There’s nothing like the smell of a crack pipe in the morning!
This morning's episode of Toronto is not a real place. Crack smoking and beer drinking early O'clock on the 505 streetcar. Toronto Transit Commission TTC party streetcar. @ttchelps @MayorOliviaChow @TPSMyronDemkiw pic.twitter.com/sgpqIoAwoc
— Mr. Toronto Lawyer (@selwynpieters) August 6, 2026
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine is reportedly looking for an “off-ramp” to the Iran War and discussing his concerns about the options available for escalating the conflict in private conversations.
The details come from a CNN report, which also says Caine is not the only Trump administration official to privately be eyeing a way to exit the conflict. The report comes as the U.S. wades into its sixth month at war with Iran, as U.S. and Iranian officials have cycled through on-and-off negotiations for peace after the ceasefire, inked in April, crumbled in early July.
How Toronto festivals this year were upended by congestion, cancellations and crime — and what we must do to fix it
It has been a summer of thwarted celebrations.
Marquee street festivals in Toronto were cut short, moved out of the city or cancelled outright over issues with financing, space, violence and thefts.
Some organizers say growing security costs and concerns since the deadly vehicle attack in Vancouver last year and shootings at Salsa on St. Clair last month made their events too expensive to host. This was worsened, they say, by the World Cup siphoning away corporate sponsorship money this year, forcing local events to make do with less. Even Taste of the Danforth, one of the city’s most storied, well-funded festivals, had supporters petition the federal government this week for more help with payments.
The US embassy in London is offering grants of up to half a million dollars for new “public education” programmes in what has been criticised as interference in British domestic politics.
Using language that the pro-Trump Maga movement has sought to appropriate, a funding notice identifies a goal of fostering a “national conversation” about “shared civilizational values” underpinning US-UK ties. Priority will go to applicants aiming to celebrate “freedom of speech” and “limited government”.
It comes after senior Trump officials voiced sharp criticism of British authorities and repeated misinformation on a range of fronts including abortion and digital regulation, and allied with European far-right movements in attacks on hate speech and immigration policies.
Great Britain needs foreign interference.
News flash for Queen’s Park: Fatter paycheques for politicians don’t help average families.
Ontario MPPs gave themselves a 35% pay raise, bumping their salaries to $157,350 in 2025. They also gave themselves a shiny new pension plan.
The pay raise made Ontario MPPs some of the highest-paid politicians in Canada and the United States.
A college president and former chair of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities plagiarized extensively in her doctoral dissertation, a Daily Wire review found.
Heidi M. Anderson is president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. For nearly four decades, she has climbed the academic ladder while producing an unremarkable amount of low-quality research.
Canadians have had a front-row seat to Donald Trump’s daily assault on the rule of law. We’ve watched as Mr. Trump unleashes ICE and Border Patrol agents as his own private paramilitary force, ripping people of colour off city streets, unlawfully detaining citizens and leading to multiple deaths, including those of Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
We’ve seen Mr. Trump politicize the Justice Department, interfere in prosecutions to persecute his enemies and immunize his friends and supporters.
US President Donald Trump has announced new executive orders aimed at ending so-called birth tourism in the US and limiting birthright citizenship for certain groups.
It is part of a renewed effort by his administration to restrict access to US citizenship after the Supreme Court shot down Trump’s first attempt in June.
Birthright citizenship refers to the practice of granting citizenship to those born on US soil, with some exceptions, while birth tourism is when foreign nationals come to the US specifically to give birth and get their child citizenship.
OTTAWA — Criminal charges involving Indian study permit holders in Canada increased by 8,800% between 2016 and 2024, according to a classified Canada Border Services Agency intelligence report, as scrutiny grows over how organized crime groups have exploited the country’s international student program.
Kavita Algu, a former palliative care doctor at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, recently quit after a workplace investigator found her to be disruptive and unprofessional, which the Toronto Star would like you to believe is some kind of injustice. Judging from the Star’s own “investigation” and Algu’s activism, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
According to the Star’s investigation, Algu “was never told specifically what she did wrong.” She was just a physician who engaged in Palestinian advocacy and “ultimately felt she had no choice but to leave a career she had spent years building.”
In a sparsely furnished four-room apartment on the 18th floor of 9a Hrushevskoho Street, Kyiv, several well-connected businessmen are discussing deals involving some of Ukraine’s most powerful politicians and officials. Meanwhile, anti-corruption investigators are listening in via a concealed bug. The contents of the 1,000 hours of conversation that they record are shocking. They reveal large-scale war profiteering among President Zelensky’s inner circle. In one case concerning the state nuclear company, Energoatom, contractors were forced to pay an extra 10-15 percent in kickbacks in order to avoid contracts being blocked or canceled.
OTTAWA — The day after extensive trade talks between Canada and U.S. officials in Washington, D.C., details are emerging of where the give and take may be in ongoing negotiations.
Multiple industry sources tell CTV News they are cautiously optimistic that progress is being made toward a comprehensive bilateral agreement outside of the U.S. and Canada’s formal trilateral deal with Mexico.
But, they’re also warning against expectations that a deal will be made by a looming Aug. 19 deadline.
Iran is considering banning US and Israeli ships from sailing through the Strait of Hormuz in a move likely to anger Donald Trump.
Under a draft plan being reviewed by Iran’s parliament, US and Israeli-flagged vessels, or “other hostile states or entities linked to them” would be blocked from the waterway.
The proposal, reported by Iranian state media PressTV, would threaten to derail talks between Iran and Oman to reopen the strait.
A man was arrested after being thwarted from lunging with a knife toward an Israeli kitchen tent at the Edmonton Heritage Festival on Monday.
Social media footage circulating on Wednesday captured the shadow of an individual attempting to slash an Israeli tent with a knife. The footage then cut to security officers detaining the assailant in the main festival area as chants of “All the Zionists are racists” echoed in the background.
🇮🇱 🇨🇦 A man was arrested after attempting to slash an ‘Israeli’ kitchen tent with a knife at the Edmonton Heritage Festival in Alberta, Canada, on Monday.
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— Roya News English (@RoyaNewsEnglish) August 7, 2026
A Somali you say! h/t LH
Spain is bracing for a possible second mass migrant crossing into Ceuta as the political fallout from last week’s unprecedented border breach spreads from Madrid to Brussels.
The Guardia Civil is closely monitoring social media messages calling on migrants to gather in the Moroccan border town of Castillejos on August 15 before attempting to enter the Spanish enclave.
