Turns out the censored film about the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel will be gracing Toronto International Film Festival screens after all.
TIFF officials were expected to issue a news release on Thursday afternoon after a wild 24 hours of uncertainty and international furor.
As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way
With a trip to Florence booked, all I want is to rewatch Medici. The 2016 historical drama series tells of the rise of the powerful Florentine banking dynasty, and with it, the story of the Renaissance. Until recently, I could simply have gone to Netflix and found it there, alongside a wide array of award-winning and obscure titles. But when I Google the show in 2025, the Netflix link only takes me to a blank page. I don’t see it on HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, or any of the smaller streaming platforms. On Amazon Prime I am required to buy each of the three seasons or 24 episodes separately, whereupon they would be stored in a library subject to overnight deletion. Raised in the land of The Pirate Bay, the Swedish torrent index, I feel, for the first time in a decade, a nostalgia for the high seas of digital piracy. And I am not alone.
Police arrest suspect accused of sexually assaulting three women at downtown Toronto parks
Mayor Chow will likely appoint him Parks Ambassador.
A man accused of deliberately driving into a crowd of fans at Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade has been charged with 24 new offences, including attempted grievous bodily harm against two babies.
Paul Doyle, 53, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court over video-link from prison and became tearful as he was asked to confirm his identity.
He was due to enter pleas to the seven counts he originally faced over the incident in May, but the court heard prosecutors had introduced 24 new counts to the indictment.
VICTORIA — The head of the Canada’s police chiefs association says they are guided by “outdated and inadequate” laws that were never designed to take on the current criminal landscape that no longer respects international borders.
Thomas Carrique, president of the Association of Chiefs of Police, said police would have been in a better place to “disrupt” transnational crime, if the federal government had listened to his group in 2001, when it last proposed legislative changes.
Those of us who aren’t “today years old” have always believed there was a much darker, ulterior motive for James Comey showing President-Elect Donald Trump information from the preposterous Steele dossier. It’s true that Comey wanted to give CNN an excuse to break the made-up Russiagate story he leaked to reporters. That was treacherous enough.
This is a very VERY bad idea and will not end well. @fancypants_s https://t.co/CHvwohfgBy
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 14, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly and Patti Jo
China’s announcement this week of a 75.8% tariff on Canadian canola seed, effective Thursday, is not an isolated policy shift — it’s the latest escalation in a trade conflict that Ottawa itself helped set in motion.
Earlier this year, on March 20, Beijing imposed 100% tariffs on Canadian canola oil, canola meal, and peas, along with an additional 25% on lobster and pork. These measures were already weighing on our agri-food exports.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) wants radical left protesters engaged in the “terrorist practice of blocking roads as a form of political speech” to face the same repercussions they do in Florida.
The freshman congressman has introduced the Reinstating Orderly Access for Drivers (ROAD) Act, but Fine simply refers to the bill as “thump thump” – the sound of a two-axeled vehicle cruising over a protestoer-sized bump.
h/t DS
Ontario Seat Count On The Latest Nanos Poll:
LPC: 116 (+38)
NDP: 3 (+3)
CPC: 2 (-42)
GPC: 1 (+1)(Change With June 20)
Read it here -> https://t.co/x0swokzBKp pic.twitter.com/Y9sVWVYr5n
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) August 14, 2025
h/t Mauser
Canada’s prohibition on U.S. alcohol is creating a headache for American liquor and winemakers.
On the shelves of many Canadian liquor stores, bottles of Jack Daniel’s, Maker’s Mark and Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum are nowhere to be found. Thousands of bottles of U.S. wine and spirits sit in storage across the country. At tastings, Canadian drinkers are turning their noses up at American alcohol.
After President Trump initiated a series of trade battles with Canada earlier this year, Canadian provinces, which largely handle alcohol imports and distribution in the country, stopped placing orders for American-made spirits, beer and wine. In liquor stores, clerks pulled U.S. brands off shelves, replacing them with Canadian products.
Russian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway’s intelligence service has said.
The admission, by the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), marks the first time that Oslo has formally attributed the cyber-attack in April on Bremanger, western Norway, to Moscow.
The attack on the hydropower dam, which produces electricity, released 500 litres (132 gallons) of water a second for four hours until the incident was detected and stopped.
The introduction by a council of a so-called “fat tax” for wider burial plots at one of its cemeteries has been criticised by residents and a funeral director.
At Danescourt cemetery in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, it will cost families £2,700 if they need to buy a 6ft wide plot, a 20% increase on the cost of a standard 5ft grave.
Funeral director Ross Hickton said the decision was “not really acceptable or fair” and labelled it a “fat tax”.
The number of violent incidents in Ontario’s classrooms has skyrocketed in recent years, according to new data obtained by Global News, leading to calls for the Ford government to spend more on the education system.
Years’ worth of data shows the level of violence reported by school boards to the Ministry of Education has risen by 77 per cent since the Progressive Conservatives took office, with more than 4,400 incidents reported in the 2023-24 year alone.
Hmmm … Peel and the TDSB report the highest levels of violent incidents.
No doubt these are acts of rebellion against colonial repression, slavery and the White man’s racism.
Or it could be the result of bad parenting, the mass import of unsuitable cultures and or other causes that will never be discussed because it’s easier to make shit up rather than face the harsh consequences of population replacement.
