NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has claimed that Europe has “gotten the message” from President Donald Trump, who has vowed consequences for the disloyalty displayed by supposed allies during the conflict with the Islamist Iranian regime.
Author: Blazingcatfur
$1.5M bail revoked for alleged Project South drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto cops
An alleged drug trafficker accused of obtaining confidential information from a Toronto police officer, which investigators say was used in an unsuccessful conspiracy to kill a senior corrections officer, was back in custody Tuesday morning after his bail was revoked.
The Crown asked for a Superior Court review of the decision to release Brian Da Costa on a $1.5 million bail in early March. Justice Rita Maxwell ordered his detention and vacated the lower court’s decision, which saw Da Costa released under house arrest supervised by three sureties.
Amsterdam Lets You Buy Drugs—But Bans Burger Ads
Amsterdam is one of Europe’s most permissive cities, where prostitution is celebrated and going to a ‘coffee shop’ regularly involves getting high on cannabis.
It’s hardly surprising, then, that the city’s decision to ban public adverts for meat—alongside fossil fuel products such as petrol cars and airline travel—has been met with a mix of ridicule and outright condemnation.
Scholar tracks uptick in Iran’s threats to diaspora in Canada, others question deporting official
OTTAWA – A scholar researching transnational repression says he’s seeing an uptick in Iran’s regime threatening diaspora in Canada.
University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau said at the start of the U.S. war on Iran that Tehran tends to target dissidents abroad when it feels threatened.
The Liberal Party has regime toadies sitting in Parliament.
WTF?
Suicidal white leftist lady wearing LGBT rainbow earrings argues that Australia should bring ISIS members stranded overseas back to Australia, while Yazidi refugee who was personally tortured by ISIS begs for them to be blocked.
Absolute perfect example of Western suicidal… pic.twitter.com/plxtUd9cYq
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) May 5, 2026
It’s time for governments to stop spending your cash to lobby themselves
The federal government is spending your hard-earned tax dollars to lobby itself.
In what amounts to little more than a slush fund merry-go-round, Ottawa is giving your cash to non-governmental organizations, just to have those very same organizations turn around and lobby the federal government.
Defund The Education Institutions Churning Out Left-Wing Assassins
I have often wondered what would happen to my eight younger siblings if both of my parents were assassinated. It is not a hypothetical most people consider, but it’s one my husband and I have discussed seriously.
My parents, Rachel and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, are prominent supporters of President Trump. In today’s political climate, that alone can invite deadly consequences.
The threat felt visceral last week when an active shooter tried to murder the president and his Cabinet at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where both my parents were present. When the news broke, my stomach dropped. I gathered my 6-year-old sister, Valentina, and we prayed a Hail Mary together. Even before details emerged, I suspected two things: The shooter would be young, and the shooter would be educated.
Former Vancouver Mayor Says Premier Eby Aware of RCMP Investigation Into B.C. Cabinet Minister Over Alleged Chinese Government Collaboration
VANCOUVER — Kennedy Stewart, the former mayor of Vancouver, said in a broadcast interview Monday that British Columbia Premier David Eby is aware of an active RCMP investigation into a sitting cabinet minister suspected of collaborating with the Chinese government — and that senior NDP officials have been alerted to the matter with no apparent action taken.
The anti-fascists are now funding fascists
In recent weeks, I keep coming across new items that need constant double-checking, because they are so absurd that at first glance they appear made up. Last week, this story in particular caught my attention: On April 21, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on eleven counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Surveillance pricing is discrimination by another name
In 2008, on The Price Is Right, retired meteorologist Terry Kniess gave exactly the correct answer – right down to the dollar! – on two grand prizes. Everyone assumed he had cheated, but he said he hadn’t – instead, he memorized the show’s predictable set of prices.
That mind-blowing feat couldn’t happen today. Companies have made it almost impossible to know when the price is “right,” thanks to endless data collection that changes how much things cost across both time and place. Businesses now commonly use computational systems to track behaviour and traits to figure out what consumers might tolerate paying, to extract the maximum possible amount of money from them. This goes by many names: Algorithmic, personalized, surveillant, or even “snitch” pricing (though some economists see it as the holy grail of market efficiency, since everyone is paying what they are willing to pay). Some companies even claim, weakly, that this data collection helps them to deliver personalized and optimized discounts. But no matter what you call it, the result is discriminatory – even as this variance becomes a dominant feature of the modern economy.
Should We Cap America’s Population?
America’s population is approaching 350 million by its 250th anniversary, but bigger isn’t always better. The trouble is that America’s population growth is being driven by mass migration.
One of President Trump’s underreported achievements was slowing the growth of the population by reducing migration. The pandemic by contrast led to a crisis in which migration exceeded excess births by 244,622 to 148,043. By 2023, there had been a 4.5 million increase in the foreign born population. The migration surge was eventually recorded as the largest in American history with the foreign born population exceeding 15% of the United States.
Toronto at the tipping point: Bringing a once-great city back from the brink
When Premier Bob Rae asked me to chair the Task Force on the Future of the Greater Toronto Area in 1995, I accepted enthusiastically. The Task Force was created to respond to growing concerns about the health and workability of the city-region.
It was becoming apparent that the secure and satisfying quality of life that people in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) had been enjoying for the decades following the Second World War was under threat. The region’s lagging economic recovery from the post-1989 recession had revealed its vulnerability in the changing global economy. Torontonians were feeling that the systems they had relied on — from municipal finance to governance to public transit — were breaking down and no longer able to meet their needs.
Here we are 30 years after that, and concerns about Toronto’s viability are back.
No one wants to discuss white flight & the fact that diversity leads to a low trust society.
Woman chases child down sidewalk in her car …
Shocking footage captured the moment a woman accelerated her Ford Focus down a sidewalk to chase a child on his dirt bike.
Deputies with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office arrested Wendy Clemente, 56, for allegedly attempting to mow down the child while under the influence on April 28.
Video released Monday by authorities, filmed by a stunned witness, showed Clemente initially pointing her car at the boy and honking her horn repeatedly on a quiet residential street in Cheney, Washington.
🇺🇸 Drunk Driver Tries to Run Over Boy on Dirt Bike in Cheney, Washingtonpic.twitter.com/rwrRqT2GfB
— U.S.A.I. 🇺🇸 (@researchUSAI) May 5, 2026
Alberta separatist group says it has enough signatures to trigger referendum on leaving Canada
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Alberta separatists said Monday they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada.
The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the province to consider such a vote.
The question of separation could go on a provincewide ballot as early as October, as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said she would move forward if enough names are gathered and verified. Smith has said she personally does not support the oil-rich province leaving Canada.
h/t patthedog