Ben O'Hara-Byrne 🇨🇦

I Covered the Epstein Case for Decades. These Are 9 Questions We Actually Need Answered. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…

On the Mount Rushmore of 80s US cultural icons.. hard to argue Hulk Hogan doesn’t have a spot

From the former US ambassador to Budapest

I found myself getting angry over this story. It seems obvious that, whether this Quebec fisherman drifted 200 feet into the U.S. or not (as the U.S. Coastguard alleges), his arrest was unwarranted and overzealous. To me, it is a reflection of the impunity with which U.S. law…

Sounds like an acquittal..

As a person who covered Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, and who has read through pretty much every single Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit, I find the current discourse to be in bizarro land.

8mins mark or so for some Canadian content …

Or you could actually look into why some clients are “debanked”, why it’s so opaque and learn something about the issue .. theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

Awesome

An interesting and informative article on so-called “debanking” and how little financial institutions need to share about the reasons why seems timely. “Few rules protect clients who arouse suspicion but who haven’t actually committed a crime” theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew chose not to sign a new interprovincial trade agreement unveiled Tuesday by Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, citing the need for Indigenous consensus before moving forward with major infrastructure projects. winnipegsun.com/news/kinew-wal…

After much speculation, Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announced the reissue of “Buckingham Nicks,” more than 50 years after the release of their only full-length album as a duo. apnews.com/article/buckin…

in the Lich and Barber convoy case, a whole lot of folks who know better or should are confusing a sentencing recommendation made by the Crown (they always tend to go high) with the actual sentence (determined by the trial judge), you have to wonder why.

“Rogers chief executive officer Tony Staffieri acknowledged that “the size of the net add market is lower than last year,” and said these numbers are in part the result of slowing immigration following federal target cuts and fewer student visas.” theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

12… still room on the bucket list - Petra and Taj would be at the top.

Listen, bicker all you want about Carney, but he was the bloody head of the Bank of England until March 2020… at least attempt to get the math right, it’s not tough.

The head of FEMA's search and rescue unit has resigned, and said the Trump administration was causing "chaos" at the agency and hindered the Texas response. nyti.ms/4lKhYEv

I say this with emphasis. When the Japan deal details are made public, I suspect the math will not match the White House rhetoric. There is no way.

The reason why Ukrainians are free to protest peacefully in Kyiv (in this case about a law just passed by parliament) is because they haven’t “ended the war” by surrendering to Putin and abolishing their democracy.

This, on the US giving up power and influence to China, is very good From @ishaantharoor wapo.st/4m1fxNw