Police have laid charges against a Halifax man in connection with a bomb threat that closed several downtown streets Monday.
Ali Assakereh, 54, is charged with uttering threats against the U.S. consulate in Halifax and committing public mischief by misleading police.
Pretty much everything President Donald Trump does outrages leftists, including (and for some, especially) breathing, but few of his words and deeds drive them into the paroxysms of rage that his criticism of their favorite religion inspires. Although he was much stronger and more vocal regarding the jihad threat during his first term than his second, Trump steadfastly refuses to mouth “religion of peace” platitudes, and on Monday, that earned him yet another in an apparently endless string of New York Times hit pieces.
There is one line in the Home Office fact sheet on this year’s figures for Prevent – the UK’s counter-radicalisation referral scheme – that is more informative than the rest of the report combined: referrals for ‘fascination with extreme violence or mass-casualty attacks’ peaked at 286 between April and June, before falling to 183 over the summer. The Home Office’s explanation? The schools broke up.
Islam remains the most negatively viewed faith in Canada, but opinion of Judaism fell furthest over 15 months, according to a new national survey.
Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, which commissioned the Leger survey, said in an email that “the biggest change is in views toward Judaism.”
During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to flying saucers. At one point during the discussion, Fermi blurted out: “Where is everybody?” – or, as another participant remembered it, “Don’t you ever wonder where everybody is?” If aliens exist, in other words, why have we never encountered them?
The episode has become famous, marking the moment when extraterrestrial life went from a theme for philosophical speculation to a serious scientific problem. For centuries, people had wondered whether life exists on the moon or Mars, but they accepted that we would never know for certain, since making contact with another planet was impossible. By the 1950s, those limits no longer seemed so fixed. In addition to space flight, researchers were developing tools to detect the radio signals that reach us from stars many light years away. These developments were still in their infancy, but it was already clear that humanity was no longer bound to Earth the way it always had been.
The Oval Office: ET’s, UAP’s and Disclosure
Navdeep Bains, who casual political observers might recall as the “superclusters” guy in the Justin Trudeau government, had his first debate-night opportunity to demonstrate why he is the front-runner to become the Ontario Liberal Party’s next leader. Mr. Bains is the preferred candidate among establishment Liberals; he’s raised the most money, he has the greatest name-recognition, and he’s backed by a well-established political machine equipped to sign up new party members to vote in November.
Europe today resembles a civilization that has forgotten not only what it once was, but why it ever existed. There is something tragic, Shakespearean, about watching the slow eradication of nations that produced Aristotle and Aquinas, Dante and Da Vinci, Newton and Einstein, the Renaissance and the industrial age. Andre Rieu playing the violin while the continent burns.
Spoiled by prosperity generated by their entrepreneurs. Lulled into a deceptive sense of safety created by the rise of America’s military power after WWII. Deceived by their elites into seeing their shared cultural values as embarrassing relics of pre-globalist times. Opening the gates to migrants from dysfunctional societies, with no opportunities or demands for assimilation.
A firefighter manages a controlled burn to help contain a larger fire near Falls Creek, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. Canadian wildfire experts say Canada is very vulnerable to the kind of devastating wildfires ravaging Australia right now. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Rick Rycroft[/caption]PENTICTON — British Columbia is on fire (again), and Premier David Eby is at the airport awkwardly high-fiving hundreds of Mexican firefighters who’ve arrived to contain the blazes.
The province currently has 214 personnel from Mexico, 34 from Australia, and five from New Zealand supporting hundreds of provincial firefighters, with additional international resources expected in the coming days.
Everything socialists touch they ruin. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to freeze rents and imposed a pied-à-terre tax (which is currently being blocked by a pending lawsuit), and all it did was push rents in Manhattan to an all-time high of $6,655 a month.
The “affordability” agenda, ladies and gentlemen.
Because the plan was never to bring down rent. The goal is to accelerate the discontent, blame free markets, and then centralize even more power. https://t.co/zBcamjnDqa
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 12, 2026
Although Canada officially refused to join the United States’ springtime war against Iran, new information suggests that Canadian personnel indirectly assisted the campaign while embedded with American forces. This is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything, Ottawa’s support should have been more fulsome, consistent and overt.
When American bombs began to pummel the Islamic Republic of Iran in March, Prime Minister Mark Carney denounced the campaign as “inconsistent with international law,” and claimed that Canada was “not a party to those actions.”
Video of Abdul El Sayed’s main campaign surrogate, Hasan Piker, stating that he “wipes his ass” with the Constitution is now resurfacing.
“Fck the Constitution. I wipe my ass with the Constitution. It’s a piece of paper. Fck the Constitution, fck this country.” pic.twitter.com/mT9RoXQgAt
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) August 12, 2026
After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University.
We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been appointed assistant research professor of education at Cambridge, in the same faculty as Arday.
Farah Ahmed has explicitly attacked ‘western education’ as a ‘threat’ to Muslims, condemned democracy and integration, and criticised British schools for teaching pupils that child marriage is wrong. During her time at Cambridge, she has written that the Islamic concept of education is sharply opposed to ‘gaining literacy and numeracy and other disciplinary skills demonstrated through qualifications’.
Do you remember this commercial from the '90s? It's how we got really big, beautiful hair. The biggest hair. The best hair. YUGE hair.
It's how Trump gets his luscious locks so big. pic.twitter.com/Rnev0DRgwy
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 10, 2026
Former Liberal transport minister Omar Alghabra is defending his inclusion on—and the mandate of—the government’s new anti-hate advisory council after renewed criticism over its perceived lack of urgency from opposition critics and American officials.
“If people have criticisms of the council, its function, or even [my membership], that’s fine, but to use slander and falsehoods … it’s beneath the office that they possess and the seriousness of the issue,” Alghabra said in an interview with The Hill Times last week, calling Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s (Battle River–Crowfoot, Alta.) allegation that he lobbied on behalf of a terrorist group “absurd … political gamesmanship.”
A20th-century leftist might have debated how much the state should intervene in citizens’ lives. A postmodern leftist only debates how far the transformation of society and the minds of each individual citizen should go. It’s as if they have gone from being bad economists to being bad psychoanalysts.
