Is your dog right-wing?

Is your dog right-wing?

It’s as good an indicator as you’ll find of this government’s asinine attitude to rural Britain that you’re reading a piece in which a Spectator writer semi-seriously considers the far-right credentials of various dog breeds. How right-wing is your dog? in itself sounds like one of Alan Partridge’s increasingly desperate pitches for a new TV show.

Pity the poor black Lab, for it’s these harmless thickos of the dog world that have aroused Labour’s ire. You’ll no doubt be aware that earlier this week, Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature, told a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference that the far-right at the next election would weaponise a nostalgic vision of Britain ‘that we don’t want to have [and] never really existed’.

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Understanding Canada’s Europe Pivot

Understanding Canada’s Europe Pivot

Last month, after Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, and announced that Canada and the European Union would pursue a closer relationship, we asked for your questions about the topic.

In our recent one-hour interview with Mr. Carney, he spoke extensively about his vision for this new relationship. And Jeanna Smialek, our Brussels bureau chief, obtained a copy of the draft statement being prepared ahead of a summit in Montreal at the end of this month between the European Union and Canada.

So we return to the question of the European Union — one I’m excited to tackle as a former Brussels correspondent who dedicated nearly a decade to covering the bloc.

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Somali gangs blamed for shooting at suburban Minneapolis homecoming game that left 2 wounded, fans fleeing in panic

Somali gangs are being blamed for a shooting outside a homecoming game in a quiet Minneapolis suburb that left two people wounded, according to reports — and resulted in celebrations being canceled.

Shooting broke out shortly before 9 p.m. Friday local time at Eden Prairie High School during a homecoming game against Minnetonka, sending thousands of panicked spectators running for the exits, FOX 9 reported.

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I fought for investment in Canada’s defence as international order eroded

I fought for investment in Canada’s defence as international order eroded

During my time as the chief of the defence staff, the global security situation changed profoundly, and not for the better. The confluence of security stressors – geopolitical order, climate change, acceleration of technological change and societal dynamics – presented challenges perhaps unique in the long arc of human history. The international order established at the end of the Second World War was eroding. Climate change was spurring conflict, human migration and natural disasters. Rapid technological advance was not only changing the character of war, but also how countries pursue national objectives. Social order was becoming fraught with division. By 2022, especially after Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, I came to believe that we were undergoing a turning point in global security affairs.

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The IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood: An Alliance America Can’t Ignore

The IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood: An Alliance America Can’t Ignore

Western strategy in the Middle East has long suffered from a fatal conceptual flaw: treating Islamic fundamentalist movements as isolated, strictly sectarian entities. If the United States is to liberate Iran from the brutal oppression of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), eliminate the existential threat to Israel, and structurally reduce terrorism across the region, it cannot afford to view the IRGC as “the enemy” — however much the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran has cast it into the limelight. Instead, American foreign policy must simultaneously target the Muslim Brotherhood, recognizing that the IRGC and the Brotherhood are a long-standing symbiotic, cross-sectarian alliance.

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Jamie Sarkonak: She was a rape accuser’s greatest ally. Now, she regrets it

Jamie Sarkonak: She was a rape accuser’s greatest ally. Now, she regrets it

In 2015, when the University of British Columbia began to reckon with sexual assault allegations by a mature student against Steven Galloway, the school’s most high-profile creative writing professor, it had the help of an inquisitor.

Chelsea Rooney circulated the unproven allegations that Galloway had raped a student (which were later found to be unsubstantiated by a retired judge tasked with investigating the affair for UBC) and did her best to gather more, contributing to the obliteration of his reputation and career. Now, a decade later, she’s walking it all back with a profuse apology, printed in the Saturday Post.

In her apology, which has also been posted online-09jnn, Rooney admitted that her understanding of and approach to the “believe women” movement was “misguided.”

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France: A Sick Country on a Sick Continent

France: A Sick Country on a Sick Continent

“Who didn’t see that coming? Oh yeah ….the politicians,” noted “The Great Gats” on X.

The French government was reportedly “taken by surprise” when students began rioting roughly two weeks ago to protest conditions — overcrowded classes, dilapidated buildings, vermin and rats, lack of heating and air-conditioning, shortage of teachers — in their schools.

“But,” American journalist Michael Shellenberger writes, ” French schools have more money per pupil today than at any earlier time…. The French government spends 4.5% of gross domestic product on educational institutions, and Germany spends 3.7%.

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CHARLEBOIS: Your grocer has AI, so who’s looking out for you?

CHARLEBOIS: Your grocer has AI, so who’s looking out for you?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, including the food supply chain, where established habits and thin margins can make technological change difficult.

Precision agriculture, machine learning and robotics are advancing, but adoption remains uneven. Investment capacity, data quality and access to skilled workers determine who moves ahead and who falls behind.

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Mother of Christa Pike’s victim speaks out following botched execution: ‘I broke down in tears’

Mother of Christa Pike’s victim speaks out following botched execution: ‘I broke down in tears’

The mother of the teenager murdered by Christa Pike said she believes she is owed an apology following this week’s botched execution in Tennessee.

Wednesday’s execution attempt came 30 years after Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

Pike, 50, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, is in critical condition at a hospital, unconscious and on a ventilator, after her execution failed despite two lethal injections, her attorneys said Friday.

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‘Large and demanding’ search continues after debris found from missing Ontario air ambulance

‘Large and demanding’ search continues after debris found from missing Ontario air ambulance

The U.S. Coast Guard has searched roughly 2,840 square miles (roughly 7,355 square kilometres) for six people aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing over the Atlantic, as crews continue to search the area where debris was found over the weekend.

The Gulfstream G100, operated by Hamilton, Ont.-based Latitude Air Ambulance, was carrying four Canadians and two Bermuda nationals when it disappeared early Saturday while flying from Bermuda to Boston.

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Trump Administration Nukes United Nations ‘Pandemic Treaty’

Trump Administration Nukes United Nations ‘Pandemic Treaty’

For years, the goblin architects of globo-homo race communism have labored tirelessly behind the scenes, in the shadows where they prefer to operate, to push through a so-called “global pandemic treaty” that would standardize the international response to the impending, much-hyped (probably man-made) pandemic, thereby subverting any national sovereignty that would allow room for individualized decision-making by nation-states.

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Canada left without seat on International Ice Hockey Federation’s council

Canada left without seat on International Ice Hockey Federation’s council

No Canadians have been elected to the International Ice Hockey Federation’s council, a surprising result for a nation considered one of the sport’s powerhouses.

Hockey Canada president and chief executive officer Katherine Henderson was up for one of the minimum three female spots on council at Friday’s election at the IIHF’s semi-annual congress in Tenerife, Spain.

Henderson was eliminated in the second of three rounds of voting. Hungary’s Zsuzsanna Kolbenheyer, Turkiye’s Merve Tunali and Poland’s Marta Zawadzka won the council seats.


Canada is not being invited to a lot of parties of late.

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Manhattan ‘mole’ mystery: rumors of lost gold spur clandestine excursions into New York sewers

Manhattan ‘mole’ mystery: rumors of lost gold spur clandestine excursions into New York sewers

There’s been one thing in particular that has been intriguing New Yorkers this summer: the existence, and whereabouts, of so-called “mole people” – a mysterious group of individuals who spend at least some of their time wading about in the city’s sewers.

New Yorkers learned a bit more about the phenomenon this week, when two men were caught red – or perhaps another color – handed, after allegedly emerging from a tunnel in Manhattan. Their arrests have shed some light on a slew of instances where people have been witnessed lifting manhole covers and clambering underground.

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