Ottawa is watching closely as U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to play peacemaker in the war in Ukraine.
Canada has volunteered to play a role in helping maintain peace in Ukraine, if a ceasefire deal can be reached between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end the fighting that Moscow started in 2014.
The way the war ends could reverberate for decades.
Mobile phone thefts in London soared to an all-time high last year, with nearly 330 being stolen every day on the streets of the British capital.
According to Metropolitan Police figures seen by the Daily Mail, a record 116,656 mobile phone thefts were recorded in 2024, or around 13 per hour.
American hero tourist was stabbed in the face by a Syrian “asylum seeker” in Germany after he stepped in to stop the Syrian from s*xually assaulting a German woman on the train.
The “asylum seeker” was released from custody a few hours later… https://t.co/C57tncJx9H
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 24, 2025
EDMONTON — Ren Alva is no stranger to leaving a good tip.
The Edmonton university student believes in tipping service workers for a job well done, even leaving more during the holidays and after special events.
But the 22-year-old from Bahrain was taken aback during a recent visit to a U-pick berry farm, where he and his friends were asked to leave a tip at checkout.
“We did the picking ourselves,” said Alva. “They didn’t have to do anything.
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has for months been blocking Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russia, U.S. officials said, limiting Kyiv from employing a powerful weapon in its fight against Moscow’s invasion.
A high-level Defense Department approval procedure, which hasn’t been announced, has prevented Ukraine from firing any U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, against targets in Russia since late spring, the officials said. On at least one occasion, Ukraine sought to use ATACMS against a target on Russian territory but was rejected, two officials said.
The U.S. veto of long-range strikes has restricted Ukraine’s military operations as the White House has sought to woo the Kremlin into beginning peace talks.
A chronic allegation made by Jew haters is that you can’t criticize the military policies of the Israeli government in Gaza without being accused of antisemitism.
This is nonsense – criticism of those policies is not antisemitic.
When someone, something, or a cause is running out of air, the reflexive over-action is often the exact opposite of the effective action needed to rectify or to relieve the situation.
Such seems to be the case with the various woke crusades and progressive causes as the air slips out of the balloons that had held them above any remonstrance, retribution, or rebukes that would have scuttled lesser supported and coddled indulgences.
Danielle Smith and Doug Ford are courteous with each other, but it’s a fragile friendship that could shatter at any moment.
Premier Smith and her people know this very well. They’re cheery on the surface but quietly suspicious. Old grudges die hard.
Uneasily, they watch the Ontario premier’s deepening ties with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities, officials familiar with the matter said.
The planning, which has not been previously disclosed, involves several options, including mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September to what is the third most populous city in the United States.
As a young boy, I reserved a special place in hell for whichever ad executive decided it was time to launch the “back to school” marketing blitz in the midst of my carefree late summer.
The reminder was, in a word, unwelcome.
So, at the risk of being “that guy” for Canada’s Members of Parliament and their hardworking staff, let me join the “back to Parliament” commentary train for Ottawa’s upcoming fall session, which kicks off Sept. 15.
National flags have started lining our streets. They may say something more
Driving through the south west of Birmingham, it’s hard not to notice something about the lampposts.
For more than a mile, almost every one has a St George’s or union jack flag attached – thousands of them.
In one district, Weoley Castle, the BBC found two men carrying a ladder and shopping bags. A DIY trip this was not, because as we stop to talk to them one rests the ladder against a lamppost, the other pulls a union jack flag from the bag, and the next minute it’s flying high.
The BBC to my knowledge has never published a negative piece about the Palestinian flags that litter the UK. But that’s an upper class thing so it’s OK. Only proles would fly a Union Jack.
Hands up, who made this? pic.twitter.com/yG7b5uxPLl
— Donna Louise (@DonnaLouise1212) August 23, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada only has two women from the military deployed on United Nations peacekeeping missions right now, raising concerns Ottawa is failing to lead by example and may be called out by the international body for missing its targets.
In 2017, former prime minister Justin Trudeau launched a big push to have Canada become a leader internationally promoting women in peacekeeping. It was part of the his government’s feminist foreign policy.
But statistics show the number of female Canadian Armed Forces members contributing to peacekeeping has dwindled so much it recently hit rock bottom.
The UN mandates 22% of “Peace Keepers” be Wimmins.
A man in a camouflage jacket, baseball cap and football shirt whizzed across Cardiff Central Square on an e-bike on Thursday morning. Fifty yards away, in a blacked-out police van decked out with leather chairs, a desk and screens, an alarm was sounding.
His face had been matched with one on a criminal “watchlist”, and officers from South Wales Police’s live facial recognition team were mobilising to arrest him. He was wanted for breaching court-imposed conditions and, helped by this new technology supported by artificial intelligence, the police had him in handcuffs in a matter of minutes.
With a review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) looming amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, National Post spoke this week with Canadian political and trade policy expert Laura Dawson. Dawson is the former director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., where she focused on bilateral economic issues, including NAFTA/CUSMA. She is now the executive director of the Canada-U.S. Future Borders Coalition and a regular media commentator. Much of Dawson’s work involves advising governments, businesses, and organizations on cross-border trade.
A man has said he was attacked with a firebomb while putting up St George’s cross flags. The man said he was hit in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, as he and his pals were attaching flags to lampposts in the town just after midnight on Saturday (August 23).
Video posted on social media from an account named Thyme to Crusade shows something burning on the road close to the back tyres of a stationary car. The person behind the camera can be heard saying: “Putting flags up, got petrol bombed”.
