New questions have surfaced about relations between a federal Liberal candidate running in Markham-Unionville and China’s consulate in Toronto, including his presentation of an award of appreciation to a consul-general and appearing to salute the Communist flag at an event celebrating the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.
Christian devotees were nailed to crosses and left covered in blood after self-flagellation during a re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion to mark Good Friday.
Swathes of Filipinos and foreign tourists flocked to the northern village of San Pedro Cutud in the Philippines to witness Ruben Enaje, 64, and two other devotees be nailed to wooden crosses. This is the 36th time Enaje has participated in the re-enactment.
Actors donning Roman soldier costumes hammered the carpenter’s palms with two-inch nails and ropes and fabric supported their bodies as they were raised on the crosses.
Raising a Sugar Glider from Infancy. pic.twitter.com/nynCKnopzF
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) April 17, 2025
OTTAWA – Canadians aren’t sold on the Liberal Leader’s plan to balance Canada’s books.
In a new Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 58% responded with skepticism over Mark Carney’s plan to balance Canada’s operating budget within three years.
The US will abandon its efforts “within days” to broker a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine unless there are clear signs a settlement can be reached, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said, as Kyiv says it has signed a memorandum with the US over a controversial minerals deal.
Speaking in Paris on Friday after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders, Rubio said Donald Trump was still interested in a deal. But he added that the US president had many other priorities around the world and was willing to move on unless there were signs of progress.
Rubio’s comments are the clearest signal yet that the White House is ready to walk away from its diplomatic attempts to negotiate an end to the war. Last month Ukraine agreed unconditionally to a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire.
Back in the summer, the Conservative Party of Canada spent millions of dollars on an attack ad against NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. The ad showed Mr. Singh on the cover of a fake magazine called “Luxury Pensioner Monthly,” and rattled off some of the finer goods – Rolex watches, a BMW and a Versace bag – that the progressive leader had paired himself with over years. “But now he’s got a problem,” the narrator said. “He needs to delay the election ‘til next year when he qualifies for his $2-million pension.”
The narrator continued: “So he sold you out, signed on with Trudeau to raise taxes, crime and housing costs.”
‘They don’t want me to speak,’ says Renaud Camus who claims immigration will lead to ‘replacement’ of Europe’s indigenous people
A philosopher opposed to mass migration has been banned from entering Britain after the Home Office ruled his presence would go against “the public good”.
Renaud Camus, the French novelist, was barred from travelling to the UK to speak on immigration later this month.
The 78-year-old has warned that unchecked immigration will lead to demographic “replacement” of Europe’s indigenous populations.
You can bet that Carney and his pal the Mass Immigration Plotter Wiseman would ban Camus as well.
h/t Patti Jo
At 8:30 p.m. Eastern, as the English‑language leaders’ debate was close to wrapping up in Montréal, our team at Abacus Data pushed a national, English‑only survey into field. Within roughly ninety minutes we captured responses from a representative sample of 1,200 Canadian adults.
Major EV Fire Breaks Out Aboard Ro/Ro at Zeebrugge
On Wednesday, a fire broke out aboard a ro/ro cargo ship at the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, prompting an immediate – and successful – emergency response.
Ro/ro fires are a serious issue, and the growing popularity of electric cars has made the potential consequences more severe. Fires can spread rapidly within enclosed ro/ro decks, and EV fires are even harder to put out. New industry guidance calls for operators to respond with evacuation, ventilation shutdown and initiation of CO2 flooding very early in the firefighting process – before the fire can spread or injure anyone.
Got Lucky. h/t Simus
Giancarlo Zorrilla attended a campaign rally for the first time in his life in March. It was a rainy night near Vancouver — typical weather for Canada’s west coast — but that wasn’t stopping the 29-year-old Canadian from seeing Pierre Poilievre speak.
“It’s time for a change,” Zorrilla said on his way in to see the Conservative leader give a fervent, hour-long speech on skyrocketing housing prices and the failures of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sure, Trudeau has stepped away from politics, but even a Trudeau-less Liberal Party is “still the same rock band,” Zorrilla mused.
A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), complaining its agents smashed a car window with a large hammer and detained a man whom they say had applied for asylum.
A lawyer for the family also claims agents were not looking for the man in the car, Juan Francisco Mendez, when they grabbed him on Monday in New Bedford while he was driving to a dental appointment. He is now believed to have been taken into Ice detention.
The lawyer, Ondine Galvez-Sniffin, told the Associated Press in an interview that the agents claimed they were looking for another man with a different name before they dragged Mendez and his wife out of the car.
"Do you want it hard or easy?" Feds break car window of illegal who wouldn't open door via @NewBedfordLight #mapoli pic.twitter.com/VtgcFdLc7Q
— JohnFGately (@johnfgately) April 15, 2025
I don’t remember Christians getting a shout out when the fidei defensor was celebrating Ramadan.
What’s the point in having a monarch who warbles on about climate change and any other religion, but is silent about the satanic sexual abuse of his own subjects? https://t.co/oun6kjnLPg pic.twitter.com/t3wbGFT64j
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) April 18, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Heading into the Easter long weekend, Mark Carney’s Liberals have a slim lead over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in the April 28 election, according to Star’s election predictor, the Signal.
“There’s a bit of a narrowing of the lead. If the trend continues, it could be a very tight race,” Clifton van der Linden, a McMaster University political science professor and the CEO of Vox Pop Labs, the independent research organization that developed the Signal, which analyzes publicly available polling data in a supercomputer.
WASHINGTON — The US and Ukraine will finally sign a long sought-after mineral rights agreement next week after months of negotiations, according to officials from both countries.
President Trump announced in the Oval Office Thursday that an agreement had been reached, estimating that it would be formalized April 24 at a location to be determined later.
In a little-noticed series of X posts early Wednesday, Ukrainian Minister of the Economy Yulia Svyrydenko announced that “a positive new step has been made in the ongoing progress with the United States on the Economic Partnership Agreement and the creation of an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine.”
