Actor Mike Smith, best known as the character Bubbles on the television show Trailer Park Boys, has been charged with sexual assault.
Mr. Smith, 53, was charged by Halifax Regional Police on Oct. 2, according to court documents filed in Nova Scotia’s provincial court. The assault is alleged to have occurred in December, 2017, but the charging documents do not include additional details of the allegations.
Canada’s recent real estate boom—and bust—was followed by an immigration surge charting a similar trajectory. Together, they expose generous high-leverage mortgage programs that shift risk off lender books and onto public and private insurers. These programs enabled buyers with minimal credit and few local ties to purchase homes at peak prices. With values now plunging, the lack of transparency raises questions about how these will perform—and whether the loans amplify the market’s downside risks.
To clarify: the @RBC mortgage pitch explicitly explains that "no money, no job" is not a barrier for "new" Canadians. https://t.co/yc9ETQyy1J
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 6, 2025
The immigration levels plan Prime Minister Mark Carney released Tuesday addresses Canada’s population overload in the same way that partially mending a plumbing leak helps drain a flooded basement. It doesn’t.
Carney intends to give 380,000 people permanent resident status per year from 2026 to 2028 through regular streams; over the next two years, another 148,000 refugees and work permit holders will be granted PR as well — which means not everyone is going home, despite their temporary status. The government will also bring in 385,000 temporary residents (workers and study permit holders) in 2026 and 370,000 in each of the two years after. Altogether, that’s over 800,000 per year.
Actress Jennifer Lawrence is finally embracing what we’ll call the Michael Jordan Principle, realizing Republicans watch movies, too. Jordan’s sneakers statement is probably apocryphal, but it contains a grain of truth that Hollywood has largely ignored for years.
For the past couple of weeks, since Pierre Poilievre appeared on YouTube’s Northern Perspective, members of the dominant media in Canada have sounded like scorched rats howling in protest about his unfair comments regarding former prime minister Justin Trudeau. The problem with their frustrations seems to be more about what he said than about the facts. Poilievre simply recited some basic knowledge that everyone is familiar with. His conclusions irritate members of the Laurentian media because they bear responsibility for helping the RCMP keep this matter underreported.
This is a PSA for wypipo, don’t ever say “colored” to describe our melanated brothers and sisters because it’s offensive, mainly to white liberal women. pic.twitter.com/vNNo5bBIuH
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 7, 2025
OTTAWA — While the numbers of Canadian citizens held in federal prisons continue a downward trend, populations of non-Canadians behind bars continues to rise.
But information on where these inmates are from is largely missing from the data provided by Public Safety Canada – with the national origin of nearly 35% of Canada’s non-citizen prison population listed as “unknown.”
Performance art says so much by saying absolutely nothing at all.
This dance shows our societal direction while considering climate justice and decolonizing spaces. Your thoughts? pic.twitter.com/tlwp8J3Kp1
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 7, 2025
Godzilla would be mightily impressed.
George Soros’s trail of devastation reminds me of Godzilla. In the opening scenes of the 1998 hit monster movie, scientist Nick Tatopoulos is overcome with fear when gazing on giant reptile’s footprints in a Central American country left by the mutant lizard on his way to tear up New York City. I get a similar feeling examining Soros’s monstrous footprint in Bolivia, where voters have just cast off a socialist narco regime he helped Cuba to install before moving on to the U.S.
Has Marsha Blackburn, the United States senator from Tennessee, been accused of rape?
The answer is an unequivocal “no.”
But when I recently posed that question to Gemma, Google’s large language model, it provided a much different response.
Sure, Fitch Ratings, a major international credit agency, has issued a warning about Canada’s out-of-control debt and spending, but let’s talk about the Conservative Party.
Official Ottawa is in an out-of-control frenzy, not due to the out-of-control spending of the Carney Liberal government but over the comings and goings of Conservative MPs.
In 1992, global carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions stood at 22.3 billion metric tons. By 2024, they had reached a record high of 37.4 billion tons— an increase of nearly 68%.
Europe, by comparison, emitted 4 billion tons in 1992. By 2023, this figure had fallen to around 2.5 billion tons, a reduction of approximately 40% — on a global scale, a derisory amount.
Sometimes I read the news and wonder if we’ve all lost our footing. A few weeks ago, the Vancouver Park Board apologized to the 2SLGBTQ+ community for allowing a Harry Potter event in Stanley Park. The apology caught the attention of J.K. Rowling herself, who joked she hadn’t realized Vancouver had “avowed” her, so the disavowal wasn’t much of a blow.
Zohran Mamdani surged to an easy victory as the “democratic socialist” mayor of New York City, complete with media enthusiasm that carried echoes of silly Obama love songs. The badly named “mainstream media” earnestly promoted the most extreme candidate.
Whether people agree or disagree with Ottawa’s new immigration targets, the plan will help Canada regain control of the system, says the man who launched the mission to bring it back on track.
“It denotes stability, whether you like or not the important reforms that I put through in the last two years,” said Liberal MP and former immigration minister Marc Miller. Miller was tapped in 2023 by then prime minister Justin Trudeau to rein in rapid immigration growth amid a public outcry.
