For those wondering if Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston was serious about fining citizens $25,000 for taking a walk in the woods, meet the first person to receive one of those lofty fines.
Nova Scotia just handed me a fine for $28,872.50 for walking into the woods. pic.twitter.com/sARyEzHAzR
— Jeff Evely (@JeffEvely) August 9, 2025
Militant protesters were accused of a ‘colossal’ waste of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money after more than 360 deliberately forced police to arrest them by brandishing signs supporting the outlawed group Palestine Action.
During a day of chaos and farce, Left-wing activists swamped Parliament Square in London today in support of the organisation, which was proscribed by the Government last month as a terrorist group.
Hundreds held placards declaring ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’ in deliberate acts of law-breaking designed to overwhelm police resources and the courts.
Now this is good policing in London. I could watch the arrest of Uzma Bashir, a Palestine Action supporter over and over again. pic.twitter.com/nWqpiHT6sL
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) August 9, 2025
London — Supporters of banned terrorist group Palestine Action are being arrested at their occupation in Parliament Square. Palestine Action was banned after several violent attacks, including on a British military base. pic.twitter.com/5u6QYUW8uB
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 9, 2025
Lots of domestic assholery in Montreal
Happening now in Montreal at Rad Pride
They're too stupid to realize they would be thrown off buildings or hung in Muslim countries
Teargas and arrests pic.twitter.com/C89bo4XtDr— Debbie Bloodclot. (@bettybloodclot) August 10, 2025
She came to Montreal as a guest yet despises it because she believes Canadians are colonizers, the same ones that are in Israel.
Despite this, Canadians are more inclined to listen to the woman in the niqab standing in front of the IRGC & Palestine flags than actual Canadians. pic.twitter.com/fQEKZg3rnE
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) August 10, 2025
A majority of Canadians support or somewhat support national infrastructure projects, even if there is opposition from provinces, Indigenous peoples or environmental concerns, according to new survey results from Nanos Research, conducted for CTV News.
Seventy per cent of Canadians surveyed support or somewhat support national projects even in the face of potential Indigenous opposition, while more than half — 59 per cent — oppose or somewhat oppose Indigenous Nations having the power to block projects.
The findings of a year-long undercover investigation into a violent migrant-smuggling gang were published by BBC News on 5 August – and, as a result, one person has now been arrested in Birmingham.
Here, one of our reporters who assumed a false identity and posed as a migrant, describes how he met one of the gang’s senior members in a secret forest hideout.
I am walking towards the forest near Dunkirk, thinking about the battery in my pocket. I’ve hidden the wires under two T-shirts, but is anything still showing? Is my secret camera working? Is it pointing at the right angle? I have, at most, three hours of battery life left, and I need to get to the smuggler’s secret camp, meet him, and get out safely.
Montreal — An identifiably Jewish man was walking with his family in a quiet Montreal neighbourhood where a large Hasidic Jewish community makes its home, when he was violently attacked on Friday afternoon. He was repeatedly punched to the ground, his kippah ripped from his head and thrown into a splash pad.
The assault, caught on video and widely shared on social media, shows his young daughter clutching his arm as it unfolded. He ended up in hospital. His attacker fled.
Today in Montreal Jewish father with 3 kids beaten in an unprovoked attack, seemingly by a disturbed person, words have consequences. @Val_Plante @SPVM why did it take for the SPVM over an hour to respond? pic.twitter.com/MufsGoDMjW
— Mayer Feig (@mayerfeig) August 8, 2025
The United Nations has taken the scandalous step of intervening in Austria’s deportation of a convicted terrorist while maintaining noticeable silence on the broader crisis of migrant-related crime affecting communities across the continent.
The case involves a Syrian national who served a seven-year prison sentence in Austria for terrorist organization membership before being deported in July in the first such removal to Syria since 2011. The man was released last year but quickly got arrested again on separate charges. Following that, he was placed in a detention center awaiting deportation.
Colonial Canada had less than 7,400 slaves before its abolition in 1834, a practice the Indigenous kept both before and afterwards.
A recent historic analysis finds most French Canadian slaves were indigenous, and that Canada’s record fares much better than its neighbors to the south.
“Slavery in Canada: The facts rarely told” by Majorie Gunn for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy says North America had “39 distinct slave societies” in North America before Columbus arrived in 1492. When New France acquired slaves, many were available through a system of native alliances that brought them from Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes, but also from as far away as the Missouri River Basin and the Upper Mississippi River.
Prince Harry has been hit with a wave of criticism in the Channel 5 documentary Prince Harry: My Terrible Year, with royal experts savaging both his behaviour and his struggling media ventures. Royal biographer Ingrid Seward accused Harry of crossing the line when it came to Princess Kate, telling viewers: “He rubbished Kate for money he didn’t even need – that will not be easily forgiven.” The remark referred to claims Harry has made in recent years, which some insiders say have worsened family tensions.
Real life zombies… Coming to a blue city near you. pic.twitter.com/jzuRJdDTvx
— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) August 9, 2025
WINDSOR, ONT. — From boom town to gloom town.
After four years of population growth, as new arrivals to Windsor chased jobs in a manufacturing revival fuelled by the promise of electric vehicles, the influx stalled when U.S. tariffs hit.
The unemployment rate soared to the highest in Canada. Five thousand manufacturing positions were cut in the last five months, according to the local Chamber of Commerce. Roughly 16 per cent of jobs in the area are dependent on Canada-U.S. trade — double the national average. Home sales are down 6.3 per cent this year.
On July 29th 2025, a member of the Irish police (Garda Siochana) was attacked by Abdullah Khan, a second-generation Pakistani Muslim immigrant in Dublin city centre. Ireland’s state broadcaster, RTE, in the immediate aftermath of the knife attack was quick to assert that the attacker had Irish citizenry: “The man, who is an Irish citizen and born in Ireland, can be questioned for up to 24 hours.”
Was the steam rising from the sidewalks or my brain? This I wondered as I made my way through the hot, soupy (and this past week, I understand, smoky) air of Toronto, in the summer of 2025.
The world surely does not need another piece of journalism where a reporter parachutes into a city where they do not live and makes pronouncements about the place.
That said, Toronto was my home for more than half my life before I moved to Vancouver in 2007. Growing up, we called it Toronto the Good. I propose a new moniker: Toronto the Grind.
With urgent battles to fight on seemingly every front, this past week’s antics from Premiers Doug Ford and Tim Houston only underscore the growing disconnect between certain so-called conservative leaders and the values and priorities their voters expect. At the National Citizens Coalition, we’re sounding the alarm on this betrayal of common sense, and we’re not alone in noticing the void of principled leadership.
