Students have sparked outrage after filming themselves reenacting the assassination of Charlie Kirk in school hallways and classrooms on the first anniversary of his killing.
One video sickeningly declared: ‘Happy Kirkaversary to those who celebrate.’
The disturbing social media trend emerged earlier this week and sees young people mimicking the moment the conservative activist was fatally shot, turning his public killing into choreographed dances and memes.
Don’t blink this fall. It’s going to be a critical — and unpredictable — few months for our country. That’s why I’m watching three categories of events: cheers, jeers, and peers.
First up is a phenomenon called cheering theory, where people root for a proposition or person or institution. This is Canada’s secret weapon in the trade war against the United States, because Canadians are cheering for their federal government so loudly that it’s a self-reinforcing roar. People want Prime Minister Mark Carney to succeed — even plenty of people who didn’t vote Liberal in the last election. Seven in 10 Canadians support the decision to suspend trade talks with the U.S. rather than accept a bad deal, according to Abacus Data. When was the last time any public policy initiative had that level of backing? The Liberals are winning byelection after byelection. Look at the public comments on Carney’s latest Forward Guidance video and you’ll see more positivity than you knew existed on the internet. One Australian commenter said, “I don’t even know what elbows up means, but ELBOWS UP!” Whatever the game, people want Carney to win.
Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz over remarks he made in the Bundestag on September 9.
In the budget debate Merz said the party’s “remigration” slogan was “nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin colour”.
The AfD parliamentary group says that is a defamatory insult.
When Jeff Bezos announced his plan for an opulent Venetian wedding in early 2025, many locals found the idea offensive, even obscene. A growing number of residents were struggling to find secure and affordable housing in a city overrun by tourists and Airbnb, and the billionaire was planning to, in effect, rent out the municipality for three days, forking over an estimated $50m for festivities that would clog central canals and block well-trafficked streets. Worse, Amazon’s carbon emissions were soaring, thanks to artificial intelligence and the datacentre build out – and that’s personal in Venice, where the streets already flood dozens of times a year.
There is a decisive shift occurring in European politics. It’s happening across nations – and parties. It lies behind the far-right Alternative für Deutschland’s victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election last weekend. And it is the under-reported factor in the close general election being fought in Sweden this weekend. In almost every part of the continent, the politics of crime, security, migration and citizenship is driving governments to harden their borders and toughen their approach towards integration, especially when it comes to Islamism.
I doubt it.
David Suzuki: Mark Carney’s investment summit is bound to fail unless it faces this fundamental issue
Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited 300 global CEOs, entrepreneurs and institutional financiers to a Canada Investment Summit. They collectively manage $120 trillion in global assets and the goal of the conference is to catalyze private and sovereign capital into Canadian industries. I understand the urgent need to stand up against Trump, a bullying madman, by reducing our dependence on US markets and I applaud Carney’s efforts. He’s a smart, tough guy.
German economic history can be traced through its traditional family businesses. Many of them survived wars, crises, and technological revolutions. But many of them now have little left with which to resist the destructive force of environmentalism and degrowth ideology.
Anyone searching through German economic history will eventually come across the name Coatinc Company.
The company from Siegen is, as far as the surviving documents show, the oldest German family business still in existence. Originating in 1502 from an iron-processing operation, it developed over more than five centuries into an internationally established specialist in surface finishing and hot-dip galvanizing.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to bring the world’s most powerful investors to Toronto next week was always a gambit to ease the economic pressure from the Trump administration’s trade crusade by pitching Canada as an alternative, more reliable place to put money to work.
What event planners could not have predicted is the way a feud over tariffs would boil over into a full-blown trade war just days before those money managers are set to touch down, and the intense spotlight it is shining on Canada – for better and for worse.
It is Mr. Carney’s reputation and relationships, backed by a co-ordinated push from some of Canada’s most influential chief executives, that have convinced the masters of the world’s deepest pools of capital to gather for two days at the Canada Investment Summit, at a scale never seen before on Canadian soil.
An avalanche of MOU’s signifying nothing.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
I’d like to offer an update on the Canadian-American trade spat.
Ukraine Prime Minister
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Convoy in Missisauga, Ontario
Dixie and Derry! pic.twitter.com/gdWV6UNphL— Great Canadian Moose (@Great_Cdn_Moose) September 13, 2026
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The human rights industry’s favorite kind of victim is the politically useful one: the victim whose suffering can be attached to an adversary — a designated “villain” — preferably one that Western activists already know how to hate, pressure and organize against.
That is why Palestinian victims, when Israel can be cast as an alleged perpetrator of wrongs, generate an extraordinary machinery of outrage, while Sudanese victims of genocide, Afghan women under the Taliban, Iranian protesters murdered by their own regime, or persecuted Christians in Nigeria largely do not.
Was there a threat of political violence against Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton over the Labor Day weekend? Or was it much ado about nothing? Acton was speaking to Democrats in a tent in Mahoning County when a man moving toward Acton caused several senior citizens to fall down.
Acton’s campaign put out a statement “praying for the recovery of those injured” and argued “This kind of violence has no place in Ohio.”
What a flaming pile of garbage!
Daniel Tate, a candidate for Toronto City Council in Ward 13, said on Friday that he was “infuriated” to see a pile of TTC trash bags ablaze at Sankofa Square in a social media video, shot by the TMU station entrance Thursday night.
