Britain’s political class has been mistaking the signal for noise

Britain’s political class has been mistaking the signal for noise

Britain is about to have its seventh prime minister in 10 years.

Since David Cameron resigned after the 2016 referendum, Britain has cycled through Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, and soon another prime minister. Yet British voters directly elected only three governments during that period. Most of the turnover occurred inside Westminster as governing parties replaced their own leaders.

That distinction matters.

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Old emission plan would have been ‘opportunity’ to ‘pull Canada apart’: Carney

Old emission plan would have been ‘opportunity’ to ‘pull Canada apart’: Carney

OTTAWA – As Prime Minister Mark Carney attempts to make Canada an energy superpower, he is conceding for the first time that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions will be “higher in the next few years” than projected under the previous government’s plan. The admission came in his second “Forward Guidance” video address to Canadians released on Tuesday.

Everything he says is a lie.

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Stade shooting an extended family tragedy

Stade shooting an extended family tragedy

A shooting in the northern German city of Stade left several people dead on Monday, according to local police.

Police initially reported a death toll of five adults, but later on Monday said it has risen to six. Five people died at the scene, while the sixth died in the hospital due to injuries sustained during the shooting, police said in a statement.

… The suspect is a 45-year-old German with Turkish roots, authorities said.


So was this I imagine… Murder-suicide leaves 2 boys and their father dead, Ottawa police say

The MSM will not release the name of the perp, rhymes with Doe.

h/t HallsofMacadamia

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Federal government under pressure to justify billions spent on migrant hotel program

Federal government under pressure to justify billions spent on migrant hotel program

CALGARY — The federal government is preparing to defend billions of dollars in spending on housing and hotel accommodations for illegal immigrants and asylum claimants amid growing media scrutiny and opposition criticism, according to internal documents obtained through Access to Information legislation.

As first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, officials at the Department of Immigration acknowledged concerns over public attention focused on the cost of shelter programs and whether taxpayer-funded supports are producing measurable results.

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With little help, Venezuelans try to rescue themselves: ‘We have only each other’

With little help, Venezuelans try to rescue themselves: ‘We have only each other’

When the ground shook in Venezuela, Alejandro Palombizio was home in Los Palos Grandes, a wealthy Caracas neighborhood. He heard a jarring noise, looked out, and watched the twin towers of an apartment complex fold into a cloud of dust.

The 29-year-old carried an elderly neighbor down the stairs, ran back up to get medicine for another and loaned his phone to people trying to reach family. He stayed at it for most of the next 72 hours. “These were my neighbors,” he said. “People I saw every day. I have to be here.”

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Palestinian exhibit at human rights museum ‘should be rectified’: federal heritage minister

Palestinian exhibit at human rights museum ‘should be rectified’: federal heritage minister

Heritage Minister Marc Miller said Monday the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has erred in how it curated an exhibit about displaced Palestinians.

The federal cabinet minister said in an interview with The Canadian Press on Monday that the museum should change how it portrays the current conflict between Israel and Palestinians and update the museum’s oversight.

Spoken like a true weasel.

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Heavy security deployed in South Africa ahead of anti-migrant protests

Heavy security deployed in South Africa ahead of anti-migrant protests

Police officers have been deployed across South Africa because of fears that anti-immigration protests could turn violent as President Cyril Ramaphosa urged those planning to take part to do so without “intimidation, threats or ultimatums”.

The planned protests mark an unofficial deadline set by campaigners for all undocumented foreigner to leave the country.

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U.S. declaration to exit USMCA to start a decade-long countdown for the pact

U.S. declaration to exit USMCA to start a decade-long countdown for the pact

WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to formally declare on Wednesday that it will not extend the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade, starting a decade-long clock to wind down the 32-year-old North American free trade zone as the three ‌countries haggle over proposed changes.

That declaration will kick off a six-year review session, part of a “sunset clause” negotiated by President Donald Trump’s first ‌administration. However, it will do little to alter contentious negotiations over the pact’s future, including sweeping demands to boost U.S. and regional content in North American automotive production and trade protections to block ​Chinese goods from benefiting from USMCA.

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Monaco parcel bomb blast severely wounds Ukrainian oligarch

Monaco parcel bomb blast severely wounds Ukrainian oligarch

A parcel bomb blast wounded a Ukrainian oligarch and two others in Monaco on Monday in an unprecedented act that has rocked the super-safe principality.

A couple and a teenager were wounded in the explosion at about 9pm on Monday in a residential building on a street along the border with France.

A source close to the investigation who asked not to be named told AFP that one of those wounded was the Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev.


More news from Ukraine!

h/t XC

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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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