Record numbers of over-60s are being referred to the Government’s troubled anti-terrorism scheme, the Daily Mail can reveal today.
Home Office figures show 127 adults in their 60s or beyond were put on Prevent’s radar in 2023/24 – the most since records began in 2016.
Of them, 43 had sparked alarm for expressing ‘extreme right wing’ views.
h/t XC
Few people have heard of Captain Kermit Beahan.
Beahan was the bomb-aimer on the B29 that dropped the plutonium bomb, known as Fat Man, on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, an act that ended possibly the cruellest war in history.
Except that he didn’t drop Fat Man on Nagasaki: He dropped it to the north, 2.18 miles short of the city –— on tennis courts belonging to the managing director of Mitsubishi, next to what had been the largest Roman Catholic cathedral in Japan, in the hilly suburb of Urakami.
As president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, I’ve had the privilege of calling the public’s attention to ongoing energy-related public policy issues which drive up the cost of living in this country. In that same vein, I’d like to call your attention to another matter which is making our lives more expensive. It is, functionally, a significant tax on all economic activity, but one which no political party ran on and none of our representatives in parliament voted for.
I’m speaking of the weakness of the Canadian dollar.
Jeffrey Dowell and Barbara Poushinsky’s home in the rural community of Rideau Ferry, Ont., about an hour outside Ottawa, has a barn-style gable roof and chipper red siding. Inside, the high ceiling, large windows and open-concept layout in the kitchen-living room give the home a modern feel, while wooden pillars throughout the space add a rustic touch.
The 1,200-square-foot house is chic and homey, and kitted out with features that will help the retired couple age in place. You’d never know much of it was built in a factory and delivered to their property on the back of a truck.
Loni Anderson has died, just days before her 80th birthday.
The actress’ longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan, said she died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, per the Associated Press.
“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” Anderson’s family said in a statement.
h/t blackglass
It’s not shocking that Rolling Stone would do this, but it’s still a bit jarring to see that they have zero shame. They claim—get this—that the new Russian collusion documents that have been released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) were manufactured by Moscow. That’s right—all the files showing a massive seditious conspiracy by Democrats and the media is a Kremlin operation. I must laugh at this sloppy, brain-dead attempt at gaslighting and pivoting. The game is over, kids. You lost.
It takes only a few minutes of listening to right-wing politicians and podcasters to understand why their message appeals to so many young men in Canada, who increasingly feel that society has abandoned them in favour of women, racial and sexual minorities and the moneyed classes. Conservatives have sold them on the idea that they represent the true counterculture, rising up against the excesses and iniquities of the left-wing establishment that have kept them from finding a job or partner or affordable home.
Meanwhile, there is a fundamental problem with the message progressives have for young men today, especially those who are cisgender, heterosexual, or white. The left has to convince young men, many of whom feel barely in control of their own lives, that they’re members of a privileged class — and what’s more, that the privileges they enjoy are unjust and should be dismantled.
Sorry men, according to her, you’re not needed and we should have female centered communities.
Boy, bye. pic.twitter.com/yqSEzFJNyn
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 2, 2025
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” — Anatole France, from The Red Lily.
In 2014, Vancouver Sun reporter Lori Culbert and I wrote a weeklong series of stories identifying the government social welfare programs — and their cost to taxpayers — in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
The numbers were staggering …
Her basic political beliefs include no prisons and the even the worst offenders in prison should be treated with dignity.
She’s not a fan of police and thinks if people don’t have fat friends, it’s a red flag. pic.twitter.com/9FviftN2lG
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 3, 2025
We now have conclusive proof that Stalin and his communist dupes were subverting Hollywood. But you wouldn’t know it watching TCM.
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on cable tv is the film-lover’s dream come true. It possesses a huge library of films from Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 30s to the 50s, newer films, and silents. They are presented with no commercials in their full, unedited versions. TCM hosts worthy series co-hosted by specialists, on topics such as African Americans in film.
Carney and his date
I didn't know Carney's wife is taller than he is. pic.twitter.com/YRTEghOGLi
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) August 3, 2025
h/t XC
Wesley LePatner was a senior managing director at Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager. She was CEO of the firm’s Real Estate Income Trust—a $53 billion portfolio. She was also a mother of two, a philanthropist, and an engaged member of New York’s Jewish community. On Monday, she was shot and killed in the lobby of her midtown Manhattan workplace, one of four victims of Shane Tamura’s murder spree.
When Taissa Pavliuc got a referral to the North York Endoscopy Centre, she went, hoping she could get the treatment she needed to return to competing in triathlons.
A surgeon at the clinic, Dr. Ashwin Maharaj, had been billed online as “a leading expert in minimally invasive hemorrhoid and anorectal surgery.”
Pavliuc did not know, when she arrived at Maharaj’s clinic last spring, that he was under regulatory supervision due to troubling conduct, which Ontario’s medical watchdog says included “essentially experimenting on patients without their consent.”
A cornucopia of aid supplies, mostly food, has accumulated in recent months on the Gazan side of the crossings to the Gaza Strip and is still waiting to be collected by international aid organizations, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) — a unit within Israel’s defense ministry — said on July 25, 2025, in the wake of claims that Jerusalem is preventing food from entering the Strip.
COGAT released extensive footage showing the hundreds of trucks on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, with rows of boxes of supplies stacked on pallets.
