An Alberta judge has overturned a 2023 decision by the University of Lethbridge to cancel a scheduled lecture by former Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson.
In his Sept. 17 decision, Justice Christopher Simard of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench found that the university failed to properly take into account Widdowson’s Charter right to free expression when it cancelled her talk entitled “How Woke-ism Threatens Academic Freedom.”
Mohammad Hamed Alshaer, who was born in Libya, has been charged with aggravated rape of a woman in her fifties while she was jogging along Ribersborgsstigen in Malmö on July 15.
According to the indictment submitted to Malmö District Court, the 37-year-old Alshaer struck the woman from behind, knocked her over, and dragged her into the bushes. There, he grabbed her neck and mouth, pulled her by the hair, and raped her vaginally and anally. The prosecutor wants the crime classified as rape with particular cruelty, citing exceptional violence, ruthlessness, and brutality.
A growing number of Canadians are contemplating what once seemed unthinkable — abandoning North American free-trade agreements and joining the European Union.
McGill University’s Maria Popova is urging Canada to seek European Union membership to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Canadian sovereignty. Popova, an Associate Professor of Political Science and Scientific Director of Montreal’s Jean Monnet Centre, spoke with former federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau. Morneau, who played a key role in Canada’s 2017 USMCA negotiations — the trade deal between the United States, Mexico, and Canada — believes that strong relations with the United States are vital to Canadian prosperity.
Protesters marched in town today after a former training camp started being used as a temporary accommodation site for asylum seekers.
A camp for 350 migrants in Crowborough, Sussex, is already up and running despite fierce local objection over resident safety, strain on resources and the scale of the site – with plans to increase its capacity to 540.
Huge crowds of residents gathered today holding banners that read ‘Crowborough says no’, while counter demonstrators also turned up raising signs saying ‘migrants welcome’, ‘kindness is our strength’ and ‘stronger together’.
We have just finished the march in crowborough and you won't believe the signs displayed at the base!
— Free Speech Shell (@FreespeechShell) September 20, 2026
Two candidates pass each other in a corridor: one is heading into a job interview; the other has just finished. Neither will be evaluated merely by ability, education and experience. Who gets the job will also depend on skin colour, gender and other factors of group identity. This is Canada’s federal public service, today.
A new study by the Aristotle Foundation reviewed 301 federal job postings across 59 departments, agencies and Crown corporations. Forty-two per cent prioritized, or potentially prioritized, applicants based on identity characteristics, while 4 per cent restricted, or potentially restricted, a candidate’s eligibility on the same basis.
Be afraid ..be very afraid 👀 a bird tornado in full display and watch where they go..🤯 pic.twitter.com/U3mZ3kaypX
— Chris from Massachusetts AKA TommyboyTrader (@autumnsdad1) September 20, 2026
You just can’t escape it. At hockey games, city council meetings, school assemblies, and town hall meetings. You see it at the bottom of email signatures, and it’s even done at the beginning of monthly meetings of the rock and lapidary club I belong to (I stopped going to those meetings because of it). The prayer begins, and we are expected to bow our heads in observance and shame. Someone must recite that we are gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and frequently unceded territory of whichever nations the script committee selected this year. Then everyone nods, the real business begins, and nothing of consequence changes.
Being stupid has no age. This “liberal” says Islam is left wing. https://t.co/ygSvOliZ5m
— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) September 20, 2026
Much ire was directed at the Home Office when it issued leaflets to illegal immigrants reminding them not to rape women and children. This was troubling for two reasons…
ritain, once a proudly Christian nation—and still a constitutionally Christian one—has declared war on the Bible in a sop to LGBTQ+ and Muslim sensibilities. Those groups may still be a statistical minority, but they are rapidly wielding the real power in the UK.
Premier Danielle Smith was overcome with emotion as she launched into speech at an online forum Saturday, tearfully relaying painful losses some Albertans have shared with her as she works to address grievances with Ottawa that have led to the Oct. 19 referendum question of separation from the country.
The Premier fought back tears Saturday at an online forum on Alberta’s place in Canada.
Danielle Smith said many Albertans feel unheard by Ottawa, and that she, her government and her party support remaining in Canada. pic.twitter.com/PN6Okoivfn
— YEGWAVE (@yegwave) September 19, 2026
Forget the Lindsay Clancy trial itself for a moment. Near the conclusion of the trial, Clancy’s lawyer began targeting and threatening the holdout juror. This was already the stuff of mistrial and disbarment, but it set the stage for the harassment of the juror by online conspiracy theorists, for the eventual exposure of his name and location, and for the media joining in that same behavior.
Poll after poll tells the same story: Britons are losing faith in their country, trust in their institutions and hope for the future. And no wonder. The economy is stagnant, the social fabric is fraying and politicians appear powerless to act. Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens was sounding the alarm over Britain’s decline long before it was fashionable to do so. He recently joined Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show, to discuss what has gone wrong, why and whether we might ever recover. What follows is an edited extract from the conversation.
Canada’s “elbows-up” approach to American tariffs has been unique among market-based economies. What have the EU, Japan, South Korea, U.K. and especially Mexico done differently and what lessons might we learn from them? Mexico has recently announced it wants to complete trade negotiations with the U.S. before the November midterms. That would leave Canada as a jilted bride.
The prime minister and the country obviously had a difficult hand to play in dealing with President Donald Trump — erratic, unreliable, crude and rude — and his clear desire to make Canada the 51st state rightfully angered Canadians.
The migrant camp set to be opened close to the Oxfordshire village of Piddington has been dealt another blow following the discovery that one of the world’s rarest bats is living on the site.
Barbastelle bats, a rare species of bats whose numbers are thought to have declined across Europe, have been detected by wildlife experts.
The discovery of the bats could lead to severe delays or scupper plans to house up to 1,256 asylum seekers on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Bicester site.
