A failed refugee claimant convicted in the United States in 2006 and 2009 of identity theft and forgery has won a stay of the order issued by Canadian authorities last November to deport him to Honduras.
The man, identified only by the initials FGH in a recent Federal Court decision, “acted as an informant against the MS-13 gang in exchange for deferral of his removal from the United States.”
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — At her studio in Iran’s capital, Amen Khademi prepared a fashion shoot for a jacket she designed with Persian-inspired motifs. But even as she applied lipstick to the model, she was distracted, worrying if her business would survive after four months without its main link to customers — the internet.
Iran’s 90 million people have been cut off from the internet for most of 2026, one of the world’s longest and strictest national shutdowns. That is devastating an online economy that had long defied government restrictions and international sanctions. From fashion to fitness, to advertising and retailers, many have seen their incomes evaporate.
They can’t blame this on Trump … yet.
We learned last week that Apotex Inc., Canada’s largest drug manufacturer, has received approval from Health Canada to market a generic version of Ozempic.
What began as a treatment for diabetes has quickly evolved into something far more consequential – a structural force reshaping consumer behaviour and, by extension, Canada’s agri-food economy. And these drugs will now get cheaper.
“If even one extra person is able to access the internet, I think it’s successful and it’s worth it,” says Sahand.
The Iranian man is visibly anxious, speaking to the BBC outside Iran, as he carefully explains how he is part of a clandestine network smuggling satellite internet technology – which is illegal in Iran – into the country.
Sahand, whose name we have changed, fears for family members and other contacts inside the country. “If I was identified by the Iranian regime, they might make those I’m in touch with in Iran pay the price,” he says.
While Western leaders push to bolster defense capabilities amid perceived rising threats, public willingness to enlist has lagged behind, forcing several countries to explore unconventional recruitment solutions.
Canada’s government last year changed its requirements for enlisting in the armed forces, accepting recruits with some medical conditions that would previously have been disqualifying, dropping aptitude test requirements, and implementing a program for immigrants with legal residency to join the country’s military.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s assertion that the US is being “humiliated” in its war against Iran has triggered a new confrontation between Europe and President Trump. Four days after the comments were made, the Pentagon announced plans to withdraw 5,000 troops from its bases in Germany.
Many experts see it as a waypoint in the American military’s continuing uncoupling from the Continent. There are more than 38,000 active US troops in the Federal Republic and on Saturday the defence minister, Boris Pistorius, implied the move was expected, saying: “We Europeans must take on more responsibility for our own security.”
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says the US will be withdrawing "A LOT" more troops from Germany than the 5,000 announced yesterday
FINALLY.
Bring our troops home! We don't need NATO — NATO needs US!
"We're going to cut WAY down and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000" 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/I4RBJnb3qL
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 2, 2026
Payback to the base for the Iran conflict?
A Regina man has been sentenced and fined $75,000 for falsifying federal immigration documents.
Abdulkader Ali pleaded guilty to submitting false immigration sponsorships to Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and counselling a refugee to provide false information on their IRCC application and counselling someone to sign as a sponsor without their knowledge.
Ali had been working as a refugee field worker with a local sponsorship organization at the time.
This should be treated as an act of demographic warfare by Islamists.
The US has warned shipping companies they could face sanctions if they pay Iran for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
An alert on Friday by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) warned US persons and companies were generally banned from paying Iranian government entities, and non-US persons may risk exposure to sanctions if they pay.
“Maritime industry participants involved with vessels calling at Iranian ports face significant sanctions risk under multiple sanctions authorities targeting Iran’s shipping sector and ports”, OFAC said.
Toronto police are looking for a suspect who allegedly fired a replica firearm at three members of the Jewish community in North York on Thursday.
Police said the assault, which is being investigated as a hate-motivated incident, occurred in the area of Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue West.
Three people, who police say were visibly Jewish, were walking in the area when a suspect in a blue SUV allegedly discharged an Orbeez-type gun at them.
Foreigners who commit evil belong in the depths of the water, apparently. That’s according to Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, who is badly wounded, living like a rat underground and reduced to handwriting his words of wisdom, or having them handwritten for him.
Did nobody point out that when his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, posted on X that an American warship was less dangerous than “the weapon that can send that warship to the bottom of the sea”, it heralded his death 11 days later?
If one thing is clear from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic update this week, it’s that he’s taking progressive voters for granted.
Headlines like “A Canada for All” sound nice. As do statements like: “the government is protecting the essential social programs that give Canadians a fair chance to get ahead — child care, dental care, and pharmacare.”
SO FAR, so good for the two Met police officers who gave a suspect a dose of boot leather to the head, after he (allegedly) stabbed two men in Golders Green, while already being pursued for an alleged knife attack earlier in the day.
I say this mindful of the ongoing trial after the clash between Muslim brothers and police officers at Manchester Airport, where there was an outbreak of mass hysteria after one officer also applied footwear to the cranium of his attacker and was promptly suspended. So far as I’ve seen, Met chief Mark Rowley hasn’t – yet – hung his Golders Green officers out to dry. Fingers crossed.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has said the MET police used excessive force in arresting the suspect who stabbed two Jewish men, one in his 30s and one in his 70s, in Golders Green north London.
Police called it a terrorist incident, and the suspect, a 45-year-old named Essa Suleiman,… pic.twitter.com/UH5FLPL0nu
— HJB News (@HJB_News__) May 1, 2026
In the wake of the federal government’s spring mini-budget boasting about the resilience of the economy, a new study finds youth unemployment in Canada increased from 10% in 2022 to 13.8% in 2025, the largest three-year increase on record when the economy was not in a recession.
The report by the Fraser Institute says that last year, 437,000 young people between 15 and 24 years of age looked for a job but could not find one, up 57% from 290,000 in 2022.
Some of these are very scary. It takes guts to attempt some of these hills. pic.twitter.com/zS8oCtwjgP
— Dweller (@One_Way_Home) May 1, 2026
A White male says he has submitted over 300 job application, he can’t get a single call back
So he tried an experiment, he updated his resume to have a common Indian last name ‘Singh’
He says he’s already gotten 3 callbacks
This is discrimination based on race and it’s… pic.twitter.com/UAAptOFeot
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 2, 2026
