A man is facing charges after he allegedly assaulted an intruder inside his Lindsay home early Monday morning, police say.
The incident happened at an apartment on Kent Street shortly after 3 a.m.
Police say that the suspect was asleep when he awoke to find an intruder inside his apartment.
Investigators say an altercation ensued and the intruder sustained serious life-threatening injuries as a result.
Migrants are set to be moved out of a controversial asylum hotel after a council was granted a injunction to shut it down.
Council leaders won the first stage of their battle close the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, on planning permission grounds after it became an epicentre of anti-immigration protests, including some which turned violent.
The demonstrations were sparked when a migrant living at the hotel was charged with a series of sexual offences, including some against a 14-year-old girl.
A victory but a small one, the UK needs new leaders, more Trump less 3rd world chump.
Teachers from New York and California who apply to teach in Oklahoma will now have to answer questions meant to screen out “woke indoctrinators” with left-wing views — the latest attempt by Oklahoma officials to push the state’s education system rightward.
The test’s 50 questions will cover topics about U.S. government, religion and gender, according to examples shared by the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters (R). Teachers unions have criticized the move as a political stunt that will discourage applicants as Oklahoma faces a teacher shortage.
Immigration employees are being invited to take part in workplace events for “public service pride week,” including a drag bingo game Thursday with performers billed as a “sexy drag rock star” and “roller skating disco diva.”
The department did not disclose the cost.
Afternoon @CitImmCanada office party this Thursday includes “sexy drag rock star”, “pride potluck” and “drag bingo”. Public service pride week party notice did not include estimate of cost to taxpayers. https://t.co/pO1WR2D573@LenaMetlegeDiab #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/JWcjcwtkkJ
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) August 18, 2025
h/t Mauser (Incognito)
Pierre Poilievre won the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in rural Alberta Monday evening.
But to call it a “victory” is to suggest there was anything competitive or surprising about it.
The outcome was never in doubt, not in a riding where Conservative candidates routinely win more than 80 per cent of the vote — and where Damien Kurek, the incumbent who stepped down to open up the byelection for Poilievre, won with 83 per cent in last April’s federal election.
Americans are more divided than we have been since the first time the Democrats started and lost a civil war, with every norm being tossed out and every legitimate exercise of lawfully attained power by us normals being shamelessly obstructed. The left rejects the idea that patriotic Americans have any moral right to participate in theirown governance, to pursue their own interests, or to assert their own rights. To them,we are nothing but thralls, tax-generating slaves who must feed them, fuel them, fight for them, and obey their commands while meekly accepting their calumny.
They are delusional. Things aren’t going to work out that way.
h/t DS
Douglas Todd: The country’s housing emergency is so powerful, distorted and puzzling that many are prone to say, “You couldn’t make this up.” But some B.C. writers are doing just that, through intrepid works of fiction.
An untold number of works have been written about Canada’s housing crisis, especially regarding the Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto regions.
A flood of media articles, industry reports, scholarly analyses and books continue to dig into the impact on housing of foreign capital, construction costs, zoning bylaws, the profit motive, government policy and more.
Now we’re seeing a new kind of exploration of the problem — in fiction.
Are you a Non-Practicing white person? And how long have you been in Caucasian Recovery? pic.twitter.com/6QbdRfup0x
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 18, 2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently declared on CNN that in Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump is the “most disliked politician in the world . . . because he has attacked his closest family member.” In January, just before Mark Carney announced his leadership bid for the Liberal Party, he appeared on The Daily Show and told Americans that Canada and the United States could be “friends with benefits.” Are prominent U.S. leaders making time for media appearances to defend Canada as their “closest family member”?
Believing that trading partners are family, or friends even, betrays our leaders’ wide-eyed view of the world that not even historical precedent appears able to shake. It has invited complacency and deepens the damaging economic consequences when trade relationships evolve or break apart.
Elite combat troops shred their physiques to look like Hollywood hunks. In the Arctic, that can kill you.
The cold eats away at soldiers, who lose on average 3,000 calories a day while on exercises in the Arctic Circle—even while eating full rations and before they have taken part in any strenuous activity.
“The modern soldier goes to the gym, likes to look lean with washboard abs, so they don’t have any fat on their muscles,” said Swedish Army Sgt. Maj. Fredrik Flink, who leads winter-warfare courses for U.S. Marines and other forces in northern Sweden.
“After three days here, they are really worn down. That is the biggest problem we have,” he said. “Basic things aren’t sexy nowadays.”
The socialist’s base is composed of young, college-educated adults—not the poor.
New York City is well known for its expansive public sector. New York State is first nationally in state and local taxes per capita and as a percent of personal income, and second in terms of state and local spending per capita. While those statistics aren’t available at the municipal level, state spending is certainly getting funneled to Gotham. Forty-seven percent of New York City residents are enrolled in Medicaid, for example, compared with 35 percent statewide. Consider, also, the city’s multibillion-dollar affordable housing effort and its unique commitment to sheltering the homeless. Austerity, this is not.
Climate change causing ‘ecological grief’ in First Nations, federal report claims
A federal review says climate change is driving “ecological grief” in First Nations and Inuit communities while exposing shortfalls in Ottawa’s $1.6 billion wellness program meant to support mental health.
The Department of Indigenous Services reported that extreme weather, wildfires, and disrupted access to traditional practices such as hunting, fishing and medicine gathering are taking a toll on well-being.
h/t Auntie Polly (Incognito)
The European Commission’s unelected president, Ursula von der Leyen, has come up with a nifty new idea in the European Union’s quest to snuff out democracy on the continent: The “European Democracy Shield.”
Toronto is a city that eats its young. And then forgets about them.
Until the next innocent young person is shot to death. Then Toronto says what it needs to say to get through the unspeakable reality before moving on and going back to status quo — albeit without the latest murder victim, of course.
