A trucker accused of smuggling $13 million in cocaine into Canada has had his charges thrown out after a Windsor judge found he’d been unlawfully strip searched by border agents in a “humiliating and degrading” manner that left him completely naked.
Ohio Senator calls for sanctions on Canada over wildfire smoke
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is taking action to impose U.S. sanctions on Canada in light of the wildfire smoke that has enveloped the Midwest and East Coast this week.
“I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity,” Moreno posted on X.
I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity. https://t.co/wFCVwrPdGr
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) July 16, 2026
Earplugs may come in Handy…
Dharla, a CBSA detector dog, sniffs out almost 38 kg of undeclared meat at Toronto Pearson
Detector dog Dharla recently intercepted 37.8 kilograms of undeclared food and animal products at Toronto Pearson International Airport, says Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
The goods, which a CBSA spokesperson said include undeclared chicken, guinea fowl, goat, cowhide, and powdered milk, came from a traveller who arrived at the airport on June 19 from Nigeria.
#DetectorDog Dharla intercepted over 37 kg of undeclared food and animal products from a traveller arriving at #YYZ from Nigeria. The items were seized and the traveller was fined $1,300. Learn more : https://t.co/QNMCDoRbz5 pic.twitter.com/iliQckXxOi
— Canada Border Services Agency (@CanBorder) July 16, 2026
Good Doggie
CNBC Proves Why Nobody Cares About Corporate Media Anymore
Lyrah and Madelynn did a good job on this topic in the latest edition of the Spectator P.M. podcast, but I did want to pass along a take on that very large, steaming turd of a “study” laid down by CNBC, which claimed that Tennessee and Texas are the two worst states in America to live.
The study itself is a big, fat nothing. It claims that Tennessee is the worst state in America to live, followed by Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, and Georgia to round out the bottom five.
Ontario tourism minister Stan Cho resigns over hotel expenses scandal
Tourism, Culture and Gaming Minister Stan Cho has resigned from cabinet after a week of scandal over his spending on hotels in Toronto, despite living six kilometres from Queen’s Park.
Global News was first to report that Cho, whose home is seven subway stops from the legislature, had billed more than $16,000 to the taxpayer for hotel stays downtown over the past three years.
Nowak killer’s mother jailed for removing murder weapon
The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer has been jailed for three years after removing her son’s murder weapon from the scene.
Vickrum Digwa stabbed the university student with a large knife in the street in Southampton then handed the 8in blade to Kiran Kaur, 53, his mother.
The killing prompted accusations of two-tier policing after it emerged that officers had believed Digwa’s claims that he had been the victim of racist abuse.
Canada needs to stand against Marco Rubio’s latest crusade — even if it costs us say two windbag Liberals
This week, the world marks International Justice Day and the 28th anniversary of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court. All these years later, it remains among the most consequential efforts ever made to hold war criminals accountable. Now Washington has announced its intention to “dismantle the ICC brick by brick, if necessary.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a campaign explicitly designed — as he put it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed — to “systematically disable” the court, pressuring nations to withdraw their support, cut off funding and abandon an institution the United States never joined. Countries that rely on American security guarantees, Rubio has made clear, should take the hint and fall in line.
Whatever the founding intention the ICC is now just a an extreme left bully pulpit.
Homan Is Right: Dems Fuel the Bloodshed, Not ICE
Border czar Tom Homan rejected the disgusting claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is to blame for deadly violence surrounding enforcement operations. Rather, illegal alien criminals, along with the Democrat rioters and politicians who support them, are the problem.
STOKING THE FLAMES OF VIOLENCE
Anti-ICE politicians have provoked a 1300% increase in assaults against @ICEgov law enforcement officers. STOP THE DANGEROUS RHETORIC.
Despite these smears, ICE will continue to get criminals off our streets. pic.twitter.com/amnLe8LsSx
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 16, 2026
Minister of Public Safety fights to keep accused murderer and alleged Bishnoi gangster in custody
Lawyers for Canada’s Minister of Public Safety will be in Federal Court Friday trying to keep an alleged Bishnoi gang member who faces a murder charge in India in custody while he fights the government’s efforts to deport him.
According to documents obtained by CBC News, FBI reports claim gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi personally tasked Karamveer Singh with “the responsibility to care for his brother Anmol” in California before Singh fled to Canada in 2025 after being denied immigration status in the United States.
I bet he walks.
Iran accuses US of hitting civilian infrastructure
Iran has accused the US of hitting civilian infrastructure in the latest wave of air strikes since peace talks collapsed.
State media and provincial authorities said bridges, a train station and an airport were hit. BBC Verify has confirmed an attack on a bridge in Hormozgan province.
US Central Command (Centcom) has not given a list of targets, but said the attacks were intended to “further degrade Iranian military capabilities”.
🚨 JUST IN: Iran is REELING after President Trump ordered CENTCOM to begin targeting infrastructure targets, causing power outages and destruction of bridges
"The war planners [are] bombing ROADS AND BRIDGES around Bandar Abbas!" 🔥
The IRGC is getting CUT OFF from key supply… pic.twitter.com/KWlY12wdso
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 17, 2026
Canada joining international program to build next generation of fighter jets
Defence Minister David McGuinty is expected to announce next week in the United Kingdom that Canada will play a role in an international program to build the next generation of stealth fighter jets, CBC News has learned.
Canada has reached a deal to join the Global Combat Air Program as an “observer,” Canadian government sources said.
The U.K., Japan and Italy are all partners in the multibillion-dollar program to develop and build the sixth-generation fighter jet by 2035.
Lots of money to fall into the wallets of the connected.
Britons banned from calling Americans ‘Yanks’ in ‘racial harassment’ court ruling
More than five million Britons have been banned from referring to Americans as “Yanks” after a Scottish court ruled the term mounts to racial harassment.
The ruling comes following a dispute between American Pizza Express worker Raymond Joseph and his colleague Michael Tortolano at a branch of the restaurant in Aberdeen.
A Yank In The R.A.F (1941) Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton
Pretty sure you can see strings holding up the planes in a couple of segments.
h/t Hermes
Olivia Chow’s deal for WNBA team: $1 a year for $10 million of land
A committee led by Mayor Olivia Chow is likely to sign off on a 40-year lease for Toronto’s WNBA team, which would pay $1 a year for a parcel of land the city may value at $10 million – or more.
A report, prepared for Chow’s powerful executive committee by the heads of City Hall’s parks and recreation division and its corporate real estate management arm, recommends the Toronto Tempo be given a city-owned surface parking lot at 701 Fleet St.– located northeast of Strachan Ave. and Lake Shore Blvd. W. – to turn into a practice facility.
So the city is giving a 40 year sweetheart lease to a league that won’t last 5 years (That’s the upside) and tax payers lose 500K a year in parking fees in exchange for 800K in operating expenses.
Chow must go she is a stooge.
Germany’s Railways Under Attack as Sabotage Cases Soar
Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway operator, appears to be facing a growing sabotage problem.
According to a leaked internal report, the company recorded around 2,200 cases of sabotage targeting railway infrastructure during the first six months of 2026, a 7% increase compared with the same period last year.
The incidents include arson, vandalism, and theft that causes significant damage to railway infrastructure and disrupts train services, costing taxpayers increasing amounts to repair each year.
Senior RCMP officer’s ‘no evidence’ comment about India seems to contradict past statements
Perhaps the most surprising part of the announcement of the joint Operation Hard Ball last week was how much the RCMP’s description of the actors involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist differed from what it said only a short while ago.
“I firmly state that nothing has come out today to link the Indian government” to the operation, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Lisa Moreland told CBC’s Power & Politics.
“There’s no evidence to suggest through this organized crime investigation and the charges and the indictment laid forward that Indian officials were charged or involved