Montreal refugee advocates say they are hearing from a growing number of Haitians in the United States who are considering coming to Canada after the Trump administration moved to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people.
“They’re real stressed. They don’t go out. They stay in their apartment,” said Thierry Jean-Baptiste of the Bureau de la communauté haïtienne de Montréal (BCHM).
“They order groceries. They are in fear of ICE.”
An American vigilante tears across an unnamed European country, killing dozens of police officers and judges, slaughtering a gang of rapists, and killing a refugee family and a random civilian – all in the name of a crusade against Muslim migrants and “woke” government officials.
Citizen Vigilante, a film from German director Uwe Boll and starring actor Armie Hammer, is violent – and very schlocky – stuff.
Initially denied a rating by German’s film regulator, it would likely have garnered very little attention, had it not caught the eye of the world’s richest person.
For Joyal Jose’s working-class parents in India, his tuition in Canada was a retirement investment — and a huge gamble.
His father, a farmer, and mother, a nurse, had to mortgage their family’s land to scrape together the money for his two-year social service worker diploma program at Seneca College. His graduation was delayed for one extra term because he had suffered severe depression when he first arrived in Toronto in early 2021.
When U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments against 37 people tied to India-based crime syndicates earlier this month, they exposed a distinctly Canadian vulnerability: nearly every accused Bishnoi gang foot soldier arrested here entered from Punjab on a study or temporary work permit—many, the indictments allege, obtained with fraudulent information. As Hub senior correspondent Graeme Gordon reported, the years-long Operation Hard Ball investigation traces how Canada’s immigration system became a recruitment pipeline for transnational organized crime—one running through what criminologist Kelly Sundberg calls “a broken, and in places effectively non-existent, security screening process.”
OTTAWA — When Gord Magill asked me onto his podcast on July 1, I said yes for a reason I don’t often get to act on. Magill is not commenting from a distance. He is a third-generation trucker who has driven the ice roads of northern Canada, the Australian outback and the American interstate system, and who wrote End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers.
When a practitioner who has spent thirty years in the cab wants to talk about how North American workers are getting squeezed out of a critical industry by immigration scams, or as I explain, how transnational organized crime has exploited our borders and vulnerable migrants to capture an essential economic tie between the U.S. and Canada, threaten our national security and sovereignty, and move cartel loads through the freight system, that is a conversation worth having, and worth sharing with readers of The Bureau.
Three more Surrey properties flagged for unpermitted construction
Three more Surrey properties will have notices filed on their land titles for unpermitted construction.
The City of Surrey has been cracking down on illegal construction for several years. In the more egregious cases, council has been voting to file notices on land titles to alert potential buyers and occupiers.
… The first property is in Newton, at 12439 72 Ave.
Owners of the home, listed as Mohammed Maqsood Sheikh and Saman Rukh, built six self-contained dwelling units, including converting the garage into habitable space, an enclosure of the deck on the north side of the house and a two-storey addition at the rear of the house, all without permits, according to the city.
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Soon our cities will be indistinguishable from such great urban centres as Mogadishu or Orangi Town in Karachi.
CALGARY — The latest controversy surrounding the kirpan has reared its head as a Sikh man carrying the ceremonial blade — worn by initiated Sikhs as an article of faith — inside a GoodLife Fitness gym in Windsor, Ontario, has reignited the debate that Canada has been having for decades, and it appears no closer to being resolved.
Maybe the kirpan was in the wash with his other outfit?
So now he’s just rocking a regular hunting knife in public and we’re all supposed to pretend that’s fine.
If “anything can be a weapon” is the new standard, then why are law-abiding Canadians still banned from carrying… pic.twitter.com/5EgMBQ2tzs
— JayGen er (@JayGenXer) July 22, 2026
More … Windsor gym apologizes after Sikh man ordered to leave over ceremonial kirpan
OTTAWA — The response to video of a popular Sikh fitness influencer being kicked out of a Windsor gym for wearing his kirpan while working out has not cost the employee her job.
In a statement, GoodLife Fitness confirmed to the Toronto Sun that the employee who challenged TikToker Gurpartap Singh Khalsa’s decision to wear his ceremonial dagger at the gym wasn’t fired, as some social media chatter had suggested.
Windsor, Ontario 🇨🇦
A Sikh claims he was racially targeted at GoodLife Fitness after an employee said she was scared because he was carrying a knife inside the gym and asked him to leave. pic.twitter.com/waRgMyttiA
— Nathan Cooke (@CelticAshes) July 16, 2026
I hope we can deport him after we melt down his religious symbol.
Ottawa is redirecting immigration into small and remote communities, a move which threatens to replicate in small-town Canada the same immigration-fuelled social and economic problems plaguing major urban centres.
The Rural Community Immigration Pilot (RCIP) was launched in January 2025, one of the last immigration policies implemented by the Trudeau government. A total of 14 communities are included, ranging from Claresholm in Alberta, Steinbach and Brandon in Manitoba, Peace Liard and West Kootenay in BC, and Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan.
A dozen Somali gangs with hundreds of members, mainly teenagers, are wreaking havoc in Minnesota, committing public shootings and murders out in the open, according to local officials.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, whose office patrols the metropolitan region surrounding Minneapolis and St. Paul, told the Washington Examiner that as many as 300 Somali youth are engaged in gang activity around the Twin Cities area.
According to a recent poll, just under half of Canadians are opposed to the federal government’s recent decision to expedite Gazan student visa processing.
And I must say, I don’t blame them.
VANCOUVER — On a summer 2024 morning in Montreal, a 32-year-old crypto entrepreneur found himself bound with zip ties and screaming in pain on the floor of his Verdun apartment, pleading with a group of masked attackers to stop torturing him.
Among the attackers was Omar Abdul Singateh, 23, a “Brampton man” who had only been in Montreal for about a day.
Sounds like one of those moderate Muslims our elites imported for our benefit. https://t.co/BtKJFI0i0h
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) July 13, 2026
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Canada’s economy looked like it was booming. Then slower immigration made it difficult to maintain that illusion. Economists at BMO Capital Markets challenged the narrative that population growth fuels economic growth. Looking at over 50 years of data, the bank warned investors there’s zero correlation between population and economic growth. The manufactured boom briefly provided a distraction from a weak economy, pairing it with a housing crisis that’s now in full correction mode.
A Saskatoon man is facing a two-year sentence and a $10,000 fine for his role in an immigration scheme that saw records falsified and employment records misrepresented.
Balvir Singh received his sentence on July 8 after pleading guilty to one count of counselling immigration misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) back in April.
The conditional sentence also includes 40 hours of community service.
The article doesn’t mention anything about being whipped and deported.
Toronto is a city that prides itself on safety, diversity, and the ability to gather without fear. But on Saturday night, during the Salsa on St. Clair festival, that sense of ease was shattered. Multiple people were shot. Two died at the scene. Police urged the public to avoid the area as officers secured the intersection and searched for answers.
The tragedy is real. The grief is real. But what worries me even more is what this event reveals about the cultural climate we’ve been drifting toward for years — a climate where violence no longer shocks us the way it should.
Toronto remains a relatively safe city by North American standards and the Salsa shooting may have been Protestant gunplay for all we know.
But diversity is not a strength. It’s the reason why we aren’t “shocked” in our balkanized metropolis.
Most of Toronto’s gun crime is committed by “racialized” communities who don’t play by our rules.
The usual suspects make the news often enough to end anyone’s shock.
So long as they aren’t shooting up your tribe or mine ain’t nobody gonna care.
Stay safe re-read “The Talk”.
