The death of Virginia Giuffre brings to a tragic close the most unedifying and damaging royal scandal in living memory.
Ms Giuffre, who has died by suicide at her farm in Australia, will be remembered as the determined survivor of sex trafficking and abuse who helped to catalyse the downfall of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and, in the court of public opinion, the Duke of York.
Alberta is giving me a headache.
The province stands alone in its incurable sense of grievance with the rest of the federation.
Not even a $34.2-billion expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX) built by Ottawa to get Alberta oil to non-U.S. markets for the first time has reduced Alberta’s bellyaching.
Germany’s federal police system recorded 148,515 active arrest warrants as of April 1st, 2025, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior. The figures were disclosed in response to a parliamentary question by the deputy leader of the largest opposition party AfD, MP Sebastian Münzenmaier.
Of all the reasons not to elect Mark Carney as the next prime minister of Canada on Monday, his history as the world’s leading corporate booster of achieving “net zero emissions” by 2050 is the biggest.
Putting Carney, the UN’s Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, and co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero — “relentlessly, ruthlessly, absolutely focused on the transition to net zero” in Carney’s words — will mean cutting our own economic throat.
Several people have been killed and multiple others injured after the driver of a black SUV slammed into a crowd at a street festival Saturday evening, say Vancouver police.
It happened shortly after 8 p.m. near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was winding down, after drawing up to 100,000 people through the day.
Police say a man in his 30s is now in custody.
UPDATE: As of now, we can confirm nine people have died after a man drove through a crowd at last night’s Lapu Lapu Festival. Our thoughts are with all those affected by this tragic incident.
— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) April 27, 2025
The driver of the vehicle who drove into the Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver, Canada earlier, killing and injuring several people, has since been detained by police. Witnesses at the scene state that he appears to be a 20-year-old Asian male and possibly mentally challenged in… pic.twitter.com/a9Emv6Vcdu
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 27, 2025
Not an act of terrorism
At this time, we are confident that this incident was not an act of terrorism.
— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) April 27, 2025
Lapu Lapu Day is a Pilipino celebration.
h/t Al the Fish
If the polls are correct, Mark Carney and the Liberals will win yet another mandate. Many Westerners are mystified as to why Eastern Canada would want to rehire the same Liberals who have spent the last decade making us poorer and defenceless, but that’s exactly what they appear to be about to do.
Great scoop. Looks like @RosieBarton @davidcochrane84 @CBCNews may need to invite @ezralevant @lincolnmjay on show after-all. Unless they don’t want this blockbuster story. There was no @MarkJCarney grant to CBC of $150-million to @RebelNewsOnline 4 investigative report on an… https://t.co/Z8I31FrLlT
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 26, 2025
School shootings are once again in the news. There were two last week. When the pundits in the media and online talk about school attacks, a false narrative often emerges that it is a uniquely domestic “American epidemic,” fostered by widespread firearms ownership and insufficient firearms regulation.
St George’s Day is a moveable feast: this year marked by the political world on its traditional date, rather than on the day next week chosen by an increasingly irrelevant Church of England. But it also shifts in terms of its meaning. A year ago, I remarked that the ghost of English ethnic nationalism, so often fearfully invoked by its detractors, was remarkable mostly for its dormancy. Yet other interpretations are available: just a few months later, Northern England was shaken by its most violent ethnic riots in decades, casting a cloud of doom over the new Labour government from which it has never yet emerged. Today, the country is in an unhappy state, the air heavy with the pressure of a storm about to break. Mild-mannered Telegraph columnists write anxious premonitions of approaching civil war, while the nation’s second city slips beneath the basic expectations of First World governance. Civil war may be unlikely, but that the very idea can be seriously entertained by credible people demonstrates a growing fissure entering British life, one which will take serious political reform to avert disaster: requiring a capacity, and appetite to undertake that the Government does not appear to possess. Translating the nation’s febrile atmosphere to an American audience, the writer Dominic Green observes in the Wall Street Journal that “The mood in England today is eerie. The government can’t govern. The police menace law-abiding people for speaking their minds. The borders are open. The country feels as if it is one Islamist bombing away from eruption.”
England is so fecked.
TORONTO — Before NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh even arrived, some people were thinking about his exit.
Several dozen NDP supporters gathered in a park on Thursday, waiting for Singh to arrive in what will be one of his last campaign stops in Toronto.
In the heart of Canada’s largest city, voters here elect progressives.
But the group standing around tonight knows that on Monday, voters will not be choosing NDP.
The arsonist rode into the car park at Valence prison in southeast France on an electric scooter after nightfall on April 14.
After looking at the 16 vehicles there, he targeted two, both of them owned by guards on night duty. The intruder, who was masked and hooded, doused them in petrol, set them alight and filmed himself.
He did not seem to be in any hurry, spending 15 minutes at the site. The police, though, were even slower. By the time they arrived he had ridden away.
The high priest of globalism’s resignation confirms the death of the old order.
On Easter Monday, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab resigned as chair of its board of trustees. He stepped down amid swirling internal allegations that he misused funds and manipulated the WEF’s research to curry favour with governments. We don’t yet know if these charges are true, but manipulation certainly goes with the territory of the WEF. Indeed, manipulating the media and political culture to embrace the outlook of the global elites has always been one of its central aims.
With the end of the election campaign in sight, I asked David Coletto, the head of the polling firm Abacus Data, what stood out for him. His answer, given the exceptional political and economic turmoil in Canada, was a bit surprising.
“As much as this election has been interesting,” he told me, “not a lot has happened during the election — which is really interesting.”
There were no moments of drama as in 1984, when Brian Mulroney challenged Prime Minister John Turner over making a raft of political appointments. (“You had an option, sir, to say no,” Mr. Mulroney said, jabbing his finger, in a debate that many believe brought him to power.) Nor was there anything like the rerun between the two men four years later, when Mr. Turner said of Mr. Mulroney’s free trade deal with the Reagan administration, “You have sold us out.” (That time Mr. Turner was the one to jab his finger.)
This way Carney and his Eco-Loon Wife Leads …
Last week, a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge professor Nikku Madhusudhan announced that they had found tentative evidence for a ‘biosignature’ embedded in the light from a distant planet. Scientists and non-scientists around the world tried to interpret the results. Was this it? Was this the moment when humanity could finally claim it had answered that ancient question: are we alone?
As an astrophysicist involved in the search for life beyond Earth, I can tell you that the results were not that moment. But that doesn’t make them any less exciting.
Last month, investigators “found a layer of human ashes and bone remains several centimeters thick, measuring approximately 460 square meters” at “depths of 80 centimeters to 1.50 meters” just outside Hartheim Castle near the Austrian city of Linz. The crushed and incinerated bodies were victims of the Third Reich’s T-4 euthanasia program, which ended the lives of between 70,000 and 20,000 people that the Nazis deemed “life unworthy of life.”
Hartheim Castle, which is now a memorial site, was one of the eight centers where Nazi doctors murdered people with disabilities, mental illnesses, and other people categorized as “useless eaters.” Between May 1940 and November 1944, around 30,000 people were murdered in gas chambers, burned in a specially constructed crematorium, and dumped in a tributary of the Danube, or, we now know, on the castle grounds. The victims also included Dutch Jews as well as prisoners from Spain, Poland, and France.
AC/DC’s Thunderstruck is blasted when Mark Carney walks into rallies and events.
Odd song choice for an expensive suit trying to portray the image of a solid, steady banker whose economic brilliance will rescue Canadians from the wreckage caused by the Liberal party members he leads, endorses, and advised for years.
"Tax avoidance: Mark Carney's firm in litigation against the Canada Revenue Agency"
"Brookfield accused of tax avoidance on large sums by the Canada Revenue Agency"
"According to court documents obtained this week, the tax authorities accuse Brookfield of orchestrating a… pic.twitter.com/7jjJIFQrGD
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) April 25, 2025
