Bjorn Rieder wasn’t raised in a religious home or around religious influences, and the last thing he expected was to become religious himself.
In fact, Rieder spent much of his younger life viewing faith with skepticism. He says he even studied religious philosophy at university mainly to argue against religion.
Despite politicians and the media telling them over and over again that crime is down, people irrationally believe crime is rising.
The debate over how we teach the British Empire has become one of the most polarising arguments in modern British education. Some insist the empire was a force for progress – ushering in parliamentary institutions, the rule of law, global trade and modernity. Others emphasise its violence, exploitation and the long shadow it casts over current-day inequalities.
In early April 2026, Tamara Lich, who helped organize the 2022 truckers’ Freedom Convoy to Ottawa, gave a talk at the University of Calgary. One of the largest lecture theatres, holding over 400 people, was nearly filled. She spoke for an hour and a half without notes and then took another half hour of questions. In return for some minimal assistance in booking the room, I was rewarded with a collection of chocolates (since consumed) and a copy of her book, Hold the Line: My Story from the Heart of the Freedom Convoy. Her talk and her book embodied in my mind the last gasp of Canadian self-respect and pride. More surprisingly, it also expressed the much rarer view that the struggle against bureaucratic tyranny directed by the Government of Canada was more spiritual than political.
He cannot escape the memory of the knife. He holds his hand up and shows me the scar on the underside of his arm, just below the wrist. ‘I resisted,’ he explains, ‘so they forced me.’
Mustafa looks bereft as he recounts the first time he was abused. He was 14 years old.
‘My friends told me to come to a garden where we would eat fruit and drink nice juices,’ he tells me. ‘When I arrived seven men were waiting. I tried to resist. I shouted and screamed but they tied my hands and legs.
An internal document obtained by The Globe and Mail shows the full cost of a high-speed rail line from Toronto to Quebec City is estimated at about $150-billion once four decades of operating and maintenance expenses are included – a figure that is well above the range regularly cited by federal officials.
Alto – the Crown corporation responsible for the massive infrastructure project – says the high-speed rail line will cost between $60-billion and $90-billion. The organization has said a more precise cost estimate will be released as the project is advanced.
“It is generally held that few nations have endured oppression and tyranny with greater politeness than the Icelanders. For centuries … they lived in understanding accommodation with oppression, without ever making an attempt at rebellion. To no nation was the very concept of revolution more alien. Icelanders were always ready to kiss the rod that struck them hardest, and to believe that the most cold-blooded executioner was their truest source of help and their safest refuge.”
So wrote Halldór Laxness in 1933, more than two decades before becoming Iceland’s only Nobel laureate in literature. Ninety-three years later, Icelanders appear to have misplaced some of their famous politeness.
CALGARY — US President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States will be using its newfound control over Venezuela’s crude oil to refill America’s depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said he would “fill up” the reserve because it had been “virtually emptied” during “Sleepy Joe Biden’s” tenure as president.
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Canada's politicians went on American TV and got ROASTED 😂
It is important to understand as you watch this:
> Liberal politicians don't get asked hard questions by Canadian MSM.
> Both of them were part of the government that gave us a lost decade.
> Chrystia Freeland, who has… pic.twitter.com/u4iIiyXZd5— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) August 30, 2026
CBC is offering live coverage.
A test of Carney popularity or voter TDS?
Coletto back on Power & Politics tonight. Same file, now applied to tonight’s ballots
“Every time Trump returns, it seems to help the Liberals politically.” Trump is a top-three issue for 45%, up 7 points in two weeks. All the metrics moved. Approval +4. “It’s the issue that… https://t.co/pjP0Q30Rvz pic.twitter.com/DZZ4Dj2MWg
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 1, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has developed a reputation for delivering the Trump administration’s message with an unusually eloquent, and frequently sarcastic, edge, and Canada was the latest target.
In a CNBC interview Monday, Bessent laughed off the idea that Ottawa could meaningfully pressure the United States as the two countries escalate their trade war. The exchange came just a week after Washington and Ottawa imposed 50 percent tariffs on one another following failed negotiations to come to a trade agreement the Trump administration found satisfactory.
🔥 LMFAO! Sec. Scott Bessent just DROPPED THE MIC on Canada. Brutal.
CNBC: Are we in a tit-for-tat trade war with Canada?
BESSENT: I don't think you can be in a tit-for-tat with someone who's 13 times larger than you.
CNBC: They say they're doing OK
BESSENT: What else are… pic.twitter.com/VbHATNopEA
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 31, 2026
Canada's politicians went on American TV and got ROASTED 😂
It is important to understand as you watch this:
> Liberal politicians don't get asked hard questions by Canadian MSM.
> Both of them were part of the government that gave us a lost decade.
> Chrystia Freeland, who has… pic.twitter.com/u4iIiyXZd5— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) August 30, 2026
Having reportedly read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, in French, during a military tour of duty in Iraq, Jamieson Greer considered himself an unlikely target for accusations of francophobia.
But Donald Trump’s US trade representative, hitherto one of the president’s less high-profile cabinet members, found himself in that uncomfortable position amid the acrimonious collapse of bilateral trade talks with Canada that now threatens to degenerate into an all-out trade war between the two close trading partners whose economies are tightly intertwined.
An apparent pending deal between Washington and Ottawa aimed at avoiding damaging tit-for-tat tariffs broke down at the last minute, with Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, claiming his country had come “under attack” from the US.
The Canadian government facts revealed in this small animation film will blow your mind and open your eyes…
Check it out. It’s a good Watch…
pass it on! pic.twitter.com/kfIHxrrIas— Great Canadian Moose (@Great_Cdn_Moose) August 30, 2026
h/t XC
The mainstream media have spent pretty much every moment since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States portraying him as an evil, cruel, empathy-free tyrant who couldn’t manage a kind word for anyone outside his own family. Joe Biden practically built his entire 2020 campaign on that same premise, insisting that the election came down to character, and that Trump simply didn’t have it.
