wtf
This isn't parody, nor is it a meme.
This is an advertisement by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), promoting Canada as a dumping ground for all of the world's most incompatible grifters and oppressive religion practicers.
— Curious George (@01CuriousGeorge) April 30, 2026
Cuando aún no ha llegado tu día. pic.twitter.com/U7szL8tqJi
— Antonio Guillemes (@Aguillemes) April 29, 2026
NPR “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef has a consistent pattern of finding extremism only on the “far right.” When Cole Tomas Allen shot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, that was somehow not left-wing extremism, as NPR’s headlines over Yousef’s reportage/camouflage from Monday’s All Things Considered claimed:
Shooting suspect’s online presence belies claims of ‘radicalism’
The federal government is allocating up to $145 million for security during the upcoming World Cup.
Canada is co-hosting with the United States and Mexico, with thirteen matches scheduled to take place in Toronto and Vancouver this June and July.
The government said in a new release the funding is in response to “specific operational needs identified by the host provinces and cities.”
Video from Surrey, BC shows South Asian men dumping broken concrete from a demolition job into a rural ditch. Neighbours/farmers came together and blocked the road with trucks so they couldn't leave and made them clean the mess. pic.twitter.com/Yuqzl6tOmJ
— Josh Ryan 🍁 (@joshryanjames) April 29, 2026
Canada’s health minister says she is considering legislation aimed at permanently prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to people born after 2008.
Minister Marjorie Michel was asked by reporters during a press scrum on Parliament Hill whether Canada was contemplating legislation similar to a recently proposed bill in the United Kingdom that seeks to curb cigarette and vape use among youth.
Endorsed by Al Capone and Native Indians.
They never learn.
h/t Mauser
Ontario’s recent call to legalize pepper spray highlights a contradiction. Canadian self-defence law allows people to use force to defend themselves. But other laws make it a crime, or legally precarious, to possess the tools that would let them do so effectively.
A Yellowknife judge has insisted a man who claimed to be Caucasian get a report meant for Indigenous offenders before he sentences him for breaking into a hotel.
Jeremy Kuneyuna — who already has 90 convictions — appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories recently to be sentenced for breaking into a hotel.
WATCH:
Intense arrest unfolds at Union Station following allegations of an unprovoked assault.
Several officers work to subdue a shirtless suspect who appeared to be in distress.
Union Station is Canada’s busiest commuter hub.
📸 Apr 28, 2026#Toronto #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/XrdsxD0mQ2
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 29, 2026
We can’t have programs like this and we also need to stop giving free school to foreigners. Half of these are probably work permit/diploma farm kids. https://t.co/6SSQABsBHE
— Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) April 29, 2026
Police in Vancouver rejected a request from Fifa to provide president Gianni Infantino with a level-four motorcade escort, the sort of security arrangements usually reserved for heads of state and figures like the Pope.
Fifa’s annual congress takes place in Vancouver this week and Global BC reported football’s governing body asked for its president to be given a full motorcade escort through the city, allowing his convoy to go through downtown traffic lights while roads are blocked off.
The Royal Canadian Mint says it has initiated a full review in response to allegations some of its gold comes from a region of Colombia where drug cartels control mines.
Mint spokesperson Deneen Perrin says as soon as the mint learned of the allegations raised by the New York Times newspaper, it “immediately and fully” suspended the refining of any material from the supply chain in question.
When Margot went to renounce her US citizenship earlier this year, she wasn’t able to do it in the UK, her home of 30 years. The waiting list to renounce US citizenship at the London consulate is more than 14 months. It’s a similar story in Sydney and most major Canadian cities. Many European cities currently have six-month waiting lists.
So Margot found herself in the lobby of the consulate in Ghent, Belgium. One wall was covered by a picture of Boston Harbour, where she was born. The other had three portraits: Donald Trump, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, their faces glistening – to her mind, with sadistic triumph (the lighting may have been a factor). Momentarily, she felt caught in a vice: everything she loved about her nation; everything she hated. Then she went in, swore under oath that she knew what she was doing, wasn’t being coerced, and wasn’t renouncing her citizenship for the purposes of tax avoidance. The official’s tone was neutral, slightly bored.
A diplomatic crisis between Israel and Ukraine is brewing after President Zelensky publicly accused the country of importing grain stolen by Russia.
The Panormitis, a Russian shadow fleet vessel, arrived at Haifa Bay on Sunday reportedly carrying 25,000 tonnes of wheat and barley, which Ukraine said was harvested from territories under Russian occupation. At present it is idling off the Israeli coast awaiting permission to berth at the port.
