Honoured to host Premiers, Ministers, Senators and MPs in my backyard for a BBQ last night to celebrate what we have accomplished on free trade in Canada and to build momentum to get the job done. It's wonderful to work together on free trade, labour mobility, and building major… pic.twitter.com/xoK6julFok
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) July 5, 2025
h/t Mauser
The death toll in the devastating Guadalupe River flash flood in Texas has risen to 51 — including 28 adults and 15 children in Kerr County, officials said in a grim Saturday night update.
At least five of the dead — Renee Smajstrla, 8; Sarah Marsh, 8; Janie Hunt, 9; and Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8 — were attending Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls where 22 other campers were still unaccounted for.
Family members took to social media to post the heartbreaking news.
Good morning. Please keep Texas in your prayers—especially the flood victims, the missing, their families, and the first responders searching for them.
Tragedy in Texas: Flash floods along the Guadalupe River have taken 13 lives. 23 young Christian girls from Camp Mystic are… pic.twitter.com/nH5QJz9Mc6
— ꜱǫʏʟᴀʀᴋ (@Kralyqs) July 5, 2025
Parrots ate the pizza ordered at home with the view. pic.twitter.com/QRc2n7cXwx
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) October 9, 2024
h/t Mauser
Palestinian students say visa delays have stranded them despite admission to Canadian schools
With two of their peers killed last year, more than 70 Palestinian students are raising the alarm over stalled immigration to Canada despite admissions and scholarships at universities across the country, stranding them in Gaza or nearby Egypt and Jordan as they wait out a war.
“The situation in Gaza is getting hard day by day, they are targeting many crowded and random places,” said Meera, an industrial engineering student who has been accepted to the University of Regina on scholarships to pursue a master’s degree, but is stuck waiting in Gaza City, where she’s unable to submit a completed visa application to the federal Immigration Department.
“Like so many other students, I become trapped with my dreams,” she told CBC News in an interview.
We have more than our share send them to North Korea.
On June 10th, President Macron spoke out against “the tyranny of news” (faits divers) and said that the French were being “brainwashed” about murders that hit the headlines and shocked French public opinion in recent months. In line with this observation, several left-wing MPs proposed an amendment to media regulations aimed at “conducting an editorial review of the place of news items in the coverage of current events” in the public media. Behind this move lies an attempt to stifle media coverage of these cases—which are in fact linked to immigration.
As a confessed political junkie — and one who can still read without needing to be told what to think — I watched, slack-jawed, as the U.S. Congress wrestled the leviathan known as the One Big Beautiful Bill. A title more American than apple pie, and certainly more honest than most government press releases.
The practical problem Prime Minister Mark Carney faces in negotiating a new trade and security deal with President Donald Trump is that Canada is firing blanks with its retaliatory tariffs against the U.S.
The issue, as Carney noted in explaining why “dollar-for-dollar” tariffs against the U.S. won’t work — after he initially supported them while running for the Liberal leadership — is that the U.S. economy is 10 times the size of Canada’s.
More than his good looks, charm and great social-media game, the biggest reason that Zohran Mamdani may become New York’s next mayor grows from his focus on the city’s affordability crisis, most of which is tied to high housing prices.
Mamdani’s ‘cost of living’ campaign – offering rent control, free buses, childcare and city-owned supermarkets – seems to some leftist pundits a potential road back to power, under the guise of the burgeoning YIMBY (‘yes in my backyard’) movement that seeks to lower rental prices through massive housing construction.
In the 2024 election, candidate appearances on podcasts were huge, yuge even. Donald Trump showed up on an array of them, from Theo Von to Joe Rogan to Barstool Sports’ Bussin’ With The Boys. Kamala Harris did fewer, with Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy being the most notable. After Trump’s resounding win, some Democrats blamed Rogan for the victory, though even John Oliver cautioned against that notion. (Also, Rogan gave Harris an “open invitation” to come on his podcast, but she declined his terms.)
Canadians have a taxing problem.
And so do their hockey teams. No Canadian team has won a Stanley Cup in the past 32 years.
Yet a Florida team has been in the Stanley Cup Finals for six consecutive years.
Florida: The State of Hockey!
Independence from the mighty British Empire, declared on July 4, 1776, birthed the United States of America, the freest, most prosperous nation ever to exist on earth. On the other hand, the USA has since joined globalist organizations that threaten its independence and well-being as much as any British king. Consider, for example, the World Health Organization.
Machine empathy can’t replace the real thing
Last fall, Natasha started using ChatGPT to manage her adult son’s mental health needs. A crisis had sent him to a month-long residential program. Her son has learning disabilities, and has struggled with depression since he was twelve. “The in-patient program sent him home with a “huge book” of therapy materials,” Natasha, a New York-based nutrition expert, recalls, “but he struggled to interact with it. We decided to feed that into ChatGPT.”
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is on a mission to bring race socialism to New York City. That is not speculation, it’s in his public campaign platform.
“Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighbourhoods.”
Others preceded Mamdani but were slightly more subtle.
Chaos erupted at an ICE detention facility in Portland, Oregon after hundreds of protesters attempted to storm holding cells.
Demonstrators were seen being tackled to the ground as officers deployed smoke bombs and tear gas to try and control the crowd yesterday.
Dramatic footage posted on X by independent journalist Katie Daviscourt shows flares lighting up the night sky, as protesters clash with officers in riot gear who appeared to fire rubber bullets into the crowd.
Breaking — Federal police declare an unlawful assembly at the ICE facility in Portland.
Several arrests made as officers deploy endless tear gas, crowd control munitions to disperse crowd. pic.twitter.com/JWBpBalEoV
— Katie Daviscourt (@KatieDaviscourt) July 5, 2025
This is what the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon looks like. They hold protests almost every day. The third video shows you the donations they are receiving to continue doing what they are doing. ANTIFA must go. Arrest all of them including the contributors to this… pic.twitter.com/JtrziDfdvk
— (@AprilSpark1890) June 28, 2025
In the German town of Büren, a scandal has exposed the growing disconnect between official messaging and the reality many citizens face in the country’s public swimming pools. It all began with a poster—part of an anti-sexual harassment campaign—that depicted a white, red-haired woman grabbing the buttocks of a black boy with a prosthetic leg. The slogan read: “Stop! Groping is forbidden.”
This is Lara Grewe, who, according to numerous references, is behind the absurd, anti-German poster-campaign.
Her field of activity: queer work, creative sector, social media.
Her pay: (I'll take any bet) your tax money pic.twitter.com/Me44l5ZEO9— Martin Sellner (@Martin_Sellner) July 4, 2025
