A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

A small brush fire and power outage in British Columbia started on Wednesday not with lightning or a careless camper, but with an airborne fish, according to fire officials.

With the help from nearby ranchers and employees from the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, a Canadian electric utility company, firefighters were able to contain and extinguish the blaze, Ashcroft Fire Rescue said on Facebook.

Then came the investigation. It wasn’t faulty equipment, according to fire officials. It was a fish.

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Nolte: Bitter Jon Stewart Ridicules Jay Leno, ‘Explains’ Gutfeld’s Success

 

Former comedian Jon Stewart used his podcast (does this guy ever shut up?) to ridicule Jay Leno for suggesting Late Night comedians try to entertain their audience rather than lecture one half while alienating the other. He also thinks he understands why Greg Gutfeld is humiliating far-left Late Night hosts Stephen Coltard, Jimmy Kimmtard, and Jimmy Falltard in the ratings.

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Daniel Manandhar: I’m 17. I shouldn’t be allowed to vote

On Jul. 17, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that his government would allow 16-year-olds to vote in the United Kingdom’s next general election.

Spurred on by the decision of the British government, Canadian activists seek the same outcome here. They wish to sell the public on the idea that our electoral system is unjust because 16-year-olds cannot vote.

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Spoon Amnesty To Follow …

Dozens of police stations amongst 45 drop-off points in Victoria to dispose soon-to-be illegal machetes amid spike in knife crime

Dozens of police stations in Victoria will become drop-off points for machete-wielding owners as the state becomes the first to implement a ban on the weapons.

Locations of the drop-off points have been revealed ahead of a three-month amnesty to dispose of the soon-to-be illegal weapons, which from September 1 will be criminalised in Victoria, resulting in jail terms or fines of up to $47,00.

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NYT Op-Ed: Take Organs From Coma Patients

A New York Times op-ed advocates for taking organs from people who are in comas to improve transplant rates.

In a July 30, 2025, op-ed, the authors say that we should broaden the definition of death “to include irreversibly comatose patients on life support. Using this definition, these patients would be legally dead regardless of whether a machine restored the beating of their heart.”

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‘GO TO HELL’: Vulgar flyers raise unholy terror about new shelter

Critics of a new homeless shelter on Adelaide St. are being told to pluck out their “f—— eyes” in a series of flyers loaded with profanity and religious themes.

“Don’t want to see homeless people? House them, you d— goon,” one flyer says, above smaller script that reads: “God says lazy-a– nimbies go to hell. Read Matthew 25:44-46.”

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Parents accused of attempting to murder daughter outside American school in ‘honor killing’ ruled “not guilty”

A Washington couple accused of trying to strangle their teenage daughter in an alleged ‘honor killing’ outside a suburban high school have both been found not guilty of attempted murder.

Ihsan and Zahraa Ali stood trial for the shocking broad-daylight attack last fall outside Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington State where prosecutors said the pair tried to kill their 17-year-old daughter after she refused an arranged marriage.

After three days of deliberations, jurors convicted Ihsan Ali of assault and unlawful imprisonment.

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Transgender serial sex offender gets indefinite sentence after TMU attack. Judge ‘alarmed’ by transfer to female jail

A Toronto judge has designated a repeat sex offender as dangerous and handed down an indefinite prison sentence — while expressing concern that the prisoner, who identifies as transgender, was granted a transfer to a women’s detention facility.

In a sentencing decision released last week, Ontario Court Justice Brock Jones said he was “alarmed” to learn that Charles Waddling-Leeson had been moved to a provincial women’s detention facility after starting a gender transition from male to female while in custody.

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Auschwitz museum orders visiting Israeli soldiers to remove flags

A delegation of Israeli soldiers visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum have been ordered to remove national flags during an annual ceremony.

In what is believed to be the first time such an order has occurred at the event, the “humiliating” incident was blamed on “antisemitism and an attempt to reshape the historical narrative” by a member of the delegation.

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