Canada’s Army formally made one of the biggest changes to its structure in decades Thursday by shifting from divisions based on geography to ones built around specific purposes.
Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Edmonton held a signing ceremony and parade to stand up the 1st Canadian Division, which will serve as the main force responsible for deploying on large-scale combat operations and responding to crises.
Standing on the 55th floor of One World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, Assistant Secretary of Transportation Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. gazed upon an audience of government and private-sector security professionals. His subject: the US government’s approach to the relatively recent phenomenon of terrorist hijacking. As the architect of the federal sky marshal program, Davis offered no easy assurances about the escalating threat. Fighting terror, he admitted, presented no quick solutions. Rather, it demanded constant vigilance, because, as Davis noted, “a great deal can be done before a tragedy demands the action that should have previously been taken.” Addressing the solemn room in the North Tower on September 11, 1974, Davis gave voice to the single greatest fear haunting the aviation industry: an airborne mass-casualty event.
h/t patthedog
OTTAWA – Canada has supported the United States as its closest ally on numerous occasions over the decades. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the relationship has also faced its fair share of challenges, but time and again, Canadians showed up in support of their American neighbours.
Here’s a look back at a few of the pivotal moments over the last 25 years, how the cross-border friendship has evolved, and whether prominent players from these inflection points think this country would respond differently if a 9/11-type event were to happen again.
No because helping the US would be Islamophobic PM Carney told me so.
A man has been given a six-month jail term in France after he threatened to behead a female primary school teacher who had disciplined his son at a village primary school.
The 47-year-old was sentenced after a fast-track hearing on Thursday, six days after the events unfolded in Le Fauga, a village with a population of about 2,600 just outside the southwestern city of Toulouse.
The teacher has been granted official protection and has gone on sick leave.
You wouldn’t know the Perp was a Muslim if you relied on the BBC.
A father threatened to behead a teacher at the “Clément Ader” school in Le Fauga (Haute-Garonne) on Friday, September 4, after his son was punished. The incident caused outrage in this town of 2,800 inhabitants. The man, taken into custody, will be brought before the Toulouse prosecutor’s office. The teacher is currently on sick leave.
“I’m going to cut your head off!” A father from the “Clément Ader” school in Le Fauga attacked a teacher at the same school on Friday evening, September 4th, as classes let out. The teacher, who was returning to her car in the school parking lot, was surprised by the Muslim man, who hurled insults at her and threatened to behead her. His son, an elementary school student, had been punished earlier in class by another teacher for his insolent behavior. The child had been sent to the victim’s class, where, according to witnesses, he continued to act like a bully.
The Department of Canadian Heritage is funding researchers to build a directory of Canadian news outlets considered trustworthy and reliable, according to Access To Information records.
The government-approved Local News Directory is intended to help policymakers identify communities needing intervention while directing Canadians toward news sources they can trust, departmental documents show.
A British man plotted to sabotage a drone factory in the UK on behalf of Russia’s intelligence services, a court has heard.
Joshua Cammidge, who was charged on Wednesday with assisting Moscow’s military, allegedly researched four drone manufacturing sites in Swindon, along with a wifi jamming device.
He is suspected of communicating with and receiving instructions from an individual believed to be linked to the GRU Volunteer Corps, a group controlled by Russian intelligence services.
Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn’t quite a police state (not yet anyway), neither is it a country in which the individual can any longer speak without glancing over his or her shoulder. The old compact of a liberal society was simple – the state punished genuine criminality, while opinion was left to the rough justice of argument, satire and public disagreement.
Last week, the federal government announced that it’s extending the gas tax holiday into 2027, which is yet another policy that Prime Minister Mark Carney has borrowed from the Conservative handbook. And it isn’t an isolated case, given that Carney zeroed the consumer carbon tax, cancelled the electric vehicle mandate and is working to expand oil and gas capacity.
The leader of one group of 9/11 victims’ families says it has “taken way too long” to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged support of the terrorists who carried out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, whose 25th anniversary is being observed across the US on Friday.
As that grim milestone approached, Terry Strada – the national chair of 9/11 Families United – said she felt as if it had “been several lifetimes” for there to be progress in the effort “to achieve a modicum of justice through our court system” in connection with the deadliest act of terror against the US.
But, even as the Saudis deny they had any role in 9/11, she added that she was as hopeful as ever that “the day of reckoning will come”.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he’s open to the idea of involuntary addiction treatment.
Ontario’s Big City Mayors group recently repeated a request to the province to review existing mental health laws with the idea of expanding involuntary treatment.
“I’d be open to it as long as we can help them and help the communities,” Ford said Thursday while announcing a cabinet shuffle that includes a new associate minister of mental health, Michelle Cooper.
Islam kills. #stopislam pic.twitter.com/SiqNZw2zZA
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) September 10, 2026
CALGARY— On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the signing of a “100 Year Partnership Declaration” that will see enhanced cooperation between the two countries in defence and energy.
Carney welcomed Zelenskyy to Alberta on Thursday morning at the Palliser Hotel in Calgary, where the two leaders gave opening remarks about the visit.
This is absolutely terrifying! What has he done? 😠@fancypants_s https://t.co/SNzygJu6D1
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) September 10, 2026
The 100 Year Grift h/t Auntie Polly
BTW …
These are Action4Canada’s pages on Islam…based on facts. https://t.co/7N0m4azVA1 https://t.co/RbLrE0VtG9— Tanya Gaw (@GawTanya) September 11, 2026
H/T Occam’s Razor, Hermes & Mauser
There’s no silver lining to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, that goes without saying. But his violent death was the culmination of left-wing violence that was allowed to grow unfettered for years. The horrific sight of his murder, the toll it took on his family, the movement, and even the country, should have been a watershed moment. It should have marked the last incident of political violence in America forever — or at least for a long time. America should have grown more united, more peaceful, and less deadly and violent after Kirk’s assassination.
But none of that has happened and sadly left-wing violence is still a threat to this country.
