Author: Blazingcatfur
High food prices might be the most toxic form of personal-finance adversity in the past six years
The R-word looms over the Canadian economy in 2026.
That’s resilience, not recession. Businesses have slogged through trade war uncertainty for more than a year, and the Iran war has generated big increases in fuel costs. Yet the latest numbers tell us the economy delivered modest growth for four straight months, overall inflation remains subdued and the jobless rate has been steady.
Rob Carrick, a columnist for the Globe and Mail, supports the idea of opening government-owned grocery stores on the premise that “we’ve tried everything else and it didn’t work.”
Well, have we?
Interprovincial trade barriers are still there. Supply management is still there.…
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) May 5, 2026
Robot wars – what an operation in Ukraine tells us about the battlefield of the near future
The battlefield in Ukraine could soon feature more robot than human soldiers – that is the startling claim made by a Ukrainian-British military start-up.
The BBC visited UFORCE at its London premises, which are unbranded and discreet, a measure the company says is intended to protect it from potential Russian sabotage.
I wanted to know more about the company because of its involvement in what Ukraine says was an unprecedented military operation: enemy territory being seized using only robots and drones.
Drone warfare has now reached a stage where even soldiers have lost hope of escaping! Every strike in this video will make your body shiver. Watch how death descends from the sky! pic.twitter.com/IjLShMVIQ3
— TRISHUL (@TrishulxIN) April 29, 2026
Canadian intelligence intervened in seven violent threats motivated by Gaza war in 2025
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service investigated at least seven priority cases of radicals preparing to commit violence that were at least in part motivated by the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to the CSIS annual public report published on Friday, amid rising concern about religiously motivated violence in Canada.
Australia says 13 IS-linked citizens to fly back from Syria
Authorities in Australia said on Wednesday that 13 Australians linked to alleged members of the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group plan to return home from Syria.
The returnees include four women and nine children, who had been living in Syria’s Roj camp.
As per local media reports, they are expected to arrive at airports in Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday.
Big mistake. Canada is equally stupid.
Louise Arbour is in The Club — you are not
Mark Carney has named Louise Arbour as Canada’s 31st Governor General. She is 79 years old, a former Supreme Court justice, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a former chief prosecutor of international war crimes tribunals. She is bilingual, a Montrealer, credentialed beyond argument, and the most ideologically loaded appointment to Rideau Hall in living memory.
Arbour’s appointment is meant to be an insult.
Her toxic luxury beliefs and distaste for white people made her an ideal choice as the Royal Parasite in residence.
Will we see a repeat performance of the Antisemitism Tsar’s tenure, a woman whose bubble was burst when she found out no one was buying the con her class has long propagated to keep the rest of us in line? That no one was going to rally to the defense of a government that has busied itself importing our death cult replacements and continues to abuse immigration policy for political and personal gain?
Arbour peddles the same globalist tripe on immigration, multiculturalism and diversity.
She is a dinosaur calling the comet racist.
Trump commits to opening Strait of Hormuz if Iran agrees to deal on the table
President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday morning to open the Strait of Hormuz to all nations, including Iran, if the country agrees to the current proposed peace deal with the United States.
The president said that if Iran refuses the deal, the U.S. will start bombing the regime again.
BARCLAY: ‘Not American’ is now the sum total of Canada’s national identity
OTTAWA — Recently, Prime Minister Carney has publicly attacked and imploded every aspect of Canada’s historic relationship with the United States of America.
Unfortunately, Mark Carney’s incipient anti-American persona is a paradigm that the Liberal era has imposed upon all of Canada, and not merely the latest outpouring of Carney’s own personal vanity.
NATO Chief Says Europe ‘Got Message‘ From Trump over Military Base Access
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has claimed that Europe has “gotten the message” from President Donald Trump, who has vowed consequences for the disloyalty displayed by supposed allies during the conflict with the Islamist Iranian regime.
$1.5M bail revoked for alleged Project South drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto cops
An alleged drug trafficker accused of obtaining confidential information from a Toronto police officer, which investigators say was used in an unsuccessful conspiracy to kill a senior corrections officer, was back in custody Tuesday morning after his bail was revoked.
The Crown asked for a Superior Court review of the decision to release Brian Da Costa on a $1.5 million bail in early March. Justice Rita Maxwell ordered his detention and vacated the lower court’s decision, which saw Da Costa released under house arrest supervised by three sureties.
Amsterdam Lets You Buy Drugs—But Bans Burger Ads
Amsterdam is one of Europe’s most permissive cities, where prostitution is celebrated and going to a ‘coffee shop’ regularly involves getting high on cannabis.
It’s hardly surprising, then, that the city’s decision to ban public adverts for meat—alongside fossil fuel products such as petrol cars and airline travel—has been met with a mix of ridicule and outright condemnation.
Scholar tracks uptick in Iran’s threats to diaspora in Canada, others question deporting official
OTTAWA – A scholar researching transnational repression says he’s seeing an uptick in Iran’s regime threatening diaspora in Canada.
University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau said at the start of the U.S. war on Iran that Tehran tends to target dissidents abroad when it feels threatened.
The Liberal Party has regime toadies sitting in Parliament.
WTF?
Suicidal white leftist lady wearing LGBT rainbow earrings argues that Australia should bring ISIS members stranded overseas back to Australia, while Yazidi refugee who was personally tortured by ISIS begs for them to be blocked.
Absolute perfect example of Western suicidal… pic.twitter.com/plxtUd9cYq
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) May 5, 2026
It’s time for governments to stop spending your cash to lobby themselves
The federal government is spending your hard-earned tax dollars to lobby itself.
In what amounts to little more than a slush fund merry-go-round, Ottawa is giving your cash to non-governmental organizations, just to have those very same organizations turn around and lobby the federal government.