The Supreme Court just handed down a huge win for biological truth and common sense.
In a 6-3 opinion Tuesday, the court upheld state bans on biological males playing in female sports, ruling against challenges in West Virginia and in Idaho.
And for many athletes turned activists, including former college swimmers Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan and retired pro soccer player Elizabeth Eddy, it feels like a sweet victory.
Mark Carney, unless he suffers from a Trudeau-style self-immolation, will be prime minister for as long as he chooses to. If the technology to download consciousness is developed in the near future, this could mean forever. Contradictions abound.
God forbid.
Great powers, losing patience, sign a document and persuade themselves that it is strategy. The Islamic Republic of Iran has watched this habit in Western capitals for over 40 years and learned to feed on it. What it had not yet absorbed is that an administration can run two contradictory instruments at once, letting the weaker one absorb the enemy’s hopes while the stronger one quietly sets the terms.
During Canadian Multiculturalism Day on June 27, Prime Minister Mark Carney took to social media to celebrate Canada as a mosaic of many peoples and many cultures, with our differences a source of strength to be nurtured, not a risk to be managed.
Pope Leo has made a last-ditch attempt to persuade a rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics to abandon plans to ordain its own bishops without Vatican approval, calling the “schismatic act” a “sin of extreme gravity”.
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), founded in the Swiss village of Ecône in 1970 to oppose liberalising reforms in the Catholic church, plans to ordain four new bishops at its seminary there on Wednesday.
By any measure, Canada has become one of the world’s most trade-dependent economies. Nowhere is that more evident than in agri-food, where millions of jobs and billions of dollars in investment depend on stable access to foreign markets.
That is why this Canada Day carries unusual significance.
The Great American State Fair opened on the National Mall this week, but the heartland is already the focus of international attention. As the United States, Canada, and Mexico host the World Cup, soccer fans from around the world are crisscrossing this country, gawking at the sheer abundance they find in our stores and restaurants.
Their astonishment is a helpful reminder of what makes America great. It gives the lie to the critics of the American way, both on the far right and left at home and abroad, who claim the system is fundamentally broken and rigged against ordinary people. The opportunities provided by capitalism are one of this country’s secret weapons, and our enemies are working night and day to disarm us.
The man who admitted he set a fire at a synagogue in Dollard-des-Ormeaux in 2024 said Tuesday that he was high as a kite and was carrying out “a mission” for another person.
Mohamed Ilyess Akodad, 20, testified before Quebec Court Judge Karine Giguère at the Montreal courthouse during his sentence hearing.
🤦♀️@fancypants_s https://t.co/aKBro1m1UV
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) July 1, 2026
H/T Auntie Polly
Hollywood’s obsession with ignoring the science when it comes to the male and female sexes is what has killed so many of these once-bulletproof franchises
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is opting not to extend its trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, triggering what are expected to be tough negotiations on amending the deal.
The announcement by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer followed a virtual meeting on Wednesday with Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Mexico’s economy secretary, Marcelo Ebrard.
The U.S. announcement does not kill CUSMA, which does not expire until 2036.
A Montreal police officer is dead. A civilian is dead. Another officer was seriously injured. The suspect is dead. That’s the starting point, and it’s grave enough without politicians pretending the investigation is already finished.
Canadian news outlets reported that Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, was killed after police responded to reports of a shooter near a Hilton hotel in Côte-des-Neiges.
Nobody is less motivated to watch a WNBA game than I am.
In fact, the only WNBA action that I have ever seen is clips on X that I scroll by, mostly without watching.
But even I know who Caitlin Clark is and why she is so popular among basketball fans. She is the person who put the WNBA on the map, whose jersey sales, along with her now-famous teammate Sophie Cunningham, outsell those of every other WNBA player combined by a whopping 2-1 margin.
The fact that Sophie triggered almost an entire league with just a simple point of a finger is just crazy motion 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/7paK3NxFLC
— Ashwin (@Sudharsan_ak) June 27, 2026
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s comments made during the Pride Parade on Sunday has at least two citizen groups in a fighting mood.
The Downtown Concerned Citizens Organization (DCCO) sent out a press release on Tuesday following a story in the Toronto Sun regarding the mayor’s public support for the Palestinian cause, much to the chagrin of the city’s Jewish community.
Artificial intelligence researcher Cameron Berg chugged his drink when he spotted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman at a party in 2024, and hustled over to ask the CEO whether he thought the emerging technology could be conscious or self-aware.
Few tech executives talked about the possibility in public at the time. But to Berg’s surprise, Altman said that OpenAI had started discussing how to detect consciousness in AI systems.
“It was very obviously something that he’s thought about,” said Berg, who has launched a nonprofit organization to work on methods to assess AI consciousness.
