Canada looms over Lance Thrailkill’s office as a dead, stuffed bird.
Mounted above the Texas manufacturer’s desk, a Canada goose, flanked by a mallard and four deer heads, fixes a glassy stare on the room. An open bottle of rye whiskey sits on the floor below.
It is a fitting backdrop for a conversation about another Canadian presence hanging over Thrailkill’s business: the escalating trade war between Washington and Ottawa.
Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, temporarily halted some cooperation with the agency’s counterpart in Canada this month after the nation’s public broadcaster reminded its journalists of a longstanding policy not to refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as “terrorism” without attribution to experts, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the event.
It was the right thing to do.
The CBC and the RCMP like other Canadian institutions are likely infiltrated by foreign interests.
They must be regarded as operating under Enemy Influence.
Before Americans take Abdul El-Sayed’s advice about moving to Canada, they might ask Canadians how the experiment worked out.
In remarks recently reported by the New York Post, the Michigan Democratic Senate candidate declared, “If you want to achieve the American dream, well, you should move to Canada.” He was speaking on his podcast in May 2023, nearly eight years into Justin Trudeau’s rather disastrous prime ministership.
Canada was then in the midst of a lost decade. Its economy was falling further behind America’s, while reckless immigration policies brought in newcomers faster than the country could accommodate. Trudeau’s postnational experiment was straining the shared sense of belonging that held the country together.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran on Friday for a government-organized rally calling on civilians to join the military and prepare to “sacrifice their lives.”
It was the largest demonstration in the country since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February.
Dubbed “Janfaday-e Iran,” or “ones who sacrifice their lives for Iran,” the rally was designed to project national unity as Tehran faces a worsening economy amid US sanctions and a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
A Regina-based transportation company faces several charges under Saskatchewan’s immigration legislation governing foreign-worker recruitment and immigration services.
The provincial Ministry of Immigration and Career Training has charged Escalade Transportation Inc. and Hafiz Tariq Ayub with three offences each under Section 22 of The Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act, according to a Sept. 16 news release.
A false AI intelligence report almost triggered a war with China, according to reports.
Members of the US military came close to boarding a Chinese ship in the Middle East, after being told the vessel was carrying nuclear weapons components.
Military aircraft were also close at hand, CNN reported.
However, when officials scrutinised the report more closely, it emerged that a chatbot in the AI programme had misidentified what was on board the vessel.
What’s the ballot box issue for the Toronto mayoral election? It’s not yet clear. With only six weeks to go, there is no defining matter that has seized the minds of the electorate and driven the debate between candidates.
Now there doesn’t necessarily have to be such a topic. Not every election is a referendum on a divisive matter. But there are examples of previous Toronto mayoral elections that have been strongly defined by a single issue.
The sixth batch of UFO files has been released by the Pentagon, showing clusters of alleged spacecraft flying through the sky for decades.
The latest tranche was made public Friday morning, with the focus on a famous 1952 UFO sighting by a Navy photographer in Tremonton, Utah.
The newly released footage revealed ten to 14 bright objects in a clear blue sky. Newhouse, a Navy warrant officer who was on vacation with his family at the time, described them as looking like two discs stacked on top of each other – creating the classic ‘flying saucer’ shape.
🇺🇸 The Pentagon just released its 6th batch of UFO files.
Among the goodies: footage of mysterious objects swarming over Utah in 1952 and paperwork showing the government once spent nearly $22 million investigating this stuff.
Imagine crossing 40 light-years to reach Earth only… pic.twitter.com/dvBZKVv4g4
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 18, 2026
The Pentagon has released a sixth package of archived UFO files
One clip from 2024 shows an unidentified object moving at more than 800 km/h. pic.twitter.com/XMDjiufs7B
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 18, 2026
A number of Conservative MPs have soured on Pierre Poilievre as leader, but despite this growing angst, his position is relatively secure because there is no strong appetite to oust him and choose someone new right now, according to party and caucus sources who spoke to CBC News.
Last year, Poilievre was on the cusp of leading his party to the largest Conservative government in a generation only to fall short when the Liberals replaced an unpopular incumbent with a leader offering a new vision.
Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show
Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the population. The disparity is sharper in several high-profile offense categories.
ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE — As Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government look to deepen ties with what they call “like-minded” countries that share common values, one region keeps resurfacing in the conversation: the Arctic.
In Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, Carney raised the prospect of Canada moving closer to the European Union, again pointing to the Arctic as a key area of shared interest.
“Canada and Europe are not bound by geography, even though we do share a 3,000-kilometre border in the Arctic. We are bound by an affinity — elective, chosen, and renewed, and stronger for being so,” Carney said.
Caribbean nations will try to force slavery reparations onto the agenda of the forthcoming Commonwealth summit attended by the King.
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, is hosting a meeting of policy-makers and campaigners this week to discuss plans to secure compensation for the slave trade.
Delegates at the conference confirmed on Thursday evening that Caribbean leaders would push reparations onto the agenda at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting next month.
The problem with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s coy courtship of the European Union is that it leaves Canadians bewildered as to the nature of the relationship.
In his speech to the European Parliament Thursday, Carney showered the EU and its officials with praise, pledged strategic cooperation, called for closer ties and predicted an “alliance for the future.”
Insane footage out of Telford this evening as an invader attacks a bus driver and steals the bus!
Crashing into multiple vehicles as he drove through the town! pic.twitter.com/1u9vwdR68U
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 18, 2026
No one appears to know precisely what it would mean for Canada to become an “associate member” of the European Union. The status does not exist in EU treaties, and its legal, regulatory and commercial implications remain undefined.
That uncertainty should invite caution, but not cynicism. A renewed alliance with Europe could diversify Canadian exports, attract food-processing investment and reduce our overwhelming dependence on the United States. But success will depend on whether Canada secures reciprocal market access or simply agrees to follow more European rules. That could be a problem.
