The Muslim Association of Canada has released an update following an incident that occurred during its convention in Toronto in May when the phrase “Jew free” was shown on a word-cloud screen of submissions during a seminar session.
“First, MAC wishes to re-iterate that this phrase is offensive and hurtful to Jewish Canadians, to Muslim Canadians, and to anyone committed to a pluralistic society,” MAC says in the August 12 statement, adding that it “is unequivocally against Islamic teachings.”
United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently declared that “Woke 1 was crazy.” That was supposed to represent a retreat from the extremes reached during the alleged first wave of “woke,” conjuring up memories of compulsory struggle sessions, left-wing racialization in universities and the workplace, and pronoun creep.
Woke 1 was rather ridiculous and provided great fuel for laughs and cheap entertainment across North America. However, Woke 1 implies Woke 2 is coming, and it will be far worse when it does. In fact, in Canada, at least, Woke 2 is already here, and the fact it is quieter is not a sign of weakness. Not only is Woke 2 turning the accommodation of Woke 1 into durable power, it is cycling in fresh causes post-pandemic.
CALGARY — The founder of the Dominion Society of Canada says that his nationalist organization is planning to proceed with an upcoming conference in Hamilton, Ontario, later this month despite opposition from the city’s mayor and uncertainty over whether controversial Austrian remigration advocate Martin Sellner will be admitted to Canada.
A new opinion poll shows the campaign to become the next mayor of Mississauga is a dead heat!
What a heavyweight horse race it is. Strong field. Unique set of circumstances.
You have the former mayor challenging the current mayor, who took over the job in a byelection when the previous mayor quit to pursue provincial politics but wants to come back now that she was unsuccessful there.
No Islamist candidate. I guess these two are sufficiently subversive.
Grainy videos hide more than they reveal. They smooth out the texture and contours of life in a single moment. We often look back on these relics as beautiful, simpler times.
But it’s hard to grasp what life felt like for the protagonists in the frame. The anxiety and excitement. The stack of bills collecting on the counter or the sick grandparents out of view. The optimism or dread of whether a child’s life will be more promising than a parent’s.
A good but long read.
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has disrupted global markets for crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG), triggering worldwide price spikes and raising doubts about the reliability of the hydrocarbon-rich Middle East region as an energy supplier. These developments have also pushed up energy prices in Canada.
We’ll al be driving electric cars and living in homes heated by solar power!
Following a recent setback, plans to build a tunnel for Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan have received approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The permit issued Wednesday is required for a plan to replace the pipeline crossing in the straits with a tunnel. The approval comes after Michigan’s supreme court recently ordered state regulators to reconsider another permit for the project.
Ford government accused of xenophobia for going after temporary residents, undocumented migrants on social assistance
The Ford government is fuelling xenophobia by excluding temporary residents and undocumented migrants from accessing Ontario’s social assistance programs, critics say.
On Thursday, Children, Community and Social Services Minister Michael Parsa announced that the new rules, effective immediately, are meant to protect taxpayer dollars, ensuring Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program are focused on supporting only families and individuals who are legally authorized to live in Canada.
“They are promoting xenophobia with these speeches that migrants are stealing and leeching off the systems, which we are not,” said Luisa Ortiz-Garza, a migrant community co-ordinator at Parkdale Community Legal Services. “I think this is just an openly racist policy.”
It figures …
COMMIE Luisa Ortiz-Garza …. illegal in Canada for 13 years and then rewarded with a Canadian passport
Her and her migrant husband working to bring more Illegals into Canada https://t.co/oilA5vxRbK pic.twitter.com/bORrkqw9vk
— Joe Meyer (@Joe_Meyer1) August 14, 2026
In the long and complicated relationship between Canada and the United States, economic tensions are nothing new. Trade disputes, tariff battles, and political disagreements have shaped the cross‑border dynamic for decades. But every so often, an unexpected consequence emerges—something neither government planned nor predicted.
During my recent visit to Toronto, walking through grocery stores, drug marts, and major retailers, I witnessed one of those consequences firsthand: a quiet but unmistakable rise in Canadian patriotism. And ironically, it appears to have been triggered not by Canadian politicians or media campaigns, but by Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian exports.
Ontario is enacting new rules for social assistance payments so people without legal immigration status in Canada cannot receive the benefits.
Premier Doug Ford first vowed to make the change following media reports about a tribunal ruling that awarded Ontario Works payments to a man who came to Canada decades ago on a temporary work permit that has since expired.
Ford wrote in a social media post last month his government would always support people who have fallen on hard times, but “that doesn’t include people living in Canada illegally.”
It’s a start. But Ford is well aware of the demographic that wins him election.
Police have laid charges against a Halifax man in connection with a bomb threat that closed several downtown streets Monday.
Ali Assakereh, 54, is charged with uttering threats against the U.S. consulate in Halifax and committing public mischief by misleading police.
Islam remains the most negatively viewed faith in Canada, but opinion of Judaism fell furthest over 15 months, according to a new national survey.
Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, which commissioned the Leger survey, said in an email that “the biggest change is in views toward Judaism.”
Although Canada officially refused to join the United States’ springtime war against Iran, new information suggests that Canadian personnel indirectly assisted the campaign while embedded with American forces. This is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything, Ottawa’s support should have been more fulsome, consistent and overt.
When American bombs began to pummel the Islamic Republic of Iran in March, Prime Minister Mark Carney denounced the campaign as “inconsistent with international law,” and claimed that Canada was “not a party to those actions.”
Three peoples on both sides of the border are about to vote, over the course of one month, on questions of enormous consequence to both countries.
In Canada, Quebecers go to the polls on Oct. 5 in an election that could return a Parti Québécois government that is pledged to a third sovereignty referendum.
Two weeks later, on Oct. 19, Albertans vote in a referendum that puts the breakup of Canada, however indirectly, on the table.
A middle-class society is one where ordinary work creates a real path to ownership. A useful education should lead to a job that pays enough to buy a home and save, leaving room to absorb a setback or take a risk. That is how wages become agency, and how families acquire a durable stake in the country.
Liberal democracy depends on the accessibility of that stake. Citizens who can see themselves advancing have reason to build institutions and accept obligations to the people around them. But when work no longer offers a plausible route upward, the material basis of citizenship begins to erode.
