- The town of Leaf Rapids, Manitoba is being evacuated due to wildfires. Thompson has also declared a local state of emergency; while the city of 13,000 is not immediately threatened, officials are warning people to ensure their vehicles are fueled up in case the situation changes.
- Nahanni Fontaine will keep her job as Manitoba's Minister of Families (whose responsibilities include accessibility) after Premier Wab Kinew accepted her apology for her unfortunate gaffe last week.
- The Smith government in Alberta is considering withholding social services from immigrants who don't have an "Alberta-approved" immigration status. The premier hasn't said exactly what "Alberta-approved" would mean, but I think we can all guess what she hopes rural Albertans will take from that particular dog whistle.
- The auto industry is pressuring the Carney government to scrap the zero emissions mandate. Currently the requirement is 20% of new vehicles sold in 2026 to be either fully electric or plug-in hybrids; this is supposed to rise to 100% by 2035. The industry claims that these requirements "cannot be met"; no explanation for this claim is given other than a vague statement about "current market forces".
- A lawyer in Orange County, California was detained by ICE despite being an American citizen. She apparently was in a park in the city of Santa Ana when she spotted ICE vans, and started speaking in Spanish to advise people of their rights. Evidently ICE did not approve of this and hauled her in, though they released her after confirming her citizenship.
- Border crossings from BC to Washington are down for the fifth straight month. Crossings in June were down over 40% compared with the previous June; anger at the US, not to mention fear of getting sent to some hellhole concentration camp in El Salvador, probably has something to do with it.
- A Winnipeg man was refused boarding on his return flight from Montreal after a WestJet agent refused to accept his Indian Status Card as a valid form of ID.
- A time capsule in Seward, Nebraska that was sealed in 1975 has just been opened. The capsule, which at the time was billed as the world's largest, contained various memorabilia from that year, of which perhaps the most notable is a 1975 Chevrolet Vega. The car was found to be in very good condition, which is more than can be said for the vast majority of Vegas sold. The capsule also contained a Kawasaki motorcycle and over 5,000 other miscellaneous period items such as the infamous Pet Rocks.
- An Australian woman has been found guilty of murdering three of her in-laws and the attempted murder of her husband after she served them a meal containing deadly death cap mushrooms. Erin Patterson had claimed that the poisonings were accidental, but evidence was found that she had searched online where to find the mushrooms, and dehydrated the mushrooms in a food dehydrator (which she later disposed of in the hope of covering her tracks) and mixed doses into the individual servings given to the victims, then feigned illness herself as they sickened and died.
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