Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw has laid down the law to anybody thinking about disrupting Sunday’s Walk with Israel.
“You are going to see a very substantial police presence and police response,” the chief told Newstalk 1010’s John Moore on Friday morning just hours before his Deputy Chief Frank Barredo was set to hold a briefing about the plan.
Performative hindsight?
In the seemingly endless to and fro over the Trump administration’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with Tehran, the one red line upon which there can be no hint of compromise is US President Donald J. Trump’s insistence that the ayatollahs will never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
While speculation continues to mount that a deal to end the three-month conflict between Iran and the US is in the offing, it is clear that Iran is still resisting demands that it surrender the estimated 970 pounds of enriched uranium — whose main utility is for the production of nuclear warheads.
RCMP say a 36-year-old officer from Quebec is facing charges after allegedly taking part in organizing the entry of a family member into Canada in September 2024 through an unguarded path.
The federal police force says Aaron Baringue, from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., has been charged with breach of trust and obstruction and is scheduled to appear in court on July 20.
RCMP Cst. Marie-Pierre Guertin says Baringue allegedly drove to the United States while off duty to pick up the family member.
Late on Thursday, the New York Times came out with a story by Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer that featured GOP operative Lyndsey Fifield making accusations against progressive darling and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, including how “she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.” However, on Friday, Fifield torched The Times in a series of X posts for what was not in the story, including more evidence for her accusations that she was “set up” because The Times did not include other women who were going to accuse Platner of sexual assault despite telling Fifield they were going to.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said his negotiating team made “some progress” during trade talks in Washington this week, but there’s “lots more to do” to land an overall agreement.
Carney’s comments on Thursday came as Canada-U.S. Trade minister Dominic LeBlanc and the country’s chief trade negotiator, Janice Charette, briefed a special advisory council for more than two hours about their meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Flavio Volpe, who sits on the advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, described the briefing as “very candid” and said the details suggest conversations are moving in the right direction.
I just do not believe a words he says.
What’s the emptiest place on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ this week? It appears to be the election counting offices in California where navel-gazing vote counters are taking their sweet time to tell Californians if their vote for change has been diluted by Tom Steyer and Karen Bass ballot harvesters and vote “cure” experts. We have an update.
Is anyone sick of this yet?
For the enterprising foreign criminal, Canada’s streets are paved with gold. A land filled with felonious opportunity.
You slip into the country claiming asylum, refugee status, or say you’ve never seen Niagara Falls. Voila. You’re in.
Writing for Sight and Sound Magazine, Oscar-winning writer and director Quentin Tarantino correctly describes modern movies as “plain stupid shit.”
“I loved going to the movies. These days, however, the concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity,” he writes. “Which is fair enough, because by comparison the movies of the last six years make the ‘80s seem like the ‘30s.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mexican leaders are weighing a U.S. proposal to revise the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement’s (CUSMA) auto rules of origin — changes that could force a major restructuring of North America’s tightly integrated auto supply chains.
Last week, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s team told their Mexican counterparts that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to raise the overall required North American parts threshold from 75 to 82 per cent and, more controversially, require that 50 per cent of all components originate specifically in the United States.
Ukraine says it has struck five ships carrying illegal cargo in the Sea of Azov and in coastal waters of Russian-occupied territories.
The Ukrainian drone forces commander said the vessels were involved in “stealing” Ukrainian grain, as well as transferring military cargo and fuel.
The strikes come a day after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky offered face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin on ending the war, an offer the Russian leader rejected while visiting St Petersburg for an economic forum.
OTTAWA — Fearing the move could trigger a massive price spike, the federal government is directing Canada’s broadcast regulator to review its contentious plan to regulate and tax foreign streaming platforms.
Canada’s Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller made the announcement on Wednesday, a reaction to the contentious May 21 decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions (CRTC) requiring streaming giants such as Spotify and Netflix to spend some of their Canadian-sourced revenue to acquire or produce Canadian programming.
Germany’s controversial Section 188 of the Criminal Code has come under renewed scrutiny after courts imposed substantial fines on citizens for insulting Chancellor Friedrich Merz online.
According to prosecutors in Heilbronn, a Facebook user was ordered to pay a fine of more than 2,000 euros after referring to Merz as “Lügenfritz” (“Lying Fritz”) in a comment posted under a police announcement about the chancellor’s visit to the city last year.
The cases of George Floyd and Henry Nowak occurred in different countries, under different circumstances, and generated vastly different levels of media attention.
An examination of Canadian media coverage suggests that Floyd’s death received significantly more attention from major news outlets than the case involving Nowak.
Even as Canada comes to terms with the fact that not everything we’ve been told about residential schools is true, some people want to criminalize asking questions about it. On Monday, the Senate’s human rights committee voted for an amendment making it a criminal offence to engage in what they called “residential school denialism.”
Something weird is happening in the fevered little beaver brains of the Canadian collective. The world is going to pot, yet here we are feeling more chipper than we have in years.
Oil costs a fortune, no one can afford houses and don’t even get me started about health care. Food costs are through the roof. Tech bosses are blithely unleashing algorithms hardly anyone understands and apparently no one can control.
