Seattle residents may no longer have to watch people engaging in lewd sexual conduct in Denny Blaine Park for All after a judge ruled that it constituted a public nuisance that substantially interfered with neighboring homeowners’ use of their properties.
The court ordered the City of Seattle to do more to deal with the issue while still allowing clothing-optional use on the lower beach area.
It’s never easy to uproot your life, but after a year of watching U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration crack down on 2SLGBTQ+ rights, especially for transgender Americans, Grace Mahoney and her partner, Kayden Burns, decided it was time to leave the United States.
“I’m queer, my spouse is also queer and non-binary, and it started becoming a very unsafe place for us, as it is for a lot of queer humans existing in the U.S.,” she said in an interview from her new home in Dartmouth, N.S., earlier this month.
The CBC never tires of these Drama Queens.
U.S. President Donald Trump is adding his voice to the chorus of Republican politicians who are blaming Canada for wildfire smoke drifting across the border.
Hundreds of active wildfires, most in northwestern Ontario, have triggered air quality warnings for states close to the Great Lakes, stretching from Minnesota to Maryland.
Trump threatened to top up the import tariffs he’s already levied on Canadian goods in response to the smoke that has drifted south of the border.
h/t Mauser
A judge has declared a surprise mistrial in the sexual assault case of Frank Stronach, voiding a guilty finding because the complainant’s lawyer made a clumsy attempt to extract money through Stronach’s lawyer, but ended up sharing information that contradicted the woman’s testimony under oath.
The shocking decision by Judge Anne Molloy overturns her recent finding that Stronach was guilty of sexually assaulting this woman, known as A.S., who once worked as a waitress in a bar Stronach owned.
The Muslim Abduction, Rape, and Forced Conversion of Christian Girls in Pakistan
On April 11, two Muslims raped a 25-year-old Christian woman, leaving her in critical condition. The survivor, a daily-wage laborer, was picking lemons in a citrus orchard for local contractor Faizan Mehboob Rehmani (also known as Kaka) when the assault occurred. “Kaka may have thought I was an easy target because I am a Christian,” she said from her hospital bed. “They have destroyed my life. I want the police and courts to ensure they are punished.” According to her…
Northern Ontario continues to be on fire, blanketing southern Ontario and northern U.S. states in thick smoke, while the foreign affairs minister announced over $125M in funding for Brazil and an agreement between the two countries to fight wildfires.
h/t Mauser
Is it possible that the Republican war on so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is having an effect on the movies? The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is expressing alarm at the decline of LGBTQ characters at the movies – it’s at 20.4 percent of 2025 films in their latest tally, down from 28.5 percent in 2022.
Worse yet for the GLAAD squad, none of the 19 films in the animated/family film category had any of LGBTQ characters in it, which they find alarming. Last year, the ratio was two out of 26.
A trucker accused of smuggling $13 million in cocaine into Canada has had his charges thrown out after a Windsor judge found he’d been unlawfully strip searched by border agents in a “humiliating and degrading” manner that left him completely naked.
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is taking action to impose U.S. sanctions on Canada in light of the wildfire smoke that has enveloped the Midwest and East Coast this week.
“I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity,” Moreno posted on X.
I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity. https://t.co/wFCVwrPdGr
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) July 16, 2026
Earplugs may come in Handy…
Detector dog Dharla recently intercepted 37.8 kilograms of undeclared food and animal products at Toronto Pearson International Airport, says Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
The goods, which a CBSA spokesperson said include undeclared chicken, guinea fowl, goat, cowhide, and powdered milk, came from a traveller who arrived at the airport on June 19 from Nigeria.
#DetectorDog Dharla intercepted over 37 kg of undeclared food and animal products from a traveller arriving at #YYZ from Nigeria. The items were seized and the traveller was fined $1,300. Learn more : https://t.co/QNMCDoRbz5 pic.twitter.com/iliQckXxOi
— Canada Border Services Agency (@CanBorder) July 16, 2026
Good Doggie
Lyrah and Madelynn did a good job on this topic in the latest edition of the Spectator P.M. podcast, but I did want to pass along a take on that very large, steaming turd of a “study” laid down by CNBC, which claimed that Tennessee and Texas are the two worst states in America to live.
The study itself is a big, fat nothing. It claims that Tennessee is the worst state in America to live, followed by Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, and Georgia to round out the bottom five.
Tourism, Culture and Gaming Minister Stan Cho has resigned from cabinet after a week of scandal over his spending on hotels in Toronto, despite living six kilometres from Queen’s Park.
Global News was first to report that Cho, whose home is seven subway stops from the legislature, had billed more than $16,000 to the taxpayer for hotel stays downtown over the past three years.
The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer has been jailed for three years after removing her son’s murder weapon from the scene.
Vickrum Digwa stabbed the university student with a large knife in the street in Southampton then handed the 8in blade to Kiran Kaur, 53, his mother.
The killing prompted accusations of two-tier policing after it emerged that officers had believed Digwa’s claims that he had been the victim of racist abuse.
This week, the world marks International Justice Day and the 28th anniversary of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court. All these years later, it remains among the most consequential efforts ever made to hold war criminals accountable. Now Washington has announced its intention to “dismantle the ICC brick by brick, if necessary.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a campaign explicitly designed — as he put it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed — to “systematically disable” the court, pressuring nations to withdraw their support, cut off funding and abandon an institution the United States never joined. Countries that rely on American security guarantees, Rubio has made clear, should take the hint and fall in line.
Whatever the founding intention the ICC is now just a an extreme left bully pulpit.
