Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’s had it with months dedicated to various causes, arguing there are too many and that it’s becoming difficult to keep track of them.
Speaking at a press conference on June 19, the opposition leader said, “I think there are so many months now that are dedicated to so many causes it’s kind of getting hard to keep track of which month is for what cause or for what group.”
A group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received unusually harsh sentences of at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday in a closely watched case that was widely seen as a test case of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on dissent.
After a three-week jury trial, the nine activists were all found guilty of a slew of criminal charges in March, stemming from a Fourth of July protest at an immigrant detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, south of Fort Worth. The demonstrators arrived late at night with a plan to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with those detained inside. A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
Ottawa’s National Electricity Strategy asks Canadians to believe that electricity demand is about to soar and that government-owned utilities can successfully build the infrastructure to meet it. Both assumptions deserve far more scrutiny than they have received.
Whether congressional Republicans come around on the emerging deal to end the Iran war may hinge on whether the GOP base continues to trust President Donald Trump on the issue as his approach shifts from military force to diplomacy.
A split among rank-and-file Republican voters could embolden GOP lawmakers to stick to their own positions on the Iran talks, with many of them extremely wary of negotiating with the Iranian regime.
“Canada’s Texas is threatening divorce, and it could eventually become the 51st state,” crows the ultraconservative think-tank behind the Trump administration.
The free people of Alberta are about to take a vote.
It’s Canada’s fourth-largest province, both by size (about 411,187 sq mi) and population (5 million).
A ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie – the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie – said the 84-year-old had died, CNN and other news organizations are reporting, citing law enforcement sources.
Some media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes tied to the case in the days after Guthrie’s disappearance in early February from her home in the foothills just outside Tucson, Arizona.
Several Ontario First Nations are set to become owners of a new nuclear reactor after striking a commercial partnership with the federal and provincial governments.
Ottawa and Ontario are providing loan guarantees of $700 million to the seven Williams Treaties First Nations east of Toronto that will turn into equity for one of the four small modular reactors that are being built at the Darlington New Nuclear Project in Bowmanville, Ont., by Ontario Power Generation.
Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce says this is the first equity partnership with First Nations in a nuclear reactor in Canada.
h/t Mauser
For decades after the end of the Cold War in 1989, defense was not a high priority for European leaders.
Military spending was slashed, armed forces were downsized, and equipment stockpiles depleted, resulting in diminished combat readiness.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, however, served as a wake-up call and prompted European governments to reverse course and focus on defense.
Growing uncertainty about US security commitments under President Donald Trump accelerated the trend.
A busy Montreal neighbourhood went into lockdown Monday after an armed standoff at a hotel in Côte-des-Neiges left a police officer, a civilian and a suspect dead. Another officer and a bystander were injured in the attack.
The shooting marked the third time an officer in Canada was killed in less than two weeks, raising questions about whether violence against officers is increasing. It also came one day after two RCMP officers responding to a call for help in Melville, Sask., were shot and injured.
But researchers who track police deaths say the number of officers killed on duty this year remains within the historical range — and officers are less likely to die as a result of violence now than in past decades.
A Tesla said to be traveling at speeds as high as 70 miles per hour while in Autopilot mode barreled into a Texas home on Friday night and killed a 76-year-old grandmother — the latest deadly crash to put the automaker’s controversial automation technology under scrutiny.
Security-camera footage aired by Houston station KHOU-TV appeared to show the Tesla barreling down a residential street before veering across a front lawn and smashing directly into the brick home.
ALERT: 76-year-old grandmother is dead after a Tesla barrels into her home, going almost 70 miles per hour, in Texas.
Martha Avila was in her home putting away groceries when a Tesla, alleged by the driver to be on autopilot, zoomed through a residential neighborhood, flew… pic.twitter.com/g0jfk7zNG5
— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) June 22, 2026
The Islamic call to prayer blasted from four weatherproof horn speakers mounted on all four sides of Regina City Jamia Masjid mosque.
The “sound test” lasted roughly three minutes. Mosque representatives called it a “historic milestone.”
The rest of Regina should call it what it is: a warning siren.
À Régina.
Prier dans l’intimité: oui.
Imposer sa prière à toute une ville – qui est à la base de culture catholique: non.
pic.twitter.com/oWZH5ckjL2— EloVeutSavoir (@EloVeut) June 21, 2026
Islam has no place in the west.
Ukraine’s UN envoy, Andrii Melnyk, warned that Kyiv could reconsider its current ceasefire proposal if there was no meaningful international push to end the war, saying “our patience is not endless”.
Melnyk said Ukraine remained open to direct negotiations with Russia but cautioned that its offer of a ceasefire along the current front lines was already a significant concession. “If the security council would further choose a wait-and-see approach, I cannot exclude that Ukraine may recalibrate and modify its offer. Ceasefire along the de facto front line is already a great compromise,” he said.
The Cannabis Council of Canada has announced it is suspending its advocacy operation, apparently because its member companies have given up hope that the federal government is prepared to listen to them.
In a letter to Finance Minister François Philippe Champagne that foreshadowed this week’s announcement, outgoing council president Paul McCarthy said the country’s licensed cannabis producers have lost confidence that the government is committed to getting its tax and regulatory policies right.
Canadian police chief forced to make a video statement after his officers started running the plates of attractive women coming out of coffee shops and gyms.
Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs is calling on officers who use police databases to meet women to quit.
Stubbs says these… pic.twitter.com/sMTtXWveV4
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 22, 2026
h/t Mauser
A father of seven who became known as one of Britain’s ‘first gay dads’ and his husband who are accused of sex and trafficking offences have now been charged with child sex offences.
Trailblazing Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57 and his second husband Scott Hutchinson, 32, indicated they were not guilty of charges of rape, sexual assault and modern slavery trafficking for sexual exploitation last month.
Ahead of a further court appearance today, Essex Police revealed the couple had been charged with 18 additional offences.
