Japan, in the 1980s, was supposed to be the future. Its industrial groups, protected by dense networks of banks, suppliers and friendly shareholders, were praised as more patient, more loyal and more strategic than America’s purportedly short-term capitalism. Germany, meanwhile, was sold as the humane alternative to Anglo-Saxon brutality: strong unions, worker participation, industrial discipline, export prowess and a “social market economy” that allegedly reconciled capitalism with solidarity.
Imagine finding out that your loved one has leukemia. Then imagine finding out that the cost of treating that cancer is so enormous that you could end up drowning in debt just to pay the medical bills.
Many readers might think this is a scenario only to be found in the United States. But this is a scenario currently facing Chris Sluman and his family in North Bay, and it is all because of an obscure government agency that no one really knows about.
British nationalist Tommy Robinson held his first ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally on September 25, 2025. Official figures place the number of people at a smidge over 100,000, but the aerial street views look like so much more.
The throngs were just stunning.
Grade inflation is real, and it’s coming for your children.
The good news is your children will have beautiful transcripts. The bad news is those transcripts will have about as much value as a participation trophy. The worse news is this can be true even at the university level. And the worst news: inflated grades are effectively mandated from the top. To fix the problem, you’d have to alter the mindsets of institutional bureaucrats — that is, move immovable objects.
I recall an instructor discussing this very thing in class before he bit his own tongue.
Investigators in the Maldives are trying to work out how five experienced divers died in the same spot at the same time.
The five Italian divers became trapped in a sea cave at a depth of about 50-60m off the island of Alimathaa in an atoll called Vaavu.
They had arrived at the dive site on board a boat called the Duke of York, which runs dive trips in the Maldives.
The University of Toronto has rescinded Buffy Sainte-Marie’s honorary degree, following a petition to revoke the honour.
The musician was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the university in 2019. At the time, a U of T publication said Sainte-Marie was being recognized for her work in music and the arts and for her advocacy work for “the rights and dignity of all people.”
The Italian community has so far maintained a silent stoic response.
Over 400 organizations that explicitly want to wipe Israel off the map and wreck the USA are organizing protests globally this week, and some of them have ties to the murderous Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to a new Fox News report.
Unfortunately, the United States is the biggest hotspot of the Marxist revolutionaries protesting in favor of destroying the world’s only Jewish state to transform it into another addition to the world’s 50 Muslim nations. CCP-linked billionaire Neville Roy Singham has been bankrolling anti-Israel, pro-Iran protests in the U.S. for weeks.
Eurovision director says door is open for Canada to join song contest
Xavier Trudeau must feel privileged because his dad is a blackface man pic.twitter.com/B8zL1Uvsjf
— Kush (@KushMetaX) May 15, 2026
I didn’t know Xavier was black!
CIA director John Ratcliffe met Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday as a way to improve dialogue between the US and the communist-run island, the Cuban government said.
The meeting took place “in a context marked by the complexity of bilateral relations, with the aim of contributing to the political dialogue between both nations”, a statement said.
The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Surrey mass fight between South Asian men sends six to hospital, two arrested
At approximately 8:20 pm on May 12, 2026, Surrey Police Service (SPS) responded to a report of two groups of men fighting at a residence near 133 Street and 89 Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located six males with varying degrees of injuries.
All were transported to the hospital… pic.twitter.com/x3CO43E5OM
— 604RAW (@604RAW) May 14, 2026
(Incognito)
Walking the streets of Kansas City, Houston, Miami and New York it is hard not to notice a World Cup is coming.
Billboards abound, there are signs outside bars and stores are churning out tournament-themed merchandise.
But for hoteliers checking their booking systems, the buzz is more of a murmur.
The industry body says most hotels in World Cup host cities are seeing bookings lower than this time last year, and those who spoke to the BBC said they were underwhelmed so far.
A Canadian doctor has suggested that babies with severe deformities could be euthanized under the country’s controversial assisted suicide laws.
Quebec College of Physicians member Louis Roy has been condemned by a lobbying group after a comment he made during a 2022 parliamentary committee resurfaced.
Roy previously said that under current Canadian law, assisted suicide could be considered for infants up to one year old with severe ailments.
President Donald Trump revealed on Friday that a 20-year moratorium on Iran’s nuclear program would be sufficient for him on that portion of a possible agreement to end the war.
The president’s acknowledgement on Air Force One following his trip to China appears to suggest a shift in his thinking, given he has repeatedly said they must agree to completely and permanently dismantle its nuclear program.
The organizers behind Toronto’s annual Al-Quds Day rally are suing Premier Doug Ford for defamation.
Al Quds Outreach Committee Toronto filed a lawsuit against Ford, prepared at the end of April, alleging commentary he made about the rally was motivated by “malice” and displays racism.
The lawsuit refers to comments Ford made in a video released on YouTube in March.
“This demonstration is nothing more than a breeding ground for hate and antisemitism. It glorifies violence, it celebrates terrorism. It has no place in Ontario, it has no place in Canada,” he said in the video.
The United States, with “America First” President Donald Trump at the helm, along with his anti-Castro Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has been putting the pressure on the communist regime founded in 1959 by that infamous revolutionary, Fidel Castro. In an executive order issued in May, the president deemed the island country, which is only 90 miles off the Florida Keys, an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” and the administration has been busy since slamming them with sanctions and cutting off their oil supplies.
