A deal with the US to end fighting in Iran is close and includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Foreign Minister has said.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi told state TV the deal also includes the lifting of a US blockade of Iran, but that talks on Iran’s nuclear programme would begin later.
US officials have confirmed some of the details of the agreement, saying economic benefits for Iran would depend on Tehran meeting its obligations.
In its May 30 mea culpa, the Globe and Mail’s editorial board came clean and confessed that the newspaper’s reporting of the May 27, 2021, Kamloops graves “discovery” announcement was journalism at its worst.
The newspaper — finally, after five years — admitted it did no homework, asked no questions, and acted merely as a stenographer for the Kamloops Indian band, which, on that “day that lives in infamy,” announced it had discovered the bodies of 215 indigenous children indecently interred in the apple orchard near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Orange cat interrupts "Romeo and Juliet" theatre performance.. pic.twitter.com/XM1K40WOEN
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An Indigenous woman from Winnipeg who killed her best friend and roommate in a drunk driving accident three years ago will be allowed to serve her sentence at home, largely because of her racial background and “life circumstances … shaped by a history of trauma and discrimination,” a judge ruled last month.
Jayden Starr Okemow, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of driving with a blood alcohol level exceeding .08 causing the death of Hayley Linklater, but only after the Crown called the majority of its witnesses.
I’ve never been called “trailer trash”, but I did live in a trailer in Northeast Georgia in my early teens. Trailers don’t have the best reputation, but I liked it better than the home I grew up in. It was well-insulated, with a shotgun floor plan, so my room was far from my mother’s and her boyfriend’s, giving me more privacy than when we’d shared a wall (Iggy Pop, who lived with his parents in a trailer in Ypsilanti, Michigan, felt differently, and tells how he used to draw pictures of fantastical, u-shaped trailers where a boy would have space to hide). There was a hill I could skate down, woods to walk through, and because we were parked over gravel rather than dirt, we didn’t have as many problems with bugs. I had lived in a typical postwar suburb where neighbors were suspicious of each other and maintained a degree of distance. The trailer park, by contrast, was cozy; people knew each other and waved hello. I remember having long talks with a man there who owned four beautifully restored Ford Mustangs from the Sixties.
On May 19, 2026, the European Parliament inducted Angela Merkel into the inaugural European Order of Merit as a “Distinguished Member.” In this capacity, she holds a status comparable to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa. The award purportedly recognizes contributions to European integration and the defense of shared values. In a ceremony marked by protests from the Patriots for Europe alliance, who decried the event as an exercise in elite self-congratulation (complete with hired spectators to fill empty seats), Merkel was feted for a legacy that many Europeans now experience as a slow-motion catastrophe.
I RECENTLY witnessed the insulting behaviour of a gathering of cultural warriors and #BeKind advocates who, when asked to clap as a mark of respect for Henry Nowak, chose to turn their backs and remain silent.
Why? Because the gesture was instigated by those protesting about the Crowborough asylum-seekers’ camp. Never mind that the virtue signallers were holding placards promoting love and unity. All that flew out of the window to suit their warped agenda. Never mind two-tier policing. These people operate two-tier virtuosity as well.
Texas Representatives Chip Roy and Keith Self officially launched the Sharia-Free America Caucus in the House of Representatives in December. It is a much-needed incentive to counter the insidious rise of Sharia in America. Chip Roy’s website explains:
Sharia is a dominating force that is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution…
At first glance, they look like two distinct scandals. Fire and violence on the streets of Belfast following the vicious gouging of a local man’s eyes by a suspect from Sudan. And then the resignation of virtually the entire defence wing of Keir Starmer’s cabinet, including the secretary of state for defence, John Healey. Yet both that riotous fury and the polite but scathing resignations flow from the same toxic source – the almost total withering of our kingdom’s ability to defend itself from external menace.
Sounds just like Canada.
What does it look like when a country starts to die?
We can see it plainly when the death is catastrophic: when a nation succumbs to a hostile takeover, or to the forces of tyranny, corruption or lawlessness.
But what about when the soul of a nation starts to atrophy, slowly, in a manner that’s nearly undetectable at first? Maybe it starts with just a little ache – the niggling kind you can ignore when you’re out and about during the day. But when it’s nighttime and you’re alone, you wonder if that little ache might signal something far more pernicious.
An asylum seeker who raped seven schoolgirls after he groomed them with drinks and drugs has been jailed for 29 years.
Bawan Harwe, 28, messaged the girls, aged between 12 and 16, under a fake name, earning their trust before raping and abusing them.
The Iraqi national targeted his underage victims because of their age, and lured them to his flat by offering money and e-cigarettes before plying them with alcohol and drugs.
Some time ago, I attended a closed-door meeting with foreign intelligence officials to discuss the growing influence in Canada of the Muslim Brotherhood, the powerful transnational Islamist movement that is the ideological root of all modern Islamic terrorism.
The Brotherhood’s objective, I was told, is two-fold: to achieve a paralyzing effect on the ability of Canadian policymakers to act against it; and to steadily expand its influence in Canada. Indeed, the Gaza war has mobilized and emboldened the Islamist group’s “white-collar jihadists” in the country to advance its strategy of “civilizational jihad” — gradual institutional transformation, rather than violent overthrow.
Belfast, Northern Ireland, was engulfed in violence this week, following the alleged ‘attempted beheading’ of a local man by a Sudanese asylum seeker. Vehicles burned, roads were blocked with flaming bins, and terrified families were led from their homes under police protection. These disturbances follow civil disorder in Southampton, England, provoked by the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak by Sikh man Vickrum Digwa, and the release of truly scandalous police bodycam footage revealing despicable treatment by the cops of a clearly dying Henry.
Absolute scenes in #belfast last night https://t.co/gQPpya9s06 pic.twitter.com/c3iEnxBBPX
— George (@GeorgeUnltd) June 11, 2026
