It’s astonishing how California’s leftists delude themselves about the sheet awfulness of their one-party rule of the state.
For weeks, they and their allies been claiming that mighty 100-year-old Paramount Studios, one of the historic big five of Hollywood, and which along with Warner Brothers, still makes more than a quarter of the movies released in the U.S. every year, is just bluffing about whether it will pull up stakes and move to Tennessee.
OTTAWA — Canada’s fentanyl czar has responded to President Donald Trump’s formal finding to Congress that fentanyl is produced in clandestine Canadian laboratories and that Chinese gangs operate along the northern border of the United States with a single statistic about drug seizures.
There are plenty of good reasons to be concerned about AI: destroying jobs, dumbing down students and the spectacle of people copying and pasting chatbot answers instead of doing their own research. We are looking at the very real possibility that the next generation will primarily relate to the internet, interact socially. and gain information, through AI.
It’s regulatory capture being played out in real time.
When future historians comb through the wreckage of the woke era, for clues as to what went wrong, one artefact in particular will startle them. It’s a photograph. It was taken on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. And it shows the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, sporting a smug liberal grin as she hands an award for ‘interfaith cooperation’ to some big Muslim fella. Who is he? Only someone who once gushed over Osama bin Laden, even bestowing upon him the honorific of ‘Sword of Allah’ for his lifetime of ‘fighting for Islam’.
Plans for Canada to join the European Union as an “associate member” have been dismissed as meaningless by diplomats in Brussels.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, told Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, she wanted to open the door to the unprecedented, and as yet undefined, associate membership in a flagship speech in Strasbourg.
But the offer seemed to wrong-foot Mr Carney, who attended Ms Von der Leyen’s state of the union address.
This is the moment thousands of migrants ran through the streets of the North African enclave of Ceuta as authorities tried to move them to a new tent camp.
Spanish police today began relocating the migrants, who have been living for weeks on the beach in Ceuta, to its port area.
In the move officers struggled to contain the crowds jostling to secure a spot at the new tented site. Authorities say there are enough tents for 1,700 people.
Chaos in Ceuta last night as illegal migrants were being moved from one camp to another.
The Spanish government lied when it said in early August that practically all of the migrants had returned to Morocco.
There are still thousands and thousands left. pic.twitter.com/ZNo0LPPg5v
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 18, 2026
It is generally accepted that Mark Carney rode an unexpected wave of Canadian nationalism into office, and in many ways his government is still riding it, cresting each time the American president issues another ill-considered public statement.
Yet few weeks have illustrated the basic incoherence of this nationalist project like this one. On Monday and Tuesday, the government hosted the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, where it proclaimed a new era of economic growth across the country, trumpeting the commitment of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign investment across major Canadian industries. It thus signalled an ambitious program of nation-building, spurred by a shared sense of being under threat from an aggrandizing neighbour.
A leaked video of a French military chaplain addressing paratroopers in a cathedral has circulated widely on social media. In the clip, the chaplain makes disparaging remarks about leftists, tells soldiers to keep fighting for their national heritage, and warns of the risk that French values and culture could be displaced.
Imagine a back-to-school September of the future — one in which Canada is an official associate member of the European Union.
Parents aren’t driving their university students back to campus, but to the airport. The kids are catching flights to the Netherlands or Spain or France for a year of study under Europe’s Erasmus Plus exchange program.
At those institutes of higher learning, scientists and researchers are collaborating with their Canadian counterparts on technologies to benefit people and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic with Horizon Europe research funding.
The Left has told us for years that if we deny “gender-affirming care” to minors, they will commit suicide. It was a gross and nefarious ploy that played with parents’ emotions to push harmful sterilizing and mutilating procedures on children.
“Do you want a living daughter or a dead son?” was the question often asked. In December 2024, a lawyer with the ACLU told the Supreme Court that such care didn’t decrease suicidality in minors. Chase Strangio admitted that when questioned by Justice Alito.
Loathing of President Trump and his trash-talking trade wars has launched Canadian prime minister Mark Carney into the socialist stratosphere. Try not to laugh at this headline from Rolling Stone Canada: “How Mark Carney Became Leader of the Free World by Standing Up to Trump.”
This is the hot anti-Trump take: socialists can run the “Free World” while they impose socialism globally.
Fox Panel gets into a bit of a debate about Canada and Mark Carney pic.twitter.com/VHw09vYB84
— Jasmin Laine (@JasminLaine) September 18, 2026
Hasan Piker told Axios.com this week that he judges America as worse than al Qaeda in terms of terrorism. He explained, “We have caused tremendous terror all around the world.”
Speaking of terrorism, Piker says “America deserved 9/11,” calls Hamas “a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state” of Israel, and confesses “no issue” with Hezbollah, which he maintains flies “a dope flag” that features “an AK on it and a f—ing hand holding it up!
Palestinian and Indigenous causes are enjoined in rage against the European west—which on a civilization scale is vastly superior to the societies they created. https://t.co/tJEEERvDo5
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) September 17, 2026
Doug Ford really wants everyone to know that when he endorsed Olivia Chow the other day, it wasn’t an endorsement. Ford had his office put out a statement to that effect late Thursday, about 32 hours after he made the original statement.
