Despite U.S. officials repeatedly warning Canada not to get involved in the upcoming U.S. midterms, President Donald Trump has his own track record of weighing in on foreign elections.
Trump has endorsed about half a dozen candidates across the globe since he returned to the White House in early 2025 and even boasted earlier this year that he has “a very good record of endorsing candidates within the United States,” before touting a number of foreign candidates he backed.
The man accused of threatening to bomb the U.S. Consulate in downtown Halifax this summer is facing new charges of committing a terrorism hoax.
Ali Assakereh, 54, was arrested on Aug. 10 after Halifax Regional Police began investigating a threat received by the U.S. Consulate located in Purdy’s Wharf that led to much of the city’s downtown being put under a lockdown.
On Friday, Halifax Regional Police said in a news release that Assakereh now faces charges around hoax terrorist activity.
No one will miss Donald Trump’s inevitable departure more than Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney. Carney, the ultimate globalist, who previously also held Irish and UK citizenship, has skilfully employed a strident nationalism that has proved a big winner among Canadians.
It wasn’t the threat of annexation that sparked Canada’s first pivot away from the United States and toward Europe.
It was abandon.
“It is time for us to recognize that we have very separate identities, that we have significant differences and that nobody’s interests are furthered when these realities are obscured.”
On the first bitterly cold night of October, a group of women are warming their hands by a bubbling cauldron in Coldwater, Ont. They’re talking about witches. More specifically, they’re talking about why thousands flock to the Coldwater Witches Walk every year.
“There are a lot of women here who are being who they want to be for one night,” says Jodi Derrick, a local resident and Witches Walk devotee. Derrick came to the event on the evening of Oct. 16 with her friend, Christine Nicholls, and Christine’s sister, April Brown. The three women shared drinks and laughs at her house before donning their witches hats and heading downtown.
DETROIT — Former president Barack Obama took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods Saturday during an impassioned speech at a Democrat campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, ahead of next month’s U.S. mid-term elections.
Obama mocked the current president’s tariff war with its northern neighbour while jokingly referring to Canada as a “well-known evil empire” and the home of Martin Short and maple syrup.
TORONTO – Roughly 1 million Albertans voted ‘Yes’ to immigration reform questions on the referendum ballot Monday. While the results are preliminary and non-binding, they have sparked a renewed conversation about immigration policy across Canada.
“I think the provinces have always wanted a greater say in immigration policy, it’s a concurrent power under the constitution,” said Geoffrey Cameron, a political science professor at the University of Guelph.
“So I think what we’re hearing from other provinces right now is they want the federal government to give them more of a say over the numbers they get in existing programs,” he said.
I bet Ford won’t. He just wants bodies for his pals to exploit.
British Columbia’s Conservative Party won a commanding majority government on Saturday, securing a landslide victory that will see Lorne Doerkson take over the premier’s office from David Eby following a highly unpopular election call.
While results are not yet final, analysts late on Saturday evening were projecting the Conservative Party to win 64 seats, compared to the NDP’s 27. The Green Party was projected in early results to win two seats. Such a result would put the newly formed Conservative Party comfortably over the 47 seats it needs to form a majority, and deliver Doerkson one of the most lopsided electoral victories in B.C. history.
I lived in BC for a time.
Elections are followed by a collective “I voted for what?” the next morning as the hangover kicks in.
At one point, Canada welcomed private investment, encouraged companies to build things, and understood that governments should create the conditions for prosperity rather than own the businesses that produce it. Currently, Ottawa is celebrating a government-controlled, government-financed oil pipeline while threatening legal action that could force Stelco’s American owner to sell its Canadian assets.
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“How do you avoid a Nazi Germany? You didn’t,” Toronto employment lawyer Howard Levitt told The Hub. “It’s becoming like that here. And I mean, that would have seemed a ludicrous statement even a year ago… But it’s not a ludicrous statement anymore.”
What happens in France won’t stay in France. The country, mired in riots and a worsening economic crisis, is but the weak link in a global chain. Although Canada may be spared the worst if a bondfire breaks out, it won’t avoid getting singed by the spreading flames.
At one time during my academic career, I had an annual teaching gig in the south of France. Spring in Provence has its virtues, not least since as a visiting professor I had no administrative or supervisory duties. After a morning seminar, I’d enjoy wine-fuelled “working” lunches in bistros off cobblestoned lanes, then spend the afternoon idling with my notebook in a cafe, nursing pastis. Someone had to do it. And I could see why the French would never want to give up this way of life.
h/t Clink9
The Nova Scotia NDP has terminated MLA Paul Wozney’s appointment as caucus whip after he made an online post that appeared to advocate for “France-style riots in Nova Scotia and Canada.”
The Facebook post in question has since been removed from Wozney’s personal page.
“Don’t leave it to the courts. Learn from France. Own the streets. Shut government down,” the now deleted post said. “Grind the province/country to a halt… It’s the only ‘direct’ line to worker justice.”
Drawing from recent data released by the White House that show immigration to the U.S. has fallen from almost every country except Canada, the non-profit civic group Build Canada is sounding the alarm on a potential brain drain from this country into the United States.
A social media post from Rapid Response 47, a White House account launched last year, shows legal immigration down this year from almost every corner of the Earth. Drop-off ranges from 16 per cent in Western Europe and 17 per cent in Southeast Asia to 89 per cent in central Africa and 99 per cent in central Asia.
Connor Halloran says his last relationship wasn’t entirely quashed by a disagreement with his now ex-partner over politics, but it was “almost the last straw.”
Halloran said his past partner’s contradictory views “made me judge her a little differently in a way that I didn’t really want to be around her as much anymore.”
He’s not alone — at least on the University of Ottawa campus, where most students either said politics is pivotal in their relationships or that they avoid bringing it up altogether.
‘They destroyed my life’: 2 Sask. men imprisoned for exploiting woman from Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi woman who was trafficked and exploited by two men in Saskatchewan — and repeatedly raped by one of them — says she now lives in fear and struggles to trust anyone.
“I can’t forget them. They stopped my dream. They destroyed my life. They ruined my honour, my future, my family, my career,” the woman wrote in her victim impact statement.
Mohammed (M.D.) Masum, 45, and Sohel Haider, 56, were convicted earlier this year of human trafficking and returned to Saskatoon provincial court on Thursday for their sentencing.
Who thought importing slavers was a good idea?
