Based on what we know, most counter-tariffs affecting food, food manufacturing, and retail will be rolled back on September 1. This is welcome news.
Media Hated Trump’s English Proficiency Order for Truckers Before Deadly Florida Crash
President Trump issued an Executive Order in April reinforcing a policy, suspended by the Obama Administration, requiring commercial truckers to be able to read traffic and road signs and pass English proficiency tests to receive a Commercial Drivers License.
The move didn’t cause a bottleneck of news coverage in April, though CNN’s Jake Tapper did ask Chad Wolf on The Lead with Jake Tapper April 28: “How would this English-speaking requirement make our roadways safer? And what would you say to someone who argues it’s a slippery slope that could be used against other professions, and that just because you don’t speak English doesn’t mean that you’re in this country illegally?”
You mean the Tooth Fairy pays for them currently?
Taxpayers could eventually be on the hook as Toronto’s speedcams keep getting cut down
With Toronto’s pole-mounted speed cameras vandalized again and again in the past year, taxpayers may be stuck paying more for future damage, a city councillor says.
The speedcams have been “severely vandalized” 25 times since last fall, according to the City of Toronto. That includes one camera on Parkside Drive that’s been cut down six times between November 2024 and July of this year.
YouTube Secretly Uses AI to ‘Improve‘ Videos Without Asking Creators First
Google’s YouTube has been secretly using AI to “enhance” users’ videos without their knowledge or consent, leading to a growing sense of unease among content creators.
In Warsaw, Carney deepens Canada’s defence, trade ties with Poland
WARSAW – Prime Minister Mark Carney is striking a new strategic partnership with Poland that will see Canada deepen its ties in trade, defence and energy with the fast-growing European economy.
Carney is in Warsaw today where he is meeting with his Polish counterpart, Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The pair say they’ve agreed to work more closely in areas such as defence, aviation, cybersecurity and clean energy.
Expecting a border incident?
Immigrant Population in U.S. Drops for the First Time in Decades
For the first time in decades, more immigrants are leaving the United States than arriving, a new study finds, an early indication that President Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda is leading people to depart — whether through deportation or by choice.
An analysis of new census data released on Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that between January and June, the foreign-born population in the United States — both lawful and unlawful residents — declined by nearly 1.5 million. In June, the country was home to 51.9 million immigrants, down from 53.3 million six months earlier.
That’s bad for the folks who love cheap foreign labour.
Why pivoting to China is a huge mistake for Canada
China’s behaviour has not changed since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It aims to create wedges between America and its allies in the hope of undermining U.S. economic, political, diplomatic and security interests in the Indo-Pacific region.
Prominent scholar Yan Xue Tong of Tsinghua University explained China’s long-term interests this way …
Trump takes aim at cashless bail in series of executive orders
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a series of executive orders aimed at eliminating cashless bail in D.C. and throughout the country as part of his efforts to crack down on crime.
“We’re ending it, but we’re starting by ending it in D.C., and that we have the right to do by federalization,” Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office.
WTF?
They, and their families, are obviously starving to death. @fancypants_s https://t.co/eGs22RbKIU
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 25, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Canadian buyers are fleeing U.S. hotspots, leaving Sunbelt realtors reeling
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Residents in Gold Canyon, Arizona, enjoy stunning views of desert landscapes and panoramic vistas — especially the majestic Superstition Mountains — which is why it’s a highly sought-after area for vacation homes.
In the past, it has been a prime target for Canadians seeking warm retirement or seasonal homes, but not anymore.
Why?
Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations
LAKE WORTH, Fla.—Master Sgt. Tony Kingery of the Florida Highway Patrol was driving through a commercial district one recent morning looking for immigrants in the U.S. illegally when he spotted a white van missing its front bumper. He tailed the vehicle, flashed his lights and pulled it over.
Kingery told the driver about the bumper and a broken taillight and asked for his driver’s license. The driver, who was Hispanic, didn’t speak English. He handed over a Guatemalan consular identification card.
DEI scammers warn federal budget cuts could reduce diversity and inclusion initiatives
OTTAWA – Advocates are raising concerns that upcoming federal budget cuts and expected job losses in the public service will jeopardize programs intended to hire and promote people with disabilities.
”(Diversity, equity and inclusion) is often an add-on, right? It’s never a core, no matter how hard we try. So usually it’s the first to be cut when times are tough,” said Rabia Khedr, the national director of Disability Without Poverty.
Khedr said people with disabilities often have to overcome significant barriers to get hired. “They have to prove themselves, they have to be a hundred times better than the able-bodied person to shift the hiring manager’s attitudes,” she said.
A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death by an asylum seeker while calling police to report that she was being followed
A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death while calling police to report that she was being followed — with the arrest of an asylum seeker triggering furious protests across the Netherlands.
The body of the victim, only identified by the first name Lisa, was found in a roadside ditch in Amsterdam early last Wednesday, hours after she was attacked on her way home from a night out with friends.
Pray for Lisa’s family, Europe deserves so much better than this. We built empires once.
.#europe #holland #amsterdam #DutchNews #Netherlands #Rotterdam #nieuws #denhaag #news #eu #rotterdam #americafirst #breakingnews #opinion #hottake #libtard #liberallogic #jadewarwick… pic.twitter.com/W6W5kPuXWm— Jade Warwick (@TheJadeWarwick) August 25, 2025
Jamie Sarkonak: Home invasion is serious. The law of self-defence should reflect that
Clifford Stauffer was a self-taught tradesman whose projects included houses, airplanes and miniature semi-trucks. A horseman and motorcyclist, he acquired his last bike and horse at 81. He would only get two years of enjoyment out of them. At age 83, in the early hours of June 2021, a group of four to five adults drove up to his rural Alberta home, bludgeoned him to death and lit his house on fire with his body inside. Then, they stole his van.
