Visitors to Canada who applied for visas to attend the FIFA World Cup have so far lodged 175 asylum claims, including from Senegal, Ghana and Egypt.
Canada played host to 13 games in Toronto and Vancouver in June and July, issuing 26,000 visas to visitors. Spain won the international tournament on Sunday by defeating the previous reigning champion, Argentina.
Just the start of total losses incurred.
Amid the Federal Communications Commission’s probe into possibly stripping The View of their “bona fide news program” status and the FCC receiving pushback on the prospect of renewing the broadcast licenses of ABC affiliates, The New York Post was reporting that the day time TV giant was under great financial pressure and appeared to be buckling. So much so, that requests for raises from co-hosts were being denied and their wardrobe budget was being slashed.
OTTAWA — The free ride is over.
That’s the message most Canadians have for the government when it comes to the Governor General’s expense account, according to a new Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Well, there you have it.
I’ve already written that the Obama Bros have been flogging AOC as a presidential candidate, placing a bet on the Democratic Socialist wave that has been taking over the party, and now the polls say that they are on to something.
CBC as Canada’s federally appointed fact-checker? That sounds less like journalism and more like turning the state broadcaster into an information gatekeeper for the governing party.
If you’ve ever been cut off by family over politics and wondered how something so trivial could cause a permanent rupture, a new Wall Street Journal report might have your answer. It’s not you. It’s your relative’s therapist.
TORONTO—Prime Minister Mark Carney swept to power promising an “elbows out” stance against President Trump’s tariff threats and rhetoric, vowing he would never accept a bad trade deal.
Sixteen months later, Carney says he has avoided making a bad deal but critics say it has come at a cost: A series of trade concessions to the U.S. that are beginning to add up.
Carney has scrapped a digital-services tax affecting U.S. tech companies, rolled back retaliatory levies and halted streaming regulations opposed by American companies.
Carney was “swept” to a minority government, the WSJ is not a Trump fan.
The new Andy Burnham government in London means there is another front bench of ministers with years of anti-Trump virtue-signalling behind them, which will now have to be spun away once again by diplomats.
The Trump administration’s announcement of a new round of tariffs on Canadian goods may be less of a reprisal over trade barriers and more about gaining leverage in CUSMA negotiations, trade watchers suggest.
Whether the measures are legal are not is open to debate, but that may not matter because for now they put Canada in a difficult position of whether to strike back and risk even further heightening the trade war or to try playing along with President Donald Trump’s game.
SAN FRANCISCO — For decades, artificial intelligence researchers wary of the technology’s future power have told a parable about paper clips. An AI system asked to manufacture as many as possible, the story goes, could decide that goal requires using every human on Earth as raw material.
The tale has become a cliché in tech circles, but its lesson that powerful AI systems following benign instructions could cause unintended damage gained new relevance this week after an incident at ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
Three more Surrey properties flagged for unpermitted construction
Three more Surrey properties will have notices filed on their land titles for unpermitted construction.
The City of Surrey has been cracking down on illegal construction for several years. In the more egregious cases, council has been voting to file notices on land titles to alert potential buyers and occupiers.
… The first property is in Newton, at 12439 72 Ave.
Owners of the home, listed as Mohammed Maqsood Sheikh and Saman Rukh, built six self-contained dwelling units, including converting the garage into habitable space, an enclosure of the deck on the north side of the house and a two-storey addition at the rear of the house, all without permits, according to the city.
(Incognito)
Soon our cities will be indistinguishable from such great urban centres as Mogadishu or Orangi Town in Karachi.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday issued a criminal referral of former special counsel Jack Smith to the Department of Justice over allegations he lied to Congress about tracking personal phone messages of dozens of lawmakers.
Canada’s dairy industry policy is among the most politically sacrosanct in the country. It has also long been a thorn in the side of Donald Trump.
Now, Canada’s dairy supply management system is back in the spotlight after the US president singled it out as one of three main irritants used to justify a 50% tariff on $20bn worth of Canadian goods imported to the US, which is set to come into effect in August.
Trump argues the system, which sees production quotas, set pricing, and import quotas on dairy, eggs, and poultry, is “unreasonable” to American farmers who want to sell their product north of the border.
One mosque is attacked in Britain every five days, according to new data released by the government’s partner for monitoring anti-Muslim hatred.
More than 70 attacks on mosques in the UK have been recorded over the past year, which include acts of intimidation, violence, property damage, harassment, anti-Muslim hate speech, online abuse and vandalism.
The British Muslim Trust warned that momentum on attacks was building and called for an urgent response from the government.
No idea how truthful this claim is, however it may be a sign of things to come.
Hmmm … Synagogue attacker’s friend ‘a committed jihadist’
For generations, Canada offered something remarkable. It wasn’t guaranteed wealth, instant success, or a perfect life. Instead, it offered something more enduring: the belief that ordinary people, through hard work and personal responsibility, could build a better life than the one they inherited.
That belief became the Canadian dream.
