- Hungary's parliament has voted to remove the country's president, Tamás Sulyok, from office. The Tisza party under Péter Magyar won a supermajority in April's election, ending the reign of prime minister Viktor Orbán, but a constitutional amendment was required to end the term of Sulvok, widely seen as an Orbán loyalist. Orbán's Fidesz party walked out in protest prior to the vote; notably Orbán himself has refused to take his seat in parliament and was in the US watching a World Cup game during the vote. Besides removing the president, the amendment includes numerous other measures to reverse the damage that Orbán and his party did to the country's political institutions.
- Alberta lawyer (and prominent separatist) Jeffrey Rath has had over $8.5 million in assets frozen by a court following accusations of fraud in his oversight of a trust belonging to Tallcree First Nation.
- Former Conservative MP Inky Mark was arrested last week at and charged with multiple offenses, including firearms trafficking and possession of a weapon with an altered serial number. The arrest followed an investigation into another Dauphin-area resident who was arrested earlier this year following the theft of a handgun at a gun show in Minnesota; Mark had allegedly purchased weapons from the suspect in that theft. The RCMP seized 439 firearms from his home along with various accessories, ammunition, and cash; among the items seized was an antique cannon.
- Public health authorities in southern Ontario are urging 884 patients who had dental work done at a Brantford clinic between 2021 and 2025 to get tested for HIV and hepatitis. The clinic was shut down last November and the dentist stripped of his right to practice after a whistleblower reported inadequate sterilization of equipment.
- Over 2,000 workers in Manitoba suffered injuries or psychological harm due to workplace violence in 2025, more than triple the figure from ten years previously. Nearly 80% of these cases involved workers in only a handful of jobs, including nurses, bus drivers, daycare workers, and similar occupations. No cause for the increase is given in the article, but I suspect that the pandemic is a big part of the reason.
- Temperatures have been so high in Winnipeg and surrounding areas in the last few days (the mid to high thirties) that roads have buckled due to thermal expansion, sometimes enough to cause damage to vehicles. As hot as it's been here, though, it's not as hot as was in the hamlet of Armstrong, Ontario, north of Thunder Bay, where temperatures hit 40°C on Monday.
- Colombian soccer player Jaminton Campaz appears to be in hiding after missing the net in a crucial game against Switzerland last week, leading to his team's elimination from the World Cup. He did not join his teammates for the flight home, and still has not returned to Colombia due to death threats. No doubt the story of the hapless Andres Escobar, who was shot to death in 1994 after scoring an own goal in that year's World Cup, weighed heavily on his mind.
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