The first white South Africans to be granted refugee status by President Trump are set to arrive in the US next week.
More than 50 Afrikaners, descendants of mainly Dutch colonisers, are expected to arrive at Washington’s Dulles airport as early as Monday. The group have been granted P1 refugee status, which, according to the US State Department, is given to individual cases “by virtue of their circumstances and apparent need for resettlement”, sources said.
Various Indigenous leaders have complained vocally about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s roundabout way of engaging with the province’s separatist movement by making it easier for organized citizens to arrange for referendums.
But the moment they have me nodding along in understanding, they pull their own sovereigntist card: arguing that the numbered treaties situated in Alberta are a higher, purer form of authority; that secession talk violates treaty rights; and that treaty land is literally their property and thus untransferable.
Prosecutors have rewritten charges against a man for burning a copy of the Koran after being accused of resurrecting the offence of blasphemy “by the backdoor”.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has amended the charge against Hamit Coskun, 50, who set fire to a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London so that he is no longer accused of harassing the “religious institution of Islam”.
MPs and lawyers had claimed the phrase was tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy offence and “plainly defective” as the “religious institution of Islam” was not a person under the Public Order Act through which Mr Coskun was being charged.
A new report released by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms outlines the extensive and lasting damage caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in Canada, citing a dramatic decline in mental health, a rise in non-COVID deaths, strained healthcare services, economic fallout, and increased crime.
The report, Five Years On: Tracing the Costs of Lockdowns, criticizes federal and provincial governments for implementing sweeping restrictions without transparent, evidence-based analysis.
Since day one, Prime Minister Mark Carney has tried to convince Canadians that he’s not former prime minister Justin Trudeau. And until now, he has succeeded.
Early on, Carney took decisive action to try to clearly distance himself from the Trudeau legacy. He signed an Order in Council to set the consumer carbon tax rate to zero. He promised to scrap the Trudeau government’s planned capital gains tax hike. And he made a middle-class income tax cut the centrepiece of his election platform, recognizing Canadians were hard done by after years of Liberal tax hikes.
In 2016, the U.S.-China trade war forced Beijing to negotiate. Tariffs crippled Chinese factories, major U.S. retailers like Walmart and Costco halted orders, and container shipments stalled. China conceded. But in 2025, when the U.S. imposed a 145 percent tariff expecting similar results, Beijing didn’t flinch. There was no panic, no economic distress, no concessions. Why? Because China had a secret card this time.
Athabasca University, like all other Canadian Universities, fully embraced the COVID-19 vaccine coercion with a policy requiring staff be injected.1 A search of the Faculty of Health Disciplines’ research outputs demonstrates a clear ideological singular divisive narrative demonizing “anti-vaxxers” and a doctrine that pushes the inclusion of “pregnant and breastfeeding populations in clinical trials leading to market approval or emergency use authorization should be undertaken early or concurrently at the time of trials in the general population.”2
And …
Mere weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that bilateral relations with the U.S. were “over,” he’s leaned into a pro-American stance that is almost entirely at odds with the position he took during the federal election campaign.
In a video posted to Carney’s social media accounts on Wednesday, he featured smiling images of himself and U.S. President Donald Trump, and of U.S. Marines holding the Canadian flag. “Canada and the United States are stronger when we work together,” Carney says in a narration.
This is the start of a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the United States. pic.twitter.com/HCJATcpndZ
— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) May 7, 2025
Does freedom of speech include the right to blaspheme? In 21st-century Britain, you’d have thought the answer would be ‘yes, obviously’. Our last blasphemy conviction was in 1977. England’s blasphemy law was abolished in 2008, having been a dead letter for decades. The centuries-long struggle for free speech in this country, as in so many others, was built on defaming gods, kings, clerics, prophets. Without the right to blaspheme, there is no right to speak freely. But in this identitarian age, what was once taken for granted is fast melting into air.
S’Doni Pettis, a black career criminal “on probation after serving time for aggravated battery” (a downgraded charge as Pettis was facing attempted murder) reportedly led police on a high-speed pursuit in a stolen vehicle in February, a chase which ended almost as soon as it began: In less than 30 seconds, Pettis had “slammed” into an SUV with a father and his two young children on their way home from a pediatric check-up. The car “exploded into a fireball,” allegedly killing little 2-month-old Iris instantly, and burning the three-year-old Ares so badly, he died from his injuries shortly after.
‘An armed man on a vigilante mission to avenge the killing of his great-grandchildren was gunned down in a chaotic shootout with deputies escorting inmates in front of an Indiana courthouse Tuesday, according to family and officials.
The 65-year-old shooter, Mark Vawter, showed… pic.twitter.com/KQBd5kuPUb— The Daily Sneed™ (@Tr00peRR) May 8, 2025
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says the Liberals are making phone calls to NDP members of parliament to see if they will join the Liberal Party in an effort to reach a majority government.
Davies told Global News he’s not worried about his six other NDP MP colleagues switching political teams.
Following the death of Pope Francis, UFO activists are intensifying calls for the Vatican to open its secret archives.
Many believe the archives contain long-hidden evidence of extraterrestrial visitations that have been framed as divine visions in centuries past.
Some, like US Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch, go even further, alleging the Vatican has known about alien life for decades and actively covered it up.
Another glowing dot video just dropped, no idea what this is.
— All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (@DoD_AARO) May 9, 2025
This is funny.
The Whistle Blowers!
The #1 UFO disclosure show in America welcomes new cast members. pic.twitter.com/gCroP6ovMG
— TUPACABRA (@TUPACABRA2) May 9, 2025
Ukrainian women injured in the war with Russia have bared their battle scars in the latest issue of Playboy.
Five women – including a veteran who lost a limb in combat – were photographed for the Scarred Beauty project, which tells the stories of women who have survived severe injuries and their rehabilitation.
The creators said they wanted to highlight “female strength” and show that beauty did not “vanish after injury”.
Canada lost more than 30,000 manufacturing jobs last month while Windsor saw a jump in its unemployment rate as U.S. tariffs take aim at the automotive sector and feed into economic uncertainty.
Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey on Friday said employment increased by 7,400 nationally, though that figure was padded by an increase in election-related hiring. The overall unemployment rate rose to 6.9 per cent, up from 6.7 per cent in April.
The April jobs figures illustrate how tariffs are beginning to squeeze the Canadian economy, affecting regions and industries most exposed to trade with the United States.
I feel for anyone who has lost their job except for the Liberal Party’s job stealing, medical services swamping, housing shortage causing migrants.
A staple of Mark Carney’s stump speech during the election was the line that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the kind of politician who has never changed his mind since he was 17.
“Who hasn’t changed their mind since they were 17?” the Liberal leader would mock.
The attack was validated by Poilievre’s own words in his interview with Jordan Peterson in December, in which he said he has been “saying precisely the same things” since he was a teenager.
