Children in London are (reportedly, allegedly), learning the classic kids song, The Wheels on the Bus with a twist:
This bus says, “Allahu Akbar!” pic.twitter.com/f7i8Fh3vCE
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 13, 2026
WTF?
What Tommy Robinson really sees in Russia
Everyone who is everyone – within a certain political and social fragment – has been in Russia this past week. Conservative American conspiracy theorist Candace Owens; Errol Musk, father of Elon; toxic “manosphere” influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate; and Tommy Robinson, the far-right activist.
Robinson told the Guardian that he had travelled to Moscow “to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilised society here.” In the process, he was walking a well-trodden path of westerners heading to Russia to see exactly what they want to see. Once it was socialists like Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who found Stalin’s regime “the very opposite of a dictatorship.” In the 1990s, free-marketeers hailed the plunder of Russia as the apotheosis of liberal capitalism. These days, it is conservatives rhapsodising about Putin’s Russia being the antidote to degenerate western wokeness.
WTF?
In the late seventies I crossed the Atlantic on the QE2. I went First Class, which I paid for with my first real paycheck. We had a mandatory dress code for dinner. Black Tie and commensurate formal wear for the ladies. It was one of my favorite memories. pic.twitter.com/pHYclwHuPF
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 14, 2026
A more conciliatory Ford says ‘I love the U.S.’ as trade talks loom
Doug Ford appears to be throttling back on aggressive anti-Trump rhetoric with key trade talks looming with the United States, stepping up a charm offensive aimed at politicians and lobby groups in the mercurial president’s orbit.
Earlier this week, Ford wrapped the first of three planned trips to the U.S. in June to pitch Ontario’s “Fortress North America” plan to policy-makers and industry leaders.
The premier has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump since the U.S. president imposed his tariff plan on Canada. Ford made his fight against Trump the centrepiece of his successful re-election bid in early 2025 and even vowed to campaign against Trump in the mid-terms.
The Forgotten Christians of Egypt
More than a decade ago the Egyptian military ended Cairo’s short-lived experiment with democracy. When Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, both Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense, seized power in July 2013, he did so with the public support of Coptic Pope Tawadros II. Unfortunately, el-Sisi has betrayed the estimated 15 million Copts in Egypt, the largest Christian population in the Middle East. Although Cairo is a nominal American ally, it oppresses religious minorities as well as political dissidents. These practices contribute to the instability and violence which continue to bedevil the Mideast and entangle the United States.
Bill C-34 just Liberal censorship behind child-protection smokescreen
Once again, the Liberal government is attempting to restrict legal Internet content that they believe threatens “social stability” or is deemed “harmful” to Canada.
This week, the government introduced Bill C-34. The elements of the bill that grabbed the headlines were the ones to keep teenagers under the age of 16 off of social media platforms.
Europe in Wonderland: Belgium Criminalizes Truth
In a ruling that should send chills down the spine of anyone who still believes in the Enlightenment values of reason, evidence, and open debate, a Belgian court has convicted nationalist activist Dries Van Langenhove for the crime of stating uncomfortable facts.
On May 26, 2026, the Correctional Court of Leuven fined Van Langenhove €4,000 for a February 2024 lecture at KU Leuven University. The offense? Presenting data on mass migration, group differences in intelligence and achievement, crime statistics, and the failures of multiculturalism — in a manner the court deemed to create an “us versus them” atmosphere.
Pakistan says US and Iran have reached peace deal as Trump posts ‘let the oil flow!’
Getting to this point has taken weeks of careful negotiation, with Pakistani mediators balancing the competing, often contradictory, demands of Tehran and Washington.
In the end, they seem to have managed to get both sides to agree to the same deal, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the US blockade, according to Trump, and ending the fighting – including in Lebanon.
JPost – Trump announces US-Iran peace deal has been completed, Strait of Hormuz to reopen
Arutz Sheva – Trump announces deal with Iran is complete, signing scheduled for Friday
Telegraph – US and Iran have agreed peace deal, says Trump
Guardian – Donald Trump says deal with Iran ‘is now complete’
Conrad Black: If bitter enemies can bury the hatchet, there’s hope yet for this country
One of the benefits of advancing years is that some of the people with whom one has had disputes, even strenuous and at times vitriolic disputes, may develop a form of comradeship of vanished animosity. It isn’t necessary for either party to change the opinion or attitude that led to past abrasions, but time does heal most wounds and sometimes former adversaries see the whimsical or even amusing aspects of former disagreements and develop a respect for each other. One such person with whom I crossed swords many times but have lately come to like is the well-known and highly successful Montreal money manager Stephen Jarislowsky.
The ‘Mainstream’ Media and the Rise of Maine’s Graham Platner
It is, one might say, a completely American media routine.
Out there somewhere in this big country, some far left activist gets attention and the left leaning media loves it.
This has happened so often in American politics that there is no point in denying it.
Elon Musk is a Genius, and a Litmus Test
Today, Elon Musk took his privately owned SpaceX public. The result was the first $2 trillion market valuation on any company, ever. What’s more, unlike other most huge companies that have made people rich, like Google and Facebook, it’s a company that deals in atoms, not bits. (Amazon is sort of in-between, really). If Facebook and Google are fairy dust, SpaceX is heavy metal. It builds big things that sometimes blow up. They’re things that a lot of “experts” (*cough* Neil de Grasse Tyson *cough*) thought he couldn’t build, and certainly couldn’t operate at a profit. But he has. Now he’s promising, right in the prospectus, to go much farther.
There are two kinds of reactions to this: Celebration, and jealousy. They are diagnostic.
There’s no question that Musk has relied on government funding whether EV subsidies or direct investment still it has been his efforts that turned these ventures into viable firms.
Carney’s Muslim values to cost tax payers $100M for Palestinians allegedly facing settler violence, humanitarian crisis
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced on Friday $100 million in federal funding to support Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
She unveiled the funding in Paris, where Western leaders are meeting to discuss mounting challenges preventing a future two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Anand’s office says the funding will go to United Nations agencies, the Red Cross and others to address what it calls a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and rising violence in the West Bank by extremist Israeli settlers.
Why must Carney’s Muslim values always cost the tax payer so much?
‘Let’s not blow it’: Trump calls for restraint after Israel launches fresh airstrikes on Beirut
Donald Trump was forced to call for restraint on Sunday after Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Beirut as mediators sought to conclude negotiations on a preliminary peace deal between Iran and the US that would bring the three-month war in the Middle East to a definitive end.
Trump played down new Israeli strikes but said “all sides should stand down”.
RV Couple Lose Truck When Front Bumper Tears Off While Towed
David and Jennifer Sinclair have been driving across North America for years, sharing their adventures along the way on their Sinclair Trail blog. Their latest adventure in Canada went viral for a different reason.
The Sinclairs were on their way to Alaska in their RV when they made a fuel stop in Fort St. John, British Columbia. He was towing his Chevy Colorado pickup truck via a tow base plate attached to the back of the RV.
More common than is known.
h/t handy n handsome