Lord Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of committing misconduct in public office.
The former Labour minister was pictured being led from his London home by plain clothes police officers on Monday afternoon.
The Metropolitan Police started investigating Lord Mandelson after it emerged that he appeared to have leaked sensitive government documents to Jeffrey Epstein while serving as business secretary in Gordon Brown’s cabinet.
When Edmonton police arrested Arshdeep Singh for shoplifting at West Edmonton Mall last November, they launched an investigation that ultimately put the young Indian national at the heart of a network believed responsible for the extortion crisis plaguing Canadian communities.
Singh’s phone held a cache of images and messages linking him to an arson in Ontario, a shooting in Edmonton, extortion cases in Surrey and auto theft and insurance fraud in the Lower Mainland, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
There was even a photograph of Singh alongside the alleged “prime conspirator” behind a series of extortion-linked shootings at a Surrey café.
Locals and tourists in Mexico have described the “heartbreaking” unrest after one of the most powerful and feared cartels in the country unleashed a wave of violence across several states.
It comes after Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, Mexico’s most wanted man and leader of the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel, was killed during a security operation to arrest him on Sunday.
Footage recorded by locals and tourists showed burnt vehicles and plumes of smoke rising above several towns and cities, including the beach resort of Puerto Vallarta.
Footage out of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico allegedly shows Canadians looting an Oxxo convenience store.
When one is confronted with his alleged theft, he responds by accusing the man of being American.
Do you think this behaviour is reflective of the "elbows up" ethos? pic.twitter.com/7S7Zc9eenr
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) February 24, 2026
Dominican actress Massiel Taveras was prevented from showing her cape with an image of Jesus on the Cannes red carpet.
If it were the flag of Palestine, they would allow it.
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) February 23, 2026
The community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has suffered the tragic loss of eight victims — all but two under 14 years of age. A picture is quickly emerging of a community that was failed on multiple levels by mental-health services and law enforcement. Now that the dust has settled, it’s time for an independent investigation into how this tragedy happened in the first place, in the hope that changes can be made so that something like this never happens again.
Schools dropped feminism like a stone and embraced Islam where “women are animals”… and stoned. https://t.co/ezkArnaI3d
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) February 23, 2026
Reform UK’s shadow home secretary, Zia Yusuf, said on Monday that the damage done by open borders policies pursued by the “cowardly” establishment parties is “profound.” But, crucially, “they are not irreversible.”
He announced a range of new measures aimed at ending “the invasion,” perhaps the most noteworthy of which is a pledge to deport “over 600,000” illegal migrants during the party’s first term in office. That would amount to 120,000 removals every year for five years.
How to cross a street under fire.
This clip from a 1943 British instructional film from the Second World War explains how to cross a street quickly and safely under enemy fire.
Film: IWM DRA 433 pic.twitter.com/SLpgByl8RV
— Imperial War Museums (@I_W_M) February 23, 2026
Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island
…US President Donald Trump’s administration has moved to block all oil from reaching Cuba, including that from ally Venezuela, pushing up prices for food and transportation and prompting severe fuel shortages and hours of blackouts.
“We are preparing a plan to assist. We are not prepared at this point to provide any further details of an announcement,” Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said on Monday, without giving details on what such an assistance will include.
A federal hate crimes bill would extend criminal penalties to anyone accused of obstructing indigenous sacred sites — including areas identified as unmarked graves — according to an internal Department of Justice memo that was not highlighted when the legislation was introduced.
This is called covering up a crime scene.
(Incognito)
In 2023, the FBI arrested two Chinese-Americans, Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, for operating a Chinese police station in Manhattan. Chen pleaded guilty and faces up to five years in prison for acting as a Chinese agent, while Lu, who has connections to Chinese authorities, pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. He faces 20 years for obstruction of justice.
According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), the police station was established to monitor and intimidate Chinese dissidents in the U.S. What is concerning, however, is that this is not an isolated case of serious infiltration. Nor is such activity limited to the U.S. alone. Safeguard Defenders, a Madrid-based NGO, has identified 102 Chinese police stations in 53 countries.
JALISCO – On the morning of October 17, 2019, the Mexican state tried to arrest a Sinaloa Cartel boss and lost. Soldiers cornered Ovidio Guzmán — son of El Chapo — in the city of Culiacán, cradle of Mexico’s most powerful cartel. Within hours, thousands of gunmen in military-grade body armour and AK-47s flooded the streets. Buses and cars were seized and torched to block every route in and out. Family members of soldiers were taken hostage in their own homes. Barrett .50-calibre rifles were trained on government buildings. The Mexican Army, facing a city on fire, released Ovidio and retreated. President López Obrador called it a humanitarian decision. His critics said the cartel had shown it could bring the Mexican state to its knees.
VACATION TO VIOLENCE: What was meant to be a dream getaway in Puerto Vallarta is now a nightmare for hundreds of tourists.
After Mexico reportedly took out a major cartel leader, the city sees unprecedented violence — burning cars, ransacked stores, and blocked exits.
Witnesses… pic.twitter.com/U8eoKmuuYZ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 23, 2026
Is it legal to preach Christianity in London? Apparently, the answer to this question isn’t obvious – at least to some residents of Whitechapel in east London.
Last week, a truly depressing video emerged. It showed a young, female Metropolitan Police officer, surrounded by Muslim men on a street in Whitechapel. They demanded to know why a Christian preacher, proselytising outside the nearby East London Mosque, had not been arrested.
Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel “is a Muslim area”, she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let’s see more of this from the police. pic.twitter.com/EfnaYBlCGQ
— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) February 20, 2026
A self-proclaimed ‘scholar of the far right’ was blasted on social media after she ‘fled’ the United States to Canada.
Nope Brigade is an academic researcher who studies conservative and right-wing ideologies, and recently ‘fled’ from the current Trump administration to Vancouver – one of the world’s priciest cities.
Brigade posted a social media video begging for help after she and her family moved from Los Angeles, only to be hit with an even worse affordability crisis.
Or she and her partner and their cat and their dog could turn around and go back to the US, where they can afford to live and get health care. What kind of imbeciles are they? @fancypants_s https://t.co/5mt3BIoHDN
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) February 22, 2026
