Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.
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Trump administration plans to revoke 200,000 visas of asylum seekers
Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the US, marking its latest step in a sweeping immigration crackdown.
A state department spokesperson said it was coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security “to identify and revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently”.
The state department did not specify the number of visas that will be revoked in the process.
Jesse Kline: In the face of tough new tariffs, Carney doubles down on government spending
A week after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new deal to expand the Churchill Falls hydroelectric project, he held a press conference in Lévis, Que., on Monday to announce a contract to build six icebreakers for the Coast Guard at the Chantier Davie shipyards.
While Canada desperately needs electricity to power its economy and icebreakers to protect its shores, Carney has yet to demonstrate that his government is capable of enacting economic policies beyond spending massive amounts of borrowed money.
White Britons forced to convert to Islam by organised Muslim prison gangs
White Britons have been forced to convert to Islam by organised Muslim gangs in the nation’s prisons.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has been urged to investigate a surge in conversions after data revealed one in five Muslims in prisons is white – four times the rate of 5.8 per cent in the general population.
Canadians do not seek a trade war – but nor will we be bullied by Donald Trump
The Canadians are exceedingly angry. I realise this can sometimes be difficult for foreigners to deduce, given our national struggle to express the full range of human emotion outside ice hockey riots. However, let me assure you that the prime minister Canadians saw take the stage on Saturday morning in the wake of the collapse in trade negotiations with the US was a Mark Carney practically vibrating with fury.
China denounces US threat of sanctions over trade with Iran
China has denounced the threat of US sanctions for its trade with Iran, saying any such measures would be illegal, and warned it would take “all necessary measures” to protect its national interests.
Beijing’s rejection of the US threat of secondary sanctions for any country or entity continuing to trade with Tehran had been predicted. China buys an estimated 80% of Iran’s oil exports and it has defied previous US efforts to limit the flow of revenue to the Tehran regime.
Its statement of opposition raises the question of how far the Trump administration would be prepared to go in confronting China and its financial system in the drive to isolate Iran.
Carney’s Follies Are Costing Canada
This is my War Room conversation with Steve Bannon about recent U.S.-Canada trade negotiations and U.S. anti-discriminatory tariffs on Canadian goods now taking effect.
A problem we have with Canada is that they severely discriminate against U.S. goods in the auto, dairy, and alcoholic beverage sectors. So, we put out a Section 338 discrimination proclamation, which basically says, stop doing that, or we’re going to put these tariffs on.
Canada Retaliates With Up to 50% Tariffs on Hundreds of U.S. Products
Canada announced retaliatory tariffs as high as 50 percent on hundreds of American products on Tuesday, just days after the collapse of trade talks triggered punishing tariffs from the Trump administration.
As a trade war between the countries intensifies, Canada will start collecting tariffs of 50, 25 and 15 percent on about 700 products beginning on Sept. 8. The most significant measure is a doubling of tariffs on American steel and aluminum to 50 percent. But the list of products affected ranges from household rolls of aluminum foil to railway locomotives and steel bridges.
Multiple people, including kids, killed after madman shoots at house before setting Montana home on fire
Multiple people were killed, including children, after a madman opened fire at a house in Montana before setting the property ablaze.
Cops were called to the house in Billings just after 6 p.m. Sunday after reports of a shooting and a family disturbance, reported the Billings Gazette.
Officers arrived some 10 minutes later and heard gunfire from the back of the house, according to police.
Horrific story out of Billings, Montana.
Police say a family disturbance at 315 White Star Circle escalated into gunfire and a house fire Sunday night.
A 911 call came in at 6:01 p.m. with shots reportedly audible in the background. Officers arrived minutes later to more…
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WARMINGTON: ‘Zombies’ on TTC show just how far Toronto has fallen
Move over, The Walking Dead. This is the flopping dead.
But these are not actors, and this is not Halloween. These real people often look like corpses in the seat next to you on the TTC subway or streetcar. Thankfully, they usually are still alive. But they can be so still and awkwardly positioned that it can be hard to tell sometimes.
Migrant-Linked Shootings Put Brussels on Course for Grim Record
Brussels is on course to record another grim milestone in gun violence, after 57 shootings were registered across the Belgian capital during the first seven months of 2026.
The escalating violence is predominantly linked to drug-trafficking networks, many of which draw recruits from migrant communities.
Mark Carney says Donald Trump’s new tariff threat shows U.S. wants to ‘destroy’ Canadian auto sector
OTTAWA—U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to jack up tariffs on Canadian autos reveals what the now-collapsed trade talks had already confirmed: that Washington wants to “destroy” major industries like the auto sector in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday.
Striking a combative tone against the Trump administration, Carney said Canada is able to find reliable trading partners everywhere in the world, “except for” in the United States and Russia, where authoritarian President Vladimir Putin has faced widespread condemnation and sanctions for his ongoing war in Ukraine.
Reshoring auto manufacturing was part of Trump’s election campaign. Carney knows that.
Germany’s Nord Stream grudge: The looming trial could undermine support for Ukraine
The Germans have just caught another alleged member of the group that bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022. Volodymyr Zhuravlev, a deep-sea diver, was detained last week in the Croatian coastal city of Pula. In a fantastical turn of events, he had reportedly been acting as a consultant on the set of director Doug Liman’s next movie, Snake Island, about the team of Ukrainian divers that allegedly carried out the Nord Stream operation.
The bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines — which had up until then supplied Germany with cheap Russian gas — revealed an aspect of Ukraine’s military defense strategy that had previously been hidden. It became clear that the Ukrainians were seeking to break up the Russian-German relationship, which they saw as a direct threat to their own security.
The harsh truth is that Canada must always accept some U.S. overreach
The trade war and the rupture of what is arguably the world’s closest partnership have sparked anti-American sentiment and economic nationalism. Given the way Canada has been treated by the Trump administration, that is no surprise.
But sometimes rhetoric goes too far, and dreams turn too fanciful. Sometimes we forget the unforgiving pull of geography and the harshness of economic reality. A shining example of that is the recent dust-up in the financial sector.
Trump claims US could rename Lake Ontario as Lake America and says Carney lied about his desire to interfere with French language rights
Trump claims US could rename Lake Ontario as Lake America amid Canada trade war
Donald Trump has claimed he is considering renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” as the trade war with Canada escalates.
Lake Ontario lays on the border between the two countries, with New York state on one side and Toronto, the capital of Canada’s Ontario province, on the other.
“The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.