A Western Sydney council has rejected an application to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from a mosque over concerns it would create too much noise in the neighbourhood.
Canterbury-Bankstown Council rejected the proposal, which sought permission for the call to prayer to be broadcast at Australia’s largest mosque.
Lakemba Mosque in NSW had requested permission for the broadcast to take place once a week on Fridays for 15 minutes using four loudspeakers.
More guts than Canada.
For some Canadian businesses facing a 50 per cent U.S. tariff kicking in at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, the pain is already being felt.
The new tariff, on $28 billion of goods ranging from hockey sticks to dairy products, electronics and wooden doors, is the latest salvo in a trade war initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The mere threat of the tariff has already been enough to scare off some U.S. customers from continuing to place orders with Canadian suppliers, said Dan Kelly, CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
Canada considering reduced tariffs on autos, metals to make U.S. trade deal: Sources
Motor Mouth: The trap Liberals are walking into in auto-trade talks
Donald Trump says he’s extended the deadline for Canada and the United States to reach a deal before the U.S. imposes a new round of 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods.
“I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL! The great Keystone XL Pipeline, long ago killed by Sleepy Joe Biden, may be awoken from the grave!” the U.S. president wrote on Truth Social late Tuesday night.
Booze and DAIRY?
Trump's official declaration says Canada has "expressed a commitment to remove the discriminations or unreasonable and unequal impositions" on dairy, alcohol and vehicles, the basis of the potential new tariffs:https://t.co/nSN0vIcZU3
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) August 19, 2026
79% of young women in the Netherlands still feel unsafe walking alone at night, a year after the murder of 17-year-old Lisa by an African migrant.
According to a new survey of 1,400 people aged 16 to 34, 78% of young women had also experienced sexual harassment on the street during the past year.
Lisa was fatally stabbed in the early hours of August 20, 2025 as she cycled home from Amsterdam.
CALGARY — One of the world’s most prestigious newspapers is calling Justin Trudeau a “celebrity statesman,” suggesting the former prime minister has pursued celebrity fame after quitting political life.
The piece published by the New York Times claims Trudeau has taken a quite different approach to what comes after political life — and gone straight for fame.
An academic project hosted by Cambridge University promotes an “Islamic curriculum” which tells 12-year-olds that Hamas is an “excuse that Israel uses to justify its attacks on the Gaza Strip,” calls the civilian hostages taken by the terror group on October 7 “prisoners of war” and publishes in pupils’ course material a map of the region from which Israel has been erased.
The project also publishes a guide aimed at parents and children, written after the attacks, which asks: “What is the reward of a shaheed [a martyr]? How does this make you feel when you think of all the children of Gaza who are now shuhada [martyrs]?” and states, quoting the Quran: “Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead – in fact, they are alive but you do not perceive it.”
Migrant groups, lawyers sound alarm about immigration checks on protesting international students
Migrant advocates are calling for an inquiry after immigration checks were carried out last week on international students protesting in Calgary about being denied the right to work in Canada after completing their studies.
For weeks, international students have been protesting in northeast Calgary about their inability to obtain postgraduation work permits. Similar protests involving Indian students have been held in Edmonton.
HOLY SHLIT
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says she’s filing FOIA requests to find out which property owners responded to ICE’s request to lease parking spots.
She wants to intimidate & dox private citizens for doing legal business that she doesn’t approve of for political reasons… pic.twitter.com/XNVJH3N7e2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 18, 2026
Cool Hand Luke came out a bit before my time, and while I’ve watched it a handful of times, I can’t say I really understood it. Maybe there wasn’t much to understand. Paul Newman’s character was sold as something of an iconoclastic Everyman, a guy who’d decided he’d had enough of society and wasn’t going to take any more. To me, he just came off as a stupid criminal.
🚨 HOLY CRAP. This mob of Wisconsin State Fair thug "youths" not only carried out an ALL-OUT BRAWL, ATTACKING anyone they saw, but they punched a police officer in the face!
People were SLAMMED to the concrete, then were even mobbed while they were down
Our society should NOT… pic.twitter.com/UaQL88IkcP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 17, 2026
Swimming while wearing a burqa, a warning: you may be strangled by your religious garb in the pool.
Take the proper precautions. pic.twitter.com/RqTG1Vx3De
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 17, 2026
Let’s start with what everyone knows: The end of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, if it comes to that, would be bad for the Canadian economy. You know it, I know it, Ottawa knows it.
Art of the Deal Donnie is counting on us being so fearful that we’ll offer up all sorts of concessions in an attempt to mollify him, because without access to the U.S. market, our economy would surely collapse.
Whistling past the graveyard or setting new public expectations?
US Navy veteran Jonny Burnell spent 111 days aboard the battleship USS Vinson during the US war with Afghanistan in 2001.
His role as a Navy photographer allowed him to visit crew throughout the ship, unlike most sailors who are confined to parts of the vessel where they work. In an age before digital photography, troops were often eager to get their picture snapped whenever they saw him.
Over more than three months aboard the USS Carl Vinson, he witnessed a change among the crew as their excitement and energy faded to what he called a “sadness”.
Sad? Sad is the Brits who can’t make a seaworthy aircraft carrier. Contrast the article with “The Fighting Lady” a WWII era “Newsdrama” documentary.
The cesspit of antisemitism that has been permitted to fester at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is laid bare in a just released report by former Ontario Appeal Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto.
Jewish students spat on, pelted with sour milk, intimated, harassed, threatened, and living in fear because a university was unable to tackle the scourge of antisemitism that swept through its halls after Oct. 7, 2023.
This month, China’s Sea Legend Shipping launched the first regular container service through the Arctic, along what it calls the “Ice Silk Road.” The route, dubbed “China-Europe Arctic Express,” connects Ningbo, on China’s east coast, with England’s Felixstowe. The Chinese-run shipper plans eight voyages this summer season from this month to early October.
Sea Legend, which will use Russia’s Northern Sea Route, promises to cut in half the current 40-day sailing time.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/1RGQhAEYON
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 18, 2026
NOW: Crowds chants "USA USA" as possible counter-protester ARRESTED during Anti-Islam Protest in Dearborn Michigan pic.twitter.com/VVMuw9Klyt
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) August 18, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
