A Guatemalan drug pusher who dealt gummies to Long Island kids was cut loose with no bail – then caught trying to escape justice by running to Canada, authorities said Thursday.
Wilmer Castillo Garcia, 22, was busted in August 2025 for selling cocaine to an undercover cop and pushing pot gummies to William Floyd Middle School students, with 12 of the kids ending up in the hospital but he was set free because of the state’s “broken” bail laws, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.
Since the beginning of his tenure as Prime Minister, Mark Carney has consistently evoked the language and imagery of a traditional Canadian identity. Whether it was his allusion to the four founding nations of Canada during the election, or more recently, with a video he published giving praise to Canadian hero Sir Isaac Brock.
Mark Carney is attempting to use these icons of our history to present himself as being a unifying figure, drawing from the Canada we remember but have lost. However, these bids to capitalize on nostalgia fall flat when one begins to recall who is to blame for the loss of this identity.
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Two Green Party candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred for allegedly posting anti-Semitic comments online.
Saiqa Ali, who is standing in Streatham, in the borough of Lambeth, and Sabine Mairey, the candidate for Clapham Town, also in Lambeth, were detained by Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday morning.
Russia is already waging war on Poland, and Nato must respond more forcefully to its next attack, a senior Polish general has said.
Poland shot down Russian drones deep inside its airspace last autumn, while Moscow-linked hackers have attacked government infrastructure and ministries of thousands of times — including a cyber-assault that sought to cripple the power grid in midwinter.
Canada urged to open up new permanent resident program to all temporary workers
With so many temporary residents running out of legal status this year, Ottawa has been urged to immediately release details on an announced program that’s meant to grant permanent status to migrant workers in limbo — and make sure the process is fair and inclusive.
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab has been in the hot seat, accused of failing to promptly and properly communicate about the highly anticipated program to transition temporary foreign workers with expiring permits to permanent residence.
The Star hates you.
The Toronto Star is literally platforming violent Syed Hussan, Exec Director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change who was charged with assaulting and obstructing cops. https://t.co/gHveQRx6zl
— Rowan (@canmericanized) May 1, 2026
A German television report and an Austrian court ruling have sparked renewed debate in Europe over the role of Sharia law and fears of “parallel justice” systems operating alongside national legal frameworks.
In Germany, a report broadcast by ARD in its programme “KLAR” examined attitudes among young men in Berlin-Neukölln regarding Sharia and German law. In street interviews, some respondents said they would prioritise Sharia over state law, with one stating “Sharia, of course” when asked which should apply.
To clean the streets in Africa, due to the huge amount of waste, they use bulldozers. pic.twitter.com/iLwMbMAPAs
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) May 1, 2026
h/t Mauser
The success rate for basic training in the Canadian military has dropped to 77 per cent over the past fiscal year as the Canadian Armed Forces grapple with the impact of recruiting changes designed to boost enrolment, according to a leaked internal report.
That compares with a historical average of 85 per cent, according to an internal January, 2026, report by Lieutenant-Colonel Marc Kieley, commandant of the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School (CFLRS) in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.
There were bonfires behind the Saskatchewan Legislature on the night of June 15, 1944. Earlier that day, the upstart Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Party had stormed to victory in the provincial election, and the defeated Liberal government responded by destroying papers and files in burning barrels. Not a single government document – except for two pages missed in the commotion – survived the culling.
The extent of the document purge was not fully appreciated until the new CCF administration found empty filing cabinets in government offices. New premier Tommy Douglas was furious. The first few weeks after the election were chaotic, Mr. Douglas recalled, but what made it worse was not having access to government records “in order to pick up where somebody has left off.”
The Biden administration sought to target and prosecute Christians, going so far as to allegedly withhold evidence for pro-life defendants, a new report from the Justice Department reveals.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement that the “Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans.”
“No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith,” he noted.
OTTAWA – J.J. McCullough — one of the most-read Canadian voices on politics — posted a thought this week that I’ve also been hammering in reporting and podcasting this year.
“I do not think the Liberal Party should be engaged in an ongoing backroom conspiracy to undo the stated partisan preferences of voters, or indeed elected politicians themselves,” he wrote, on Mark Carney’s unprecedented scheme of inducements to secure a majority government. “And I think the press should start reporting on this as an organized conspiracy, not fun Ottawa drama.”
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which began life in October 2024 as a private member’s bill, has finally collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions after 18 torturous months.
At least the UK got This right.
To get straight to the point about the federal government’s spring economic update: the Liberals are spending even more of our money than they previously estimated. This fiscal year, program spending is now expected to be $536.2 billion, which is $7.6 billion higher than in the fall budget. The new spending projections for the following year are also higher than in the fall budget, and the same for the year after that, and even the year after that. All told, the Liberals’ economic update raises program spending by a cumulative $25 billion over four years versus their fall budget and they now propose to push spending to $575.4 billion by 2029-30.
