A group called The Democracy Fund (TDF) has launched an independent investigation in Canada to the intensifying and expanding pattern of church and synagogue fires that are now plaguing the country.
According to a CBC broadcast network investigation, from May 2021 through December 2023, there were 24 confirmed church arsons in Canada, but the total number of churches that were destroyed by fire totaled 33.
A multi-millionaire football club owner known as Britain’s first gay father has been charged with rape and human trafficking.
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, and his husband, Scott, 32, are accused of several offences, including rape, sexual assault and modern slavery trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The couple, who own non-league Maldon and Tiptree FC, were due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning.
More babies, more guns, more passports, lower taxes, fewer immigrants and a smooth, painless process: That’s the vision Alberta’s separatists sold this winter as they barnstormed across the province gathering signatures for an independence referendum that may now be held as early as this October.
But while independence leaders have been making big, specific promises about how Alberta would leave confederation, and what a sovereign Alberta would look like, constitutional and other experts say the reality would be far more complicated.
Students at Connaught School for Girls have staged a counter-protest against teachers taking part in an ongoing strike.
Pupils gathered outside the school, carrying signs including ‘Kids with more respect than adults’ and ‘Nice day off?’, urging striking teachers to return to classrooms during the GCSE exam season.
Footage shared online appeared to show some staff members laughing and applauding in response, sparking criticism from parents and social media users who accused teachers of dismissing students’ concerns.
Teachers striking days before the GCSE and A Level exams.😱
Kids protesting opposite them, demanding to be taught! Poor kids.
This is the state of our country.
God help us. 😳 pic.twitter.com/47MHzGurF4
— Katharine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy) May 9, 2026
President Trump has largely succeeded in repositioning the Americas as the new centre of world energy markets. Canada – particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan, with the world’s third-largest oil reserves and stable oil-sands production – is exceptionally well placed to benefit, provided Canadian policy stops fighting the continental reality and starts leveraging it.
The phenomenal rise of Reform UK in the local elections has triggered predictable howls of outrage from Left-wing quarters. “Fascist!”, “far Right!”, all the usual slurs. After a campaign spent depicting Nigel Farage as Britain’s next Hitler, the snowflakes are now in full meltdown at the terrifying prospect that the electorate might actually elect a “Nazi” as prime minister.
The hysteria reveals far more about the critics than it does about Reform. Those with a rational grasp of UK politics understand the truth: Farage’s party, now replete with former Conservatives and careful to distinguish itself from a harder-Right outfit in Rupert Lowe’s Restore, represents the least of Britain’s problems. While the Left obsesses over phantom threats on the Right, genuine extremism is flourishing elsewhere, cloaked not in Union flags but in the sanctimonious green of virtue-signalling radicalism.
The federal government is going to try something new: counting.
Now mind you, this is a pilot project. We don’t want to commit to anything in case we run out of fingers and toes to count with, or if the results are embarrassing. But as confirmed by Immigration Minister Lena Diab during the House of Commons immigration committee meeting Monday, Canada’s government is going to start tracking when temporary residents enter and exit the country. The minister said she expects the program to be fully implemented by the end of the year. After that, Ottawa will decide if it’s something worth doing permanently.
If you recognize any of these commercials, congratulations. You’ve probably been advised to get a colonoscopy and you have at least one pair of readers. pic.twitter.com/TgxDCxBThb
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 8, 2026
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass insists that “climate change” caused the Palisades Fire. Federal prosecutors believe that an angry, anti-capitalist Uber driver who frequently posted that climate change caused wildfires set the conflagration that destroyed so much of Los Angeles County.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Central District of California prosecutes Jonathan Rinderknecht on charges of destruction of property by means of fire, arson affecting property used in interstate commerce, and timber set afire. Though a dozen people died in the Palisades Fire in early 2025, Rinderknecht faces between five and 45 years if convicted
Hey mamas! Y’all planning on doing the pole class with your children tomorrow?
If it’s one thing kids love it’s learning the chair spin on the pole! pic.twitter.com/cJPhvj2YeG
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 9, 2026
“We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.” That phrase, and the coldly self-interested realism that appeared to be behind it, became associated with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approach to the Middle East for a brief moment earlier this year.
Grabbed from the PM’s Davos speech in January, the line was celebrated by those who believed Canada’s foreign policy had descended into the virtue-signalling promotion of Canadian values, and needed to return to the rock-ribbed projection of national interests.
Church of Montenach, France. Built between 1884 and 1886, it survived two world wars and was devastated by a fire on Sunday.
The numbers, cold as gravestones, speak clearly: dozens of churches are destroyed by fire every year, while other places of worship enjoy an inexplicable immunity. These are not meteorological accidents or random electrical faults. It is a pattern that challenges our ability to name reality without euphemisms.
The elites in Paris and Brussels, barricaded in their intellectual salons, prefer not to see, but the citizen smells the acrid odor of a planned dissolution.
Ants can be a nuisance. Just ask officials at a hospital in Canada who are dealing with an “appearance of ants within the operating room” that has forced them to indefinitely suspend some surgeries there.
The ants appeared recently at Carman Memorial Hospital in Carman Manitoba, according to a statement from Southern Health-Santé Sud, the provincial authority that oversees the hospital.
Europe has a long history, from medieval expulsions to the Holocaust, of dispossessing, murdering, and expelling Jews. Today, this same impulse continues under the language of diplomacy and “international law,” now targeting the Jewish people’s biblical heartland by, once again, trying to force a genocidally hostile (here and here, article 7) so-called “two-state solution” on the Jewish state.
A Mexican national living illegally in the United States has pleaded guilty to charges of bringing illegal immigrants across the border from Canada into the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice says.
Edgar Sanchez-Solis, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and five counts of alien smuggling for commercial advantage and private financial gain, the DOJ said in a press release on Thursday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 10, and will face a penalty of between five and 15 years in prison.
