An escalating controversy over British law enforcement saw the Trump administration’s state department attack ‘two-tier policing’ as it sent condolences to the family of murder victim Henry Nowak and “the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.”
University of Toronto law professor Peter Biro has resigned his fellowship from Massey College after he says the institution wanted an “advisory committee” to vet an antisemitism conference he was organizing.
“A good portion of Canadian society is utterly oblivious to the fact that our current age represents the next great transmutation of jew-hatred in human history,” Biro wrote in his resignation letter dated May 31. “That only underscores the critical importance of this conference.”
A judge in Lonoke County, Arkansas, on Thursday dismissed second-degree murder charges against Army veteran Aaron Spencer, who was facing charges for fatally shooting Michael Fosler, who allegedly sexually abused and kidnapped his minor daughter.
Departing Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith is getting a send-off from federal politics as his future remains unclear following a recent loss in the provincial party’s Scarborough Southwest nomination race.
Supporters are hosting a party to celebrate his 11 years of service in the House of Commons — including a brief stint as housing minister — at an East York beer hall June 25.
The City of Boise, Idaho, posted a video featuring "June," a male librarian pretending to be a woman, to announce a "Pride resource fair" that's offering "affirming services" and LGBTQ merch.
Your tax dollars are being used to fund this shit.
Cc @GovernorLittle pic.twitter.com/kk2Z8WTnot
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 5, 2026
Let’s just get into this, quickly, before something else horrible happens across the pond and this column goes out of date.
1. The Henry Nowak Case
It all happened in December of last year, and it’s taken seven months for this to finally come to a head with the release of the bodycam video of Henry Nowak, 18, a white British teenager who was stabbed to death by a Sikh wielding a ceremonial knife, bleeding out while in handcuffs, and telling police he couldn’t breathe before passing out.
The hideous, dystopian-looking Obama Library would not look out of place in a zombie movie. pic.twitter.com/YHcgyvPk3n
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 5, 2026
This week, while spring cleaning, I opened a drawer and found an old copy of the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
Not an ordinary issue, but the edition published one week after the magazine was targeted by a violent terrorist attack, in which 12 people were murdered and 11 others were injured. The cover defiantly showed a tearful Muhammad holding a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie).
A man of sturdy temperament, silver tongue, and swarthy countenance, Richard Francis Burton—born in Torquay in 1821—was better equipped than most Englishmen for undercover travel in Arabia. Laid low for a time in Karachi in 1848 by trouble with his eyesight, Burton began shaping a plan for a feat never yet achieved: to enter Mecca not merely as a European infidel but as a pilgrim indistinguishable from the rest.
Against the perils of the journey, and the risk of execution if unmasked, Burton could set his talent for disguise and his gift for languages. An Arabist since his Oxford days, he now spoke Hindustani, Gujarati, Marathi, Persian, Sindhi, and more. He was also drawn to Islam and eager to study it more deeply. “The more he thought of it,” writes his biographer, Mary S. Lovell, “the more the notion took shape as a credible project.”
Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw has laid down the law to anybody thinking about disrupting Sunday’s Walk with Israel.
“You are going to see a very substantial police presence and police response,” the chief told Newstalk 1010’s John Moore on Friday morning just hours before his Deputy Chief Frank Barredo was set to hold a briefing about the plan.
Performative hindsight?
In the seemingly endless to and fro over the Trump administration’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with Tehran, the one red line upon which there can be no hint of compromise is US President Donald J. Trump’s insistence that the ayatollahs will never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
While speculation continues to mount that a deal to end the three-month conflict between Iran and the US is in the offing, it is clear that Iran is still resisting demands that it surrender the estimated 970 pounds of enriched uranium — whose main utility is for the production of nuclear warheads.
RCMP say a 36-year-old officer from Quebec is facing charges after allegedly taking part in organizing the entry of a family member into Canada in September 2024 through an unguarded path.
The federal police force says Aaron Baringue, from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., has been charged with breach of trust and obstruction and is scheduled to appear in court on July 20.
RCMP Cst. Marie-Pierre Guertin says Baringue allegedly drove to the United States while off duty to pick up the family member.
Late on Thursday, the New York Times came out with a story by Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer that featured GOP operative Lyndsey Fifield making accusations against progressive darling and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, including how “she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.” However, on Friday, Fifield torched The Times in a series of X posts for what was not in the story, including more evidence for her accusations that she was “set up” because The Times did not include other women who were going to accuse Platner of sexual assault despite telling Fifield they were going to.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said his negotiating team made “some progress” during trade talks in Washington this week, but there’s “lots more to do” to land an overall agreement.
Carney’s comments on Thursday came as Canada-U.S. Trade minister Dominic LeBlanc and the country’s chief trade negotiator, Janice Charette, briefed a special advisory council for more than two hours about their meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Flavio Volpe, who sits on the advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, described the briefing as “very candid” and said the details suggest conversations are moving in the right direction.
I just do not believe a words he says.
What’s the emptiest place on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ this week? It appears to be the election counting offices in California where navel-gazing vote counters are taking their sweet time to tell Californians if their vote for change has been diluted by Tom Steyer and Karen Bass ballot harvesters and vote “cure” experts. We have an update.
