Nobody is telling you the actual reason a man just set himself on fire outside the UN.
Everyone's calling it "madness." "Psycho." "Stop doing this."
Nobody is reading the note he left behind.
"China Out of Tibet."
💀 He was 52. Lived in the US for 20 years. Drove for Uber.
💀… pic.twitter.com/JyDE2ng0xA— Whale Scan (@WhaleScan) July 3, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
VANCOUVER — A Burnaby RCMP investigation that began with a routine traffic stop last summer has ended in one of the largest drug-chemical seizures in British Columbia’s history — 6,765 kilograms of finished narcotics and fentanyl-production chemicals pulled from three homes and two shipping containers in Richmond, alongside tactical shotguns, cash, contraband cigarettes — and a multi-antenna device consistent with the signal jammers used to defeat electronic surveillance.
h/t Auntie Polly
The FBI had a mole inside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political orbit before the agency’s corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, The Post has learned.
Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom’s then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May, according to Williamson’s attorney.
h/t Mauser
Israel’s right to defend itself “does not grant us the right to oppress others,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz once warned in an editorial. Seizing new land requires ruling that land, and rule without representation brings resistance. In turn, it continued, “resistance brings in its wake oppression. Oppression brings in its wake terrorism and counterterrorism.”
Published after the Six-Day War in 1967, it was as true then as it is now. The dire situation Haaretz predicted has, in fact, come to pass. Israel’s willingness to oppress Palestinians and neighbouring states has become not only intolerable but also dangerous to its own survival.
Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ2S+ travellers from docking in the country’s ports, citing “moral standards” and “family values,” the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said Thursday.
The “Athens to Venice” cruise, which departs from Greece on July 5, was expected to dock in the vibrant Turkish port town of Kuşadası two days later, followed by a trip to Istanbul, according to Atlantis Events, which is organizing the voyage.
h/t Mauser and angry_old_man_2
The legalization of cannabis in Canada has not had a positive impact on the mental health of users.
In fact, those who smoked pot had a higher chance of being diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, psychosis and addiction, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.
The authors of the study say youth and young adults are most at risk of mental harms.
Veteran actress Justine Bateman is ripping Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as “grotesque” for giving a pardon to an illegal alien convicted of raping a child.
Bateman, of Family Ties sitcom fame, took to her X account to repost a New York Times story headlined, “Minnesota Pardons Sexual Abuser Who Was Set to Be Deported.”
A woman is facing assault charges after allegedly stabbing another woman during a road rage incident in Oshawa on Canada Day.
Durham Regional Police were called to the area of Lakeview Park and Simcoe Street around 7:20 p.m. on July 1.
Investigators say a 53-year-old woman was involved in a road rage altercation with a 20-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman. The 53-year-old woman allegedly brandished a knife and the other two people responded by deploying bear spray.
Pity there’s no video!
A Secret Service counter drone operator futilely searched the internet for the location of the rooftop President Trump’s would-be assassin was spotted on as shots rang out at the July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a Department of Homeland Security inspector general report released Thursday.
The report concluded Secret Service “missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt” deranged gunman Thomas Crooks’ attempted assassination of Trump, including shocking communications failures that resulted in the president’s protective detail never being warned that an armed man had climbed onto the American Glass Research International (AGR) complex’s roof just 155 yards from the stage.
The federal riding of Beaches-East York is about to get a familiar name in the running to replace outgoing Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith.
John Tory Jr., the 47-year-old son of Toronto’s former mayor, is seeking the Liberal nomination as a Beaches-East York candidate.
Vigilantes are taking to the streets of Rochdale after a Pakistani grooming gang ringleader was released from prison.
A group organised by local campaigner Billy Howarth will patrol the area in the coming days, with police remaining on standby.
Shabir Ahmed, 73, who was convicted of 30 child rape offences as part of the grooming gang, was released on Thursday and cannot be deported despite being stripped of his British citizenship.
Becky Hamber, 47, and Brandy Cooney, 45, were sentenced today in a in Milton, Ont., court to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering a 12-year-old and torturing his younger brother. They also were given consecutive, concurrent terms for forcible confinement and other crimes.
Senior U.S. officials feared that Israel intended to assassinate Iran’s top negotiators as the Trump administration pursued a high-stakes deal to end the war there and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, current and former officials familiar with the matter said.
Washington’s objection to killing Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the country’s parliamentary speaker, was so acute that this spring it took the extraordinary step of asking intermediaries to warn Iran about Israel’s assassination aims, the officials said.
“You kill those folks and you’re killing the pragmatists,” said a U.S. official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. outlook on Israel’s targeted killing campaign.
“sources”
Canadians have heard plenty about the Gordie Howe International Bridge — but largely from one perspective. Much of the public debate has focused on allegations that the owner of the Ambassador Bridge, a prominent Republican donor, has been lobbying the White House to delay the bridge’s opening in order to protect his commercial interests. That narrative has dominated headlines in Canada. After speaking with U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra on The Food Professor Podcast, however, one thing became clear: Washington believes there is much more to the story.
WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was planning to head to Brussels last month to deliver what would be a bombshell announcement in a meeting with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s top military chiefs.
The U.S., he planned to say, was preparing additional cuts to its forces in Europe that would go beyond the canceled deployment of an armored brigade to Poland and the earlier withdrawal of an infantry brigade from Romania, people familiar with the matter said. But Hegseth’s proposal was nixed after it was shared with Marco Rubio—President Trump’s national-security adviser—and other senior officials, the people said.
Or Russia’s plans for Poland were revealed.
