Medical tourism in the West is considered a luxury: you travel to a place with top-of-the-line doctors who can be seen faster than you’d ever expect at home, undertake a battery of tests more thorough than what’s generally done at home, and receive an assessment more all-encompassing than, again, would be expected at home.
Aaron Rose Philip ran over Sam Smith and now I really like her. pic.twitter.com/bpwDq4Gzd6
— 🇺🇸POTUS Note 🇺🇸 (@POTUSnote) May 5, 2026
Feda Shahin, a Green candidate in Bournemouth, was first exposed – for different extremist statements – by The Spectator on 21 April. We disclosed she had said that ‘the Zionists killed 20 million Christians’ and that ‘Zionists are trying to control the world.’ She is ‘secretary general’ of a local pro-Palestine group, the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which earned national notoriety after it staged a night-time picket of an MP’s private home.
Those remarks were, it turns out, only part of Shahin’s wide repertoire. We have now been passed her conversations in the Palestine Solidarity Movement’s group chat, including her reaction to our previous story about her. This was not, it’s fair to say, shame, apology or regret. Instead, she said The Spectator was running a ‘trolling campaign’ – deliberately posting inflammatory statements to provoke emotional responses.
Lena Dunham at the Met Gala is Big Bird plus Snuffleupagus with some sequined Muppet mayhem thrown in.
I would have done dramatic makeup and voluminous hair. pic.twitter.com/t1BoNryhph
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 4, 2026
If Alberta could vote in U.S. elections, President Donald Trump would have won in a landslide there all three times he ran for the White House. Alberta is one of Canada’s 10 provinces and the closest thing the country has to a red state.
President Trump announced a pause on “Project Freedom” on Tuesday evening based on a request from Pakistan and other countries but added that the U.S. Navy blockade of ships in the Strait of Hormuz will remain in place.
“Based on the request of Pakistan and other Countries, the tremendous Military Success that we have had during the Campaign against the Country of Iran and, additionally, the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement with Representatives of Iran, we have mutually agreed that, while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom (The Movement of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz) will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
For a position that is supposed to be non-partisan and represent all Canadians, Louise Arbour was exactly the wrong pick to become Canada’s next Governor General. That’s not on Madame Arbour, who I hope serves with grace and dignity while in the job. Botching the pick is completely on Prime Minister Mark Carney.
When Arbour’s name was first floated in the media, I doubted the reports, thinking there was no way that Carney and his team would be so foolish as to make such a political, partisan pick.
Not many approve …
The Elitist Media evening newscasts rightly accorded significant coverage to last year’s deadly Southern California wildfires. It is therefore unfortunate that they seem mostly disinterested in covering the arrest and revealed motive of the individual suspected in starting the Palisades Fire.
ABC and CBS did NOT cover the arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht. ABC covered the end of the litigation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, while CBS covered the Met Gala. There was simply no time to spare.
OTTAWA — Achieving Canada’s long-term goal for defence spending would add $63 billion to the federal budget deficit by 2035 — almost double this year’s projected shortfall, Parliament’s budget watchdog says, suggesting the military rearmament drive will add pressure to the government’s currently “sustainable” fiscal blueprint.
The estimate was included in a series of reports published Monday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan that highlight a lack of detail on major initiatives following the Liberal government’s spring economic update last week. While the PBO concluded that current and growing debt levels are sustainable in the long term, the government hasn’t yet included all of the promised cash for defence in its spending projections, according to one of Monday’s reports.
The denial, “with prejudice,” by Judge Lewis Kaplan of a request for a new trial by the imprisoned crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is yet another setback for the man who once bestrode American financial and political life like a colossus.Bankman-Fried is fighting for his freedom from behind bars at a federal prison in California after his conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. He contends that new witnesses have emerged whose testimony could make a difference to the question of his guilt.
The Montreal-area man accused of first-degree murder following the January 2022 abduction of his former girlfriend from a home in Wasaga Beach, Ont., has accepted a plea deal.
Mohamad Lilo, 38, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap Elnaz Hajtamiri, in exchange for murder charges against him being dropped by the Crown and a joint proposal of a four-year sentence, which was accepted by Justice Michelle Furst.
To many of us, it is a mystery why Trump is not pounding the crap out of Iran after its numerous violations of the ever-so-shaky “cease-fire,” in which the US is mostly ceasing, and Iran appears to be happy to fire.
Seen in isolation, it seems obvious that Trump should be unleashing hellfire on Iran for any number of good reasons, ranging from the ever-perilous “looking weak” to the dangers of prolonging an economic crisis that is hurting Americans, our allies, and the political prospects of Republicans in the midterms.
Olivia Chow and her allies at Progress Toronto clearly see Brad Bradford as a threat. On Monday, Chow went into Bradford’s ward to hold a news conference and claim that he doesn’t care about tenants living with bad landlords.
She scares me.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. mission to protect commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz would be temporary and other nations would soon have to take responsibility, emphasizing Tuesday that the fragile ceasefire with Iran remained in place despite attacks on U.S. ships a day earlier.
Speaking at a briefing alongside Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hegseth said the United States had established a powerful “red, white and blue dome” over the strait as a “direct gift” to other nations to allow commercial ships to pass through.
“This operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury,” he said, using the Trump administration’s name for the war with Iran.
"And I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't." Pete Hegseth
"Kamikaze dolphins. It's like sharks with laser beams. Right." General Kaine
What a time to be alive! pic.twitter.com/YEyE0rNakS
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) May 5, 2026
Ottawa is for the first time to track which foreign students and other temporary foreign residents have left the country after their permits to remain in Canada expire, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab told a committee of MPs on Monday.
Economists have been warning for years that Canada has been dramatically undercounting the number of temporary residents living here by presuming that international students and others leave the country after their permits and visas run out.
Minister @CitImmCanada says she’s unsure what became of 800 foreign students identified as fraudsters in federal audit by @OAG_BVG 6 weeks ago.
“I don’t have that information.”
— @LenaMetlegeDiab https://t.co/NnGntFLGOZ@BradRedekopp @MichelleRempel @CostasMenegakis #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/d40xlcenjS— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) May 5, 2026
There’s a pattern here. Carney puts extremely stupid people in charge of important portfolios knowing they will outright lie if needed. They simply lack the dignity to admit they’re in over their heads.
