Toronto police conducted 2,365 drone flights in 2025 to assist with criminal investigations, searches for missing persons, and other operations, according to an annual report recently presented to the Toronto Police Service Board.
Police used air support capabilities—which include drones and helicopters—to improve response times, situational awareness, and public safety outcomes, the report says.
One in 10 employers inspected under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program was found to have violated federal regulations last year, with Ottawa more than doubling financial penalties and tripling the number of employers banned from the program.
According to a Jan. 20 briefing note from the labour department, inspectors found widespread non-compliance during investigations into employers participating in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
This is just fucking INSANE 😱
Bloody hell…Siren’s Curse, Cedar Point, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/tww4Nz9V9H
— Mor Edge Insight (@MorEdge_Insight) July 26, 2026
h/t Mauser
Sharmake Beyle Omar, the Somali man behind the viral video that sent Shiloh Hendrix to court, had charges of raping a 16-year-old girl dismissed by the Olmsted County District Court — the same district court that just ruled against Hendrix.
District court judge Christa Daily ordered Hendrix to pay a fine and place her on strict probation, despite letting off convicted sex offenders with no jail time.
On Saturday evening, a 21-year-old identified by authorities as Abdul Ballout and described as a known member of “Islamist circles” in Berlin, plowed a van into a crowd at that city’s Pride event in the Tiergarten, killing one woman and injuring 29 people. After fleeing the scene, the perpetrator was on the loose for several hours before being shot to death on Sunday in the capital’s Spandau district by police whom he had lunged at with a knife.
In a recent op-ed in the National Post, Josh Dehaas of the Canadian Constitution Foundation wrote: “Last September, many Canadians were shocked to learn through a Haida Nation news release that British Columbia and Canada had gone behind closed doors in judges’ chambers and signed an agreement that recognized Aboriginal title over all of Haida Gwaii. Without having to prove their title in court, the Haida gained constitutionally protected rights over the entire archipelago.”
n Friday, President Trump attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner after an uninvited gunman brought the original April gala to a premature conclusion. Even though the would-be assassin had left a confession explaining his intention to murder the president and as many members of his administration as possible, the assembled “journalists” spent the next few days pretending that they were the intended targets. In breathless interviews with obsequious colleagues, the “heroic journalists” in attendance told dwindling viewers what it was like to have been so near death. Suffice it to say, combat veterans and beat cops found it difficult not to roll their eyes at the pampered prima donnas who playact at being reporters while obsessing about their hair and makeup.
There are many questions to be asked after Saturday night’s terror attack at a Pride event in Berlin. One thing that does seem pretty clear is the cause. Everything we know about the culprit, 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, points to the fact that his crimes were motivated by his Islamist beliefs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Canadians have been focused on Donald Trump’s hounding them about becoming the “51st state” and squeezing their cross-border trade, the U.S. president has been quietly fiddling around with the rules for waters along the Canada-U.S. border.
In late April, the president signed House Joint Resolution 140 into law, rolling back a Biden-era mining moratorium on more than 200,000 acres of U.S. federal lands near the Boundary Waters watershed in Minnesota that drains into Canadian waters.
A trainee barrister and a Dublin museum employee charged in connection with a car loaded with explosives that was bound for the Northern Irish border have been remanded in custody.
Isobella Perrie Sullivan, 25, of Clane in County Kildare, and Simon O’Donovan, 44, were charged with possession of explosives after police stopped a vehicle in Carrickmacross, close to the border, two days earlier.
Both are now being held after Sullivan’s bail application was delayed, while O’Donovan’s request for bail was denied.
h/t Hermes
OTTAWA — Most Canadians want the federal government to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest salvo in his trade war against Canada, even though they’re losing faith in the ability of Prime Minister Mark Carney to land a deal.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency believes there are 9,110 violent Islamist extremists nationwide, according to security figures that have been newly highlighted by the German media following Saturday’s deadly attack in Berlin.
The figures, released amid the investigation into the attack on the city’s Christopher Street Day celebrations, show that German authorities identified 28,645 Islamists across the country in 2025. Of those, around 450 are classified as individuals considered capable of committing serious politically motivated crimes, including terrorist attacks.
Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson is refusing to disclose how much Canadian taxpayers could lose under a new toll-sharing arrangement for the Gordie Howe International Bridge, as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for an even larger share of the bridge’s future revenues.
The issue overshadowed Friday’s ceremonial opening of the Windsor-Detroit crossing after Trump publicly declared that the original bridge agreement “no longer stands” and suggested the United States deserves more than the recently negotiated revenue-sharing deal.
Tuesday 4 August could prove to be a turning point in American political history. If Democratic primary voters in Michigan choose Haley Stevens, a moderate, as their Senate nominee, the party establishment should stagger on, perhaps up to and beyond the presidential election of 2028.
It’s more likely, however, that the Democrats will elect Dr Abdul El-Sayed, a pro-Palestine radical who supports Medicare for All and the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. El-Sayed’s victory would confirm that the hard left is the coming force in national politics, and suggest that the long-anticipated socialist takeover of the oldest party in the US – the party of Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman and Bill Clinton – is finally under way. Just as Donald Trump’s MAGA movement began to devour a rotten Republican party in 2015, a vengeful left-wing populism seems ready to swallow the much-loathed Democratic elite. The only part that’s missing is the element of surprise.
