Suspected political assassin Vance Luther Boelter was captured Sunday following an intense manhunt for the gunman accused of murdering a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounding another, state officials announced.
Boelter, a 57-year-old former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, was sought by police for allegedly wounding Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and killing former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.
KANANASKIS, Alberta — In Canadian diplomatic circles, “Charlevoix” is shorthand for summit disaster. Avoiding a repeat of the 2018 summit that Donald Trump set ablaze is job one for Prime Minister Mark Carney this week as he hosts G7 leaders.
Carney came to power by campaigning openly against Trump’s belligerence. But now he has a direct line to the president, with whom he’s negotiating an economic and security deal.
Hanging out with Starmer is no measure of success.
While ICE arrests and deportations have grabbed headlines, President Trump is also running a separate but complementary “mass deportation” program — one that encourages aliens here unlawfully to go home voluntarily.
And if reports are correct, that plan is more successful than anyone could have imagined.
Based on government data, my organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, has conservatively estimated there are about 15.4 million illegal aliens in the United States, a 50% increase over the four tumultuous years of the Biden administration.
When Canadian-grown fruits and vegetables reach the market — typically from June to October — prices in this category become much more stable.
Historically, during this window, price fluctuations are roughly half as volatile as they are during the rest of the year. The reason is straightforward: seasonal abundance and shorter supply chains anchored in domestic production.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced this week Canada will reach the NATO defence spending target of 2% of GDP this fiscal year, marking the first time since 1990 the country has hit this milestone. The move will cost roughly $20 billion more.
New data from the Angus Reid Institute shows Canadians largely back the plan to spend 2% of GDP on defence. About half (51%) say Canada should spend to this level, while 17% support spending even more — a figure that has doubled since March 2024 amid rising concerns over U.S. reliability.
As Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear sites — and the killing of scientists and top military personnel — began to unfold early this morning, UnHerd was able to speak to our contacts across the Islamic Republic. The dominant reaction was not anger but jubilation, and hope that the regime’s failure to respond in kind would hasten its demise.
Mohammad, 20, told us from Tehran: “This is our chance to rise up against them because they have shown themselves to be so weak. Our liberation is very close, and they do not have big enough security forces to suppress us.” He went on: “The generals and military officers are now so scared of being targeted by Israel that they won’t dare to come after us.”
Iranians sitting on a rooftop and eating popcorn as they watch with joy Israel attacking Islamic Republic targets in Tehran pic.twitter.com/RoY9Z6CUOE
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) June 15, 2025
“In the opening days of April, Muslim Fulani terrorists slaughtered more than 60 Christians in Plateau State, in what Plateau Gov. Caleb Mutfwang termed an ongoing “genocide.” According to a local source, “More than 1,000 Christians were displaced during the attacks, and 383 three houses were destroyed by these bandits.” — Morning Star News, April 8, 2025, Nigeria.”
Federal managers spent eight months organizing a $70,000 Hollywood party at taxpayer expense, hiring publicists for “red carpet management” and planning a catered reception for more than 400 guests, records show.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the event was cancelled only after news of the spending became public.
The United States has just given official approval for Syria’s new Islamist extremist jihadi regime, led by former Al-Qaeda and ISIS commanders, to integrate thousands of foreign jihadist fighters into the national army. Fighters who joined the jihad from China, Central Asia, Europe, and beyond—many of whom have already committed massacres, atrocities, and religious and sectarian cleansing on Syrian soil.
This isn’t counterterrorism. This is state-sponsored radicalisation with a U.S. stamp of approval.
Let the world remember who Abu Mohammad al-Jolani is…
Eight nurses at the Darlington Memorial Hospital are suing their hospital trust for failing to provide a single-sex changing room. Thanks to the NHS’s transgender policies, the nurses were forced to change alongside a man who identifies as a woman. They claim that ‘Rose’ stared at them as they undressed, would linger for too long and, on one occasion, repeatedly asked a nurse, ‘Are you getting changed yet?’. Yet when the nurses raised concerns for their privacy, dignity and safety, they were chastised by HR for being insufficiently inclusive. Last year, they launched their legal case, supported by the Christian Legal Centre. Earlier this year, they established the Darlington Nursing Union to defend women’s rights in the workplace.
It is irritating and distressing to see Canada robotically following the British and French and two other countries in imposing sanctions on two Israeli cabinet ministers over their comments related to the West Bank. It is also annoying that our new prime minister, who squeaked to a minority victory through a histrionic imposture of a modern Churchill against Donald Trump’s Hitler, trying to reconcile the extreme green zealotry of a lifetime with absolute commercial and political necessity, offers nonsense about “decarbonized” oil. Their Canadian and Britannic Majesties the King and Queen were recently dragooned into making a 24-hour visit to this realm to read the prime minister’s platitudinous throne speech, ritualistically beginning with what amounts to a false acknowledgment that we are occupiers of another people’s land. The king was allowed to present this fake confession of stealing the country from the then 200,000 indigenous people, almost all of them nomads, as “shared history as a nation,” (like the shared experiences of Poland, Germany, and the USSR from 1939 to 1945). We shout defiance at the Americans for reducing their trade deficit but prevail upon the King to tell us that we have no right to be here.
Hollywood actor Bradley Whitford, known for his roles in The West Wing, Get Out, and The Handmaid’s Tale, said President Donald Trump “set the stage for” a Minnesota state representative and her husband being murdered at their home on Saturday morning and a state senator and his wife who were also attacked and shot multiple times. The suspected assassin has been identified as Vance Luther Bolter, appointed by Governor Walz to the Workforce Development Board in 2019 and whom Minnesota police say had Anti-Trump “No Kings” fliers in the vehicle he left behind as he fled officers on foot.
President Trump warned Sunday that the US could get directly involved in the Israel-Iran conflict if things continue to escalate.
While Trump predicted that Iran and Israel will “make a deal” to end the deadly violence that has seen the Jewish state and Islamic republic exchange countless missiles since Friday, the president said the US may find itself involved if a truce doesn’t happen.
The entire point of a federation is to have a mutually beneficial relationship between relatively autonomous provinces. The central government is expected to stick to interprovincial and international issues, while provincial governments are supposed to be left to manage their own affairs. In Canada, that relationship has been turned on its head.
The federal government has inserted itself into provincial and even municipal jurisdictions, while it has refused to assert its genuine authority in facilitating interprovincial infrastructure and trade. This has led to a lopsided federation where provincial leaders are at each other’s throats while the federal government milks the division for political benefit.
