Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly warned Academia to drop its discriminatory approach to hiring and admissions. The Supreme Court warned Academia to do the same. Most business entities smelled the coffee and began distancing themselves from DEI practices. Rather than recognize that the time for discrimination on the basis of ethnicity had passed, universities dug in their heels, perhaps none more so than Harvard.
Americans have been trying their hand at Canadian political punditry as relations between our two countries continue to spiral downward, showing frankly no real insights.
But one politician-turned-pundit, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, may have been on to something when he recently called Pierre Poilievre a “non-entity.”
In remarks made available to Canadian Press last month, Vance referred to the Conservative leader as “this guy Pierre Poilievre or something,” and told the fundraiser audience that he was a non-entity when it came to trade negotiations.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick accused Canada’s Liberal government of deliberately derailing the trade agreement with the Trump administration for political gain.
“This is the Canadian Liberal Party using their economy to get themselves elected, even if they’re selling their own citizens down the river. It’s sad and disappointing,” Lutnick told Bloomberg, speaking of the failed negotiations.
Lutnick: "If you are gonna mess with the United States of America and its economy and you're right adjacent to our northern border, it was really disrespectful. When you treat Donald Trump disrespectfully, he knows it. And that's what happened. It's just sad the way Canada has… pic.twitter.com/7j7wnP5jFu
— Sigurdur Nordal (@essenviews) September 2, 2026
I believe Carney sabotaged the talks to hasten our demise. He's not on our team and he's not on Trumps but both are fighting for the spoils of Canada's remains. Unseen hands are at work. I will take Trump over Xi, Ursula and the WEF any day.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) September 2, 2026
The reason it’s unrealistic for Canada to curtail or tax the flow of Canadian oil to the U.S. in retaliation for U.S. tariffs, is our lack of practical alternatives to sell it to any country other than the U.S.
This is one of the legacies of the previous Liberal government of Justin Trudeau and its failed climate change policies, which not only cost federal taxpayers more than $200-billion, but failed to achieve any of its promised greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
UN experts have told Britain to build statues of African people to atone for the slave trade.
It is one of a series of measures proposed by lawyers, who have written a report for the organisation setting out what former slave-trading nations should do. The advice follows a vote in March, in which UN member states voted to demand reparations.
The legal experts said the UK should create public monuments that “honour the contributions of people of African descent”.
Start with the African slavers and then do the Muslim slavers.
OTTAWA — Beijing is shelling out big bucks to spread its message deep inside the Ottawa bubble, buying ad space to publish editorials in a niche Parliament Hill newspaper directly targeting Canada’s top policymakers.
Since 2022, China’s embassy in Ottawa has published 37 editorials in The Hill Times, a twice-weekly newspaper distributed on Parliament Hill with content often of interest to federal political insiders
WASHINGTON — A dramatic new video shows US missiles launching into the night sky and raining down on a series of targets in Iran as President Trump touted American might.
Hostilities have flared once again in the six-month war. The latest round of US attacks killed 18 people, including guests at a wedding, according to Iranian media.
U.S. Central Command released the minute-long video along with a statement saying the latest round of strikes has been completed.
CENTCOM:
“US Forces completed a round of airstrikes against Iranian military targets.
Air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine laying capabilities, and communications sites were targeted.
The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC… pic.twitter.com/80a5NmfA3Q
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 1, 2026
Some negotiations are easy; others are destined to fail given intractable issues, including the personalities of negotiators, their values, style, character, and other difficult issues. Was it ordained that a negotiation between Donald Trump and Mark Carney would be successful?
Trump lays it on
.@POTUS: "We're fighting for our country. Canada has taken advantage of us, they have ripped us off for years, and now we're turning the tables — very easily turning the tables." https://t.co/sxGnD4lfOy pic.twitter.com/nPY5NlrUYk
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 2, 2026
President Trump said he is “happy” that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the United States to resettle in England, adding that if he were the royal family, “I would not have taken them back.”
“I’m happy about it,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the departure of the Duke and Duchess from California. “I was not a fan.”
He particularly singled out Markle for her behavior to the late Queen Elizabeth II and her treatment of King Charles.
Q: What's your reaction to the news that Prince Harry and Meghan have left the US and gone back to Britain?
TRUMP: I'm happy about it. I was not a fan. I wouldn't have taken them back. pic.twitter.com/v47lnABd7T
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 2, 2026
The living standards gap between Canada and the United States has more than doubled over the past 25 years as Canada increasingly falls behind its southern neighbour, a new study suggests.
The steepest drop, however, occurred post-2014, according to a newly released report from the Fraser Institute.
Up until then, Canada maintained a comparable performance to the United States and, in some cases, even outperformed it across several indicators, said Fraser Institute director of fiscal studies Jake Fuss in the report he co-authored with senior policy analyst Grady Munro and senior economist Joel Emes.
NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became one of the most visible symbols and potent voices of the U.S. women’s movement and a fierce advocate for feminist causes throughout her life, has died. She was 92.
If you ever needed more proof that governments pressuring companies to collect ID data from customers or users is a bad idea, you only have to look at what happened this week. A dark-web service advertised on August 31 has been offering over 153 million scans of driver’s licenses, more than 10 million other identity cards, over 3 million travel documents and/or international IDs, and at least 579,000 medical cards.
The data apparently stems from a company hired to verify people’s identities. The service, called Nexus, was advertised on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit.
“… searching for just Canadian drivers licenses returns approximately 1.1 million results, with the largest concentration from Ontario (473,673 records).”
Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government for walking away from negotiations.
Dozens of GOP House members gathered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door meeting with Trump’s point man on tariffs, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
While some Republicans are quietly concerned that an escalation of costly tariffs could worsen their re-election prospects in the midterms in November, those who spoke with CBC News after meeting Greer generally expressed support for the president’s trade strategy.
Italy’s political row over judges’ lenient handling of migrant criminals has intensified after a 42-year-old Bangladeshi shop assistant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the outskirts of Turin was released from prison after just two nights.
The crime occurred on Saturday, August 29th in Madonna di Campagna, a multi-ethnic district in the northern Italian city.
According to the girl’s account, she entered a minimarket to buy three fruit drinks for her younger siblings. She said the shop assistant gave her a drink, asked whether she had a boyfriend and how old she was, before sexually assaulting her.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick continues to accuse Canada’s prime minister of “trying to blow up” a deal with the United States to gain “political leverage.”
“This is about the Liberal Party and Mark Carney trying to use a kerfluffle with the United States to gain political leverage,” he said during a television interview with U.S. network CNBC on Wednesday.
“They’ve got an independent party, the sovereign party vote in Quebec on October 5. They’ve got an independence vote that starts the process (in) Alberta, who always feels ripped off by Ottawa and the left of Canada,” Lutnick said.
Did the US – Canada negotiations collapse on…PURPOSE❓️❓️
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick:
"What are you doing? Are you actually trying to blow this up?
Canadian Minister:
"I'm not allowed to say that." pic.twitter.com/Uad8DjPVX2
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) September 2, 2026
