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- Kyiv suffered heavy bombardment overnight, with apartment buildings among the targets. At least 13 people were killed and 40 injured; Ukraine says they are experiencing a shortage of air defense missiles, and were unable to intercept the missiles that hit the city. The country depended on the US to supply many of these, but they are now hard to come by thanks to the US attack on Iran which has…
- The Trump regime is delaying the 50% tariffs on Canadian goods for three days. The announcement came less than two hours before the tariffs were set to take effect, with Trump saying that there is a "deal" pending the finalization of some documents. Mark Carney did not say that there was a deal, though he did say that "substantial progress" had been made. Whether the progress in question has to…
- Canadians who sell goods to the US, including everything from jewelry to power cables, fear that they could lose up to half their business if the Trump regime's widespread tariffs go ahead as planned today. One would like to think Canadians will know enough to blame Trump rather than the Canadian government, but I wouldn't count on it. - Russia has made its usual vague warnings about…
- Negotiations with the US in an attempt to prevent the Trump regime from imposing severe tariffs this Wednesday are not going well . The US wants concessions on supply management for dairy products, something that Quebec has called a "red line", as well as on alcohol, something that is under provincial jurisdiction and which several provinces have said they will not relent on unless promised…
- Count Binface came a distant second to Nigel Farage in the byelection held yesterday in the constituency of Clacton. The byelection was necessitated by Farage resigning as a political stunt; due to the boycott by serious parties there were some hopes that the satirical candidate could get enough protest votes to put him over the top, but in the end Farage secured just over 63% of the vote.…
- This week's Democratic primaries have had mixed results for leftwing candidates. In Minnesota, sitting lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan soundly defeated establishment candidate Angie Craig, while climate activist William Lawrence won the primary for a House seat in Michigan. On the other hand, Francesca Hong was narrowly defeated in the primary for Wisconsin governor by centrist David Crowley.…
- The Canadian Association of Professional Employees has confirmed what many of us have suspected for a while, saying they were told by a source in the federal government that officials were "very worried" about risks to the financial sector from remote work due to the decline in value of commercial real estate. The Bank of Canada had reported in 2024 that some pension funds and insurers had…
- Water levels in the Danube River are now so low due to drought that the wrecks of warships scuttled by the Nazis during WWII are resurfacing . More seriously, the situation is impacting irrigation as well as power generation . - The Launchpad , a yacht owned by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, apparently failed to respond to a call for assistance as required by maritime law. A skiff that had run out of…
- The heat wave striking Europe continues to rage . Temperatures as high as 42°C have been recorded in Slovakia; in Poland two coal-fired power plants were forced to shut down due to low water levels in the Vistula River, removing 1.3 gigawatts of power from the country's grid. - Danielle Smith is criticizing the Edmonton Police Service for a video that encourages people to report hate speech .…
- Much of the UK, including over half of England and all of Wales, is officially in a state of drought . England received only 7% of its average July rainfall last month. - Even if the war in Iran were to end immediately, experts think that it is unlikely that fuel prices will drop significantly before this fall's midterm elections in the US. That might be a problem for the Trump regime given that…