WTF?

Ottawa police are asking for help identifying 15 people accused of storming the Embassy of Senegal.

In a statement, they say a protest was happening just before noon on Aug. 1 and that a group forced its way inside the embassy.

The Senegalese Embassy said in a statement that people violently took over the premises, causing serious damage to the consular section and hurting staff and visitors.

Wow! Soon we’ll be just like those sophisticated Euros!

Supporters of the Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko rioted outside the walls of the Senegalese embassy in Paris. Earlier, at the suggestion of France, the pro-Russian opposition leader was arrested. In Dakar, the capital of Senegal, his supporters began to take to… pic.twitter.com/qQY4CzeZiV

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Canadian housing is getting more affordable, but it’s still way out of reach for most. National Bank of Canada (NBF) released its Q2 2023 Housing Affordability Monitor (HAM) showing improvements in most markets. Despite rising financing costs, home prices fell enough to improve affordability. It was the third quarter to show affordability improvements, but it’s a long way from correcting 8 years of sharp erosion. Most of Canada’s households aren’t even close to being able to purchase a home at today’s prices.

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Brace yourself. The average price of a new vehicle hit a record high in Canada in June – $66,288 – up 21 per cent in one year and 47 per cent over four years, according to AutoTrader.ca’s price index report.

That, combined with higher lease and finance rates, has accelerated auto loan delinquencies, prompting one industry expert to predict that drivers will be forced to downgrade their cars and extend the terms of their loans or leases to keep their payments manageable.

That is insane.

The Conservative Party of Canada is launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that depicts its leader, Pierre Poilievre, as a family man who wants to fix the country — all while his party is soaring in the polls and his main rival is going through a public split with his spouse.

“This is not a branding campaign. This is an amplification of who Pierre is and always has been,” said Regan Watts, a former senior adviser to the Conservative foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon.

“He’s warm, he’s kind, he’s empathetic and he listens… It’s important for people to delineate between Parliament Hill and the rest of the country, engaging with Canadians one-on-one. “

Quebec Superior Court has the jurisdiction to hear a case calling on Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to be removed from her post because she cannot speak French, according to a Quebec Superior Court judge.

The Attorney General of Canada had tried to argue that only the federal court could look into such a case, but Judge Catherine Piché rejected the claim in June.