Canada’s tourism sector is taking a hit in the wake of world-wide economic uncertainties and political tensions, according to new data released by Statistics Canada.
Visits to Canada from overseas took a nose dive in March compared to the same month last year with a 17.4 per cent drop, a trend that has continued for six straight months, according to the data.
And fewer U.S. residents are crossing the border into Canada, with trips down 6.6 per cent in March on a year-over-year basis.
The city of St Louis placed its emergency management chief on leave after the staffer failed to activate the tornado sirens before a deadly twister tore through the Midwestern metropolis, according to reports.
Five people were killed, dozens were injured and thousands more were impacted by the tornado last Friday that critics say was made dramatically worse by the failure of the city’s emergency manager to sound the alarm after receiving a National Weather Service alert, according to CBS News.
This is St. Louis CEMA Commissioner.
As a tornado with 152mph winds arrived, Sarah (they/them) and her staff was not available to activate the tornado siren.
5 kiIIed, 38 injured. pic.twitter.com/qTXYR5JDR6
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 22, 2025
After more than a year of debate, Toronto city council approved a controversial motion on Thursday to limit protests outside places of worship, schools and child-care centres.
The bylaw, which will come into effect July 2, allows owners of these institutions to apply for temporary zones of 50 metres within which protests would be banned. This is an increase over staff’s initial recommendation of 20 metres. According to city staff, there are 3,000 buildings in Toronto that could qualify.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/vgIHFlVDfr
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) May 23, 2025
Our Men in Blue have proven very effective at arresting Pro-Life demonstrators who run afoul of abortion clinic bubble zone restrictions.
Why am I doubtful they will deal as effectively with incursions from the same politically connected LPC-NDP-Hamas alliance?
A knife attack occurred at Hamburg Central Station on Friday evening. According to BILD, at least twelve people were injured. A woman has been arrested by federal police.
The incident occurred on platform 13/14. Initially, there were reports of eight injured people, but then the police clarified : three victims are in critical condition, three others are seriously injured, and six people are slightly injured.
… A woman was arrested at the scene, German outlet Bild reported. Police later confirmed they made an arrest, but have not yet released further information about the alleged attacker’s identity.
#UPDATE: Woman arrested in Hamburg Central Station stabbing; 12 injured, 3 seriously. Police operation ongoing, motive unclear, suspect details undisclosed. https://t.co/FsjqkwLkyf pic.twitter.com/3Bqmx8Xvpy
— Laszlo Varga (@LaszloRealtor) May 23, 2025
Details still sketchy.
Twitter – Hamburg
New Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra wants to fix apparent financial incompetence at some of Ontario’s largest school boards, and so he should. The problem is the fixes will only be temporary unless the provincial government is willing to make fundamental changes in the way school boards are run.
Ontario’s education governance is designed to fail. Trustees are elected, but not responsible for the taxes that pay for the province’s schools. This inherent lack of responsibility has turned some boards into lobby groups for higher spending. Why not demand more if you don’t have to ask voters to pay for it?
If this is a serious effort it may be a backhanded way of ridding school boards of their DEI Komisar’s and the teacher’s union’s toxic agenda.
The BBC has been accused of downplaying the killings of white farmers in South Africa in its reporting.
Robert Hersov, an influential South African businessman, criticised the broadcaster as “Leftist” and “woke” in its coverage of the issue, which rejected Donald Trump’s claims of a genocide.
Mr Hersov said the broadcaster “should be disbanded”, adding: “There is no nuance in their coverage – they are just Leftist.”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence system, which Canada has expressed interest in joining, is raising questions about the project’s cost and feasibility as well as concerns about a space-based arms race.
Trump’s plan is modelled after the Iron Dome that protects Israel — a land mass smaller than Vancouver Island — and aims to be more robust and hundreds of times bigger.
The Iron Dome is mainly built to defend against lower-flying threats like short-range rockets, mortars and shells, while Trump and other top U.S. officials say the proposed Golden Dome would block missiles fired from other countries and from space, weaving together existing technologies with future tech that still needs to be developed.
Is Germany overrun with violent Right-wing extremists? A recent article in Politico covering a surge in “extreme-right crime” would suggest so. Germany’s interior ministry recently published a report on “Politically Motivated Crime” and, at first glance, the alarmism appears to be justified.
The number of politically motivated crimes did indeed increase sharply in 2024, rising by over 40% compared to 2023, where German authorities recorded more than 84,000 incidents. Most of these, however, are not crimes against a person or property. The majority of these cases are categorised as propaganda offences, meaning inciting, insulting or offensive messages that have been spread online or otherwise.
Prime Minister Mark Carney should repeal the Justin Trudeau government’s dangerous censorship law before it comes into full force.
Sadly, with Steven Guilbeault appointed as the man responsible for overseeing the Canadian identity ministry, Carney appears prepared to double down on the censorship drive of the Trudeau years instead.
Why the pessimism?
Pregnant women were evacuated from a hospital in Bristol after a solar panel fire broke out.
Large plumes of black smoke were seen emerging from St Michael’s Hospital, near the city centre.
The maternity ward at the hospital has reportedly been evacuated, with pregnant mothers and babies being led across the road to another building.
CONs apparently won Windsor–Tecumseh–Lakeshore by 4 votes.
Lucky that among the 822 ballots left in Coq–PoCo office and not counted as a result, only 1 was from WTL.
Vote change
CON +28
LIB +101
NDP -1
PPC 0
GRN -2
CEN 0
CHP +2
Rejected -78
Total +50h/t @Mill_Moron https://t.co/ENpk0oUWWZ
— Election Watcher (@CdnElectWatch) May 23, 2025
H/T Mauser
The owners of an ostrich farm facing a federally mandated mass cull warn that the consequences of the government’s actions go far beyond the farm itself.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ordered the farm’s 400 ostriches to be killed, after two ostriches tested positive for H5N1 in December. The remaining ostriches are not infected, and the CFIA has rejected the family’s pleas to allow them to bring in experts to test the birds.
The woman yelling at Jews for holding a vigil for the 2 murdered Israelis in Washington DC, calling them “Zionists piece of shit” is Leila Atri, the Administrative Coordinator / Assistant Staff Representative at @CUPE1281, the union of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. https://t.co/6NeCDlp9Sl pic.twitter.com/4CEWGbqkZS
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) May 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Canada – saying that they had “effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power”.
He also accused Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney of siding with “mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers”.
Carney is probably trying to monetize Hamas support rally’s.
