Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke

Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke

The Midwest and Northeast registered some of the worst air quality in the world last week as wildfire smoke shrouded cities from Minneapolis to New York in an apocalyptic haze. More than 100 million Americans were under air-quality alerts, with smoke even reaching Washington, D.C., by the weekend.

Most of the smoke came from Canada, where about 900 wildfires were burning by Friday. Over 100 were burning in northwestern Ontario alone. Fires are also raging in northern Minnesota and across the western United States, where another brutal fire season is underway. Nearly 80 large fires are uncontained nationwide, and more than 3.9 million acres have burned this year.

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China’s Long Arm Is Reaching into Canada, And Ottawa Isn’t Ready

China’s Long Arm Is Reaching into Canada, And Ottawa Isn’t Ready

OTTAWA — China’s new Ethnic Unity Law should not be viewed in isolation, nor should it be dismissed as inapplicable to foreign nationals or Canadians. It is the latest addition to an increasingly sophisticated legal architecture through which Beijing seeks to extend its political authority beyond its borders. Officially titled the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, the legislation was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March 2026 and entered into force on July 1, 2026.

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Ann Widdecombe ‘was bludgeoned 21 times in the head with hammer in attack by leftist Joshua Kerry

Ann Widdecombe ‘was bludgeoned 21 times in the head with hammer in attack by leftist Joshua Kerry

Ann Widdecombe was bludgeoned 21 times over the head with a hammer in a two-minute attack captured on camera, a court heard today.

Joshua Kerry, 28, is accused of entering the former Tory minister and Brexit Party MEP’s Dartmoor home through the open front door and murdering her as she ate lunch in her kitchen.

Kerry, who was in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, then rifled through her handbag, grabbed her wallet and fled after spending just 120 seconds inside the property, prosecutor Kashif Malik said.

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Trump Exhaustion Syndrome has us tuning out

Trump Exhaustion Syndrome has us tuning out

As Spain’s team was basking in its victory at the World Cup medal ceremony on Sunday, Donald Trump had to be nudged offstage by FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

Images of Trump getting the hook went viral, with plenty of cheers for anyone who dared giving this president a timeout. And it didn’t stop there. The Spanish team then went on to crop Trump from the official photo of its World Cup win.


Susan Delacourt is hangry.

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The United Nations Has Run Out of Alibis

The United Nations Has Run Out of Alibis

Institutions built to prevent atrocities eventually face the question of what they actually protect. For the United Nations, voting patterns, internal investigations and its own decisions this year no longer support the fiction of neutrality. An UNRWA school in Gaza sat above a Hamas tunnel shaft and three anti-tank positions, and its own principal was on the payroll of both institutions at once — a fact that American investigators, not the UN, brought to light.

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Was World Cup a success or failure for Toronto? We may never know

Was World Cup a success or failure for Toronto? We may never know

For the time being, the city prefers to discuss the chasing of dreams rather than the chasing of dollars.

With the World Cup coming to an end following Spain’s 1-0 win over Argentina on Sunday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow discussed the local portion of the tournament.

“The most important thing now is to make sure we build on that momentum, from the investments in soccer facilities and youth programming to the lasting benefits of our communities and local businesses,” Chow told reporters at a Monday news conference.


How much of a loss will tax payers be made to pay for?

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Welch: Melania Was Epstein Hooker, GOP Want ‘System…Rigged for White People’

Welch: Melania Was Epstein Hooker, GOP Want ‘System…Rigged for White People’

Far-left charlatans and I’ve Had It podcast co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan told their listeners and viewers on Monday that Republicans are a “cabal of submissive wives” collectively “incapable of critical thinking” because they “cling to money, and racism as their driving ethos” and shudder under their widespread closeted homosexuality.

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CHARLEBOIS: Donald Trump’s new tariffs put Canada’s food economy on menu

CHARLEBOIS: Donald Trump’s new tariffs put Canada’s food economy on menu

The United States has announced a sweeping 50% tariff on Canadian goods, citing discriminatory treatment of American alcohol, automobiles and dairy products. The duties are expected to take effect Aug. 19 and, unusually, will reach some products that would ordinarily receive preferential treatment under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement. Energy, potash, fish and critical minerals are among the reported exemptions.

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Why Trump is threatening new 50% tariffs on Canadian exports right now

Why Trump is threatening new 50% tariffs on Canadian exports right now

It may appear that U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to hit many Canadian products with new tariffs of 50 per cent came out of the blue, but there are clear signs of what’s driving the tactic.

Monday’s announcement comes as the U.S. pushes for significant changes to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), changes that would lock any Canadian trade concessions into the text of a trade deal.

The Trump administration wants to wipe out as much of Canada’s leverage in those CUSMA talks as possible.


This guy gets it. Canada is not going to win with Carney’s strategy.

This idiot doesn’t get it.

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‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: state department attacks US left over Cuba

‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: state department attacks US left over Cuba

As part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups, the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as “front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba, including Hasan Piker and the Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.

In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the “capital of 21st-century communism”, accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion” that has “infiltrated the highest reaches of the US government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists [and] backed an unprecedented wave of leftwing terrorism on American soil”.

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