OTTAWA — Five weeks after a Liberal majority shelved a parliamentary probe of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s British Columbia condo bailout, opposition MPs have taken the same questions to an independent officer of Parliament, asking Canada’s lobbying commissioner to investigate whether people with access to senior Liberals helped shape the $1.5-billion program.
Late last year, I walked roughly a mile from downtown Seattle to the working-class neighborhood of Little Saigon and came upon a montage of human despair. An open-air drug market stretched along the intersection of 12th and Jackson: about 250 people, many smoking fentanyl or bent over in the thrall of the drug, tilting as if mid-fall. Three women lay passed out on the sidewalk, their chests slowly rising and falling, while fellow addicts stepped over them and dealers made sales. Young boys, schoolbags on their backs, stood on a far corner and watched.
Saskatoon spent $100,000 on a plastic rock and put it on display at the landfill.
And that’s not even the worst way cities waste your tax dollars.
Is there anything sadder than a Kneecap fan? Privileged kids in tricolour balaclavas leaping around like demented wombats. Bourgeois radicals donning IRA fancy dress in a desperate bid to annoy daddy. And the music! Perhaps those Provo tea cosies are designed to block out the tuneless warbling of this theatre-kid trio who larp as dangerous hoodlums.
The amazing lameness of Kneecap’s fanbase is summed up in new photos of Greta Thunberg at their Belfast gig on Thursday. She cuts a lonely, tragic figure in the swell of faux-punks. She’s wearing not only the tricolour balaclava but also that holiest garment of the smug set: the keffiyeh. All she needed was a Pride flag over her shoulders to perfect the trifecta of virtuous garb.
Tick, tick, tick. That’s the sound of the timer counting down to Aug. 19, the date on which U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on Canada will kick in. Or not. Already one former Trump advisor is predicting that Trump will TACO (Trump always chickens out), but in the unpredictable world we live in, there’s no guarantee.
The @liberal_party have imported hordes of violent misogynistic men who believe punching a woman in the face is the liberal thing to do!
I guess it beats the “elbows up“ move. Punching a woman in the face, makes a stronger political statement than flapping your arms. https://t.co/NbNqwrCbhu
— Occam's Razor (@Occams_Razor_CA) August 11, 2026
As the U.S. Senate race in Michigan begins, the battle centers on Republican Mike Rogers calling his opponent by his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El Sayed. The Muslim candidate says Rogers is Islamophobic for pointing out that El Sayed is a Muslim.
Been there. Done that. Let’s learn from the One Big Ass Mistake America made 18 years ago. Not calling out Obama’s Muslim heritage enabled his election, which allowed him to set Middle East relations back a century because communists thrive on chaos—and Iran specializes in creating chaos.
Erin, Ontario:
A group of Punjabi men bounce pigeons up and down on platforms attached to long poles. When the pigeons try to fly away they are yanked back down by a short string tied to their feet.Last year, a group of men in the same town were caught on security camera… https://t.co/3JeoPveSJx pic.twitter.com/LNGp6dE8d5
— AwareBears (@bears_aware) August 11, 2026
The bodies of over 1,000 Quebecers went unclaimed last year. What’s going on?
Called in as the chaplain for a dying woman a few years ago, Father Rodney Clark recalls the harsh administrative reality that immediately followed her death.
The woman was homeless and had chosen medical assistance in dying at the Joliette, Que., hospital after her cancer metastasized.
But with no relatives around or financial resources, her body was essentially abandoned.
You’ve probably seen the report over the weekend where the current iteration of the Irish Republican Army, the old Catholic militia/terror group from the long-running sectarian war in Northern Ireland and elsewhere in the previous century, has now given itself a new purpose…
A medal awarded to a high-ranking Royal Canadian Air Force officer is raising questions about this country’s involvement in the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.
Late last month, the Government of Canada announced that Col. David K. Turenne, a former CF-18 fighter pilot, had been approved for the Meritorious Service Cross. That medal recognizes military deeds “performed in an outstandingly professional manner, according to a rare high standard that brings considerable benefit or great honour to the Canadian Forces,” according to its official description.
Fake news – Canada has no working fighter jets
The urge to treat political disagreement as moral failure did not originate in American universities or human resources departments. It is an impulse older than the Spanish Inquisition, and it always arrives wearing the robes of a higher cause.
Canadians continued to file for insolvency in the second quarter at levels not seen in more than a decade as the housing market slump and rising costs caught up with consumers, according to the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy.
OSB data released on Monday shows 37,523 Canadian consumers filed for insolvency in the second quarter – a 6.9-per-cent increase compared to the same period last year, and the highest quarterly volume since 2009. There were 402 more insolvencies during Q2 as compared to the first quarter of the year. The increase marked two consecutive quarters above 2009 levels; that was the all-time highest full year for consumer insolvency filings.
A Syrian court has sentenced the country’s former president Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 14-year civil war, in which about half a million people died.
The two men fled to Moscow after being ousted by a lightning rebel offensive in December 2024 which toppled the dictatorial regime in just 11 days.
The cost of building the Ontario Line has risen once again and Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay says that the total budget will remain “under pressure” amid “one of the worst supply chain shocks” in decades.
Lindsay confirmed at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday that the awarding of a $4.32 billion contract for three-kilometres of tunneling underneath Pape Avenue and the construction of two underground stations has pushed the current cost of the Ontario Line to around $34 billion.
That is more than three times the original $10.9 billion cost estimate that was first shared for the project back in 2019.
Someone is getting rich.
