Today, I spoke with my Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East. I underscored Canada’s commitment to de-escalation and reaffirmed our readiness to contribute to these efforts. I also thanked Egypt for its leadership in promoting diplomatic solutions. We agreed to remain in close contact as we continue to advance efforts toward peace and stability in the region.
Canada’s new Nature Strategy will protect up to 2.4 million km² of our lands and oceans.
By harnessing the power of modern technology and the wisdom of Indigenous traditions, we are making unprecedented conservation efforts to build a stronger, more sustainable Canada.
@carolynhparrish You won me over with your comment replies. I didnt believe we had anyone actually standing up for real Canadians (not the imported paper canadians) but it looks like you might be someone to speak for us.
Free, full-sized Canadian Flags are ready for pick up today and all next week at the Welcome Desk in Mississauga City Hall. Just show identification that verifies your Mississauga address. Hopefully you will celebrate Canada Day displaying it on your property.
@carolynhparrish This is the true flag of Canada, the one brave Canadians fought under and died for in 2 world wars.
Not this post national, culturally-devoid maple leaf “corporate logo” one that I no longer care about or acknowledge.
@carolynhparrish Yes you can get them you just need to get your permits to fly a traditional colonizer flag
You also need written permission from your neighbours that it’s ok with them
Then you need to apply for the license to fly a non pride coloured flag
Then you’re good to go
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand slammed the legislation shortly before the vote Wednesday, but 15 Liberal MPs ultimately voted in favour.
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Canada's public safety minister said the new bill "is not about surveillance of Canadians going on about their daily lives. It is about keeping Canadians safe in the online space."
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Only seven per cent of Canadians surveyed said their fellow citizens were morally bad, compared to 53 per cent of Americans.
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David Ellison says a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. would release over 30 films in cinemas a year, but history tells a different story.
• After Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, annual output dropped from 14 films in 2017 and 2018 to just three in 2023, four in 2024 and six in 2025.
• In 2025, Warner Bros. released 11 films. Paramount released nine.
• Exhibitors predict a similar decline if Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros. passes regulatory approval.
“It’s a case of pick your poison,” says an exhibition consultant. “The extended battle over which terrible deal would happen will result in fewer major studio releases.”
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@liu_zc42321@archeohistories You live with a cowards mind. If Muslims respected life they wouldnt threaten death for resisting conversion. Mohammed brought the promise of lust in return for slavery. That sounds more like the devil to me.
@archeohistories These Christians' sacrifices for religion were actually meaningless—Muslims also believe in God and revere Jesus as a prophet.
Why not temporarily convert to Islam to save their lives? Though this might offend Christians, life is more important.
It was 1480, and the streets of Otranto were choked with bodies—men in torn doublets, women clutching lifeless infants, children whose cries had already gone silent. Across the harbor, the banners of the Ottoman Empire rippled in the sea breeze, their crimson field and crescent moon stark against the blue of the Adriatic. The city’s gates, battered and splintered, hung useless on their hinges. Behind them, in the cathedral square, eight hundred men stood bound in rows, their faces set, eyes fixed on the horizon. A Turkish officer read the final demand: embrace Islam or face the sword. When no one stepped forward, the blades began their work.
Otranto had been the sentinel of Italy’s heel for centuries, a fortified port guarding the narrow channel between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas. On July 28, 1480, a fleet of roughly ninety Ottoman galleys appeared offshore, carrying an invasion force of eighteen thousand under the command of Gedik Ahmed Pasha. The target was not merely a provincial town but the gateway to the Kingdom of Naples—and, potentially, all of Italy. Mehmet II, “the Conqueror” of Constantinople, had turned his gaze westward. If Otranto fell, nothing stood between the Sultan’s armies and the papal states.
The siege began with cannon fire that shook the very limestone foundations of the walls. For fifteen days the defenders, numbering perhaps six thousand including civilians, resisted with crossbow bolts, arquebus fire, and boiling oil poured from the battlements. The city’s governor, Count Francesco Largo, fell early in the fighting, leaving Archbishop Stefano Pendinelli to rally both soldiers and townsfolk. Chroniclers tell of the archbishop walking the ramparts in full vestments, carrying the relics of St. Stephen and offering absolution to the dying. But the walls could not withstand the relentless pounding. On August 11, a breach yawned open, and the Ottoman troops surged in.
What followed was a massacre. An estimated twelve thousand inhabitants were killed outright; five thousand more—mostly women and children—were chained for the slave markets and the harems of the east. The surviving men of fighting age, some eight hundred in number, were herded together. According to Italian and later Vatican accounts, they were offered their lives in exchange for conversion to Islam. Their spokesman, a humble tailor named Antonio Primaldo, answered for them all: they would remain faithful to Christ, whatever the cost. One by one, they were beheaded outside the city walls, their bodies left as a warning and their heads sent to the Sultan.
The sack of Otranto shocked all of Christendom. Pope Sixtus IV called for a crusade, while Ferdinand I of Naples and the rulers of Spain scrambled to reinforce their coasts. Yet the wider Ottoman campaign stalled; Mehmet II died unexpectedly the following year, and in 1481 a Neapolitan force retook the ruined city.
Still, the memory of those August days lingered. Otranto became a symbol—the last Italian city to fall to a Muslim army, and the place where, in the eyes of contemporaries, the fate of Europe teetered on a knife’s edge. In time, the eight hundred would be canonized as the Martyrs of Otranto, their bones enshrined in the cathedral.
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@CTVNews This was deliberate. The liberals let in the third world, Muslims, pushed gender ideology screwing up children. Thats why Canada is turning into a violent sh*thole. An excuse for control.