OTTAWA — Canadians are split on the importance of a new trade deal with the U.S. and a majority don’t trust Donald Trump to abide by one anyway, a new survey suggests.
The Abacus Data poll shared exclusively with the Star also shows most Canadians don’t want Prime Minister Mark Carney to rush into a trade deal, even if it means a longer period of uncertainty and short-term economic pain.
The White House has branded Star Wars actor Mark Hamill “a sick individual” after an AI-generated image showing Donald Trump in a shallow grave, with the words “If Only” as an overlay was posted to one of star’s social media accounts.
Hamill, who played the lead character of Luke Skywalker in six movies of the iconic science fiction franchise and is a longtime critic of the US president, apologized and removed the post from his Bluesky account on Thursday.
The American actor replaced it with another message clarifying that he was not advocating the president’s demise.
Doug Ford’s government has fired the entire board of Conestoga College citing “evidence of serious financial and governance mismanagement.”
The news from the province comes after the Toronto Sun broke the news that former president John Tibbits was given an exit package worth at least $3.8 million.
I like the moves Ford is making on education but why did it take him so long to be just a little conservative?
WASHINGTON — The US military launched a new series of airstrikes Friday, targeting a group of empty tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that were trying to barrel through the blockade of Iranian ports, according to US Central Command.
A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet struck two empty Iranian tankers that were attempting to break past the American blockade on Tehran’s ports, disabling them both “after firing precision munitions into their smokestacks,” CENTCOM said in a post to X.
Clashes are intensifying in the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Central Command has released footage it says shows the moment two Iranian vessels were targeted, amid escalating maritime tensions in the region.
According to the American statement, U.S. forces are currently preventing… pic.twitter.com/BBbXsqp1j0
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Canada needs to act quickly to push back on a growing belief in Washington that it’s dragging its feet on trade talks, according to the Quebec government’s representative in those negotiations.
Louise Blais, who was appointed last month as Quebec’s envoy for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement review, said that “an impression has set in, in D.C. — for right or wrong — that Canada is looking elsewhere, and that we’re slow-walking this.”
The controversy surrounding the banquets organised by Le Canon français shows no sign of abating. The initiative, launched by two young entrepreneurs to revive traditional banquets centred on culinary specialities from across France, has come under fire from the press and the Left on the grounds that it perpetuates an ideology of exclusion and promotes far-right ideas. The rector of the Paris Mosque has spoken out publicly to, in turn, attack these festive gatherings which bring together several thousand enthusiastic guests in towns and cities across France.
In a video dated April 29th, Chems-Eddine Haffiz, rector of the Paris Mosque—who, given his official position, is regarded as a kind of spokesman for Islam in France—lashed out at the Canon français and its banquets: the fact that it celebrates a cuisine featuring pork, he claimed, is proof of a logic of exclusion. He condemns the “4,000 guests gathered around a spit-roasted pig” and accuses them of “symbolically” excluding those who do not share this cuisine—that is to say, Muslims.
“Our own government told us a medical treatment was safe – and it killed babies.”
Defense Lawyer Bath-Sheba van den Berg provides one of the top 10 quotes from Silencing Detective Grus – World Premiere, Ottawa May 19, 2026
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A man accused of a firebomb attack that killed one person and injured a dozen others during a demonstration last year in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza was scheduled to plead guilty Thursday to murder and other charges.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the attack in downtown Boulder last 1 June.
Soliman’s attorneys revealed he would plead guilty in a recent court filing in a related federal case. He was set to appear Thursday before a state district judge, Nancy Salomone, to do so.
Attempts by the federal and provincial governments to create an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada through massive taxpayer-financed public subsidies have turned into a disaster.
Not to worry Carney’s ChiCom pals will save us!
It’s disclosure day.
FIRST ON FOX — The Trump administration on Friday released a batch of “never-before-seen” files and videos on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) as part of an effort to increase transparency on government knowledge of extraterrestrial phenomena.
“The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place – no clearance required. While past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files,” the White House said in a statement to Fox News.
There will be more files released. To include our request of the 40+ files. I talked to the Pentagon last night. pic.twitter.com/djjeSt7CEX
— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) May 8, 2026
Pentagon begins releasing new files on UFOs and says the public can draw its own conclusions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”
Besides the Pentagon, the effort is led by the White House, the director of national intelligence, the Energy Department, NASA and the FBI.
WAR.GOV/UFO is a dedicated Department of War webpage to stay up to date with the latest UAP file releases.
h/t XC
Chicago Alderman William Hall wants to see Walgreens face charges for closing (over a shoplifting crisis) pic.twitter.com/lZgZRvBdJ7
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 4, 2026
h/t Hermes
Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen announced today that she will take her conviction for “insulting a group” to the European Court of Human Rights, setting up a test of how far free speech and religious expression are protected under European law.
The Finnish Supreme Court found her guilty in March 2026, by a narrow 3–2 majority, for disseminating a 2004 pamphlet to her religious community. In that text, Räsänen outlined the Christian conception of marriage as a union between a man and a woman and questioned certain practices from that doctrinal perspective.
BREAKING: Christian Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen, who was criminally convicted for “hate speech” by her country’s Supreme Court for a church booklet she wrote decades ago, has today announced that she will appeal her case to the European Court of Human Rights. pic.twitter.com/pQgsNZdRAb
— ADF International (@ADFIntl) May 7, 2026
Canada is a circus. It is a legitimate clown show. The solutions to cleaning up this mess are remigration and an immigration moratorium. Anything less is insufficient. pic.twitter.com/RcEjJCDLpE
— Jason (@Nrvous00) May 7, 2026
h/t Mauser
The federal government quietly transferred more than $3 million away from a homelessness program for veterans after officials claimed they could not find enough former military members eligible to receive the funding.
Blacklock’s Reporter says internal records obtained through Access to Information show Housing Minister Gregor Robertson’s department moved the money while warning the decision could spark backlash from veterans groups and housing advocates.
