Canada
Toronto terror suspects recorded video with weapons, ISIS flag
The video of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and Mostafa Eldidi, 26, showed them holding an axe and machete, according to three sources.
Witness who stormed out of House committee in tears demands apology from Liberal MP
Cait Alexander was on Parliament Hill to provide testimony at a rare summer hearing of the House of Commons status of women committee when she says Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld re-victimized her as a survivor of domestic violence. "I am completely flabbergasted," Alexander said.
Sault 'totally screwed over' by carbon tax, Pierre Poilievre tells SooToday
In exclusive interview, Conservative leader talks about environmental policy, opposition to drug consumption sites, plans to get tough on crime and protect hunters’ rights.
Data shows violent crime up since 2015. Police say it’s not the full story
The volume and severity of police-reported crime has been on "an upward trend that began in 2015," Statistics Canada said in a report released last week.
Cabinet minister Harjit Sajjan requested 100 soldiers to perform with Punjabi pop star Diljit Dosanjh
Canadian Armed Forces commanders rejected the idea of having soldiers serve as backdrops at Dosanjh’s concert
Radio host, author Andrew Lawton seeks CPC nomination in southern Ontario riding
Lawton, who recently wrote a book on Pierre Poilievre, says he's aiming to win the Conservative Party of Canada's nomination in the riding of Elgin-St. Thomas-London South. It comes one day after the incumbent announced she was not seeking re-election.
The Provinces
B.C. United makes a desperation move as it languishes fourth in polls
Vaughn Palmer: With nowhere to go but up, United wants October ballot to say 'formerly the B.C. Liberal party'
BC tourism minister says new rules on short-term rentals needed to house hospitality workers
While some businesses suggest new short-term rental rules have caused a drop in tourism, others say those rules are needed to ensure hospitality workers have somewhere to live.
Ontario health minister at odds with Pierre Poilievre
In another sign of tensions between the provincial and federal Tories, with polls suggesting Poilievre is poised to become Canada’s next prime minister, Jones said mandatory rehab is the wrong path.
Elsewhere
'Is she Indian or Black?' Trump questions Harris' identity at Black journalists' convention
"She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was Black, until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black," Trump said, drawing a smattering of jeers from an audience of about 1,000 people.
Media
To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands
When news sites’ archives disappear, readers aren’t the only ones who lose out — there are all kinds of personal and professional challenges for journalists, too. They’re left to archive their work on their own, so that they have clips to show the next job. Web pages, photographs, and text stories are easier to save than audio files, interactives, and other types of digital journalism; to preserve those, journalists often have to get creative. Paid personal archiving services are available, but “it’s not necessarily appealing when you’re just trying to look for a way to save something that was previously online for free,” one journalist said.
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Science and tech
Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3
“The amount of computing needed to train Llama 4 will likely be almost 10x more than what we used to train Llama 3,” Zuckerberg said.
The Calendar
- 1000 ET: Oshawa, ON - Mental Health Min Ya'ara Saks and Small Business Min Rechie Valdez make a funding announcement.
- 1000 ET: Dartmouth, NS - Housing and Infrastructure Min Sean Fraser and LPC MPs Darren Fisher and Lena Metlege Diab make a funding announcement.
- 1000 ET: Kitchener, ON - Families and Social Development Min Jenna Sudds makes a funding announcement.
- 1015 ET: London, ON - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen meet with renters.
- 1030 ET: Toronto, ON - LPC MP Julie Dzerowicz makes an infrastructure funding announcement.
- 1045 ET: Rimouski, AC - Revenue Min Marie-Claude Bibeau makes a funding announcement.
- 1115 ET: London, ON - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen speak to reporters.
- 1230 ET: Stony Rapids, SK - PrairiesCAN Min Dan Vandal makes a funding announcement.
- 1300 ET: Thunder Bay, ON - Indigenous Services Min Patty Hajdu and LPC MP Marcus Powlowski make a funding announcement.
- 1315 ET: Kensington, PE - ACOA Min Gudie Hutchings makes a funding announcement.
- 1315 ET: Cowansville, QC - Heritage Min Pascale St-Onge and Transport Min Pablo Rodriguez make a funding announcement.
- 1500 ET: Gore Bay, ON - LPC MP Marc Serré makes a funding announcement.
