How ICE cancelled summer: hundreds of Latino festivals face impossible decision over fear of raids

For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in January, “when the raids started happening”. The decision was rooted in “trying to be safe”, Gutierrez said. “We’re not talking about folks that are irregular in terms of their immigration status. You only have to look a certain way and speak a certain language and then you’re in danger.”

For decades prior to 2025, the event had gone on interrupted – “in rain, in extreme heat” – and hosted thousands of Colombians and non-Colombians alike, Gutierrez said. “Our mission is to share our culture with people that don’t know it,” he added. “To not have the opportunity – that’s where it hurts the most.”

They’re upset that illegal alien invaders won’t be able to attend festivals.

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Why it is a mistake to recognize a Palestinian state

Canada’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood is a grave mistake, for several reasons.

First, it rewards terrorism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wrong about many things, but he is right about that.

Palestinian advocates have argued for years that the major Western powers should grant recognition to a sovereign Palestine, as many other countries already have. The Western powers have always balked, arguing that formal recognition should come only after a final peace settlement. Now France, Britain and Canada have agreed. They are the first members of the G7 club of rich, democratic nations to take this momentous step.

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Student in Austria Receives Lower Grade for Not Using Gender Neutral Language

A controversial case at the Austrian Private College of Teacher Education Burgenland has caused significant uproar: a student was given a lower grade for not using gender-neutral language in her coursework.

According to the university, its actions were based on guidelines issued by the Office for Gender and Diversity Competence, which had stated that gender-inclusive language was a basic criterion in evaluating student assignments.

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The two ways Trump’s tariffs on Canada could collapse — despite his fight to keep them

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Time’s up. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump raised the tariff rate on Canadian goods not covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) from 25 to 35 per cent, saying they “have to pay a fair rate.” The White House claims it’s because of Canada’s failure to curb the “ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, however, show that fentanyl seizures from Canada make up less than 0.1 per cent of total U.S. seizures of the drug; most smuggling comes across the Mexican border.

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Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew’s secrets, new book claims

Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew’s “most intimate secrets” to foreign intelligence agencies around the world, a new book has claimed.

Compromising material on the Duke of York is alleged to have been passed to Israel’s Mossad, the Saudi Arabian authorities and the Libyan intelligence services under Colonel Gaddafi.

Details of the claims are made in a new book on the prince, by author Andrew Lownie, which describes how the royal was easy prey for a “rattlesnake” like Epstein.

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Petition for Referendum to Keep Alberta in Canada Approved by Elections Alberta

A petition asking Albertans if they want to remain a part of Canada has been approved by Elections Alberta. A competing petition calling for Alberta’s separation has been referred to the courts by Elections Alberta to determine whether it is constitutional before it can proceed.

Alberta’s chief electoral officer, Gordon McClure, approved the petition against Alberta’s separation by group Alberta Forever Canada on July 30, saying as per legislation, it now needed to garner signatures from 10 percent of eligible voters, or 293,976 signatures, to qualify as a referendum.

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Police covering up rape of girl, 12, by asylum seekers, council leader claims

A council leader has accused police of “covering up” an alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl by Afghan asylum seekers.

Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was charged last week with the rape of the girl in Nuneaton, while Mohammad Kabir, 23, was charged with kidnap and strangulation.

Warwickshire Police reportedly advised local councillors and officials not to reveal the asylum-seeker background of the two suspects, for fear of “inflaming community tensions”.

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GUNTER: Trudeau cost Canada a chance to get into global LNG game — Trump and U.S. are reaping the benefit

Last Sunday, at President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland (a.k.a. King Donald’s summer palace), Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union pledged European countries would buy US$750 billion (over $1 trillion Canadian) of U.S. energy – largely LNG – over the next three years in return for Trump promising to impose only 15% tariffs on the union’s member states.

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Mexico leads in Canadian traveler deaths and violent crime reports abroad

Mexico recorded more sudden deaths and violent crimes involving Canadian travelers than any other country last year, according to a federal report, despite drawing far fewer visitors than the United States.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Annual Consular Data Report found that 204 Canadians died suddenly while in Mexico in 2024, the highest number of any foreign destination.

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Madness and violence

With the second Trump term, reestablishing the rule of law is underway, but its universal realization is uncertain. Federal anti-discrimination law is clear enough, but hasn’t been enforced, or has been bizarrely interpreted to not only allow men pretending to be women to participate in women’s sports, but to suggest that was the intention of those writing such laws.

Other laws have been warped not only to allow the surgical mutilation of gender confused children, but to force taxpayers to pay for the procedures and to entirely abrogate parent’s rights to direct the upbringing of their children. Kamala Harris ran on free trans surgeries for illegal immigrants and imprisoned felons.

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The horror of ‘cutting season’

Yesterday as I went through boarding at Gatwick Airport I smiled as I watched all the excited children going off on their holidays with their families. Everyone had on their new holiday clothes, and despite the crowded check-ins, people were in a good mood. I boarded my flight to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Addis is a busy hub with connections across Africa.

As we began to cruise, I noticed that many of the women on my flight were wearing full black abayas with hijabs, as were the girls they were with, who were aged between eight and 12. I soon realised that these groups consisted only of women: little girls with their mothers and grannies. There were no men. I remembered that this was the start of the long summer holiday, and that these children did not know what was going to happen to them.

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Canada Renews Funding for China Student Exchange Program That Requires Allegiance to Communist Regime

Canada has renewed funding for a bilateral scholarship program that requires Chinese candidates applying to study in Canada to show allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and uphold the party’s “socialist system.”

David Morrison, deputy minister of foreign affairs at Global Affairs Canada, on July 30 signed an agreement with his Chinese counterpart, executive vice minister Ma Zhaoxu, to renew the Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program. Through the program, Ottawa funds Chinese applicants to conduct research at Canadian universities as visiting scholars for 4–12 months.

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The Systemic Persecution of Christians Continues in Pakistan

After 23 years on death row, a 72-year-old Christian in Pakistan, Anwar Kenneth, was acquitted of blasphemy this past June by the country’s Supreme Court.

Kenneth, a Catholic, was arrested in 2001 for sending letters deemed blasphemous towards Islam’s Prophet Mohammad and the Quran. He was charged under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which carries a mandatory death sentence.

In July 2002, a Lahore court sentenced him to death after he pleaded guilty, declaring, “God is my counsel.”

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The Macrons’ trans defamation suit is silly and self-defeating

Not since Jason Donovan sued the Face magazine in 1992 for calling him gay have public figures protested too much as the Macrons have just done. Both Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have risen to the bait of right-wing influencer Candace Owens’s relentless tomcat-calling that Mme Mac was born male (and is actually her brother in disguise). It’s all wonderfully silly – and just what we need when everything seems so dismal.

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The wrong plan, the wrong reasons

Canada’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state will likely change little in the world, as our country has refused to play a constructive role in the region for many years, but it confirms for Canadian Jews that their government is not really for them.

Since the October 7 attack on Israel, Canada has witnessed an explosion of hate targeting the Jewish community. Jews in Canada have had their businesses targeted, synagogues and schools have been shot at and firebombed, neighbourhoods have been harassed and Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument has been defaced.


It was a clear message to the Muslim World that Carney is on Team Muhammad.

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