When it comes to the removal of bike lanes on Bloor St. West, one battle was won on Tuesday night. But the conflict is far from over.
At a news conference on Wednesday morning, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw warned that those who interfere with the planned removal of the bike lanes around the Bloor St. W., and Islington area could face charges, including obstructing police or mischief.
Nine of the country’s biggest banks spent five years running an outrageous campaign to cut conservatives, Christians, pro-lifers, and Trump supporters out of the financial system, and the federal government now has the receipts.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Debanking Review on Wednesday. Miranda Devine first broke the story in the New York Post. The 47-page report, titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” draws on a hundred thousand complaints and fifty thousand internal bank records from 2020 through 2025. It names JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.
Every one of them hid behind the same excuse: “reputation risk.”
TD has been caught in a string of questionable activities, even colluding with the likes of North Korea and drug cartels.
As the Ford government faces increasing scrutiny over how a handful of private career colleges tapped into the OSAP system, Ontario’s provincial police say they are reviewing the allegations but have yet to decide on whether to launch a formal criminal probe.
In early October, the Ministry of Colleges and Universities sounded the alarm about six private career colleges that were engaged in “egregious use of taxpayer dollars” and accused them of criminality by taking advantage of the student assistance program.
As almost 300 mostly unidentified Canadians attend a trade mission in Mumbai, the High Commissioner of India to Canada predicts that this country will need 15 million immigrants to meet the workforce needs of a growing economy in the next 10 years.
In 2024, a rash of cheap online polls skewed forecasts, underestimating Donald Trump’s eventual margin of victory.
This time around, a handful of pollsters have spotted another possible error in a type of survey that finds participants by sending out SMS messages, called text-to-web polling.
They say it is returning a disproportionate number of disenchanted Trump voters who have switched sides.
HBO is bringing back the ratings flop Girls for a five-episode seventh season.
One of my favorite pastimes is pointing out just how much the elites in the corporate media, most especially in the entertainment media, pretend something is a cultural phenomenon when no one watches it.
It’s a mystery.
Federal NDP Leader Avi Lewis and Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles are calling on the federal government to nationalize Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco, amid layoffs Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says violate the company’s agreement under the Investment Canada Act.
In a release Tuesday, Lewis said the federal government should take “immediate action” after Stelco’s American owner Cleveland-Cliffs broke its commitment to maintain the same number of unionized workers and similar numbers of non-union workers for five years when it bought the company in 2024.
The federal investigation that prompted the search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence on Monday centers on claims that she or her late father may have lied on decades-old immigration paperwork to secure legal status and eventually U.S. citizenship, three people familiar with the matter said.
Omar — a Minnesota Democrat who was born in Somalia and fled civil war there with her family before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1995 — has repeatedly rejected such allegations, which have circulated in conservative media for years. She dismissed them again in a statement Monday as “baseless lies and smear campaigns.”
Diana Fox Carney arrives in Halifax on Wednesday on her first trip there as Canada’s Ocean Envoy, ahead of an international conference she will chair in the city next spring.
The Our Ocean Conference has raised about US$180-billion in commitments since it was launched by former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry in 2014 as a faster alternative to negotiated treaties. The conference asks governments, businesses and conservation groups to make voluntary commitments to protect the ocean.
Another Carney slushfund.
Human rights groups have raised the alarm over the growing number of death sentences and executions in Iran, after reports that a 23-year-old woman, Najmeh Amini, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social-media post.
Amini, an accounting student, is being held in Vakilabad prison in the north-east city of Mashhad. She has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and death in separate cases heard by a revolutionary and a criminal court.
Can Blue Rodeo or Rush swing the balance of power in Toronto? How endorsements affect the mayoral race
Can Blue Rodeo or Rush swing the balance of power in Toronto?
It may be unlikely, but both of Toronto’s mayoral candidates have been pushing out endorsements from high-profile supporters as the race to lead the city tightens, hoping rock stars, former politicians and sitting MPs can give them a potentially decisive edge.
Bradford closing gap with Chow in Toronto’s mayoral race
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office confirmed on Wednesday that the country’s military has been cut off from full access to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite system as it seeks to defend itself against a now nearly five-year Russian invasion.
“Tonight SpaceX introduced a speed limit for the Starlink terminals in motion,” said Presidential Adviser Sergiy Beskrestnov.
“Our defence forces were not warned about this restriction, which led to the disruption of a number of missions,” he added.
“Obviously, this action cannot be a coincidence and is linked to the current political situation,” he added.
This legendary Canadian musician just became a U.S. citizen
After more than 60 years of living in the U.S., Joni Mitchell has become an American citizen.
On Tuesday, the 82-year-old singer-songwriter posted a photo and video on Instagram of her citizenship ceremony with the caption, “A journey that began 62 years ago.”
I wonder what Carney told Joni Mitchell to make her jump ship.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) October 14, 2026
Seems she’s had TDS for 60 years as well.
A Ukrainian man has gone on trial in Hamburg accused of blowing up Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines to Germany, four years after one of the most dramatic acts of sabotage in modern European history.
Prosecutors say Serhii Kuznetsov played a leading role in a team of saboteurs that destroyed the pipelines, accusing him of a war crime. His defence has called for the case to be dismissed.
The case is highly sensitive in Germany, seen as one of Ukraine’s closest allies since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, seven months before the attacks took place.
Canada has joined three Western allies in expressing disappointment regarding the Palestinian president’s move to postpone elections for nearly a year, and is calling on him to reconsider his decision.
Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Portugal recognized Palestinian statehood in September 2025, saying the move was intended to revive hopes for peace between Palestinians and Israelis and advance a two-state solution. The United States and Israel condemned the recognition.
The Palestinians lied? OMG!
