There’s no rush for the Trump administration to get back to the negotiating table with Canada and, given how fighting with Donald Trump is helping Mark Carney politically, there may be little urgency in Ottawa either.
With a number of media appearances this week, Trump’s chief trade negotiator, Jamieson Greer, has given the public some insight into how he and Trump’s team are thinking about Canada.
Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that AI could threaten human dignity and become an “instrument of domination,” a message in sharp contrast with President Donald Trump’s embrace of the technology and push to keep the U.S. ahead in the AI race.
During his visit to France on Friday, Leo repeatedly returned to the question of what it means to be human in an age of increasingly powerful machines. At UNESCO in Paris, he said technological advances must remain directed toward the human person rather than becoming tools of control.
It is with great concern for some of my fellow countrymen, inching precariously toward the edge of utter lunacy, that I write this post.
Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, in an interview with the New York Times, went on record saying it would be “irresponsible” not to plan for the possible contingency of a military invasion of Canada by the United States. Unfortunately, Mr. Carney didn’t misspeak or fall victim to a cherry-picked quote taken out of context. His concern was later reiterated by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country has proposed a deal to the US that would see the Strait of Hormuz reopened within a week.
Araghchi told reporters at the UN in New York that this could be done “if the necessary conditions are met” and said these were contained within the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in June.
“The choice now rests with the United States,” he said, adding the plan was delivered to the US via Qatar.
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week, Prime Minister Carney pledged an additional $100 million toward Palestinian assistance. This amount is in addition to the $600 million Canada has given to the Palestinians since 2023, mainly funnelled through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), some of whose staff have been accused of participating in the October 7 massacre.
“Based on a true rumour,” claims the opening of the new Apple TV comedy, Brothers, about Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey – occasional co-stars and real-life best buds – discovering that they might be, well, brothers. This story has been doing the rounds since 2023, after McConaughey’s mother, Kay, told Harrelson that she had known Harrelson’s father years earlier.
Premier Doug Ford is brushing off the latest shock to Ontario’s electric vehicle strategy as Volkswagen delays the opening of a massive battery plant south of London by two years, a reaction critics fear is naive.
“I’m not worried,” Ford said Friday after VW subsidiary PowerCo revealed the postponement until 2029 and said it has hired Canadian construction giant Ellis Don as general contractor of the $7-billion project near St. Thomas.
“What would make me worried is if they said they’re not building … that’s thousands of jobs for construction trades,” he told The Canadian Press and CityNews.
An African illegal migrant is accused of raping an 8-year-old girl in the French city of Brest in August 2026. He remains in pre-trial detention and has already been issued a deportation order.
The suspect is a 41-year-old man from the Comoros who lives in Le Mans without legal status and was visiting Brest. Prosecutors say the alleged attack happened in an apartment after the child’s mother had left. The girl also described a similar incident earlier in August.
U.S. President Donald Trump is “comfortable” with where things stand with Canada — his country’s once closest ally — and is in no rush to reach a new trade deal, according to his top trade envoy.
“The reality is President Trump is comfortable where we are on Canada,” United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a Friday morning interview with the American network CNBC.
“They call us now and then and we have good conversations about potential deals. But there’s no urgency on our side.”
I think the US just told Carney to go soak his head.
Over a dozen Afghan women and girls were rounded up and dragged into a van by female morality police as part of the Taliban’s latest brutal crackdown.
Around 16 women were detained in Kabul’s Shah-e Do Shamshira area, US-based Afghan newspaper Kabul Now reports, with footage showing a woman – believed to be a Taliban official – attempting to force another woman into a vehicle.
The detained woman resists, while a male Taliban officer and several more women can be seen inside the van.
A video obtained by Afghanistan International shows female members of the Taliban’s morality police forcibly attempting to detain two women wearing black hijabs and push them into a vehicle.
The footage shows the women resisting detention as Taliban agents forcibly drag them into… pic.twitter.com/uopwPBirFC— Afghanistan International English (@AFIntl_En) September 25, 2026
Canadians are right to care about sovereignty. But sovereignty means more than resisting pressure from Washington.
It means that Canadians, not foreigners, make the laws that govern Canada. Canadians pass, repeal, and amend our federal, provincial, and municipal laws. Sovereignty means little or nothing when outsiders gain a say in how Canadians live or what rules govern our affairs.
Imagine Paris with no French people.
You don’t have to. It’s already reality. pic.twitter.com/8QCkzQnmlg
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 25, 2026
A Winnipeg judge has granted a conditional discharge to an Iranian-born chemist so he can avoid deportation for surreptitiously and repeatedly filming the backsides of two women at the lab where they all worked.
Seyed Reza Mir Heidari, who pleaded guilty in Manitoba provincial court to two counts of voyeurism, is living in Canada on a work permit that was recently extended until April 2027. He has applied for permanent residency, but that application is on hold because of the voyeurism charges.
SFU President Joy Johnson saying her university’s new name. pic.twitter.com/BK8tLWh6Vy
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) September 24, 2026
Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq laid out a vision for an Islamic America during a livestreamed event at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas, last week. Authentic Ilm Mission, which hosted the event, has plans for a 40,000-square-foot facility near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center.
“We love this country,” Farooq said. “We want good for this country. And that’s why we want Islam for this country, ’cause we think that’s the best thing. And we’re not going to be ashamed of that.”
