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.
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
In some Alberta separatists’ arguments, their big idea isn’t so much about severing the province from Canada. The goal is to fortify trade bonds with Alberta’s southern neighbour.
“We sit beside the largest economy in the world, with the shortest and lowest-cost trade routes to our most important customer,” independence leader Keith Wilson said in a social media post last week. “The problem is not geography. The problem is Ottawa control.”
Peter Turchin has a theory called elite overproduction. A society trains more people for high-status positions than it has positions to give them. The surplus doesn’t disappear. It becomes a pool of credentialed, underemployed people who did everything they were told and received less than they were promised.
A movement’s demographics are not incidental to its politics — they are close to the whole explanation. Turchin traced the pattern to revolutionary France, where a surplus of law graduates shut out of the aristocracy’s professional class became disproportionately represented among the revolution’s leaders.
Just like our Real Estate Rich Elbow People.
There is “no obvious challenger” among Conservative politicians in Canada to Prime Minister Mark Carney, according to a new Nanos Research poll commissioned by CTV News.
The poll, which randomly surveyed Canadians by phone and online between July 28 to 30, provided a list of Conservative politicians and asked which would have a chance to defeat Carney if they were leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
According to the poll, 16 per cent said former prime minister Stephen Harper, while current Official Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre received 15 per cent of the vote. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, meanwhile, sits at 11 per cent.
Poilievre also communes with Satan according to sources.
A 37-year-old Spokane, Washington, resident with a previous manslaughter conviction was arrested Monday in connection with the largest of the region’s three wildfires, which have displaced thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of structures, authorities said.
Aaron Farinacci, 37, was taken into custody without incident with the help of a SWAT team after a judge signed a warrant based on an allegation of first-degree arson, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels said at an evening news conference.
🚨#BREAKING: A man who m*rdered his own FATHER because he was asked to WASH DISHES… is now accused of setting a fire that burned roughly 700 homes to the ground and forced 65,000 people to flee.
Yes, he k*lled his dad over DISHES and he wasn't in prison.
His name is Aaron… pic.twitter.com/ba4XEqUdrM
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 4, 2026
It should be no surprise that a Canadian bank would be in lockstep with that country’s disdain for lawful firearm ownership. After all, Canada’s bent on confiscating lawfully owned firearms from owners who did nothing to violate the law. The outlook for personal freedoms in Canada is decidedly murkier after Canada’s ill-advised crackdown on protests against the government that led to arrests of hundreds in 2020. It seems the stereotype of Canadian “nice” isn’t holding up these days.
That’s especially true when it comes to the firearm industry.
Not a surprise. RBC was incompetent to the point the point of criminality in matters of Kathy’s estate.
Many were surprised last week when the US state of Minnesota reported that more than 30 of its state water systems had faced a “co-ordinated cyber-attack”.
Days later the FBI warned cyber-attacks had been reported in seven states and “some of that activity degraded water operations”.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) is reportedly probing a possible Iranian connection to the Minnesota attacks, according to US media. Cisa would not comment.
🚨 NOW: Cyberattacks are now slamming into water systems and other infrastructure in 7 STATES
30 water systems targeted in Minnesota, 9 targeted in Michigan
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "In Minnesota, they blame it on Iran. I blame it on MINNESOTA, because they're grossly incompetent!" pic.twitter.com/eV3V5pyxEw
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 4, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February.
The United States last month imposed double-digit tariffs on 59 countries and the European Union, charging that they had not done enough to crack down on imports produced by forced labor. The new tariffs took effect just as the clock ran out on temporary tariffs President Donald Trump had turned to after the Supreme Court defeat.
A charity has cast doubt on claims about volunteering made by the Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row.
Prof Jason Arday has listed among his achievements “installing water points” in South America and West Africa with the charity WaterAid.
WaterAid, however, says it never sends volunteers abroad.
U.S. Federal prosecutors announced arrests Monday in a plot to smuggle methamphetamine from Canada into the United States in exchange for guns.
Three dual Canadian-American citizens from Akwesasne, the Mohawk territory that straddles the Canada-U.S. border between Ontario and Quebec and New York State, were arrested last Thursday, according to a press release from the United States Department of Justice.
A 23-year-old California woman has been identified as one of those killed when a gunman opened fire at an Idaho In-N-Out this weekend.
Ashley Garibay, of Stockton, Calif., was an employee at the newly opened restaurant in Twin Falls when Chad Williams, 24, went on the deadly rifle-wielding rampage Saturday afternoon.
h/t Patti Jo
Two active-duty Canadian military chaplains are questioning why Christian prayer and other faith practices are banned during addresses by military personnel at official ceremonies while indigenous spiritual practices are exempted, saying it amounts to a double standard.
“I do not understand why First Nations are exempt from this policy. This is obviously a double standard,” said one chaplain who asked to remain anonymous because he is currently serving.
“Some faith traditions are apparently more equal than others.”
The state-subsidised Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People) propaganda festival declared that women without penises were not welcome to hold meetings as they were not inclusive of ‘women with penises.’
On Aug. 19, the United States is expected to impose a 50% tariff on selected Canadian dairy products. Predictably, Ottawa will denounce Donald Trump and portray any discussion about reforming supply management as capitulation. That would be a mistake. The tariffs do not cover all dairy exports. Cheese, butter, yogurt and conventional milk are generally excluded. They primarily target ingredients such as whey, milk powders, lactose, casein and milk-protein concentrates.
