Welcome back to Canada, President @BarackObama.
Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us. pic.twitter.com/S2lrJLL5Td
— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) May 9, 2026
Ottawa has found another way to make Canada’s immigration system bigger while claiming it is making it smaller.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab announced on Monday that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will accelerate the processing of permanent residence for up to 33,000 foreign workers already in Canada in 2026 and 2027.
Consider these recent news stories from Europe and North America:
(1) Germany’s government is considering a new law that would allow its spy agency to investigate and block citizens from buying homes if the would-be owners hold political views that conflict with the government’s official policies. In effect, political dissent would disqualify a person from owning a home.
(2) London Mayor Sadiq Khan is pushing for a government-run “disinformation unit” to investigate and silence online criticism of the mayor’s policies.
NEW YORK — A six-story glass-clad building in Manhattan’s Chinatown — wedged between a hotel, a spicy Fuzhou noodle shop and a business billed as a high-end private spa — became this week the unlikely center of one of the most revealing federal trials yet of how Beijing’s security apparatus has allegedly embedded itself inside American society.
Last Christmas, one of Australia’s major suicide prevention groups had a call from a very distressed suicidal man. The counsellor did his best to support him and arranged to keep in touch. But there was no answer to the counsellor’s follow up calls. Following the organisation’s duty of care rules, the counsellor made a call to NSW police, fearing the man was at imminent risk of harm.
The police reaction was shocking. “Is there a female partner who could be at risk? Is he likely to hurt her,” asked the police officer, whose immediate concern was not checking on the man in crisis but rather assessing the risk that the suicidal man could be violent.
Welcome to the latest triumph of feminist policy innovation.
When Japkirat Singh was convicted in a Toronto courtroom last week of dangerous street racing that caused the death of an innocent woman, he was thousands of miles away.
According to his lawyer Charn Gill, Singh was still in India due to his father’s illness and wasn’t able to return to Canada because his work permit expired in June 2025 and his renewal application was rejected a few months ago.
A few people reached out to me on May 5th and shared this interview of David Grusch. David discussed my work (timestamp 34:00) and mentioned the work of my friend and colleague, Dr. Brett Robinson Associate Director for Outreach for the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame. I wasn’t surprised by Grusch’s statements, which advocated a nuanced insight into aspects of nonhuman intelligence as it is related to UFOs (UAP). I’ve spoken with him over the last few years and we have associates and friends in common. I understand his position and what he wants to accomplish. I am grateful that he has been open, for a few years now, about the harassment he’s experienced by going public about the alleged “legacy program,” or the program that probably has been around for more than seventy years, if it exists. I inadvertently and unintentionally discovered its possible existence in my early research into this topic. Believe me when I state, before 2014, I had no idea this was a thing (i.e., crash retrieval programs associated with UFOs). Whether it exists or not, it is documented publicly in my books.
NEW: Rep. Tim Burchett says the first drop of UFO files is a "drop in the bucket" compared to the "Holy Crap" moment that is coming.
"The 1st drop will be big but in comparison to what is coming they will be a drop in the bucket. I would say “Holy Crap” is coming," he said.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 8, 2026
There’s a lot to absorb in this first limited info drop. I will be waiting for the response of those I find trustworthy on the matter.
The Regina school that sent its students to a LandBack smut-on-stage “courtroom comedy” earlier this week quickly realized its mistake. It had a good excuse, at least: in a letter to parents after the fact, it explained that the performing arts theatre had indicated that the production was age-appropriate. Indeed, the theatre’s website does not mention the part where a drag queen plays a gyrating, rump-thrusting, boob-jiggling version of Queen Elizabeth II in an underbust corset.
A city councilwoman in the state of Washington suggested that the LGBTQ pride flag should replace the American flag in one of her city’s public parks because it is ‘more relatable’.
Since 2025, Isabel Mata has been a progressive member on the city council in Lynnwood, a small city about 17 miles north of Seattle. She describes herself as ‘a queer, neurodivergent writer, advocate, and mindfulness meditation teacher’.
During Monday’s council meeting, Mata made her comments about the pride flag following a lengthy discussion about amending Lynnwood’s policy on how to decide which flags are flown at Wilcox Park, known affectionately by locals as ‘Flag Park’.
Prime Minister Mark Carney made history last week as the first non-European leader invited to the European Political Community summit. His remarks were a familiar rehash of the bromides he delivered at Davos earlier this year: a world in “rupture,” the need to rebuild the international order “out of Europe,” and solemn warnings against a “transactional, insular, and brutal world.” He pushed for deeper integration in critical minerals, supply chains, and defence, as well as a new strategic partnership. Yet behind the lofty rhetoric lies a troubling reality. Carney claims to be guided by “pragmatism,” but his enthusiastic pursuit of deeper European Union (EU) alignment risks selling out Canadian sovereignty for a mountain of red tape and romantic symbolism.
The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt has announced a ‘new patriotic cultural policy’ should it take power. The state’s cultural foundations … warn against a development that fundamentally calls into question the freedom of art, the openness of cultural institutions, and the democratically enshrined culture of remembrance.”
Thus begins a joint press release from the major state-funded cultural institutions of Saxony-Anhalt.
Saxony-Anhalt is the state in which the right-populist AfD is on course to win September’s election (it is currently polling at 38%, well ahead of all other parties, with a comfortable 13% lead over the incumbent conservative CDU).
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had an opportunity to reinvigorate his party this week at one of Canada’s most important political networking conferences. Unfortunately for the most part, he delivered an underwhelming speech that lacked vision, energy and real answers to the challenges facing Canada’s conservative movement.
The Canada Strong and Free Network’s (CSFN) annual Ottawa conference is among the most significant conservative gatherings in Canada, and typically brings together the best and brightest of the movement’s thinkers, leaders and influencers.
In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed constitutional design, Wilson had suffered a debilitating stroke two years prior that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. He died just a few years later, in 1924.
On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation to move ahead with Arbour’s key recommendation for the country’s military.
The bill before parliament would put into law Arbour’s 2022 recommendation to strip the Canadian Armed Forces of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences, leaving that to civilian authorities instead.
The Liberals voted on Tuesday to drop a Conservative amendment to the bill that would have given victims of sexual offences the right to choose whether their cases are tried by the military or civilian judicial system.
An Illinois State Trooper pulled up to a horrific multi-vehicle crash on I-94 in Chicago. A woman was trapped inside her wrecked Chevy Impala, her jammed seatbelt pinning her in place. He slashed the belt with his pocket knife, then moved to the passenger side to pull her free as… pic.twitter.com/zTaeocEDO8
— Senator Obi (@IykeNwaObi) May 7, 2026
