A famous bull mosaic in one of Italy’s grand arcades is getting some much-needed care after being worn down by tourists honouring a tradition involving its delicate body parts.
As the legend goes, tourists in Milan who grind their heels on the bull’s testicles and spin in place three times are guaranteed good fortune and are destined to return.
In March, the Carney government announced a relaxation of rules for the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in rural Canada. At the request of any premier, the allowable share of low-wage TFWs in rural workforces can be increased from 10% to 15%. So far, Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia have opted in.
It is notable that most provinces have not chosen to avail themselves of the federal government’s offer to boost TFW numbers. The Canadian public’s support for immigration restriction shows few signs of cooling, and provincial governments are to some extent behaving accordingly.
NATO has said it stands ready to defend “every inch” of allied territory and condemned the “recklessness” of Russia, after a Russian drone struck an apartment block in eastern Romania overnight.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte telephoned Romanian President Nicușor Dan to convey the alliance’s “absolute solidarity” and his thoughts for those injured in the strike, the former Dutch prime minister said in a post on social media.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada has put more than $65 billion toward defence and security over the past year and reached NATO’s 2 per cent of GDP benchmark — but that is no longer enough for Washington.
The United States has paused its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD), a World War II–era U.S.-Canada defence board.
An Austrian court has sentenced a 24-year-old Syrian Kurd refugee to life in prison for a knife attack that killed a teenage boy and injured five other people in southern Austria. The court found him guilty of murder, five counts of attempted murder, and terrorist offences following the incident in Villach on February 15th, 2025.
Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket.
Watch live views: https://t.co/tm2wZQmAVD pic.twitter.com/PmbgQC6Qmq
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) May 29, 2026
Two Minnesota fraudsters allegedly swindled more than $21 million in funding earmarked for autism services through two bogus companies and then spent it lavishly on overseas property, officials said.
Shamso Ahmed Hassan, 55, and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, 25, whose mugshots were released on Wednesday, made off like bandits by submitting millions of dollars in fake claims to Minnesota’s Early Intensive Development and Behavioral Intervention Program [EIDBI] between May 2020 and December 2024, authorities said.
Alberta sits on some of the world’s largest energy reserves, yet we’re landlocked and constantly hamstrung by Ottawa’s web of regulations, policies, and environmental vetoes. Federal rules don’t just slow projects down — they kill them outright and drive billions in investment south of the border. The result? We subsidize the rest of Canada while our core industry gets throttled.
(Incognito)
Negotiators for the US and Iran have agreed a framework of a deal that would extend their ceasefire for 60 days and launch negotiations on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, US officials say.
The agreement is yet to be approved by President Donald Trump or the leadership in Iran, the officials told the BBC.
But there were conflicting reports from Tehran, with Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency quoting a source close to talks who said it had not been finalised or confirmed.
We’ll see.
WASHINGTON — In 2017, as Donald Trump launched a campaign to decouple the United States from a system of economic entanglement with China that a generation of American officials had come to see as quietly corroding the nation’s security and wealth, the son of a Texas Republican was living in Beijing under a borrowed name — and, that year, was introduced to a man who, he came to understand, communicated frequently with Xi Jinping himself.
Avi Lewis says the separatist movement in Alberta has no comparison to Quebec’s separatist movement.
Calls them MAGA aligned.
For the record, the NDP, since the 2005 Sherbrooke Declaration, has advocated for 50% +1 for Quebec to separate.— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) May 28, 2026
Brampton, Ontario. pic.twitter.com/xTIFypWGcY
— SweetMarie (@Oceanbreeze473) May 28, 2026
h/t Mauser
Canadian researchers are calling for a more coordinated response by G7 countries to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.
Wednesday’s report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security comes a day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa for the first time in a decade.
Hmmmmm someone make Xi angry!
