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OTTAWA — While the case of Biwei Zhang moves through the courts in Brussels, where an appeals court has extended the detention of the Canadian intern from China accused of espionage inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military high command, a second file involving a Chinese national living and studying in Ontario — whose phone, United States officials found, held photographs of himself and others in tactical formations holding rifle-styled firearms, after he was caught photographing American aircraft in Chicago and admitted to a similar operation at Toronto’s airport — is opening in federal court in Michigan.
Seems the LPC is a ChiCom subsidiary.
A group of 500 feral teens stormed a Colorado grocery store and vandalized it in the latest dystopian incident that has left locals terrified.
Teens besieged a King Soopers on Peoria Street in Aurora on Sunday afternoon, causing property damage and stealing items, police said.
Social media video showed teens carrying stolen tables, throwing food items on the floor, and running around the aisles as shoppers attempted to complete their grocery runs.
Teenagers in Aurora Colorado took over king soopers store. Not much workers can do when 100+ show up all at once to take it over. They are not there to shop and is stopping others from shopping
📹: vpaxks#news #Colorado pic.twitter.com/9VKphqoHS0
— Colorado 411 (@Colorado411_420) August 31, 2026
“It’s a great time to be a Liberal in Canada.”
Those were the words of a smiling Tanveer Shahnawaz, the Liberal candidate in Beaches—East York, celebrating his victory Monday night. They may also be the political understatement of the year. Shahnawaz was one of three Liberals who swept Monday’s federal by-elections, winning his Toronto riding with 56 per cent of the vote. The party also held North Vancouver—Capilano in B.C. and took Chicoutimi—Le Fjord from the Conservatives in Quebec.
A man in his 50s has died after being seriously assaulted outside a restaurant in Sweden after trying to defend his daughter from a group of young men who had been groping her.
Authorities have not yet released information about the suspects’ nationality, ethnicity, or background, raising the suspicion among social media users that the perpetrators may be migrants.
Police were called to the centre of the Swedish city of Karlstad at about 1.25 a.m. on Sunday, August 30th after a violent disturbance broke out outside a fast food restaurant.
We’re going to have a longer post about this later today, but Canada’s biggest chip in their trade negotiations was oil and gas. That’s no longer the case. The Venezuelan oil deal and its provisions were released by the White House yesterday, and well, our neighbors to the North have lost a lot of leverage.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor “committed sex crimes in the US”, a congressman has told the US House of Representatives.
Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican, named the former Duke of York as he demanded that men who were friends of Jeffrey Epstein be held accountable.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s much disliked visage will soon be passing, by biology or the Constitution, from screens. But it will take a bit for Canadians to ally openly with the United States, whatever the compelling geographic and economic reality.
Yet in their passion to dish on Trump, Canada seems to now align instead with China and the European Union. This shift could hasten Canada’s descent into its own authoritarian future. As a few leftist academics move to Canada to escape Trumpian proto-fascism, let’s look at how Canada’s new friends view free speech.
Close enough. Welcome back Michael Jackson!
(He goes by Manoj Gajanan now) pic.twitter.com/tYhLAEDtT3
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) September 1, 2026
Last week, in the Five Quick Things column, I referenced an X post by The Federalist’s Sean Davis noting that one significant reason for the opposition to data centers is the stunning lack of visible philanthropy among those at the top of the tech-bro hierarchy who seek to build them.
Vancouver has a lovely Carnegie Library now faded and repurposed as a home for various “community” organizations.
It had the ability to make you stop and think of the society that spawned such good works.
I liked the 2 buck bowl of chili.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/XTobTow91N
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 1, 2026
A win for our side! h/t Patti Jo
BRUSSELS – A Belgian appeals court on Monday rejected the release appeal of Biwei Zhang, the Canadian intern accused of involvement in a criminal organization and of espionage inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military command. The Chamber of Indictments in Brussels extended her pre-trial detention by a month.
The ruling comes days after a European investigative consortium published the most detailed reporting yet on how the closely guarded case began, and on what Canada’s part in it was.
Un super-héros d'un nouveau genre vient en aide à une femme voilée en détresse pic.twitter.com/9Wss7wCb0p
— Le Crapaud (@Le_Crapaud47) September 1, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
When a leftist turns violent, Democratic politicians and their media allies offer a familiar response: yes, this is terrible, but right-wing violence is the greater threat. They have made that claim for decades, and it has always rested on a dubious premise.
The premise depends on statistics compiled by advocacy groups that exclude a vast catalog of left-wing violence—from the George Floyd riots to murders committed by pro-Palestinian activists and attacks on synagogues, Catholic churches, Tesla dealerships, and ICE facilities. Meanwhile, conservatives are routinely held responsible for the actions of violent loners, drug dealers, and conspiracy theorists with no coherent political program. Deranged anti-Semites, racists, incels, and antigovernment extremists get classified as right-wing, even when their targets span both parties.
The gap in living standards between Canada and the U.S. has more than doubled over the past quarter-century, with Canada increasingly lagging behind the U.S., according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
The report by the fiscally conservative think tank also found the sharpest decline occurred post-2014, meaning during the decade the Justin Trudeau government was in power.
In an era when artificial intelligence is guiding drones in deadly attacks in Ukraine, it would be understandable to focus exclusively on what that now means on the battlefield.
This would be a grave mistake.
Few in the West have noticed that China just test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine, using the waters of the South Pacific as their testing site.
