As Islam makes disturbing inroads into nearly every aspect of American life, the legitimacy of calling it simply a religion is coming into question. Islam has been practiced not only as a religion, but also as a political and legal system that its most ardent practitioners embrace.
US President Donald Trump’s decision to sell state-of-the-art F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia seriously risks undermining his efforts to secure America’s technological advantage over China, both in national security and the battle for global AI supremacy.
Trump initially agreed to sell the Saudis 48 F-35s in a deal worth an estimated $24.3 billion when he hosted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in November 2025.
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!”
Frank Luntz, a smart pollster who fell out of favor with the right for refusing to get on board with Donald Trump, just handed Republicans a glimmer of hope for the midterms. And that hope comes from the very man Luntz spent years criticizing.
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.
OTTAWA — US President Donald Trump is directly linking his tariffs to a promise to give American adults $5,000 if Republicans retain control of Congress in November.
“Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits,” Trump said in video remarks. “It’s one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult.”
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.
In the years before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the descent of much of Europe into “the Great War,” most of the ideologues on the Left assumed that such a war was an impossibility. The workers of the world, they believed, would no longer go to war against one another. Their class solidarity was too strong, far stronger than their national allegiance and their fidelity to artificial borders and superficial ethnic differences. Engels, for one, thought the old ways had been thoroughly demystified and discredited. The “new man”—the Communist man—was better than the old man, more organized and less aggressive toward his own kind. Darwin, Engels insisted, had described “a struggle for existence” that applied to the animal kingdom, not to the expected Communist society. In 1912, the Manifesto of the Extraordinary International Socialist Congress (of the Second International) in Basel put it this way:
“It would be insanity for the governments not to realize that the very idea of the monstrosity of a world war would inevitably call forth the indignation and the revolt of the working class. The proletarians consider it a crime to fire at each other for the profits of the capitalists, the ambitions of dynasties, or the greater glory of secret diplomatic treaties.”
The Census Bureau recently announced that the official U.S. poverty rate has fallen to its lowest level on record. Yet, this metric—which measures whether American families can afford a fixed basket of goods first defined in the 1960s—has been widely criticized for failing to reflect the rising cost of a middle-class lifestyle. Measure poverty in relative terms—as the proportion of the population with incomes 40 percent less than the median—and it’s currently at an all-time high. Such relative definitions are widely used by international organizations and scholars to disparage America’s reliance on private enterprise to improve the general welfare.
Rosemary Barton put Kamala Harris’s campaign chief of staff on CBC to tell Canadians to wait Trump out. Mark Carney already hired another Democratic campaign operative to run PMO operations and the US file
Sheila Nix ran Harris 2024. On Barton she said stand tough, wait for the… pic.twitter.com/nRGxE32ZXE
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 28, 2026
h/t Mauser
On Monday, China released more information of what was agreed at the talks between Xi Jinping and Donald Tump last week, shedding light on a handful of concrete outcomes.
But there were no joint statements and few major breakthroughs.
Instead, both governments issued separate accounts of the meeting – perhaps a sign that despite the White House tours and promise of warmer ties, Washington and Beijing remain wary of each other.
Utah Valley University failed on a number of fronts to protect Charlie Kirk from the assassin who took his life at an outdoor event a little over a year ago, according to an independent review released on Friday.
While the 157-page report from the Illinois-based Lake Forest Group found no evidence UVU employees or agents acted in “bad faith or in willing and wanton disregard for the safety of others,” it does reveal serious security “gaps” and a failure of UVU officials to follow their own policies.
Early waves of immigrants to the United States each brought something that contributed to the material well-being of the nation.
The English brought notions of common law and individual liberty. The Germans built great breweries and brought their orderliness and discipline in their post-Reformation Protestantism. And sauerkraut. The Norwegians brought cultural tolerance, the Finns their saunas, the Swedes their blonde bombshells — looking at you, Ann-Margret, the Italians their outstanding cuisine, the French their arts, and the Cubans their condos, HMOs, and hatred of tyranny and communism.
Trump has been down for the count so many times that it’s hard to remember all of the times when it was predicted that he was on his way out. He wasn’t supposed to win in 2016. He did. When he lost in 2020 he was basically given up for dead. And just to make sure, his opponents used lawfare, congressional hearings, and almost everything in the books to kick him while he was down.
But he rose, like Lazarus, and won again in 2024.
For 25 years, American counterterrorism policy has been organized around the image of September 11: a terror cell, an aircraft, an explosion. Billions went into intelligence, airport screening and wars abroad. Across those same years, a slower project advanced through channels that no security agency was built to monitor: one moving through universities, lobbying organizations, municipal, state and national politics, and the vocabulary of civil rights. It required nothing more explosive than money, patience and a working knowledge of how an open society such as the United States functions.
