Ken Dryden, the Hall of Fame goaltender whose long resume in and out of hockey included six Stanley Cup victories and helping backstop Canada’s generation-defining victory at the 1972 Summit Series, died Friday at the age of 78 after a battle with cancer.
A key member of the Montreal Canadiens’ 1970s dynasty, Dryden’s career in the spotlight was only just getting started when he retired from the game — and while at the top of his own game — in his early 30s.
Asylum seekers living in an Essex hotel have been angered by sexual offences committed by a man housed there, a fellow migrant said.
Hadush Kebatu, from Ethiopia, targeted a 14-year-old girl during two encounters in Epping on 7 and 8 July.
Protests have been staged outside The Bell Hotel, where he was being housed, since Kebatu’s arrest and subsequent conviction on Thursday of five offences.
Glad to see @thecampbellsco take action—removing synthetic dyes from their food and beverage portfolio by 2026. I urge other companies to follow their lead. Together, we will Make America Healthy Again. pic.twitter.com/ggwmko3cl5
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) September 5, 2025
h/t Mauser
The federal government spent $71.1 billion on personnel costs in fiscal year 2024-25, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has estimated, up from $69.6 billion the year before. Unfortunately, even though the number of public service jobs fell by about three per cent in 2025, the count of full-time equivalents, which accounts for whether those jobs were full-time or part-time, continued to grow, helping drive the cost increase. And despite the slight decline in the count of public servants in 2025, last year still capped off a decade of significant growth: from 257,034 in 2015, the federal public service expanded by more than 100,000, or over 39 per cent, to 357,965 by 2025.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/H3lB91JkJK
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) September 5, 2025
H/T Auntie Polly
In a move that underscores the Trump administration’s unusual approach to diplomacy, Iranian delegates to the United Nations may soon need special permission just to fill a shopping cart at Costco or Sam’s Club.
The proposal, detailed in an internal U.S. State Department memo seen by The Associated Press, is part of a broader crackdown on visas and foreign diplomat movement, following the recent denial of entry to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/4LwMriuSNg
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) September 6, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
The project was first awarded in 2015 and was scheduled to open in 2020, but has been plagued by problems
A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again, though officials are hopeful to get it operational by the end of the year.
There are “performance and reliability” issues with trains on the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit system as they are pushed through their paces, said Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay.
On Sunday evening, two days after the Court of Appeal ruled that the Bell Hotel in Epping could continue to house migrants, Sarah White joined the protest route, which she has marched countless times in the past two months. Wearing a pink top with “The Only Way is Epping” emblazoned on it, carrying a Union flag, she addressed the crowd.
“We assert our fundamental right to protest peacefully,” she said. “A right woven into the fabric of our history.” Essex, White went on, “once repelled a Napoleonic invasion”. “We will not consent to governance that endangers our communities.”
Another of those Mum of 2 kids Right Wing Extremists.
SARAH WHITE GIVES SPEECH!
THE LIONESS OF EPPING WILL NOT LAY DOWN!!! @ReformSarah#pinkladies #womenssafety #epping #gaucireports #LocalVoices pic.twitter.com/RlS39aO5to— Martin Gauci (@MartinGauci) September 4, 2025
Deport deport deport stop letting undocumented men into our country https://t.co/t2YX063lZ0
— Sarah White (@ReformSarah) September 5, 2025
In a surprise statement, Premier David Eby called for the end of Canada’s temporary foreign worker (TFW) program — blaming Ottawa’s flawed immigration policies for filling up homeless shelters and food banks.
“The temporary foreign worker program is not working. It should be cancelled or significantly reformed,” Eby said during an unrelated announcement in Surrey, B.C., Thursday.
“We can’t have an immigration system that fills up our homeless shelters and our food banks. We can’t have an immigration system that outpaces our ability to build schools and housing. And we can’t have an immigration program that results in high youth unemployment.
Doug Ford loves the TFW program. Corporate welfare is the God Given right of the ruling class in Dougie’s world.
It may seem like déjà vu, but Alberta is taking the federal government to court to stop overreach and save taxpayers from footing the bill for the costs of delayed or cancelled resource projects.
And that’s good news for taxpayers.
The voting process at the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party convention in July was such a mess that state DFL leadership investigated and nullified the local party’s endorsements. Now the Minneapolis DFL wants the state DFL to restore the results it nullified and give the endorsement back to DFL candidate Omar Fateh, a member of the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA), KSTP Television reports.
Fateh is challenging incumbent DFL Mayor Jacob Frey, who came in second in the shady Minneapolis endorsement convention.
Their colourful attire and even more lurid behaviour have generated headlines around the globe.
However, the saga of an “African tribe” squatting in a Scottish wood looks set to come to an end after they were threatened with court action after being served with an eviction notice for a second time.
The residents of the Kingdom of Kubala — in reality a man, his wife and their “handmaiden” — claim they settled in the Borders to reclaim land stolen from a black Jewish tribe 400 years ago.
Leadership in the fight against antisemitism is measured not by words, but by action. This week, Quebec MP Anthony Housefather and 31 of his Liberal colleagues signed a statement on “the deplorable rise of antisemitism in Canada.”
It was a clear, moral and necessary acknowledgement of the hatred that is endangering Jewish-Canadians. The statement recognized that a Jewish woman was stabbed in Ottawa solely because she was Jewish; that synagogues, schools and Jewish-owned businesses are under threat; that monuments have been defaced; and that this reality has become chillingly normalized in our country.
A lack of moral courage? Nonsense they made a practical choice.
They just don’t want to upset the Muslims they imported and it’s not a fear of losing the Mohammedan vote bloc.
The LPC likes having these thugs on their side, they’ll come in handy as protection against Canadian citizens.
Since the horrific Columbine shooting in April 1999, there’ve been a tragic number of American public and religious school shootings. No matter how “experts” gloss over their statistics, if a single death is a tragedy, mass killings are light years beyond “tragedy.”
Having lost a son in high school – not from shooting, but from another life-altering catastrophe – I can only imagine the tidal wave of grief engulfing the family and friends of those lost children.
Much less reported, though nonetheless a tragedy, is that a disproportionate number of these shootings were perpetrated by those who identify as “transgender.”
