Who are Canada’s big city leavers? Mainly 25 to 44-year-olds, with young children

Who are Canada’s big city leavers? Mainly 25 to 44-year-olds, with young children

Toronto’s middle class is packing up and moving out at such a rapid pace that the city’s population is dropping. Montreal and Vancouver are also in the midst of a similar outmigration.

It’s not only bad news for those cities; it also harms the country as a whole by slowing economic growth, straining our health care system, and increasing political polarization.

This migration out of cities is not just a Toronto story. While the City of Toronto saw 40,000 more people move out to other parts of the country last year than moved in from elsewhere in Canada, Peel Region lost even more, at 45,000.


But Toronto has so much to offer!

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Zelensky Under Pressure as Protests Spread Across Ukraine

Zelensky Under Pressure as Protests Spread Across Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing mounting political pressure after days of nationwide protests over the dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Kyiv and at least sixteen other cities since July 16, marking the largest anti-government demonstrations in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

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Ford refuses to lift U.S. booze ban, says Canada ‘could dismantle the U.S. if we wanted to’

Ford refuses to lift U.S. booze ban, says Canada ‘could dismantle the U.S. if we wanted to’

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has vowed not to lift the province’s ban on U.S. alcohol and urged Canada to take an aggressive approach to looming American tariffs, declaring that “we could dismantle the U.S. if we wanted to.”

h/t Mauser, Clink and Auntie Polly

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Playing defence didn’t protect Canada from Trump’s latest tariffs. It’s time to move into the offensive zone

Playing defence didn’t protect Canada from Trump’s latest tariffs. It’s time to move into the offensive zone

Donald Trump’s latest tariff tantrum, delivered the day after the World Cup finals, was a sucker punch to Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was seated with the President during the match.

The new measures, which were announced Monday, impose 50-per-cent duties on roughly US$20-billion worth of Canadian goods, from milk and cream to alcohol, hockey equipment and electrical machinery, and are set to take effect on Aug. 19. The administration cast them as retaliation for what it calls Canada’s unfair treatment of American dairy, alcohol and automakers. Tellingly, the list spares energy, potash and critical minerals – all things the U.S. urgently needs from us right now, along with goods already captured by the separate steel and auto tariffs.

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Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke

Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke

The Midwest and Northeast registered some of the worst air quality in the world last week as wildfire smoke shrouded cities from Minneapolis to New York in an apocalyptic haze. More than 100 million Americans were under air-quality alerts, with smoke even reaching Washington, D.C., by the weekend.

Most of the smoke came from Canada, where about 900 wildfires were burning by Friday. Over 100 were burning in northwestern Ontario alone. Fires are also raging in northern Minnesota and across the western United States, where another brutal fire season is underway. Nearly 80 large fires are uncontained nationwide, and more than 3.9 million acres have burned this year.

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China’s Long Arm Is Reaching into Canada, And Ottawa Isn’t Ready

China’s Long Arm Is Reaching into Canada, And Ottawa Isn’t Ready

OTTAWA — China’s new Ethnic Unity Law should not be viewed in isolation, nor should it be dismissed as inapplicable to foreign nationals or Canadians. It is the latest addition to an increasingly sophisticated legal architecture through which Beijing seeks to extend its political authority beyond its borders. Officially titled the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, the legislation was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March 2026 and entered into force on July 1, 2026.

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Ann Widdecombe ‘was bludgeoned 21 times in the head with hammer in attack by leftist Joshua Kerry

Ann Widdecombe ‘was bludgeoned 21 times in the head with hammer in attack by leftist Joshua Kerry

Ann Widdecombe was bludgeoned 21 times over the head with a hammer in a two-minute attack captured on camera, a court heard today.

Joshua Kerry, 28, is accused of entering the former Tory minister and Brexit Party MEP’s Dartmoor home through the open front door and murdering her as she ate lunch in her kitchen.

Kerry, who was in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, then rifled through her handbag, grabbed her wallet and fled after spending just 120 seconds inside the property, prosecutor Kashif Malik said.

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Trump Exhaustion Syndrome has us tuning out

Trump Exhaustion Syndrome has us tuning out

As Spain’s team was basking in its victory at the World Cup medal ceremony on Sunday, Donald Trump had to be nudged offstage by FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

Images of Trump getting the hook went viral, with plenty of cheers for anyone who dared giving this president a timeout. And it didn’t stop there. The Spanish team then went on to crop Trump from the official photo of its World Cup win.


Susan Delacourt is hangry.

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The United Nations Has Run Out of Alibis

The United Nations Has Run Out of Alibis

Institutions built to prevent atrocities eventually face the question of what they actually protect. For the United Nations, voting patterns, internal investigations and its own decisions this year no longer support the fiction of neutrality. An UNRWA school in Gaza sat above a Hamas tunnel shaft and three anti-tank positions, and its own principal was on the payroll of both institutions at once — a fact that American investigators, not the UN, brought to light.

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Was World Cup a success or failure for Toronto? We may never know

Was World Cup a success or failure for Toronto? We may never know

For the time being, the city prefers to discuss the chasing of dreams rather than the chasing of dollars.

With the World Cup coming to an end following Spain’s 1-0 win over Argentina on Sunday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow discussed the local portion of the tournament.

“The most important thing now is to make sure we build on that momentum, from the investments in soccer facilities and youth programming to the lasting benefits of our communities and local businesses,” Chow told reporters at a Monday news conference.


How much of a loss will tax payers be made to pay for?

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Welch: Melania Was Epstein Hooker, GOP Want ‘System…Rigged for White People’

Welch: Melania Was Epstein Hooker, GOP Want ‘System…Rigged for White People’

Far-left charlatans and I’ve Had It podcast co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan told their listeners and viewers on Monday that Republicans are a “cabal of submissive wives” collectively “incapable of critical thinking” because they “cling to money, and racism as their driving ethos” and shudder under their widespread closeted homosexuality.

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