There are many questions to be asked after Saturday night’s terror attack at a Pride event in Berlin. One thing that does seem pretty clear is the cause. Everything we know about the culprit, 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, points to the fact that his crimes were motivated by his Islamist beliefs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Canadians have been focused on Donald Trump’s hounding them about becoming the “51st state” and squeezing their cross-border trade, the U.S. president has been quietly fiddling around with the rules for waters along the Canada-U.S. border.
In late April, the president signed House Joint Resolution 140 into law, rolling back a Biden-era mining moratorium on more than 200,000 acres of U.S. federal lands near the Boundary Waters watershed in Minnesota that drains into Canadian waters.
A trainee barrister and a Dublin museum employee charged in connection with a car loaded with explosives that was bound for the Northern Irish border have been remanded in custody.
Isobella Perrie Sullivan, 25, of Clane in County Kildare, and Simon O’Donovan, 44, were charged with possession of explosives after police stopped a vehicle in Carrickmacross, close to the border, two days earlier.
Both are now being held after Sullivan’s bail application was delayed, while O’Donovan’s request for bail was denied.
h/t Hermes
OTTAWA — Most Canadians want the federal government to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest salvo in his trade war against Canada, even though they’re losing faith in the ability of Prime Minister Mark Carney to land a deal.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency believes there are 9,110 violent Islamist extremists nationwide, according to security figures that have been newly highlighted by the German media following Saturday’s deadly attack in Berlin.
The figures, released amid the investigation into the attack on the city’s Christopher Street Day celebrations, show that German authorities identified 28,645 Islamists across the country in 2025. Of those, around 450 are classified as individuals considered capable of committing serious politically motivated crimes, including terrorist attacks.
Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson is refusing to disclose how much Canadian taxpayers could lose under a new toll-sharing arrangement for the Gordie Howe International Bridge, as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for an even larger share of the bridge’s future revenues.
The issue overshadowed Friday’s ceremonial opening of the Windsor-Detroit crossing after Trump publicly declared that the original bridge agreement “no longer stands” and suggested the United States deserves more than the recently negotiated revenue-sharing deal.
Tuesday 4 August could prove to be a turning point in American political history. If Democratic primary voters in Michigan choose Haley Stevens, a moderate, as their Senate nominee, the party establishment should stagger on, perhaps up to and beyond the presidential election of 2028.
It’s more likely, however, that the Democrats will elect Dr Abdul El-Sayed, a pro-Palestine radical who supports Medicare for All and the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. El-Sayed’s victory would confirm that the hard left is the coming force in national politics, and suggest that the long-anticipated socialist takeover of the oldest party in the US – the party of Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman and Bill Clinton – is finally under way. Just as Donald Trump’s MAGA movement began to devour a rotten Republican party in 2015, a vengeful left-wing populism seems ready to swallow the much-loathed Democratic elite. The only part that’s missing is the element of surprise.
In 2024, a mandatory course for B.C. lawyers referred to the “discovery of an unmarked burial site containing the bodies of 215 children on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds” which “(confirmed) what survivors have been saying all along.” When one lawyer proposed a correction, as no graves were ever found, the B.C. Law Society publicly disparaged him. He sued for defamation — but now, the trial has been called off.
This is who is calling you a fascist and saying conservative people are weird. pic.twitter.com/103jmnIy41
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 27, 2026
Iwas at a loss on what to write about this week. The news has been in a state of stasis all summer with the same two headlines every day: the on again – off again war on Iran, and the communists taking over the Democratic Party. There is a new Prime Minister in the UK, but Andy Burnham is considered even more left-wing than the extreme Keir Starmer. That’s good news for my new political thriller novel, The Camelot Trail, involving a potential war between repressive Britain and pro-freedom America, but bad news for England and the world.
If you are seeing this video, it's your sign to take a screenshot, bring it to your stylist, and say, "Give me this look." pic.twitter.com/0ILfxcNFTt
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 27, 2026
WASHINGTON — More than a year before the pandemic, in the autumn of 2018, coronavirus material was carried covertly out of a People’s Liberation Army medical academy toward the Minnesota laboratory of a federally funded virologist, a man named Fang Li, who was permitted to work on “bat coronavirus DNA.”
In late 2025, Harvard Kennedy School professor Sandra Susan Smith expressed skepticism about the Trump administration’s decision to target a dozen American cities—including Oakland, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and Washington, D.C.—for temporary federal law-enforcement and National Guard deployments aimed at reducing crime and restoring order. Smith wondered “about what the consequences for deploying federalized forces are, especially for black and brown people in the cities that have been targeted for intervention.” She continued: “What seems clear to me is that the costs that are associated with this federal intervention will far outweigh the meager and very short-term benefits.”
One of the targeted cities was Memphis.
Canada’s premiers raised a glass to internal trade last week. Nine provinces signed an agreement allowing licensed Canadian wineries, breweries and distilleries to sell directly to consumers across participating jurisdictions. Quebec and Yukon, which helped develop the framework, have not yet joined but say they are working toward implementation. British Columbia, meanwhile, will not have its full system operating until February 2027.
US President Donald J. Trump’s proposed civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia risks becoming one of the most dangerous strategic mistakes in recent American Middle East policy. Although supporters portray the agreement as a peaceful energy partnership designed to strengthen relations with a key Arab ally, the long-term consequences could be devastating. The agreement threatens to weaken decades of US non-proliferation policy, ignite a regional arms race, embolden America’s adversaries, and create security risks that future generations may be powerless to reverse.
