In the last decades of the 20th century, California reinvented a brash new capitalism that created new, more innovative archetypes. Today, some of those companies – Apple, Google and Facebook – are among the largest in the world, with assets greater than those of all but a few countries.
A Department of Justice report says hundreds of Muslims in Canada have reported workplace consequences linked to their political views, particularly support for Palestine.
The report, A Qualitative Look at Serious Legal Problems: Muslims in London and Toronto, attributes the findings to advocacy and legal support data provided by the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association of Toronto, which says it has assisted more than 300 individuals who faced workplace repercussions related to their political expression.
Pork sausages were served to men being deported to Pakistan as part of a full Irish breakfast despite the country’s Muslim-majority population, a human rights monitoring report has revealed.
The catering blunder took place on Ireland’s first chartered deportation flight to Pakistan, which removed 24 men from Dublin to Islamabad on September 23 last year.
A monitor appointed by Ireland’s Department of Justice said gardaí complained that the food served on board was ‘of a lower standard than expected’ and that including pork sausages in a ‘full Irish breakfast’ was ‘inappropriate’.
Is French cuisine in the process of being largely replaced by junk food? The debate is nothing new. In Gaullist France, processed industrial food was a nightmare for food lovers, who saw motorway restaurants triumphing over Michelin-starred establishments. Then came the onslaught of McDonald’s, Quick, and Burger King, torn down with diggers by angry farmers. Today, the enemy goes by the names of Tasty Crousty and Master Poulet, fast food chains flooding France’s youth with reconstituted chicken pieces coated in an implausible layer of stuff meant to crunch when you eat them.
For the first time in months, Canadians received a small piece of encouraging news at the grocery store. Food inflation eased in April to 3.5%, down from 4.0% the previous month. Grocery prices specifically, food purchased from stores, rose 3.8% year-over-year, still significantly above Canada’s general inflation rate. More importantly, food inflation has now outpaced overall inflation every single month since March 2025. So while the pace of increase may be slowing, food affordability remains one of the country’s biggest economic frustrations, and consumers know it.
X has agreed to process the vast majority of content flagged as illegal “hate” under the UK’s Online Safety Act within 48 hours, giving Ofcom, Britain’s speech regulator, a significant new enforcement win.
The platform committed to “review and assess UK suspected illegal terrorist and “hate” content reported through its dedicated UK illegal content reporting tool on average within 24 hours of it being reported, to be calculated as a mean” and to “review and assess at least 85% of UK suspected illegal terrorist and hate content reported through its dedicated UK illegal content reporting tool within a maximum of 48 hours.”
Two fewer meetings a year.
In practical terms, this is the impact of Washington’s decision to suspend the Canada-U.S. Permanent Joint Board on Defence — not an eviction from Norad fortress headquarters within a Colorado mountain, not an end to joint military exercises and exchanges.
Symbolically, though, the tweet on a slow-news holiday Monday from Elbridge (“Bridge”) Colby, a top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sounds like a gangland threat uttered through clenched teeth: after all we’ve done together, are you really prepared to throw it all away, and have you really thought it through?
The best thing to come from Spencer Pratt running for mayor is the hilarious videos. pic.twitter.com/RuKgTBGAbh
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 19, 2026
Parts of the MAGA movement are unhappy with President Trump’s migration strategy. The administration has softened its policy on deportations following a public uproar over the ICE killings in January, it is said. The focus has been on removing only the most violent offenders.
“The truth is the first year was not a year of mass deportation,” says Mike Howell of the Mass Deportation Coalition. “A conscious decision was made to go after the worst first, which was, we’ll call it a deviation, from the central campaign promise of mass deportations.”
I blame Meghan Markle for what’s (allegedly) become of Prince Harry. Just look at him*!
*may not be him pic.twitter.com/VKzXDlfvSg
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 19, 2026
The United Nations’ Panel of Experts on Libya is recommending that the UN Security Council impose sanctions on Ahmed Gadalla, a globe-trotting Libyan financier who is a permanent resident of Canada.
Mr. Gadalla, 46, and two of his foreign-based companies are on a list of individuals and entities accused of violating the UN arms embargo against Libya, according to the panel’s 2026 final report to the UN Security Council.
Imposed in 2011, the UN arms embargo prohibits the transfer of military equipment, such as weapons and armoured vehicles, to Libya, save for certain exceptions.
A shocking manifesto filled with racial and ethnic hatred linked to the teen terrorists who killed three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego is being reviewed by law enforcement, The California Post has learned.
The manifesto, co-authored by 17-year-old Cain Clark and 19-year-old Caleb Vasquez, includes the same Nazi imagery that Clarke donned in a livestream video of the horrific attack — the Black Sun and Atomwaffen symbols linked to Nazi Germany sympathizers. Further investigation by The Post found other links between the authors and the manifesto in various online profiles connected to shooters.
Iran wants guarantees of beefed-up protection behind enemy lines and no political questions from prying journalists.
Senegal wants visas for a handful of officials from its national sporting federation who have been denied entry to the U.S.
Ghana wants fans of its national squad, the Black Stars, to promise they’ll return home, keeping the country in Donald Trump’s good graces.
People love the game. FIFA is a criminal organization.
Documents captured by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip should finally bury one of the most dangerous illusions: the belief that Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime can somehow be persuaded to halt their jihad (holy war) and accept Israel’s existence.
On the morning of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel, three senior leaders of the terrorist group – Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and Marwan Issa – sent a message to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah requesting support for the attack that had begun.
