Jesus Christ, people. https://t.co/jPAaqb3rqv
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) August 30, 2026
h/t Mauser
The England I Knew Is Gone
Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth exposed me to a culture very different from the one that nurtured me. Growing up as a grammar schoolboy in 1970s and ’80s England, I absorbed the importance of personal restraint; emotional self-control in public; privacy; acting with honesty and fairness, even to one’s own hurt; and respecting others regardless of their social status or opinions. At the level of society, such personal values promoted freedoms—of speech, of religion, of expression. All of that is gone, at least from the class that presumes to define the country’s mores and morals.
US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak Island in first known attack in weeks
US forces have struck two Iranian launchers on Iran’s Larak island, a US official said, marking the first known American strikes on Iran since late July.
“Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait of Hormuz,” the BBC’s US partner CBS News quoted US Central Command (Centcom) spokesman Cdr Tim Hawkins as saying.
The IRGC said Sunday’s attack killed and wounded several people, and vowed “response and punishment”. It later said it had launched an attack on US military targets in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
On the road with pro-independence Albertans, one small town at a time
Chris Scott sat in the driver’s seat of his 2001 Monaco Dynasty motorhome last week, bumping along the network of rural highways in southern Alberta.
The vehicle creaked a bit. Some leather-covered furniture was cracking, and some cabinet drawer latches didn’t work anymore.
It’s like Alberta, Scott said: you can ignore problems and let them get worse, or you can pay attention to them and fix them.
It’s Always Cute When Canada Thinks It Matters
Just what the hell are the Canadians thinking? Do they think that if they cry enough, America’s going to roll over? We’re now in another trade war with them, and the Canadians are whining, and the Democrats — who never side with America — are whining right along with them. It’s about time to be done with the country that is touted as America’s best buddy but is actually tied for its most annoying next-door neighbor. They cry that America is being mean because it’s looking out for its own interests. How dare America expect Canada to pull its weight on its own defense? How dare America not want to perpetuate unfair and unbalanced tariff and trade rules in perpetuity? And how dare America not recognize the moral superiority of a country that, if it were a stereotype, would be a fugly, sexually dysfunctional wine woman with a “Hate Has No Home Here” sign on the front lawn of the condo it shares with five cats, all named after characters in “Twilight.”
Geoff Russ: Praying for a friendly U.S. president is a terrible strategy for Canada
Following the collapse of trade talks between Canada and the United States continentalism is apparently dead in Canada, again. It would not be the first time that the demise of North American integration has been celebrated prematurely.
In the 1911 federal election, the then-protectionist Conservatives triumphed over the Liberals and their program of conditional commercial reciprocity, which meant equal tariffs on identical goods traded with the U.S., rather than free trade.
WTF?
Portland Public Schools welcomes students back with a drag queen
.@PPSConnect is introducing your children to alternate queer gender identities
Straight up grooming.
Absolutely SICKENING
DEFUND THEM @usedgov pic.twitter.com/SLP3TzcnnC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 30, 2026
My ex-friend Jon Ronson may be a case study in the corrupting toxicity of trans ideology
Jon Ronson and I were friends for 25 years. In 2008, I got him on Twitter, telling him it was a utopia where people played hashtag games and got stuck in lifts. I invited him to sit in on recordings of Father Ted, Paris and The IT Crowd. That was before the trans wars – and online life turning toxic.
h/t Patti Jo
WTF?
You can admire the intricate choreography and admire the skill, but do not under any circumstances, laugh when she falls or when he almost gets a hernia from lifting her.
And yes, the wig comes off at one point. pic.twitter.com/znwZvFMeCH
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 29, 2026
Lauren Sacks: Canadian unions should know socialism never ends well
The resurgence of socialism in the United States, mainly through the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), should serve as a warning to Canadians. Ideas once associated with Soviet socialism and later cultivated in Western activist movements and university campuses, are increasingly finding their way into mainstream campaigns and electoral victories in the United States.
Saving Masculinity From the Left and the Manosphere
There is no longer any serious dispute that our boys and men are in crisis. It’s an undeniable empirical reality, from plummeting male labor force participation and lagging educational achievement to disproportionate rates of suicide, homicide, and social isolation. What remains in dispute is how we got to this place and what to do about it.
Renaming a Lake: A Surefire Way to Expose the Corrupt
Watching the tussle between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump unfold — the former “Lake Ontario”/”Lake America,” ya know… Well, I’ve decided it’s about time I waded into this fight.
Carney rode into power in 2025 on a wave of manufactured Canadian nationalism, casting himself as the last line of defense against American economic influence — “elbows up,” as the slogan goes. Strip away the branding, though, and you find a man deeply, personally enmeshed in the very country he’s built his entire political persona around opposing. Grade-one hypocrisy, dressed up in a maple leaf.
Why Is the Trump Administration Determined to Arm Hostile Jihadist States That Will Outlast It?
An institution built around one person, such as the US President Donald J. Trump, carries the expiration date of that person’s term in office. The states that join it do not.
Nothing better explains the conduct of Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia over the past eight months — and nothing in current American policy appears to be taking the countless danger signals from them seriously.
The real plan, as can be seen from Saudi Arabia’s recent moves, seems to be to avoid joining the Abraham Accords, and instead position themselves in Gaza, right on the border of Israel, to be able to attack it after Trump leaves office. No one will have his determination to make sure that any agreements are enforced.
WARMINGTON: As trade spat rages, alleged U.S. consulate shooter freed on bail
If U.S. President Donald J. Trump was upset about Premier Doug Ford telling him to “kiss” his behind, there’s no telling how he may react to an Ontario judge saying the man charged in shooting up the American consulate in downtown Toronto does not have to sit in jail and is free to wait at home until his trial.
Canada’s justice system needs no incentive from Trump to make an ass of itself.
Abdul El-Sayed apologizes for comment about Michigan synagogue attack
Michigan’s Democratic US senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed apologized to the state’s Jewish Democratic Caucus on Saturday for comments he made after an attack on a synagogue in March, which he tied to Israel’s actions in the Middle East.
“My comments may have been misconstrued to justify something I did not mean to justify,” El-Sayed told reporters after he addressed the caucus at a party convention in Lansing. “To anyone who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention.”