The man accused of opening fire at a Jewish celebration on Bondi Beach faces 59 charges after 15 people were killed in the attack.
Naveed Akram, who allegedly shot at a crowd of hundreds alongside his father – Sajid Akram – on Sunday, spent two days in a coma after being shot by police.
The 24-year-old is expected to face a Bail Division Local Court Seven, Sydney, from his hospital bed on Wednesday afternoon.
Toronto’s top baby names in 2024: Muhammad and Emma
Muhammad leapfrogged to the top of baby names for boys born in Toronto in 2024 while Emma edged out Olivia as the most popular among girls.
According to a list of names provided Tuesday by the Ontario government, Muhammad moved up from fourth spot in 2023 and ahead of Noah as the most popular baby boy name in the city.
h/t MP
In a political climate plagued by toxic acrimony, it’s refreshing to see people from opposite sides of the aisle find agreement on, well, anything. Possibilities abound here in Donald Trump’s America, though, and every once in a while we get treated to little miracles.
Recently, Statistics Canada released a revision of its calculations of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) in recent years. GDP measures the total production in an economy in a given year, and per-person GDP is widely accepted by economists as one of the most useful metrics for assessing quality of life. The new estimate places Canada’s GDP for 2024 at 1.4 per cent larger than previously reported.
By the standards of these sorts of revisions—which are usually quite small—the recent update is significant. But make no mistake, the new numbers do not change the fundamental story of Canada’s economic performance, which has been one of historically weak growth and stagnant living standards for an unusually long stretch of time.
“… For at least a decade, Reiner was one of the ugliest, cruelest, and most dishonest political animals on the public stage. Heaven only knows how he found time to do anything other than abuse his status as a Hollywood and political elite, as he seemed to eat up his waking hours spreading what he knew were lies (the Russia Collusion Hoax, etc.). Worse, he deliberately engaged in a crusade to dehumanize Trump and his supporters as existential threats to the world, democracy, and America.
Sorry, but there is no excusing Reiner’s use of his public standing to abuse the truth.”
There is no joy in Hogtown. Public transit has struck out. Again. After many years of construction and $3.7 billion spent, there is a new light-rail line on Finch Avenue West, in the city’s north end. It is 10.3 kilometres long, and almost entirely at grade. (For $360 million per kilometre, many places in the world can build fully underground heavy-rail subways. But the mystery of the North American infrastructure surcharge is a subject for another day.)
Australia is poised to overhaul its gun laws in the wake of the terror attack on Jewish festivalgoers at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday tabled changes to national laws at a meeting of the National Cabinet, a roundtable of the nation’s federal, state and territory leaders.
They includes bringing into effect a national firearms register, which is anticipated would allow information sharing on gun owners across state borders.
A conservative Canadian think tank ranked Canada as the twelfth “freest” country in the world based on a global index that measures human freedoms, while claiming that freedom has declined for the vast majority of the world’s population in recent years.
The Fraser Institute, jointly with the U.S.-based Cato Institute, released its annual Human Freedom Index on Tuesday, which found that nearly 90 per cent of people across the world had less freedom in 2023 – the latest year for which data was available – than they did in 2019.
In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss former President Joe Biden’s failure to make sure our adversaries in Syria paid a cost for attacking Americans, and the failure of so many immigrants to say “thank you” for all we do.
The Liberal government concealed a deal with alleged “raging antisemite” Laith Marouf, two Conservative MPs say after they learned about it through a written inquiry.
Marouf received $122,661 as part of a Canadian Heritage program to deliver anti-racism lectures. According to Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), where Marouf was a senior consultant who led seminars, three consultative events by the centre took place in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax in 2022.
A man who used his car as a “weapon” to plough into more than 130 people at Liverpool FC’s victory parade has been jailed for 21 years and six months.
Paul Doyle, 54, drove at crowds “in a rage” after his “anger had completely taken hold of him” shortly before 18:00 BST on 26 May, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Judge Andrew Menary KC said the ex-Royal Marine, who stared straight ahead with no expression as he was sentenced, had generated “fear and panic” and his “disregard for human life defied ordinary understanding”.
Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, is another piece of legislation with an Orwellian name that the Canadian political class periodically rolls out. Under current Canadian law, anyone convicted of “the wilful promotion of hate” can face imprisonment, but exemptions exist for statements made in “good faith” or based on belief in a religious text. Bill C-9 seeks to eliminate these exemptions and is likely to pass through Parliament. Beyond creating tension between the state and civil liberties groups, the bill exposes deeper fissures that threaten Canada’s already fragile national unity.
For years, President Trump’s 2024 campaign manager and now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had said next to nothing in public, and now we know why. There was apparently always a high risk she would make a complete fool out of herself, her boss, and, most offensively, all of his supporters.
A&W Restaurant franchisees in Québec say they face closure without migrant labour. Owners in petition to Commons human resources committee said they could find no Québecers willing to work in fast food.https://t.co/zKpQJmTW06 #cdnpoli @AWCanada pic.twitter.com/dAAkSJqKt6
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) December 17, 2025
H/T Mauser
Nearly seven in every 10 Canadians are identifying the cost of living in their area as a major issue, according to a newly released survey.
An Abacus Data poll found that 67 percent of the 1,500 people surveyed earlier this month said the cost of living in their area is the worst they can ever remember it being. Another 21 percent say the cost of living is bad where they live, although they can recall periods when it was even more challenging.
Only 11 percent say the cost of living is not bad, the survey said.
