The joy of parenting summed up in one video. pic.twitter.com/GJ75r6fyMX
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 5, 2026
WTF?
Author: Blazingcatfur
The Iran Operation
So this is purest speculation on my part. But watching the incredibly complex multi-domain rescue mission this weekend, it suddenly struck me that new, powerful AI might be behind this. Moving all these units into so many places at once, making sure that they have communications organized, fuel, ammunition, food, the right troops with the right transports, and so on is enormously complex. It normally requires the work of hundreds of staffers to do this sort of thing, and that takes time. But it happened awfully fast, and nearly flawlessly.
Hundreds of SEAL Team 6 commandos, fake CIA intel and a battle for survival atop 7,000-foot ridge: Inside the historic US mission to save F-15 airman in Iran
During the rescue of the second F-15E crew member in southwestern Iran (April 3–5, 2026)… U.S. special operations forces were operating deep in hostile territory under real pressure.
The downed airman evaded capture for roughly 48 hours while Iranian forces… including IRGC… pic.twitter.com/z5h2Jt43lX
— A Gene Robinson (@AlGeneRobi96834) April 5, 2026
WTF?
🇯🇵 A Muslim lady from the UK explains: "Japan is overrated. I don't like it because it's not Muslim friendly. Their rice is boiled in pork water".
Actually, one of the best things about Japan is exactly that: we're not Muslim friendly. 🤷🏻♀️ Too bad for you. pic.twitter.com/6oRYQGq8ei
— 鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 (@harukaawake) April 4, 2026
Inside the battle over Barry Sherman’s billions. Why a court may soon open the books on the murdered tycoon’s family legacy
A dispute has broken out over who should manage $2 billion of assets left behind by murdered business tycoon Barry Sherman.
On one side is his son Jonathon and his nominee on the board of the Sherman family trust, Toronto lawyer Michael Woollcombe.
On the other is Jonathon’s sister Alexandra, along with her former husband, and a money manager Barry trusted for years to handle the fortune he built up as founder of generic drug giant Apotex.
Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts is gone
If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which nearly everyone could agree.
Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies project due tomorrow. Or scanned its list of countries for Latvia, because that is the country you are representing next week in Model U.N. Even better, you wandered the earth in your imagination as you held the physical Factbook in your own hands, unfolding its maps and understanding, perhaps for the first time, that the thumbs-up gesture your friends flash each other is considered an obscene insult in parts of the Middle East, Europe and Argentina.
A pity, as a blogger I have relied on it on many occasions.
GOLDSTEIN: Mark Carney’s ‘carbon border adjustment mechanism’ will cost you
When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he would reduce the Liberal government’s consumer carbon tax to zero, he also promised to introduce a “carbon border adjustment mechanism.”
He described the CBAM as a new government measure to “promote fair competition and improve environmental outcomes” while “supporting Canadian jobs in … energy-intensive, trade-exposed sectors, such as steel, chemicals, cement, and aluminum.”
Trump Is Preventing the Nightmare of Nuclear-Armed Iran
Like the fighter who distracts his foe with feints before bringing an uppercut that knocks out his opponent, the world has been exclusively focused on Iran shutting the Straits of Hormuz while ignoring the chilling fact that it is a regime of theocratic extremists who have launched ballistic missiles capable of hitting Europe as well as US bases in the Indian Ocean. Iran’s ruling ayatollahs want to put nuclear warheads on those missiles. That is where the real threat lies — not in a Middle East waterway — but in Iran’s missile silos and nuclear weapons program.
Douglas Todd: Surprising jump in Catholic converts in Canada and beyond
Raised in a moderate Muslim family in the Middle East, Kiwi Mottahed was once almost obsessed with watching online “anti-Christian” videos.
The videos, which are widespread, did not invoke hatred of Christians. But they did vociferously argue that Christian theology was wrong and Islam was the only right way to God, said Mottahed, a University of B.C. business student.
Moderate Muslim? No such thing but a good column nonetheless.
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‘Humiliating’: Pfizer cancels COVID vaccine trial for lack of interest as global scrutiny mounts
Five years after their wide deployment, first on a voluntary basis, then under threat of firing for nearly 100 million Americans at the direction of the White House, COVID-19 vaccines for at least low-risk groups may be on the way out amid higher regulatory requirements and indifference to the jabs by the vast majority of Americans.
Young man and teen boy shot dead outside Brampton school
A man in his 20s and a teenage boy were killed when gunfire erupted Friday night on the grounds of an elementary school in Brampton.
Peel Regional Police say officers responded to the deadly shooting near Rutherford Rd. and Weybridge Tr. – east of Kennedy Rd. N. – around 10:20 p.m. and located the two victims soon after.
Crime? In Brampton? I’m Shocked!
Top Republicans Question Point of ‘Feckless‘ and ‘Weak‘ NATO Allies
The moves by European leaders to stymie the United States in its conflict with the Islamist Iranian regime, apparently motivated by fear of potential blowback from Tehran and its proxies, appear set to incur a far greater strategic setback as Republicans call for a complete re-assessment of the NATO alliance.
Huge profits drawing organized crime to black market tobacco
The Hells Angels and other organized crime groups are increasingly involved in the lucrative black market cigarette business. The revelation comes after two recent seizures of illegal cigarettes and nicotine vapes in Southwestern Ontario.
Police identified 173 organized crime groups – including the mafia, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and their support clubs – involved in black market tobacco, said Rick Barnum, chief executive of the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco.
Boy am I SHOCKED!
Did ICE Just Use the DMV as Bait to Lure Illegal Alien Truck Drivers?
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have dropped off the radar a little bit after things settled down in Minneapolis, but a flurry of arrests just outside Pittsburgh suggests that ICE is as active as ever and addressing a problem that’s been a long time coming.
ICE arrested a reported 13 people at a driver’s license center in a quiet, rural location 40 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh on April 3.
Alberta separatists making alternative plans to force referendum if they lose court challenge
Alberta separatists are making alternative plans to pressure Premier Danielle Smith’s government to call an independence referendum if a judge throws out their current efforts after a multiday hearing next week.
Mitch Sylvestre is organizing an independence petition under Alberta’s Citizen Initiative Act. Mr. Sylvestre’s campaign needs 178,000 signatures to force a constitutional referendum. Earlier this week, Mr. Sylvestre declared organizers had reached that goal, one month ahead of deadline.
Inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp death cult
How henchmen brainwashed in ‘violent and extremist’ training camps oversee prison rapes and mass executions to maintain Iranian regime’s stranglehold
In countless camps deep in rural Iran, gruff military men bark orders at trembling young cadets.
Boys as young as 13 are put through their paces by uncompromising tutors, who brainwash their pupils into hating all of Iran’s enemies, planting a seed that grows into a fanatical and insular view of the world.
This is the beginning of the journey for the hardened rank and file of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a nursery where teens learn the ropes and become part of a 125,000-strong death cult.