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More than 150 inmates have been improperly released from Ontario’s jails over several years, a problem that Premier Doug Ford called “unacceptable” on Wednesday.
Global News unearthed government documents through freedom-of-information laws that show the province mistakenly released 157 inmates between 2021 and 2025.
Those documents say the majority of errors were made at the jails and in court, some were administrative while others were human error.
Chinese carmaker Seres has been granted a patent for what it calls an “in-vehicle toilet” that slides under a passenger’s seat for visits to the loo while on the road.
The feature is meant to “satisfy users’ toilet needs on long journeys, while camping or while staying in the car”, engineers wrote in Seres’ patent filing in China on 10 April.
Call it Air Ford One.
The Ontario government has purchased a used $28.9 million private jet for the use of Premier Doug Ford, the Star has learned.
A senior official, speaking confidentially in order to discuss the matter, confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.
Make Ford take public transit so he can see first hand the shithole Ontario has become.
Federal housing officials approved nearly $1.2 million in taxpayer funding for a program that handed out cameras to homeless individuals as part of an arts-based exhibition, despite internal records showing the initiative struggled to meet its goals and lacked clear data on its target population.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Access to Information documents show the funding, totalling $1,199,921, was allocated through a Veteran Homelessness Program overseen by Housing Minister Gregor Robertson’s department.
I bet that bought a lot of crack.
As the Liberals enjoy some of the most explosive polling leads in Canadian history, a leading pollster is suggesting that it’s mostly a product of mathematical error.
This week, Abacus Data CEO David Coletto suggested that many of his peers are chronically undercounting Conservative voters, presenting a “distorted version” of the electorate to the public.
Canadian laws didn’t apply to Gilbert Nuamah.
That’s what the convicted sex offender facing deportation allegedly told cops who had just arrested him for sexually assaulting an Indigenous woman.
VANCOUVER — Transgender activist Jessica Yaniv, who was born Jonathan Yaniv and has also used the name Jessica Simpson, has filed at least one recent human rights complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal that explicitly claims membership in the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ community while alleging discrimination through “existential denialism” and discriminatory publication.
Just spitballing here: he came from generational wealth, received a BMW when he turned 16, was in a fraternity and graduated college with a 2.0 GPA. Backpacked through Europe on his family’s dime.
His real name is Buckley Thurman Andrew III, but goes by Zoink.
Lives in a van. pic.twitter.com/J1s99o8RCN
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 15, 2026
Important health tip! We need to talk more about this common misconception. pic.twitter.com/d6lTWZ36Ys
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 16, 2026
His father, a diplomat, helped him buy his first condo in Mississauga, Ont.
His brother later helped him purchase a house in Hamilton and invest in several legitimate businesses.
But a judge considered his race while sentencing Samir Abdelgadir for helping to kidnap a 14-year-old Black boy for 36 hours in order to recoup 90 kilograms of cocaine stolen by the boy’s half-brother.
Embattled former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax killed his wife and then shot himself inside their home early Thursday in the throes of a “messy divorce,” cops said.
The 47-year-old Democrat repeatedly shot his dentist wife, Cerina Fairfax, in the basement of their Annandale home just after midnight before turning the gun on himself, according to police.
The couple’s two teenage children were inside the home at the time of the murder-suicide. Their son was the one who called 911 to report the shootings, cops said.
h/t PA Cat
A controversial American YouTuber was sentenced to six months in a South Korean labor prison after he obscenely disrespected a monument honoring wartime sex slaves.
Johnny Somali, whose real name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael, was found guilty of multiple charges, including obstruction of business and distributing fabricated sexually explicit content, by the Seoul Western District Court on Wednesday.
In October 2024, Somali, 25, caused outrage when he uploaded a video of himself kissing and performing a lap dance on the Statue of Peace. The Seoul monument pays homage to the women sexually abused and trafficked during wartime.
h/t Patti Jo
A new German online search engine is helping people to discover if their ancestors were members of the Nazi Party.
Christian Rainer, from Austria, told the BBC he found the name of his grandfather “within a few seconds”.
“I found out that he became a member of the Nazi Party around 21st of April 1938, just a few days after the Anschluss,” when Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Germany, he said.
This World Cup soccer ball is hitting Canadian fans right in their pocketbook.
Canadian taxpayers have already paid $380 million out of their pockets for these World Cup soccer games, and now there’s a proposal to charge kids $10 to join the excitement from under the Gardiner Expressway.
Huh ? pic.twitter.com/5WO5aDlEuF
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 15, 2026
A beautiful game ruined by grifters.
Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are cutting Donald Trump out of plans to patrol the Strait of Hormuz once the war against Iran is over.
The two leaders are piecing together a coalition of mostly European countries in a similar alliance to the French and British-led “coalition of the willing” nations working on Ukraine.
The idea is to send mine-sweeping and other vessels to clear the shipping lane and give companies the confidence to use the strait once the fighting is finished.
But the plan risks angering the mercurial Mr Trump, who has repeatedly castigated his Nato allies for failing to join his war and threatened to reconsider membership of the alliance.
European leaders have insisted this is not their war and ignored US calls to send warships to the strait.
