The 2025 Glastonbury festival came to a close on Sunday, and tired bodies with sore heads will have packed their tents and trudged home knowing that they have to wait two years until the next festival.
Next year the festival will take a fallow year — the music festival takes a break every five years to give the land of Worthy Farm time to rest, and to give the cows some extended peace and quiet.
A$50-million program the federal government created to help Canadians seriously injured by COVID-19 vaccines is in disarray, current and former staffers say.
The Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP), created during the pandemic, was designed to compensate people who have been seriously and permanently injured by any Health Canada-authorized vaccine administered in Canada on or after Dec. 8, 2020.
Kathy Griffin looked nearly unrecognizable as she stepped out in Los Angeles this week amid backlash over her recent anti-Trump TikTok post.
The comedian, 64, was spotted enjoying a walk with a male friend near her $8.8million Malibu home on Tuesday, July 1.
Griffin was noticeably makeup-free and her flaming red hair looked wild as it blew around in the breeze.
Fresh from her attempt to invade Gaza by boat and getting deported by the Israeli Defence Forces for her efforts last month, Swedish political activist Greta Thunberg showed up in Budapest on June 26 to back the global LGBT intifada.
“Today I joined thousands of people on the streets of Budapest, Hungary, where Orbán, in a desperate attempt, banned the Pride march,” she announced on Instagram. “It’s another fascist attack on human rights. Pride is both a protest but also a celebration of love and who we are. Fascists will never be able to ban love.” If she’d made it to Gaza, she would have found out otherwise.
To more than a few Canadians, he was as irritating as a neighbour’s leaf-blower, or a yapping dog next door, or a crying baby across the aisle in a plane, or a pneumatic drill on local sidewalks.
His voice hit the ear like an assault, a whining, scolding, hyperpartisan blast of relentless grievance.
As such, the sound of silence of late from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is one of the summer’s blessings.
h/t Mauser
Around the middle of the last century Marx — Groucho, not Karl — declined to join the Friars Club in Hollywood. His classic line: I refuse to join a club that accepts people like me as members. Two recent appointments to the Order of Canada, Theresa Tam and Bonnie Henry, extend the appropriateness of Marx’s remark to the Order of Canada.
Let us start at the top, with the motto of the Order: Desiderantes Meliorem Patriam, ‘They desire a better fatherland (or country.)’
It originally appeared in St. Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews, Ch. 11:16.
These are just handed out to friends and family it seems. Crackerjack box distribution would be more fair.
Both suspects are described as young black males, who were wielding a firearm. https://t.co/gGMxpkLrqI
— 905HUB (@905hub_) July 4, 2025
The new CIA assessment released this week is nothing short of a bombshell—a long-overdue confirmation of what conservative media has been saying for years: The Obama administration, with the eager help of its top intelligence brass, orchestrated an unprecedented operation to cripple Donald Trump’s presidency before it even began. This isn’t some fevered speculation or partisan rumor.
The CIA’s own review lays out, in damning detail, how former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey took “unusual” and direct control over the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that became the cornerstone of the Russia collusion hoax.
Anyone who has visited Canada or Australia in recent years might have noticed an interesting new tradition. This is the trend for issuing a ‘land acknowledgement’ at the start of any public event. Before discussion gets under way, some bureaucrat or other will get up and note that we are all fortunate enough to be on the land of X, and then garble the name of some not-especially-ancient tribe. The moment gives everyone a feeling of deep meaning and naturally achieves nothing.
Even our King indulged in some of this in May when he opened the latest session of the Canadian parliament. Before getting down to the meat of his speech, Charles said: ‘I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people.’ You would have thought that by dint of his being King and addressing a parliament the land had been very much ceded.
This person is not happy about the Big Beautiful Bill. This is going to directly affect Him/Hole. pic.twitter.com/lOThVVgwGf
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 3, 2025
In April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the commercial distribution of pigs genetically edited with CRISPR technology to resist porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), a costly and widespread disease in pork production. These pigs are expected to enter the American market in 2026. Yet Canadian consumers could start seeing gene-edited pork products in stores — unlabelled and unannounced — as early as next year.
Lgbtq pride event had a “debaptism” booth where people were “debaptized” with a blowdryer pic.twitter.com/6NXBnK5szl
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 3, 2025
It’s humiliating for them.
You may have seen the news Wednesday that President Trump has settled what was a $20 billion lawsuit with the parent company of CBS News over its edit of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris for much less. From CBS’s own reporting of the settlement …
Republicans on Thursday notched the first major legislative victory of President Donald Trump’s second term, a mammoth tax and immigration agenda the GOP hopes will reshape the U.S. economy and unwind many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments.
The House, in a 218 to 214 vote, passed Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a $3.4 trillion measure to extend tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implement new campaign promises — such as eliminating income taxes on tips and overtime wages — while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and defense. It raises the country’s borrowing cap by $5 trillion, staving off a debt default that the Treasury was weeks away from breaching.
The recent riots in Los Angeles, sparked by President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, could be a harbinger to a new era of ethnic conflict not only in the U.S. but throughout the West, including Canada.
Many leading countries for immigrants, notably in the Middle East, may have higher percentages of international migrants, but many are only there temporarily. But in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. — where the foreign born represent between 15 and 30 per cent of the total population — most come to stay, with sometimes problematic results.
