Along a busy street on the west end of downtown, another new rental building is going up — but instead of being built from scratch, prefabricated units are being craned into place, piece by piece.
Each box being stacked contains two studio apartments, already filled with appliances like fridges, stoves, washers and dryers.
Altogether, the pieces will make up 84 studio apartments across six storeys.
What really is and isn’t eugenics.
Somewhere on Madison Avenue an ad exec pitched his boss on an edgy proposal. “Let’s do a generic jeans ad, but put an attractive white woman in it.” TikTok influencers, who had come of age after 2019 (and the last time a white person appeared in an ad) had their minds blown.
It’s easy to see why Pedro Pascal was crowned as the internet’s new “unproblematic fave.” He is, as you would expect for a Hollywood actor, decently good-looking. He’s been in Game of Thrones, took the lead in Star Wars spin-off Mandalorian, featured in the TV adaptation of The Last of Us, and more recently had a starring role in the latest installment of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Equally as important for a celebrity nowadays, Pascal has some impeccably woke credentials. He is an advocate of ‘trans rights.’ He’s vocally anti-Trump. He makes all the right noises about Palestine. He embraces a nauseating brand of “non-toxic masculinity,” whereby he talks at length about his men’s mental health—specifically, his anxiety, which he copes with by… getting uncomfortably cosy with his pregnant, taken co-star?
Welcome. 13C this morning. The sun is getting up later. 6 Weeks left for Summer. Just over 10 weeks of growth for anything that doesn’t harvest above ground, except for hardy plants like Kale, which I have yet to eat yet as my other garden foods have kept me full and busy. I should make some crispy kale.
The beetle egg laying on the squash leaves seems to be diminishing, so they might be coming to the end of their life cycle. A zucchini got away from me and grew a little too big, but we’ll try to pickle it anyway.
Shortly after his January inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump made the peculiar decision to remove a portrait of the great Thomas Jefferson from the Oval Office and replace it with a portrait of James Polk.
Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third American president. Polk, the eleventh president, launched the Mexican-American War and expanded the reach of American sovereignty from what is now Texas to Washington State, and from Wyoming to California.
“As far as I am aware, he is on mainland Spain,” said Barry Armstrong, a convicted fraudster and longtime friend and benefactor of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson.
It was difficult to fit with what the staff at Robinson’s favourite breakfast place in Costa Adeje, in southern Tenerife, had said just that morning. “He was in here yesterday,” a member of the waiting staff said of Robinson.
Neither did it quite tally with Armstrong’s own Facebook postings. “Have you seen your mate we aren’t supposed to talk about on Facebook?” a friend asked of Armstrong. The response was a thumbs up emoji from the retired businessman from Newcastle.
TOMMY ROBINSON KNOCK OUT MAN WHO AGGRESSIVELY CONFRONTED HIM
– Tommy has a cut above his head as the man attacked him first
FAFO pic.twitter.com/hzuoBTqVsE
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) July 28, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
I imagine every day the first person Olivia Chow speaks to is a bartender who tells her she’s cut off.
— Anti-Taxxer (@mapleblooded) August 2, 2025
Britain’s anti-asylum seeker hotel protests escalated today as an unauthorised “antifascist” demonstration led to clashes with police. The original protest, organised by opponents of migrant housing at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel, remained peaceful. But tensions flared when a masked group in black suddenly flooded the road outside, clashing with police and prompting multiple arrests.
By 11am, locals were already gathering for the 1:30pm anti-migrant protest. A group of older women sitting at a table told me they were attending “because it’s not safe anymore”. Gesturing toward the hotel windows, where asylum seekers peered down at the scene below, one woman recalled, “Four years ago there was no problem when it was one to a room. Now there are too many.”
I can’t get my head around this.
Imagine getting masked-up to protest *against* locals who are concerned about high levels of crime and antisocial behaviour by illegals staying at the Thistle Barbican hotel.
There is something wrong with these people.pic.twitter.com/EXitgTu9iy
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) August 2, 2025
A quick report from the Thistle City Hotel in the Barbican.
Antifa and Stand Up To Racism have come mob handed. pic.twitter.com/vkQCZyKEfz
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) August 2, 2025
VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT AND ANTIFA MEMBER DRAGGED AWAY BY POLICE
– Thistle city Barbican Hotel pic.twitter.com/W6gsCzoQMK
— Emma Dunwell (@ESpeaksFreely) August 2, 2025
The Québec Superior Court’s order of 24 July 2025 that sent Montréal YouTuber Hicham Jerando to jail for thirty days was triggered less by his on-screen attacks on Moroccan judge Abdelrahim Hanin than by his open defiance of a Québec injunction ordering him to take those videos down—contempt, not content, put him behind bars.
Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland told MPs Friday she was “dismayed” by BC Ferries’ decision to purchase four new electric-diesel ships from a Chinese shipbuilder using a $1 billion federal loan — but did not call for the loan’s cancellation.
The House of Commons transport committee launched a study of the Canada Infrastructure Bank loan on Friday.
At the meeting, committee members voted in favour of a motion calling on the Canada Infrastructure Bank, BC Ferries and the federal government to show the committee several documents — including the complete bond purchase agreement and records of all options for the acquisition of the new vessels — by the end of August.
Don’t be surprised if Canadians never find out someone was getting their palms greased.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies uncovered a major graft scheme in the procurement of military drones and electronic warfare equipment, two days after their independence was restored in a humiliating U-turn for Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Ukrainian president had pushed through a controversial bill that removed the autonomy of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sapo), placing them under the control of the General Prosecutor’s Office, which is led by Zelensky loyalists and mistrusted by many Ukrainians.
Just over a year ago, the Liberal caucus was in turmoil over the government’s responses to the war between Israel and Hamas. Factions broke publicly with then-prime minister Justin Trudeau and one MP even threatened to quit.
But the reaction has been far more tempered to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement Wednesday that Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state this fall, a major shift in government policy.
Insiders say that’s a reflection of the current scale of the crisis in Gaza, but also a different prime minister at a different political time.
If you don’t see anything wrong with the American Eagle ad, then you clearly don’t know about the Possessive Investment of Whiteness.
Buckle up, prepare to learn. pic.twitter.com/meeszba7n0
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 2, 2025
The World Cup is a dream grift that robs from the poor to give to the rich.
World Cup soccer is just a year away from descending on Vancouver. And while some are thrilled about international football stars coming to their backyard, others are concerned about the potential negative effects of hosting one of the biggest sporting tournaments in the world.
“There’s a concern that the city is really not seeing this as an opportunity to bring the community in … but an opportunity to shut the community out in order to invite particular kinds of visitors to the expectations of FIFA,” Meg Holden, an urbanist at Simon Fraser University, told The Current guest host Catherine Cullen.
Tiktoker says "the reason White people don't eat with your hands is because your food is not delicious."pic.twitter.com/nJvFWTzKx2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 1, 2025
