For decades, Western diplomats and decision-makers have clung to one of the most dangerous illusions in the Middle East: the belief that Islamist terrorist organizations can be persuaded through negotiations and diplomatic agreements to surrender their weapons and abandon their jihad (holy war) against Israel.
Reality continues to prove that persuading terrorist regimes to give up their weapons is not the walk in the park they might have hoped.
According to data collected by Ratehub, the average Toronto condo price in March 2022 was $831,351, requiring a household income of $156,320. As of May 2026, the average condo price has dropped by roughly 19 per cent, to $673,841, requiring a household income of $139,000.
BUT … The Star is omitting pertinent facts about income figures.
The average household income in the City of Toronto is approximately $121,200 to $129,000 before taxes, while the median household income is roughly $84,000 to $97,000. The higher average compared to the median is typically skewed by a larger share of upper-income households.
In Ontario, the average household total income is approximately $116,000 before taxes, and the average after-tax income is about $95,300. For median household income (the midpoint), the figure sits at roughly $81,000 before taxes and $79,500 after taxes
American intelligence agencies are working on a report to Congress that will disclose new details about the wealth of Chinese Communist Party leaders, including Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, who is also president, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The public report is due before the end of the year and is required under the fiscal 2026 Intelligence Authorization Act signed into law in December as part of the Defense Authorization Act.
“I can confirm ODNI is actively working on the report, as required by the FY26 IAA,” an ODNI spokeswoman told Inside the Ring.
Indigenous community members have encouraged federal officials to reflect on how the Order of Canada can overcome its “deep colonial symbolism and associations,” says an internal government presentation on efforts to modernize the Canadian honours system.
The April presentation, prepared for the Order of Canada Advisory Council, says recent feedback indicates that accepting the honour “could bring feelings of discomfort or shame” to some Indigenous people due to its colonial associations.
One good thing about the Wolford decision is that it’s giving us plenty to write about. Hemani gave us a bit, too, but since most of the media is pro-marijuana, it wasn’t quite as much as we might have liked. Wolford, though, has gotten all the anti-gunners wound up. When they get wound up, they start talking stupid, such as pretending that the vampire rule wasn’t a radical departure from the status quo.
A seemingly intoxicated Mayor Olivia Chow walks staggeringly during Toronto Pride with no shame on how it looks with an upcoming election.
But hey at least she got her day drink on during Pride, right? 🥴 pic.twitter.com/atcxdXpjxv
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) June 29, 2026
The vast majority of Canada’s 25 largest publicly traded corporations have set explicit demographic targets for hiring and promotion and made DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) training mandatory for their workforces, according to a new study measuring the depth of diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology in Canadian corporate culture.
Liberals have a problem, and it’s the same problem they’ve had for decades. There is a steadfast refusal to call out their own side’s radicals and nutjobs. In living memory, they’ve tolerated the Occupy Wall Street movement, the rotunda takeovers, the BLM rioters, the Antifa terrorists, Islamic extremists, the Squad clown car, and every blue-haired, errant, non-binary androgyne who identifies as a gelfling one minute and Atreyu’s luck dragon the next.
The backlash came fast and furious, and with greater velocity than perhaps at any other moment in Mark Carney‘s tenure as prime minister.
The Liberals’ proposal last week — to put up 10 per cent of roughly $1.45 billion for the acquisition of unsold B.C. condos which in turn would be sold at affordable rates on a rent-to-buy basis — was rapidly condemned by critics as a “bailout” — evidence not only of political perfidy, but also ideological gymnastics on the part of a former central banker who, once upon a time, cautioned against this kind of moral hazard. (Carney himself acknowledged the reveal was a case study in miscommunication)
Supergirl didn’t just flop at the box office this weekend; it is a flop of epic proportions, an abysmal failure that will be remembered only as a failure.
With a disastrous $38 million domestic opening and an even more humiliating overseas take of $30 million, Supergirl is a bigger domestic flop than The Marvels ($46 million), The Flash ($55 million), Black Adam ($67 million), and Morbius ($39 million).
Being Rachel Zegler is a bad career move Miss Alcock.
Two of four reactors at Ontario’s Darlington Nuclear Generating Station have been out of service for prolonged outages, after the completion of a 10-year refurbishment that provincial officials have repeatedly characterized as an unqualified success.
The station’s reactors were refurbished between October, 2016, and early March, when the final unit returned to service. Ever since, station owner Ontario Power Generation and the provincial government have told the public that the project was completed four months ahead of schedule, and $150-million under its $12.8-billion budget.
After days of U.S. and Iranian strikes tested the fragile ceasefire agreement signed this month and raised questions about the state of talks to reach a broader peace, President Donald Trump early Monday said the two sides would meet the following day in Qatar, at Iran’s request.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner would be traveling to Doha this week to discuss the memorandum of understanding the two sides signed this month.
⚡️ Leavitt confirms talks in Doha, other sources rejected them
🔹 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox News on Monday saying that Iran had requested a meeting for this week, so Witkoff and Kushner would be flying to Doha to take place in the 'high-level… pic.twitter.com/NwiuwjJ8VU
— Agoraphobic Journalist (@UnknownNewsMan) June 29, 2026
While Canadians are a patriotic lot, one in four are not overly confident in the country’s long-term future, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.
Fifteen per cent of Canadians said they do not think Canada, “with its current borders and provinces will still exist 50 years from now.”
CARABALLEDA, Venezuela—The government-built high-rise where Alberto Sánchez’s girlfriend lived toppled into a mass of concrete and steel when twin earthquakes hit this Caribbean coastal city last week. He spent four days digging through rubble for her and her family—and found no one.
“Today I feel like I have no energy left,” Sánchez said on Sunday, his face weary as he took a break, blowing dust off his gloves and examining the holes in his sneakers.
Nearly 50,000 people are still unaccounted for, according to an online platform tracking missing loved ones, after Wednesday’s earthquakes flattened whole neighborhoods in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and a string of cities nearby.
Mira como esa gente se cae y al mismo tiempo un edificio entero se derrumba frente a ellos, y el gobierno de Venezuela da cifras ridículas. Desde el minuto cero debieron decir la verdad para que el mundo entero ayude.
La mentira costo más vidas aun. pic.twitter.com/2QWa5vSoCf— Poirot (@Argenpoirot) June 29, 2026
The past few years of chaos at Oakville’s Canada Day event, where hundreds of teens gathered and set off fireworks at each other and bystanders, almost led to this year’s waterfront display being cancelled entirely.
“We’ve had people get hit with fireworks. I’ve been hit with fireworks,” said Oakville councillor Sean O’Meara. “Businesses have had fireworks shot into them. It’s, kind of, anarchy.”
We have bigger problems than fireworks.
#Brampton : sukhman singh, a 17 year old teen raped his girlfriend twice just because he was pissed at his own family . These are his real sisters asking him to apologize to the girl . This is future of #Canada #TrudeauMustGo #JagmeetSingh #Khalistan #DonBelle #Ramadan #Oscars pic.twitter.com/QqHTuc7a1m
— truthseeker (@chaosismygoal) March 11, 2024
