July 20, 1969. “Contact light, engine stop.” The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base on the Moon.
A few hours later, Neil Armstrong and I stepped foot on the Moon, with Michael Collins orbiting close-by.
An achievement resulting from years of… pic.twitter.com/VN4qCoHx0K— Dr. Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) July 20, 2025
h/t Mauser
Now Ottawa’s government union bosses are worried about services?
Really?
After the government rubber-stamped hundreds of millions in bonuses, added tens of thousands of bureaucrats, dished out pay raises and struggled to meet half of its performance targets, now union bosses are worried about services?
… On March 28, Callejas was arrested for battery after family said there was an altercation with her then-boyfriend. Family say Callejas maintains her innocence in the situation and said she was defending herself.
After posting bail, her family said Callejas was taken into ICE custody.
An ICE spokesperson said Callejas entered the United States on a non-immigrant visitor visa and violated the terms of her admission. ICE said she will “remain in custody pending completion of her immigration proceedings.”
The CBC makes this woman out to be a martyr.
As President Donald Trump has racked up a string of major policy wins in his six months, Democrats are stuck in a rut without a clear party leader, they admitted in interviews with the Daily Mail.
Though House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are technically the left’s top lawmakers, Democrats on Capitol Hill shared that there is still no consensus on who is the party’s head.
In the absence of a clear frontrunner to lead the party in 2028, Democrats are left to tout their current efforts resisting Trump.
Canada started building only slightly more homes in June than it did in May, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) said on Wednesday.
Compared to May, the annual rate of housing starts was largely flat with a 0.4 per cent increase, but it rose 14 per cent compared to this time last year.
The national numbers mask stark regional disparities, however.
After all foreigners were banned from a Swiss swimming pool in Porrentruy over violence, sexual harassment and constant disturbances, Swiss visitors to the pool and employees are generally expressing happiness with the move.
The ban, which came about after “French youths with a migration background” continuously caused problems at the pool and in pool bathrooms, including sexual harassment of young girls. The situation even sparked international headlines.
Male Youth Arrested in Homicide Investigation, Parkway Forest Drive and Sheppard Avenue East area, Victim: Shahnaz Pestonji, 71,
UPDATE: Judicial Authorization to Identify Young Person has expired,
Photograph and name can no longer be published/broadcast
Allegedly, the individual in this video is 14-year-old Kymani Wint, who is currently wanted for second-degree murder in connection to the fatal stabbing of 71-year-old Shahnaz Pestonji.
The victim was loading groceries into her vehicle in a parking lot on Parkway Forest Drive,… pic.twitter.com/m9O96MH1vQ
— Ron Chhinzer (@RealRonChhinzer) July 20, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly and NeoCon
Two British pensioners, imprisoned by the Taliban for more than five and a half months without charge, are in such perilous health that they could die in custody, a panel of United Nations experts has warned.
Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie 76, had been living in Afghanistan for 18 years, running training projects, when they were picked up on February 1 with no explanation. They have spent months locked up in Afghanistan’s most notorious prison then in an underground cell of the intelligence headquarters and Peter has been chained, shackled and hit over the head.
Darwin award nominees.
Submarines to prowl Canada’s coasts, surface-to-air missiles to protect its cities and billions of dollars for aging military-base infrastructure that in many cases dates back to the Second World War.
For years, the Canadian military has drawn up lists of what it needs to bolster its readiness and capabilities. Now, it may have the cash to change how Canada defends itself.
On July 17, 1996, 230 men, women, and children boarded TWA Flight 800 for Paris. Twelve minutes later, their lives were incinerated in midair. And for nearly three decades, the American government has done everything short of setting the ocean on fire to bury the truth.
OCHOPEE, Fla. — One worked in a celebrated restaurant in Miami’s Design District.
Another is an aspiring DJ.
An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S.
All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a vast compound of tents and trailers built to hold up to 3,000 migrants deep in the Florida Everglades.
Someone brought a cell phone into Alligator Alcatraz and leaked out photos!
pic.twitter.com/wy0CmtoxVZ— James Pleickhardt (@JamesPleickhar2) July 19, 2025
h/t Canucklehead
Dr Talat Amer, a surgeon at Sweida National Hospital in southern Syria, worked tirelessly for three days as bombs fell and the building came under siege from government and militia forces.
On the fourth day of fighting in the Druze-majority city, Dr Amer was shot in the head as he tried to return to work.
“He was dressed in scrubs and they executed him. Then they called his wife on his phone and bragged about it,” Sami, a surgeon at the hospital, told The Telegraph. Witnesses reported it was regime forces wearing Islamic State badges on their military fatigues.
Next month’s byelection in Alberta’s Battle River-Crowfoot will break the record for the most candidates on a federal ballot in Canadian history.
As of Friday, 108 candidates — mostly associated with a group of electoral reform advocates known as the Longest Ballot Committee — have registered to run for the seat.
Seems legit.
Anti‑immigration protests have taken place in dozens of towns and cities across Poland.
Most demonstrations attracted several hundred people or fewer on Saturday – but police estimated that about 3,000 took part in the largest rally in the southern city of Katowice.
The protests were organised by far-right political group Konfederacja, and another nationalist organisation.
Last week, a Texas high school English teacher was fired after telling her class “don’t judge people for wanting to have sex with five-year-olds.” She urged students to swap the ugly word “pedophile” for “minor attracted person” (MAP.) Parents protested, but anyone following campus debates knew the script.
