Ukraine is considering dismantling its ban on pornography as lawmakers seek to bring a large online adult industry into the tax system and redirect millions of dollars toward the country’s wartime needs.
Yaroslav Zhelezniak, an opposition lawmaker who chairs Parliament’s finance committee, estimates legalization could generate as much as $25 million a year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
He says that would be enough to finance about 30,000 drones.
For a raft of businesses north of the U.S. border, the punishing 50-per-cent tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump represent an existential threat.
For many south of the 49th parallel, the Canadian countertariffs expected to take effect next week look very different. Some expect pain, but not suffering.
“Am I happy about what’s going on? Absolutely not,” said Daroll Frewing, owner of US Bowling, a family-run maker of pinsetters, bumpers and bowling lanes based in Nevada. “But is it something that I would fight for, for our company? No, it’s not worth it. Because it’s not that big a percentage of our business.
The US ambassador to Israel has accused the Labour government of “Jew hate” after Ed Miliband said vital medicines on their way to Gaza were being blocked.
The outburst came after the foreign secretary posted a video in which he described what he had been told by people working inside the enclave.
“Frankly, it was horrific, what is unfolding,” Mr Miliband said. “The stories that people were telling me of medicines being blocked [and] children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment.”
A national poll released last week by Liaison Strategies on the public’s perception of their safety in 15 Canadian cities revealed that crime statistics are not the only thing that forms our perceptions about whether a city is safe.
Toronto is no longer recognizable as a Canadian city.
Toronto is the most cosmopolitan city in the world! https://t.co/xRZntlywes
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) September 6, 2026
Mass immigration = a ghettoized low trust society.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can't stop laughing. https://t.co/aoUu6rSFgF
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 6, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
The video is timestamped 30 March 1996. We see the back of a young woman’s head, her auburn hair cradled in a white scrunchie. She is crying quietly as the female judge reads out her sentence.
“It is ordered that you shall be put to death by execution as prescribed by law,” the judge says.
The woman’s shoulders start to quiver, and her weeping intensifies.
“Your body shall be subjected to shock by sufficient current of electricity that you shall die. May God have mercy upon you.”
Donald Trump will go away someday. The millions of people who voted for him will still be there, as well as all the damage he’s wrought in Canada-U.S. relations.
That is the unsettling reality dawning on many of us in the two weeks since the collapse of the trade talks and the resulting stream of venom directed at Canada by Trump and his enablers.
The new normal looks awfully like the old normal at the Star – Fear mongering knee-jerk Anti-Americanism served up as patriotism.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is holding talks with Donald Trump’s top envoys, in their first visit to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The Ukrainian leader greeted Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at Kyiv’s St Sophia Cathedral, close to where a Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine’s security services on Friday.
Ahead of the meeting, Zelensky said Ukraine was ready to talk about bringing “the end of the war closer”. But he said security guarantees would be required as well as a dignified post-war peace.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Trump’s trade war with Canada would have a “negligible” effect on U.S. prices and compared the northern neighbor to a “little yippy dog.”
Asked by Laura Trump on Fox News how he saw the trade war with Canada playing out, Bessent reached for a canine comparison.
“I had a German shepherd and there was a dachshund that used to antagonize her at the playground, and it kind of reminds me of that,” Bessent said.
This is where Canada–U.S. relations are now.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just compared Canada to a little “yippy” dog antagonizing a 110-pound German Shepherd.
His message is pretty clear: Washington believes Canada walked away from a favourable trade deal for…
— Shazi (@ShaziGoalie) September 6, 2026
Germany’s ruling conservative party is drawing up plans to overhaul the country’s liberal citizenship laws to fight back against the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Senior figures in Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are discussing a ban on dual citizenship and tougher language requirements to counter the hard-Right party.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Günter Krings, a senior CDU MP, said previous governments had made gaining German citizenship “too fast and too easy”.
DW one of nearly 30 state funded CBC’s has an election live stream:
Saxony-Anhalt: Far-right AfD eyes power in German state vote
Prime Minister Mark Carney moved to scrap Ottawa’s electric vehicle sales mandate shortly after federal polling found nearly half of Canadians opposed the regulations and just 35% supported them, records show.
The Department of Natural Resources commissioned the nationwide survey, which found support particularly weak west of Ontario, including British Columbia where the Liberals held 20 seats
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The first message appeared in a series of jumbled and incoherent Telegram-style words: “Help. Phase one. No consumer. Seek idea.”
Then came the reply: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board. We’ve found other agents!”
It was the first exchange of nearly 70,000 messages sent between roughly 1,200 of OpenAI’s rogue AI agents as part of a secretive plot to break out of their “cage”.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Unless Washington and Ottawa change course, Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on more than 700 U.S. products entering Canada — covering CA$27.6 billion in annual imports — are scheduled to take effect Tuesday.
The duties, ranging from 15 to 50 per cent, come as U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said this week that “there are no negotiations happening on trade right now.” A source close to the Canadian side said on Friday that no talks were underway.
A Muslim man shot and killed a pro-Palestinian photographer and his friend as they were leaving an Arizona gay bar before turning the gun on himself in what cops say was a hate crime.
Ousman Ceesay unleashed the violence in Tucson around 12:30 a.m. Monday — targeting two men he did not know, Tucson Police confirmed.
Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, were in the parking lot of Venture-N when they were confronted and then shot by Ceesay, according to cops.
Toronto is seen by Canadians as one of the country’s most dangerous cities, with many viewing it as less safe than it actually is, a new poll finds.
A national public safety perception study conducted by Liaison Strategies found that 57 percent of Canadians consider Toronto to be “somewhat” or “very” unsafe. Just 39 percent said they consider the Ontario capital to be safe.
