VANCOUVER — The BC NDP caucus has accused interim BC Conservative Leader Trevor Halford of promoting a “racist website” by praising the Western Standard while remaining silent on the specific article that prompted his praise.
In a media release issued Friday, NDP MLA Rohini Arora criticized Halford after he described the Western Standard as “independent journalism at its best” and said “B.C. needs more of it.”
A 20-year-old Texas man who allegedly firebombed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco referenced Luigi Mangione, who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The suspect, Daniel Moreno-Gama allegedly traveled from Texas to California with several weapons, a Molotov cocktail, and a manifesto in which he railed against artificial intelligence. He believed the technology poses an existential threat.
A return to the days when anarchists committed assassinations across the western world?
We figured out that dad has a psych med induced neurological injury, and has been suffering from akathisia. It’s been 6 years since any psych medications. Last summer his symptoms started, after a flare up likely induced by mold (CIRS) and stress. It was complicated by pneumonia… pic.twitter.com/wPjAz4XsLT
— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaFuller) April 18, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford had had a borderline absurd run of good luck: For most of his nearly eight-year tenure, according to the Angus Reid Institute’s polling, he has been Canada’s least or second-least popular premier — and his main rival in that race to the bottom, Quebec’s François Legault, is now an ex-premier.
Tiktoker says he’s rooting for Iran to destroy the U.S. military
How are we supposed to share a country with these freaks?? pic.twitter.com/v0dRoavnc8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 17, 2026
He hid a seriously disturbed moral compass behind his shield of virtue signaling.
It’s hard to fathom how fast now-former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s star has faded. One moment he was the leading contender to be the governor of America’s largest state; the next, he had ended his gubernatorial campaign and resigned his congressional seat in disgrace.
After former Vice President Kamala Harris passed on running for California governor, a thoroughly uninspiring field of Democratic candidates seeking the office sprung up. However, California’s unique primary system meant that Democrats had to rally around somebody, and Swalwell seemed to be the guy.
Charcuterie just showed me this and asked, “Mama, why is Lena Dunham doing poetry now?”
And I didn’t have an answer for her. pic.twitter.com/tmYHGrLCPr
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 17, 2026
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is going all-in on his fight to oppose the Liberal government’s vision for a high-speed rail network in Central Canada — a project that boasts support from younger voters, local political leaders and even some in western provinces.
To Poilievre, the project is a boondoggle-in-waiting with a $60- to $90-billion price tag that could spiral out of control, imperil existing transportation routes and raze through rural communities.
In contemporary criminal-justice debates, the term “second chances” seems to have lost much of its meaning. The U.S. dedicates the month of April to the idea that we systematically deny second chances to people who come into contact with the criminal-justice system. This is a strange claim, given that the typical state prisoner in America has approximately ten prior arrests and five prior convictions—meaning that he probably received far more than just a “second” chance.
Regular readers will note that most of what was predicted about the Iran War in the last three weeks in this column is coming to pass. The Iranians entered into the Islamabad discussions exuding confidence that the Americans were suing for peace and that Iran had found and struck the Achilles’ heel of the West by closing the Strait of Hormuz. This revealed the infirmity of the Western Alliance and exploited the consumptive flabbiness of the American public itself with the terrifying spectre of somewhat higher gasoline prices.
Once again, large segments of the international community, from the United Nations to key European governments, appear either unwilling or unable to confront the basic and uncomfortable reality that the latest escalation in hostilities did not begin with Israel. It began with Hezbollah.
This silence — or at best, selective acknowledgment — when, without provocation, rockets were launched into Israel, stands in blazing contrast to the instant outrage when Israel responds. That imbalance is not just dishonest; it distorts the foundation of how conflicts like this are understood.
Once again, it took the media to remind us that food fraud is not a relic of the past—it is very much a present-day risk embedded in our food system. After the maple syrup scandal, CBC News has uncovered yet another troubling issue: inaccurate scales at the meat counter. This is not anecdotal noise. It is a structural concern. When consumers pay for more than they actually receive, the consequence is not just irritation—it is a silent erosion of trust in one of the most expensive categories in the grocery store.
Of a sudden, the media has swarmed now-former Democrat and California Congressman Eric Swalwell.
Toronto police have released images of a suspect who allegedly assaulted a woman wearing a hijab on a Durham Region Transit bus in Scarborough on Monday.
Police are investigating it as a suspected hate-motivated assault. The incident was captured on video and was posted on social media by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM).
“We are outraged by a recent incident of Islamophobia that occurred on the Durham Transit,” the NCCM said.
Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on the 10 U.S. scientists and contractors who are either missing or dead over the last two years.
These scientists and defense‑linked experts have ties to NASA, Los Alamos in New Mexico, fusion research, or nuclear weapons work. However, as of now, there is no confirmed official finding that these cases are connected.
Is it Iran?
