After a mass shooting took place, France’s President Macron delivered shocking and offensive remarks.
France had suffered devastating Islamic terrorist attacks targeting Christians and Jews, and non-Muslims in general, some of the most notorious being the Bataclan massacre, the murder of a priest in a Catholic Church as well as the deliberate murder of children at the Ozar HaTorah school.
It’s time to start stockpiling spam, stashing your petty cash and hoarding hand sanitiser, according to the UK government. The ‘Be Ready’ campaign, launched last week by defence secretary Wes Streeting, is urging the public to take steps to be prepared for any emergency that could cause at least 72 hours’ worth of disruption to power, water and food supplies.
“The Irish say they are not Greece. The Portuguese say they are not Irish. The Spanish finance minister said last week that Spain is not Portugal.” I wrote these words in the Financial Times over 15 years ago, as the eurozone sovereign-debt crisis raged. Fast forward to today, and the big news is that Belgians are not French. Expect, soon enough, to hear that Italians are not Belgian. With all eyes currently on France, on the violence, the protests, and the rising possibility of a genuine financial crisis, the key question now is how such a crisis might spread.
Walter Koenig, who memorably played Chekov in the original “Star Trek” series and seven “Star Trek” feature films, died Sunday in Los Angeles, Variety has confirmed. He was 90.
@fancypants_s
Chekov has checked out…..— Allen 🐟 (@arlasko) October 26, 2026
h/t AL
It’s hard to pick the most twisted story about MAID, Canada’s euthanasia program.
Maybe it’s the man who got counselling in a Tim Hortons parking lot and then drove to a funeral home for his MAID death. Or maybe it’s the distraught families who claim their loved one was wrongly approved for MAID. Or perhaps it’s the military veterans who were given MAID counselling.
Another day in France, another minor revealed to me the victim of forced prostitution.
Five men are facing trial at the Rhône Assize Court from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2 on charges of aggravated pimping involving a 12-year-old girl, referred to by the pseudonym Louna. While the suspects are being prosecuted, none of her clients face charges.
The brakes have been slammed on Hamilton’s Andrea Horwath years.
On Monday night, the one-term mayor appeared headed towards a resounding defeat to local businessman Keanin Loomis who narrowly lost a contest with Horwath in 2022.
Conservative parties worldwide are being infiltrated by far-right nationalists and Canada is no different. What began as the “Freedom” Convoy movement’s protest against government overreach has evolved into something far more sinister and ideological: a nationalist movement aimed not at limiting government, but at capturing and restructuring it.
At the center of this authoritarian movement is a network of oligarchs, politicians, think tanks, digital propaganda operations, and dark money funding streams that connect Canadian far-right politics to a US and global movement. Understanding this architecture reveals how ideas, money, and influence flow from international organizations through domestic intermediaries and into the Canadian political mainstream. It’s important to draw the distinction between legitimate conservative politics and this coordinated far-right authoritarian movement who are infiltrating democratic structures to undermine democracy itself.
Everyone right of Avi Lewis is suspect.
h/t jL
It was a peaceful weekend in France apparently. One broadcaster described the latest protests as “calm” and Le Monde said they unfolded “without serious incident.” Tell that to the 53 police officers who were injured in clashes with demonstrators, 1,513 of whom were arrested as trouble broke out across the country. Laurent Nunez, the Interior Minister, said that in several towns and cities the police had been subjected to an “extremely high level of violence.”
BCF Calls it for Chairman Chow – Full results at link
CP24 – Voting underway across the GTA, polls close at 8 p.m. Live election day updates here
The Star – Toronto election live: voting is underway as polls open; Bradford and Chow kick off election day campaigns
Tor Sun – ELECTION LIVE: Toronto and GTA municipal vote results
VANCOUVER — A North Vancouver resident is inviting people to gather in West Vancouver waters Monday evening to process their frustration and anger after Saturday’s provincial election with a so-called “grief swim.”
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@fancypants_s— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 26, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
We’ve heard them say it before: we’re not antisemitic; we’re just critical of Israel. We don’t hate Jews; we’re just opposed to the Benjamin Netanyahu government. Yeah, the problem is that, factually, that was untrue, and only morons or the obtuse believed it. You can be critical of the Netanyahu government, but when blood money and ‘dirty Jew’ overtures ooze from the talking points, we know what’s going on. Some of us remember high school history and the propaganda a certain national socialist party in Germany distributed in the 1930s.
If you think this ad is antisemitic, you’re in a cult and don’t know it. You think Israel is owed all the money it wants from US and if Americans don’t hand it over – without complaint – they’re antisemites. That’s insane, but you don’t realize it because you’ve lost your mind.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) October 26, 2026
OTTAWA — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says he told Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada should abolish the Indian Act during a historic meeting with premiers and First Nations leaders.
Speaking with reporters during a midday break in the meeting Monday, Kinew held up his First Nations status card, which he said identifies him as an “Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act.”
“It’s time to abolish the Indian Act,” Kinew said. “It’s long overdue that we have a relationship with Indigenous Peoples in Canada that reflects who we are as Canadians today.”
Wake me when Kinew calls for all funding to be cut off.
Education is important.
Knowing physics is important. https://t.co/dBF66K1ulk— The Figen (@TheFigen_) October 26, 2026
If you listen to its savants and politicians, you’d think that France was unravelling, on the brink of a civil war. Is it? Well, yes.
French President Emmanuel Macron called out 70,000 police this weekend after another week of not-so-relatively peaceful riots. (The U.S. is about 18 times larger than France so the deployment is more than substantial.) He said, “The rules are simple, and I think they’re just common sense,” Macron added. “The general recommendation is that there should be no demonstrations in the coming days.” Seriously?
