Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist assemblyman from Queens and the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York, thought he could charm New York’s business elite and wash away the stench of his antisemitic rhetoric. But in a stunning display of tone-deafness, he ended up digging himself into an even deeper hole.
Jeronimo Kataquapit, a member of Ontario’s Attawapiskat First Nation, is camped outside The Ring of Fire, a mineral-rich region located in remote northern Ontario. With just a canoe and a tent, the 20-year-old and his family have travelled more than 400 kilometres to protest a provincial law that designated the area a “special economic zone” for mining.
Now, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “nation-building” law – his first major piece of legislation – is poised to put even more of a spotlight on the region. Dubbed the One Canadian Economy Act, the law was passed at a time when the country is involved in a costly trade war with the United States.
A billion or so oughta do it.
The IDF published footage showing strikes by its aircraft on the Syrian Military General Staff headquarters in Damascus.
The IDF noted that the military headquarters in Damascus is the location from which Syrian regime commanders direct combat operations and deploy regime forces to the As-Suwayda area.
Additionally, a military target in the area of the Syrian regime’s presidential palace in Damascus was struck.
The previous airstrike on the MoD building was only on the entrance, wounding a guard there.
Now Israel carried out a direct airstrike on the MoD building.
Expect dead and wounded Syrian Government officials. https://t.co/IEsgx6EhJt pic.twitter.com/ONzscBY17Q— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) July 16, 2025
Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts
A Federal Court justice has halted the deportation of a non-binary American in a ruling that criticized Ottawa’s Immigration Department for not properly considering the situation of LGBTQ Americans since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
Angel Jenkel, a 24-year-old multimedia artist from Minnesota who is engaged to a Canadian, can now remain in Canada while their case is judicially reviewed, in a judgment that their lawyers hailed as precedent-setting.
On the last stretch of his 100-mile journey home to Key Largo, Florida, from his office in Boca Raton, George Brian McGee was on the phone with American Airlines. He had a funeral to fly to.
In charge of the driving that night was the autopilot of his Tesla Model S, a system that McGee would later describe as “stupid cruise control”. Five minutes into the call, McGee’s phone fell to the floor and he bent forward to pick it up.
“I looked down, and I ran the stop sign and hit the guy’s car,” he told officers.
OTTAWA — The fate of nearly 400 Canadian ostriches, which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to save, now rests with federal justices in Ottawa.
As the controversial case makes its way through court, members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, right-wing influencers and a Republican megadonor are urging the Liberal government to spare the ostriches that were exposed to bird flu.
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a “product of one or more elements of the intelligence community,” Eric Weinstein, the mathematician and a former managing director of Thiel Capital, said during an appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett.
Weinstein, who said he had met Epstein, described him as “certainly was not a financier in any standard sense. That was a cover story.”
Trump rants that his ‘PAST’ supporters have bought into Jeffrey Epstein ‘Hoax’
A Manitoba woman, who blew the whistle on a case in which Loblaw sold underweighted meat across 80 stores in Western Canada, has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the grocery chain over allegations it consistently overcharges for meat and seafood by including the packaging weight in the final price tag.
Plaintiff Iris Griffin’s claim, filed in the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench last week, names Loblaw Companies Ltd., Loblaws Inc., T&T Supermarket Inc. and Provigo Distribution Inc. as defendants.
At least 20 people have been killed in a crush at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the organisation and a local hospital say.
The GHF said 19 were trampled to death and one was stabbed “amid a chaotic and dangerous surge” at its site in the Khan Younis area. It added that it believed people “armed and affiliated with Hamas” fomented unrest.
But Gaza’s Hamas-run Government Media Office denied the claim and accused the GHF of trying to “cover up” a crime.
Budgets in government tend to creep like mould, not ebb like the tide.
Take the example of Indigenous occupational skills training. The Department of Employment and Social Development spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year funding Indigenous third parties who deliver the training. In 2017, the department was hauled over the coals by the auditor general because it did not collect data on performance indicators to demonstrate whether it was getting Indigenous people into stable employment.
Prepare for the usual sleight of hand that places the “needs” of the usual grifters above taxpayers.
"The Carney government’s proposed federal spending cuts sound impressive – until you run the numbers. Even with a 15% cut, spending would still be 22% higher than pre-pandemic. The fiscal fire’s still raging. Time to stop pretending that tinkering will fix it." https://t.co/M5wFQgfzGc
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 16, 2025
h/t Mauser
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Tuesday the detention of five Iranian nationals attempting to cross illegally from Canada into New York.
The incident has intensified concerns about potential security risks linked to Iranian nationals entering the U.S.
Uzbeks!
h/t patthedog
Peel police have arrested a man who allegedly made a death threat against Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown last month.
In a news release, police said 29-year-old Kanwarjyot Singh Manoria was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with utter threats to cause death or bodily harm.
A source familiar with the investigation previously told CP24 that the threat was made via email to the mayor’s office two to three weeks ago, and that his wife and son were also mentioned.
He should be out on bail by 3pm.
An ad for vegan charity Viva! featuring scenes of a human baby being taken from its mother to protest against the treatment of dairy calves has been banned for irresponsible, distressing and likely to cause widespread offence.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the cinema ad, which drew on the conventions of horror films, would have been particularly distressing for viewers who had experienced the loss of a child.
The ad, seen in March and April 2025, featured a mother placing her sleeping baby in a cot while a lullaby played before a silhouetted figure suddenly appeared standing over the infant and the room went dark.
A compelling new cinema ad from the UK’s top vegan charity, Viva!, aims to challenge the perceptions of dairy farming by revealing its heartbreaking effects on mothers and their babies.
Viva! is launching a crowdfunding campaign to bring this initiative to life. The money… pic.twitter.com/6hvtbT6FJN
— Vegan FTA (@teamveganfta) February 14, 2025
Once upon a time there was a village menaced by a giant ogre. The villagers met to decide how to respond. “We must give him what he wants,” said one of the villagers. “Then he will go away.”
“No,” said another. “We must respond with purpose and force.”
Warning Coyne ahead.
