There is a serious argument that Canada is no longer merely a large country with regional differences, but a country so vast, economically uneven, and culturally divided that it is becoming nearly impossible to govern effectively from the centre. That argument should not be dismissed as anger, nostalgia, or Western grievance. It deserves to be examined on its merits.
A Pakistani grooming gang ringleader convicted of 30 child rape offences cannot be deported despite being stripped of his British citizenship.
Shabir Ahmed, 73, a key figure in the Rochdale grooming gang scandal, is due to be released from prison on Thursday but cannot be thrown out of Britain because of a loophole in the Immigration Act 1971.
Even though he has been stripped of his citizenship while serving prison sentences totalling more than 40 years, Ahmed is protected from deportation by a provision in the act that exempts Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK before 1973 from removal.
As Canada Day nears, the expected attitude is one of gratitude, for clean air, public health care, relative safety and ketchup chips. But Canadians haven’t been feeling so jovial as of late. And for good reason: the cost of groceries is rising, rent is too high and the future feels less certain than it used to. And according to the latest World Happiness Report, that feeling is in the numbers.
Canada, once comfortably among the happiest countries in the world, ranked 25th in the 2026 World Happiness Report. To put the decline in perspective: in 2025, it ranked 18th; in 2021, it ranked 14th; and in 2015, it ranked a now hard to imagine fifth place. (We rank behind the U.S. now, which sits at a slightly loftier 23rd place.)
Around 1,000 people marched through the southern French city of Narbonne on Sunday, June 28th, following the death of 17-year-old Louis, who was lynched by a gang of youths.
The march, organised under the slogan ‘Justice for All,’ was promoted on social media by several identitarian groups. Louis’s family declined to take part, saying they wished to avoid any political exploitation of their son’s death.
BREAKING: French patriots are demanding justice for Louis, a 17-year-old who was murdered by a migrant gang
They filmed themselves stomping on his head
The people have had enough!!! pic.twitter.com/7EicgFJzsY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 28, 2026
Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford says Sankofa Square was once the epicentre of the city, the “Canadian version” of Times Square and a place where people would celebrate festivals and gather with friends for a night out.
But now, he says it’s become something of a “wasteland.”
“It’s dirty, it’s unsafe. There’s open drug use in the middle of the afternoon. Tourists avoid it. Parents grab their kids by the hand and move quickly through the space, or even worse, they avoid it altogether,” Bradford said during a press conference on Monday as he pitched his plan to revamp and rename the square at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets.
Instant ban: Watch the exact moment a Range Safety Officer steps in after a shooter points a firearm at his friend’s head for a photo. Zero hesitation. pic.twitter.com/89cGxYb2fe
— Crime Talk with Scott Reisch (@CrimeTalkNet) June 25, 2026
The BC govt has no money left for schools or hospitals but spent millions on "ResilienceBC" — a program which produces videos of fictional hate crimes that never occurred. pic.twitter.com/NrF4IsCsFw
— Alexander Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) June 28, 2026
h/t XC
Toss in some Korean BBQ and I’m in.[/caption]OTTAWA — Choosing the winning bid for Canada’s next generation submarine fleet is coming down to the wire. Analysts say the race between the two contenders, German-Norwegian consortium ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and South Korea’s Hanwha, is too close to call.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously said that a decision would be made before the end of June, but sources tell CTV News that the announcement will be delayed a few days. It will likely come before Carney leaves for the July 7 NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara, Türkiye.
mmigration accounts for as much as 40 percent of U.S. rent increases as the housing affordability crisis continues to plague millions of Americans, according to a forthcoming study shared exclusively with The Federalist.
The paper, “Immigration and Rent: A PUMA-Based Spatial Analysis,” will appear this fall in Cityscape magazine as part of a collection of works exploring the relationship between immigration and housing markets.
I wonder what the numbers would be in Canada?
From the Department of Ridiculous Defenses: In the UK, an Iranian Muslim migrant, accused of raping an English woman, asserted he could not have done it because of what he called his “micropenis.” The jury did not buy it, and he was convicted.
A charity connected to the controversial group HonestReporting Canada, which claims to expose anti-Israel bias in news media, has launched two court battles against the attempted revocation of its registration by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
HR Canada Charitable Organization (HRCCO) has filed challenges to the revocation in both the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Federal Court of Appeal, according to court records obtained by the IJF and Future of Good.
Lot of this sort of proxy war going on.
have a bit more to say about former MSNBC host Joy Reid and her former colleague Alex Wagner, who recently engaged in an online conversation comparing Independence Day and Juneteenth.
Reid stated that “nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July” and claimed that her black friends basically treat the Fourth as a day off to barbecue. (That seems racist. Is Reid saying that all blacks like ribs and chicken?)
For hundreds of years, one of the central battlegrounds of British politics has been the role, powers and prerogatives of the Crown. From the Barons’ Wars to the Reformation and the Civil War, we have had a centuries-long argument over what the monarch is for, what they can and can’t do, and where they fit with the rest of the constitution. Various compromises and fudges have emerged in line with the changing social and political environment.
Last week, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding meant to end the war that began in February. It extends a ceasefire, reopens the Strait of Hormuz and, most consequentially, clears the way for Iran to resume oil sales. The nuclear questions that started the war are intended to be addressed over the next two months. What Tehran gets now is a reprieve, a free hand to crush dissent at home, a nuclear program left intact for now and money. What Tehran will do with that money should concern us all.
When I arrived in the Netherlands in 1992, what struck me first wasn’t the weather or the language, but the unmistakable prosperity of Dutch society. Coming from a world defined by scarcity, the visible wealth of Western Europe felt like an alternate reality.
If I were to characterize what I saw in the 1990s with one word, it would be trust.
Voters trusted their democracies. Elections were meaningful, but not existential. Citizens generally saw their choices reflected in policy, particularly when their party won enough seats to shape the governing agenda.
