepal–Tibet border, trapping people on rooftops and balconies. At least 469 have been killed, with hundreds still missing. pic.twitter.com/xRgRWmwut7
— Weather Monitor (@WeatherMonitors) August 28, 2026
The history of Judaism can be said to be the history of the power of free speech.
Going back thousands of years, ancient Jewish scholars debated everything under the sun — from criminal and civil law and theology to astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethics, and science. No topic, regardless of how controversial or obscure, was off-limits to these great thinkers as they probed the depths of human, physical, and metaphysical nature. Their debates and arguments were codified in the Talmud, which Orthodox Jews still study intensely to this day.
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OTTAWA — Austrian anti-immigrant speaker Martin Sellner says he was not granted an electronic travel authorization in time for a trip to Hamilton to speak at a nationalist conference.
In a video posted on X, Sellner says Canada not granting him permission to enter the country is political persecution, and said Canada is engaging in “silent, ethnic replacement” of its population.
He was scheduled to speak this weekend at a conference in the Hamilton area held by the Dominion Society, an organization advocating for a policy called remigration.
We let IRGC members and other Iran regime officials reside in Canada.
Former Iranian official living in Toronto was ‘critical’ to terror finance, CBSA alleges
Sellner is not my cup of tea, we have far better proponents for immigration reform. Banning him is the wrong thing to do.
That said Canada is rotten with Islamist entryism. Our so called national broadcaster is a propaganda outlet for Muslim terrorists. And the LPC is as bad.
Read what @HamiltonPolice published here. A request that citizens report “a recent venue booking”… a booking by a lawful organization, for a lawful conference, with no offence alleged anywhere in the statement.
Police services exist to uphold the Rule of Law by investigating… https://t.co/1HhHVZvnPM
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) August 28, 2026
OTTAWA — United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Canada walked away from a trade agreement with the U.S. due to “political purposes” that involved Quebec’s upcoming provincial election and Alberta’s referendum.
“It was manufactured,” said Lutnick, during a press conference in Washington on Thursday. “So there’s the sovereignty party trying to run, and they’re in the lead in Quebec and so this was Mark Carney manufacturing something that would try to keep them from winning, and then you have Alberta has an independence resolution.”
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Outlines How Canada Manufactured Political Outrage for Domestic Consumption https://t.co/B2a4KwL2Vw
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 27, 2026
Lutnick’s and the US version of events seems far more credible than the Carney con.
The German right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is heading into the final days of the Saxony-Anhalt election campaign with a commanding lead, as its candidate for prime minister Ulrich Siegmund seeks to form the party’s first ever state government.
A new poll puts the AfD at 42%, while the centre-right governing CDU of Prime Minister Sven Schulze is at 22%. The far-left Die Linke stands at 11%, the Social Democrats (SPD) at 8%, and the Greens at 6%. Other parties would currently fail to clear the 5% threshold.
How would a Russian attack on Nato unfold?
John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, flew to Moscow this week to warn Vladimir Putin against attacking any member of the alliance – something that increasingly appeals to the Russian president, according to recent intelligence reports.
Bogged down in Ukraine, Moscow has escalated its hybrid attacks on the West.
When the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks takes place two weeks from now, CBC journalists will not be allowed to call them terrorist attacks. Those same CBC journalists can quote someone calling the attacks terrorism, but as a new memo to staff issued this week shows, journalists can’t use that description themselves.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation now says 9/11 wasn’t a "terrorist attack" at all. Just a "hijacking that led to plane crashes."
Ok… First off, clearly the CBC doesn’t know the definition of a terrorist attack, but WHY in the world would they say this?
Because Western… pic.twitter.com/5HxW1r1bm3
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 27, 2026
According to official German government data, the number of foreign suspects in violent crimes have skyrocketed in Germany, since the start of the century. The number of foreigners accused of homicide increased by 77.1% between 2000 and 2025, while the increase in suspected sexual offenses was even more pronounced, rising by 148.2% over the same period.
The 2025 figures show that the proportion of foreigners involved in violent crime has increased overall by 71.6% since 2000. The number of non-Germans suspected of negligent simple bodily harm also rose by 169.3%.
OTTAWA — A majority of Canadians support Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to walk away from trade talks with the U.S., a new poll suggests.
Results of the Abacus Data poll also suggest a divide among Conservative voters, underscoring the challenges facing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre amid the ongoing Canada-U.S. trade turmoil.
Released exclusively to the Star, the survey asked respondents whether they believe Canada made the right call in suspending the trade talks on Friday, or if it should have accepted the terms offered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
