Today is Kathy’s birthday.
My iPhone put together a new gallery of Kathy photos without prompting.
I like to think that sort of thing is a sign.
I bought a little sheet cake at Farm Boy to celebrate her day.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Calgary police defend Punjabi signs amid backlash over immigration concerns
CALGARY — The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is responding to criticism over temporary signs that were posted in northeast Calgary in the Punjabi language as part of an effort to combat extortion crimes targeting the South Asian community.
In a statement to the Western Standard, CPS said it had placed “ten temporary signs in select northeast Calgary locations for a two-week period, which began on Wednesday, April 22, 2026,” adding that the locations were chosen based on current intelligence about extortion activity in the city.
h/t Mauser
Trump is clinging to a mirage in the Middle East
Well, well, well. For all the head-scratching that it initially occasioned, President Trump’s hasty abandonment of “Project Freedom” – his grandly titled plan to open the Strait of Hormuz – turns out not to be so mysterious after all. Trump’s reversal, NBC News revealed late yesterday, came at the behest of America’s Gulf allies, foremost among them Riyadh which told Washington that it would suspend the US military’s right to use its airspace. Now Trump, who has described his current exchanges with Iran as “very good,” is breathing optimism about a one-page peace memorandum that he claims will be completed by the end of the week. Iran, by contrast, merely says that Trump’s proposal is “under review.”
There is a lot more anti-Trump hostility in the UK press since the president’s remarks on GB’s viability as a partner.
Ottawa to pull plug on Arctic naval facility
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is shuttering a trouble-plagued Arctic naval facility, two government sources say – a project from the Stephen Harper era that was originally conceived as a major demonstration of Canadian sovereignty in the North.
The Nanisivik Naval Facility on northern Baffin Island was first promised in 2007 by the Harper government, but cost-cutting later resulted in the project being downgraded to a summer filling station for naval ships.
It ultimately never began operations, hobbled by delays, cost increases and serious corrosion on the deepwater port’s jetty where ships are meant to tie up.
WTF?
Kathy Griffin mocks Erika Kirk and calls Charlie a nazi pic.twitter.com/pIpXCCYM7X
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2026
Vatican stresses need for peace as Rubio meets pope amid strained relations
The Vatican has said it raised the “need to work tirelessly in favour of peace” in talks with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is in Rome on a trip widely regarded as an effort to ease tensions after Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of Pope Leo.
Amid unprecedented strain on relations between the Holy See and Washington, Rubio was received by the pope on Thursday at the Apostolic Palace, before holding a series of meetings with Vatican officials
Vatican video showed the first north American pope shaking hands with his guest and addressing him formally as “Mr Secretary”, to which Rubio, a Catholic, responded: “Great to see you.”
WTF?
Once in a while, a superstar emerges wearing a sideways hat, licking an ice cream cone. pic.twitter.com/gHR5Yi5SvM
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 7, 2026
CBC’s Rosemary Barton Has No Time for Fake News
In an era when objective truth is a nice-to-have and the bar for politicians is in the depths of hell, it’s helpful to have someone like Rosemary Barton in the mix. For more than two decades, Barton, currently the CBC’s chief political correspondent, has chatted with, fact-checked and, when the occasion merits it, borderline interrogated the country’s most consequential public figures. Lately, thanks to some unusually exciting policy shifts under our refreshingly boring new prime minister, Canada’s newsmakers are commanding global headlines. But first, they’ll probably pop up on Rosemary Barton Live.
Government bought media giving a tongue bath to government bought media.
Careful as spittle may leak through your screen.
Price Gouging, Now Personalized Thanks to Surveillance Pricing and Collusion
With Democrats becoming more assertive in their embrace of socialists such as Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani, the abundance and prosperity we enjoy in a free-market economy are under threat.
But free market capitalism is also threatened by the corporate embrace of unscrupulous business practices. There is a disturbing modern management philosophy that seeks to financialize all aspects of a business’s operations by mining every possible dollar from each customer engagement. This may produce short-term gains, but it destroys long-term brand equity, and more importantly, it erodes consumer trust. By treating customers as prey, unethical executives are providing ammunition to the enemies of free markets.
The Canada Strong Fund is a debt-fuelled corporate slush fund
The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t an empire, or Roman, and its behaviour definitely wasn’t holy. But the title sounds impressive.
Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be using that marketing technique from the Middle Ages with the federal government’s latest way to borrow money and hand out corporate welfare.
Hamas is Humiliating Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
Six months after US President Donald J. Trump unveiled his ambitious ceasefire and reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group remains more armed, entrenched, and openly defiant than ever. Far from disarming, the Islamist group now controls roughly half the Gaza Strip and much of its population, while making a mockery of Trump’s “Board of Peace” initiative and the international mediators sponsoring it.
Government-Controlled AI Could Enable Surveillance, Impact Free Expression: Report
Greater government control over artificial intelligence in Canada could allow increased surveillance of users and discourage people from speaking freely in private interactions with AI systems, according to a Canadian rights advocacy group.
Increased state involvement in AI systems could also lead to routine government access to private conversations and data, according to a May 5 report by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
STUDY: George Soros Pumped $204M into Groups Badgering Charities to Resume SPLC Donations
Whenever there’s a threat to George Soros’s regime, you can bet that a number of his grantees will swarm like bees to protect the hive. Enter the disgraced, extremist Southern Poverty Law Center.
A number of lefty organizations and activists penned an open letter to leadership at Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable and Charles Schwab Affiliate DAFgiving360 lambasting them for halting donations to the SPLC following a massive fraud scandal. The Department of Justice announced April 21 that the SPLC was indicted on multiple fraud charges for financing the very white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups it was claiming for years to be crusading against, to the tune of $3 million.
LILLEY: Tariffs not to blame for Honda’s decision to axe EV plant in Alliston
The bad news is that Honda isn’t expanding its operations in Alliston to build an electric vehicle plant. The good news is that no government money has been handed over despite a promise of up to $5 billion when the project was announced two years ago.
The announcement on April 25, 2024, promised a $15-billion investment from Honda for a new EV assembly line and a battery plant. The federal government promised up to $2.5 billion in production tax credits and the provincial government promised up to another $2.5 billion in support.
Tom Homan: President Trump Is Being Lobbied by Cabinet Members to Approve Migrant Amnesty
Border Czar Tom Homan told CBS News that President Donald Trump is talking to his advisors about offering some form of “legal status” to many illegal migrants.
A pro-migration reporter at CBS asked Homan on Wednesday:
“Would you support a compromise, sir, that involves giving legal status [amnesty] to the millions of people who are here illegally but are otherwise law-abiding?”