@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
The world is quietly abandoning the fantasy that renewables alone can guarantee energy security.
The U.S.–Israel war on Iran exposed how vulnerable the global economy remains to disruptions in fossil fuel supply chains. Any disruption in the Strait of Hormuz quickly affects global fuel prices, inflation, and energy costs worldwide.
A little good news?
The ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has died at the age of 77.
A spokesperson for the band confirmed that Beard died on 17 August in hospice care at his ranch in Richmond, Texas. His family were by his side.
h/t Mauser
Qasim Sabi possesses the same super secret weapon that has kept convicted sex offender Medhani Yohans in this country.
Yohans, 37, an Eritrean refugee, has a couple of sexual assault convictions and an endless array of breaching conditions under his belt but, but, but, he’s still here. He is considered dangerous.
A fake polling firm projecting Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Wisconsin Democrat socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong with leads over their opponents admits these were fake polls as part of a “short-term social experiment.”
In a statement posted to the website for Median Strategies, the fake polling firm explained it “has concluded its polling project and will not publish additional polls.”
“Canadians have only access to eighteen per cent of all innovative medicines that are available around the world. Americans have access to over 90 per cent,” explains Dr. Bettina Hamelin, President and CEO of Innovative Medicines Canada, which represents Canadian pharmaceutical companies.
“Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, which are the richer countries in this world, have access to about 28 per cent [of innovative medicines]”, Hamelin says from her Toronto office, explaining that the big problems are time and money.
From 2015 to 2017, the socialist Muslim Senate candidate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, was executive director and health officer of the Detroit Health Department. In that capacity, he was in charge of Detroit’s Animal Control operation at a time when that department was engaged in some highly questionable activities. El-Sayed has boasted about how he “rebuilt the animal control system,” but he actually seems to have left a wide swath of destruction in his wake. And this is not just a story about the ethical treatment of animals.
A Canadian man with alleged ties to terrorist organizations has been barred from entering Panama and returned to Canada.
According to Panama’s National Migration Service, the detection occurred during verification procedures.
President Donald Trump shot down any indication that the United States is negotiating with Iran after the 60-day memorandum of understanding expired this week.
“There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the president wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. “The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.”
Australian beef is on Canadian supermarket shelves at much lower prices than for Canadian beef.
Some producers are concerned about their products being undercut, and some consumers are just happy to have an affordable option.
Tyler Fulton, president of the Canadian Cattle Association, said the Australian option has been around for years.
Do you see Oz Beef on offer at your local grocer?
Adam Heimerman kept seeing the surveillance cameras on his way to work as a river guide in East Tennessee, and the sight rankled him.
More than 130,000 of the automatic license-plate readers now dot the country, according to the crowdsourced tracker DeFlock.org. The artificial intelligence-assisted devices have been embraced by law enforcement as powerful investigative tools but widely denounced by the public over privacy concerns.
A senior member of the Iranian regime has been deported from Canada after a judge dismissed his last-minute appeal, Global News has learned.
The Canada Border Services Agency said it had removed Syed Salman Samani, Iran’s former deputy interior minister and official spokesperson.
I’m more interested in learning who has been letting his likes into Canada.
Our government appears deeply compromised by foreign powers and criminals.
The @OttawaPolice offered Detective Helen Grus a deal…
If she apologized for starting her investigation – if she abandoned her duty to the public, and to the deceased infants and their families – she would be spared the ordeal of the past four years.
If she wouldn't mention… https://t.co/aHlGtbQVyi
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) August 18, 2026
LONDON—In Britain, a night at the pub doesn’t require a table, a chair or even indoor shelter. It just needs a pint and somewhere to stand.
On summer evenings here, the streets are thronged with people spilling out onto the sidewalk to enjoy a pint and take a rare break from complaining about the weather. It’s a fixture of British life—and, for many, an essential right.
“The minute it’s bright and sunny, people just lose their minds,” said Harriet Stansell, 35, who enjoys cycling through London and seeing the crowded pub scenes. “Everyone’s standing outside to enjoy the sunshine while it’s there, together.”
I smell Islam.
“Intense” trade talks are going down to the wire as Canada seeks to avoid a fresh round of tariffs from the Trump administration due to come into effect on Wednesday.
Canadian negotiators have been camped out in Washington for a week, trying to pin down some agreement before new 50% tariffs on some $20bn (C$28bn) worth of Canadian imports are imposed.
Prime Minister Mark Carney kept details of the talks close to his chest when pressed by reporters on Monday, saying that given the “very delicate and intense” negotiations, it is “not the time to negotiate in public”.
