Line 5’s 73-year-old pipelines are a ticking time bomb in the Straits of Mackinac. Today I told Enbridge’s CEO to get the oil out of our water. Michigan has waited long enough. pic.twitter.com/oIJcv22uo5
— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) September 9, 2026
h/t Mauser
US vice-president JD Vance has worn his religion on his sleeve since converting to the Catholicism in 2019. He recently published a book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, and memorably met the late Pope Francis at the Vatican on Easter Sunday in 2025, a day before the pontiff died.
But his religious identity could take on new weight as he positions himself for a presidential run in 2028, in which a successful campaign would make him only the third Catholic president in US history. Vance’s winding spiritual path – combined with his avowed evangelical roots – have the potential to stymie him, as he seeks to retain the Christian nationalist voters that have sustained Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (Maga) movement while wooing fellow Catholics.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada plans to begin discussions for a “unique alliance” with the European Union — but not membership — as he gears up to address the European Parliament this week.
“We’re not looking to become a member of the European Union,” Carney said Sunday evening on the red carpet of the Toronto International Film Festival. He attended the festival shortly after giving a speech to kick off the two-day Canada Investment Summit, which begins Monday.
Carney’s investment “summit” reminds me of this Bugs Cartoon “One For You”
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British Pakistanis must condemn grooming gangs or be complicit in the abuse through silence, a prominent Pakistani cleric has said.
Muhammad Hassan Haseeb-ur-Rehman, who is on a speaking tour of the UK, said British Pakistanis needed to report child groomers to the police so they could face the toughest possible punishments.
“If people from within our own community are involved in wrongdoing, they must be opposed. Remaining silent in the face of wrongdoing is, in effect, becoming complicit in it,” he said.
Last week, a report by Macdonald-Laurier Institute senior fellow Eric Kaufmann and co-authors detailed the high cost of the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) quota system in academia. They showed that the prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program — a $300 million annual federal expenditure to keep research talent in the country — has sacrificed excellence in pursuit of diversity.
An illegal immigrant raped a woman on a night out after being freed from prison for a previous sex attack.
Radiet Meles, 35, an ex-soldier from Eritrea, was expected to be deported after finishing his sentence for a horrific sexual assault in 2019.
However he was allowed to stay in Britain after serving a five-year sentence for the attempted rape of an unconscious woman at a house party in Newport, South Wales.
The United States is imposing tariffs on much of the world, disrupting supply chains and inviting retaliation from its trading partners. Yet American food inflation remains lower than Canada’s.
For Canadians repeatedly told that external forces are primarily responsible for their rising grocery bills, this is an uncomfortable comparison.
This is funny…and true. https://t.co/D91xWxWQ7m
— Cdn Refugee in Alberta (@cdnrefugee) September 13, 2026
Back in April, I wrote Killing the Golden Goose. I argued that Canada appeared to be making itself progressively less competitive while people with large pools of mobile capital were well positioned to profit from the resulting decline. I used “shorting” as an analogy: weaken something of value, then benefit from the lower value that follows.
Four months later, some new information has appeared.
True story.
Back at Dalhousie this fall, teaching a graduate course on information and decision-making.
Told my students: “Diversify your information sources. Explore different perspectives, especially independent ones.”
One student replied, “I do that all the time.”
Me:… pic.twitter.com/n08VTLxH1p
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) September 11, 2026
A prominent Austrian Covid critic’s 2022 book on ‘transhumanism’ is being threatened with a ban in Germany. German authorities maintain an ‘index’ or list of banned books, which can be owned but not sold in the country. Although the ban is in fact general, the indexing is officially supposed to serve the purpose of child protection, and indexing decisions are taken by the so-called “Federal Agency for Child and Youth Protection in the Media”.
The European and American media are very worried that “far-right politicians” have been elected in Germany. We also repeatedly hear the media describe Trump and other Republicans as far-right.
However, we rarely see the media describe Democrats as “far-left.” Even more rarely do the media explain exactly what policies make a politician far-right or far-left. So, I thought I would discuss this issue with Gemini, which reflects what the media report.
Our latest national tracking survey was conducted from September 4 to 9, in a political environment that continues to be shaped overwhelmingly by Canada’s confrontation with the United States.
Since our last survey, the Liberals swept three federal byelections on August 31, holding Beaches–East York and North Vancouver–Capilano and winning Chicoutimi–Le Fjord from the Bloc Québécois.
Leger has a slightly larger lead than Abacus
Latest Leger Poll modelled out
🔴LIB: 240 seats (+71)
🔵CON: 76 seats (-68)
⚜️BQ: 23 seats (+1)
🟠NDP: 3 seats (-4)
🟢GRN: 1 seats (nc)🔴Liberal Majority Government
(+/- change from 2025 election) https://t.co/CHrfo6PEel pic.twitter.com/JYorAqtHFB
— Charestiste🇨🇦🍁 (@RealAlbanianPat) September 13, 2026
h/t Mauser
You don’t have to be an open-borders fanatic to want writers and others to be able to cross frontiers to exchange views with like-minded people abroad. Unfortunately, this is not the view of the UK Home Office, which increasingly prefers to keep out anyone whose views offend the progressive establishment.
Remember The Matrix and Keanu Reeves running around in ‘Bullet Time’. Whatever happened to that? Well as you could have probably guess from the subsequent two movies, this stuff wasn’t exactly being made by the most disciplined minds out there. Somewhere along the way, the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters and embarked on a series of disastrous projects you’ve probably never heard of.
