Gun sales go up year after year. The Bruen decision meant that subjective permitting requirements were unconstitutional, scuttling generations of oppressive anti-Second Amendment laws. Through it all, though, we were told how every bit of our rights being restored would result in our society becoming less safe.
Never mind that all of this happened after the spikes in homicides in 2020 and 2021, which suggested the status quo wasn’t exactly helping.
The US and Canada appear no closer to resolving their ongoing trade dispute.
Tensions have been simmering between the two neighbours since President Donald Trump returned to the White House just over 18 months ago, and unleashed a wide-ranging global programme of tariffs.
Canada was one of the first countries the Trump administration hit with levies, and is one of two countries to respond with its own reciprocal measures.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son was evacuated from the United States after Israeli intelligence received word of an assassination threat.
Yair Netanyahu, 35, moved to Miami, Florida, in 2023, and remained there for most of the war following Hamas’s surprise attack on Oct. 7 of that year. A statement from Shin Bet said he was urgently evacuated after the intelligence agency assessed that there was a “significant threat” to his life, and that he should be quickly returned to Israel.
With the Trump administration’s promise to impose more tariffs on us in January, many Canadians are asking: What leverage should we use to get them to change course?
The question suggests that there are actually real things we can do to change U.S. President Donald Trump’s mind — that if Canada hits back hard enough, or demonstrates its willingness to suffer enough, we will get that policy change.
Christopher Ragan, the founding director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy and former chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission put it this way: “Canada is in a set of negotiations with a party that appears to be unpredictable, volatile, so I don’t think anybody really knows what’s going to work here.”
Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland, according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief.
The warnings — detailed for Hegseth by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America — appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), these people said. They described the assessment to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the document is classified.
OTTAWA – Canada needs to make further cuts to the number of temporary residents in the country and generate better tracking data when they leave the country, the head of an expert panel on immigration said.
Parisa Mahboubi chairs the C.D. Howe Institute’s immigration targets council, which includes former immigration minister Jason Kenney and top academics in the field in its membership. The council is preparing a submission for the government’s annual immigration levels consultation period.
The report comes two years after Canada began moving to cut down on the number of temporary residents, including foreign students and workers, as soaring immigration contributed to significant issues, including housing shortages and overburdened social services.
Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has gripped the American public for the last five weeks.
The 36-year-old former nurse killed her three small children in the basement of their family home in Massachusetts.
Charged with three counts of first-degree murder, she does not dispute killing her two sons and daughter in 2023.
The support this woman has garnerd is creepy.
The decision by Donald Trump to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America is dumb, juvenile and designed to provoke a response. On that last front, Trump succeeded, as Canadians reacted to this outrageous decision with their own vitriol and bluster.
Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has defended her government’s highly controversial energy deal with Donald Trump, insisting the South American country will maintain ownership and sovereignty over its massive oil reserves.
Rodríguez, who assumed power in January after Trump ordered the abduction of the president, Nicolás Maduro, took to the airwaves on Saturday to push back against criticism of what the US president has called “the biggest oil deal in world history”.
“The benefits are endless,” claimed Rodríguez, a former vice-president whom Trump backed after ordering Maduro’s capture during a special forces raid on the capital, Caracas.
Doug Ford had a rough spring and a summer that wasn’t going much better.
His government’s ill-advised purchase of a private jet blew a hole in his everyman persona so much that he might as well have started showing up to public events with a top hat and monocle. Spending scandals followed, solidifying the image of his governing PCs as a party that was self-satisfied, sloppy or both.
The Ontario premier’s poll numbers sagged, so much so that the PCs were behind a Liberal party that doesn’t even have a permanent leader.
WASHINGTON — President Trump publicly called Monday for Iran’s leaders to be prosecuted for “war crimes against humanity” after trashing the Islamic Republic as a “failed nation.”
“Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD!” the president proclaimed on Truth Social. “They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.”
“The only thing they have is FAKE NEWS from the USA, a willingness to kill their protesters (now over 100,000 people dead. They must be tried for war crimes against humanity!), and a good line of ‘BULLS—.’”
President Donald Trump further ripped into Canada as the U.S. trade war with the country escalates, trashing its leadership as the “worst” of all countries he’s dealt with.
While Trump’s insults against Canada are nothing new, his descriptor of Canadian leaders as the worst is a step up, especially given it puts the U.S.’s northern neighbor below Iran, whose fanatical leadership Trump has repeatedly derided as insane and murderous. He made the recent criticisms in a Sunday post on Truth Social.
A student at MIT claimed he synthesized one of the world’s deadliest chemicals last week — sparking a massive hazmat response and the closure of the lab where he worked.
The unidentified grad student arrived at a local emergency room, saying he had synthesized dimethyl mercury, a highly toxic compound that can be fatal if exposed to humans in even the smallest amounts, NBC Boston reported.
The student was not authorized to be working with the compound and it was not part of his research, according to school officials.
As everyone knows, the Canadians have their maple syrup panties in a wad and are baby-soft elbows up, warding off the evil capitalist Americans while playing the current round of ‘Trade Wars.’
It all blew up last Friday, when the Canadians inexplicably walked out on what the United States thought was a done deal – a ‘fantastic deal – the best deal in the world,’ as Commerce Secretary Lutnick said this afternoon.
Here’s the key issue: Canada was bringing in Chinese steel and aluminum and selling it as Canadian steel to help China avoid tariffs
When told to knock it off, they refused. This is why the trade deal collapsed
We cannot allow China to build a proxy state on our border
— Department Of Deportations (@DoDeportations) August 23, 2026
To the cries of a crowd of 30,000 in Kabul’s Olympic Stadium in Afghanistan, a panicked woman is led across the football pitch, flanked by armed guards.
As they approach the goalposts, it is another woman similarly dressed in a blue burqa who forces the 35-year-old on to her knees on the edge of the penalty area, surrounded by Taliban soldiers.
A man thought to be her brother-in-law quickly raises a Kalashnikov to her head and the sound of the 7.62mm bullet ricochets through the stadium. The woman slumps to the ground.
