U.S. and China take a step back from sky-high tariffs and agree to pause for 90 days for more talks
The Art of the Deal in real time! Wait for other countries to fall in line. No other President in our lifetime was capable of achieving these results!pic.twitter.com/1upRwZ0wH4
— MAGS (@TAftermath2020) May 12, 2025
When Sean Combs goes on trial for sex-trafficking charges beginning this week, the case could turn on disturbing video footage that the rap impresario’s defense team fought to keep out.
The footage shows Combs assaulting and dragging an ex-girlfriend in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. Federal prosecutors say it backs up the allegations of the woman and three other alleged victims who are expected to testify that he abused, threatened and coerced them into participating in drug-fueled sex parties. Lawyers for Combs say the video has been distorted and taken out of context, but a judge denied their request to bar it from being shown to a jury.
Diddy Trial – Jurors WILL see the video of Diddy beating Cassie Ventura. pic.twitter.com/nlvHiwK1aC
— Santa Surfing (@SantaSurfing) May 5, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada may not be “totally removed” under a future trade agreement, the U.S. ambassador says, but the two countries are on the path toward a stronger relationship.
Pete Hoekstra, who serves as Trump’s envoy to Canada, says there are opportunities to secure new economic and security partnerships on the foundation set by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the White House last week.
Dawn breaks in Hapatnar, a remote village filled with walnut growers and pony owners.
Naushad Hussain, 28, a taxi driver, wakes early, slips out of the family house into the cool mountain air and heads off to work. It is April 22, a Tuesday, in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The 30km drive to Pahalgam, a bustling tourist town framed by the Himalayas, takes about half an hour.
Susan Delacourt: One word leapt out at me in a piece you wrote for this paper last week, Matt, and it was this one: “killed.” As in, the Conservatives got killed in the election. I agree that their hopes got killed — especially the hopes they had when they were 20 points ahead of the Liberals. But here’s the thing: I’m not convinced Conservatives are staring down that reality. The early indications, in fact, point to more of the same from Pierre Poilievre and his team.
Matt Gurney: I was using that word more as a play on the phase “election post-mortem” than I was to describe what I think happened to them. I’ll confess something. I don’t know what to make of that election. It’s different from any other I’ve covered. Something wild I discovered when writing my column is that Poilievre got a bigger share of the vote this time than did the last five PMs to win a majority. So I can get why Tories might want to stay the course and write this one off as a fluke. They could be right. They could go wrong, though. Someone needs to be that guy in the room and get them thinking about that.
A federal memo has revealed that job applicants in the public service who claim to be indigenous are not required to provide proof of identity, prompting a review of current policies amid concerns over fraudulent declarations.
Blacklock’s Reporter says according to the Public Service Commission’s New President Briefing Binder, applicants who self-identify as First Nations, Métis, or Inuit must only sign a one-page form affirming their identity.
A Florida father-of-three was utterly disgusted at the $1,400 he had to pay to take his family of four on a ‘bargain’ day out to Walt Disney World.
Craig Stowell took his three kids and his wife to the self-proclaimed ‘Happiest Place on Earth’ in Orlando while family was in town visiting them, but he quickly found out just how deep the one-day trip was going to hit his pocket.
This guy shows how much it costs for a day at Disney for a family of 5 pic.twitter.com/VfVhbVL2dP
— Financial Dystopia (@financedystop) May 3, 2025
In 2024, around the world, 4,476 Christians — more than 12 a day on average — were “killed for faith related reasons.” Another 4,744 Christians were arrested or illegally detained, and 7,679 churches and other Christian institutions were attacked, often destroyed.
Overall, the global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels. “More than 380m Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith,” according to the World Watch List 2025 (WWL) published earlier this year by the international human rights organization, Open Doors.
Every year, the WWL ranks the top 50 nations in which Christians are the most persecuted for their faith. The data is compiled by thousands of grassroots workers and external experts. The latest edition of the WWL covers October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first major test on the world stage came this week, when he met U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington. While the discussions covered a range of bilateral issues—from trade to energy cooperation—defence spending was also a focal point.
The United States has long pressed Canada to increase its military investment. The meeting brought renewed scrutiny of Ottawa’s commitment to its NATO obligations, with President Trump saying that he was pleased that Canada was beginning to spend more on defence.
My parents were Anglophiles. Therefore, I was an Anglophile, gobbling up Masterpiece Theater, majoring in British history at college, and spending an utterly delightful junior year abroad in England a long, long time ago. Of late, though, I’ve come to revisit my fondness for England. That’s because England doesn’t really seem to exist anymore. Instead, it’s an increasingly Third World country, complete with blasphemy laws, and a likely collapse of its power grid.
The trigger for this, my latest in a series of essays I think of as illustrating that “there won’t always be an England,” is a article in the Daily Mail that looks at the city of Leicester.
Anyone who may have hoped that the re-election of Donald Trump as US president would lead to the end of woke will surely have been disabused of the notion by now. American college campuses in particular continue to be roiled by extreme identitarianism.
“Albertans feel an existential threat from Ottawa,” says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. “I think the rest of the country may feel an existential threat from Donald Trump. Alberta feels the same thing — but the existential threat, it’s from Ottawa.”
Nanos Research polls published one week after the federal election indicate nearly 30 per cent of Alberta residents support separation from Canada.
Parents swap plastic toys for compost kits in eco-conscious party bags
Parents are swapping plastic toys for compost kits and bird feeders in eco-conscious party bags.
Climate concerns mean they are ditching traditional goodie bags that have been the staple of children’s parties for years, turning to plastic-free alternatives such as books, bird feeders, seed kits and candles.
Those kids should runaway.
In three of the areas affected by the sex abuse scandal, victims’ families and campaigners say children are still targeted, and a culture of fear endures
It’s just past 3pm in Rotherham town centre when groups of teenagers make the short walk from Rotherham sixth-form college to the bus station interchange. Some huddle inside, laughing together at videos on their phones. Others linger outside, waiting to meet friends and boyfriends. It’s a standard scene in any town on a midweek afternoon. But for some people in the town, teenagers congregating there is causing concern.
Sen. Yuen Pau Woo (B.C.) declined to comment after publicly endorsing a Gaza fundraiser organized by Labour For Palestine, a group known for anti-Israel protests and confrontations with federal lawmakers.
“In these desperate times for Palestinians please consider supporting this,” Woo wrote on social media, promoting a $60-a-plate event in Vancouver scheduled for May 11.
