Premier Doug Ford is set to ban the speed cameras that he has denounced as a municipal “cash grab,” the Star has learned.
Sources, speaking confidentially in order to discuss internal deliberations, say Ford’s Progressive Conservatives will table legislation later this fall to outlaw the controversial “automated speed enforcement” devices.
“We’re looking at all options on how to slow down traffic without the use of speed cameras,” a senior government official said.
Canada’s security and intelligence organizations face “significant challenges” detecting and responding to security threats because of legislative gaps and outdated resources limiting when and how they can access private messages, one of the country’s intelligence watchdogs warns.
A recently tabled report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) examined the fiercely contested issue of lawful access — court-approved interception of electronic communications.
Proposed anti-hate legislation could help police in ‘cloudy areas’: analyst
A proposed anti-hate legislation could help police during protesting amid rise in hate crimes in Canada, a public safety analyst says.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to introduce a bill this week that will prohibit people from restricting access to places of worship, religious or cultural buildings, and schools.
The bill is also slated to include three new hate-related Criminal Code offences: willful intimidation, obstruction, and standalone hate occurring near places of worship.
A funny thing happened earlier this year when many residents of the City of Vaughan complained about speed cameras and one of them was even knocked down shortly after 10 cameras were installed this spring.
Before the cameras were installed, Vaughan Councillor Gila Martow anticipated the backlash and proposed a number of revisions to make the system less punishing. The rest of council didn’t support her on it, but they soon learned the hard way after complaints came flooding in. To their credit though, council then voted for a complete pause to issuing fines until this fall when they’d reassess the issue.
Sixteen speed cameras were damaged by vandals in Toronto overnight, police confirmed Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, Premier Doug Ford said it’s time for Ontario municipalities to put the brakes on speed cameras, calling the automated devices “a tax grab.”
That’s the question Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s Reform UK Party, asked last week at a U.S. House hearing on the censorship of free speech in the UK. Mr. Farage, who is probably the most interesting person in English-speaking politics, asked, “At what point did we become North Korea?”
President Trump should immediately condemn the arrest of Mr. Linehan and the attempts by the UK and EU to censor what we say and write in the U.S.
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A man has been arrested in the UK for calling someone a ‘muppet’
The Police are out of control.
I wish this was a joke.
It isn’t.Absolute insanity. pic.twitter.com/yHTXPtKFBL
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) September 8, 2025
h/t XC
Harry Potter creator and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling is blasting the U.K. as a “totalitarian” nation for arresting an Irish comedian over his social media posts criticizing radical transgenderism.
On Tuesday, award-winning Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan told fans he had been arrested when he landed at London’s Heathrow Airport because of his online posts.
Graham Linehan had only just stepped back on to UK soil when he was apprehended by five armed police officers. The comedy writer – known for Father Ted, The IT Crowd and his unflinching gender-critical activism – says he was arrested, locked in a cell and interrogated by police yesterday, immediately after landing at London Heathrow.
A man in a camouflage jacket, baseball cap and football shirt whizzed across Cardiff Central Square on an e-bike on Thursday morning. Fifty yards away, in a blacked-out police van decked out with leather chairs, a desk and screens, an alarm was sounding.
His face had been matched with one on a criminal “watchlist”, and officers from South Wales Police’s live facial recognition team were mobilising to arrest him. He was wanted for breaching court-imposed conditions and, helped by this new technology supported by artificial intelligence, the police had him in handcuffs in a matter of minutes.
Instead of fixing a surging migrant crisis and stagnant economy, the UK and EU are even trying to censor American critics of their policies
Earlier this month, we led a delegation to Brussels and London to see how aggressive European speech regulations affect American free speech rights in the digital town square. What we saw shocked us.
Last Congress, the House Judiciary Committee examined how the Biden administration pressured social media companies to limit free speech in America. We successfully fought back against that overreach. But today, the most serious risk to free speech comes from across the Atlantic.
Dark-money-funded leftist NGOs were at it again this weekend, attempting to stage a color-revolution-style regime change in Washington, D.C., right outside the White House. But as with every operation this year, dating back to “Tesla Takedown,” the only people these far-left groups, funded by rogue billionaires and some with taxpayer funds, managed to summon were the usual unhinged white baby-boomer liberal, serial protesters at best, with nothing else better to do
h/t DS
In Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, set in 2054, crime has been eliminated thanks to psychics who predict wrongdoing before it happens. “Pre-criminals” are arrested for “Pre-crimes” they haven’t committed. But the visions are flawed and open to manipulation. The dark side of “pre-crime” is totalitarianism disguised as public safety. The film is a timeless warning about the tension between liberty and security.
Police used “Orwellian” powers to gag a firefighter and prevent him revealing he had been arrested after posting online messages criticising his bosses.
Staffordshire Police told Robert Moss that his right to “freedom of expression” had to be “limited to maintain public safety and order” following his arrest on suspicion of malicious communications.
But a special bail hearing at Newcastle-Under-Lyme magistrates’ court overturned the “gagging clause” amid fears officers were behaving as if they lived in a “police state”.
This is the moment an embarrassed police officer reluctantly knocked on a suspected ‘anti-migrant’ protester’s door amid an increasing backlash over the scourge of ‘thought police’.
Doorbell footage shows two West Midland Police officers approaching the property in Coventry to give the homeowner a leaflet ahead of a planned anti-immigration demonstration on Saturday.
But one of the officers is hesitant to carry out the task and admits his visit is ‘woeful’ and a ‘load of ‘b******’.
A police force in one of Canada’s most populated regions may soon be deploying drones as first responders for certain 911 calls.
Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Anthony Odoardi told Global News in a statement Wednesday the initiative would make them “one of, if not the first police service in Canada” to use drone technology in that capacity.
