Forty-three arrests after enormous £4.5m police operation keeps rival protests apart

Forty-three arrests after enormous £4.5m police operation keeps rival protests apart

The Metropolitan Police has said 43 arrests were made on Saturday during an enormous £4.5m police operation to keep demonstrators at two rival London protests apart.

More than 4,000 police officers were deployed to the capital to manage a so-called “sterile zone” between a rally organised by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

Tourists trying to navigate major central London landmarks were left bemused by the operation.

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HANNAFORD: Carney and press freedom

HANNAFORD: Carney and press freedom

Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before the cameras on May 3, 2026 – World Press Freedom Day – and had this to say: “Journalism empowers us with truth and protects our democracy.”

Also, “We must protect what it means to be Canadian.”

And, “In a sea of foreign media and disinformation, we need Canadian voices more than ever.”

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Man drives car into pedestrians in Italy, injuring eight

Man drives car into pedestrians in Italy, injuring eight

A man has driven his car into pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena, injuring eight people, four seriously, officials say.

They include a woman who reportedly had both her legs crushed.

After the car came to a halt against a shop window, the driver emerged holding a knife and injured a passer-by who gave chase, before the suspect was overpowered.

The suspect, 31, has been identified by officials as an Italian national of Moroccan origin. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the incident as “extremely serious”.

Perp’s capture

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Are Canadians choosing not to have children or resigning themselves to it?

Are Canadians choosing not to have children or resigning themselves to it?

Canada’s birth rate is now among the lowest in the world, reflecting not only economic strain but a deeper shift in how young people think about family, work and the future. More Canadians are choosing not to have children or to have fewer than they once expected.

This conversation asks whether the decision to have fewer children is a necessary adaptation to an uncertain world or a choice with long-term consequences.

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NAACP chapter president warns white people not to try and fill position left by black mayor of Charlotte after she resigned in wake of tram murder that shocked world: ‘It’s not about YOU!’

NAACP chapter president warns white people not to try and fill position left by black mayor of Charlotte after she resigned in wake of tram murder that shocked world: ‘It’s not about YOU!’

The North Carolina NAACP backed a chapter president who declared it would be ‘seriously disturbing’ for a white person to take the spot of the outgoing black mayor.

Last week, Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles revealed she would step down from her position only halfway through her term, announcing June 30 as her final day in office and stating it ‘has been the honor of my life.’

Her announcement, however, sparked questions about why she was suddenly resigning, with many pointing to backlash over her handling of the stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a tram in the city.

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Canadian travel to US picks up for first time since trade war — but still far from its peak

Canadian travel to US picks up for first time since trade war — but still far from its peak

For the first time since Canadians started boycotting travel to the US to protest the trade war, trips south of the border have started to pick up — slowly.

Travel to the US inched up 1.4% in April compared to the same month last year, with 1.8 million Canucks visiting the Land of the Free, according to monthly data released by Statistics Canada this week.

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US Secretary of State Official Weighs In on stupid woke Canadian University DEI Complaint ruling

US Secretary of State Official Weighs In on stupid woke Canadian University DEI Complaint ruling

U.S. Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers has again spoken out on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in Canada, this time commenting on a tribunal ruling that found views opposing “systemic racism” theories are not grounded in political or legal principles.

The decision involves a Simon Fraser University political science professor who was denied a job because he did not support DEI.

The B.C. human rights tribunal decided against holding a hearing on the issue last month. Adjudicator Devyn Cousineau said in her April 15 ruling that the educator had no reasonable likelihood of proving that he was denied the position because of his political views, because opposition to DEI did not constitute a political stance under the law.

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Why AI will tip human evolution in favour of conservative and religious people

Why AI will tip human evolution in favour of conservative and religious people

THERE is a fascinating short story by EM Forster called The Machine Stops. In this story, humans live underground and are completely reliant on a machine which does everything for them. Strong, healthy people have been bred out because they become unhappy living underground. Then, one day, the machine stops and humans are plunged back into the harsh Darwinian conditions that we were subject to until the Industrial Revolution. The story is a cliff hanger, but the future is obvious: there is going to be mass death.

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IRGC Proxy Commander Directed Attack on United States Consulate in Toronto, Plotted to Bomb New York Synagogue, and Paid for Terrorist Strikes Across Europe Through Mafias

IRGC Proxy Commander Directed Attack on United States Consulate in Toronto, Plotted to Bomb New York Synagogue, and Paid for Terrorist Strikes Across Europe Through Mafias

WASHINGTON — A senior commander for Kata’ib Hizballah — the Iraqi proxy militia of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — directed a sprawling international terrorist campaign that included an attack on the United States consulate in Toronto, paid operatives across Europe and Canada to carry out bombings and arsons against Jewish and American targets, and attempted to hire what he believed was a Mexican cartel operative to set fire to synagogues in New York, Los Angeles, and Arizona, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Friday in the Southern District of New York.

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Actor Refuses to Push Politics, Triggering ‘The View’

Actor Refuses to Push Politics, Triggering ‘The View’

Hollywood has been pushing Progressive talking points so loudly and relentlessly, and for so many years now, that it’s easy for conservatives to forget that not everyone in the industry is a frothing Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer like Robert DeNiro or Mark Hamill. A small minority of “above-the-line” figures (the “creatives”: actors, directors, etc.) are openly conservative, and then there are some who just aren’t into politics – like Billy Bob Thornton.

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Inside Canada’s sluggish process for deporting senior Iranian officials

Inside Canada’s sluggish process for deporting senior Iranian officials

On the first day of his recent deportation hearing, Abbas Omidi found himself at loggerheads with the government lawyer arguing for his removal from Canada.

At issue was not his loyalty to the repressive Iranian regime, his employer for nearly 27 years. And no one was suggesting he was involved in violent crackdowns on protesters.

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Antiracism is poisoning British policing

Antiracism is poisoning British policing

Yesterday, Lord Daniel Hannan tweeted: “A man is stabbed to death by someone who accuses him of being a racist — and the first thing the police do on arrival is to handcuff the dying man.” Hannan speaks to a kind of “reverse Stephen Lawrence syndrome”, whereby conservative commentators view police as institutionally biased against white people. In 1999, the Macpherson Report into Lawrence’s murder was published, finding the Metropolitan Police liable for “institutional racism” in its handling of the case.

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Conrad Black: How to give new purpose to Canada and Britain

Conrad Black: How to give new purpose to Canada and Britain

The world is nostalgic for a respected Britain, is waiting for a mature Canada, and India is surging. Instead of Britain standing outside the door of Europe and Canada and India shivering in the shadow of America or China, and the Anzacs alone at the end of the earth, we should collaborate, for our collective good and for the stability in the world. The United Kingdom is floundering through its seventh consecutive failed government and is attempting to redefine its secession from the European Union by creeping backwards toward it, having almost severed its alliance with the United States by equivocating between that country and Iran, the world‘s greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the current conflict. At the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney has assigned Canada and himself the role of rounding up disgruntled, so-called middle powers that harbour grievances against the United States, in particular, and getting them all to stand upon each other’s shoulders so that they will be taken more seriously in the chancelleries of the world. Both the U.K. and Canada have been thrust into these improbable vocations by prolonged mismanagement of their own foreign relations and national interests.

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