Trump says ‘nasty’ Canada ‘screwed’ U.S. with tariffs
Canada’s top trade officials are headed back to the negotiating table Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extolled his tariff regime and lobbed insults against Canada.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Chief Trade Negotiator Janice Charette plan to meet U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington today at 1 p.m. ET, less than 24 hours after Trump leered at Canada’s “nasty” leadership.
“I love tariffs, right? Because we’ve been screwed by tariffs used against us for years. By China, by Japan, by South Korea, by Germany, by everybody, by Canada,” he said to jeers from the crowd at the Red Rock Casino.
“Canada’s nasty. They are, they’re nasty,” President Trump said at an event in Las Vegas on Wednesday while criticizing U.S. allies over their use of tariffs against the United States.
“I love the people, but they’re nasty, nasty leadership,” Trump said of America’s northern… pic.twitter.com/AjH9FQtioc
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 5, 2026
Groomers lose in Florida court
In Florida, you have to be 18 to possess a firearm. You have to be 21 to buy a firearm.
You have to be 18 to consent to sex. You have to be 18 to marry.
You have to be 18 to work at a restaurant that serves beer or booze. You have to be 21 to drink them.
Gridlock by design: Why provinces have no excuses left for hospital bed-blocking crisis
Imagine waking up in a hospital bed and being told by a doctor that you are well enough to leave, only to discover you cannot. Not because you want to stay, but because there is nowhere safe for you to go. No home-care support, no rehabilitation space, no long-term care bed.
This is unfortunately the daily reality for thousands of Canadians.
Bribing Hamas Will Not Bring Peace – It Will Finance The Next War
A recent report that US President Donald J. Trump’s Board of Peace is considering paying Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip thousands of dollars in exchange for surrendering their rifles should alarm anyone who genuinely seeks peace and security in the Middle East.
If true, the proposal represents a dangerous retreat from the original objective of Trump’s September 2025 peace plan: the complete demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and the unconditional disarmament of Hamas and other terrorist groups.
Chilling new details on alleged gun-for-hire ‘hit squad’ police say were behind botched Project South assassination
A few days before York Region police officers thwarted an alleged assassination of a Toronto jail official, someone using the alias “Danny Phantom” allegedly texted two pictures to a contact called “LeBron James.”
The first was a screenshot of a Ministry of Transportation database search showing the jail official’s home address. The second was a photo of the official’s red pickup truck.
“If the car there need the hit squad,” Phantom wrote after sending the pictures.
The Leipzig drone bomb marks a dangerous escalation for Europe
The armed drone found at Leipzig airport on Wednesday may not have exploded, but the fact that it got inside the perimeter, close to Ukrainian cargo planes, raises obvious concerns for the security of international aviation.
Though the identity of the culprits is unknown, the initial evidence points firmly towards a Russian-orchestrated plot. It is the first time that a drone with explosives has been found in Europe far from the Ukrainian border.
More … Germany news: Search for second drone after Leipzig incident
Non-citizen violent offender Medhani Yohans breaches yet again: Cops
Well, that didn’t take very long.
Within hours of high-risk offender Medhani Yohans being sprung from the Maplehurst Correctional Complex, he was back behind bars.
h/t Patti Jo
The Big Takeaways From the FBI’s New Report on Active Shooters
On Friday, the FBI released its report on active shooter incidents in 2025. The news, however, was quickly overshadowed by the active shooter incident that unfolded on Saturday afternoon in Twin Falls, Idaho, where a 24-year-old man opened fire on employees and customers at an In-N-Out restaurant before an off-duty police officer and an armed citizen sent him fleeing.
Like that shooting, the FBI report shows that the most common place for an active shooter incident in 2025 was businesses, though not all of them are open to the public. Of the 34 incidents recorded by the FBI last year, 14 of them took place in commercial areas. That’s double the number of shootings that happened in “open places,” which was the next most common category. There were six incidents in government buildings, four in educational settings, and three in houses of worship.
Don’t assume suspected arson was antisemitism, urge owners of destroyed Montreal kosher restaurant
The owners of Nöam, a kosher restaurant in Montreal that was extensively damaged by fire in the early hours of Saturday morning, are urging the public not to jump to the conclusion that it was an act of antisemitism.
Montreal police are investigating the fire as a suspected arson and have not yet publicly established a motive, said co-owners Ynon Cohen and Meir Azerad in a statement emailed to National Post.
Liberal White Broads: the Kamikazes of Politics
A young woman in Germany, Selin Gören, 24, the leader of some far-left wacko socialist group (no, not the Nazis) called Solid, was walking through a park in 2016 when she was sexually assaulted by three bundles of diversity.
GOLDSTEIN: Get real, Canada, the Democrats are not our friends
Those assuming that things will magically become better for Canada if, as expected, the Democrats recapture the House of Representatives in the midterm elections should think again.
The Democrats are protectionists on trade and on many issues, are opposed to Canadian interests.
‘The Deliveroo Law‘: Reform Vows to Jail Execs Employing Illegal Migrants
Wages are stagnating and young people are struggling to find that essential first work experience because the British economy is addicted to illegal migrant labour, says Reform UK as it promises a major change that would see illegal-employing executives jailed and the public rewarded for reporting “dodgy” businesses to the immigration authorities.
Two suspects, one 15 arrested in connection with second shooting at U.S. Consulate in Toronto
Police say two suspects, one of whom is 15 years old, have been arrested following a second shooting at the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto.
Chief Myron Demkiw said the suspects, who have not yet been named, are facing several charges, including failing to comply with court-ordered release conditions, in connection with the July 27 shooting. The U.S. Consulate was previously shot at on March 10.
Chief Myron Demkiw Provides Update on Firearm Discharge Investigation at U.S. Consulate https://t.co/vuMthX1yhw
— Toronto Police (@TorontoPolice) August 6, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Should a robot decide who dies on the battlefield?
In my previous column, I made the case that the AI revolution has forced our most weighty questions wide open. What is a person? What is healthcare? What is education and mentoring? What is friendship? These and similarly foundational topics are always relevant to our public discourse, but most often — especially in the age of technocratic middle managers controlling such discourse — they rarely get addressed. But AI is changing all that.
What is war? What does it mean to honor the dignity of one’s enemy? Are there any actions that can never be done, regardless of consequences? Especially as we celebrate 250 years as a country, are there any moral principles to which we are fundamentally committed as a people?