It’s another smoky summer in southern Ontario, and people breathing poor air in and around Toronto are once again asking what governments can do about wildfire smoke.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has defended the province’s wildfire budget and has asked Ottawa for extra help. Some Republican lawmakers in the U.S. have also demanded Canada do more to stop smoke from drifting across the border.
I say we start burning EV’s instead!
A group of Muslims stormed a UK McDonald’s screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ and demanding a ban on pork.
Deport Islamists and ban their immigration?
A. Yes
B. No pic.twitter.com/LMMk4tNcA2— Karoline Leavitt (@WHLeavitt) July 18, 2026
A dozen Somali gangs with hundreds of members, mainly teenagers, are wreaking havoc in Minnesota, committing public shootings and murders out in the open, according to local officials.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, whose office patrols the metropolitan region surrounding Minneapolis and St. Paul, told the Washington Examiner that as many as 300 Somali youth are engaged in gang activity around the Twin Cities area.
Two 17-year-old brothers are wanted by police on first-degree murder charges following a deadly shooting in Brampton earlier this month.
A 3rd brother named Shemp remains a person of interest
“My operation is scheduled for tomorrow,” says the disfigured soldier, still recovering from his terrible injuries.
“I hope when I wake up after the anaesthetic, Fedorov will be back at the Ministry of Defence,” the unnamed soldier says in a video posted on Telegram. “Otherwise, everything I was fighting for will have been in vain.”
Among Ukraine’s battle-weary soldiers and wounded veterans, there’s a collective sense of outrage at this week’s political developments.
Massive protests against Zelenskyy!
Combat commanders are resigning and refusing to fight!
Defense Minister Fedorov has been removed from his post – many considered him one of the most effective officials.
Zelenskyy is replacing technocrats with loyalists who will let him… pic.twitter.com/eLz3FxcpQk
— Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 (@Panchenko_X) July 16, 2026
The most essential duty of the state, the first responsibility, frankly, of any government of any kind, is the protection of its people. It’s the protection of its country. This is a sacred obligation that should transcend all political and all ideological divisions. It is why, for example, we have militaries. It’s why we have intelligence agencies. It’s why counter-terrorism bureaus exist, why police forces exist. Keeping our people safe is the reason why every country represented here has all of these things.
There’s been a lot of debate over what the end of the war with Iran should look like, and many believe that the only true victory would include regime change. The mullahs could lose their nuclear facilities and their top commanders, but as long as they held power, the threat would remain. Now, a leaked document from inside the regime itself suggests the Islamic Republic may be closer to collapse than anyone realized.
Pat King, a key figure in the 2022 convoy protests, will be re-sentenced after the Ontario Court of Appeal sided with Crown prosecutors who argued his original punishment was too lenient.
The Crown appealed after a trial judge convicted King on five criminal charges but acquitted him of intimidation and obstructing police.
The Ukrainian property tycoon who was targeted in a bombing in Monaco has accused Kyiv’s military intelligence agency of being responsible for the attack.
Multimillionaire Vadym Yermolaiev, his mistress Anna Nasobina and their 13-year-old son were injured when a bomb packed with bolts and pellets detonated at the entrance hall to the Sun Palace apartment building in the Mediterranean principality on June 29.
Nasobina is understood to have lost both legs in the explosion.
That slap was personal pic.twitter.com/KR6lI2SVbL
— We don't deserve cats 😺 (@catsareblessing) July 16, 2026
h/t handy n handsome
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump‘s threat to impose new tariffs over smoke from Canadian wildfires should be taken seriously, arguing the ongoing haze is causing economic damage in the United States.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed several major American cities, including Detroit, Washington and Chicago, prompting Trump to lash out at Canada on social media Friday.
Amnesty International UK is under growing pressure after experiencing pushback from a number of organisations it smeared for their alleged ‘anti-trans’ or ‘transphobic’ outlook.
A Growing Threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK was published on July 8th, 2026, and removed just two days later. The hasty response—from an organisation which took two years to acknowledge the Hamas October 7th atrocities—was prompted by a backlash from many of the groups the report berated for being part of an “anti-rights” movement. Past donors also raised concern about Amnesty’s capture by gender ideology.
Canada and the US agreed to split the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan for 15 years — with no provision to cover Canada’s debt-service costs on the project, according to a copy of the pact seen by Bloomberg News.
The agreement in principle covering the Gordie Howe International Bridge appears to contradict earlier public remarks from Prime Minister Mark Carney. And it shows what Canada conceded to get the President Donald Trump’s administration to stop blocking the 1.5-mile bridge over the Detroit River.
Carney lies always.
Google Product Manager on a hike in a national park spots white people peacefully enjoying nature… and has a meltdown. He jumps online begging black people to show up because he feels unsafe.
This is who’s running tech. pic.twitter.com/syG6fyXm9T
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) July 16, 2026
In response to a recent Western Standard news story about indigenous grievances, Treaty 8 chiefs’ claims for resource revenue sharing on ceded Western Canadian lands lack a clear legal and historical foundation, which is essential for understanding their legitimacy and impact.
While the phrase “Treaty 8 territory” seems to refer to lands surrendered to the Crown in the 1899 agreement, understanding the temporal context of these land surrender agreements helps clarify why current claims for resource revenue sharing are legally and historically unfounded.
