OTTAWA — Automakers calling on Ottawa to roll back its electric-vehicle mandate say their case has so far failed to sway Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin, who appears “committed” to keeping it in place.
Rising pressure over the EV issue is part of the central tension facing Prime Minister Mark Carney, which is how much to adjust the Liberals’ climate policies to address concerns coming from industry and premiers, amid a time of economic uncertainty.
Former President Joe Biden has sold his presidential memoir to the Hachette Book Group for an advance in the range of $10 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
The memoir’s publisher, Hachette’s Little, Brown & Co., hasn’t yet set a publication date.
Biden, who is 82, said at an event earlier this month that he was “working my tail off” to write a memoir, and indicated that he would focus on the four years he served as president.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to have made it his mission to avoid political scrutiny at all costs. So much so that he appears to have cancelled one of the very few positive things his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, ever did in office.
The White House has pushed back after reports that US President Donald Trump was told in May that he was among hundreds of names mentioned in justice department documents relating to late convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The Wall Street Journal said the president was informed of the fact by Attorney General Pam Bondi during a routine briefing. It noted that appearing in the documents was not a sign of any wrongdoing by Trump.
In response, a White House spokesman called it a “fake news story”.
Canada is paying much more to help asylum seekers, and the bills are rising faster than officials expected.
The Immigration and Refugee Board plans to spend $335 million in 2024-25, up 27% from $264 million three years ago.
Ottawa added an extra $87 million after the 2022 Budget when the number of claims began to surpass the system’s capacity.
Demon. @fancypants_s https://t.co/DBCowJfeJU
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) July 24, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
President Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have started libel proceedings in the United States against a right-wing influencer who has promoted the conspiracy theory that the French first lady was born a man.
The Macrons filed a suit in a Delaware court on Wednesday against Candace Owens, a 36-year-old American influencer and podcaster. Owens began promoting the claim that Mrs Macron was transgender on her YouTube channel, which has four million subscribers, in January.
Eva Chipiuk, a lawyer known for her involvement in the Freedom Convoy and vocal criticism of Canadian institutions, has been blindsided after the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) terminated its banking relationship with her, citing risk-related concerns.
According to an official letter the banking institution sent to Chipiuk, her “recent activity was outside of RBC’s client risk appetite,” and it would “no longer be in a position to continue serving her.”
H/T Patti Jo
Germany’s main ruling party, the Christian Democratic CDU, has been dropping in the polls for the fourth consecutive week while the right-wing opposition AfD keeps rising, as the latest polling data shows them being neck and neck for the second time since the February election.
Is Canada’s supply management system for the production of dairy and eggs a major stumbling block in current negotiations between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump?
Trump has certainly mentioned the Canadian dairy sector’s protective policies when airing his grievances about trade relations with Canada. However, he hasn’t opposed it with the same vigour as he recently opposed Canada’s Digital Services Tax (DST).
A filing deadline for the DST—which would have cost American tech giants like Amazon and Google billions in taxes to operate in Canada—was set to come into effect during the trade negotiations on June 30, making it a more visible target for Trump. But how strongly U.S. industry is pushing Trump to target Canada’s supply management, and whether he has other priorities, is also a factor to consider.
There’s a very specific kind of mass shooting story the media doesn’t like to cover… it’s the kind that doesn’t happen because a good guy with a gun stopped it cold.
Roughly a month ago, a man stormed into a Michigan church during Sunday worship and opened fire. It could have ended in total carnage. But it didn’t. Because a legally armed, everyday churchgoer took him down. No military training. No law enforcement background. Just courage, quick action, and a gun.
I hope I’m wrong, but my bet is the Hockey Canada players will walk out of a London courtroom as free men this Thursday when the judge hands down her verdict in their sexual assault trial.
That’s what usually happens in “he said/she said” cases like this. He almost always walks.
Kids These Days Dep’t: You may have seen a study making the rounds in recent days decrying the corrupting grasp of Andrew Tate on today’s male youth, titled “‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers.” It gives the impression that roving junior Vikings have taken over classrooms, backing their female counterparts into a corner as they try to learn. It’s a distinctly racial problem and a distinctly male problem, one that teachers are fighting to no avail.
In May, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson called antisemitism among British schoolchildren “a national emergency”. She wasn’t exaggerating. The Telegraph has revealed a shocking rise in antisemitism in UK schools — a development that threatens the safety of Jewish children and staff, and tears at the fabric of social cohesion.
Canary Wharf in east London has become the latest hotspot in the growing protests against asylum hotels. Last night, protesters gathered outside the Britannia International Hotel within hours of the news spreading that it had been closed to the public to house small-boat arrivals.
Second day of protests outside of the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf.
The hotel fired all their staff and sold out to the governments globalist, fake refugee project.
100’s of undocumented males next to more schools and businesses.
It must stop! RT if agree. #IAmBritish pic.twitter.com/4nOl62asOy
— I Am British (@IAmBritishReal) July 23, 2025
Vile communist scum attacks young Christian in London.
It's the same lad who gave that brilliant speech at Canary Wharf last night.
Very bright young man.
Give him a follow and show him some support: @YoungBobTPUK
pic.twitter.com/NuYBoPwmZt— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 23, 2025
