“The night I was abducted, they killed my mother and kidnapped my older sister and me. The slightest mistakes are severely punished. For women, they kill their children and throw them into a hole. They would send me to kill people on my own, and when I refused, I was whipped all over my body.” — persecution.org, January 22, 2026, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The City of Toronto bought a five-storey building from an organization co-founded by a top bureaucrat – and it appears it may already be planning to give it away.
Just months after last year’s $16-million purchase of 720 Bathurst St., City Hall has indicated it may hand over the deed to a group that has signed on to run a homeless shelter, exclusively for indigenous men, out of that brick building.
Islamic militants and separatists attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities on Saturday in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years.
The al-Qaida-linked militant group JNIM claimed responsibility for the attacks on Bamako’s international airport and four other cities in central and northern Mali on its website, Az-Zallaqa. It said the attacks were carried out jointly with the Azawad Liberation Front, a Tuareg-led separatist group.
Mali has previously faced insurgencies fought by affiliates of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, as well as a separatist rebellion in the north.
BREAKING
Al Qaeda in Mali (JNIM) & Tuareg separatists of FLA have launched a nationwide offensive against Mali’s junta & its Russian allies
They’re reportedly successful, having entered the capital city Bamako &Taureg capital Kidal
It’s looks like Mali is falling to jihadists pic.twitter.com/icpZPqQRjM
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 25, 2026
Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is cautioning the prime minister that despite the need to diversify trade, China is not a substitute for the United States.
O’Toole has been tapped to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 24-member Canada-U.S. Advisory Committee, unveiled this week as a formal review of the countries’ trilateral trade deal with Mexico fast approaches.
More than a year into a protracted trade war with the United States, meanwhile, Carney is once again emphasizing a shift in the relationship with Canada’s closest neighbour, describing Canada’s ties to the U.S. as a “weakness” in a social media video last Sunday.
BREAKING: Canadian Professor Arrested After Questioning Residential School Mass Grave Claims
The University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, has trespassed Dr. Frances Widdowson, who has been questioning the validity of claims that mass graves of Indigenous students were found… pic.twitter.com/yFk0lUXjUh— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) April 25, 2026
h/t Mauser
Nuclear weapons are treated by the governments that have them as a useful tool. Obtaining a nuclear weapon enters you into a rare club where you are Taken Seriously. It also allows you to credibly defend yourself against countries much more powerful, larger, and more militarised than oneself.
In August 2025, after one of the longest trials in Canadian history, Justice Barbara Young of the British Columbia Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling declaring that the Cowichan Tribes hold “Aboriginal title” to 800 acres of land in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond.
The 800 acres includes government land and 150 “fee simple” properties, the most common form of residential land ownership in Canada. In other words, people’s homes and businesses.
A 19-year-old male substitute teacher in Northern Virginia who identifies as a woman has been arrested after authorities received an anonymous tip reporting his online threats targeting a local high school.
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is warning that U.S. tariffs threaten to drive Canada closer to China in the auto sector.
Speaking at a CNBC event in Singapore on Thursday, Trudeau said “economic pressures and coercion” nearly drove Canadian aerospace company Bombardier “into China’s arms” almost a decade ago.
‼️NEW: Trudeau goes on American TV and says that Canadian aluminum WON'T be available
"when the US finally wakes up" ….. "its not your aluminum anymore"
and that Trump drove Canada to China. pic.twitter.com/Loe7aeYXEr
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) April 23, 2026
Canada’s Kamala Harris.
Former Vice President Al Gore is still making climate doom predictions, 20 years after his warnings from An Inconvenient Truth proved false — this time invoking the science fiction film The Day After Tomorrow for a rapt Hollywood audience.
OTTAWA — Lots of ink has been spilled this past year about the quandary of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sprawling past business dealings, significant investments and his many potential conflicts of interest, and a parliamentary committee unveiled some possible solutions this week.
Yet, most of these solutions are very unlikely to see the light of day.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said that the man set to be charged with attacking the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration.
“It does appear that he did in fact set out to target folks who work in the administration, likely including the president,” Blanche told NBC’s Meet the Press in comments on the suspect, who has widely been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of California.
A Quebec woman whose new electric vehicle was in and out of the shop for 16 months says the first-in-Canada anti-lemon law doesn’t go far enough.
“I find that it’s protecting more the companies than the actual consumer that’s buying the car,” said Natalina Recine.
Her ordeal began when she bought her new Chevrolet Equinox EV at Le Relais Chevrolet, Buick, GMC in Montreal in December 2024.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—President Trump scrapped a trip by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan for talks with Iran, leaving himself tough choices over how to force Iran to make concessions the White House wants to strike a deal.
Trump said on Saturday that he had decided to cancel the trip after receiving an offer from Iran that fell short of the White House’s expectations. “We’re not going to spend 15 hours in airplanes all the time, going back and forth, to be given a document that was not good enough,” he said.
Bad news if you recently decided to eat more greens because meat is so expensive.
It’s the produce section of your local grocery store that may trigger a double-take these days. Fresh veggies cost 7.8 per cent more year over year in March, according to Statistics Canada’s most recent inflation numbers. After prices increased 0.5 per cent in February, March’s increase is the largest since August 2023.
