VICTORIA — The head of the Canada’s police chiefs association says they are guided by “outdated and inadequate” laws that were never designed to take on the current criminal landscape that no longer respects international borders.
Thomas Carrique, president of the Association of Chiefs of Police, said police would have been in a better place to “disrupt” transnational crime, if the federal government had listened to his group in 2001, when it last proposed legislative changes.
Canada’s prohibition on U.S. alcohol is creating a headache for American liquor and winemakers.
On the shelves of many Canadian liquor stores, bottles of Jack Daniel’s, Maker’s Mark and Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum are nowhere to be found. Thousands of bottles of U.S. wine and spirits sit in storage across the country. At tastings, Canadian drinkers are turning their noses up at American alcohol.
After President Trump initiated a series of trade battles with Canada earlier this year, Canadian provinces, which largely handle alcohol imports and distribution in the country, stopped placing orders for American-made spirits, beer and wine. In liquor stores, clerks pulled U.S. brands off shelves, replacing them with Canadian products.
Mississauga obtains court injunction to crack down nuisance gatherings at Ridgeway Plaza
The City of Mississauga has obtained a temporary court injunction in an attempt to crack down on a problem spot at a west-end plaza.
The injunction, which was granted on August 13, orders the condominium corporations that own Ridgeway Plaza to do what it can to prohibit nuisance gatherings at the plaza, which has been the scene of fights, street racing, loud music, and illegal fireworks, which have attracted crowds of more than 3,000 people.
The condo corporations and business owners are required under the order to install parking gate arms/barriers, employ sufficient security and paid duty officers to control and regulate pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and control or prohibit any pedestrian or vehicular traffic in the parking lot that may lead to nuisance gatherings.
Federal officials spent at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria, according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy and wine.
The money was for costs incurred when eight women who had traveled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State returned to Canada with their children in 2022 and 2023.
OMG! The Islamophobia! You will wonder why the cops didn’t tase her just for fun.
h/t INGENUI
The RCMP say a fourth person has been charged in an alleged human smuggling operation after 44 people were found in “horrific” conditions inside a cube truck earlier this month in Quebec near the United States border.
Tolga Yilmaz, 34, was arrested at Montreal Trudeau International Airport on Aug. 8, allegedly on his way out of the country. The RCMP announced the arrest Tuesday in a media release.
Ogulcan Mersin, 25, and Dogan Alakus and Firat Yuksek, both 31, were charged on Aug. 4.
Canada’s federal prison system now employs more staff than it houses inmates, according to newly released Correctional Service figures, raising fresh concerns about the soaring cost of the country’s penal system.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Correctional Service Canada (CSC) reported having more than 20,000 employees, compared to 14,837 inmates held across 43 federal penitentiaries. Another 8,717 individuals are currently on parole in the community. The system operates with a $3.9 billion annual budget.
Battered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Ontario’s struggling auto, steel and aluminum companies are receiving $1 billion in support loans from Premier Doug Ford.
Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said Wednesday that funds from the first phase of the province’s $5 billion “Protect Ontario Account” would soon flow to eligible employers.
Who ultimately pays for this “corporate salvation”?
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced this week that it had canceled its invitation to screen a documentary about the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, due to ostensible copyright concerns stemming from the fact that the filmmakers did not receive permission from the Hamas terrorists whose clips are featured in the film.
Qualification for tax payer subsidies in the arts must require that you hold far left extremist views. Just like joining the Nazi Party was a means to career advancement.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) August 13, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The summer bromance between Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney will continue next week in Ottawa.
“So Monday, I’m going up to have a one-on-one meeting with the prime minister,” the premier told reporters Tuesday in Windsor.
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war on Canada, Ford said he would be appealing to Carney to lower taxes to “create the environment” to help people and businesses weather the tariff storm.
I’m sure Ford will be a big help.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the U.S. is in the process of designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Speaking to Sid Rosenburg of “Sid and Friends in the Morning,” Rubio was asked about the support that New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is getting from groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Trump has many valid reasons to distrust Canada’s ruling class and certainly its Islamist compromised Liberal Party, in fact he has almost as many reasons as Canadians do.
Canada, under Mark Carney, continues to play small ball while the United States under Donald Trump keeps trying to score home runs. If this were a baseball game, we would have pulled the pitcher by now and tried to figure out which other players we could replace.
While Canada got hit with more tariffs on Friday night, China received a 90-day extension on more tariffs on Monday.
Since June, Bick’s pickles have been disappearing from some Canadian grocery shelves, caught in the crossfire of a tariff dispute that is exposing deep flaws in Ottawa’s trade strategy. The story of Bick’s is a telling case study in how well-intentioned policies can backfire, punishing consumers and domestic suppliers alike.
BEIJING/SINGAPORE — China on Tuesday announced preliminary anti-dumping duties on Canadian canola imports, a fresh escalation in the year-long trade dispute that began with Ottawa’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports last August.
The provisional rate will be set at 75.8 per cent, effective from Thursday, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.
ICE November canola futures RSX5 fell 6.5 per cent to a four-month low after the announcement.
“This really came as a surprise and a shock,” said trader Tony Tryhuk of RBC Dominion Securities.
The federal Conservative party has joined the chorus of voices calling for the India-based Lawrence Bishnoi gang to be added to Canada’s list of terrorist organizations.
The gang is suspected to be behind the surge of extortion threats in B.C., Alberta and Ontario that have terrified the South Asian community.
Ethnic pandering.
Three Canadian provinces have outlawed woodland access due to concerns over wildfire risk and are now threatening massive fines or jail for Canadians who violate the lockdown and who go out into nature.
The restrictions in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland are prompting calls of warning as well as acts of civil disobedience from Canadians who view the bans as a tyrannical attempt to restrict the movements of the populace, using climate change as justification.
