Saanich police are investigating after a video of a senior punching a teen at a British Columbia Tim Hortons surfaced online.
Police said the incident was believed to have happened at a Saanich Tim Hortons in April but the video was posted on social media only recently, prompting an investigation. Saanich is a district municipality on the southern end of Vancouver Island.
FAFO
After five years behind protective hoarding, the 1894 statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on the front lawn of the legislature is being uncovered.
Workers have put a protective coating on the bronze figure gazing south down University Avenue along with a plaque acknowledging his controversial role in creating residential schools where thousands of Indigenous children died after being taken from their families.
The statue was covered after repeated acts of vandalism.
Speaking to reporters from the White House on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fired off on a reporter who asked if President Trump supports the First Amendment.
The question surrounded the topic of the upcoming military parade that will take place in Washington, D.C. this weekend.
Although the Carney government may have dispensed with the wildly unpopular consumer carbon tax, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin confirmed this week that they’re staying the course on an environmental policy that’s almost as controversial.
In the House of Commons on Monday, Dabrusin said there would be no changes to a Trudeau-era plan to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035.
In this interview for Pride month, a transwoman wearing a musty wig interviews the lesbian owner of a yarn store in Vermont who dabbles in singing. pic.twitter.com/IZUjMHt0uz
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 11, 2025
The number of regular force members grew by approximately 2,000 members from April 1 last year to March 31 this year when accounting for attrition, the department said. The CAF had 65,154 regular force members and 23,561 primary reserve members on April 30, and it anticipates reaching 71,500 regular force members and 30,000 primary reserve members by 2032.
… While intake has increased, the CAF has faced issues retaining the new members, according to a leaked military report obtained by CBC News and covered in May. The attrition rate of new members is double that of the rest of the force, with recruits expressing frustration about the lengthy wait prior to receiving training.
One the biggest complaints among departing recruits is the perceived misalignment of the organization’s focus on cultural change rather than on operational requirements, the report noted. It also said an office to focus on retention had been defunded.
The White House just posted this.
BRUTAL.
Democrats’ approval ratings are about to drop to single digits pic.twitter.com/8FjHTG4FuC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 11, 2025
After a day and a half of rioting in Los Angeles County, President Donald Trump activated the National Guard to protect federal officers and property. The riots were triggered by ICE’s attempts on Friday, June 6, to arrest a few dozen illegal aliens.
The president’s mobilization order, signed on Saturday, June 7, was clarifying and precise: “To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”
Can someone please explain to me how ON EARTH it possible for someone in LA to riot for 5 straight days?
How does one endlessly riot…
…and still hold down a job to feed their family?pic.twitter.com/7RNmWFXebR
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) June 11, 2025
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of seven American gun manufacturers that Mexico had charged with aiding illegal gun sales to drug cartels. In the aftermath, it has somehow escaped notice that the Obama administration did the same thing, with impunity.
On a visit to Mexico in April 2009, President Obama claimed that “more than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border. So, we have responsibilities as well.” The administration then set out to prove this claim in covert fashion.
Federal and provincial Conservatives are winning over more visible minority voters in the GTA, a new study has found.
According to researchers at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, visible minorities in the GTA, who make up more than half of the population, are increasingly backing Conservative candidates in federal and provincial elections. The study, out Wednesday, considers anyone, besides Indigenous people, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour as a visible minority, as defined by Statistics Canada.
The findings are based on federal and Ontario election results over the past two decades, including the two most recent national and provincial elections earlier this year.
Amid concerns that US President Donald J. Trump is backtracking on his pledge to confront Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, new evidence pointing to Iran’s clandestine attempts to develop nuclear weapons should persuade the Trump administration to make the Iran threat one of its top priorities.
The latest evidence that Tehran has spent the past few decades developing nuclear weapons has come in the form of a bombshell report published by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities.
The report on the cost of the F-35 from the auditor general is more about incompetence than anything else. It’s also a worrying sign given that Prime Minister Mark Carney just pledged billions in new spending for the Canadian Armed Forces.
The headline from the audit is that the original cost projection to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets was $19 billion and now it’s $27.7 billion, a 46% increase.
Diddy’s wildest sexual fantasy involved a twisted NBA roleplay – casting himself as Michael Jordan, his ex-girlfriend as Kobe Bryant and the male escort she regularly slept with as Shaquille O’Neal – the ex testified on day two of the fifth week in the disgraced rap mogul’s sex trafficking trial.
‘Jane’, who testified under a pseudonym, said the hip hop mogul’s obsession with ‘cuckold’ scenarios may have been a way to live out his bisexual fantasies without physically engaging with men – because he was ‘too ashamed’ to do so openly.
Jane described the ‘Freak Offs’ she attended during their relationship as filled with extravagant sexual roleplay where participants gave each other nicknames inspired by legendary basketball stars.
Sounds like he’ll like prison.
The number of Canadians returning from travel to the U.S. by land and air continues to decline, according to new data released by Statistics Canada.
The data showed that return trips made by Canadians in May dropped for the fifth consecutive month compared with last year, with trips north by Americans also dropping.
Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world, according to a new study.
Muslims now make up 25.6 per cent of the global population, while Christians make up 28.8 per cent, the report – which was released by the Pew Research Center on Monday – says.
But the growth of Christianity has not kept up with the global population increase, with the religion’s worldwide share slipping by 1.8 per cent.
