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Opinion: columnist Nick Kossovan argues Canadian politicians and media keep falling for Donald Trump’s “strategic distraction” — from the 51st-state taunt to the executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” — and that every outraged response costs Ottawa leverage while trade, energy and supply-chain files go unaddressed. His prescription, quoting Carleton University’s Fen Osler Hampson: “Lay out your position, then shut up.”

The Free the Detained Migrants Collective is holding a demonstration at noon on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, outside the Laval Immigration Detention Centre at 300 montée Saint-François in Laval, Que. The collective is calling for an end to deportations, the release of detainees and status for all, citing what it describes as a months-long rise in arrests, detentions and family separations.

Opinion: Bradford, Ontario contributor Steven Kaszab argues that the September 11, 2001 attacks are better understood as a strike against Western colonialism and consumerism than against the United States alone, and questions why the West answered with military and security spending rather than examining the grievances behind the attack.