Vatican stresses need for peace as Rubio meets pope amid strained relations

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.”

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CBC’s Rosemary Barton Has No Time for Fake News

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.

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Price Gouging, Now Personalized Thanks to Surveillance Pricing and Collusion

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.

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The Canada Strong Fund is a debt-fuelled corporate slush fund

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.

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Hamas is Humiliating Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

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.

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Government-Controlled AI Could Enable Surveillance, Impact Free Expression: Report

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).

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STUDY: George Soros Pumped $204M into Groups Badgering Charities to Resume SPLC Donations

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.

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LILLEY: Tariffs not to blame for Honda’s decision to axe EV plant in Alliston

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.

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Tom Homan: President Trump Is Being Lobbied by Cabinet Members to Approve Migrant Amnesty

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?”

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Trump rips $1,000 World Cup ticket prices, tells The Post: ‘I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest’

Trump rips $1,000 World Cup ticket prices, tells The Post: ‘I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest’

President Trump blasted sky-high 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices in an exclusive interview with The Post, saying even he wouldn’t pony up the $1,000 needed to watch the US play in the team’s opening game against Paraguay next month.

In a brief telephone interview late Wednesday, the commander-in-chief reacted with surprise at how much American soccer fans were currently being asked to pay to attend the June 12 match in Los Angeles.

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HUNTER: B.C. cops target extortion rackets by naming and shaming

HUNTER: B.C. cops target extortion rackets by naming and shaming

The judiciary, so-called civil society rackets, and the faculty lounge must be sputtering with rage.

Cops in Surrey, B.C. did something utterly counter-intuitive in Canada: They released a slew of mugshots of suspected criminals in the Vancouver suburb’s chaotic extortion rackets.


This is criminal abuse by the Liberal Party.

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Karoline Leavitt announces birth of daughter Viviana

Karoline Leavitt announces birth of daughter Viviana

Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s White House press secretary, has given birth to a baby girl just days after delaying her maternity leave following the recent assassination attempt on the US president’s life.

Ms Leavitt was due to start her maternity leave on April 24. But it was postponed after the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner on April 25. Ms Leavitt and other senior members of the administration were in attendance alongside Mr Trump.

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