A Syrian court has sentenced the country’s former president Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 14-year civil war, in which about half a million people died.
The two men fled to Moscow after being ousted by a lightning rebel offensive in December 2024 which toppled the dictatorial regime in just 11 days.
The cost of building the Ontario Line has risen once again and Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay says that the total budget will remain “under pressure” amid “one of the worst supply chain shocks” in decades.
Lindsay confirmed at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday that the awarding of a $4.32 billion contract for three-kilometres of tunneling underneath Pape Avenue and the construction of two underground stations has pushed the current cost of the Ontario Line to around $34 billion.
That is more than three times the original $10.9 billion cost estimate that was first shared for the project back in 2019.
Someone is getting rich.
Yesterday I wrote about AOC’s “defense” of the woke insanity of the past few years.
“Woke one was craaaazzy.”
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and his American counterpart are aiming to present U.S. President Donald Trump a path to a potential trade deal as early as Monday, CBC News has learned.
Sources who were recently briefed on the matter say the hope is the joint proposal can be presented to Trump at least a day before the president’s latest tariff deadline.
Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appeared Tuesday morning in Manhattan state court for a final pre-trial conference, where the judge addressed contentious issues surrounding media access at the highly anticipated trial.
Judge Gregory Carro announced that there would be an overflow courtroom for the 8 September trial. The media access plan for Mangione’s case did not initially include an overflow courtroom – which is common in high-profile cases, such as Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial.
Olivia Chow was not elected as the development industry’s mayor. Yet three years into her term, her administration has assembled the most ambitious municipal housing agenda Toronto has seen since amalgamation.
That is not the same thing as solving the housing crisis, which is real and persistent. It is, however, a record worth taking seriously.
This week offered the clearest evidence yet. Standing in Scarborough, Mayor Chow and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more than $2.7 billion in federal investment, alongside more than $700 million from the city of Toronto, to advance 18 projects representing more than 5,600 rental homes.
Just what we needed more “announcements”.
Why we were living in a virtual “announcement desert”!
Oh, yes. The communist, terrorist-loving Muslim man of the moment, Hasan Piker — the man touting America-hating commie candidates and cheering on the Islamic takeover of the U.S. — is an anchor baby. He is a living reminder of why the birthright, anchor-baby, birth-tourism citizenship that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. confirms that our Constitution, contrary to Justice Robert H. Jackson’s wish, really is a suicide pact.
After a Canadian national working as a NATO intern in Belgium was arrested on suspicion of espionage, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadian officials have been involved from the start.
“Any time you have a situation, you should take stock and take lessons from this,” Carney said in response to questions from reporters on Aug. 5.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may be downplaying her 2028 ambitions, but she has left little doubt that she doesn’t plan to remain in the House indefinitely.
Since Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez has triangulated against fellow Democratic Socialists of America members who remained bedeviled by the excesses of “peak woke,” distanced herself from her own 2020 positions, and advertised her family planning in a way that instantly divided conservatives online.
A Canadian woman was arrested in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, last month in connection with the theft of a package containing thousands of dollars worth of gold and silver.
The 25-year-old, from Ontario, was charged with forgery, theft by unlawful taking and theft by deception for taking a package containing US$43,549 in gold and silver, according to Bensalem Township Police, before flying to Arizona and eventually making her way to the Canadian border in New York.
The University of Michigan will drop grades for first-semester freshmen next year in an effort to “curb the mental health crisis unfolding among college-aged individuals,” according to the school.
Instead of a letter grade, first-semester transcripts will show “pass or no credit.” The program is designed to help students “acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic motivations to guide personally meaningful academic journeys,” the school said.
First do no harm.
That’s not an easy ask of anyone trying to defend their country’s interests in a negotiation with U.S. President Donald Trump. Not when he’s wielding the world’s biggest economy as a weapon, and seems less interested in strengthening it than in harming others.
Donald Trump secretly swapped planes as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month, as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat, US media report.
The US president boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck, the Washington Post said. Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know he had been smuggled out.
Corporate welfare by Canada’s federal and provincial governments has more than tripled since 2015 and is strangling economic growth, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
It found corporate subsidies totalled $87.7 billion in 2024 alone, with $44.7 billion coming from the federal government and $43 billion from the provincial governments combined.
That more than tripled the 2015 level of $25.1 billion, adjusted for inflation and population growth.
Tripled since 2015 you say? Now what is it about that very special year? Ah well socialism for the rich etc.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci privately raised concerns that the COVID-19 vaccine could “theoretically” be linked to miscarriages in expectant mothers, despite having publicly insisted there were “no red flags” for pregnant women.
“I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of,” wrote Fauci in a Jan. 25, 2021, text exchange with then-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
I bet Mengele thought he was working for the “greater good” too.
