Olivia Chow and her allies at Progress Toronto clearly see Brad Bradford as a threat. On Monday, Chow went into Bradford’s ward to hold a news conference and claim that he doesn’t care about tenants living with bad landlords.
She scares me.
Author: Blazingcatfur
U.S. mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz will be temporary, Hegseth says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. mission to protect commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz would be temporary and other nations would soon have to take responsibility, emphasizing Tuesday that the fragile ceasefire with Iran remained in place despite attacks on U.S. ships a day earlier.
Speaking at a briefing alongside Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hegseth said the United States had established a powerful “red, white and blue dome” over the strait as a “direct gift” to other nations to allow commercial ships to pass through.
“This operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury,” he said, using the Trump administration’s name for the war with Iran.
"And I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't." Pete Hegseth
"Kamikaze dolphins. It's like sharks with laser beams. Right." General Kaine
What a time to be alive! pic.twitter.com/YEyE0rNakS
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) May 5, 2026
After a decade in power useless layabouts in Ottawa to start tracking which if any temporary foreign residents have left Canada after permits run out
Ottawa is for the first time to track which foreign students and other temporary foreign residents have left the country after their permits to remain in Canada expire, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab told a committee of MPs on Monday.
Economists have been warning for years that Canada has been dramatically undercounting the number of temporary residents living here by presuming that international students and others leave the country after their permits and visas run out.
Minister @CitImmCanada says she’s unsure what became of 800 foreign students identified as fraudsters in federal audit by @OAG_BVG 6 weeks ago.
“I don’t have that information.”
— @LenaMetlegeDiab https://t.co/NnGntFLGOZ@BradRedekopp @MichelleRempel @CostasMenegakis #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/d40xlcenjS— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) May 5, 2026
There’s a pattern here. Carney puts extremely stupid people in charge of important portfolios knowing they will outright lie if needed. They simply lack the dignity to admit they’re in over their heads.
That’s a lot of shoes …
NEW: Police airlift a crocodile with the body of a 59-year-old businessman inside.
Local police in South Africa say they suspected the crocodile ate the man after observing it from drones. They then shot it and airlifted it off.
When they landed back on the ground, the… pic.twitter.com/12NBTQbmis
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 4, 2026
His ring was found inside the animal along with six other pairs of shoes…
h/t handynhandsome
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
The Department of Homeland Security tried to obtain a Canadian man’s location information, activity logs, and other identifying information from Google after he criticized the Trump administration online following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis early this year.
Lawyers for the man, who has not been named, are alarmed in part because they say that the man has not entered the United States in more than a decade. “I don’t know what the government knows about our client’s residence, but it’s clear that the government isn’t stopping to find out,” says Michael Perloff, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia who is representing the man in a lawsuit against Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of DHS, over the summons. The lawsuit alleges that DHS violated the customs law that gives the agency the power to request records from businesses and other parties.
I hope it was Avi Lewis or Chairman Chow!
Meanwhile Canada has a whole data base dedicated to crushing dissent.
💥Imagine this: One post about an MP gets flagged. The PPS quietly pulls your name and full social-media history from its database. Under Bill C-70 and existing MOUs, it’s handed to CSIS as a “threat assessment.” That then triggers a Bill C-22 ministerial order, forcing your ISP… pic.twitter.com/0iQccApUeA
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) May 4, 2026
Trump accuses pope of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with Iran stance
Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Evil white people to blame for poor results on Ontario teacher’s math test
Data show racial, language disparities in mandatory Ontario teacher math test
… However, the new data from the fall of 2024 to the fall of 2025 appears to show some wide gaps even after multiple attempts. After three attempts, for example, 92 per cent of white candidates succeeded while 64 per cent of Black teacher candidates were successful.
The numbers also suggest that the vast majority of that one-third of Black teacher candidates who were still unsuccessful after three attempts gave up, and did not try again.
“What really troubles me is the question of how many great teachers did we lose as a result of the barrier that this math test put in place?” Cowley said.
Lord knows the system needs as many math illiterate teachers as possible.
Mass migration fuels Sweden’s gang shootings as 23 innocent bystanders killed in three years
Twenty-three innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 others wounded in gang-related shootings in Sweden over the past three years, according to police statistics released on Monday that have laid bare the Nordic country’s struggle to rein in a wave of violent crime rooted in failed migration policy.
The figures have come as Sweden continues to grapple with the legacy of decades of large-scale migration, with the country having received the highest per capita intake of migrants in Europe during the 2015 migration crisis. Swedish police have estimated that around 30,000 people in the country are directly involved with or have ties to gang networks, with newer assessments putting the figure of those connected to organised crime at more than 60,000.
Carney Pulls Canada Closer to Europe as Both Struggle With Trump
Canada and the European Union are turning commiseration and anxiety over their turbulent relationships with the United States under President Trump into a deepening bond.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada joined a summit of European leaders in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, putting his country at the heart of some of Europe’s biggest priorities. He was the first non-European head of government to be invited to the gathering, known as the European Political Community summit.
Mr. Carney’s relentless pursuit of new, expanded alliances to lessen Canada’s dependence on the United States coming as Mr. Trump threatens to unravel decades of economic integration, has effectively led Canada to be welcomed as something of an honorary European Union member.
Carney wants Canada to be part of the EU
No thanks
Europe is going through an authoritarian phase where they censor and jail their citizens for posting memes and bad words
While tanking their economies with radical socialist policies
Again, no thanks https://t.co/CKtuRgQLzB
— Dean Allison (@DeanAllisonMP) May 3, 2026
Article from the tweet above … This is swell! Canada and the EU can kick Mississippi’s but together! Well Sorta.
What Happens When Europeans Find Out How Poor They Are?
Do Europeans understand how poor they are? And what will happen when they find out? Those are the Continent’s big political-economy questions for the next few years—perhaps decades.
The widening gap between American and European prosperity is among the most important facts of the global economy. The clearest manifestation is the chasm in per capita gross domestic product: $94,400 in the U.S., according to the International Monetary Fund, compared with $65,300 in Germany, $61,000 in the U.K. and $52,000 in France.
While America’s prosperity advantage isn’t new, today’s scale is. From a fairly narrow edge throughout the 1980s, the gap widened a bit in the 1990s. Since 2007, however, European per capita incomes have more or less stagnated while the U.S. has enjoyed another growth spurt.
Cambridge fails to suspend students who threatened to kill classmate over Israel trip
A University of Cambridge college has been criticised after it failed to suspend students who made death threats against an undergraduate who visited Israel.
The visit, organised by the Pinsker Centre think tank, took Oxbridge student leaders to Israel, where they met Israelis and Palestinians to better understand the Gaza conflict.
But one of the party, Bradley Smart, 21, said he received death threats from fellow students when he returned to Homerton College.
Ottawa to fast-track permanent residency for up to 33,000 temporary foreign workers
More than 30,000 temporary foreign workers who live in small, remote and rural communities will be able to apply for a fast track to permanent residency, under an initiative announced Monday by Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will accelerate permanent residency, or PR, for up to 33,000 temporary foreign workers in “in-demand sectors” such as agriculture and natural resources, trades and transportation, and health and caregiving.
Carney picks former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour to be governor general
Prime Minister Mark Carney has named former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general.
Carney is picking a francophone with a long legal resume that includes stints prosecuting war crimes in Rwanda and Yugoslavia and serving as the UN human rights commissioner.
Judge ‘disturbed’ over ‘legally deficient’ treatment of Trump gala shooting suspect
A US judge on Monday apologized to the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump for the “legally deficient” treatment he has faced in a Washington DC, jail, including being placed on suicide watch, separated from other inmates and denied a Bible.
The US magistrate judge Zia Faruqui said he was disturbed by the conditions for Cole Allen, who allegedly fired a shotgun during a foiled attack on Trump and senior officials in his administration at a 25 April press gala. The judge said the conditions were inappropriate for a person with no criminal history.
“Whatever you’ve been through, I apologize,” Faruqui said during a court hearing.
Ontario couple found guilty of boy’s murder, brother’s torture
Becky Hamber, 46, Brandy Cooney, 44, had pleaded not guilty to charges involving boys in their care
It seems no one dared upset the twisted lesbians.
NATO’s Power Shift: U.S. Steps Back, Germany Steps Up?
Last week’s announcement of the withdrawal of around 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany—followed by Donald Trump’s warning that there will be “many more”—has shaken Europe’s strategic landscape at a particularly sensitive moment.
Not only because of the scale but because of the transatlantic context: direct political friction between Washington and Berlin, war in the Middle East, and a NATO that is once again questioning itself.
Germany remains the main U.S. military hub in Europe, with more than 36,000 personnel, key infrastructure such as Ramstein and Stuttgart, and a central logistical role for operations across three theaters—Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The announced withdrawal affects only a fraction, but the message Washington intends to send carries greater weight.