Nate Friedman in Michigan: "In my 2 years of reporting on the ground, this is the most shocking footage I have ever taken. Our country is becoming unrecognizable."
pic.twitter.com/NPI38T5zgp— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 4, 2026
WTF?
Taiwan’s Highest Court Is Jailing Beijing’s Election Proxies. Canada Is Still Asking Who Cleared the Alleged Spy Inside NATO’s Military Command: Analysis
OTTAWA – Within the span of a few days last week, on opposite sides of the world, two democracies revealed how differently they answer the same threat.
In Taipei, the Supreme Court handed down back-to-back rulings upholding prison sentences for two political candidates convicted of taking Beijing’s money to subvert Taiwan’s elections. In Brussels, a Canadian woman of Chinese origin — an intern inside the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military command — stood behind closed doors as a pre-trial chamber weighed espionage allegations.
The Problem with City-Owned Grocery Stores
Of all Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s initiatives, his proposal to build five “affordable, well-run, city-owned grocery stores” to address high food costs is probably the most novel and puzzling. New York City will invest tens of millions of dollars to build brand-new supermarkets across the five boroughs and bid out the right to manage these franchises. In exchange for paying no rent, the store operators must agree to sell a basket of staples at 30 percent below the average retail price. Such a plan, if enacted, would use taxpayer dollars to undercut neighborhood grocery stores while doing little to reduce food prices.
Carney will likely sends pal to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing
Carney looks to influential outsiders to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing, sources say
Martin Cauchon, a vice-chair of the Canada China Business Council lobby group and former Liberal cabinet minister, is under consideration to be Ottawa’s envoy to China as both countries work to mend fractured diplomatic and economic ties, three sources say.
Mr. Cauchon, a justice minister in Jean Chrétien’s government, has a long history of developing close business ties with China. Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking a business-friendly relationship with Beijing as he looks to diversify trade away from the United States. He has set out to double non-U.S. exports globally over the next decade.
A Dangerous Deal: Trump’s Board of Peace and Hamas
For nearly a year, the international community insisted that there could be no future for the Gaza Strip unless Hamas was stripped of every weapon, every tunnel, every missile factory, and every military capability.
US President Donald J. Trump’s September 2025 peace plan was explicit: Gaza would be demilitarized, terrorist infrastructure destroyed, and weapons rendered permanently unusable.
Toronto to proceed with banning surveillance pricing in grocery stores
Following a unanimous vote at city council this week, the City of Toronto is looking into ways to regulate and ban surveillance pricing in the city’s grocery stores.
Surveillance pricing refers to the practice of using an individual consumer’s data, such as their gender, location, purchase history, and socioeconomic status, to set prices. This can result in a business charging different prices for the same item, depending on who’s buying it.
Carney & Chairman Chow’ may end up creating Food Deserts.
The Major Grocers have promised the poor will get it if surveillance pricing is challenged.
Rosie Mourns She Can’t Sing About Trump’s ‘Teeny Tiny Penis’ When Hosting Kimmel
Rosie O’Donnell sat down with Kara Swisher on her podcast on Monday to preview her upcoming time as guest host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! During their conversation, O’Donnell would lament ABC wouldn’t let her sing about Trump’s “teeny tiny penis,” which not only highlighted the nakedly partisan slant of the show but also makes no sense because Jimmy Kimmel Live! does parodies all the time.
Trump says he’s decided on a punishment for Canada over wildfire smoke blanketing the US: ‘You’ll find out’
President Donald Trump said he would soon reveal his “punishment” for Canada over the wildfires that have blanketed parts of the U.S. with smoke in recent weeks, triggering air quality warnings across the country.
Trump has accused Canada of mismanaging its forests and previously vowed the country would be “held responsible” for the smoke that has drifted south. He renewed the threats Sunday evening in a gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One.
Reporter: On Canada, have you decided on a punishment yet for the wildfire smoke?
Trump: You’ll find out about it. pic.twitter.com/EU0a7mdR0v
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 2, 2026
Rand Paul Makes His Move Against Fauci
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Dr. Anthony Fauci last week exactly what would happen if he stonewalled Congress. Fauci ignored him. Now Paul is delivering on that promise, and conservatives who have waited years for this moment have every reason to celebrate.
HUNTER: Gangsters bring ‘all the ammunition’ they need to conquer Northern Ontario
In 1900, William Randolph Hearst decided he would expand his newspaper empire with the Chicago American.
His top lieutenants, Solomon Carvalho, warned Hearst that the Windy City was a tough town and they’d almost certainly “have to shoot their way in.”
Hearst responded: “Take all the ammunition you’ll need.”
Migrants Convicted for Jihadism Detected Among Ceuta Invasion Swarm
Criminals previously banished from Spain on jihadism charges were detected among the massive swam of illegal migrants that invaded Ceuta last week, unnamed Spanish law enforcement sources disclosed on Tuesday.
🚨BREAKING: The Bacon Squad introduces a new checkpoint test in Ceuta. pic.twitter.com/T1RDXm5WWS
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) August 4, 2026
Canada cuts its UN peacekeeping forces as it tilts to Europe and Indo-Pacific
Ottawa’s decision to slash its troop contribution to United Nations missions is sparking concern that the cuts will undermine Canada’s new Africa strategy and jeopardize its longstanding peacekeeping traditions.
By the middle of next year, the Department of National Defence says, Canada will withdraw its peacekeepers from UN missions in Congo, South Sudan, Kosovo and Cyprus and sharply reduce its role in a multinational mission in the Sinai.
What are they gonna do send them to Euro-Disney as security guards?
Senate primary in Michigan is a fight for the Democratic Party’s future
Michigan voters on Tuesday are selecting their Democratic nominee for a key Senate seat and ending a bruising race that reflected the schisms in their party as it seeks to wrest control of the chamber.
Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate who represents a swing district, faces Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official and favorite of progressives.
The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers, who is uncontested in his primary. The former Michigan congressman narrowly lost his first Senate bid in 2024 and collected President Donald Trump’s support this year.
U.S. booze bans have done ‘nothing to move the needle’ on tariffs, U of T prof says
Keeping U.S. booze off of LCBO shelves has done “nothing to move the needle” on tariffs, a University of Toronto professor says, arguing that the province should drop the moratorium on American alcohol.
“The alcohol embargo has been in place at this point for almost a year-and-a-half. It has not moved the needle in any observable way,” Joseph Steinberg, a professor of economics at the University of Toronto, told Newstalk 1010 on Tuesday.
To even write this feels taboo. But we need to talk about how so many Western women are being sexually assaulted and murdered by migrants from misogynist cultures
There is a grim familiarity to the tragic deaths of two women in the news this week. Both young, beautiful and by all accounts kind, trusting souls, they were sympathetic to migrants and only had the best intentions towards them.
One was American, Jamey Carney, 43, who had resettled in her ancestral home of Killarney, Ireland. Soon after, she inherited over €400,000 from her father and then fell in love with a Jordanian man 15 years her junior, whom she met at a pro-Palestinian protest.
They got engaged, but on July 7 her daughter Michaela – aged just 13 – found her mother dead in her bedroom. She had been suffocated.
Taboo? Certainly to White Liberal Women, the media and our most vile pols. The sane among us have sounded the alarm publicly for many years.
Chilling moment Afghan champion boxer rolls suitcase carrying body of Scottish woman through Greek street
26yo Sharif Ahmadzai arrested in connection with murder of Elisabeth Jane Ross
Ahmadzai met Ross through Love Every Nation, refugee charity he set up with his American wife pic.twitter.com/dyWgLWj3Cv
— RT (@RT_com) August 4, 2026
h/t Patti Jo