The decision by the Trump administration to “reassess” the value of the Second World War-era Permanent Joint Board of Defence (PJBD) points to a confusion of ideas.
In his January speech in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney claimed that “hegemons (like the U.S.) cannot continually monetize their relationships,” as he announced a plan to double defence spending and partner with the European Union to diversify procurement.
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Colorado Teacher REFUSED to allow a 7th grader to present her pro-life slam poetry submission because it’s “offensive” and might make kids feel “unsafe.”
Some examples of accepted topics in the class are slamming the 2nd amendment, mocking Jesus, and lgbtq rights.… pic.twitter.com/cIZCns9g3H
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 20, 2026
Academia often provides a veneer of legitimacy for people to say insane and evil things.
That’s certainly the case for Parker Crutchfield, a professor at Western Michigan University’s medical school who teaches medical ethics.
To put it simply, Crutchfield has an obsession with covertly injecting people with substances to create a more “moral” world — all in the name of the greater good.
This man may be hung like a chipmunk, but he’s not afraid to fight!
He hung bacon on his shoulders as he played the cello to make a statement, and that statement is that he’s not a fan of Islam. pic.twitter.com/qTUkylw1Un
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 18, 2026
The United States says it is “pausing” its participation in the U.S.-Canada Permanent Joint Board on Defence “to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defence.” Here’s what to know.
The Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) is the senior advisory body on continental defence. Composed of military and diplomatic representatives from both nations, it meets twice a year with locations alternating between Canada and the U.S.
Walgreens is pulling out of Chicago’s South Side, home to some of the city’s most crime-ridden areas. The closure of a store in the city’s Chatham neighborhood, set for June 4, marks the seventh Walgreens location to shut down on the South Side in the past year.
Who’s to blame for this departure? Chicago Alderman William Hall, who represents Chatham as part of Ward 6, blames the company. Walgreens, he said, should be charged with “first-degree corporate abandonment” for creating a “medicine drought,” and he even accused it of committing a “pharmaceutical genocide.” (It’s particularly rich that Hall is now castigating Walgreens for closing, given that he hadn’t been happy about Walgreens opening, alleging it “ran out” small, local businesses.)
Is Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s strategy for getting a bitumen pipeline to B.C.’s northwest coast about to reach its breaking point?
Sure, she’s got two Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with Prime Minister Mark Carney that pave the way for the pipeline but there’s still a lot of terrain to cover before it becomes a reality. And the thing that could hold it up is her persistent support for a separation referendum that will likely be held in October.
In late March, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, a center-right political group in the European Parliament, published a report about no-go zones in Europe about no-go zones in Europe titled “Immigration, Islamisation, and the Rise of Parallel Societies: Focus on urban areas of Islamist entrenchment and state withdrawal,” authored by New Direction – Foundation for European Conservatism
Pdf below.
Outside the city of Thetford Mines, Quebec, in a region that once supplied the world with asbestos, workers are drilling underground in search of an unusual and potentially vast new source of clean energy.
A start-up called Vema Hydrogen has drilled two test wells into the bedrock, each 1,000 feet deep, and is starting to inject treated water into the iron-rich rocks below. The goal is to trigger a special type of chemical reaction that could eventually produce large quantities of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that may one day play a vital role in tackling climate change.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning that due to the Strait of Hormuz closure, a severe global food price crisis is looming within six to 12 months unless governments act quickly.
The warning was made in a podcast hosted by the organization that focused on the current chokehold on global energy and how fertilizer supplies are expanding through agrifood systems worldwide.
Mississauga man charged after women secretly recorded in Oakville Winners fitting rooms: police
Halton police have charged a Mississauga man with voyeurism after two women were allegedly recorded while changing inside fitting rooms at an Oakville Winners store.
Police say the first report came in early April 2026, when officers were called to the Winners at 2460 Winston Churchill Boulevard after a woman noticed a man using his cellphone to secretly record her inside a change room.
CBS is canceling The Late Show after the conclusion of Thursday’s episode. Since 2015, The Late Show has been hosted by Stephen Colbert, who by the time Thursday comes around will have hosted 1,801 episodes of the show that began under David Letterman in 1993.
Are you sick of those miniature motorcycles increasingly seen on Toronto’s streets? So is mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.
“A pedal welded to a mini-motorcycle does not make it a bicycle. A senior on the sidewalk, a parent in the bike lane and a family in an apartment building deserve more than a city hall that has chosen wilful ignorance over leadership,” Bradford said in a campaign press release distributed Wednesday.
Toronto can always find a way to be crappy.
A 75-page manifesto linked to 17-year-old Cain Clark and 19-year-old Caleb Vasquez, the two suspects in the Islamic Center of San Diego shooting, has answered the question everyone was asking: why? The document, now in the hands of law enforcement, paints a detailed and deeply disturbing picture of the two young men.
The “manifesto” is still available on X but not for embed it seems.
Passengers travelling through Toronto Pearson International Airport face layers of security designed to stop dangerous people and dangerous goods from boarding planes.
Carry-on bags are X-rayed. Water bottles are confiscated. Travellers are scanned, searched and monitored by cameras throughout the terminals.
But exclusive reporting from CTV News’ investigative unit W5 into how organized crime groups exploit airport insiders to move drugs has uncovered troubling gaps in the security systems meant to monitor employees with direct access to restricted areas of Canada’s busiest airport, including luggage and aircraft.
