OTTAWA — With only weeks left in the summer, the Mark Carney Liberals are holding onto their nine-point lead against the Pierre Poilievre Conservatives.
That’s according to Liaison Strategies’ latest federal tracker poll, released Monday, which shows Canada’s political landscape barrelling through the dog days of summer, with the opinions of decided voters largely unchanged from previous weeks.
A video has emerged of a Spanish socialist politician calling to replace Spanish ‘racists’ and ‘fascists’ with migrants, vowing to ensure they would be allowed to vote only months before 60,000 migrants invaded Ceuta.
Irene Montero, the former Spanish Minister of Equality and member of the hard-left Podemos party appeared in a video from earlier this year pleading for support from ‘migrants’ and ‘people of colour.’
‘Please don’t leave us alone with all these fascists. We absolutely want you to vote. We’ve managed to get you papers, and now we want regularisation.
One of the most shocking political speeches ever…
Irene Montero, Spain's fmr Equality Minister, celebrates the Sanchez government’s decision to give papers to 500 000+ illegal migrants.
She says she supports the Great Replacement & wants migrants to replace Spanish racists pic.twitter.com/m7JPZDBpaz
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 2, 2026
Two men cross paths inside a Toronto restaurant. Both are armed. Both are with friends.
Within minutes, the encounter escalates. Bullets fly inside the eatery on St. Clair Avenue West. A 23-year-old named Nakhari Henry-Robinson is killed.
Months later, Regent Park rapper Ridge “Biiig Rax” Kazumba is found guilty of second-degree murder in the August 2023 shooting. The now 29-year-old had just left a session at a nearby recording studio when he encountered Henry-Robinson at the restaurant.
The armed civilian who’s been praised for his ‘heroic act’ of returning fire on the In-N-Out gunman in Idaho said he began self-defense training five years ago after another deadly shooting.
Jordan Salinas, 35, was headed out for a horseback riding date with his girlfriend on Saturday afternoon when he was suddenly faced with putting the techniques he had learned to use.
He pulled into the restaurant’s parking lot around 2.30pm, around the same time that Chad Williams, 24, opened fire on innocent people with an AR-style rifle, cops said.
🚨 NOW: Twin Falls, Idaho shooting hero Jordan Salinas is SPEAKING OUT as the entire nation praises him for saving lives and engaging the shooter
This man is a hero! Invite him to the White House!
"Please know I've seen your messages, and they mean more to me than I can put… pic.twitter.com/dBLLdCQ8zw
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 3, 2026
When Canada announced earlier this year that it would allow a token number of Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, the gesture didn’t seem so much about climate action as a sop to ease Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola.
Now, it very much appears like the opening gambit in a deeper engagement with China on clean energy. Following up on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s momentous meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping in January, Industry Minister Melanie Joly was in Beijing last month to discuss the feasibility of Canadian-Chinese EV ventures.
Meanwhile, the Canada China Business Council is organizing a cleantech mission to China in Beijing in November.
The CBC is owned by China now.
A growing chorus of voices have accused Morocco of helping to fuel the crisis in Ceuta, with the leader of the Spanish enclave describing last week’s border crossings as an attack on Spain’s territorial integrity that was seen as being “if not orchestrated, at least encouraged or permitted by Morocco”.
Spain’s interior ministry said late last week that 48,300 of the roughly 50,000 people who had turned up in Ceuta, a tiny Spanish territory in north Africa, had been sent back to Morocco. The extraordinary influx had overwhelmed the city of 84,000 and set off a political crisis across the EU as some member states laid blame on Spain.
🇪🇸 In Ceuta, a crowd of illegal Moroccan migrants is already establishing its own rules in the city
The crowd shouts “Allahu Akbar” at National Guard officers and drags a wounded migrant through the streets in protest against being returned home. pic.twitter.com/Q27cvVFLTW
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 3, 2026
More … Huge mob of Moroccans chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ clash with Spanish police after marching through Ceuta as enclave remains gripped by fear
Gen Z isn’t the teetotalling generation after all, according to new data. They just took some time to catch up to the rest of the drinking population, and their influence is reshaping the alcohol industry.
As a larger proportion of gen Zers reaches legal drinking age, the gap between them and drinkers at large “appears to have almost completely disappeared.” The report from IWSR, a leading alcohol data provider, dispels the myth that younger people imbibe less.
Something Something, Elbows Up?
How bizzare that to enter the USA the bridge is past capacity and spilling into the streets of Niagara. With almost every American booth open.
Canadas side? 3 booths open and bridge is majority empty.
On a weekend, when Niagara Falls is… pic.twitter.com/eF7Kn1JkLA
— CDN_Karma (@cdn_karma) August 2, 2026
This is several kilometers before the border crossing into the US at Peace Arch this weekend… Where's the mainstream media? Ahhh, right, this fails to play into their narrative they have been constructing since Carney appeared.
Canada, under this, you are being played, you are… pic.twitter.com/N2judVkmMB— Fringe Truth (@TruthFringe) August 2, 2026
h/t Mauser
In a Stockholm suburb a man dressed in black appeared out of the winter night. Carrying a handgun, he approached 20-year-old Murad Abdelkader, a student on his way back from a shift at McDonald’s.
The gunman opened fire, shooting again and again as he approached his target. He fired the last shot into his victim’s head as he lay helpless on the ground.
The killer was 18-year-old Atilla Azimov. On that February night last year, he had killed the wrong man.
Oh, my gosh! @fancypants_s https://t.co/MV0eZwc4js
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 3, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Canada’s premiers raised a glass to internal trade last week. Nine provinces signed an agreement allowing licensed Canadian wineries, breweries, and distilleries to sell directly to consumers across participating jurisdictions. Quebec and Yukon, which helped develop the framework, have not yet joined but say they are working toward implementation. British Columbia, meanwhile, will not have its full system operating until Feb. 2027.
Non-Muslim officers and staff working at West Midlands Police have been invited to fast during Ramadan in an “act of solidarity”, The Telegraph can reveal.
The West Midlands Association of Muslim Police has said colleagues can take part in a fast for the day during the religious festival to raise money for charity.
West Midlands Police said the practice helped officers understand the “significance of Ramadan” for Muslim residents.
Some U.S. officials are condemning the apparent arson that destroyed a popular kosher restaurant in Montreal early Sunday morning, with some characterizing the incident as part of a broader pattern of antisemitic attacks.
Illinois Congressman Paul Schneider, co-chair of the Congressional Jewish Congress, said he and his colleagues “are disgusted and outraged” by what he described as “yet another heinous attack on Jewish-owned business.”
Greek police have charged a man in connection with the murder of a British woman whose body was found in a suitcase in Athens.
Elisabeth Jane Ross, 38 who was also known as Lisa, was discovered inside a suitcase by a homeless man in an abandoned car park in the Kypseli district of Athens on 18 July.
The man arrested is reported to be a 26-year-old Afghan national who confessed to the killing. He is believed to have met Ms Ross through her work helping refugees and homeless people.
The first reactors in Canada’s planned nuclear expansion will depend on foreign suppliers — including the United States — to enrich and fabricate their fuel, even as Prime Minister Mark Carney argues Canadian sovereignty depends on the country’s ability to supply and control its own energy.
It marks a sharp departure from the Candu reactor system, which gave Canada — the world’s second-largest uranium producer — a largely domestic nuclear supply chain for more than half a century.
