Protests from furious factory workers in China demanding back pay are spreading across the country after President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports began impacting the communist nation’s economy.
Unrest has been reported across the country as workers have taken to the streets protesting unpaid wages and challenging unfair dismissals following the closures of factories squeezed by US tariffs, according to Radio Free Asia.
h/t Mauser
Your Tax Dollars At Prayer: The “Oldest Hate” in one of Canada’s oldest Mosques https://t.co/rjV8cEMML3
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) May 6, 2025
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As Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the federal government has its work cut out for it following a tumultuous few months in domestic politics — not just on the tariff front with the U.S., but also with the world’s second-largest economy.
In the fall, Canada followed in the footsteps of then-U.S. president Joe Biden in implementing an additional 100 per cent surtax on Chinese-made electric vehicles — a move critics say makes less sense now considering the fractured relationship with our southern neighbours, our climate goals and China’s counter-tariffs on Canadian canola farmers.
China is Happy, Carney is Happy, Carney’s Cronies are Happy, Canada’s China Class is Happy, Net Zero Loons are Happy and Danielle Smith is Canola Happy!
Orange Man Bad.
The American government is also in talks with Rwanda about a deal to take in migrants deported from the US
The Trump administration has announced plans to pay immigrants living illegally in the United States to leave the country.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it would pay $1,000 to those that left voluntarily. They would also receive travel assistance and those who used an app to tell officials that they planned to return home would be “deprioritised” for detention and removal by immigration enforcement agents.
Mark Carney is new to politics, but in a matter of months, he is learning that each fight gets tougher.
He handily won the Liberal leadership in March. His election victory a week ago was tighter. This week, he’s up against Donald Trump, and the newly elected prime minister has to be aware that the stakes in this contest are higher and more daunting than the first two.
A former housing official who worked under President George H. W. Bush has made an astonishing claim that the U.S. government spent years funneling money into the creation of a secret underground “city” where the rich and powerful can shelter in the event of a “near-extinction event.”
Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing between 1989 and 1990, made the shocking allegations during an appearance on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, although there is no concrete evidence to support her claims.
Canadian politics is entering a new, more American phase, with ideology and polarization playing a stronger role than ever before.
This might seem counterintuitive given that Canadian animosity towards America over Trump’s annexation and tariff threats was the defining issue of the election. But if we peer beneath the surface, a series of structural trends are apparent, in line with a broader realignment of politics across the Western world.
The right-wing populists Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is suing Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, BfV, after it designated the party as a “right-wing extremist” organization, opening the door for constant police surveillance or even banning.
Suspiciously issued just after AfD took over the ruling CDU in the polls and became Germany’s most popular party, BfV’s decision was clearly “politically motivated” and represents a “severe blow to German democracy,” AfD co-presidents Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said in a statement last Friday. They promised to keep fighting for the freedom of expression and challenge the ruling with all legal tools available.
The Independent Press Gallery has sounded the alarm as Canada continues its slide down the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index.
After falling seven spots in just one year, Canada now sits in 21st place.
Carney is an evil being.
CARNEY THREATENS U.S. FREE SPEECH
Canada’s new PM Mark Carney just declared war on American social media platforms for having “too much free speech.”He wants U.S.-based platforms regulated from Ottawa.
️ Censorship isn’t enough — he wants control.WHAT THIS MEANS:… pic.twitter.com/3LDhJA2OV8
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) May 5, 2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is seeking Prime Minister Mark Carney’s support for his idea to build a tunnel under Highway 401.
Ford sent the prime minister a letter today setting out a series of Ontario priorities that he hopes Carney will address, including accessing critical minerals, building an electric-vehicle supply chain and enacting bail reforms.
This is worse than Rob wanting a Monorail.
Pressure is growing on Lucy Powell MP to resign, following her sneering dismissal of public anger over the ongoing Pakistani-majority rape gang scandal. During an appearance on the BBC’s Any Questions, commentator Tim Montgomerie asked Powell if she had seen the recent Channel 4 documentary on the rape gangs — a programme which highlighted the indifference of police and social services to these crimes, for fear of upsetting “community relations”.
The first of May for most people means flowers and springtime, but for Communists it’s May Day, a time to wear red, scrawl something on a poster and shout at people at a big rally.
And perhaps block traffic.
The election dust has settled, leaving the Liberals with a minority government. This has led to calls — from both conservatives and progressives — for Pierre Poilievre to step down as Conservative party leader. But these calls are premature, overlook the success of several of Poilievre’s policies — many of which were co-opted by the Liberals in order to win — and severely underestimate the Liberals’ incumbent advantage in the face of an unforeseeable natural disaster that plagued an otherwise normal Canadian election campaign — U.S. President Donald Trump.
Canada is worth fighting for. pic.twitter.com/cT0r0UI2rG
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) May 5, 2025
Last week, the English Football Association (FA) finally remembered why women’s football exists – and it’s not to let men who identify as women ‘validate’ their identities.
In a short statement on its website, the FA confirmed that, in light of the recent Supreme Court decision on gender, it ‘will be changing [its] policy’ on men in women’s football. ‘Transgender women will no longer be able to play in women’s football in England’, it said. The decision will come into effect from 1 June.
