At the end of a waitressing shift, Kristina Lampert used to separate her tips in two piles: Canadian cash and American.
But it’s been weeks since she has done that.
Freighters, the restaurant where she works, is one of the first places people can grab a bite after crossing the US-Canada border between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan.
The Blue Water Bridge, which connects the US and Canada, is in full view from the restaurant’s windows.
Last month, with the assistance of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a group of University of British Columbia professors and a former student filed a lawsuit asking the B.C. Supreme Court to protect academic freedom by ordering the university administration to stop breaching its statutory duty to remain non-political: No more requiring fealty to DEI ideology from job applicants. No more statements about the Israel-Gaza war. No more land acknowledgements by the administration in academic settings where academic freedom is impinged.
Sweden’s new national security adviser has left his position after just a few hours – due to pictures on a dating app. According to the Prime Minister, it is a “system failure” that the information did not come to light earlier.
h/t DS
Toronto cop’s misconduct case over ‘offensive’ Facebook posts ends without a hearing
“Among other things, Const. Timothy Somers posted to Facebook that Black Lives Matter is a “hate group that must be eliminated by the government” and that “police are not a threat to black lives, black people are a threat to each other!”
A new song by rapper Kanye West has been removed from streaming platforms for glorifying Adolf Hitler.
The rapper, now known as Ye, has been accused of anti-Semitism for releasing a song on VE day last week called “Heil Hitler”, which includes lyrics that praise the Nazi dictator.
Sites such as Spotify and Soundcloud have blocked the track, although it is still available on Elon Musk’s X, where it has received more than 8m listens.
Newly minted Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged relatively unscathed from his first meeting with President Donald Trump. Now, he must deal with a budding national unity crisis as separatist support in Western Canada has blossomed. If Carney had been hoping for a post-electoral grace period in office, those hopes have been dashed.
U.S. and China take a step back from sky-high tariffs and agree to pause for 90 days for more talks
The Art of the Deal in real time! Wait for other countries to fall in line. No other President in our lifetime was capable of achieving these results!pic.twitter.com/1upRwZ0wH4
— MAGS (@TAftermath2020) May 12, 2025
When Sean Combs goes on trial for sex-trafficking charges beginning this week, the case could turn on disturbing video footage that the rap impresario’s defense team fought to keep out.
The footage shows Combs assaulting and dragging an ex-girlfriend in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. Federal prosecutors say it backs up the allegations of the woman and three other alleged victims who are expected to testify that he abused, threatened and coerced them into participating in drug-fueled sex parties. Lawyers for Combs say the video has been distorted and taken out of context, but a judge denied their request to bar it from being shown to a jury.
Diddy Trial – Jurors WILL see the video of Diddy beating Cassie Ventura. pic.twitter.com/nlvHiwK1aC
— Santa Surfing (@SantaSurfing) May 5, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada may not be “totally removed” under a future trade agreement, the U.S. ambassador says, but the two countries are on the path toward a stronger relationship.
Pete Hoekstra, who serves as Trump’s envoy to Canada, says there are opportunities to secure new economic and security partnerships on the foundation set by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the White House last week.
Dawn breaks in Hapatnar, a remote village filled with walnut growers and pony owners.
Naushad Hussain, 28, a taxi driver, wakes early, slips out of the family house into the cool mountain air and heads off to work. It is April 22, a Tuesday, in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The 30km drive to Pahalgam, a bustling tourist town framed by the Himalayas, takes about half an hour.
Susan Delacourt: One word leapt out at me in a piece you wrote for this paper last week, Matt, and it was this one: “killed.” As in, the Conservatives got killed in the election. I agree that their hopes got killed — especially the hopes they had when they were 20 points ahead of the Liberals. But here’s the thing: I’m not convinced Conservatives are staring down that reality. The early indications, in fact, point to more of the same from Pierre Poilievre and his team.
Matt Gurney: I was using that word more as a play on the phase “election post-mortem” than I was to describe what I think happened to them. I’ll confess something. I don’t know what to make of that election. It’s different from any other I’ve covered. Something wild I discovered when writing my column is that Poilievre got a bigger share of the vote this time than did the last five PMs to win a majority. So I can get why Tories might want to stay the course and write this one off as a fluke. They could be right. They could go wrong, though. Someone needs to be that guy in the room and get them thinking about that.
A federal memo has revealed that job applicants in the public service who claim to be indigenous are not required to provide proof of identity, prompting a review of current policies amid concerns over fraudulent declarations.
Blacklock’s Reporter says according to the Public Service Commission’s New President Briefing Binder, applicants who self-identify as First Nations, Métis, or Inuit must only sign a one-page form affirming their identity.
A Florida father-of-three was utterly disgusted at the $1,400 he had to pay to take his family of four on a ‘bargain’ day out to Walt Disney World.
Craig Stowell took his three kids and his wife to the self-proclaimed ‘Happiest Place on Earth’ in Orlando while family was in town visiting them, but he quickly found out just how deep the one-day trip was going to hit his pocket.
This guy shows how much it costs for a day at Disney for a family of 5 pic.twitter.com/VfVhbVL2dP
— Financial Dystopia (@financedystop) May 3, 2025
In 2024, around the world, 4,476 Christians — more than 12 a day on average — were “killed for faith related reasons.” Another 4,744 Christians were arrested or illegally detained, and 7,679 churches and other Christian institutions were attacked, often destroyed.
Overall, the global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels. “More than 380m Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith,” according to the World Watch List 2025 (WWL) published earlier this year by the international human rights organization, Open Doors.
Every year, the WWL ranks the top 50 nations in which Christians are the most persecuted for their faith. The data is compiled by thousands of grassroots workers and external experts. The latest edition of the WWL covers October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.
