On Saturday evening, news started circulating about a serious fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta. Defence Minister David McGuinty gave a rare Saturday evening statement confirming that there had been injuries and deaths, but he didn’t say much more. Like many Canadians, I went to bed Saturday night thinking about the soldiers’ friends and families who would be worried sick and desperate to know more details.
China has been blamed for the loss of half a million German factory jobs since 2019, as experts have warned that Europe’s manufacturing engine is losing momentum.
German industry shed 496,000 jobs between 2019 and 2025, according to the Ifo Institute in Dresden, representing a drop of 7.1pc.
Joachim Ragnitz, the managing director at Ifo Dresden, said: “Employment is shrinking in almost all industrial sectors, which is likely a result of declining competitiveness, particularly vis-à-vis China.
Despite low-earning Canadians’ disposable income rising in the last decade, food bank usage has reached record numbers; though counterintuitive, there might be a measurable explanation for this.
According to data from the food professor’s, or Sylvain Charlebois’, agri-food lab at Dalhousie University, the lowest-earning 20% of households’ disposable income has actually increased by 43% in the last decade.
French right-wing politician Éric Zemmour said Sunday that violent protests and looting the previous day revealed “the true face of the Great Replacement,” citing Palestinian, Algerian and Moroccan flags among demonstrators and alleging ties to antifascist groups and left-wing lawmakers.
🚨 NOW: Investigation confirms 54 GROUPS, including communists, socialists and Islamists, are BEHIND the major riots in France
The fake news told us it’s about "students"
It’s about the INVASION of France both by foreigners and 3rd world ideology! 😠
"You don’t see the French flag flying in order for them to get a better France. They’re trying to destroy the nation!"
"They work with the Islamist groups that are very anti-Israel. And that’s why you’re going to see the Palestinian flag along with these images of the hammer and sickle." — @AsraNomani
Only 16 of the 54 groups are student or youth groups. The other 38 are adult-run communist parties, unions, revolutionary groups and propaganda outlets
The network also includes Tricontinental and CodePink, both tied to Neville Roy Singham, a Marxist American tech millionaire who lives in Shanghai
The same Singham-funded network has been behind anti-Israel and anti-America protests in the United States!
Make no mistake: if France falls to this mob, they will be EMBOLDENED in the US 🇺🇸
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 19, 2026
Canada’s top military commander committed on Monday to publicly releasing the findings of the investigation into the fire at the training range in Wainwright, Alta., which claimed the lives of four soldiers and left dozens of others injured.
There are three separate parallel investigations underway — two military and one civilian, said Gen. Jennie Carignan, the chief of the defence staff, in her first interview since a sudden brush fire swept through an exercise area at the sprawling military base.
Ukraine has rescued a wounded soldier from the front line using an aerial drone for the first time.
The Ukrainian army published a video showing the drone lowering itself to the ground, before a man in combat gear fastens himself to a winch and is lifted.
BREAKING:
Ukraine has carried out the first evacuation in history of a wounded soldier from the frontlines by an aerial drone https://t.co/6vnOve3BKH
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 19, 2026
WILLIAMSPORT — Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 28, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced today to 50 years in prison for offenses related to a 2020 attack on correctional officers at U.S. Penitentiary Allenwood, announced U.S Attorney Brian Miller. This sentence will run consecutive to the 40-year sentence he is currently serving for his role in plotting a mass-casualty terrorist attack in New York City on behalf of ISIS.
“Bahnasawy, who is already serving a 40-year sentence in federal prison for plotting mass casualty attacks in New York City on behalf of ISIS, savagely attacked corrections officers once again on behalf of ISIS,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “Today’s sentence will further ensure that Bahnasawy remains in prison, where he can do much less harm, for a very long time.”
Islam is no good for rational thought.
— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) October 19, 2026
An American security company with ties to Trump’s deportation machine is about to start guarding Canada’s tax office — and it beat out a Canadian veterans’ institution by just $80,000. Allied Universal, a firm making tens of millions off ICE and other U.S. agencies, will soon take over security at the Canada Revenue Agency.
This is so incredibly stupid and funny, we had to repost it
From it must be fake AI https://t.co/Q05ZWeQxBR
— Hollywood Horror Museum (@horrormuseum) October 18, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark “Elbows Up” Carney recently claimed that the United States is trying to break Canada apart to gain control of the country, while urging voters in oil-rich Alberta to reject the path toward independence in today’s (Oct. 19) referendum.
Speaking at a so-called “pro-Canada” rally in Calgary, Carney stated that the referendum is occurring at “the worst time possible” because the “the world has become more dangerous and divided.”
The UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation has claimed that free speech absolutism undermines democracy.
Speaking at the Battle of Ideas festival in central London, Jonathan Hall KC told the audience that “I would be, these days, less tolerant of free speech than perhaps many of you, because some of our free speech is being sent to undermine our democracy in ways that lead to terrorism.” He added: “When the rudder comes off and you create a culture of violent language, actual violence, then society begins to decay.”
A child in the Netherlands, whose sex has not been revealed, was recently euthanized at the behest of their parents and doctors. Normally, such a case would warrant arrests, trials and convictions. But one crucial fact changed what should have been a straightforward matter of law enforcement: the child in question was severely disabled — not brain dead, not dying — disabled. One would think that such a practice would be condemned by democracies worldwide, especially those that employ highfalutin jargon about human rights and dignity in common parlance.
The networks have called it. Alberta votes to stay.
CTV Live– The high-stakes referendum vote is underway across Alberta. Follow live as it happens here.
CBC Live – Alberta referendum
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I’m old enough to remember when we called it ‘conquest’ when a mob of masked men stormed a town hall or a parliament building to raise the flag of a foreign nation. I can recall a time when the violent invasion of a nation’s high seats of civic power by a faceless swarm draped in the standard of a distant land was considered an act of brazen, treasonous hostility. So why do so many insist on referring to the thuggish usurping of the streets of Paris and beyond by gangs flying the Palestine flag as a ‘protest’?
Faint hope remains …
🚨BREAKING: A young patriot has scaled the statue of Joan of Arc in Toulouse and removed Palestinian and Antifa flags
Not all heroes wear capes! 🇫🇷👏 https://t.co/XrJTBEr0qV
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) October 17, 2026
