It is hard to overstate the hope that followed the fall of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The newly elected African National Congress was well positioned to move the country into a new era of equality and prosperity for all citizens. South Africa not only had abundant natural resources at its disposal but also boasted a well-developed industrial economy and the continent’s top university system.
What if Canada’s largest city started shrinking, and it wasn’t all that huge an issue, even with a municipal election just months away? This is the odd situation in which Toronto, forever caught between aspiring to and boasting of “world class” status, may now find itself. Hopefully not.
No one dares mention “White Flight”.
Last week, an illegal Mexican immigrant was shot by an ICE agent while reportedly attempting to run over agents with his vehicle. Since the incident, the media has been working to twist the narrative, favoring the illegal alien, Lorenzo Salgado, and attacking ICE instead. This Monday, The View took this slanted coverage a step further with ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg making a racially charged comment about it being “common sense” for him to fear “a truck full of white guys.”
Heading into Alberta’s upcoming referendum, the question on Alberta independence easily gets the most attention.
But 10 questions are on the ballot this October, five of which concern immigration — something that has been overshadowed since the separation question was announced in May.
To find out more about how Calgary’s multicultural communities feel about these proposals, CBC News collaborated with several local ethnic media organizations for a roundtable discussion at a southside library.
A 70-year-old Gillette man’s treasured classic 1965 Ford Mustang disappeared from his driveway, then turned up about 100 yards away in a neighbor’s shop with its hood open and connected to a battery charger.
By then, investigators say the older man — who Campbell County Sheriff’s Office deputies describe as frail, having dementia and living in squalor — had allegedly signed paperwork transferring the car to the neighbors for $500 and a promise that his lawn would be mowed every weekend until he died.
Never a Piston Head I always thought the Mustang cool.
h/t handy n handsome
The boy who killed 83-year-old Pickering resident Eleanor Doney in her front yard as she was raking leaves has been given the maximum youth sentence for first-degree murder.
On Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Lisa Wannamaker ruled that the 15-year-old — who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) — would receive some credit for the more than 13 months he spent in pre-sentence detention, ordering he spend an additional five years in a youth facility receiving intensive programming and counselling.
Following that, he will be released back into the community under supervision for another four years
As far as I’m concerned the little psycho killed himself a Christian for Allah.
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MANDEL: Teen still obsessed with killers despite apologizing for Pickering senior’s murder
The boy who savagely murdered a Pickering grandmother gardening on her front law last year still has an ongoing fascination with serial killers and has no insight into the devastation he has caused.
Every time I write one of these “Cuba Falling” articles, I feel like I need to end the “Cuba Falling” part with a question mark. I’m getting frustrated with the lack of movement, and I can’t help but wonder if we’re spread a little too thin with Iran. It’s time to finish that job and quit playing around with those animals. Cuba is becoming an even bigger hellhole than it already was. The people are starving. They have no power. It’s also clear at this point that the regime is a threat to our national security. It apparently has high-capability Iranian and/or Russian drones, and it is colluding with everyone on the radical left, from Democrat members of Congress to Code Pink, and I’d call all of that a very serious problem for the United States.
The US House of Representatives has voted to make daylight saving time permanent by passing the Sunshine Protection Act on Tuesday.
With a 308-117 vote, members of both parties approved the bill, which would remove the need for Americans to change their clocks twice a year and put the US under time currently observed between March and November – known as permanent standard time.
Republican Scott DesJarlais, who presided over the vote, played a clip of The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun on his phone during the final count
The scenes outside the window of the train are breathtaking. A wall of flame engulfs the treeline just feet away from tracks.
“Y’all need to hurry up here, like, seriously,” says one of the crewmembers. “We’re encased in flames now.”
This is near Armstrong, Ontario.
When will the Canadian National Railway Company make a statement about this incident? pic.twitter.com/6bKJYugeR0
— Sol Mamakwa (@solmamakwa) July 14, 2026
h/t Patti Jo and patthedog
In the fallout of a deadly weekend shooting, questions are being asked about whether Toronto needs to rethink the way it hosts the festivals that have long brought energy and flair to its streets through the summer.
Two men were killed and several people were injured Saturday night in a shooting at Salsa on St. Clair, Canada’s biggest Latin street festival.
It’s as if a cloud descends that randomly selects people to start shooting.
The debate around AI reminds me of the debate around transsexuals. At first, everyone tiptoed around, not sure of what to think and worried about saying the wrong thing. Then, after a couple of years of cowardly pussyfooting, someone finally said, “Y’all, a guy can’t magically become a woman.” And because one person said it, more and more people found the courage to repeat an obvious truth: that no amount of surgical mutilation, online censorship, media propaganda, and emotional blackmail makes it possible to switch sexes.
NDP Leader Avi Lewis spent the first 100 days at his party’s helm outside of Parliament, and isn’t looking for a seat any time soon.
But since his election in March, the seatless leader also appears to have made little headway in making a name for himself among Canadians.
Recent polling from Abacus Data found a quarter of Canadians don’t know enough about Lewis to form an opinion. An additional 31 per cent feel neutral about him.
ULSAN, South Korea—When Hyundai Motor unveiled its new humanoid robot worker named “Atlas” in January, tens of thousands of Korean auto employees gaped at the 6-foot-2 robot strutting across a trade-show stage, its joints swiveling a full 360 degrees.
The union’s response was blunt: Atlas would never step onto a production line without workers agreeing first.
The so-called dark art of political spin is nothing more than politicians proclaiming failure as success or, in the case of Mark Carney, that capitulation is rather a resounding victory.
Canada’s new deal — a “bribe” according to one economist — on the Gordie Howe Bridge has been trumpeted by the prime minister as a sign of astute negotiations with the United States when it is really caving in to the demands of Donald Trump.
The US said it had begun a new wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday after reimposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran threatened to shut off more regional energy exports.
The strikes mark the latest escalation of attacks and counterattacks launched by the two sides as they vie for control of the Strait of Hormuz, which carried about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments before the war.”
