OTTAWA — China’s new Ethnic Unity Law should not be viewed in isolation, nor should it be dismissed as inapplicable to foreign nationals or Canadians. It is the latest addition to an increasingly sophisticated legal architecture through which Beijing seeks to extend its political authority beyond its borders. Officially titled the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, the legislation was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March 2026 and entered into force on July 1, 2026.
Ann Widdecombe ‘was bludgeoned 21 times in the head with hammer in attack by leftist Joshua Kerry
Ann Widdecombe was bludgeoned 21 times over the head with a hammer in a two-minute attack captured on camera, a court heard today.
Joshua Kerry, 28, is accused of entering the former Tory minister and Brexit Party MEP’s Dartmoor home through the open front door and murdering her as she ate lunch in her kitchen.
Kerry, who was in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, then rifled through her handbag, grabbed her wallet and fled after spending just 120 seconds inside the property, prosecutor Kashif Malik said.
Trump Exhaustion Syndrome has us tuning out
As Spain’s team was basking in its victory at the World Cup medal ceremony on Sunday, Donald Trump had to be nudged offstage by FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
Images of Trump getting the hook went viral, with plenty of cheers for anyone who dared giving this president a timeout. And it didn’t stop there. The Spanish team then went on to crop Trump from the official photo of its World Cup win.
Susan Delacourt is hangry.
The United Nations Has Run Out of Alibis
Institutions built to prevent atrocities eventually face the question of what they actually protect. For the United Nations, voting patterns, internal investigations and its own decisions this year no longer support the fiction of neutrality. An UNRWA school in Gaza sat above a Hamas tunnel shaft and three anti-tank positions, and its own principal was on the payroll of both institutions at once — a fact that American investigators, not the UN, brought to light.
Was World Cup a success or failure for Toronto? We may never know
For the time being, the city prefers to discuss the chasing of dreams rather than the chasing of dollars.
With the World Cup coming to an end following Spain’s 1-0 win over Argentina on Sunday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow discussed the local portion of the tournament.
“The most important thing now is to make sure we build on that momentum, from the investments in soccer facilities and youth programming to the lasting benefits of our communities and local businesses,” Chow told reporters at a Monday news conference.
How much of a loss will tax payers be made to pay for?
Welch: Melania Was Epstein Hooker, GOP Want ‘System…Rigged for White People’
Far-left charlatans and I’ve Had It podcast co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan told their listeners and viewers on Monday that Republicans are a “cabal of submissive wives” collectively “incapable of critical thinking” because they “cling to money, and racism as their driving ethos” and shudder under their widespread closeted homosexuality.
Trump administration staying out of Alberta separation referendum, ambassador says
The Trump administration is staying out of the upcoming referendum on Alberta’s future in Canada, the U.S. ambassador to Canada says.
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said during a podcast interview in Edmonton on Monday that the Oct. 19 referendum vote is a matter for Albertans alone to decide.
Will – and Can – Trump Target Pickaxe Mountain Next?
Will Donald Trump order strikes on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain complex in this new kinetic phase of the war? He answered that question this week. The main question really is whether the US can effectively destroy any nuclear-related activities in this remote redoubt.
CHARLEBOIS: Donald Trump’s new tariffs put Canada’s food economy on menu
The United States has announced a sweeping 50% tariff on Canadian goods, citing discriminatory treatment of American alcohol, automobiles and dairy products. The duties are expected to take effect Aug. 19 and, unusually, will reach some products that would ordinarily receive preferential treatment under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement. Energy, potash, fish and critical minerals are among the reported exemptions.
Don Lemon Wants the White House and Thinks MAGA Is the Nazi Party
Don Lemon believes America may need him in the White House. Days after saying he might run for president in 2028, the independent “journalist” and podcaster offered a sample of his judgment.
Why Trump is threatening new 50% tariffs on Canadian exports right now
It may appear that U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to hit many Canadian products with new tariffs of 50 per cent came out of the blue, but there are clear signs of what’s driving the tactic.
Monday’s announcement comes as the U.S. pushes for significant changes to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), changes that would lock any Canadian trade concessions into the text of a trade deal.
The Trump administration wants to wipe out as much of Canada’s leverage in those CUSMA talks as possible.
This guy gets it. Canada is not going to win with Carney’s strategy.
On USMCA, there’s a reason that Professor Ian Lee of Carleton University doesn’t get much time on legacy media. He speaks more truth to power than they can handle.
1⃣ We are far more dependent on the 🇺🇸 than they are on us.
2⃣ If 🇨🇦 cannot maintain the current level of free trade… pic.twitter.com/Hl1sXfV7sp— RMC86 (@RMC19861987) July 19, 2026
This idiot doesn’t get it.
‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: state department attacks US left over Cuba
As part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups, the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as “front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba, including Hasan Piker and the Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.
In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the “capital of 21st-century communism”, accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion” that has “infiltrated the highest reaches of the US government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists [and] backed an unprecedented wave of leftwing terrorism on American soil”.
LILLEY: Trump owns the trade war. Carney owns his response
It’s unbelievable how far the Canada-U.S. relationship has deteriorated, and it’s hard to see it recovering. The anti-Canadian rhetoric and attitudes coming out of Washington are likely at their lowest point since calls to take over parts of British Columbia were expressed in the slogan “54-40 or Fight.”
Meanwhile … Hoekstra says Canadians ‘don’t think very highly’ of U.S. as Trump threatens new tariffs
Listen to Mark Warner. Every word “So it’s not so much are we discriminating against American products in the areas that he’s, he’s identified, but are we doing that relative to other countries and that there may be some factual questions there.”
“We’re kind of in It’s 5440 in… pic.twitter.com/OGHgWHtkOw
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 21, 2026
Carney the great negotiator.
Mass shooting suspect kills himself in German jail weeks after massacre that left six dead at shelter for mothers
A man suspected of fatally shooting six child welfare workers at a shelter for mothers in Stade in northern Germany last month died by suicide in jail on Tuesday.
The suspect, who has been partially identified in German media as 45-year-old Fatih Khan G., was found dead by jail staff in his single cell early Tuesday, the Lower Saxony state justice ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said there are ‘currently no indications of third-party involvement’ in the suspect’s death at the jail, and that both his relatives and the relatives of the shooting victims had been informed.
How Canada Keeps the Conservatives Shut Out of Power
In April, almost a year after last spring’s federal election delivered a minority government, Mark Carney’s Liberal Party inched its way to a majority by poaching a string of floor crossers from opposition parties. The new-found majority further strengthens the hold of a party that has been in power for 60 percent of Canadian electoral history. This makes them among the most successful political parties in the Western democratic world.
A Walrus piece.
