I did not intend to write about Canada again, but I live in Minnesota.
Or am trying to.
If you are rolling your eyes reading this, you don’t live in Minnesota. The toxic smoke from the never-ending Canadian wildfires has, yet again, settled over the North Star State, so thick it is smothering.
Visibility is reduced. The horizon is a whitish-gray.
‘We’re forgotten children. We’re dirty little secrets. That’s how they look at us.’ Shockingly, the brave woman who uttered these words is not referring to the mainly Pakistani-heritage men who raped her and other young girls in Rotherham, South Yorkshire over the course of several decades. She is talking about her town’s police officers. Five women have this week gone public with their allegations that the very people who should have been protecting vulnerable girls and arresting their abusers were not only complicit in silencing victims and appeasing perpetrators – they raped, threatened and violently attacked grooming-gang victims, too.
Itah Sadu wants to get one thing straight: The annual Emancipation Day Underground Freedom Train Ride is not an event — “it’s an experience,” she says.
Sadu, managing director of Blackhurst Cultural Centre, is encouraging Canadians of all ages and ethnicities to join her and hundreds of others on a free TTC subway ride Thursday night to mark the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire 191 years ago.
The 2025 tribal ‘initiation ceremony’ where teenage males in South Africa undergo agonising circumcision has ended – with 39 deaths and dozens more boys mutilated.
Despite a target being set by the Government of zero fatalities this year, the figure is still a huge drop on last year where 93 died, while a total of 361 boys have died in the last five years.
Gruesome complications in 2024 led to 11 penis amputations after unskilled traditional ‘surgeons’ used old spears and razor blades to perform the eye-watering rituals.
Social media users are this week cheering on reports that a mother imprisoned for a post on X will soon be “freed.” Their celebrations seem premature.
Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after authorities treated her post on the day of the horrific Southport knife attack—calling for “mass deportation now” and saying: “Set fire to all the f*****g [migrant] hotels full of the b******s for all I care”—as incitement. That’s despite the fact Connolly deleted the message less than four hours after pressing ‘send’ and stressed the next day that “violence is not the answer.”
Activists in one of Canada’s largest cities are urging the city council to brand Mississauga an “Apartheid-Free Zone” in solidarity with Palestinians.
An Instagram post by @mississaugaforpalestine this week asked residents to email Mayor Carolyn Parrish and 11 councillors before a rally planned for Friday.
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YASIR QADHI IN CANADA: ISLAMIZATION IN PLAIN SIGHT
TEXAS, AMERICA — THIS IS YOUR WARNING.
Radical imam Yasir Qadhi just gave the marching orders in Mississauga:
️ “You should not have a single "Islamophobic" candidate in your entire area.”
Translation?
We have the… pic.twitter.com/rMUpnLwK0O
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) July 30, 2025
h/t Hermes
Conservatives say Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to recognise Palestinian statehood at the U.N. this September “sends the wrong message.”
In a statement issued July 30 following Carney’s announcement, the Conservatives said that agreeing to a Palestinian state in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel tells extremists “that violence and terror are effective tools for achieving political objectives.”
The deeply uncomfortable truth is that much of the slavery that took place in Canada was done by First Nations
Spurred on by the so-called reckonings over racism in the United States and its legacy of slavery, many Canadian activists have attempted to import America’s divisive racial politics into Canada. However, examining slavery in Canada on its own terms and in good faith does not result in an identical discourse.
A report released Wednesday by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy — titled, “Slavery in Canada: The Facts Rarely Told” — is a fascinating and grim study into the country’s dark history of trafficking in human beings.
Here is the study in pdf format: Slavery in Canada
h/t Patti Jo
A national Muslim advocacy group called Wednesday a “historic day” after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would formally recognize Palestinian statehood.
But a national Jewish organization said the decision was “deeply concerning” and would embolden the terrorist group Hamas.
With the announcement, Canada joins a growing list of countries around the world to formally recognize Palestinian statehood.
Lowering medical school requirements and placing importance on diversity is going to work out really well. pic.twitter.com/dfKLELvX5u
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 30, 2025
He is becoming a liability
As uneventful diplomatic talks in Istanbul wrapped up with little more than discussions of a prisoners-of-war swap and vague promises of further meetings, Volodymyr Zelensky found himself facing a crisis much closer to home: unprecedented protests erupting across major Ukrainian cities.
Thousands took to the streets to denounce a controversial law that, according to Zelensky, was designed to “curtail Russian influence” — but which would, in reality, compromise the independence of the country’s two leading anti-corruption agencies at a time when both were reportedly closing in on senior members of Zelensky’s own administration.
Trump’s EPA aims to rescind Obama-era climate restrictions, saving Americans $54 billion annually.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal on Tuesday to repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has provided the legal basis for over $1 trillion in regulations, including infamous EV mandates under the Biden administration.
The proposal will undergo a period of public comment, but if finalized, would slash all the greenhouse gas emission regulations for motor vehicles and engines that have resulted from the finding.
In February 2023, less than a year into the RCMP’s investigation into possible war crimes stemming from the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Cpl. Kate Walaszczyk was trying to “manage expectations.”
It can take years before these kinds of probes result in prosecutions, she told CBC News, but the initial steps are critical. The RCMP was first focused on preserving physical and digital evidence, as well as gathering victims’ stories.
“Let’s say a conflict finishes. Individuals don’t come forward about those allegations until years later, and then evidence is lost. Memories are lost, all those things are lost,” said Walaszczyk, who was described as an investigator in the RCMP’s Ukraine war crimes unit. “We need it to be robust, so that there aren’t gaps … When you don’t gather the evidence properly, these things fall apart. And then what’s the point?”
On 24 July 2025, France announced its decision to recognize the existence of a “Palestinian state” in September. President Emmanuel Macron portrayed this move as an act of “justice” and “peace.” In reality, however, this recognition constitutes a geopolitical fiction — contrary to international law, flagrantly at odds with the facts on the ground, and laden with profoundly harmful moral implications.
