Five years after the Kamloops “graves” controversy first erupted, and with zero bodies discovered, First Nations chiefs are pushing hard to make residential school denialism an imprisonable offence.
But Canadians should not have to face up to two years in jail for denying what the chiefs describe as their “truth.” Are we only to speak about the horrors of residential schools, or will survivors with “warm memories” face prison?
Denmark will ban burkas in schools and universities as part of a plan to tackle what it calls ‘parallel societies’.
The garment worn by some Muslim women is already banned in public places in the Scandinavian country, but the move would now expand the order into classrooms across Denmark.
In Denmark, the term ‘parallel societies’ refers to residential areas where more than half of inhabitants are from an immigrant background.
A fundraiser has reached more than $3,500 US of its $10,000 goal to help with the legal defence of Kaitlyn Tracey, the Canadian woman who allegedly slapped a teen Trump supporter in Jersey Shore earlier this month.
A GoFundMe that had initially been established for Tracey was taken down from the site, as the platform’s terms of service clearly states it prohibits “fundraisers for the legal defense of violent crimes.”
There was a time when the fate of Paris was inextricably linked to that of Gavroche, the street urchin imagined by Victor Hugo in his masterpiece Les Misérables–mischievous, irreverent, yet driven by an instinctive generosity that made him a paradoxical embodiment of the French people. The popular hero of our time is a certain Hamza, a slightly plump teenager who walks about bare-chested and sprays passers-by with a water pistol, demands a ‘toll’ from them to cross the Canal Saint-Martin–a branch of the Seine in the north-east of the capital–insults women with obscene vulgarity, provokes the police, films each of his provocations and turns his own delinquency into a daily soap opera on TikTok.
The federal government has quietly launched pilot projects testing digital identification apps, while insisting the technology will remain voluntary and does not represent the creation of a national digital ID system.
Blacklock’s Reporter says according to a Jan. 14 briefing note prepared by the Department of Employment, the government is testing three digital credential tools — GC Issue and Verify, GC Wallet Beta and GC Verify Beta — with a limited group of participants before any broader rollout.
All inevitable Los Angeles-inspired ‘pee on the sidewalks’ jokes aside, this is the sort of thing that is pretty terrifying.
A 100-year-old, 36-inch water main under storied Sunset Boulevard ruptured very early Thursday morning.
A major water main break flooded parts of West Hollywood early Thursday morning after a 36-inch pipe installed in 1916 ruptured near Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive. The powerful surge of water sent streets underwater, damaged vehicles, flooded underground garages and created… pic.twitter.com/hnSNf26k2q
— Los Angeles Magazine (@LAmag) July 16, 2026
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It’s no accident Prime Minister Mark Carney presided over the worst record of economic growth during his first year in office of any Canadian PM in more than half a century.
Actually, it was negative growth of 0.05% as reported by Bloomberg News.
Despite that, a Nanos-Bloomberg poll showed most Canadians are satisfied with Carney’s performance on the economy.
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) July 17, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly & handy n handsome
Seattle residents may no longer have to watch people engaging in lewd sexual conduct in Denny Blaine Park for All after a judge ruled that it constituted a public nuisance that substantially interfered with neighboring homeowners’ use of their properties.
The court ordered the City of Seattle to do more to deal with the issue while still allowing clothing-optional use on the lower beach area.
It’s never easy to uproot your life, but after a year of watching U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration crack down on 2SLGBTQ+ rights, especially for transgender Americans, Grace Mahoney and her partner, Kayden Burns, decided it was time to leave the United States.
“I’m queer, my spouse is also queer and non-binary, and it started becoming a very unsafe place for us, as it is for a lot of queer humans existing in the U.S.,” she said in an interview from her new home in Dartmouth, N.S., earlier this month.
The CBC never tires of these Drama Queens.
U.S. President Donald Trump is adding his voice to the chorus of Republican politicians who are blaming Canada for wildfire smoke drifting across the border.
Hundreds of active wildfires, most in northwestern Ontario, have triggered air quality warnings for states close to the Great Lakes, stretching from Minnesota to Maryland.
Trump threatened to top up the import tariffs he’s already levied on Canadian goods in response to the smoke that has drifted south of the border.
h/t Mauser
A judge has declared a surprise mistrial in the sexual assault case of Frank Stronach, voiding a guilty finding because the complainant’s lawyer made a clumsy attempt to extract money through Stronach’s lawyer, but ended up sharing information that contradicted the woman’s testimony under oath.
The shocking decision by Judge Anne Molloy overturns her recent finding that Stronach was guilty of sexually assaulting this woman, known as A.S., who once worked as a waitress in a bar Stronach owned.
The Muslim Abduction, Rape, and Forced Conversion of Christian Girls in Pakistan
On April 11, two Muslims raped a 25-year-old Christian woman, leaving her in critical condition. The survivor, a daily-wage laborer, was picking lemons in a citrus orchard for local contractor Faizan Mehboob Rehmani (also known as Kaka) when the assault occurred. “Kaka may have thought I was an easy target because I am a Christian,” she said from her hospital bed. “They have destroyed my life. I want the police and courts to ensure they are punished.” According to her…
Northern Ontario continues to be on fire, blanketing southern Ontario and northern U.S. states in thick smoke, while the foreign affairs minister announced over $125M in funding for Brazil and an agreement between the two countries to fight wildfires.
h/t Mauser
