For the first time in 74 years, the population of both B.C. and Ontario dropped by a few thousand people in the first months of 2025.
Sounds dramatic. And in some ways it is.
That’s even though the dip in the total number of people doesn’t make a statistical difference for either province. In the first quarter of this year, B.C. had 2,357 fewer residents than at the end of 2024; Ontario lost 5,644.
Don’t trust developers to act in anyone’s but their own best interests.
Over time, any organization loses a sense of its original mission and becomes a self-licking ice cream cone.
I love that image, which was invented by General Pete Worden, who was describing NASA.
Kimberly MacDougall lay in a hospital bed beside her injured husband, Stephen, as his final moments came. She and their two kids held him as he took his last breath.
Stephen, 45, a service manager for a luxury automobile dealership, had been fighting to live for weeks in May 2021, but stopped struggling. She informed friends on social media that the man she loved, incredibly fit and with no prior health issues, wouldn’t make it.
THIS SHOULD BE FRONT PAGE NEWS EVERYWHERE
For the second month in a row, NOT A SINGLE migrant was released into our country at the border.
ZERO.
All we needed was a new President! pic.twitter.com/DJR2S1dD9z
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 1, 2025
The prime minister is a habitual winker. Once is once, two is a coincidence, three is a trend, and National Post counts at least four prominent public winks by Mark Carney since winning the top office — in Rideau Hall at his swearing in, in the Oval Office, and twice at the G7 in Kananaskis, Alta. — plus many more going back to his governorship of the Bank of England.
I haven’t had an explosive verbal tongue lashing like this since Greta Thunberg accused me of stealing her childhood.
This granny is about to spontaneously combust. pic.twitter.com/VqGQvByM0D
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 2, 2025
Who decides what humans become?
Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model. In the last century, eugenics was enthusiastically embraced among Anglo-Saxon elites, then by Communist Russia as a means of creating a hyper-selfless Homo Sovieticus, and, most infamously, Nazi Germany’s drive to create a “master race” via racial-hygiene laws and the extermination of people with disabilities and other “lives unworthy of life.”
There was a time, not long ago, when Americans — regardless of region, class, or politics — shared a common cultural foundation. From the Saturday morning cartoons children watched to the nightly news programs adults relied on, mainstream culture was both a mirror and a glue: it reflected our values while keeping us tethered to the same national experience. That era is over.
We have entered the Age of Alternative Culture, an era defined by fragmentation, algorithmic echo chambers, and cultural isolation masquerading as global connection.
The idea that Olivia Chow was going to be Toronto’s housing champion was always a fantasy. Many voters, especially younger ones, pinned their hopes on her after years of inaction by John Tory, which they wrongly ascribed to his more conservative ethos. In a quick election, Chow’s long-standing brand as a “progressive” helped carry her to victory.
When it comes to housing, however, it appears Chow is anything but.
One of the last places we might expect artificial intelligence to show up is the tattoo parlor, with its mix of artistry, personal expression and permanent ink. But a high-end ink shop in New York City is now taking appointments for an AI-driven tattoo robot.
The technology is the product of Blackdot, an Austin, Texas-based startup that has been pursuing a vision of autonomous, AI-fueled tattooing since 2019.
A high-stakes lawsuit involving former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps turns on a long-running debate in Ottawa over whether she lobbied during the pandemic without registering — and whether, as a result, a federal contractor is off the hook for tens of millions in allegedly unpaid commissions to her company.
Copps, a Liberal heavyweight turned lobbyist, has long denied lobbying senior federal officials during the pandemic’s early stages.
Always the Liberals.
h/t Mauser
Former MSNBC host and inflammatory hot take peddler Joy Reid wasn’t very joyful on her Saturday podcast. As Reid tells it, the new ICE detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” will be a “concentration camp” for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to put unwanted “brown people” in because “This is like being in Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.”
An iconic sign that for decades has greeted beachgoers upon arrival to a popular beach on the Lake Huron shoreline was switched up on Canada Day.
