It was with a sigh of relief that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s President Massoud Pezeshkian welcomed the new academic year and the start of autumn the other day — relief that what is dubbed “the thirstiest summer” in Iran’s long history was over.
Only two months ago, he had warned that even Tehran, the capital city, may run out of water within weeks. The disaster he had predicted was avoided, but the factors that could have shaped it remain present.
Iran today is running short of water.
This year marks the eighth anniversary of Canada’s celebration of “gender equality week.” The observance, on the fourth week of each September, was born with the passage of the 2018 Gender Equality Week Act, created in part to “increase awareness of the significant and substantive contributions that Canadian women have made and continue to make to the growth, development, character and identity of Canada.”
The deranged madman who killed at least two people and wounded nine others at a Michigan Latter-day Saints church, torching the building and opening fire on fleeing congregants and their families, has been identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford, The Post can confirm.
Sanford, a US Marine veteran, according to his mom’s Facebook page, rammed his Chevy Silverado truck into the building before unleashing the assault on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, armed with a semi-automatic rifle.
Grand Blanc, Michigan
Police: 3 dead in church attack — 2 victims + the suspect. The assailant rammed his car into the LDS church on McCandlish Rd during Sunday service, opened fire, and set the building ablaze. Part of the church collapsed. Motive still under investigation. pic.twitter.com/3lsYnontuz— Gen Just Law (@genjustlaw) September 28, 2025
If you’re wondering why Canada isn’t a world leader in AI…@DalhousieU is hiring a tenured professor of Artificial Intelligence, but only disabled women can apply
'This position is designated to candidates who self-identify as gender equity-seeking persons with a disability.' pic.twitter.com/0Sb6XCIox6
— Chris Brunet (@chrisbrunet) September 28, 2025
h/t Mauser
Justin Trudeau may be gone, but the economic consequences of his fiscal approach, chronic deficits, rising debt costs and stagnating growth, are still weighing heavily on Canada.
Before becoming prime minister, Justin Trudeau famously said, “The budget will balance itself.” He argued that if expenditures stayed the same, economic growth would drive higher tax revenues and eventually outpace spending. Voila–balance!
Thursday night’s season premiere of Law & Order: SVU portrayed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as cold-hearted villains who hinder the unit’s efforts to convict a rapist.
On Thursday’s episode, “In the Wind,” a building superintendent named Jorge Ruiz (Juan Francisco Villa) identifies a rape suspect in the apartment complex where he works. His eyewitness testimony is key evidence.
This is what the service interruption looks like. From a friend in the middle of it right now.
They have been told all CBSA computers are down at Pearson.
This is on CBSA, not Pearson. https://t.co/ZVeawJDt1O pic.twitter.com/lpUht0L4LK— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) September 28, 2025
h/t Mauser
Well before Lehman Brothers collapsed and capitalism quaked, Gabe Tobias had an arresting view of what would become the global financial crisis.
It was in Santa Ana, Calif., where Tobias was working as a community organizer after finishing college in 2006. He was meant to be advising low-income families on healthcare.
Soon, though, his work changed.
Elizabeth May: Where is the “brainy and thoughtful’ Mark Carney who warned the world of the dangers of climate change?
When anyone hears Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre talk about climate, one could wish he would read a book on the subject, or even the Cole’s Notes version. On the other hand, listening to our prime minister, one could wish he would read his own book.
On page 273 of his 2021 book “Values,” he wrote: “The carbon budget to limit temperature rises to below catastrophic levels is rapidly being exhausted. If we had started in 2000, we could have hit the 1.5 C objective by halving emissions every 30 years. Now, we must halve emissions every 10 years. If we wait another four years, the challenge will be to halve emissions every year. If we wait another eight years, our 1.5 C carbon budget will be exhausted.”
Fox News – A California father says Gov. Gavin Newsom has ignored his pleas for answers after an illegal immigrant truck driver caused what he says was a devastating crash that left his young daughter with life-altering injuries.”We never did receive anything nack from the governor. We never received a call back. We never received a ‘governor’s going to look into this.’ We didn’t receive anything,” Marcus Coleman told “America’s Newsroom” Thursday.
Members of his own party worry Doug Ford isn’t conservative enough. His supporters say, so what?
Doug Ford is probably the most popular and successful Tory politician in Canada, but he still has his detractors within the conservative movement.
The three-term Progressive Conservative premier, whose party is at a near-record high of 52 per cent support in the latest Abacus Data survey, has long triggered Tories who feel he’s drifted too far to the mushy middle of the political spectrum due to his reliance on public-opinion polling.
Rocker Bruce Springsteen is down on Democrats, telling Time they’ll remain irrelevant and ineffective if they don’t find someone who can “speak to the majority” of America.
“We’re desperately in need of an effective alternative party, or for the Democratic Party to find someone who can speak to the majority of the nation,” Springsteen told the outlet. “There is a problem with the language that they’re using and the way they’re trying to reach people.”
Douglas Todd: Those who pay the highest price for high migration levels, says Denmark’s Social Democratic PM Mette Frederiksen, are the working class. “It’s not the elite people.”
Unlike most social-democratic parties, Denmark’s has been winning elections since 2019.
That’s because the Nordic country’s centre-left party has stayed true to its working-class roots. Rather than allowing itself to be run by what French economist Thomas Piketty calls “the Brahmin left” — by which he means educated city elites — Denmark’s Social Democrats have been taking blue-collar workers seriously.
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The suspected gunman who opened fire at a crowded dockside restaurant in North Carolina — killing three people and injuring five others — once identified himself as a wounded Iraq veteran and filed a slew of conspiracy-laden lawsuits earlier this year, records show.
Nigel Edge — who changed his name from Sean DeBevoise in 2023 — was arrested Saturday night for launching a “highly premeditated’’ attack on the American Fish Company restaurant in Southport Yacht Basin, about 30 miles south of Wilmington, when he suddenly sprayed bullets into the crowd of unsuspecting diners, authorities said.
