A violent transnational gang behind an extortion crisis, alleged murder-for-hire plots, and violence against Canada’s Sikh community is now the target of the FBI.
Members of the Bishnoi gang were among the 37 alleged criminals charged on July 7 in a multi-year investigation into three India-based crime gangs in what law enforcement are calling ‘Operation Hard Ball’.
That includes new charges against their jailed leader, Lawrence Bishnoi.
A Biddeford, Maine, resident is reportedly dead after he weaponized his car against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent(s), causing at least one to shoot in self-defense.
🚨 BREAKING: Anti-ICE rioters are STORMING SEN. SUSAN COLLINS' OFFICE in Maine after an ICE agent-involved shooting, when a driver tried ramming them to death
They are trying to BREAK IN to Collins' office
MAKE MASS ARRESTS
It's simple: don't run over an ICE agent and you… pic.twitter.com/mYrIHFgHJ0
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 13, 2026
h/t patthedog
Alberta is home to roughly 12 per cent of Canada’s population, but it accounted for close to 80 per cent of all the jobs the national economy created in the past year, according to Statistics Canada.
Alberta added nearly 80,000 jobs in the past 12 months, while all of Canada added 99,000, the national agency said in its latest jobs report.
Alberta’s total looms large partly because it kept hiring while some of the country’s biggest provinces shed workers.
All this talk coming from Hollywood against AI is either hypocrisy, ignorance, or self-interest. AI is coming. Nothing will stop it. And that’s a good thing.
As the New York Post points out, A-level names such as Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Caine, Matthew McConaughey, Darren Aronofsky, and Doug Liman have already jumped on board. And while they pay lip service to the trade unions, claiming no human job will ever be replaced with AI, everyone knows that’s total BS.
VANCOUVER — At least one victim of Saturday’s mass shooting at Toronto’s Salsa on St. Clair festival has been identified online by members of the public, while Toronto Police Service has yet to release any description of the suspect or suspects more than 36 hours later, despite the gunfire erupting amidst a crown of an estimated 13,000 people.
(Incognito)
Update: Police ID victims in deadly Salsa on St. Clair shooting
CBC will have the police update.
Two teenagers were arrested Sunday in connection with a “targeted mass shooting” that killed five members of the same family and wounded two others in East St Louis, Illinois, according to state police.
The 15- and 16-year-old suspects were taken into custody at Holten State Park, a recreation area east of the city, Illinois state police director Brendan Kelly said at a Sunday news conference – but they had not immediately been formally charged with a crime.
“These alleged acts of horrific violence, taking this number of lives, here in this community, it’s terrible, it’s evil, but it will not keep this city down,” Kelly said.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney wants Canada to be a leader in the artificial intelligence revolution. NDP Leader Avi Lewis is betting Canadians want to pump the brakes.
From the Hamilton Harbour to rural Saskatchewan, some communities are pushing back against proposals for massive data centres meant to power the AI boom with billions of dollars in investment despite fears about energy use, water consumption and who ultimately stands to benefit.
They say nothing much happens in North America on summer weekens. [Other than mass shootings at ethnic festivals and street parties. Ed.] This weekend, however, was different.
On Saturday evening, United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died suddenly at the age of 71 after experiencing cardiac arrest at his Washington DC home. RIP, Senator.
The FBI is “assisting local authorities” with their investigation. DC’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s preliminary finding determined the cause of death to be an aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
h/t Hermes and JB
On a mild though grey winter’s day just before Christmas, citizens of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia voted 95.7% in favour of becoming independent. Six months later, after negotiations regarding a looser “confederal” arrangement with their Serbian overlords in Belgrade broke down, the Slovenian Parliament issued a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI).
The posthumous pardoning of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK in 1955, shows how far we have come from an era when defending yourself against domestic abuse could result in a death sentence.
The conditional pardon for the nightclub hostess from Rhyl in Denbighshire does not erase her conviction for murdering her lover, David Blakely. But it does acknowledge that Blakely subjected her to sustained physical and emotional torment before she killed him.
Savings have deteriorated for a majority of Canadians, particularly the bottom 80 per cent of Canadian households, as spending significantly outpace income growth, according to research by Boston Consulting Group.
Consumer spending is up, but that growth isn’t coming from income for those outside the top 20 per cent earners. The report said that for the lowest 20 per cent of earners, spending jumped 27 per cent over the past five years, while disposable income just went up three per cent.
A German court has sentenced a man and a woman to lengthy prison sentences for enslaving and abusing two Yazidi girls under the so-called “Islamic State” group in Iraq.
The Iraqi couple were convicted of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. They were also convicted of sexually abusing children and aiding and abetting the listed offenses.
The man was sentenced to life in prison, while his former partner was given a juvenile sentence of nine and a half years.
A Saskatoon man is facing a two-year sentence and a $10,000 fine for his role in an immigration scheme that saw records falsified and employment records misrepresented.
Balvir Singh received his sentence on July 8 after pleading guilty to one count of counselling immigration misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) back in April.
The conditional sentence also includes 40 hours of community service.
The article doesn’t mention anything about being whipped and deported.
The US will take control of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran and be reimbursed for doing so, Donald Trump has said.
The president claimed the US would become the “guardian angel” of the waterway, a major maritime chokepoint for global energy trade that has effectively been closed by the conflict in the Middle East.
“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” Mr Trump told Fox News on Monday. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait. And we should be reimbursed for that.”
Canada’s greatest energy problem is not that we produce too little oil. It is that we have spent more than a decade making it increasingly difficult to sell it. Ottawa’s decision to support, in principle, a new pipeline to Canada’s Pacific coast is encouraging, but approval alone will not restore investor confidence. Trust, once lost, must be earned back. For years, governments layered Canada’s energy sector with carbon taxes, increasingly complex regulations, emissions caps, tanker restrictions and political uncertainty. Investors responded exactly as rational investors should. They invested elsewhere.
