A Walmart Heiress Breaks Ranks and Joins the Anti-Trump Movement

A billionaire Walmart heiress is publicly speaking out against President Trump, breaking with the rest of the wealthy family and risking backlash for the retail empire.

Christy Walton, the widow of one of the Walmart founder’s sons, took out a full-page ad in national newspapers, calling for people to “defend against aggression by dictators” and participate in demonstrations around the country this weekend, known as the “No Kings” protests. Walton took out a similar ad at the end of March.

The latest ad has thrust the Walton family, one of America’s richest, into a spotlight that it has largely tried to avoid. The ad has sparked cries for a boycott of Walmart on social media and grabbed the attention of Trump’s supporters and detractors.

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China’s Infiltration of North America Runs ‘Deep,’ Says Canadian Investigative Journalist

From manufacturing fentanyl precursors, to operating unofficial Chinese police stations on Western soil, to recruiting academics abroad to gain access to foreign technologies needed to advance Beijing’s goals, China’s infiltration of North America runs “deep,” says a Canadian investigative journalist.

The problem of China’s operations in Canada drew renewed attention last month when FBI Director Kash Patel said Beijing is among the hostile regimes working with cartels to smuggle fentanyl into the United States through Canada.

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As climate induced hell-fires rage across the country, Canada looks to build pipelines — in the name of national unity

The country is literally on fire. So we better get to work building more pipelines, thereby enabling us to pump even more oil out of the ground and have even bigger, hotter, wilder, more out-of-control fires.

This seems to be the main takeaway from the new détente reached between Ottawa and the provinces in the name of fighting the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Nobody dares to spoil this sudden feel-good vibe by even hinting at how badly we’re failing on the climate front. Such talk has effectively been banished.

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Soap, Sex, and Simulacra: Hollywood’s Latest Moment of Madness

The culture war was lost in a bathtub.

Sydney Sweeney is one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood today. Best known for roles in Euphoria and The White Lotus, she’s built a reputation as a bombshell and a decent actress. But she’s not content with acting. Now she’s a saleswoman too — though not the kind we’re used to.

Ms. Sweeney is busy selling her bathwater. No, I’m not joking (although I wish I were). It’s a real product. It’s market-tested, agency-approved, and infused into bars of soap, packaged as masculine self-care. This isn’t just some strange footnote in celebrity culture. It’s a headline. It’s a mirror. It’s a totem of a society so far removed from meaning that it now rinses itself in irony and calls it cleansing.

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Terry Glavin: We’re not Los Angeles yet, but it might be coming

Despite Carney’s vow to scale back immigration, the numbers keep going up — not counting those living here illegally

After several days of riots and rabble-rousing in response to the Trump administration’s ham-fisted determination to round up illegal immigrants, downtown Los Angeles was placed under curfew on Tuesday. The disorder has spread to more than a dozen American cities. There have been scores of arrests.

It has all made for great television and amusing political theatre, with Democrats shouting righteously about the rule of law and due process while ignoring their own support for “sanctuary” laws that undermine their own government’s capacity to enforce federal immigration legislation. Not to be outdone, Donald Trump’s Republicans have invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to back their plans for mass deportations. The 1798 law was about pirates.

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It’s official: the barbarians have conquered Brussels

You can no longer organize even a European conference of conservatives. You can no longer celebrate Christmas and Easter at school.You can no longer walk around certain neighborhoods without a headscarf.

In the world first imagined and then built by multiculturalists, everything is permitted, except defending the values ​​that made liberal Western society possible.

The British government’s anti-extremism program, Prevent, has ordered civil servants to treat “cultural nationalism” – the idea that “Western culture is threatened by mass migration and the lack of integration by ethnic and cultural groups” – as the ideology of “far-right terrorism”.

So, if you don’t want multiculturalism, Islamization and uncontrolled immigration to change the face of your culture and society, you are a “psycho-criminal” to be monitored (and punished).

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Nothing About the L.A. “Protest” Is Organic

The new dominant form of organized crime has shown its face in Los Angeles in recent days. Though it comes under the banner of “protest” and is whitewashed in the media as “mostly peaceful” and presumed spontaneous, a close observer can see that it is none of these things. It is in fact the result of a calculated civil terrorism movement taking advantage of Americans’ reluctance to treat criminals as criminals.

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Post-Mulroney, the Conservatives’ brand is ‘loser.’ It’s time for an overhaul

How have Conservatives fared since making the big swerve rightward in the early 1990s?

We recall that under Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative banner they won majority governments in 1984 and 1988. Then along came the dividers, the ideologues of the Reform Party, who grabbed

52 seats in the 1993 election and then proceeded to swallow the old Tories whole.

And the rest is history – a primarily painful party history. Since the late Mr. Mulroney’s departure from the party leadership in 1993, the Liberals have won eight elections to the Conservatives’ three.


How about NO? Visible minorities in the GTA increasingly supporting Conservatives: U of T study

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Did The Palestinian Authority President Really Condemn the Hamas Attack of October 7, 2023?

France claimed this month that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had condemned the invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group. During the attack, Hamas terrorists and other Palestinians murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, wounded thousands. They kidnapped another 251 people to the Gaza Strip, where 52 – dead and alive – remain in captivity.

Paris said in a statement that the purported condemnation was included in a letter Abbas sent to France on the eve of a United Nations conference in New York, scheduled for this month, to push for recognizing the establishment of a Palestinian state. The conference is to be co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia.

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Wait times for major surgeries are getting longer, new data shows

Five years on from the COVID-19 pandemic, wait times for key surgeries have yet to bounce back, new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows.

Released Thursday, the data set tracks wait times for “priority procedures” such as hip and knee replacements, cataract surgeries, cancer treatments including radiation therapy, and diagnostic imaging like MRI and CT scans.

While the total count of scheduled procedures has risen for some since 2019, the numbers show, Canadian patients are often still waiting longer to get them than before the pandemic began.

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Israel preparing to strike Iran, US officials told

American officials have been told that Israel is “fully ready” to launch an operation into Iran and anticipates that Iran could retaliate on US sites in neighbouring Iraq.

CBS News reported that Israel was poised to begin an operation in Iran, prompting the United States to scale down its embassy staff in the Middle East. Further reports suggest that Israel is preparing an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

The partial withdrawal was announced by President Trump, who said he was less confident now that negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal would succeed.

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Tories Spar With Immigration Minister on Expired Visa Holders Remaining in Country

Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab faced questioning this week from Tory MPs who voiced concern about temporary immigrants remaining in Canada after their visas have expired.

Diab told the House of Commons on June 9 the expectation is they will leave on their own and that removals are not within the purview of her department.

Canadians have to learn how to Riot.

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