The Canadian military is on the verge of another round of internal belt-tightening, despite an enormous influx of cash from the federal government, CBC News has learned.
It appears to be a combination of past and current budget initiatives colliding with the expectations and demands associated with the gush of defence spending.
The Department of National Defence has been told to focus its billions of extra dollars on priority areas, including the purchase of much-needed new combat equipment.
Lawyers for A-lister-chomping actress Selma Blair claimed to a Queens judge she deserved a break after her second bizarre mid-air meltdown because she is “the gold standard’’ — but the no-nonsense jurist told them to fugghedaboutit.
“Consider her body of work and what she’s done for people,” said one of Blair’s two lawyers, Joshua Reitzas, at the 54-year-old “Cruel Intentions” star’s arraignment on assault charges Monday night.
“This is someone we should look up to. She is the gold standard,” Reitas said.
Her 2nd incident? Maybe she should take the bus.
ince arriving in Canada almost two decades ago, Rong Xiang Yuan has championed closer ties between Ottawa and Beijing, spoken at community events and rubbed shoulders with politicians.
The founder of an advocacy group called the Canada-China Association for Promoting Friendly Relations, he met Justin Trudeau and donated to the then-prime minister and the Liberal Party.
But Canada’s immigration enforcement department is now alleging the Chinese community leader, also known as “Tiger” Yuan, is a war criminal who lied his way into the country.
A war criminal? Hell he’s due for a standing O in parliament.
The recent riots in France have mainly been described as a revolt of high school students, stemming from deteriorating conditions, overcrowding and understaffing in French high schools (lycées). That presentation is largely inaccurate. Although students were incited by a few agitators to voice grievances, political leaders, primarily from the political left, immediately stepped in to urge them to go further and resort to violence.
It’s unlikely Mark Carney was aiming to relaunch a national immigration debate when he popped into the New York Times last month and mentioned in passing that Canada will “resume some controlled increase in the population” once the system is under control.
But that, unsurprisingly, has been the result — with opposition MPs warning about Ottawa again letting in “too many people too fast,” accompanied by alarmist op-eds in conservative media outlets, packaged into online ragebait.
Wanting to save your country from Carney’s migrant hordes is ragebait according to the Star.
Carney has lied about having immigration under control, claiming an historic population reduction when in fact an increase of almost 300,000 occurred.
Carney will always lie, expect it. Never trust him or his minions.
Anthropic warned that small AI models, which the company terms “worms,” may be able to replicate themselves across smart home devices by the end of the year.
The frontier AI developer, which has been at the center of existential concerns surrounding the future of the evolving technology since last month, made the warning in a new report published on Monday.
Portions of Northwestern Ontario are transitioning to permanent daylight saving time.
That news came from Queen’s Park early Tuesday afternoon, a move provincial officials say will align portions of the province that set its clocks to the central time zone with Manitoba, which last month opted to permanently keep their clocks on summer time.
So does the Doomsday clock get set back or set ahead an hour?
In more aftermath and outrage coverage over the raid on Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar’s Home on Monday, MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian continued his previous defense and disdain for the raid by implying there are many “fudged facts” on immigration papers. Tuesday’s Morning Joe also joined the defense of Omar amid the raid and called it “deeply unorthodox” and “concerning.”
More than 220,000 people cast ballots during advance voting in the upcoming Toronto municipal election – a new record.
The City of Toronto said Tuesday that 222,550 eligible voters went to the polls during the six days of advance voting, which began on Oct. 6 and ended on Oct. 11.
… The advance turnout for the 2026 election surpasses figures seen in previous advanced votes.
Advance voting does not automatically favor an incumbent.
Back at the beginning of this century, the U.S. national debt was $5 trillion. The U.S. budget was $1.78 trillion, and we ran a $237 billion budget surplus.
Today, the debt is $40 trillion; the budget is $7.4 trillion, and the budget surplus is long gone, replaced by a $2 trillion deficit.
Alain Pelletier can still remember that new plane smell when he first climbed into the cockpit of a CF-18 more than three decades ago.
The retired Royal Canadian Air Force lieutenant general, who was deputy commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs from July 2020 until June 2023, knows what it takes to get a new fleet of fighter aircraft up and running. He thinks the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) would be stretched thin for pilots, technicians and trainers if ordered to double that effort for a combined fleet of American-made Lockheed Martin F-35s and Saab Gripen-E fighters.
According to Jane Doe, the woman who claims she was gang raped by seven members of the Chi Phi frat house at Cornell University in the early morning hours of October 20, 2024, the men gave her drugs and alcohol until she was too incapacitated to know they were raping her.
Canada’s national police force says it will continue to strengthen ties with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, even as experts warn against deepening the relationship at a time of growing divergence between the neighbouring countries.
This year, RCMP-FBI co-operation has been credited for dismantling gangs such as Ryan Wedding’s alleged drug-trafficking organization, with Mountie Commissioner Mike Duheme appearing alongside Trump administration officials to announce these takedowns.
The experts are concerned the US has tipped us off about pending terror attacks and criminal activity plus Trump.
The White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ambassador to Greece, to resign, new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia told reporters on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump said he was considering firing her after allegations she asked a political donor for $100,000 to pay her personal American Express bill.
Guilfoyle, who was once the fiancée of Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., has denied any wrongdoing, but the State Department’s Office of Inspector General has begun an investigation into her conduct.
A stupid mistake.
Canadian travel to Las Vegas continues to crater amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada, and the tourism slump in Sin City has become a major midterm election issue.
Nevada Democrats are trying to capitalize on the decline, blaming Trump’s trade war and threats toward Canada — the state’s largest source of international tourists.
“The Trump Slump is real, and Las Vegas tourism is tanking,” the party said in one of its campaign messages ahead of the November vote in this crucial swing state.
Some of the decline can be traced to a drop in Canadian visitors but there are a number of issues that have contributed to the slump.
What factors have contributed to the drop in Las Vegas tourism?
