WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump wants a Golden Dome of missile defence over the United States, and if you’re thinking this sounds familiar, you’d be right. Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, aka Star Wars, also aimed to develop a space-based and layered defence system to knock out any incoming strikes.
It didn’t work out.
Jamie Lee Curtis, a “gender affirming” surgery proponent, is accusing the cosmetic surgery industry of committing “genocide” against women, hitting back against the trend that has turned so many into the garden variety influencer-esque woman loaded with lip filler. “Generations of women have been disfigured,” the actress said.
“I’ve been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who’ve disfigured themselves,” Curtis told the Guardian in a recent interview for which she wore a pair of fake, obnoxiously large lips on the cover in order to drive her point home.
Speaking before a room full of policymakers from midwestern Canada and the United States, former prime minister Stephen Harper said the ongoing trade war with the U.S. is a “wake-up call” for Canada to diversify its trade and export markets.
“I was — I think it’s fair to say — probably the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history,” Harper said of his tenure from 2006 to 2015.
If the current government asked him a year ago for advice on U.S. President Donald Trump being re-elected and wanting to renegotiate trade, he says he would have thought it was a real opportunity for Canada to deepen its economic and security partnership with the United States.
Five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time.
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.
“In a world where you were being abused so much, being raped once [by a police officer] was a lot easier than multiple rapes [by the gang] and I think he knew that,” she tells the BBC.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree’s claim that he was helping a constituent when he lobbied federal officials to let a terrorist group “member” resettle in Canada is contradicted by documents on the case, a Global News investigation has found.
In defending letters he wrote before he joined cabinet that urged border security officials to approve the immigration application of a suspected member of the Tamil Tigers, Anandasangaree has said he assisted the man’s Canadian wife as an MP.
X has a great desire to bat my Rexton Reach hearing aids around. I think he resents that I can now hear his out of sight escapades.
While it’s only been a few days the aids are becoming a welcome part of my routine, they pair easily with my phone.
They fit the ear well and I am told have a robust design so that perilously thin wire that connects the ear bud to the aid body could tow a trailer.
Still experimenting with balance and sound levels though the default set up is pretty good.
Sound level, directional hearing and balance are easily controlled through the Rexton app.
My risk of being run over by a truck is lower as I now can hear them coming again.
The only drawback so far is that no equivalent of a windsock exists so in a stiff breeze you get that irritating crackling wind whoosh. 1st world problem I know.
I barely notice them otherwise as they sit well on the ear without need for adjustment once placed.
I am still hoping to reduce the “tinniness” of my own voice, some of that comes with time, some just from finding that volume/balance sweet-spot and ear bud placement.
At any rate it is not that big a deal as it’s minor and only a sometimes thing.
As it stands I am manually adjusting volume settings etc. from the default each morning when I put the aids in.
However once I find something I like the “Rexton Assist Robot” can make it an automatic setting always with a discard option.
Oh and Mask Mode is a ray gun setting that allows you to fry anyone wearing a mask.
Kidding.
It just helps un-mumble mask wearers.
So far so good. I am happy with the aids so far.
Canadian border agents are trying to track down almost 600 foreigners with criminal records who are due to be deported but have gone missing – 431 of whom have been found guilty of serious crimes such as sexual assault.
Figures from the Canada Border Services Agency show that 1,635 foreign nationals guilty of committing crimes in Canada are currently facing deportation, but 599 of them have failed to attend deportation proceedings and have been placed on the agency’s “wanted” list.
Of those 599, 315 have been evading deportation for more than three years. Another 46, according to CBSA figures obtained by The Globe and Mail, have been evading the authorities for more than two years.
Why weren’t they in Jail until deported? Polar Bear Alcatraz anyone?
h/t Auntie Pollie
Poster Translation – “Shortcomings in the health care system will not be solved by imported surgeons”
Prime Minister Mark Carney said negotiations between Canada and the U.S. on a new trade and security deal have reached an “intense phase,” as an Aug. 1 deadline looms.
Carney made the comments in Prince Edward Island on Monday during a separate announcement about the Confederation Bridge.
“The negotiations are at an intense phase,” Carney said. “It’s a complex negotiation you see with the various trade deals that have been agreed by other jurisdictions … there are many aspects to these negotiations.”
All-inclusive deals are designed to take the hassle out of a holiday, albeit at a price.
But while Ursula von der Leyen claimed her “15pc across-the-board, all-inclusive” trade agreement with Donald Trump was a bargain, everyone else in Europe was left feeling they’d been massively ripped off .
The president of the European Commission smiled through gritted teeth as she announced the deal, which was quickly criticised across the Continent by politicians, economists and business leaders alike.
The continuing controversy involving Sean Feucht, the American Christian rocker and MAGA darling who has been denied permits for his concerts all across Eastern Canada, has become just dreadfully irritating.
It is irritating to watch Mr. Feucht’s critics conflate his opinions – on abortion (he’s against it), on homosexuality (he believes it is a perversion of God’s will), on the “trans agenda” (“demonic,” according to Mr. Feucht) – with the promotion of hatred, as defined by the Criminal Code. Hate speech is not protected speech, but not all offensive speech is hate speech. We as a society went over this, ad nauseum, during the peak of the cancel-culture furor around 2017 or so. Apparently we’ve forgotten what we learned during that time.
More than 600,000 graduates are claiming benefits, according to newly released official figures.
In response to a parliamentary question from the Conservative MP Neil O’Brien, the UK Statistics Authority revealed that between March to May this year 639,000 people with a level six qualification — equivalent to a degree with honours — or above were claiming universal credit, making up 12 per cent of those being paid the benefit.
Fan gets ejected from a WNBA game after making fun of a player whose wig fell off during the game.
Can’t imagine why nobody takes this league seriously.pic.twitter.com/PbDNCcMNRx
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) July 28, 2025
H/T XC
It’s not everyday that an accused who was arrested by five Toronto Police officers with their guns drawn gets to walk away from custody as long as he shows up for court in late September.
… Yet, the guy charged after this wild mayhem didn’t even have to spend a night in jail. Or even go to a police station to be booked. It was treated as if he was getting a speeding ticket.
…That person was Mrunmay Ukey, 27, of Toronto, who “was arrested and charged with fail to stop for police” and “dangerous operation” of a motor vehicle and is “scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of justice, 10 Armoury St., on Friday, September 19, 2025, at 11 a.m., in room 203.” None of the allegations against him have been tested in court.
Toronto Police take down in King West last night. Police with their guns drawn try to arrest the suspects before fleeing and crashing into several vehicles. The person who posted the footage says the suspects were armed. pic.twitter.com/zndSyVCFWv
— Toronto Crime Watch (@CrimewatchTO) July 27, 2025
… In the note, which was several pages long, Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), law enforcement sources said.
Tamura, who fatally shot himself in the chest, also asked that his brain be studied in the note, according to the sources.
MORE – CNN anchor Erin Burnett flamed for saying NYC shooter Shane Tamura was ‘possibly white’
