CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane said this week he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within 48 hours after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He said the trauma didn’t come from the gunfire itself but from the crowd’s reaction, which he claims made him fear for his life.
Multiple Canadian contractors that have helped build a sprawling, taxpayer-supported electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in southwestern Ontario allege they haven’t been paid for millions of dollars worth of work, court records show.
Lawsuits between companies on complex projects like the NextStar Energy plant in Windsor aren’t abnormal, according to a veteran construction lawyer.
… But Sylvan Canada, one of the firms that has now resorted to legal action, says its experience on the $5-billion project was far from business as usual.
A prominent German Salafist influencer who preached a strict interpretation of Islam online has been sentenced to three years in prison after a Düsseldorf court found he had systematically defrauded his followers out of nearly half a million euros in donations.
Last November, the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) released a statement taking aim at the Smith government for its new legislation banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans-identifying youth. The AMA stated, among other things: “There is no place for the government in the medical decisions being made by parents and their children in conjunction with physicians.”
In an ideal world, the AMA would be absolutely correct — just as in an ideal world there would be no hunger, poverty, discrimination or violence.
Joy Reid got into it with Piers Morgan after being asked about her firing from MSNBC and why she has repeatedly played ‘the race card.’
Morgan, on his YouTube show Thursday, had asked whether she really believed race played a part.
‘Now Joy. Look, let’s be honest. I don’t think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color. Or because you’re a black woman,’ the British journalist told his guest.
NEW: Joy Reid has a meltdown after Piers Morgan plays the video of her crying after getting fired from MSNBC.
Absolutely brutal.
Morgan: "Let's be honest. I don't think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color or because you're a black woman."
Reid:… pic.twitter.com/DCcj6IxKkc
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 17, 2025
Ottawa is embarking on a cost-cutting exercise amid ramped-up defence spending and mounting debt, and the talk of town is which sectors could potentially be trimmed down.
The Liberals won the election on a pledge to rebuild the armed forces while at the same time not cutting social programs, and they are now trying to find efficiencies along those lines.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne recently sent letters to cabinet members requesting they put forth “ambitious savings proposals” that would lead to operational spending falling by 7.5 percent for the 2026–27 fiscal year. That would be followed by 10 percent cuts in the following year and 15 percent in 2028–29.
Roughly 60 per cent of Canadian mortgage holders will face higher monthly payments when their loans come up for renewal in 2025 and 2026, according to a new Bank of Canada report.
In the latest staff analytical note, the bank says that although mortgage interest rates are expected to gradually decline, most borrowers will still see payment increases relative to their current contracts — many of which were signed during periods of lower interest rates.
The report estimates that in 2025, homeowners renewing their mortgages will see an average increase of 10 per cent in their monthly payments compared to December 2024 levels.
In 2024, a K-Pop star posted a photo of her Louis Vuitton bag adorned with several keychains, one of which was a plush toy monster, known as Labubu. Other celebrities followed suit, and the quirky, collectible characters became a worldwide phenomenon that launched the toy manufacturer Pop Mart to a market cap of $40 billion.
It is a hallmark of the governing adults-in-the-room regimes in most Western democracies to profess wisdom and insight that ordinary people lack. This is, after all, the basis for any claim they have to possess authority. Yet the grim truth of the matter is that these people are, in the main, profoundly callow and naïve. Having only ever for the most part mixed with people who are nice, they think niceness is universal and innate.
Nowhere is this foolish belief more obvious than in respect of policies towards immigration, which are designed and effected in a manner that at times seems almost wilfully purblind to the possibility of nastiness. To refer back to our old friend Milan Kundera, the worldview of those who govern us is above all predicated on the ‘denial of shit’. And when it comes to immigration they deny it by the bucketload.
In less than two weeks this month, a Quebec border crossing saw more than 1,500 asylum applicants coming from the United States, an unusual surge considering overall asylum claims are down by 50 per cent across Canada.
St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, a crossing located on Quebec’s Highway 15, south of Montreal, saw 1,505 asylum applicants between Canada Day and July 13. In June, 1,593 applied for asylum in Canada over the course of the whole month.
Like all forbidden questions, it must be asked. For if Islam is irreconcilably anti-American, we had better be prepared to act before, not after, its ascendancy in American politics places it in a position of unconstitutional political power.
Our nation was founded on the principle of liberty. Prominent among our freedoms is that of religion. The Founders were religiously diverse, but not so diverse as to include, among themselves, religions outside the Jewish and Christian traditions.
The first time Jeffrey Epstein was locked up, it was in a private wing of the Palm Beach Stockade with unlocked doors and a ‘work release program’ (even though sex offenders were barred from participating in work release programs) that allowed him to keep an office outside the prison, then ‘work’ from his beachfront home, hire Sheriff’s Deputies as his private security, have them refer to him as a “client” and all the records of his visitors, who reportedly included minors used for sex, were then destroyed as part of a “routine purge”.
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Jon Generous had blown through dozens of cam girls. According to his online bio, he was 54 years old and a successful real estate developer with cash to burn but nowhere to spend it. He was single, and he’d already provided his two adult children with hefty inheritances. Nothing he was buying made him happy, and that included the cam girls on MyGirlFund, an interactive sex site similar to OnlyFans. Jon wanted more than the typical snapshot or 30-second clip, though those were not off the table. He wanted thrills, sure, but also something more enduring—emotional connection. In the fantasy market, this pretend, paid relationship with benefits has a name: the girlfriend experience. Jon had the money and the patience. He just needed to find the one.
h/t Patti Jo
Two notorious Rochdale grooming gang ringleaders could finally be deported to Pakistan – a decade after a judge first authorised their forced departure.
Qari Abdul Rauf, 55, and Adil Khan, 54, may be sent home at last after the UK dropped a ban on direct flights between the two countries dating back five years.
The child groomers, at the heart of a child abuse ring where girls as young as 12 were groomed with free booze and drugs before being gang-raped, held dual British-Pakistani citizenship, but were stripped of their British nationality when they were convicted and jailed in 2012.
Among the thousands of Afghans offered asylum in Britain following a major data breach—kept secret for more than three years thanks to an unusually strict legal gag order—are individuals whose applications were previously rejected because of violent or sexual assaults.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage highlighted this aspect of the multifaceted scandal on Tuesday, saying that as a result, the “threat to women walking the streets of this country frankly is incalculable.”
