“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.
The Competition Bureau of Canada announced Monday that it is moving forward with its investigation into competition in the Canadian grocery store landscape.
The bureau said it obtained orders from the Federal Court requiring the parent company of Sobeys to produce documents and testimony for its investigation into property controls.
Property controls are legal agreements that can block competitors from setting up stores in certain places, limiting where a new grocery store can open.
In Canada having the right cronies will allow you to get away with almost anything.
Shorter Regina Police: Sharia will be enforced infidels. https://t.co/ttVmwa63qv
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) June 23, 2026
England’s most patriotic street has defied a Green-run council that told them not to put up St George’s flags for the World Cup.
The residents of Torrington Avenue in Bristol have long been known for festooning their road with the flag during international football tournaments.
However, that tradition seemed to be in doubt this year when the Green-controlled council said residents would not be allowed to “fly flags on lampposts or railings or any public property” for “health and safety” reasons.
Tony Dyer, the council’s leader, warned that flags raised for the World Cup would be taken down and a spokesman for the authority said the flags were not “welcoming”.
VANCOUVER — Marc Cohodes built his name and his fortune betting against frauds, from small public companies to the American subprime-mortgage machine that collapsed in 2008. This week, he returned to The Bureau with a blunt verdict on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to spend up to $3.2 billion absorbing Vancouver’s unsold condominiums: he has seen this movie before, and this version is worse.
Cohodes "And Carney is basically putting the losses to the Canadian taxpayers of these condos which are built and can't sell. And he's bailing out the CCP backed developers, you know, the condo king Rennie and all his buddies."
"And it's sick and it's insane and it's amazing… https://t.co/ToTAKKxb9R pic.twitter.com/7uNUYYEQrC
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) June 22, 2026
