As global instability grows and international threats evolve, Canada can no longer afford to underinvest in its national defence. The government’s renewed commitment to strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces is timely — and long overdue. But as we debate where to allocate dollars, we must remember one fundamental truth: national defence isn’t just about equipment or infrastructure. It’s about people.
Officers from @DRPSEastDiv arrested a 19-year-old male from Oshawa after he attempted to break into a residence in Courtice. He fled the scene prior to police arrival but was located with the assistance of the DRPS K9 and Drone units. Here is drone footage of the arrest.
Full… pic.twitter.com/lCRLB2YMXj— Durham Regional Police (@DRPS) June 24, 2025
TV of the future now!
h/t Patti Jo
Prosecutors in New York are set to rest their case in the weeks-long federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The 55-year-old music mogul is accused of using his power as the leader of a business empire to facilitate the sex trafficking of women and conceal his crimes.
Mr Combs has admitted to domestic violence – but has pleaded not guilty to the prosecution’s charges, some of which rely on laws once aimed at mob bosses to try and bring him down.
The defence has yet to make its case – which Mr Combs’ attorneys have said will only take a couple days.
Trump just dragged AOC like a wet blanket pic.twitter.com/SfFS1VZqwQ
— Phoeni 2A (@Phoenix2A_1980s) June 24, 2025
h/t XC
OTTAWA—Canada’s top soldier says the military should keep buying at least some additional F-35 fighter jets from the United States, which she said will remain a key partner as Prime Minister Mark Carney pursues deeper defence ties with the European Union.
Gen. Jennie Carignan, the chief of the defence staff, said Monday that the F-35 jet comes with many advantages, from the capacity to cover Canada’s immense territory, to the ability for regular upgrades to keep up with rapidly advancing technology. Canada has already signed off on buying 16 of the jets through the American government, but the Liberal government put the rest of the purchase under review in March, amid tensions with the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s tariffs and talk of making Canada the 51st American state.
Carney and his pals get a piece of the action by choosing a Euro fighter.
A ship that caught fire in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month has sunk.
The vessel was abandoned in the middle of the Pacific — about 360 miles from land — after a blaze. It was carrying about 3,000 vehicles of which about 800 were EVs.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney lowered expectations on Monday about reaching an agreement with the United States for an economic and security pact by July 21.
Speaking in Brussels, where he signed a defence partnership with the European Union (EU), Carney was asked which options Canada would be considering, besides higher tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminum, if he does not strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump within the next 30 days — as agreed to during the G7 summit last week in Kananaskis.
Inside a factory that cleans & reuses glass bottles. pic.twitter.com/V08OfYklAZ
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) June 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
Regime’s smuggled uranium and secretive centrifuges mean US and Israeli attacks have not destroyed its capabilities, warns expert
Iran has hidden sites housing “hundreds if not thousands” of advanced centrifuges capable of producing weapons-grade uranium, an expert on Iran’s nuclear programme said.
The regime also moved much of its highly enriched uranium to a secret location before the US was able to bomb the Islamic republic’s three known nuclear facilities, they added.
It means Tehran could have all the capabilities to build a nuclear bomb, said Sima Shine, an expert on Iran’s nuclear programme who has worked within the Israeli military establishment for more than 30 years.
The federal government’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate — requiring that 20 per cent of all new vehicle sales in Canada be electric by 2026 — was designed with the best intentions. It was a bold climate policy that aligned with international commitments and aimed to reshape one of Canada’s most critical economic sectors.
But we’re now speeding into a very different corner of the track.
The Star went insane and published this!
“Under current rules, an automaker that falls short of the EV sales target must buy credits at $20,000 per non-compliant unit just to keep selling gas-powered vehicles in Canada. For a company selling 300,000 vehicles a year, falling 10 per cent short could trigger a $600 million penalty. That’s not environmental policy. That’s economic punishment.”
That’s crazy dictator stuff.
If you watched the recent “No Kings” riots with a lingering sense of deja vu, together with a haunting feeling that the “fox is in the henhouse,” you had good reason. This chaos is not without precedent, and it is far from the grassroots movement it is portrayed to be. First, let’s deal with the deja vu.
Because most of our public schools have long since abandoned teaching anything remotely akin to an accurate version of world history, most people today are unaware that the anarchy we are witnessing in the streets of Philadelphia and Portland is not without precedent.
What we know about the Iran-Israel ceasefire
Donald Trump has warned Israel against launching further attacks on Iran, hours after he said a ceasefire between the two sides had taken effect.
The US president used an expletive as he criticised both sides, after each accused the other of breaking the US and Qatar-brokered truce.
It came after Israel said Iran had violated the deal and vowed to respond with “powerful strikes”.
BREAKING—PRESIDENT TRUMP ISSUES WARNING TO ISRAEL, DIRECTING THEM TO STOP ATTACKING IRAN:
“Israel. do not drop those bombs. If you do it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home, now! Donald J. Trump, President of the United States” pic.twitter.com/hWTZeJEwWc
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) June 24, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized both Iran and Israel for what he said were violations of a ceasefire between the two adversaries in the hours after he announced the truce would go into force. Content warning: profanity pic.twitter.com/KAZh2WgLN5
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 24, 2025
President Trump should “crack the whip” and make Nato a subscription-based organisation, Ben Wallace, a former defence secretary, has said.
Wallace, who was once tipped for Nato secretary-general, said allies should only be allowed membership if by 2030 they were spending 3.5 per cent of national income on defence.
Writing in The Times before Nato’s summit in The Hague this week, he said: “No subscription — no membership. No 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2030 — no protection from Uncle Sam.”
Canada’s temporary population boom may be over, but its long-term resident outflow is just beginning. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows emigration—the act of citizens or permanent residents permanently leaving—jumped higher in Q1 2025. Canadians left in the second-highest Q1 volume on record—a trend that’s only gained momentum since the pandemic.
In Berlin, those who fail to comply with the green agenda could lose their company. That is what the new legal framework promoted by the CDU and SPD in the German capital’s Senate stipulates. Under the label of Vergesellschaftungsrahmengesetz (framework law on collectivization), the coalition has agreed on an instrument that would allow the State to expropriate private companies if, in the opinion of the political authorities, they fail to meet climate goals or invest “too little” in the public interest.
Small wonder Carney wants to hook up with these Nazis.
