There is a pattern to building a respectable business.
Small family businesses mark milestones along a growth trajectory that builds over time into a mature, stable and sometimes profitable business.
Our little trucking business was like that. The first new truck. A bigger rented yard and shop. The first big company party. And finally, our first, heavily mortgaged and built-to-spec. truck yard.
There’s a surprising amount of policework that is really just not being dumb. My late father, for example, got an “attaboy” from the chief because of his diligent work solving a theft. What happened was that he simply followed the stolen lawnmower’s tracks in the dirt alley that led right to the thief.
A lot of it is much, much more complicated than that, admittedly, but sometimes, it’s just not.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Ontario to Michigan will open July 27, the federal government has confirmed.
Canada and Michigan agreed on Friday to open the bridge with the support of the United States government, according to a news release issued just after 7 p.m. ET by the Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities.
“To support this opening and ensure that benefits are felt on both sides of the border, Canada and the United States have agreed to a series of co-operative measures focused on toll governance and transparency,” the release said.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The scene unfolding outside his patrol car at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday startled even the veteran police chief.
“It was chaotic,” Chief Rico Boyce recounted to city leaders at a public meeting days later. “Something I had never seen in my 26 years here at the Raleigh Police Department.”
Authorities had planned for large crowds in North Carolina’s capital over the holiday weekend, Boyce said, but this went beyond that. He described hordes of rowdy young people — police estimated as many as 8,000, many juveniles, many from outside the city — that gathered first in one commercial area, then converged later on another known as Glenwood South.
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Watch Mark Carney, not long ago thought to be a political novice, work a press scrum. We’re now used to the half-beat pause before the prime minister answers, the banker’s habit of restating the question in duller language, draining it of drama, and the refusal, almost physical, to take the bait.
That composure can come across as a personality quirk but it’s more likely a construction. This week, a remarkable two-part Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigation shows us what it was built to withstand.
Europe is studying proposals that may allow the charging of navigational fees in the strait of Hormuz so long as the tolls are not compulsory and have the support of the UN agency that regulates maritime transport.
Britain’s deputy prime minister, David Lammy, said the imposition of compulsory tolls would be disastrous. But some of his cabinet colleagues said they recognised that systems of payments for specific navigational services were permissible in many natural waterways, including the strait of Malacca and the Channel.
If there’s one catchphrase to sum up the dilemma facing Canada and other allies post-NATO summit, it might very well be: Show me the money.
It may be cliché. It may be somewhat worn out — after all, it’s a pop reference to the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. But it probably best captures a stirring public sentiment.
Britain found out the hard way recently that being able to account for an avalanche of money going to defence and security is a live, visceral political and policy issue that is capable of causing damage and casualties.
Mojtaba Khamenei has vowed to exact revenge on the United States and Israel for the killing of his father and predecessor as Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on February 28, at the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
“Revenge is the demand of the nation and must certainly be carried out,” according to a written statement attributed to Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, which was broadcast on state television.
Andrew Moran, the economics editor at Liberty Nation News, writes that Canada seems to be quietly revising the core tenets of its “climate change” religion. Under a headline that bluntly announces, “Canada Admits Justin Trudeau’s Climate Agenda Was a Scam,” and a lede that asks, “Is it too little, too late for the struggling nation?” Moran analyzes a seventeen-minute YouTube video that Prime Minister Mark Carney published on June 30.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported an illegal alien convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a child over the course of four years, whom Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson pardoned last month.
More … Rubio Just Overruled Tim Walz After Walz Pardoned Criminal Invader Pedophile Criminal Rapist
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Welcome to Zombieland.
But this is no movie being filmed in Toronto or about the city.
This is Toronto. It’s a nonfiction story. These fellow Torontonians swaying around in a perpetual high state or crouched head down with fentanyl in their systems are not acting.
Toronto’s no go zone — unless you want lungs full of fentanyl, crack or crystal meth pic.twitter.com/1C4NUzEQvz
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) July 10, 2026
An Algerian who tried to rape a woman near Buckingham Palace was released by police despite being caught red-handed, a judge said.
Algerian-born Ramzi Barkat, 54, followed the lone woman out of St James’s Park, central London, in the early hours of Sept 7, 2024, Southwark Crown Court heard.
After his attempts to flirt with her were rejected, he tackled her to the ground, grabbed her wrists and “straddled” her, Judge Justin Cole said.
Former Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau has been brutally roasted online for ‘hopping like a rabbit’ in a bizarre new video promoting his girlfriend, Katy Perry’s new song.
Perry, 41, took to Instagram on Thursday to share a clip of her and some pals dancing to her latest hit Watch It Burn, which dropped on June 25.
The singer, who donned a polka-dotted red romper and thigh-high socks, jumped up and down to the beat with her friends as she mouthed along to the lyrics.
It’s good to see that Trudeau finally has a job he’s qualified for. pic.twitter.com/Y9iV61diXk
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) July 10, 2026
Health professionals in B.C. made 2,807 errors while managing more than 4,000 euthanasia cases in 2024, according to documents from the provincial health ministry.
The B.C. oversight unit for medical assistance in dying (MAID) identified 2,807 cases that required government “follow-up” from at least 4,169 MAID cases handled that year, according to the documents first obtained by the news outlet Canadian Catholic News through a freedom of information request.
In Lviv, Ukraine, a crowd confronted several military recruitment officers on Wednesday, surrounding their vehicle and engaging in a physical altercation, after a man wanted for failing to comply with his military registration obligations was detained by the officers.
Riots in Lviv over the brutal forced conscription financed by NATO.
– The majority of Ukrainians want immediate negotiations to end the war. They are obviously not in the minds of our political-media establishment, who claim to "stand with Ukraine", while boycotting diplomacy and… pic.twitter.com/OjlpjdBkRu— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) July 9, 2026
Unfortunately Ukraine has become Afghanistan 2.0 The Big Grift.
