- Numerous nonprofits, including Amnesty International, Save the Children, and Oxfam, are calling for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a joint US-Israeli operation, to be shut down. They accuse the organization of putting people in harm's way by essentially serving as a honeypot for the IDF.
- The Carney government's move to cancel the digital services tax may have been short-sighted. The next thing in the Trump regime's sights is supply management, and getting rid of that would be a hard sell indeed. Fortunately, a recently passed piece of legislation, Bill C-202, explicitly prohibits trade negotiators from "making any commitment on behalf of the Government of Canada" that would impact supply management.
- Criminologists report that homicides in the US, after peaking dramatically in 2020-2021, have declined just as dramatically. It is believed that the spike was driven by the pandemic, and that the decline was driven by the return of jobs and services that had been disrupted.
- A church in Winnipeg's West End has just held its final service; the building will be donated to a nonprofit to serve as housing for seniors.
- A man who had been assaulted by a crowd of people was taken to the drunk tank at the Main Street Project after being medically cleared by paramedics, and was again cleared on arrival, however he died shortly afterwards. The death is under investigation; if I had to guess it might be that he sustained a concussion in the assault and the symptoms were mistaken for signs of intoxication, but we'll have to see.
- British punk/rap act Bob Vylan, as well as Irish rap group Kneecap, are being investigated for possible "public order offenses" over things they said from the stage at the Glastonbury music festival. Bob Vylan chanted "death to the IDF" (the BBC is apologizing for not pulling the plug on the live broadcast) while Kneecap also made anti-Israeli chants as well as attacking UK prime minister Kier Starmer. The Trump regime has revoked Bob Vylan's visas for a planned US tour; Liberal MP Anthony Housefather and several Conservative MPs are calling for Canada to take similar measures. I do have to wonder if an artist who chanted "death to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps" would have been subject to the same scrutiny.
