A man who pleaded guilty to several “vile” offences that included assaulting a teenager and smearing fecal matter over her face and mouth has been handed a sentence of 695 days, or almost two years, by a judge in Vancouver. However, after time served in pre-trial custody, he will face just 227 more days behind bars.
… Court records say that Zewdu was born in Ethiopia and moved with his father to Canada when he was three. A few years later, his mother and sister joined them.
WASHINGTON — American negotiators believe that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has signed off on the “broad template” of a peace plan in which his nation would agree “in principle” to dispose of its highly enriched uranium.
The deal, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to free passage of ships after three months of war, could still take days for final ratification by Iranian negotiators as both sides wrangle over its wording.
WINNIPEG – More than 500 kilograms of illicit drugs, including meth and cocaine, have been seized in what investigators are calling the largest drug bust in Manitoba’s history.
Dubbed “Project Puma,” the two-year, multi-province investigation led to the arrest of 33 people and the seizure of drugs with an estimated street value exceeding $37 million.
Among those arrested are suspects allegedly connected to international criminal organizations, raising alarms for law enforcement experts about the growing convergence of organized crime networks in Canada.
The gun control lobby has done a pretty good job of masking its true intentions behind a veneer of “gun safety.” Even though advocates like Gabby Giffords have proclaimed at times that the goal is “no more guns,” folks like Brady’s Kris Brown regularly claim that they’re not opposed to gun ownership but are just in favor of a few “reasonable, common sense gun regulations.”
The opponents of U.S. President Donald Trump have been smearing him with the label fascist for years, but have always resorted to being inventive when producing the evidence.
In November 2024, American historian Timothy Snyder accused Trump of “talky fascism” and predicted he would change the system so he could remain in power until his death. Commenting last December on the Republican nomination for president in 2028, Trump said, “It’s not going to be me.”
Hunger is being increasingly exploited as a weapon of war with more than 20,000 documented incidents of “food-related violence” in the past eight years, new analysis reveals.
Attacks include 1,261 strikes on markets used by families for daily groceries and 863 incidents in which food distribution systems were targeted and workers killed.
The analysis looked at the period since UN resolution 2417 unanimously condemned the deliberate starvation of civilians in 2018. It found starvation is being increasingly weaponised with the supply of food routinely targeted in Gaza, Sudan, Lebanon and Haiti among others.
The South Korean submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Chang-ho arrived off British Columbia’s coast on Saturday in a flashy showcase of Hanwha Ocean’s bid to secure Canada’s multibillion-dollar submarine contract.
The vessel is visiting Victoria and will take part in joint anti-submarine exercises with the Royal Canadian Navy.
The newly built 3,000-ton KSS-III submarine made the historic 14,000-kilometre trans-Pacific voyage to demonstrate its long-endurance capabilities to Canadian decision-makers.
Public relations genius and Supergirl star Milly Alcock has decided alienating, insulting, and antagonizing the mostly male superhero fanbase is the way to go.
Let’s call it Going the full-Rachel Zegler.
Prime Minister Mark Carney defended billions in Canadian aid and military support for Ukraine, calling the spending an expression of “Canadian values” despite growing public skepticism over the prolonged conflict.
“We’re going to be on the right side of history,” Carney told reporters while reaffirming Ottawa’s commitment to Ukraine and NATO allies.
Blacklock’s Reporter said official figures show Canada has committed $22.6 billion in aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began.
A girl who was raped by two teenage boys has told the BBC that a judge’s decision to spare them jail sentences was like a “rock straight in my face”.
Speaking exclusively to Laura Kuenssberg, the girl, now 16, said: “What was the point in putting me through that?”
The girl, who spoke anonymously alongside her family, said the judge’s decision “almost made it seem as if what the boys did was not OK, but it was OK in the eyes of the law because they were still children”.
A month ago, I offered some predictions about how Canadian journalists would cover the five-year anniversary of the country’s infamous “unmarked graves” social panic, which began on May 27, 2021. On one hand, this kind of important landmark would be difficult for news outlets to ignore. (After all, this was considered the Canadian “Story of the Year” at the time.) On the other hand, any intellectually honest retrospective that these outlets produced would require at least some passing explanation as to why the entire Canadian media establishment had fallen hook, line, and sinker for a story that turned out to be fake—something that most journalists have so far proven unwilling to do.
This is the Globe piece – Where the truth is buried in Tk’emlúps
A newly elected Scottish Green MSP who claimed they had “grown up starving” in India was privately educated with a privileged upbringing, it has been revealed.
Q Manivannan won a seat at Holyrood this month representing Edinburgh & Lothians East after campaigning as a “queer Tamil immigrant” who would stand up for the “working class and marginalised”.
He’s not even a citizen.
Alberta is about to decide whether it wants to stay in Canada or take steps to become an independent nation.
The provincial premier, Danielle Smith, recently announced that Alberta will hold a referendum to determine its future in Canada. The question to be asked will be: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”
A crazed gunman who belived he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quckly taken down by a barrage shots from the Secret Service, sources said.
Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.
WASHINGTON – A high-ranking U.S. defence official says the Pentagon gave Ottawa a classified paper laying out priorities for a collective North American defence pact with Canada, but that Ottawa did not deliver a “credible” response.
That lack of response is just one of several irritants the senior Pentagon official said is creating a rift in North American defence co-operation. Canada’s delayed decision around the procurement of F-35 fighter jets was also cited as a source of frustration.
The official from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration briefed a small group of mostly Canadian journalists this week on background in order to speak more candidly about Canada-U.S. relations.
Carney’s negotiating strategy seems to be about making Canada a pariah state to all but China and perhaps North Korea.
