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TORONTO — A private email sent to all five candidates for mayor of Pickering has sparked widespread backlash after urging them to withdraw from the race to make way for a “qualified PoC.”
The message, dated Tuesday and signed by Jessica Davis, was shared publicly by candidate Shaun Rickard.
Be smart Pickering don’t elect a Chow or Mamdani.
A mentally ill asylum seeker lay in wait for a lone woman before slashing her 30 times with a broken bottle.
Ibrahim Albashir, 34, launched the frenzied attack on his victim, now 32, as she walked home from a meal with friends in March 2024.
On Tuesday, as he was jailed for 25 years, Leeds Crown Court heard of the shocking failures on both sides of the Channel that left Albashir able to travel to Britain.
Among the reasons for the most recent blowup in the trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada is the issue of rampant transshipment, or, the transfer of goods or containers from one transport mode to another at a middle location on their way to a final destination, which Canada is allegedly not only tolerating, but encouraging, at the expense of not just the U.S. but the free world.
This is a challenge, not only because it’s the kind of industry jargon that makes a political issue difficult to discuss, but also because the word has multiple meanings, and not all are bad.
h/t patthedog
Lord David Alton of Liverpool, a prominent member of the House of Lords in the UK, recently condemned the 2018 provisional agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a “deal with the devil,” highlighting its complicity in “gross violations” of religious freedom and its resultant betrayal of the underground Church in the nation.
“In the case of the Chinese Communist regime, it is making a deal with the devil—a regime that has committed genocide against Uyghur Muslims and persecutes Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, and Chinese Christians,” Alton said.
Canada and the US were once great friends, allies and trading partners. They had disagreements on various domestic and international matters, wars and military conflicts. They didn’t always see eye-to-eye on trade negotiations related to the auto sector, acid rain, softwood lumber and more. Nevertheless, the two countries always found a way to return to the same page.
Yet this historic and economic relationship has now been torn apart. Canada and the US are engulfed in a full-fledged trade war, and there’s no end in sight.
This article discusses the conclusions of Britain’s Rape Gang Inquiry as to what it called the decades-long “systematic targeting of vulnerable girls” for sexual violence in the UK “by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs” and the factors that enabled such violence, including the culpability of the British government. This article also considers whether the United States is at risk for such mass sexual violence.
The Trump administration’s top trade negotiator on Wednesday disputed Ottawa’s assertion that last-minute demands from the U.S. derailed a trade deal between the two countries, saying Canadian negotiators’ concerns about the deal’s “implementation” led Ottawa to pull the plug.
In an interview with CBC News, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the Canadian side had new requests when his counterpart, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, returned from Ottawa after the tentative deal was struck on Aug. 18.
“We had agreed to, as I’ve shared before in the press, really the best deal available to any country on the planet with respect to Canada,” Greer told CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton in his first one-on-one interview with a Canadian news outlet since trade talks broke down on Friday.
For the first time, Canadians hear the US side of the collapsed trade talks
In a CBC interview with Rosemary Barton, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said America felt “very, very confident in the deal we had struck late Tuesday night.” They believed they had offered “the… pic.twitter.com/P7vBEZj1O3
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 26, 2026
Man flees the scene after allegedly crashing his scooter into a Porsche Downtown Toronto. pic.twitter.com/f7TrzHiU07
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) August 25, 2026
It’s official: Ukraine is out of Patriot missiles to defend against Russia’s intensifying air attacks, with less than one percent of its NATO-donated stocks left. Recent ballistic missile interception rates reflect its diminished defenses, as North Korea reinforces Putin for a final push to dismember Ukraine’s industrial base and complete the conquest of Donbas.
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Next level joke pic.twitter.com/WVRP2uU8pk
— Preston Garvey⚔️✡️ (@Thebeef_shwarma) August 25, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Republicans were already struggling to defuse simmering voter frustrations over the cost of living ahead of the midterms. Then President Donald Trump rekindled his trade wars.
Trump’s latest actions — especially his decision to impose 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, inviting retaliatory duties from America’s No. 2 trading partner — has sparked new pushback from GOP lawmakers and candidates.
CBC’s David Common says the quiet part out loud
“Look at this map of Trump swing states! Darker colors mean more Canadian tariff pain! Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Maine—perfect for flipping those close Senate races and deciding Trump’s control of Washington!”
Common spent the whole… pic.twitter.com/BT5rMwAzC3
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 26, 2026
The US has issued sanctions against the UK-based direct action organisation Palestine Action, describing it as a “transnational terror group”.
The US Department of the Treasury labelled Palestine Action a specially designated global terrorist on Wednesday, which allows the US to freeze the assets of foreign individuals and entities.
Palestine Action became the first direct action group to be proscribed under the UK’s Terrorism Act in July last year, placing it alongside the likes of Islamic State and Boko Haram. The UK ban is the subject of a legal challenge that will be heard by the UK supreme court in November.
Canadians responded to President Trump’s first round of tariffs a year and a half ago with a grass-roots effort to bruise the United States, boycotting alcohol, vegetables and cross-border travel.
They rallied around the flag, inspected grocery labels like detectives and shopped local, all while Prime Minister Mark Carney looked across the ocean for new trade partnerships. Across the country, Canadians had elbows up, an idiom of defiance ignited by the Canadian comedian Mike Myers that has its roots in hockey.
They won’t be dropping elbows any time soon, as new and threatened tariffs endanger jobs and the existence of companies both large and small.
I’m likin that Sharia ban!
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump with Glenn Beck this morning.
On Canada: “I had a deal… they don’t have anything that we have to have… It’s time to teach Canada you can’t do this anymore.”
On Sharia: “I would absolutely prohibit the Sharia law thing. It’s happening in this… pic.twitter.com/gogpQHYq7X
— Jeffrey Pedersen (@intheMatrixxx) August 26, 2026
Between last Friday and Tuesday, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC spent 18 minutes and 25 seconds on their flagship morning and evening newscasts fawning, giggling, and reveling in the Chinese Communist Party’s second World Humanoid Robot Games with thousands of robots completing tasks ranging from basic household chores to track and field events. Missing was any direct acknowledgment of concerns about surveillance by the CCP.
The most we got were a pathetic two sentences from NBC alluding to a U.S. ban on robots and quadrupeds because of “national security concerns.”
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of waging a “senseless brutal attack” on Canada and is urging him to “take a page” from the late Dolly Parton.
Chow made the comment during an interview with CBS Mornings on Wednesday before repeating it during a subsequent interview with CNN.
When asked by CNN if she agrees with the threat of “cutting off electricity to the United States” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said “whatever it takes” and “we have to get attention.” pic.twitter.com/lUJK5ryTmZ
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) August 26, 2026
h/t Mauser
