The historic town of Jumilla was on the frontline of conflict between Muslims and Christians when the Moors were kicked out of southern Spain in the 13th century.
Muslim migrants may have felt more welcome in recent years when they have lived largely happily alongside their Spanish neighbours, and enjoyed freedom to worship.
But a decision by Jumilla town council to effectively ban religious events from being held at public sports’ facilities has threatened to ignite community tensions.
Donald Trump has issued a warning to the EU from Scotland: “On immigration, you better get your act together.” He added, “You’re not going to have Europe anymore.” The U.S. president has told European leaders to their faces what almost everyone already acknowledges in private. The Great Replacement was not a conspiracy theory. It is a sad reality. And perhaps Trump’s words are a good opportunity to go back to the beginning and, frankly, answer the big question that concerns all Europeans: When did we lose Europe?
The defamatory non-stop claim that Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, committed genocide against indigenous people, including Indian Residential School children, is the most scurrilous slur hurled against him by his critics. Accordingly, it is necessary to examine this claim using the gold standard for doing so: the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The Convention lists five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” any one of which constitutes genocide.
If vending machines could talk, the ones on Toronto’s Huntley Street might have some stories to tell.
Stories of despair and desperation, but also tales of discretion and self-dependence.
Located next to Casey House, a specialty hospital in Toronto that cares for people living with or at risk of HIV, the machines don’t distribute soft drinks, but instead provide supplies for people who use hard drugs, such as sterile needles, pipes and naloxone kits, as well as items for sexual health, such as condoms. They have seen high uptake, giving out 14,082 free kits since they were installed a year ago, but have also attracted controversy, with some local residents saying they’re contributing to social disorder, open drug use and violent behaviour in the area, near Jarvis and Bloor.
On Monday morning President Donald Trump officially invoked Home Rule and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in command of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.
… The no longer Great and no longer White North last week appointed a new president of the Public Health Agency of Canada. One of the direst threats to public health is childhood obesity. So, naturally, Ottawa chose Nancy Hamzawi (cq), an overweight, physically unfit Muslim woman, to lead the fight against it.
Literally everything about his life has gotten worse with Trump as president. pic.twitter.com/XZsXBYTaeu
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 9, 2025
A recent survey suggests many Canadians are open to the idea of serving their country in some way, even if it’s mandatory. However, many aren’t keen on the idea of military service, favouring alternative civilian areas like public health or environmental support.
The Angus Reid survey, released Sunday, found that Canadians are in favour of the idea of mandatory civilian service, which would entail one year of time donated for those younger than 30 years of age.
In recent years, Germany, France, Norway and other countries have followed this model of service, the survey says
They won. Few if any will fight for what remains of the Canada we knew.
Men, especially the conservative ones, have no idea who women really are.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never given much thought to any of this, have you? pic.twitter.com/96r41ke0Qp
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 11, 2025
There are ideas so unthinkable and absurd that they are dismissed with a laugh and a flick of the hand—until they materialize.
One such idea is the introduction of sharia.
And yet, here we are.
A job posting for a “Sharia Administrator” was published on the UK government’s official job site (and removed after criticism from MPs, reports the Telegraph).
Yes, you read that correctly.
Psychotherapy used to be a refuge from politics, but it’s become another front in the culture war. Therapists once helped people face reality. Today, more and more, they urge patients to interpret it through a hierarchy of oppression.
As a psychotherapist with more than two decades of experience, I have observed this shift firsthand. Hundreds of patients have come to me after being frustrated or even harmed by previous therapists, who encouraged them to interpret their struggles through the lens of identity politics.
BREAKING — The wildfire narrative has changed
Liberal leaders have realized the "hiking causes fires" isnt working
NOW
They are telling Canadians that "we're banning you from the woods because you could break your leg" walking your dog. WHAT?!? pic.twitter.com/rzY1tAhv4v
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) August 11, 2025
h/t Mauser
There’s been very little publicly shared about the progress of Ottawa-Washington trade talks, but what little has been revealed in recent weeks hasn’t been very positive.
Publicly, the cabinet has said the trade talks with the Trump administration are moving along positively, while at the same time stressing that they need to keep the discussions to the negotiating table and that they can’t disclose much more.
But from what can be gathered from public records, whether it’s the state of communication between the two leaders or messaging around the need to accelerate internal efforts to build resilience, it appears Canada isn’t on the verge of a breakthrough.
After rejecting all proposals for a ceasefire-and-hostage deal, the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas is now trying to incite Arabs to revolt against their own governments under the pretext that the Arab leaders have failed to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Recently, senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya, who together with his family moved from the Gaza Strip to Qatar before the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel, called on Arabs to “march toward Palestine by land and sea and besiege the [Israeli embassies in Arab countries, especially Egypt and Jordan].”
If housing costs too much, there must not be enough supply. That’s Ottawa’s simple take on the affordable housing crisis in Canada. And their simple solution? Impose policy, including the housing accelerator fund, to get rid of zoning prohibitions and accelerate the building of new homes within existing urban footprints.
But, asks Patrick Condon, professor of urban design at the University of British Columbia: What if the feds are wrong?
