Of all the coercive environmental policies implemented by the Trudeau government, the electric vehicle mandate was among the worst, but Prime Minister Mark Carney has been mum on whether Ottawa still intends to force Canadians to ride around in souped-up Power Wheels.
According to reports from human rights groups, Iran is using the post-war chaos in the country to deport the Afghan minority. Afghans have long been persecuted in Iran, and the government feels now is the time to move them across the border.
Tehran announced that Afghans have until Sunday to leave voluntarily or face arrest and be deported forcefully back to their home country. Estimates say a million have been deported so far in 2025, with more than half a million crossing to Afghanistan since June. Sources say 70% of the people leaving were forcibly removed, while one in every four individuals crossing the border was a child.
He smiles.
“How do I feel? Are you my shrink or what?”
Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was asked how he feels.
After all, conservatives had so much hope. Finally, they could see the defeat of the Liberals.
We all know the rest of the story.
Canada’s negotiating team is intensifying trade talks with the United States after they hit a snag last month, and a July 21 deadline to conclude some kind of agreement is looming.
The talks are following a separate track from U.S. negotiations with dozens of other nations. Those had been scheduled to conclude by Wednesday, but President Trump extended their deadline to Aug. 1.
Canadian officials at various levels are communicating with their United States counterparts almost daily, according to Kirsten Hillman, the country’s ambassador to the U.S. and its chief trade negotiator.
Two of the biggest movies this summer are Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning and F1, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, respectively. The two movies have something interesting in common — both are star vehicles for men in their sixties. Brad Pitt will be 62 later this year, and Tom Cruise just turned 63 last week.
Pitt and Cruise aren’t exceptions, either. The biggest male movie stars are all aging. Clooney is 64 and McConaughey is 55. Ben Affleck, also out with a big action film this year, is 53 next month, and his buddy Matt Damon turns 55 later this year.
Rapper and music producer Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been a New York City tabloid sensation for my entire adult life. His ‘King of the Players’ reputation was burnished by his public exploits, such as turning up at the 2000 Grammy Awards with then girlfriend J-Lo in a plunging green Versace dress, his involvement in a shooting at a Manhattan nightclub and pictures of his butler walking behind him carrying a parasol to shield him from the St Tropez sun. At no point have I ever thought, ‘He seems like a nice guy’.
One of Canada’s top pro-democracy groups has sounded the alarm by warning that the Canadian federal government is planning to revive a controversial Trudeau-era internet censorship bill that lapsed.
The Democracy Fund (TDF), in a recent press release, warned about plans by the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney to bring back a form of Bill C-63. The bill, which lapsed when the election was called earlier this year, aimed to regulate online speech, which could mean “mass censorship” of the internet.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. I’m from the government and I’m here to help. The check is in the mail.
The Titanic is the safest ship ever built. I never had sex with that woman! If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. The Earth has only 12 years left until it will spontaneously combust. We just need two weeks to flatten the curve. The vaccines are totally safe. The 2020 presidential election was the most secure and accurate one ever. These protests were fiery but peaceful. Hunter’s laptop has all the earmarks of a Soviet disinformation campaign. Donald Trump may be a Russian plant. Jan. 6 was an insurrection! The Chinese balloon was just gathering weather-related information, and was probably just blown off course, anyway. The Coronavirus didn’t come from the Wuhan lab.
Mayor Arturo Flores of Huntington Park, California had his own Sumter moment when he ordered police to confront ICE personnel taking illegal alien criminals into custody.
“This is not immigration enforcement. This is state-sanctioned intimidation,” Flores declared. “I am calling for the immediate cessation of these raids and for the Huntington Park Police Department to begin verifying the identities and authority of any individuals conducting such operations within city limits.”
Trump SLAMS Democrats who want to ban ICE agents from wearing face coverings:
"They wouldn't be saying that if they didn't hate our country… If you expose them [ICE], because of statements made by Democrats… you put them in great danger."pic.twitter.com/HIjl9lc8ni
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 9, 2025
A security and defence pact that Prime Minister Mark Carney signed with the European Union last month faces major obstacles that will likely slow or limit progress in delivering benefits to Canada, former government officials warn.
The Security and Defence Partnership, inked by Mr. Carney ahead of a NATO summit in June, was pitched as an effort to reduce Canada’s reliance on U.S military contractors and generate new business for Canada’s defence industry. It ushers the way for Canada to join in a European Union push to re-arm itself in the face of an expansionist Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
So long as Brookfield profits it’s all good.
‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar’s daughter has taken to selling her used clothes to pay the bills after she was suspended from college for her pro-Palestine protesting.
Isra Hirsi, 22, took to Instagram this week to share how her life is going since being suspended from Columbia University’s liberal arts college, Barnard College, last year.
‘Unemployment got me,’ she said, adding that she is selling her clothes on thrifting platform Depop.
Parents and elementary school students entering a local church in Swedish Alingsås for an end-of-school-year ceremony last month were met with a sanctuary decorated with Pride flags. Outside, a booth handed out candy—and condoms.
Eight residents in northeast British Columbia have filed complaints with the Canadian Federal Competition Bureau, accusing the David Suzuki Foundation of misuse of imagery in anti-natural gas campaigns.
The residents allege a two-decade old photo — showing natural gas wells in Wyoming — was falsely portrayed a current development in B.C.’s Montney formation, a major gas-producing region.
