By anyone’s measure, $150 billion a year is an eye-watering amount of money to spend on anything — let alone defence.
While it pales in comparison to the inflation-adjusted appropriations of the Second World War, it is potentially, for this generation, the very definition of beating ploughshares into swords.
Medieval knight re-enactment goes ‘catastrophically’ wrong in front of terrified crowd
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— The Tower of London (@TowerOfLondon) February 22, 2020
I’ve never felt more patriotic pride than when singing O Canada with a crowd of hundreds at a protest shutting down the Coutts border crossing.
It was February 2022. My wife had just lost her job after refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. I worried I might be next, but took heart as the trucker convoy headed to Ottawa. We couldn’t join them, so instead we drove south from Calgary to Coutts, Alta., for two days to show our support.
We still don’t have the full details on this weekend’s mass shooting outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, but we are beginning to put together some of the pieces.
h/t Patti Jo
On June 21, just after 4:30am, an 11-year-old and his parents were all jolted out of bed in their North Etobicoke home.
“We heard a smash,” said the homeowner, who asked not to be identified — still too shaken after the ordeal. That sound came from their rear patio door.
The police can’t protect you. They only deal with the bad guys after the fact.
Dad had a gun. Mom should have one too.
6 men in custody after Ontario police lift shelter-in-place advisory on Highway 11
h/t DS
Jurors reached a final verdict in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex-trafficking trial Wednesday in Manhattan.
They had agreed to a verdict on four of the five charges Tuesday against the disgraced hip-hop mogul, but told the judge they couldn’t come to a consensus on the top charge of racketeering conspiracy.
Looking good for prominent Democrat Diddy.
More than 17,500 foreigners have had their criminal convictions forgiven by the Immigration Department over the past 11 years, removing a bar to coming to Canada, federal government figures show. The disclosure has raised transparency concerns about the type of offences they committed.
Foreigners are, in general, inadmissible to Canada if they have been convicted of an act that is considered a criminal offence in this country. But Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has the power to grant an exception if five years have elapsed since a person was convicted or finished a sentence.
I bet a lot of Liberal palms were generously greased.
h/t Mauser
An Afghan asylum seeker who arrived in the UK with grey hair was a child at the time, a judge has ruled.
An asylum court ruled that the migrant, who came to Britain via a small boat after three failed attempts, was 15 despite starting to go grey on the side of his head.
Authorities in the UK found that he was an adult when he arrived, saying he had an “established jawline and lack of youthful glow”.
There are some topics that Canada’s media are clearly very afraid to touch, leaving the public that funds them through federal subsidies not fully informed.
This, for reasons suspected but unexplained, is not good if we are to rely upon the Fourth Estate to ensure the nation’s population is equipped with the information citizens need to form perspectives and organize their lives. That, after all, is the alleged purpose of the government’s subsidization of the media in the first place.
More than 20,000 migrants have crossed the Channel this year, setting a new record high for the first six months of a year.
In June 5,170 migrants crossed the Channel in 80 boats, which was also a record month for this year. Home Office figures showed Border Force picked up 879 people in 13 dinghies on Monday, the third highest number of arrivals on a single day this year as people smugglers took advantage of record high temperatures and calm conditions in the Channel to ferry people across.
It made the annual tally so far 19,982 in 343 boats — but hundreds more followed on Tuesday, taking the total to more than 20,000. The Home Office will publish the precise number to have crossed on Wednesday.
Toronto’s speed camera program has been the focus of some controversy of late. Premier Doug Ford has publicly questioned whether the automated enforcement technology — also known as photo radar — is just a “revenue tool” for municipalities.
Meanwhile, at Toronto city hall, Coun. Anthony Perruzza (Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek) has spent some time telling reporters that the program is unfair. Perhaps to help ease those concerns,
Mayor Olivia Chow passed a motion at last week’s council meeting calling for larger signs for drivers warning of speed cameras.
But these concerns are misplaced. Here’s what politicians like Ford, Chow and Perruzza ought to be worried about instead: ghosts.
The sister of one of the four University of Idaho students slain in their off-campus home blasted the “shocking and cruel” plea deal that will spare the life of accused killer Brian Kohberger.
Aubrie Goncalves, 18, voiced her outrage over the deal in which Kohberger will cop to killing her sister Kaylee Goncalves and three others, in a lengthy statement posted on Facebook.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will review whether Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel belongs in state court.
Nessel sued in state court in June 2019 seeking to void the easement that allows the Enbridge energy company to operate a 4.5-mile (6.4-kilometer) section of pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac, which link Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
I’ve got whiplash from the speed of this government’s shifting allegiances.
Canada’s 45th Parliament opened May 26, 2025. The next day, King Charles III delivered the Speech from the Throne. Prime Minister Mark Carney had invited him, hoping the symbolism would rekindle a sense of unity. A patriotic gesture, Carney hoped it might blunt the growing separatist sentiment in Western Canada.
It didn’t work. But it made for a good photo op.
US President Donald Trump has suggested that Doge, the cost-cutting agency Elon Musk helped set up, could be used to hurt the billionaire’s companies – as the former allies continue their public dispute over Trump’s budget plans.
“Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far,” he wrote on social media. “Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”
The tech billionaire wrote in reply: “I am literally saying CUT IT ALL. Now.”
