Two events this week tell us something’s gone wrong on Canadian university campuses and streets.
On Tuesday, the University of Toronto (U of T) Students’ Union will be organizing a rally titled “Honouring Our Martyrs.” This event will commemorate the second anniversary of the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel.
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Public approval of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government appears to be on a steady decline as polls now show the Conservatives lurching back towards a competitive stance against the Liberals.
A new Postmedia-Leger poll tracked the Liberals at 44 per cent, against 38 per cent for the Conservatives.
You might not like some of the language he uses, but Noah Smith’s lengthy take on the state of American politics is worth a read. It’s not drivel spewed on Salon or MSNBC. It’s a fair take on the MAGA movement and the structural and political disadvantages of the Left, which aren’t going away if they keep this destructive march on most of their action items. Smith concedes there are kernels of truth to the ‘great replacement theory,’ noting the changes in California’s politics. Again, you might not agree with the authoritarian observations he makes about the MAGA movement, but he also slaps down the notion that this is some fascistic plot.
Canada will not achieve a free trade deal with no American tariffs, and must settle with coming “second” to America when it comes to the auto sector, according to U.S. President Donald Trump’s point man on trade.
Appearing virtually, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick bluntly told an audience at a Canada-U.S. conference in Toronto on Wednesday that the United States is determined to dominate the car-making industry.
According to five sources who were in the room for the discussion, which was held under the ”Chatham House Rule” that bars reporters and media coverage, Lutnick said Canada has to consider the “big picture” and realize that it could be in an excellent place, but that trade between the two countries is never going back to the way it used to be under three decades of free trade agreements.
What do you mean, trans people are angry and violent? pic.twitter.com/IjsqYWW5JD
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 6, 2025
Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.
Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, during his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.
The source said Carney expressed renewed national interest in the pipeline from the Canadian side and the U.S. president was receptive to the project advancing.
You know the panic is real when CBC mentions Oil in a positive way to bolster Carney.
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— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 7, 2025
US president Donald Trump has announced that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan, bringing the best hope yet of a definitive end to a bloody two-year conflict that has killed ten of thousands, destabilised much of the Middle East and prompted protests across the world.
“I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,” Trump said on his Truth Social network on Wednesday evening.
“This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.”
BREAKING: The war in Gaza COMES TO A HALT after Hamas agrees to President Trump's peace plan, phase one
"Never before have you had an agreement with Hamas, 8 Arab/Muslim nations, Israel, and the United States! That is a BREAKTHROUGH! It is wonderful and joyous!"
Trump is the… pic.twitter.com/EVMecW23FP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 8, 2025
BBC Live Feed: Trump says Israel and Hamas ‘both sign off’ on first phase of Gaza peace plan
JPost: Trump announces Israel, Hamas reached Gaza deal, hostages to be released in 72 hours
I have this much faith in this peace deal lasting = 0
h/t Canucklehead
Greta Thunberg now says Israel “severely tortured” her — by forcing her to kiss an Israeli flag.
Yes, that’s her claim. Kissing the flag of the only democracy in the Middle East is, in her mind, torture.
The absurdity would almost be funny if it weren’t such a slap in the face to real victims of torture and terror — especially the innocent people who were burned, raped, and slaughtered by Hamas on October 7th.
But wait there’ more …
Greta Thunberg is using a photo of Israeli Evyatar David as an example of Israeli cruelty towards Palestinian Arabs.
This is the most “Every allegation is a confession” post I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/AweNzgJRDC
— Max (@MaxNordau) October 7, 2025
Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism
Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way? Catherine McKenna, formerly the Canadian minister for environment and climate change, borrows this analogy for the climate crisis from a colleague to argue that we need to use “all the tools at our disposal” to tackle devastating danger that is already with us.
McKenna has recently published Run Like a Girl, which documents her time in government, among other things. Peppered with inspirational quotes, personal photos and campaign memorabilia, Run Like a Girl isn’t a straightforward memoir. She wrote it for “women and young people who want to make change”.
On October 7, 2023, an orgy of slaughter and sexual violence was unleashed on Israeli civilians. It was a measured, premeditated pogrom, broadcast with grotesque pride. The world watched as terrorists streamed their atrocities across social media, turning murder and rape into a live propaganda show.
That day was not merely another episode in the long, tragic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was an operational and moral rupture, a mass atrocity whose reverberations continue to shatter families. The event also exposes an international discourse in which moral clarity too often gives way to equivocation.
An ex-construction CEO and a former hospital executive have been found guilty of fraud over the competition to win a $300-million renovation contract at Toronto’s downtown St. Michael’s Hospital.
Evidence that Vas Georgiou and John Aquino “acted dishonestly over the procurement process is overwhelming,” Superior Court Justice Peter Bawden said, reading an overview of his 135-page judgment on Tuesday morning.
This is Canada where white collar crime is a past time so these guys will serve 6 mos. tops or as is more likely they’ll never spend a night in jail.
If Jay Jones were a Republican, he’d probably be a household name by now.
Imagine if there was a Republican candidate in a hotly contested race that was convicted of reckless driving, caught wishing death on a politician and his family in texts, accused of wanting to see police officers shot, and was called to drop out of the race by the sitting President of the United States?
SICKENING!
Democrat Virginia AG nominee Jay Jones is getting massive backlash after alleged text messages leaked of him fantasizing about m*rdering House Speaker Todd Gilbert and "pissing" on his grave.
Why hasn't he dropped out? pic.twitter.com/p28uDiFedw
— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) October 4, 2025
After chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. are hoping the Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will help them recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars in the event of a cull.
CFIA wants to destroy more than 300 birds belonging to Universal Ostrich Farms Inc., located in Edgewood, B.C., nearly nearly 100 kilometres east of Kelowna, because of the threat of avian flu, which was detected in some of the animals last December.
Former FBI Director James Comey finally faced the music on Wednesday, appearing in court to answer charges of alleged false statements and obstruction of Congress. Comey, who infamously presided over the FBI’s weaponized investigations against President Donald Trump and his associates, pleaded not guilty during his first court appearance in Virginia.
