Russell Brand has moved to America, claiming he is being “attacked” and “shut down” by the British authorities.
The actor and comedian, who is being investigated by Scotland Yard over historical allegations of sexual assault, is believed to have taken his young family from Oxfordshire to Florida last autumn before the presidential election.
The development could result in potentially lengthy extradition proceedings if British prosecutors decide to charge Brand, 49, with sex crimes.
It’s finally happened. On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he will be imposing a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy products and 25 per cent tariffs on everything else, starting Tuesday. We have no idea what kind of negotiations took place between the Liberals and Trump. All we know is that Canada is now facing the greatest economic threat it has faced in decades.
I wonder if Trudeau insisted that trade negotiations be conducted through a Trans lense?
Critics warn that a new executive order from Donald Trump’s administration purporting to “combat antisemitism”, and a corresponding fact sheet suggesting deporting international students who protest Israel, could chill political speech on campuses.
The fact sheet released before Trump signed the order on Wednesday quoted the president as saying: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
Mirrors common sense.
The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired.
Whether it escalates beyond the planned 25 per cent tariff into a wider economic war depends upon how genuinely serious President Donald Trump is about annexation, experts say.
Tariffs are one thing. While painful and destructive, experts agree duties alone would not crush the Canadian economy, nor the political establishment, into submission.
Young people do not recognise golliwogs as racist symbols and are more likely to associate their exaggerated features with cosmetic surgery, new research has claimed.
Dr Todd Gray claimed the controversial doll “has lost its relevancy and potency among the younger generation” because they have “little cultural awareness of the Victorian minstrel attire” it was based on.
On March 9, the Liberal Party of Canada will select a leader to become the country’s next prime minister. Fewer than 1 percent of Canadians will cast a ballot in the leadership race, as roughly 400,000 people registered to vote. It sounds undemocratic, but it’s the nature of Canada’s system in that parties select who will be the head of the government rather than voters at large.
With registration to vote in the contest being free and open to all Canadian citizens, the number of people taking advantage of the opportunity to vote is distressingly low.
The Duke of York was viewed by the Chinese state as a “valuable communication channel”, according to newly released court papers.
They indicate MI5 questioned Prince Andrew’s most senior aide about their “clandestine” relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
Andrew, 64, first met the suspected agent, Yang Tengbo, in 2013 at a reception during the Shanghai Grand Prix, hosted by Sir Ron Dennis, the former head of McLaren. Yang, 50, became a confidant of the duke and helped to launch his Dragons’ Den-style Pitch@Palace business initiative in China.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25-per-cent tariffs will quickly force North American auto plants to stop production, warns Linda Hasenfratz, executive chair of Linamar Corp., an Ontario-based supplier to the major automakers.
Mr. Trump said he would impose the tariffs on Feb. 1 to correct trade imbalances and spur Canada and Mexico to improve their border security, despite warnings from economists the levies will drive U.S. inflation and damage the economy.
This will not turn out well for EV mania unless they open the market to China which I would not put past Trudeau.
Canadian leaders call for retaliation, unity in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports
Leaders across Canada are calling for retaliation and unity in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports.
Early Saturday evening, Trump signed an executive order declaring 25 per cent tariffs on almost all Canadian goods, and a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy products, will begin on Tuesday.
Which industries will feel the pinch of Trump’s tariffs the hardest?
OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order Saturday to impose tariffs of 10 per cent on Canadian energy and 25 per cent on everything else beginning on Feb. 4.
Alberta premier responds to Trump tariffs, will work with Ottawa on response
Alberta’s premier says she’s “disappointed” with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to implement tariffs on Canadian goods and said she’ll work together with Ottawa on a response.
Trump signed an executive order Saturday following through on threats to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods.
Afterward, Premier Danielle Smith posted to social media to say the province “will do everything in its power” to convince the U.S. to reverse the “mutually destructive policy.”
Canada, Mexico strike back with retaliatory tariffs on American goods hours after Trump’s executive action
Canada and Mexico’s top leaders blasted President Trump Saturday hours after he imposed a 25% tariff on the neighboring countries — and announced they would retaliate by enforcing their own on the US.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed he and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo agreed to work together to push back against Trump’s long-awaited taxing program, which he claimed was aimed at halting the influx of drugs into the US.
CAIRO (AP) — Powerful Arab nations on Saturday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League released a joint statement rejecting any plans to move Palestinians out of their territories in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
One moment, three men are chatting inside a Scarborough jewelry store. The next, the driver of a pickup truck slams into the storefront, instantly shattering the glass and narrowly missing one of the men inside.
Instantly, chaos erupts. The man in a striped shirt is yelling and jumping up and down with his hands above his head. The men briefly run out of the frame. Then, a computer monitor is thrown into the room.
#WATCH: Truck smashes through Scarborough storefront during jewelry heist last night. pic.twitter.com/usFjkIZ1z6
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) January 30, 2025
NEW: CHCH News has obtained shocking surveillance video showing three suspects involved in a smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store at Burlington Centre on Monday evening.
READ MORE: https://t.co/aC0HmT4tXm pic.twitter.com/saEEB4hH6G
— CHCH News (@CHCHNews) January 28, 2025
A pole-dancing troop that aims to boost the number of ethnic minority, trans and non-binary “polers” and “decolonise” the industry has benefited from close to £100,000 in taxpayer funding.
Blackstage Pole campaigns for more diversity and runs events for performers who are “black people and people of colour of all bodies and abilities, especially those who are queer, trans, non-binary and/or sex workers”.
It claims the pole-dancing industry is too “white and non-sex worker allied” and excludes trans, plus-size and LGBTQ+ dancers.
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford insists Ontario is not vulnerable during a snap election campaign he called as a possible trade war with the United States looms.
338Canada Ontario | Electoral Projections [Jan 31st update: PC 99 seats (+8 from prior Jan 29th update), NDP 14 (-4), OLP 8 (-4), Green 2 (N/C), Independent 1 (N/C)]
In Ian Fleming’s 007 novel For Your Eyes Only, James Bond visits Ottawa, where he has a meeting booked with the RCMP Commissioner, and so he reports to the Department of Justice alongside the Parliament Buildings. This is how Fleming described the building and, by extension, Ottawa generally: “Like most Canadian public buildings, the Department of Justice is a massive block of grey masonry built to look stodgily important and to withstand the long and hard winters.”
As President Donald Trump was taking office earlier this month, a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Northern Vermont. According to a report by Andy Ngo in the New York Post, this was just one killing in an intricate web of deaths across the nation connected to a violent transgender cult.
“Witnesses, contacts, and journalists trying to reveal who the members are and where they may be are at risk of violence,” Ngo told The Federalist. “I hope law enforcement does anything and everything it can to dismantle this terror group.”
This just gets weirder.
CHICAGO—President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda descended upon Chicago’s “Mexico of the Midwest” precisely one week after his inauguration.
But Little Village—a predominantly Hispanic enclave of around 70,000 on the city’s southwest side—stood ready to thwart the government.
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in dark SUVs arrived on the streets that day, another operation began. The community launched its own counteraction: an urgent system of text chains, social-media groups and calls between local leaders.
