Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is shuffling his deck, sending Elon Musk-style letters to his shadow ministers asking them to prove their worth.
Monday’s email was referred to by one Conservative as “DOGE-like” — a reference to Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” which sent emails to U.S. federal government workers last year demanding that they list their past week’s accomplishments or resign.
Bonus, Poilievre’s latest podcast appearance.
After furious M&S chief demands that Labour get to grips with Britain’s High St raiders, IAN GALLAGHER exposes the gangs cynically using little girls to fleece designer stores
The little girl was probably no more than seven but already canny enough to know the value of the pink Chanel handbag taking centre stage in a boutique in Surrey.
Security footage captures her eyeing the ‘pre-loved’ £6,000 bag like a coveted toy, then alerting a woman wearing a flowery headscarf who is feigning interest in dresses.
Neither can believe their luck. Unlike the other handbags, this bag is unencumbered by a security tag and cable.
Two young Canadian pilots were killed in a tragic accident on 22 March. What should have been an occasion for sober reflection, compassion and prayer, has regrettably turned into an undignified dispute about bilingualism.
Captain Antoine Forest, 30, and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther, 24, died when a fire engine crossed the runway in front of them as they landed at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The nose of the plane took the brunt of the impact and both pilots were killed. Grateful passengers credited the two young men with saving the lives of everyone else on board by doing their utmost to slow the plane down in the last instants before the collision. The occupants of the fire engine were injured but survived.
For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?
It’s a question that can produce some, well, uncomfortable answers if you happen to be an earthling.
Sound, Light & Frequency is a new UFO podcast with an interesting Hollywood backstory.
The food production and distribution system in the Western world is an incredible marvel. With modern advancements, food production has expanded beyond population growth and continues to do so. In 1950, farmers in North America averaged 40 bushels of corn per acre. Today, those same fields have yields surpassing 180 bushels per acre. Soybean, wheat, canola, and other staples have seen similar rises in yields. Meat and dairy production have also greatly increased.
St Sebastian has been depicted as an Asian transgender man in a National Gallery installation.
Transgender models are retelling the story of the early Christian martyr, who was sent to be executed by archers.
When arrows miraculously failed to kill him, he was clubbed to death on the order of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
On the surface, Pierre Poilievre’s recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast had more good than bad. The Conservative leader came across as likable, down-to-earth, and clear. He stressed the need to unleash Canada’s energy potential. He called for cutting regulations that have suppressed innovation. He pushed for lower government spending. These are all sound ideas and Canada would surely benefit from them.
The joy of parenting summed up in one video. pic.twitter.com/GJ75r6fyMX
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 5, 2026
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
🇯🇵 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
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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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