A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out: he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by The Daily Wire.
Just two days following the federal election, the Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC), which oversees the distribution of government-mandated media funding from Google, released a list of outlets that received millions of dollars.
The decision to wait until after the election has raised concerns about transparency, given that the funds were distributed to media outlets during a campaign where recipient media organizations had a major financial stake in the election due to a reliance on subsidies distributed or mandated by the Liberal government.
This is Banana Republic stuff.
Canadian Journalism Collective Issues First Public Disclosure of Funding Recipients
The Canadian Journalism Collective-Collectif Canadien de Journalisme (CJC-CCJ), the independent administrator of funds under the Online News Act, is pleased to issue its first public disclosure of fund recipients today, reaffirming its commitment to transparency.
Today’s disclosure includes 108 news businesses that have received funding up until April 23, 2025, totalling $22,193,608.09, as part of CJC-CCJ’s mandate to support a vibrant, innovative and independent news ecosystem for all Canadians.
NOT ONE THIN DIME TO BCF! h/t Mauser
At least 26 people, including several children, have been killed and 46 injured after India launched attacks on what it claimed were nine sites of “terrorist infrastructure” inside Pakistan, in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
Pakistan declared the strikes to be an “act of war” and claimed it had shot down five Indian air force jets and a drone. “Pakistan gives a befitting reply to India,” said the Pakistan government in a statement.
India had accused Pakistan of involvement in an attack targeting Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir last month that killed 26 people. “We are living up to the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable,” said the Indian defence ministry.
A war between India and Pakistan could soon spill onto British streets
“India and Pakistan have clever generals, diplomats and politicians who will be able to call any conflict quits. On Britain’s streets, there are fewer restraints available. We had race riots involving Muslims and Hindus in Britain in recent years. They’re always in the offing, always ready to break out.”
All of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s big talk about standing up to Donald Trump was exposed Tuesday as a bombastic sham.
At a meeting in the White House with the president, Carney smiled happily when Trump talked about winning the election for him. When the topic of Canada becoming the 51st state was raised, Carney declared that would never happen (would any prime minister of Canada have said any less?)
But when the president talked about shutting down the Canadian car industry and refusing to buy our steel and aluminum, the prime minister was silent. No push back. No standing up for Canadian interests.
This was down right embarrassing.
Anyone who elected Carney because he was the person to deal with Trump should be hanging their heads in shame about now.
Elbows up
pic.twitter.com/NtbFoymmN9— Kevin Pacitti (@kpac_15) May 6, 2025
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! @fancypants_s https://t.co/W4NLg7BaCD
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) May 7, 2025
h/t Aunty Polly
A gay volunteer was banned from a railway group after expressing his gender-critical views on email and social media.
Matthew Toomer, 48, was thrown out of West Midlands Railway’s “Adopt a Station” scheme after he privately contacted company bosses to express concern about its “Progress Pride” train.
WMR rebranded one of its trains last summer with a “rainbow diamond motif” that bares similarities to the Progress Pride flag, which features a yellow diamond. It was also named “Hurst Street” after the Birmingham road at the centre of the city’s Gay Village.
Air India flight from Toronto to Delhi diverted due to clogged toilets https://t.co/67kfq3jqkN pic.twitter.com/1HILK7pHlR
— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) May 6, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly and Patti Jo
Premier Danielle Smith says her focus will be on repairing the destruction she says Ottawa has caused to Alberta over the past decade as the idea of separation from Canada gains greater public attention.
During a news conference Tuesday, Smith reiterated that she would hold a referendum on provincial separation in 2026 if citizens gather the required signatures on a petition.
Smith said she didn’t want to presume a referendum will happen, but said she will honour the voting process.
Thousands of people were left trapped on trains or stranded overnight after the theft of copper cables halted high-speed services between Madrid and southern Spain’s Andalusia region.
Authorities opened an investigation on Monday after Sunday’s theft, which Transport Minister Óscar Puente called a “serious act of sabotage”.
Now what? The dust-up has settled, the votes are in, democracy and decency have triumphed, or disaster has struck. But either way, it’s time to put politics aside and start governing. Which is hard.
I mean in both senses. It’s hard for politicians to turn to governing because, famously, they’re in a very strange profession where the qualifications for getting the job are totally different from the qualifications for doing it. So there’s a very real trap for winners of elections in particular, namely to keep campaigning even after you win.
The White House press conference between President Trump and newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shows that every generation gets the summit it deserves. World War Two had Yalta, the 1970s the Camp David Accords. Barack Obama had a beer with the cop who arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Trump bragged about the new 24-karat White House gold décor and said, about Canada, “I think we have a lot of things in common.”
Voters want the system upended
When Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen handsomely to reclaim the French presidency in 2022, the liberal establishment was in ecstasy. Their verdict that the centre was holding was as understandable as it was unfounded. In reality, Macron’s second term helped the ultra-Right become France’s strongest political force. Last week, Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese defeated their Trumpish opponents to retain the prime ministerships of Canada and Australia, respectively. Once again, news of the revival of the political centre may prove a centrist delusion.
While Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Israeli citizens on Monday night, inviting them to ask about plans to expand military operations in Gaza “without the media’s filters,” Hamas pleaded with world leaders to pressure Israel to back down. The terror group’s request was likely directed specifically toward European governments, which have largely kept their backs turned to Israel since the October 7th pogrom.
Ethan Elharrar remembers having a single month of normal college life at Toronto Metropolitan University. He was anxious about leaving Montreal for Toronto, living on his own for the first time in a new city, beginning a new program. He was nervous but excited.
It must surely rank as one of the least sincere apologies of all time. Lucy Powell, the embattled leader of the House of Commons, has claimed that her recent remarks dismissing concern about the grooming-gangs scandal as a ‘dogwhistle’ do not really ‘reflect her views on the issue’. UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accepted her apology and has resisted the growing calls for her sacking.
