Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Thursday Russia had become the first nation to recognize its rule.
The announcement came after Aghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met the Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, Dmitry Zhirnov, in Kabul on Thursday.
“This brave decision will be an example for others… Now that the process of recognition has started, Russia was ahead of everyone,” Muttaqi said in a video posted on X.
We celebrated Canada this week, so I wanted to start with your reflections. What’s top-of-mind for David Suzuki during this year’s national celebration?
First of all, I’m grateful to Donald Trump for keeping Pierre Poilievre out of office because that’s an amazing thing, but the overarching thing is that we’re in deep trouble.
As far as I’m concerned, Mark Carney is the most well-informed prime minister on climate change that we’ve had. We all celebrated when Justin Trudeau came in after Stephen Harper. Trudeau went to Paris and signed the agreement to limit the rise of global temperatures, but then he bought a pipeline two and a half years later.
Just one man & his drill..
Talent. pic.twitter.com/FNH6sOkuDO
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) July 2, 2025
h/t Mauser
Keep dreaming, California.
When the feds nabbed a Chinese illegal immigrant who was wanted in Monterey Park, California, for assault with a deadly weapon they refused to release him back to the sanctuary Golden State to stand trial.
The risk, one Border Patrol leader said, is that he’ll just be released back onto the streets.
h/t PA Cat
The Canadian Army is investigating members who allegedly shared what the country’s top soldier called “abhorrent” content within a private Facebook group.
According to a statement from Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, the “Blue Hackle Mafia” group featured “racist, misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic comments and images.”
In the message to armed forces members shared with CBC News, the army commander wrote that he is “disgusted by the content of some of the posts published on this group.”
They have no idea how many CAF members are involved. It could be two.
How many CAF members are in groups supporting so-called “gender affirming care” AKA child mutilation?
I began my research into the history of slavery in the Islamic world in Bamako, the capital of Mali, in 2020. Yes, you read that right. Not 1820 or 1920, but five years ago, during a harrowing encounter. Sitting cross-legged on the mud floor of a temporary shelter, a man in his late 50s called Hamey told me how he and his ancestors had been enslaved to a slave-owning family in the western region of Kayes for many generations. It was only two years earlier, after a savage public beating, that he’d managed to escape his enslavement. He broke down repeatedly as he described the near-impossibility, now that he was free, of finding somewhere to live and providing for his family in one of the poorest countries on earth.
The Koran is an evil book that grants Mohammedans license to commit all manner of perversions and atrocities.
For that reason immigration by Islamists should be permanently banned.
Now that Canada’s trade war with America has surged back into public consciousness like a blast from the recent past, a new poll suggests Canadian frustration with and mistrust of the U.S. remains high, despite a slight easing.
In March, for example, polling showed a dramatic realignment of Canadian attitudes toward its southern neighbour. Europe and Britain were suddenly the countries Canadians felt best about, and Canadians were starting to feel about America the way they felt about Russia.
Dozens of cases of wild orcas bringing fish and birds to humans have been documented. Are they trying to make friends or do they hope to manipulate us?
Humans have long considered themselves nature’s great benefactors. We feed ducks in the park, toss scraps to alley cats and leave out bowls of milk for the neighbourhood hedgehog. We give, they take.
That, at least, is how the story usually goes. But could one of the world’s most intelligent predators be turning the tables?
Geezuz. @fancypants_s https://t.co/ElpUphSouj
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) July 4, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
A new law meant to protect supply management might not be enough to shield the system in trade talks with a Trump administration bent on eliminating it, trade experts say.
“It’s certainly more difficult to strike a deal with the United States now with the passage of this bill that basically forces Canada to negotiate with one hand tied behind its back,” said William Pellerin, a trade lawyer and partner at the firm McMillan LLP.
“Now that we’ve removed the digital service tax, dairy and supply management is probably the No. 1 trade irritant that we have with the United States. That remains very much unresolved.”
French Culture Minister Rachida Dati has awarded DJ Barbara Butch the «Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres» decoration.
In case you have never heard of this person, well, she made the headlines when during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris she appeared in a parody of Christ during a mock Last Supper scene.
The Canadian government has made electric vehicles (EV) a priority over the last few years, with sizable funding for battery factories, a rebate program to improve affordability, and a mandate to phase out the purchase of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
But with the U.S. government signing resolutions blocking a similar EV mandate in California and some 17 other states, coupled with continued issues related to affordability, Ottawa’s plan could be facing increasing obstacles.
Election promises and massive defence spending increases promised by Prime Minister Mark Carney at a NATO summit last month will fuel huge annual federal budget deficits averaging more than $77-billion a year, a new report predicts.
A fiscal forecast released by the C.D. Howe Institute Thursday said the combined cost of Liberal Party election platform pledges, plus a June 25 commitment by Canada to boost military expenditures by as much as $90-billion each year, will drive Ottawa deeper into the red.
The role of culture, ethnicity and religion must not be brushed under the carpet.
Keir Starmer was left with no choice but to commit to a national statutory inquiry into the grooming-gangs scandal, following the publication of Louise Casey’s damning national audit last month. This inquiry is long overdue and it is vital that no stone is left unturned in the search for truth.
The earlier reluctance to even hold an inquiry was undoubtedly due to the racial sensitivities involved. The UK prime minister and much of the establishment have long been unwilling to acknowledge the backgrounds of many of the perpetrators. But Casey’s report surely points to a pattern that no inquiry can ignore.
Zohran Mamdani is probably going to be the mayor of New York.
Mamdani was born in Uganda to a Marxist academic, becoming a US citizen only in 2018. He effortlessly switches between a bobblehead Indian accent, a multiculti South-African Ali G, and the flat respectable Broadcast American that he now campaigns on. He got married this year so he can be Definitely Officially Not Gay for the 0.5% of over-65 New York Democrats for whom that still matters.
