Jimmy Kimmel set to return to ABC on Tuesday after being yanked off air over Charlie Kirk comments

The Walt Disney Company announced Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to air on Tuesday following a weeklong suspension over his monologue about Charlie Kirk’s murder.

In a statement, Disney said it halted production last Wednesday “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.” The company added that “some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.”

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Ford government lays out demands for bail, sentencing reform ahead of new federal legislation

The Ontario government has outlined a series of measures it wants to see from the federal government’s upcoming legislation meant to tighten bail reform and sentencing rules.

A joint letter sent Monday by the province’s solicitor general and attorney general is recommending a list of proposals for the federal government to increase public safety.

The list includes restoring mandatory minimum sentencing for serious crimes and removing bail availability for offenders charged with murder, terrorism, human trafficking, intimate partner violence, drug trafficking, criminal possession or use of restricted or prohibited firearms and violent carjackings and home invasions.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk meet and shake hands months after messy split

Donald Trump met with billionaire Elon Musk, his once trusted adviser with whom the president had a spectacular public falling out, at a memorial event for right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, raising speculation that the two could be reconciling.

Trump shook hands with and chatted to Musk, who once led the president’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which took a hatchet to the US federal workforce and agencies in the early months of Trump’s second administration.

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Restaurants under pressure as Canadians dine out less to save money: report

A new report shows restaurants are under pressure as consumers steer away from dining out, while rising operational costs squeeze profit margins.

A new Restaurants Canada report finds three in four Canadians are eating out less, often because of the high cost of living. That share is even higher among those aged 18 to 34 at 81 per cent.

Restaurants Canada chief executive Kelly Higginson says it’s an “alarming” trend for the food service industry.


Cost and out of control tipping are huge factors but for me 3rd world staffing via the TFW etc… creates an unease nearly impossible to overcome.

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Asylum claims in Canada are down nearly 40 per cent in 2025. Here’s why

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Imagine a Western country declaring it has zero irregular migration. It sounds impossible, but that is exactly what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed last month.

“More than 200 days into this job, we have achieved operational security at the border,” the DHS website touted, echoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s oft-made claims of having halted illegal migration. “Zero illegal immigrants were released into the country in May, June, and July.”

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Rifts in Gaza flotilla? Greta Thunberg removed from leadership committee

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was removed from the Global Sumud Flotilla’s Steering Committee last week, and the mission’s spokesperson left the Gaza-bound vessels amid a reorientation of communications priorities.

Thunberg, who joined a previous run of the Israeli naval blockade around Gaza in June with the Madleen, appeared on the GSF’s website as part of its leadership committee until at least last Sunday. Il Manifesto, which has a correspondent aboard one of the flotilla vessels, reported on Tuesday that Thunberg was seen dragging her suitcase along a Tunis dock to transfer from the Steering Committee flagship Family to another vessel, the Alma.

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Recognition of Palestinian state puts Canada at odds with U.S.

Canada, Britain and Australia officially recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday, a co-ordinated effort to put pressure on Israel as it wages war in Gaza, and to revive the chances of a two-state solution to the conflict.

Portugal followed suit with a similar statement later in the day, and France is expected to issue its recognition Monday.

The decision by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government puts it at odds with this country’s most important ally, the United States, and represents a significant shift in Canadian foreign policy, which previously held that such recognition would come only after a negotiated peace agreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

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Paris special court opens trial for three Muslim women accused of joining so-called Islamic State group

The trial of the three women, all from the Clain family, opened in Paris on Monday. They are accused of being members of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group.

The trial of three women accused of joining the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group opened at a special court in Paris on Monday.

The trial, which is expected to run until 26 September, is taking place at a special court with no jury, a standard practice in terrorist cases in France.

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Why it’s time to get rid of grades from our schools … said no one facing major surgery ever

Why it’s time to get rid of grades from our schools

There are many problems in our educational system that will take a great deal of energy, ingenuity, and money to fix. But there is one policy change we could make that would immediately garner better results for students: it is time to end grading in schools.

Grades are so much a part of our education system that they feel inevitable. But several years ago, at the Trent School of Education where I am a faculty member, we did away with grades for our Bachelor of Education students. The result? Far better quality of work and learning. Such change doesn’t have to be limited to the university either. It can be this way in all levels of schooling, and it is well past time.

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The anti-migration vigilantes placing South Africa’s hospitals under siege

As soon as the group arrives at the hospital gates, they loudly declare that anyone in the queue without a South African ID must form a new line.

South Africans can stay for treatment, but foreigners will not be allowed in unless they can show insurance or medical visas.

Patient by patient, the group check documents and decide who goes in and who is turned away.

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Transport Canada reduced to on-call Arctic surveillance this summer, documents show

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Transport Canada scaled back its summertime surveillance of the Arctic this year for pollution, endangered whale protection and marine safety, CBC News has learned.

The decision to limit overflights comes at a time of increased political and national security attention on the region and five years after the department promised to deploy a drone for heightened vigilance.

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Kneecap to take legal action after MP reveals they have been barred from Canada

Kneecap are to take legal action following comments made by a Canadian MP after the rap trio was barred from entering the country.

In an announcement made via a video on his X account, Liberal MP Vince Gasparro – a parliamentary secretary – said the decision had been taken following concerns that the rap trio had “amplified political violence” and their alleged support for proscribed organisations.

Gasparro – a parliamentary secretary – said the decision had been taken following concerns that the rap trio had “amplified political violence” and their alleged support for proscribed organisations.

Mr Gasparro said Canada had deemed the group “ineligible” to enter the country “on the advice of our officials”.

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