When the BBC television programme The Black and White Minstrel Show breathed its last one evening in 1978 after a whopping 20 years, I don’t think many people were that cut up about it. Except, of course, the entertainers involved, who included a young Lenny Henry. When I see Sir Lenworth CBE now talking about reparations, I wonder how much of it is him trying to compensate for appearing in this show. Don’t worry, Len. You were married to Dawn French for 25 years – you’ve served the time.
Trade talks between Canada and the United States have stalled once again, and this time Prime Minister Mark Carney isn’t waiting around for President Donald Trump to make a deal. Before his scheduled address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg later this week, Carney has floated the idea of making Canada an “associate member” of the European Union to help deepen strategic and economic ties with the bloc. Ever since he secured his majority government last year, Carney’s Liberals have been pursuing a diversification policy away from trade reliance on the US toward Europe, China, India and ASEAN countries.
There’s a battle for the soul of the nation going on in Virginia (and yes, it is one of many such battles going on all across the country). Don’t be worried, however: the forces of diversity, social justice, and inclusion are winning. Isn’t that wonderful?
Virginia’s WSET reported Friday that “on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is facing scrutiny over how it directs teachers to teach students about 9/11.”
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien proudly affirmed recently, in the context of trade issues, that Canadians do not bow to anyone — so true, Monsieur. But au contraire, you support Canadians who bow to the Laurentian Elite (LE). Quebec is a charter LE member, as its interests prevail, regardless of the Constitution and those of other provinces.
Migrants in Piddington – the village today holding an independence referendum in protest at a proposed asylum-seekers’ camp – will be given high-visibility vests to stop them getting knocked down by cars on ‘death trap’ roads nearby.
The move comes as the Government prepares to house 1,250 male migrants at a former Ministry of Defence garrison on the outskirts of the Oxfordshire village.
Locals are fighting back against the plans, which they say will dwarf their village of just 350 residents – and today’s vote will decide whether Piddington should remain part of the UK.
Awaiting him are hard problems. The New York Times has reported audits showing about US$1.2-billion lost to fraud, waste and mismanagement in defence procurement in 2024 alone.
The first time I saw Volodymyr Zelensky up close, in July, 2019, was at the third annual Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto. He had been President for six weeks. Standing beside Justin Trudeau, he looked like he had been sent by the same casting agency.
The resemblance was uncanny, and not only physically. Both men were young, photogenic, magnetic in a room, instinctively warm. Both had come to politics from performance: Mr. Trudeau the former drama teacher, Mr. Zelensky the comedian who had played a president on television and then, astonishingly, became one. Watching them work that room together, it was almost impossible not to think of them as two versions of the same political animal.
A trans person on trial in the German state of Bavaria on charges that include the alleged rape of a teenage girl and the possession of a large collection of child sexual abuse material while serving as a German police officer.
OTTAWA — Conservatives are demanding Prime Minister Mark Carney explain what “enhanced labour mobility” with the European Union could mean for Canada, warning any new agreement should not open the door to Europe’s migration policies.
Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner issued the warning Monday after Carney confirmed his government wants to pursue a deeper relationship with the 27-member bloc.
We already have our own migrant crisis. Labor mobility means dumping the EU’s migrants on Canada.
Carney told Bloomberg he’s not seeking EU membership—just a “unique alliance.” Then he listed deeper defence procurement (SAFE), AI, compute, minerals, energy, research, and “elements of enhanced labour mobility,” while admitting the EU’s four freedoms come as a package
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— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 14, 2026
The British state is facilitating the rape of British women. There is no other way to put it now. Consider the case of Radiet Meles, the Eritrean illegal immigrant who has carried out two vicious sexual assaults since arriving here on the back of a lorry in 2015. It was the state’s failure to deport him, or even to monitor him, that gave him free rein to inflict such misogynistic sadism on the women of Britain. It’s that simple.
Many Canadians are familiar with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), due to media coverage of both the content of the declaration, legislation passed by Ottawa and Victoria, along with court cases declaring it positive Canadian law. What many may not understand is that UNDRIP has been the “holy grail” of the activist Aboriginal movement in Canada, and particularly in British Columbia, for many years.
HOLY SHIT
Newly released police footage shows Faryeshyi Allahdin, a knife-wielding lunatic, being fatally shot by Sacramento Police after he ran into a random family's garage and stabbed a mother and daughter.
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 14, 2026
This is probably a take on the AI-will-kill-us-all debate that you haven’t seen. If it isn’t, let me commend you for the quality of your social media feed and/or your internet-surfing habits. But if you’re a regular reader of The American Spectator, you’ve hopefully picked up enough knowledge to be very skeptical of a classic information operation, and you recognized something fishy in the spectacle put on by the AI companies last week and over the weekend.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela on Aug. 28. Two days later, on Truth Social, he posted that “Trump’s historic oil deal with Venezuela realigns global energy and puts OPEC, Canada on notice.”
What does Venezuelan oil have to do with Canada, and should we be worried? The short answer is maybe; a little bit. The long answer is below.
Columbia University and the Knight First Amendment Institute kicked off the first night of last week’s symposium on the War on Terror and free speech with a video. Opening with images of newspaper headlines boldly naming the attacks as acts of terror, the video acknowledged 9/11 as “the deadliest attack in United States history.”
But the video did not explicitly blame al-Qaeda for the attacks. That duty fell to President George W. Bush, who, in the video, tells a September 20, 2001, joint session of Congress that “our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there.”
