A group of Bay Area parents and students are suing their local school district over a 2025 field trip where children were allegedly encouraged to wear Muslim religious attire like hijabs while visiting a mosque.
The federal suit filed last week by ten Palo Alto High School students names the Palo Alto Unified School District and Principal Brent Kline as defendants.
It alleges that photographs of the students were also posted online, without the parents’ permission.
Earlier last month, Belgian authorities arrested Biwei Zhang, a Canadian intern of Chinese origin working at NATO’s military headquarters in Mons, Belgium, on suspicion of espionage. Prosecutors say she is suspected of spying on behalf of a third country—identified by Reuters as China—and of belonging to a criminal organization. Before her posting to NATO, Zhang had worked across the Canadian federal government, including stints at the National Research Council, Statistics Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, and the Canadian Space Agency. She even cleared a CSIS and RCMP background check, despite a 2023 finding that she had committed fraud.
Imagine the scene: a Mass celebrated in an ancient church in Normandy, three parishioners, two nuns and an elderly priest. Six people in all. And two terrorists armed with knives who interrupt the rite and slit the priest’s throat on the altar.
It was nothing new.
1996: seven French monks massacred in Algeria.
2006: an Orthodox priest beheaded in Iraq.
But on 26 July 2016 this horrible ritual was consummated in the heart of European Christendom.
Some Canadian negotiators fear there may be no way to avert new U.S. tariffs from taking effect Wednesday, as Ottawa struggles to win relief from Washington on existing sectoral tariffs while also trying to persuade provinces to lift restrictions on American alcohol, sources tell CBC News.
Multiple sources — in both Canada and the U.S. — have been briefed directly on the negotiations and were granted confidentiality to speak frankly about the talks.
Negotiations continue to intensify, with Radio-Canada reporting that Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is expected to meet again Sunday with his counterpart, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. It would be their third meeting in a week.
Casualties incoming.
While Israel is locked in a visible, kinetic battle with Hamas, an equally insidious struggle is unfolding in the corridors of Western power.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological architect of Hamas, is executing a “quiet march through the institutions” of Europe, aimed at hollowing out the foundations of democracy from within – an invisible strategy that seeks to transform Western civilization without firing a single shot.
The lead Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals hold over the Conservatives is in part attributable to whom Canadians most trust to address looming tariff threats from the United States, although pollsters and strategists have mixed views on how significantly that lead could diminish if Ottawa doesn’t land a favourable trade deal when the dust settles.
Right now, “the primary lens” used to judge the party leaders is connected to how U.S. President Donald Trump and the American relationship are managed, said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist at Nanos Research, adding that Canadians believe Carney (Nepean, Ont.) can do a better job on this front.
That so-called friend is a horrible influence.
Good thing the husband is nearby on a park bench, watching her every move. pic.twitter.com/m11IHwTb7H
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 16, 2026
The tragedy of Jason Arday was barely wrapped up, his body not yet cold, before the racism cryers were swarming social media. ‘He’d still be alive if he’d been white’ — that was the wail of these ghouls of grievance. Within hours of the announcement of his death, a scalding morality tale had been forged: he was unjustly hounded by the media, and it’s because he was black. It’s a narrative as full of holes as some of those that the tragic Arday weaved during his career. It mustn’t stand.
The racists were his enablers.
Luigi Mangione found the loophole… or so he thought 😭 pic.twitter.com/pO1h6KdDwl
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) August 15, 2026
H/T Hermes
Critics of the police and tougher bail and sentencing laws to combat violent crime have two approaches to the release of annual statistics on crime.
But they both end up in the same place.
The world knows all about Iran’s proxies; Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas, and other groups which conduct terrorism and other military operations throughout the Middle East for the IRGC. But there is less awareness of an even more vast and sophisticated proxy network managed by Iran’s ally and possible mentor which lies far closer to U.S. shores.
A new Statistics Canada report says Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity.
In 2025, 77 per cent of women and 70 per cent of men surveyed said they agreed or strongly agreed that people should be free to express their gender however they choose.
That’s a drop from 2018, when 85 per cent of women and 78 per cent of men agreed.
Grandson puts Al footage of his grandma in her favorite movie 😂 pic.twitter.com/AUQLjXTYsd
— Pop Feed (@wildfreakouts) August 15, 2026
After World War II, many of Europe’s “elites,” notably in Germany and Austria, were in grave need of denazification. We have now arrived at a time when European leaders and “elites” are, once again, in desperate need of deradicalization — from being “pro-Hamas.”
Sometimes the sentiment is presented as “pro-Palestine,” but it really has nothing to do with Palestinians and everything to do with hating Jews. If these protestors were actually pro-Palestinian, they would be demanding freedom of speech, equal justice under the law, better educational opportunities and better governance, where Palestinian leaders were less corrupt and did not shoot at their own people to prevent them from taking aid, or plant weapons depots among them to increase their own citizens’ casualty rates.
Montreal police are quietly growing their network of AI-powered tools to track vehicles and people across the city, raising questions about public transparency and privacy rights.
A high-powered camera able to scan and identify vehicles was spotted earlier this week by a Radio-Canada reporter, on a lamp post along Henri-Bourassa Boulevard in Montreal’s Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood.
Car based scanners capable of running license plate searches at a high rate has been in use for some time If I recall correctly.
This Canadian version of a Flock style system means we the criminal public can be surveilled 24/7.
I wonder what Toronto’s police use?
