The intriguing conclusion of a new book by former British prime minister Gordon Brown is that western societies are experiencing two existential events at the same time.
His book, The Future Starts With Us, points to the well-documented breakup of the international rules-based order. Brown describes it as the consequence of war, mass migration, economic disruption and climate change.
I have spent decades working in both the field and in halls of power alike, trying to get decision-makers to take Canada’s water security and the health of the Great Lakes seriously.
So, imagine my surprise when the name of one of them grabbed headlines around the world, for the most bizarre of reasons.
Regardless of where you may stand on how we refer to the smallest of the five Laurentian Great Lakes, one thing about which we should all agree is that recent events should stoke a real, adult conversation about where our two neighbouring countries stand on co-managing them.
This will make a great announcement for Carney “Battleships On The Laurentian Lakes!”
Parliamentarians need to independently investigate whether Russia used sonic weaponry against Canadian diplomats in Cuba, where they were allegedly helping U.S. intelligence agencies, and how the diplomats were subsequently treated by Ottawa, former Canadian spies and high-level security officials say.
The Globe and Mail reported Saturday that, according to a source, a Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Havana. Canadians were also using satellite equipment brought into Cuba under diplomatic cover by the U.S. between 2016 and 2018, a second source said.
Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize, but his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney has now emerged as an unlikely favorite in the race.
The Canadian prime minister has surged ahead of Trump in at least one prediction market for the 2026 prize, giving the U.S. president a “near-zero” chance of winning the long-coveted award following his war in Iran.
It was frigid and snowy when Kimberly landed in Toronto from Uganda, seeking asylum with her four-year-old daughter.
They only had enough money to stay at an Airbnb for three days. The single mother kept calling the city’s emergency hotline, but all shelters were full.
When Kimberly finally mentioned that her child couldn’t bear the cold outside, the person on the phone said the best they could do was to bus her and her daughter to a hotel in Niagara Falls.
Neil Herland has worked for the CBC, Canada’s state-owned media corporation, for 29 years. He is also Jewish. And today, for the first time in his 29-year career, his employer has taken him off the air, seemingly at the behest of a Muslim advocacy organization. What the hell is going on with freedom of speech in Canada?
I'm a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/2eH3MaC9QB
— Neil Herland (@NEWSneil) September 22, 2026
Canadians are still leaving in near record volumes. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows emigration—citizens and PRs leaving permanently—rose in Q2 2026. In fact, it was the third highest outflow for the second quarter ever reported. Even fewer Canadians are returning, mirroring the country’s peak “Brain Drain” era. Except this time the numbers show this rise wasn’t a shock, but a trend with few signs of slowing anytime soon.
Hell, Carney barely lives here.
A Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Havana and Canadians were using satellite equipment brought into Cuba by the United States when officials from both countries began experiencing debilitating symptoms caused by alleged sonic attacks linked to Russia, The Globe and Mail has learned.
Two sources tell The Globe that Canada and the United States were working closely together between 2016 and 2018 when diplomats and American intelligence operatives began reporting symptoms including nosebleeds, dizziness, headaches, blurred vision and memory loss.
As the Toronto Maple Leafs take to the ice for their 110th season this week, a landmark of one of the most controversial — and never dull — owners in their storied history has just been razed in Etobicoke.
Heavy machinery, which came on the heels of workers in haz-mat suits, has demolished the longtime home of former Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard, who died in 1990. The house at Montgomery Road and Bloor Street in The Kingsway played a key role in sending Ballard to prison for fraud and theft more than 50 years ago, not long after the Leafs last won the Stanley Cup.
Two UN agencies — the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) — plan to tax global shipping and flights on their greenhouse gas emissions . If implemented, the UN levies will raise global shipping and international flying costs, adding to global inflation. They would also be an important precedent, increasing the power and expanding the budgets of unelected institutions.
This fall the IMO holds a final vote on its carbon tax . ICAO’s requirement to purchase carbon offsets for emissions from international flights becomes mandatory in January.
Something occurred in Canada a few months ago that got little traction, if any, here in the States (and, for that matter, in Canada itself due to routine censorship in the Canadian media), but which nonetheless needs to be spotlighted even now, as it is an example of leftist totalitarianism.
Canada’s largest internet providers have been ordered to block websites operated by anonymous anti-Israel activists targeting Indigo Books & Music Inc. for the next two years, according to a Federal Court ruling.
Justice Janet Fuhrer granted the long-term blocking order after Indigo spent years pursuing activists behind websites that copied the bookseller’s branding and accused the company and CEO Heather Reisman of complicity in Israel’s actions in Gaza.
President Trump has found plenty to dislike about Canada lately. He slapped 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods and even renamed Lake Ontario.
If the president is looking for another Canadian import worth taxing, he might consider the country’s particularly virulent strain of political correctness. America has certainly developed one of its own, but Canada has put the stuff on steroids: weaker protections for speech, aggressive human-rights tribunals, professional regulators eager to police opinions, and an elite culture remarkably comfortable empowering bureaucrats to enforce ideological conformity.
There’s been a great deal of focus on our border with Mexico, less so on the Canadian border, in part because of the sheer size of it and also because it hasn’t been as ‘hot’. But many of the incidents that we’ve had on the border have involved Muslims including two plots, one of which targeted LAX airport, and there seems to be a growing number of cases of Muslims transporting kidnapped teens across the border.
h/t Hermes
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist architecture in Canada is manifested in an interlocking network of student organizations, advocacy groups, and charitable entities, which create permission structures for the normalization of anti-Western sentiment, extremism, terrorism, and antisemitism. The success of this ideologically driven campaign to alter Canadian values and torque Canadian institutions has been broadly visible since Oct. 7, 2023, and can be measured concretely in street demonstrations and in violence directed against Jews, both of which have been driven by the mobilization networks, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy documented in a report published last month. The larger political effects of these campaigns can also be seen in the changes in government policy as the Liberal Party has embraced the concrete policy demands of a constituency that is organized to infiltrate institutional structures and apply political pressure using the rules of Canadian democracy to support anti-liberal values and undemocratic political actors.
This is not news, and that makes it all the more depressing.
Islamist entryism is aided by our political class.
They actively cultivate the MB and Muslims in general for their votes.
Infamously Carney informed us that Muslim values are Canadian values.
Canada is being eaten alive.
