As a young conservative, I constantly get one question about my generation when I go to local Republican meetings: “Why are young people so attracted to ______?”
You fill in the gap. Zohran Mamdani. Abdul El-Sayed. James Fishback.
There is a new political personality attracting young voters: a smooth talker with sweeping “I will fix your problems” promises.
POV: You are an American citizen visiting Canada. pic.twitter.com/0zpef0zqm9
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 19, 2026
h/t Mauser
On Tuesday, at the eleventh hour, Donald Trump announced that Canada and the U.S. have reached a tentative trade deal, and paused a scheduled 50 per cent tariff on Canadian goods for three more days.
On Wednesday morning, the development featured as the top story on most, if not all, major Canadian news websites, including Bloomberg Canada, CBC, Global News, CTV and here, at National Post. It was also the front page story in today’s Globe and Mail.
Interesting perspective
Trump paused the Canada tariffs.
The media sees a trade story.We see the real one: transshipment smuggling, snow-washing, and a “geo-industrialization” strategy run by the Empire’s favorite central banker. Canada isn’t a partner. It’s an outpost. pic.twitter.com/Aez3GxRV5C
— Promethean Action (@PrometheanActn) August 19, 2026
h/t XC
Because I identify as a half-Asian, half-Black, half-Native American femboy, this girl’s support means the world to me.
She understands people like us in the trans-racial community. It’s what you feel, not who you are, that matters. pic.twitter.com/LydoMh6Y3U
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 18, 2026
The millionaire parents of a whiny top DSA leader have set up their socialist son in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home — where he lives while railing against the rich and property ownership, The Post has learned.
Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, is peddling his anti-capitalist lefty agenda while enjoying the life in the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot row home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy.
A furious woman is confronted by Police in Ceuta because her dog is upsetting the Muslims
She says the only way she can feel protected is with her Dog because they are scared of it
People shouldn't have to live like this pic.twitter.com/Wes90PBgkp
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 18, 2026
Chris Alexander is either running the strangest campaign for mayor that the City of Toronto has seen in some time, or is actually making a subtle bid for a very different job: to be Toronto’s poet laureate.
On Monday, Mr. Alexander posted on X: “A bed is for the worst night of your life. A home is for the rest of it. My job as mayor is both.” We can infer that the statement is some new form of
Haiku, because it makes no sense as political communications. (Is Mr. Alexander saying he will expand shelter spaces? He doesn’t elaborate. Will he rip up zoning regulations? Nothing on that either. Perhaps he will rephrase in iambic pentameter.)
In early August, top mathematicians gathered at the offices of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in San Francisco for a summit on an existential question: What will be left for human math experts to do if artificial intelligence soon leaves them all behind?
“I think there’s a chance that we end up in a world where there’s no high-quality mathematics research, and human expertise in mathematics is totally lost,” said Daniel Litt, a professor at the University of Toronto. He gave a talk at the event titled “The End of Mathematics.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has delayed his new 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods after he said the two countries reached a tentative deal and that the Keystone XL pipeline “may be awoken from the grave.”
Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs have been delayed by three days.
Getting close but not much detail.
Did Carney promise to cover Quebec’s Dairy cartel losses with more of our money after opening the border to US product?
“The White House has publicly said Canada moved on three sectors, including dairy.
The U.S. had been pushing to change the rules on what dairy products can be sold into Canada tariff-free, and while talks continue, that change now looks likely.”
Top global basic income experts in Toronto, senate bill top of mind
A bill to develop a national framework for a guaranteed basic income in Canada will be a focal point at an international basic income gathering happening in Toronto this week.
Bill S-206, which is currently being studied by a Senate committee, would direct the Minister of Finance to develop a national framework to give every person over age 17 in Canada access to a guaranteed livable basic income without work requirements.
It’s set to be discussed at length on Wednesday at the Basic Income Earth Network Congress (BIEN), which is holding its 25th annual international gathering at Toronto Metropolitan University this year.
Warnings about an artificial-intelligence crash have become increasingly common. Financing is becoming harder to obtain, the argument runs, and companies are questioning whether AI projects produce enough value, whether electricity supplies are sufficient, and if cheaper Chinese systems could undermine the revenues of American technology leaders. Put together, these pressures are said to threaten the vast investments now rolling out in data center construction, AI chip and memory manufacturing, and power generation.
Canada dodged a tariff bullet at midnight — but Ottawa isn’t saying how it happened. Details of the new deal that spared the country crushing new tariffs are scant Wednesday morning.
What details are emerging come from the American side, which seems happy with the result, while Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is saying little.
Will Dairy Cartel deliver soured milk?
Rosie O’Donnell kicked off her week of guest hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! with, even by her standards, a tremendous amount of self-unawareness. In the lead-up to Monday’s show, O’Donnell was clearly relishing in the opportunity to make fun of President Trump, but in her monologue, she claimed that “Mango Mussolini” forced her to flee to Ireland because Trump “hates” her.
Rosie O’Donnell, looking like she’s wearing a jacket from the Elton John-Liberace Collection, went on Jimmy Kimmel’s show to talk about- what else- Trump. pic.twitter.com/JGEMYL9IaC
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 18, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump hinted that he may revive an old pipeline project that would export oil from Canada to the U.S. as part of a pending trade deal.
In a Truth Social post shared Tuesday night, Trump said he had suspended the 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods for three days, two hours before they were set to take place on Wednesday.
The deal, he stated, may include revitalizing the Keystone XL pipeline, a long hotly-contested project that has been in the works for almost a decade.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a country with a rich and magnificent heritage, one of the trailblazers of global political philosophy and culture, suddenly decides, for no particular reason, much less any compelling one, to throw away the legacy of two thousand years. Its leaders invite in a group of foreigners who believe that those who don’t believe in their religion are unclean (Qur’an 9:28), vile (Qur’an 98:6) animals (Qur’an 7:179), and that they are the best of people who alone have the right to set out what is right and wrong (Qur’an 3:110). The newcomers set out to take over, with willing help from self-serving natives.
