British Columbia New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan says she’s been here before.
In 2001, Kwan was a member of the B.C. legislature when the Liberals decimated the provincial NDP government, winning 77 of 79 seats.
Kwan was one of only two New Democrats who kept their seats.
“I’m not a stranger to this environment,” Kwan said from her office in Vancouver. “We came back stronger.”
The Department of Justice has agreed to pay a hefty settlement to the family of Ashli Babbitt because of her wrongful death at the hands of a Capitol policeman.
Ashli Babbitt was a veteran who marched to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with no intention of being violent or participating in a riot. In fact, evidence shows she tried to stop the violence committed by a small number in the J6 crowd at the Capitol. She became one of four protestors who died that day, and like Rosanne Boyland, Babbitt’s death was the result of police brutality.
Delivery driver from Brampton charged after allegedly sexually assaulting customer at their home in Hamilton
(UPI) — Accused sex-trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs rejected a plea offer from federal prosecutors on Thursday and ahead of jury selection that starts Monday in New York City.
Combs, 55, told U.S. District Court for Southern New York Judge Arun Subramanian he rejects the plea offer during a pretrial hearing at the Manhattan federal courthouse, NBC News and ABC News reported.
OTTAWA — As the federal election campaign approached its final days, the Conservative war room couldn’t help but dwell on a brutal paradox.
Inside the confines of the office where the campaign was headquartered in downtown Ottawa, insiders say the overwhelming feeling was that the campaign couldn’t have gone much more smoothly. Despite mounting criticism from pundits and even fellow Conservatives, everyone on the campaign seemed to be rowing in the same direction. Unusually, the media coverage was mostly favourable, or at least neutral. And they had entirely avoided the “bozo eruptions” that had plagued so many Conservative campaigns before.
I spent a few moments this morning feeling a little burst of renewed optimism that things were going to be okay.
That, economically, we were settling down and strong enough to ride this tariff and trade roller coaster out.
The man charged with eight counts of murder after 11 people were killed and several more injured at an outdoor Filipino community festival last Saturday has been sent for a psychiatric assessment.
Adam Kai-Ji Lo, 30, appeared by video in a courtroom at Vancouver provincial court on Friday afternoon, on a split screen with his lawyer, Mark Swartz, who also appeared via video from a different location.
Lo was wearing a red T-shirt and matching red bottoms and sat on a light blue bench in a brightly lit room at the jail where he is being held in.
Vatican firefighters have installed a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel in preparation for next week’s conclave, the secretive election in which cardinals will choose a new pope.
The installation of the chimney is a key step in the lead-up to the conclave, along with officers from the Swiss Guards and the Vatican Gendarmerie, the sovereign nation’s tiny police force, sweeping the frescoed chapel for listening devices and bugs.
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Smith vowed on Thursday to move forward with a legal challenge to Ottawa’s incoming clean electricity regulations, rekindling a fight with the just re-elected Liberal government over its decarbonization agenda.
“Today we are taking another step to protect Albertans livelihoods by challenging the constitutionality of (these) regulations in the Court of Appeal of Alberta, and we look forward to making our case,” Smith told reporters in Edmonton.
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DANIELLE SMITH TEARS IN ONTARIO — SAYS EV INDUSTRY THERE IS "NON-EXISTANT"
"The trade war with China seems phony…. and western canola farmers and pork farmers are paying the price"
Gosh, the future PM of the Republic of Alberta is good. pic.twitter.com/kYPRe9qN77
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) May 1, 2025
Major cancer breakthrough as NHS launches 5-minute 'super-jab' that can fight 15 types of disease
One jab fits all eh? Let's look who the shareholders are……..oh!!
https://t.co/4dVyH7wOFu via https://t.co/cfCdWOrqpz pic.twitter.com/zYbqsqt562
— Truth-Seeker84 (@TruthSeeker84x3) April 30, 2025
h/t Mauser
The amount paid by the Duke of York in an out-of-court settlement to Virginia Giuffre could become apparent as her estate is bequeathed to her estranged husband and three children.
On April 26 her family announced that Giuffre, a victim of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, had died by suicide at her home in Western Australia.
Three people stabbed at downtown Hamilton mosque; two suspects wanted
Police say a verbal altercation preceded the stabbing, which is not believed to be hate-related.
Three people are hurt and two others wanted after a stabbing at the Hamilton Downtown Mosque.
Hamilton police responded to the mosque at 221 York Blvd. for reports of a disturbance around 2:15 p.m. on Friday — just as afternoon prayers finished.
“From all the information I have, this is not a random altercation or incident, and I can confidently say it’s not related to a hate-motivated crime,” Callender said outside the mosque.
Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams ‘tyranny in disguise’
Germany’s Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as right-wing extremist, after sharp criticism from the White House.
US Vice-President JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as “tyranny in disguise”.
In an unusual move, the foreign office directly replied to Rubio on X, writing: “We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.”
The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD’s “prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent” goes against Germany’s “free democratic order”.
‘Prime Minister Mark Carney will probably resurrect the Online Harms Act.’
The freight train of authoritarianism and censorship under the Carney Liberals is barrelling down the political tracks — and it’s far more serious than Alberta’s discontent within confederation or a possible sovereignty referendum.
It’s highly likely Prime Minister Mark Carney will resurrect the federal Online Harms Act Bill C-63 — a terrifying piece of legislation that will drive Canada toward the U.K.’s dystopia, where thousands have been arrested for “offensive” speech violations, primarily on social media.
Victory in Runcorn and Helsby proves that Reform didn’t just get lucky in the 2024 election: it can win more seats, it could form the next government or opposition. Many prayed the constituency was immune to Farage because the old majority was so large and it’s so close to Labour-loving Liverpool – but the narrow steal indicates that, within England at least, there’s no no-go area for Reform.
Anecdotally, it seems Labour was hurt by slashing winter fuel and Pips. The problem isn’t just the cuts themselves but the perception of lying – that Labour won its majority on the promise to be different, only to reimpose austerity.
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