Was Olivia Chow playing politics at the Pride Parade on Sunday?

Was Olivia Chow playing politics at the Pride Parade on Sunday?

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow was slammed for a divisive comment on an unrelated issue during Sunday’s Pride Parade, an event that is supposed to represent the ideals of love and inclusion.

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US homeland security secretary tells migrants to seek permanent status or leave

US homeland security secretary tells migrants to seek permanent status or leave

Migrants in the US on temporary protected status (TPS) should seek permanent residence or leave, Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security secretary, said in the wake of last week’s supreme court decision that stripped humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

The remarks to CNN’s State of the Union program comes after a decision ⁠that could allow Donald Trump’s administration to deport Haitian and Syrian immigrants to home countries plagued by conflict and ​destitution.

“Either try to fill ‌out the paperwork and ‌be here underneath a permanent status, or we’ll help you get ‌back to your country,” Mullin said.

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MACLEOD: Is Canada too big, too divided, and too centralized to work? Alberta thinks so

MACLEOD: Is Canada too big, too divided, and too centralized to work? Alberta thinks so

There is a serious argument that Canada is no longer merely a large country with regional differences, but a country so vast, economically uneven, and culturally divided that it is becoming nearly impossible to govern effectively from the centre. That argument should not be dismissed as anger, nostalgia, or Western grievance. It deserves to be examined on its merits.

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Grooming gang ringleader cannot be deported because of loophole

Grooming gang ringleader cannot be deported because of loophole

A Pakistani grooming gang ringleader convicted of 30 child rape offences cannot be deported despite being stripped of his British citizenship.

Shabir Ahmed, 73, a key figure in the Rochdale grooming gang scandal, is due to be released from prison on Thursday but cannot be thrown out of Britain because of a loophole in the Immigration Act 1971.

Even though he has been stripped of his citizenship while serving prison sentences totalling more than 40 years, Ahmed is protected from deportation by a provision in the act that exempts Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK before 1973 from removal.

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Canada keeps slipping in world happiness rankings. Why are we so sad?

Canada keeps slipping in world happiness rankings. Why are we so sad?

As Canada Day nears, the expected attitude is one of gratitude, for clean air, public health care, relative safety and ketchup chips. But Canadians haven’t been feeling so jovial as of late. And for good reason: the cost of groceries is rising, rent is too high and the future feels less certain than it used to. And according to the latest World Happiness Report, that feeling is in the numbers.

Canada, once comfortably among the happiest countries in the world, ranked 25th in the 2026 World Happiness Report. To put the decline in perspective: in 2025, it ranked 18th; in 2021, it ranked 14th; and in 2015, it ranked a now hard to imagine fifth place. (We rank behind the U.S. now, which sits at a slightly loftier 23rd place.)

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Louis Murder: Hundreds Rally in Narbonne After Brutal Murder of 17-Year-Old Boy

Louis Murder: Hundreds Rally in Narbonne After Brutal Murder of 17-Year-Old Boy

Around 1,000 people marched through the southern French city of Narbonne on Sunday, June 28th, following the death of 17-year-old Louis, who was lynched by a gang of youths.

The march, organised under the slogan ‘Justice for All,’ was promoted on social media by several identitarian groups. Louis’s family declined to take part, saying they wished to avoid any political exploitation of their son’s death.

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‘It’s dirty, it’s unsafe’: Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford pitches cleaning up, renaming Sankofa Square

‘It’s dirty, it’s unsafe’: Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford pitches cleaning up, renaming Sankofa Square

Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford says Sankofa Square was once the epicentre of the city, the “Canadian version” of Times Square and a place where people would celebrate festivals and gather with friends for a night out.

But now, he says it’s become something of a “wasteland.”

“It’s dirty, it’s unsafe. There’s open drug use in the middle of the afternoon. Tourists avoid it. Parents grab their kids by the hand and move quickly through the space, or even worse, they avoid it altogether,” Bradford said during a press conference on Monday as he pitched his plan to revamp and rename the square at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets.

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Will the Germans or South Koreans emerge as Canada’s sub deal winner?

Will the Germans or South Koreans emerge as Canada’s sub deal winner?

Toss in some Korean BBQ and I’m in.[/caption]OTTAWA — Choosing the winning bid for Canada’s next generation submarine fleet is coming down to the wire. Analysts say the race between the two contenders, German-Norwegian consortium ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and South Korea’s Hanwha, is too close to call.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously said that a decision would be made before the end of June, but sources tell CTV News that the announcement will be delayed a few days. It will likely come before Carney leaves for the July 7 NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara, Türkiye.

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New Study: Immigration Caused 40% Of Your Rent Hikes Over 10 Years

New Study: Immigration Caused 40% Of Your Rent Hikes Over 10 Years

mmigration accounts for as much as 40 percent of U.S. rent increases as the housing affordability crisis continues to plague millions of Americans, according to a forthcoming study shared exclusively with The Federalist.

The paper, “Immigration and Rent: A PUMA-Based Spatial Analysis,” will appear this fall in Cityscape magazine as part of a collection of works exploring the relationship between immigration and housing markets.

I wonder what the numbers would be in Canada?

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Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status

Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status

A charity connected to the controversial group HonestReporting Canada, which claims to expose anti-Israel bias in news media, has launched two court battles against the attempted revocation of its registration by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

HR Canada Charitable Organization (HRCCO) has filed challenges to the revocation in both the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Federal Court of Appeal, according to court records obtained by the IJF and Future of Good.


Lot of this sort of proxy war going on.

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Joy Reid prefers Juneteenth to July 4th, the date that ultimately freed mankind

Joy Reid prefers Juneteenth to July 4th, the date that ultimately freed mankind

have a bit more to say about former MSNBC host Joy Reid and her former colleague Alex Wagner, who recently engaged in an online conversation comparing Independence Day and Juneteenth.

Reid stated that “nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July” and claimed that her black friends basically treat the Fourth as a day off to barbecue. (That seems racist. Is Reid saying that all blacks like ribs and chicken?)

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King Charles is making a mistake by leaning into multiculturalism

King Charles is making a mistake by leaning into multiculturalism

For hundreds of years, one of the central battlegrounds of British politics has been the role, powers and prerogatives of the Crown. From the Barons’ Wars to the Reformation and the Civil War, we have had a centuries-long argument over what the monarch is for, what they can and can’t do, and where they fit with the rest of the constitution. Various compromises and fudges have emerged in line with the changing social and political environment.

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