Jessica Nichol was working at the Toronto Humane Society during last month’s heat wave when a man arrived at the shelter with his dog.
He had been living in his car and depending on friends to provide his dog with air conditioning during the day, but it wasn’t a reliable or long-term solution.
So, Nichol says, he made the “devastating” decision to surrender the dog to the River Street shelter for the pet’s well-being.
This is heartbreaking.
Tommy Robinson has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm in an alleged assault at St Pancras station last month.
The activist, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was detained on arrival at Luton airport at 6.30pm on Monday, the British Transport Police said. Officers were made aware that Robinson had boarded an incoming flight from Faro, Portugal.
For the New Democratic Party of Canada, the disastrous Jagmeet Singh era came to a merciful end in the last federal election. Reduced to an embarrassing seven seats and denied official party status, the NDP technically holds the balance of power in the House of Commons as it has the ability to help bring down Mark Carney’s Liberal minority government. The reality, though, is that the NDP is in no position to force an election.
Zohran Mamdani won over Jewish voters in New York City who were energized by his economic agenda and unbothered by — or sympathetic to — his views on Israel and Gaza.
Ben Sadoff knocked on roughly 1,000 doors as a canvasser for Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary campaign in New York City, and the voters he met brought up the same issues again and again: the cost of rent, the cost of child care and the sense that things in the city were going in the wrong direction.
One thing they did not frequently mention was Israel, he said. And when voters — including Jewish ones — did bring it up, their comments often focused on their anguish over Israel’s war in Gaza, where starvation is spreading and about 60,000 people have been killed, according to Gazan officials.
“I think this campaign has really shown us something we have known for a while,” said Mr. Sadoff, who is Jewish and works as a bike mechanic in Manhattan. “There are a million Jewish New Yorkers who have wide-ranging opinions on all kinds of issues.”
Jewicidal ideological lemmings?
Public Facebook post reacts to the hateful vandalism at Congregation Emanu-El, describing the synagogue as having positioned itself “antizionist” yet still not immune to being targeted.
Certainly, the rabbi has made public statements that slant progressive-left.
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— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) August 4, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
How did Canada get to this point? We went from being a trade priority, close to a deal with Washington to not having a deal and not being a priority.
Friday came and went and there was no trade deal with Donald Trump. Mark Carney’s point man on Canada-U.S. relations, Dominic LeBlanc left Washington for Moncton, New Brunswick, a clear sign that talks were not continuing in a serious way.
A Haitian American Navy veteran and his police officer cousin who were working in Haiti with Studebaker, an American military contractor, are missing and presumed dead.
Miot Patrice Jacquet, a U.S. Navy veteran, did not think twice about helping an American military contractor with a dangerous mission in his native Haiti.
The company, Studebaker Defense, had an impressive pedigree: Its board is run by Wesley K. Clark, a retired American general and a former NATO supreme allied commander.
But instead of helping wrest Haiti back from gangs, the operation collapsed. The American team was forced to leave early, a cache of AR-15-style rifles was stolen and seven months ago, two people working with the team — including Mr. Jacquet — were abducted, remain missing and are most likely dead.
Several organizations in Hamilton are denouncing white nationalist “active clubs,” whose members were found by a recent investigative report by CBC News to be preparing for a “race war” in area gyms and parks.
The Hamilton Anti Hate Coalition, a group formerly known as No Hate in the Hammer, said it is also calling on municipal authorities and neighbours to “act immediately” in light of the investigation’s findings.
Rent seekers seeking rent.
Young people from nearly 150 countries celebrated Mass on Sunday with Pope Leo XIV at the end of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Youth in Italy.
The Vatican said more than a million youth took part in the huge event in a vast open space at Rome’s University of Tor Vergata.
Remember the classic sci-fi movie The Blob, and how the blob keeps getting bigger and bigger, while oozing over everything, heedless of the screams around it?
That’s what’s happening at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Sydney Sweeney registered as a Republican voter in Florida a few months before Donald Trump won a second US presidency, it has been revealed, as the public continues fixating on a new jeans ad campaign featuring the actor and a pun about her genes.
The Euphoria and White Lotus star registered to vote in Florida on 14 June 2024 – shortly after buying a mansion in the Keys – and listed her party affiliation as Republican, according to publicly available records reviewed by the Guardian on Sunday. That was about two weeks after Trump, another registered Republican Florida voter, was convicted in New York City of criminal falsification of business records and before he secured a return to the White House in November’s presidential election.
The media and the usual cast of race baiting rent seekers are the only one’s fixated on American Eagles excellent ad campaign.
Canada is bracing for further tension in its trade relationship with the United States, after President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs.
“This is bad news,” said former foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay in an interview with CTV News Channel Sunday.
“It’s bad news for the markets. It’s bad news for many sectors on both sides of the border. … There is a lot of impetus now to try to bring this to an end.”
Crap like this will not win Carney many friends, not here not in the USA ask Justin.
Prime Minister Mark Carney attends Vancouver Pride parade
For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in January, “when the raids started happening”. The decision was rooted in “trying to be safe”, Gutierrez said. “We’re not talking about folks that are irregular in terms of their immigration status. You only have to look a certain way and speak a certain language and then you’re in danger.”
For decades prior to 2025, the event had gone on interrupted – “in rain, in extreme heat” – and hosted thousands of Colombians and non-Colombians alike, Gutierrez said. “Our mission is to share our culture with people that don’t know it,” he added. “To not have the opportunity – that’s where it hurts the most.”
They’re upset that illegal alien invaders won’t be able to attend festivals.
Canada’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood is a grave mistake, for several reasons.
First, it rewards terrorism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wrong about many things, but he is right about that.
Palestinian advocates have argued for years that the major Western powers should grant recognition to a sovereign Palestine, as many other countries already have. The Western powers have always balked, arguing that formal recognition should come only after a final peace settlement. Now France, Britain and Canada have agreed. They are the first members of the G7 club of rich, democratic nations to take this momentous step.
A controversial case at the Austrian Private College of Teacher Education Burgenland has caused significant uproar: a student was given a lower grade for not using gender-neutral language in her coursework.
According to the university, its actions were based on guidelines issued by the Office for Gender and Diversity Competence, which had stated that gender-inclusive language was a basic criterion in evaluating student assignments.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Time’s up. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump raised the tariff rate on Canadian goods not covered under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) from 25 to 35 per cent, saying they “have to pay a fair rate.” The White House claims it’s because of Canada’s failure to curb the “ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, however, show that fentanyl seizures from Canada make up less than 0.1 per cent of total U.S. seizures of the drug; most smuggling comes across the Mexican border.
