It was a surreal moment — here I was, an FBI agent on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, standing on a street corner in Jersey City, going jaw to jaw with the infamous spiritual leader of the Islamic Group, the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel-Rahman. An Egyptian cleric marinated in ideological hatred by the Muslim Brotherhood, the man who issued the “fatwa” to assassinate Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, now spewed forth vitriol toward me and the United States government. I knew this hatred intimately, having once dodged an irate mob of Saudi Arabian villagers who took serious offense to a cross necklace I was wearing.
Canada finding ‘solutions’ on EU carbon tariff threat: Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa has made progress on a trade irritant with the European Union — a carbon tariff on energy-intensive Canadian exports.
At the closing news conference for the Canada-EU summit in Montreal, Carney said there are “common solutions” to resolving the carbon import levy on Canadian products such as iron ore, steel, aluminum, cement and other goods.
The Great Negotiator huh.
South Africa’s Biggest City Faces Total Infrastructure Collapse
Over 50 years of communist anti-colonialism in the third world, aided by some liberal governments in the west, has provided uncomfortable truths about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to human civilization. The first and most controversial truth is that, in many cases, third world societies are self destructive and incapable of maintaining the most basic of necessities.
The second controversial truth is that these same societies run by western interests function far better. All vital infrastructure is maintained and the people have upward mobility. In other words, western colonialism works. No matter what leftists and anti-colonial activists claim, time has proven them wrong.
h/t Mauser
LILLEY: Carney’s Liberals have a real shot at all six byelections
Mark Carney called six byelections on Sunday and, come Dec. 7, he’s hoping that all six ridings turn out for the Liberals. Only two of the six seats now up for grabs were previously held by Carney’s party, but they clearly think they have a shot in all six.
Ukraine defies Trump to resume attacks on Russian oil refineries
Ukraine has resumed its attacks on Russian oil refineries in defiance of pressure from Donald Trump ahead of the US midterm elections, as a ceasefire in the occupied town of Oleshky ended on Sunday night.
Russian state media said on Sunday Ukrainian long-range drones had set fire to the Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod oblast overnight, soon after a major strike against another big refinery in Samara oblast, owned by the Russian state energy giant Rosneft.
Spectacular footage of the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Russia’s Samara Oblast engulfed in flames following the Ukrainian drone attack overnight. https://t.co/UzvyOBAQSp
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) October 30, 2026
Thousands of OSAP applications came from a single IP address, ministry alleges
TORONTO — At two career colleges now under the Ontario government’s microscope, more than half of the thousands of student financial aid applications last year came from a single IP address, officials allege in documents filed in court.
The government has also received more than 200 tips about that network of schools, including allegations that certain recruiters were submitting students’ Ontario Student Assistance Program applications at those schools, which is not allowed, and completing their coursework, those same documents show.
This is where identity politics leads.
Toss all foreign students out of Canada and shut down the diploma mills.
Henry Nowak’s family tell of trauma of seeing son handcuffed as he lay dying
The family of Henry Nowak have said the trauma of learning he had been murdered was made worse by watching police footage of officers handcuffing him as he lay dying.
They told ITV their “world has changed twice”, first when they were told he had died, and again when they watched the body-worn camera video.
His killer, Vickrum Digwa, falsely told police Henry had racially abused him, and officers handcuffed the student as he repeatedly said he had been stabbed.
Mark Carney and the last hurrah of the centrist dads
Why are centrist dads so obsessed with getting closer to the European Union? Not only is Andy Burnham at it, but even Canada, which lies thousands of miles from the Continent, is having a go.
Last week, its prime minister, Mark Carney – denizen of Davos, erstwhile central bank governor and champion of centrist daddyness everywhere – confirmed Ottawa’s interest in becoming an “associate member”. It was like the death rattle of a doomed elite.
h/t CLink9
Learjet co-pilot in fatal Florida crash ID’d as 20-year-old who got her license in high school
The doomed Learjet co-pilot heard pleading for help in harrowing air traffic control audio before the fiery Florida crash has been identified as Nathalia Gadelha – a 20-year-old who got her pilot license while still in high school.
Gadelha’s mother, Camila, and her stepfather confirmed to The Post that she was the co-pilot flying a Learjet 60 from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas when it entered a steep nosedive – plummeting at over 20,000 feet per minute – and smashed into the ground in Palm Beach County on Sunday afternoon.
The slow-motion of Learjet accident in Florida.
If you watch it with the audio synced to the public flight data, she says that when they hit 10,000 feet. She says "we’re out of ten" which is a common pilot term. She’s saying they just blew through ten thousand, which at their rate of descent is critically low.
She was relaying to ATC her ever increasing rate of descent, even her angle of bank. She knew exactly what her altitude was.
The last report she gave was that she was descending at over 20,000 feet/minute.
Process that: nearly 4 miles a minute straight down. She was hyper aware of her orientation, descent rate, etc.
They were decending into a thunderstorm. Violent winds caused them to go into a high speed stall while in a 60 degree bank which caused an overspeed condition where essentially they started moving so fast that their control surfaces were useless.
There is absolutely no wreckage around that crater. Everything was obliterated. Brutal.
They are all screaming and yelling how they;re going to die and they are out of time, then complete silence.
We all fear our mortality. I would rather go out instantaneously over a drawn out disease or something that forces you to recognize your death for days and days.
These poor souls were petrified for seconds. Not days like cancer or something along those lines.
A full minute to see death rushing towards you knowing there was nothing you can do to stop it. Thinking about all the things you’ll never be able to do, loved ones you’ll never be able to hold again, regrets you can never fix. All with simultaneous, overwhelming, absolute terror. The moment of death may have been quick, but the rest of it was not quick at all.
Not only that but trying to also think critically to try and save your life, trying to dig deep into your training. Panicking even more. Then realizing it’s getting to where it’s too late. More panic. Boom. Sad to think about.
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) November 2, 2026
Ottawa admits 500,000 annual housing starts target out of reach as immigration fuels demand
The federal government has acknowledged its goal of building 500,000 homes annually is unlikely to be achieved this decade, with internal documents pointing to immigration-driven population growth and declining construction activity as major obstacles.
Blacklock’s Reporter says a June 17 briefing note prepared for Housing Minister Gregor Robertson warns that housing construction is expected to fall over the next several years, leaving Canada well short of the levels the Liberals previously said were necessary to restore affordability.
Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack
Dozens of supermarkets across six European countries have been hit by a suspected cyber-attack affecting their refrigerators and freezers.
Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, while a smaller number of shops were hit in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands and Estonia.
Sabcobel, a Belgian company that manufactures some of the affected refrigerators, said the units’ evaporators were switched to defrost mode causing them to warm up, in what is believed to be the same method used in last month’s incident that hit hundreds of French supermarkets.
We are vulnerable on so many levels. How long before food riots if this is ever accomplished at scale?
There’s probably a good reason for that …
Roles for trans and non-binary characters are vanishing, actors and experts warn
Last week, actor Asia Kate Dillon shared that nearly a decade after breaking boundaries playing the first non-binary main character in a major North American TV show, they are seeking a job in the service industry amid diminishing opportunities for trans performers.
The post from Dillon, who played Taylor Mason on the Showtime drama Billions from 2017 to 2023, comes a month after non-binary actor Jack Haven, known for Atypical and I Saw the TV Glow, made a plea on social media for casting roles to earn $4,000 US to qualify for SAG-AFTRA health insurance.
And despite a standout performance in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Canadian actor Elliot Page said earlier this year he hasn’t been getting casting calls.
Deciding what’s news at the CBC must require massive amounts of drugs.
Trump preparing to steamroll Congress if Democrats win
The White House has developed a secret plan to keep major parts of Donald Trump’s political agenda on track if Democrats seize control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Senior White House officials, including Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff, have spent months drawing up a plan that would allow Mr Trump to continue to pass laws without congressional approval.
Remembrance Day Without Prayer Undermines Canada’s Religious Pluralism
For more than a century, Canadians gathered every Remembrance Day to honour our veterans with wreath-laying, reverent song, and solemn prayer. But thanks to an updated decree issued by the Department of National Defence, any mention of “religious specific language, including references to God” by military personnel at any public event, including Remembrance Day ceremonies, remains strictly prohibited.
The ban on religious prayer in public military settings has been in effect since 2023, but the Defence Department doubled down and expanded the restrictions in July of this year.
‘Europe faces another energy crisis’ – Gas prices in EU hit four-year highs as Hungarian MEP slams ‘idiocracy’
Wholesale natural gas prices in Europe have climbed above €100 per megawatt-hour for the first time since late 2022, raising the prospect of sharply higher household bills next year. The EU is already issuing serious warnings about an energy crisis and difficult economy for the winter ahead, which Hungarian MEP Balázs Orbán has labeled an example of European Union “idiocracy.”
Every day brings a new reason to tell Carney where shove his EU scam.
