Memory is a trickster, but I am quite sure that when I was growing up, in the Eighties and Nineties, it was extremely unusual to see individual houses flying the Union Jack or the St George’s Cross. You might see a few more during big football tournaments, especially on cars and vans, but it just didn’t happen, by and large. This was a noticeable difference not only from the United States, but also from several other European nations.
Author: Blazingcatfur
If Canada Auto can’t survive, let it fade away. Courting China is not the solution
Prime Minister Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump on June 16 justifying Chinese EV imports. “Less than 3 per cent of our market, 49,000 cars,” Mr. Carney said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in France. “It’s a cap, we capped, a hard line … I thought you’d actually like that.”
Mr. Trump does like it, Mr. Carney told reporters later.
French music festival descends into stabbings and rapes with multiple women stabbed with syringes
More than 240 people were arrested, two people stabbed, and others raped, as France’s biggest open air music festival descended into intense violence.
The 40-year-old man and woman, who have not been named, were attacked in the early hours of Monday at the Fête de la Musique – a nationwide ‘street party’ attended by thousands of British people.
Police also reported two alleged rapes, multiple other sexual assaults, muggings, and girls being stabbed with syringes, on a night of anarchy.
WTF?
Carney caught on hot mic saying MPs are just ‘useful for votes’
CALGARY — Prime Minister Mark Carney has once again been caught on a live microphone, this time appearing to tell the Croatian prime minister that his MPs are just “useful for votes.”
The comments were overheard by a media camera pool in Ottawa on Monday when Carney welcomed Croatian leader Andrej Plenković during his first-ever visit to Canada.
The look on Carney’s face when someone obviously signals to him to shut up because he’s on a hot mic.
Lolz. 😆 pic.twitter.com/Zeg03Qa4Js pic.twitter.com/3hN1oMWs8B
— Stacey (@StaceyMonette27) June 22, 2026
The Solstice of Our Discontent
I don’t recall exactly when it was that I learned that it took a bit more than eight minutes for the sun’s light to reach us here on Earth. Sometime before high school, I think. Anyway, that pedestrian fact made a deep impression on me. I knew that light traveled at a fixed speed and that its operation wasn’t (quite) instantaneous, although in our quotidian lives, it seemed almost so.
But the fact that the sunlight we see all about us is eight minutes old made a deep and disconcerting impression on my young self. Who knows what might have happened to the Sun in the meantime?
Officer killed in Côte-des-Neiges shooting is identified
The officer killed during a shootout in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood on Monday has been identified as Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane.
“It is with profound sadness that we confirm the tragic death of Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane while on duty protecting the public,” reads a statement from Montreal police (SPVM) issued Monday evening.
C’est avec une profonde tristesse que nous confirmons le décès tragique de l’agent Benredouane dans l’exercice de ses fonctions en protégeant la population. Le drame est survenu aujourd’hui lors d’une intervention dans le secteur de CDN.
Détails ➡️ https://t.co/G972ZKywtG pic.twitter.com/dmyem9cDSd
— Police Montréal (@SPVM) June 23, 2026
CBC’s live feed – Montreal police identify officer killed in shooting involving suspected incel
Some Real Talk About the Iran Deal
It’s time to take a hard look at the memorandum of understanding (MOU) and to think about it objectively. On one hand, it is not the utter catastrophe that a lot of people – people who largely agree with my position that we should be actively destroying these goat-molesting, pagan semi-humans – think it is. On the other hand, it’s a crap sandwich, and there’s no need to take a bite and announce that it’s “Yummy.” It is not yummy, but it might be the best we can hope for today.
“Developers Don’t Want to Sell at a Loss”: PM Carney on Vancouver Condo Bailout
VANCOUVER — When Mark Carney and David Eby and Gregor Robertson stood together in South Vancouver’s River District this month, a short drive from the Richmond casino that gave the world the phrase “Vancouver Model,” they did so flanked by condo towers where empty two-bedroom units are marketed at close to $1.1 million.
It was a fitting backdrop.
WTF?
If you want to compete in the world of European Extreme Fancy Cycling, start your routine with the handle bar between your butt cheeks like these champions.
This extreme sport is the hottest new thing after Hobby Horsing and Synchronized Walking.
(UEC) pic.twitter.com/SfjTl1A4ku
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 20, 2026
Obama’s Hideous Monument to Hubris
When the Democrats nominated Barack Obama to represent their party in the 2008 presidential election many voters consoled themselves with this thought: “Well, at least it’s not Hillary.” Unfortunately, preventing her from taking up residence in the White House was the last useful thing he did for the country. Indeed, from the moment he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as a participation trophy during his first year in office, it became clear that there would be a huge gap between his actual accomplishments and the celebration of his presidency. The grotesque monolith that towers over the South Side of Chicago is the perfect symbol of that chasm.
WTF?
LOL! 😆@fancypants_s https://t.co/97m1SCTGE1
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) June 22, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Shooters-for-hire network in Toronto shows a new front in the fight against terror financing
Toronto’s police chief recently described a pattern that should unsettle anyone who saw the recent shootings at synagogues, Jewish schools and the U.S. consulate as unrelated hate crimes. Police say a network of criminals-for-hire has been linked to 27 firearm discharges across the city – recruiting young adults online, paying them to fire on the exterior of a chosen building, and requiring a video of the act before any money is released.
Green Fiasco: Asbestos Discovered in 1,000 UK Wind Turbines Imported from China
Asbestos has been found in at least 1,000 wind turbines throughout the UK after components containing the banned substance were imported from China, sparking concerns about worker safety and prompting calls for a government investigation.
Trump administration growing impatient with Canada’s delayed F-35 choice
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington is signalling growing impatience with Ottawa’s delays on its F-35 purchase and broader defence reset.
U.S. defence officials applauded Canada’s 2022 selection of Lockheed Martin’s stealth fighter, and the plan to buy 88 of the U.S.-made jets, but political debate and shifting priorities have left only 30 under contract so far.
‘MIGA: Making Iran’s Regime Great Again’: Why Many Arabs Vehemently Oppose Trump’s MOU
The prevailing narrative in much of the Western media is that opposition to US President Donald J. Trump’s new agreement with Iran comes primarily from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters.
This narrative is false.
