Barack Obama praised Zohran Mamdani in a private telephone call on Saturday, with just days to go before the New York City mayoral election.
The former US president described Mr Mamdani’s campaign as “impressive to watch” in the call and offered his services as a “sounding board”, according to The New York Times.
Between October 24 and 29, 2025, Abacus Data surveyed 2,922 Canadian adults about the current political climate. The findings suggest a political environment that remains remarkably stable despite several flashpoints, including Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal from trade talks with Canada and Pierre Poilievre’s controversial remarks about the RCMP’s handling of Liberal-linked investigations.
With the federal budget set to be tabled on November 4, and the U.S.–Canada relationship under deeper strain, Canadians appear attentive, divided, and bracing for uncertainty, but not yet shifting decisively in any political direction.
Does anyone else teach their cats good table manners, or just me? https://t.co/YfM75OPr2U pic.twitter.com/tvwtZNYmli
— Nine's Catudio™ (@NinesCatudio) September 18, 2025
German authorities said a 22-year-old Syrian man was arrested in Berlin on Saturday on suspicion of preparing a “jihadi” attack.
The suspect was planning “a jihadi-motivated attack,” according to a spokesman for Berlin prosecutors. A unit of the police Special Task Force (SEK) had been deployed to take the man into custody.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the arrest showed “the terrorist threat in Germany, though often abstract, remains heightened.”
You have one operational submarine. It’s diesel. It’s almost 40 years old. You bought it second hand. The only reason it works is it ran aground and took 14 years to rebuild
You have 243,042 km of coastline & one functioning sub. You couldn’t deter a lost flamingo with dysentery https://t.co/EN1cvNJ2Hh pic.twitter.com/3vELLA1pzW
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) November 2, 2025
Ouch!
Meddling politicians, a massive contract, multimillion-dollar lawsuits and a pandemic have turned the Eglinton Crosstown LRT into a 14-year project
For months, they have glided along the middle of Toronto’s Eglinton Avenue: Sleek, empty streetcars on test runs, stopping at platforms blocked off to the public. No one gets on or off. And before the two-car vehicle pulls away, its electronic chimes sound their pointless warnings as the doors close.
Here in Scarborough, on a strip lined with mall parking lots, cars and buses full of people – relegated to the road’s remaining traffic lanes – just roll on by as though the weed-choked rail line occupying the median isn’t there.
I think they should shoot for 20 years.
I would like to thank @CDS_Canada_CEMD for her very sincere, heartfelt apology.
I went into the Canadian Armed Forces a "white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant male" and, twenty years later, I came out a "straight, white, c!s hetero-patriarch."
The non-stop gaslighting – the… https://t.co/6s8cZhynOm
— Jeff Evely (@JeffEvely) November 2, 2025
Worth a read.
UPDATE: Huntingdon attacker identified as Anthony Williams pictured in an earlier incident at a barber shop
One suspect in train stabbings as rail worker critical
A 32-year-old man is now the only suspect after multiple people were stabbed on a train, police have confirmed.
A railway staff member remains in a life-threatening condition following the attack on a train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross, which stopped in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, shortly before 20:00 GMT on Saturday.
A 35-year-old man, who was arrested at the scene, has been released with no further action after it was reported “in good faith” that he had been involved in the attack. Officers later confirmed this was not the case.
‘You can’t get on a train. You can’t get on the Tube. You can’t walk down London’s main streets without feeling under threat.’
Journalist Sue Reid says she no longer feels safe anywhere following the Huntingdon train stabbings. pic.twitter.com/17nXpb1JRw
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 2, 2025
“Toronto The Good” pic.twitter.com/IKSItCbX1o
— Toronto Crime Watch (@CrimewatchTO) November 2, 2025
As the federal government prepares to release a budget expected to see major new investments and spending along with a higher deficit, Canadians say they’re most concerned about measures to reduce their cost of living, according to a new poll.
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 42 per cent of respondents want the budget, set to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, to prioritize helping with the increasing cost of everyday expenses.
We can reliably count on the latter not the former.
Donald Trump has threatened to send the US military into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if the African country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.
Mr Trump said on on Saturday that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was “facing an existential threat in Nigeria”.
Yes sir.
The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria — and anywhere — must end immediately. The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. pic.twitter.com/C0v9RHGoS1
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) November 1, 2025
Confidential government deals worth billions of dollars to help fund a Stellantis-backed electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., carry dozens of conditions that, if violated, give federal officials the power to end the agreements and even force repayment in some cases, according to copies obtained by CBC Windsor.
It is unclear, however, if the contracts contain guarantees related to the company’s broader footprint in Canada, as elected officials have claimed. Some portions of the documents are redacted, so the full terms of the agreements are unknown.
As most affected firearms owners already know, Ottawa placed a funding cap on its “voluntary” Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme, saying if you wait too long to surrender your guns, you’ll get nothing.
They’ve announced $742 million for compensation, but even federal officials acknowledge that this falls far short of full compensation for affected firearms owners.
As the world waits for New York’s first Islamo-Communist mayor—hailed alike by the overtly malicious and the terminally stupefied—it may be worth stepping back to ask what the advent of Zohran Mamdani, the pampered 34-year-old rich kid who was born in Uganda, tells us about the decay of liberalism.
In many ways, Mamdani—who, as I write this, is a comfortable 10-15 points ahead in the polls—is just the latest avatar of the AOC-Ilhan Omar wing of the Democratic party. He loves talking about (re)distributing the wealth of others, defunding the police, arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, and penalizing “landlords,” which last is just one of his many code words for Jews.
SEVEN members of the European Parliament have signed a Declaration that calls upon UN member states to shift their societies to plant-rich diets. It will be presented at the UN climate summit, COP30, which starts in Brazil in eight days. The signatories are Anna Strolenberg and Anja Hazekamp from the Netherlands, Denmark’s Sigrid Friis, Germany’s Sebastian Everding, Jutta Paulus and Maria Noichi, and Luxembourg’s Tilly Metz. JOHN ELLWOOD, TCW’s ace investigative reporter on all things Euro, managed to infiltrate the event that launched the Declaration. This is his report.
