The federal government officially broke ground Monday in Ottawa on a national memorial to the sacrifice of Canadians during more than a dozen years of war in Afghanistan.
The monument, which has a controversial design history, will be located on LeBreton Flats in the national capital, near the Canadian War Museum.
It is intended to recognize the contributions of those who served in Afghanistan and those who supported them.
Iran has expedited executions of protesters and alleged Israeli agents, announcing three hangings on Monday, as the regime consolidates it grip on the country amid the war with the US.
The three men were executed over protests that took place in January, when Iranian security brutally quashed a nationwide uprising, killing thousands.
Mehdi Rassouli, Mohammad Reza Miri and Ebrahim Dolatabadi were convicted over unrest in the eastern city of Mashhad, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency said.
This fall’s Ontario municipal elections are shaping up as the most compelling in years, thanks to stark left-right battles.
Much of the conversation has centred around Toronto, where Councillor Brad Bradford is challenging NDP stalwart Olivia Chow over what he says is a city in quick decline. But TVO’s Steve Paikin has declared that Hamilton, Ontario’s fifth biggest city, may have the province’s best race.
President Donald Trump says the US has struck seven Iranian “fast boats” in the Strait of Hormuz, as Washington seeks to guide stranded ships out of the Gulf through the largely closed waterway.
The UAE and South Korea both reported strikes on ships in the vital channel on Monday. The UAE also said a fire broke out at the oil port of Fujairah after an Iranian attack.
Shipping company Maersk told the BBC that one of its US-flagged vessels had successfully exited the strait with US military protection – under what Trump has called “Project Freedom”.
BREAKING: US NAVY just CRUSHED Iran’s "Mosquito Fleet" and unlocked the STRAIT OF HORMUZ 🚢💥
America flexed its MUSCLE without a single boot on the ground… we saved the world's ENERGY and didn't even call our "allies" for help (You're WELCOME, Europe! 🇺🇸)
Project Freedom is… pic.twitter.com/8lzK4XGkMh
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) May 5, 2026
CALGARY — A Canadian woman has gone viral online after she filmed a man who appears to be of Indian descent washing his clothes in a protected stream and polluting it with laundry detergent.
Coquitlam, British Columbia:
Indian immigrant washes his clothes in a river using harmful detergents.
Our pristine rivers will soon look like the Ganges thanks to Indian mass immigration. pic.twitter.com/xou3VtrflY— AwareBears (@bears_aware) May 3, 2026
When you 🚘 miss your exit , stop in the middle of traffic , cause a pileup and then exit and go merrily on your way. 🤷♀️🚗 pic.twitter.com/qibXdtCzlR
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 4, 2026
This is honestly one the best verbal shellackings I've ever seen in my life. Nose-ring was absolutely flummoxed and had her head spinning after this brutal beat down. pic.twitter.com/EfLnchxfYh
— Jayroo (@jayroo69) May 4, 2026
OTTAWA — Often below the surface, at times breaching into view, a high-stakes contest for a military mega-contract to build and sell modern submarines to the Canadian navy is coming into port.
With a flurry of deals that promise to beef up Canadian industry and advance Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic goals, the two defence giants vying for the lucrative bid — one from South Korea, the other part of a German-Norwegian partnership — prepared their final pitches last week, after the new federal Defence Investment Agency gave them more time to sweeten their proposals.
The real Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) scandal isn’t just the indictment. The deeper scandal is that the FBI used a highly partisan activist group as an unelected, unvetted intelligence wing of the federal bureaucracy. For years, the bureau didn’t just consult the SPLC. It folded the group’s ideology into its threat assessments and other work products, then used those products to brand Americans as hateful or flag them as potential domestic violent extremists.
LOS ANGELES — A judge in Los Angeles has named two co-defendants alongside Ryan Wedding — the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder charged with leading a Sinaloa Cartel-linked cocaine trafficking and federal witness murder conspiracy — while pushing the proposed trial date to December 1, 2026, finding that the prosecution is so extraordinary in scale and complexity that it falls outside the bounds of normal federal trial preparation requirements.
I spent a good while living in Denmark last year, and something struck me pretty much straight away. I would see it in cafés, in museums, in swing parks with my daughter, on the trains, even queuing at a supermarket checkout… everywhere. They carry themselves differently, the Danes. They seem to glide about, elf-like, tall and composed and utterly at ease with themselves. They speak plainly, and if they laugh, it is without checking themselves. They didn’t seem to be performing a version of who they thought they should be. They simply were, and it was beautiful to see.
Chinese consular officials met with a Vancouver city hall employee last month and urged her to cancel an arts event that highlighted communist party repression, sources told Global News.
At the meeting, representatives of China’s consulate told a staff member of the city’s civic theatres branch that they wanted a series of performances by the Shen Yun dance group to be stopped, the sources said.
At his media briefing on March 3rd 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General said: “COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity”.
The WHO managed to get quite a lot wrong in its pronouncements about COVID-19. I am just focusing on the “to which no one has immunity” for now. But put this together with all the other inaccuracies in the WHO statements and guidance about COVID-19 and it does raise concerns about our Government’s recent outsourcing of health decisions to the WHO in the next pandemic.
Canadians still haven’t really debated immigration’s fundamental questions, like what exactly is it for? Does it merely serve short-term economics or shape our future prosperity and identity? What debate there is reveals both regional divides and ideological anger.
What’s also largely off the radar is our looming demographic collapse. At an average 2024 birthrate of 1.3, without newcomers, Canada’s population could halve by 2100. This invites the question of “To grow or not to grow?” which, unsurprisingly, gets different answers in Quebec and English Canada.
Jeff Bezos is reportedly selling his £370m superyacht Koru because it is too recognisable.
The Amazon founder is said to feel that the 417ft vessel, the largest sailing yacht in the world, is drawing too much attention.
Mr Bezos, whose cumulative worth is about £203bn, has also soured on the £22m-a-year cost of maintaining the giant vessel, the New York Post reported.
