A Superior Court judge has refused to enforce Ontario’s new cash bail system in a stunning rebuke just days after the controversial rules came into effect.
On Wednesday in Milton, Justice Scott Cowan released a woman charged with human trafficking without a cash deposit, in direct violation of the new law that demands payment in full within 48 hours.
When your flight lands, do you hustle to get to off first or do you wait your turn?
This woman wanted to get to the front of the plane but the guy in front of her said “NOPE.”
The man in the cat-haired covered sweatshirt let her know his opinion. pic.twitter.com/hdRj9HPe3d
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 20, 2026
No one envies Karen Duncan her diagnosis.
Motor Neuron Disease attacks the body’s nerve cells, and in Duncan’s case, it was doing so quickly. Her muscles ached and cramped; then she had to walk with a cane; then she had to motor around in a wheelchair; meanwhile, she stopped being able to trust her thoughts and emotions. Her prognosis wasn’t good either: things would get progressively worse, she would eventually be paralyzed, and then she would die.
Lamborghini and a Mcclaren destroyed by Pakistanis petrol bombing each other in England's second largest city, Birmingham.
Good luck ever renting luxury cars again you stupid Mohammedans 😂 https://t.co/EzF3yviwDf pic.twitter.com/s32hyEx9Gj
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 20, 2026
h/t Mauser
On Friday, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that there was no Charter right to bike lanes — and delivered an utter spanking to the judge below their rank who said otherwise. Not only was it a victory for those who prefer car to bike, it was a victory for democracy.
Before the case was overturned, it stood for the principle that elected policymakers had to submit to “expert” evidence on matters of mere traffic planning to avoid breaching the Charter rights of the masses. Justice Paul Schabas of the Ontario Superior Court arrived at this conclusion last year in hearing out the advocacy group Cycle Toronto, which had complained about the Ontario government’s plan to remove a bike lane along a major thoroughfare downtown.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Vice-President JD Vance weighed in on the latest trade deal with Canada at a fundraising event Wednesday, saying Prime Minister Mark Carney tried to “out-tough” President Donald Trump while crediting his longtime friend Conservative MP Jamil Jivani as a helpful advocate for Canada.
In audio from the fundraiser in Southampton, N.Y., which was provided to The Canadian Press by a source who attended the private function, Vance said Carney is a “very sweet guy” and he gets along with him quite well.
But, Vance said, Carney “comes in and puffs his chest out and says, ‘I’m going to, like, out-tough Donald Trump.'”
h/t Shasta
The gap in Toronto’s mayoral race is widening, leaving challengers scrambling for traction.
New numbers released Thursday by Liaison Strategies show incumbent Olivia Chow holding a comfortable 11-point lead among decided voters, gaining 2% since Aug. 7 as main challenger Brad Bradford lost 2% support over the same time period.
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Nearly three years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and following the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, one might have expected a fundamental change in Palestinian public opinion.
Palestinians might have turned away from Hamas, terrorism, and the Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance.” Palestinians also might have demanded new leaders committed to democracy, reform, an end to corruption, and peaceful coexistence.
The latest Palestinian public opinion poll, however, presents a disturbing picture.
Federal prosecutors have laid a new charge against the Halifax man accused of making a bomb threat against the United States Consulate in the city earlier this month.
A Crown lawyer confirmed in court on Aug. 18 that federal prosecutors had charged Ali Assakereh, 54, of Halifax, with threatening an internationally protected person.
The charge is under the Criminal Code provision covering threats involving internationally protected persons and their official premises.
As the left and right try to define their opposition ahead of November’s midterm elections, the media are clearly taking sides. According to a new NewsBusters analysis, the media has condemned conservatives and Republicans 86 percent of the time when they compare Democrats to communists or jihadists. However, when liberals compare Republicans to Nazis and fascists, only five percent of such analogies were rebuked.
Three London, Ont. residents have been arrested following a months-long drug trafficking investigation that began on Walpole Island First Nation, according to Ontario Provincial Police.
Ontario Provincial Police say they have seized an estimated $1.2 million worth of illicit drugs, weapons and vehicles as part of a months-long drug trafficking investigation spanning several southwestern Ontario communities.
Police announced the results of the investigation, dubbed Project Brake, during a news conference at Walpole Island First Nation on Wednesday.
Ain't diversity wunnerful? 🥰@fancypants_s https://t.co/9baMev2yf5
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 20, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
On Monday of this week I wrote about a bizarre civil suit that had gone to trial in Portland, Oregon involving a convicted burglar and the owner of the business he broke into, who shot the man in self-defense.
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has a simple message for voters in Toronto when it comes to drug policy: Don’t follow Vancouver’s example — it won’t lead to good places.
If you drive or walk the streets of Toronto, the zombie-like creatures now occupying our public spaces are not a shocking scene anymore. They aren’t there by accident, though. They are there due to decisions by so-called progressive politicians to liberalize drug laws.
President Donald Trump is not yet ready to bomb the ayatollahs to the hell they so richly deserve, but he is implementing major economic sanctions and blockades against the Iranian regime.
After confirming that his administration was no longer in any talks with the Iranian regime and teasing the idea of claiming the Strait of Hormuz for America, Trump issued a new update on Wednesday. This time, he detailed his next move in the conflict with Tehran.
This is not, by early appearances, the deal that Canada’s automotive sector wants or needs.
As trade negotiations entered crunch time this week, industry leaders warned with increasing urgency that Mark Carney could not afford to settle for a rumoured cut to U.S President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-assembled vehicles that would still leave the tariffs too high for those cars to be profitable.
But, as of late Wednesday, as details of a tentative agreement started to leak out, that was what seemed to have happened.
