A B.C. woman who travelled to Syria in 2015 after meeting an ISIS militant online and marrying him has pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related offence, weeks before her scheduled trial.
Kimberly Polman, 54, of Squamish, B.C., pleaded guilty on Oct. 8 in B.C. Supreme Court to leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group.
Next time listen to the Nigerian Prince.
Donald Trump agreed to buy diesel from Vladimir Putin after Volodymyr Zelensky ignored his requests to stop bombing Russian oil refineries, sources have said.
Mr Trump announced on Friday that Putin would “immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace”, followed by another 1.5 million tons before the end of the year.
The US president is facing pressure from voters over the cost of fuel before November’s midterms as diesel prices have soared around 70 per cent since he launched a war against Iran. On Friday, a gallon of diesel cost $6.28, up from $3.68 a year ago.
A friend of mine has a habit of calling our Prime Minister “the man who would be king.” I politely laugh. But after recent events in Strasbourg, I think he may be on to something. Mr. Carney, who smiled alongside Ursula von der Leyen after announcing their intention to bring Canada into a special relationship with the EU, looked for all the world like “a man who would be king.” A king of clapping seals, perhaps, but a king, nevertheless.
The corner of Whitechapel High Street, in the bustling heart of London’s East End, is where this story of our times begins.
Here, sandwiched between Sports Direct and Betfred, is the office of Apanjon. The name, or rather the meaning, will be familiar to the large Bangladeshi population in E1. It is – roughly translated – Bengali for ‘one’s own people’.
For an organisation ‘campaigning for equality and justice for the LGBT community’ both in Bangladesh, where gay people face criminalisation, and also in Britain, it is particularly apt.
Residential school denialism is detestable but not illegal, and that shouldn’t change, says Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, who disagrees with federal Manitoba NDPer Leah Gazan’s efforts to add it to the Criminal Code.
“I have a lot of respect for MP Gazan, but I don’t think we can criminalize this. I think we have to just do the continued work of educating people and trying to combat misinformation,” Kinew told CBC Manitoba Up to Speed host Marcy Markusa on Friday.
Gazan first introduced Bill C-254, her private member’s bill to amend the Criminal Code regarding the promotion of hatred against Indigenous people, in October 2024, but it died when the spring 2025 election was called.
“… But if you think about it very quickly, Canada keeps doubling down. [Mark] Carney just won’t stop. And now he’s announced that he’s going to … The 5% trade partner is the EU, and he’s gonna have a special relationship with it, a special relationship with China that’s about, I guess, 15% or 20% of its trade, which is … We know how China treats inferior powers militarily and economically.”
MARKHAM, Ontario — Joe Tay reacted viscerally when a campaign volunteer sent him the photograph last week. On a strip of grass beside his yellow placard for Markham regional councillor stood a dark blue sign for Paul Chiang, the retired police officer and former Liberal member of Parliament who quit the 2025 federal election after suggesting to Chinese-language journalists, gathered in his constituency office in Markham–Unionville, that Tay be handed to China’s consulate in Toronto for a Hong Kong bounty.
Even though no one stood in that photo, just two signs, side by side, Tay said a chill ran down his spine.
The Netherlands and Germany have emerged as the two biggest centres of support for the Save Europe Act, an initiative demanding tougher immigration controls and remigration. The campaign’s latest country ranking puts the Netherlands first with 93,627 signatures, closely followed by Germany with 91,812, leaving just 1,815 signatures between them as both approach the 100,000 milestone.
A new study comparing economic performance in all of the Canadian provinces and U.S. states has found that, of the 60 jurisdictions, seven of the 10 lowest-ranking are in Canada.
The research by the Fraser Institute looked at living standards, incomes, private sector employment and labour productivity to compare the economic growth of the two countries. It found that, in every category, Canadians have fallen further behind Americans.
Adiós ! https://t.co/CkqSQZluuI
— Le Crapaud (@Le_Crapaud47) October 9, 2026
Yes @MarkJCarney let’s form a closer relationship with the CCP. Don’t let those pesky human rights abuses get in the way. Didn’t your government want to use tank(s) on the Freedom Convoy?
— Beware of the Flowers 🌻🌻🌻 (@cheryls4dogs) October 9, 2026
Just weeks after the United States commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, a new poll reveals more than one in five undergraduate students believe America deserved the attacks, while nearly half of all undergraduate students think physical violence is justified to stop so-called hate speech.
Britain is America’s mother country. Regardless of what one may think of the once-Great Britain today, much of America’s essence sprang from that island’s political philosophy, cultural inheritance, legal tradition, and national character. Our language, common law, conception of liberty, parliamentary instincts, and stubborn individualism all trace back directly to Britain. Britain may have declined, but the DNA of its greatness lives on in us. Its decline is therefore not merely a foreign story. It is a cautionary tale written in a language we understand because we inherited it. We ignore those linkages at our peril.
Canada has seemingly decided to stop sliding down the slippery slope of assisted dying. On Wednesday, the country’s Justice Minister, Sean Fraser, revealed that the Liberal government would be indefinitely suspending its plan to legalize assisted dying for individuals whose only condition is mental. Before this, legislation had been passed which meant that, from March of next year, Canadians could apply to end their lives solely on the basis of mental illness.
