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Hard to believe another Labour Day weekend has arrived. Life comes at us fast armed with a host of reminders that we are getting old. Together we shall endeavor to persevere! and have a Great Weekend. Me and Zavier Italian sausages on todays menu.
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For William McDonald, 38, a diesel mechanic from Thunder Bay, Ontario, “Canadian is always the first choice,” even if it means his weekly bills are higher.
“As soon as Trump started putting those tariffs on in February [last year], I started boycotting US goods,” he said. “Avoiding American products has driven my costs up, and I’m still happy to do it.
“I used to drink US beer, but now I drink Canadian beer, and that costs me an extra C$1,000 (£531/US$720) a year. Likewise, groceries cost about C$50 more a week, but you work that extra hour to pay for it.”
By 10am it was eerily quiet. The previous day saw market traders, hundreds of shoppers and families enjoying lunch alfresco in the late summer sun. But by Thursday morning, Braintree in Essex was a ghost town.
And then, shortly before 11am, the first minibus arrived like clockwork from Wethersfield asylum accommodation site and a group of young men disembarked, smartphones in hand, one wearing a Covid-style mask to hide his face.
‘They hang around the bus station and they whistle at the schoolgirls coming off the buses,’ complained 66-year-old local Mike Readon. ‘It’s horrendous. Lots of women just avoid the town entirely on a Thursday because it’s a totally different environment.
“Far Right Agitators” what an asinine headline. No wonder Britain is dying.
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing that it’s not required to update Canada’s climate plan to meet national emissions reduction targets.
The government also says it’s not the court’s role to make or direct climate policy, and has filed a motion asking the court to strike the case before it goes to full hearings.
Must be interfering in Carney’s profiteering.
hat is happening to American media right now is unique and deserves far more attention in Europe than it has received. This isn’t just about lawsuits for outrageous sums of money, but about massive corporate takeovers that will have lasting effects on the entire media landscape.
The most politically interesting part isn’t that President Trump has collected $86.5 million in settlements so far. It’s what’s happening at the same time.
Controversial Canadian YouTuber Hicham Jerando, already known to Quebec courts and previously examined in the Western Standard, is now at the centre of a criminal file of an entirely different magnitude.
I went back to my hometown recently, a small suburb in north-west London. I strolled the streets, stopped by the crumbling library where we did our homework, visited the convent where I was educated (it’s a block of flats now – isn’t everything?). And I’m going to tell you something I’ve been keeping to myself since that day: while I was there I didn’t hear a word of English.
It really hit me later in the evening, on the Tube home, when I heard a young English fella yapping on his phone. ‘This teenage blather is the first thing I’ve understood today’, I thought to myself. And you know what? I was grateful for it. I’m at that age where I find mobile chatter on trains irksome. Not this time. The boy’s voice hit me like thunder, a sudden, blinding bolt of home.
CAPE VINCENT, N.Y.—It’s just after 7:40 p.m. when news of the executive order reaches the squat white cottage underneath the lighthouse.
Pat Schamerhorn is locking up the gift shop. She lives just down the road, in the house with the picket fence, with views of the end of Lake Ontario and the start of the St. Lawrence River out her front door.
She decided to head home early, catching the last wisps of an achingly beautiful sunset dipping below the horizon, when news arrives — in person, in the form of a Toronto Star reporter and photographer.
Oh come on Star, Elbows Up is driven by the inbred Anti-Americanism afflicting the Liberal-Left in Canada.
I'm not trying to be rude, but I'm not getting close enough to read your pin. pic.twitter.com/2OZvs3hmsp
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 29, 2026
As the “Big Three” convened in Potsdam in July 1945, Britain counted votes from its first postwar parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Winston Churchill departed for London, soon to be replaced by Labour leader Clement Attlee. Stalin, confident that Western elections could be rigged or substantially influenced, was especially astonished at the result; he reportedly suspected it was a ruse of British intelligence. Having led the country through its darkest hour, the war hero Churchill was unceremoniously booted from office.
Carney lusts for the EU even though it’s possible that Europe will be lost.
Here's a 4-minute reimagined scene from The Odyssey. I used a lot of creative license, and this is nothing like the epic poem-sorry, Homer.
I think Christopher Nolan would approve of my casting. I hope you enjoy it. @imagine @grok https://t.co/CacifatVFk pic.twitter.com/tzG12Jv3o2
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 28, 2026
During the summer of 2021, Hamilton Police officers looked on as a group of Indigenous sovereigntists tore down the city’s Sir John A. Macdonald statue and sawed right down the middle of its face. Instead of arresting the numerous parties to the crime right then and there, they waited, eventually laying a charge on a 56-year-old who was absolved months later through a stay of proceedings.
As my PJ Media colleague Sarah Anderson reported Friday night, President Donald Trump dropped one of the biggest energy announcements of his second term on Friday evening, revealing that the United States and Venezuela had signed what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history.” The agreement hands America majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves, and Trump wasted no time celebrating.
It is easy to forget it was only last year, during an Ontario election campaign focused on the threat of U.S. tariffs, that Premier Doug Ford let slip he wanted Donald Trump to win the presidency.
“On election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was,” said Ford, caught on a hot mic at his Etobicoke campaign office.
“Then the guy pulled out the knife and f—-ing yanked it in me,” he said, motioning his arm as if stabbing someone.
HAHA 🇨🇦 nothing says “we’re not triggered”like an emergency BILLBOARD to remind people of Lake Ontario 😅 what a waste of money pic.twitter.com/VC9U6zbogT
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) August 29, 2026
For anyone who has ever harbored doubts—and for those who still do—that Iran’s regime stands against humanity, peace, and the basic norms of civilization, the latest remarks from hard-line Iranian cleric Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi — secretary-general of Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, and closely tied to the current Supreme Leader — should be impossible to ignore. “The only way to save the country… is building an atomic bomb and firing it,” Kharrazi recently declared, “no other way is left for us…. We should create a tsunami whose waves hit the American coasts”.
Joseph McLuckie can’t count the number of sleepless nights he has had ever since the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) determined about three months ago that his small business owes more than $180,000 in tariffs on a more-than-a-year-old shipment.
McLuckie is the managing director and owner of JPSM Golf, a small business based out of Pickering, Ont., that sells electric golf trolleys. These trolleys carry golfers’ bags throughout the course as they play.
Can’t they just rent or sell Uyghurs?
