If Alberta could vote in U.S. elections, President Donald Trump would have won in a landslide there all three times he ran for the White House. Alberta is one of Canada’s 10 provinces and the closest thing the country has to a red state.
Trump announces pause on Project Freedom
President Trump announced a pause on “Project Freedom” on Tuesday evening based on a request from Pakistan and other countries but added that the U.S. Navy blockade of ships in the Strait of Hormuz will remain in place.
“Based on the request of Pakistan and other Countries, the tremendous Military Success that we have had during the Campaign against the Country of Iran and, additionally, the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement with Representatives of Iran, we have mutually agreed that, while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom (The Movement of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz) will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Louise Arbour a partisan pick and wrong choice for Canada’s Governor General
For a position that is supposed to be non-partisan and represent all Canadians, Louise Arbour was exactly the wrong pick to become Canada’s next Governor General. That’s not on Madame Arbour, who I hope serves with grace and dignity while in the job. Botching the pick is completely on Prime Minister Mark Carney.
When Arbour’s name was first floated in the media, I doubted the reports, thinking there was no way that Carney and his team would be so foolish as to make such a political, partisan pick.
Not many approve …
ABC, CBS OMIT Palisades Firebug and His Luigi Mangione Fixation
The Elitist Media evening newscasts rightly accorded significant coverage to last year’s deadly Southern California wildfires. It is therefore unfortunate that they seem mostly disinterested in covering the arrest and revealed motive of the individual suspected in starting the Palisades Fire.
ABC and CBS did NOT cover the arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht. ABC covered the end of the litigation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, while CBS covered the Met Gala. There was simply no time to spare.
Defence spending plan will send federal budget deficit soaring, watchdog warns
OTTAWA — Achieving Canada’s long-term goal for defence spending would add $63 billion to the federal budget deficit by 2035 — almost double this year’s projected shortfall, Parliament’s budget watchdog says, suggesting the military rearmament drive will add pressure to the government’s currently “sustainable” fiscal blueprint.
The estimate was included in a series of reports published Monday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan that highlight a lack of detail on major initiatives following the Liberal government’s spring economic update last week. While the PBO concluded that current and growing debt levels are sustainable in the long term, the government hasn’t yet included all of the promised cash for defence in its spending projections, according to one of Monday’s reports.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Request for a New Trial Denied as Judge Unleashes Cataract of Criticism at the Jailed Mogul
The denial, “with prejudice,” by Judge Lewis Kaplan of a request for a new trial by the imprisoned crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is yet another setback for the man who once bestrode American financial and political life like a colossus.Bankman-Fried is fighting for his freedom from behind bars at a federal prison in California after his conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. He contends that new witnesses have emerged whose testimony could make a difference to the question of his guilt.
Mohamad Lilo beats murder charge, takes plea deal in Elnaz Hajtamiri kidnapping conspiracy
The Montreal-area man accused of first-degree murder following the January 2022 abduction of his former girlfriend from a home in Wasaga Beach, Ont., has accepted a plea deal.
Mohamad Lilo, 38, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap Elnaz Hajtamiri, in exchange for murder charges against him being dropped by the Crown and a joint proposal of a four-year sentence, which was accepted by Justice Michelle Furst.
Why Is Trump Not Restarting The War?
To many of us, it is a mystery why Trump is not pounding the crap out of Iran after its numerous violations of the ever-so-shaky “cease-fire,” in which the US is mostly ceasing, and Iran appears to be happy to fire.
Seen in isolation, it seems obvious that Trump should be unleashing hellfire on Iran for any number of good reasons, ranging from the ever-perilous “looking weak” to the dangers of prolonging an economic crisis that is hurting Americans, our allies, and the political prospects of Republicans in the midterms.
Olivia Chow’s attacks show she’s worried about mayoral rival Brad Bradford
Olivia Chow and her allies at Progress Toronto clearly see Brad Bradford as a threat. On Monday, Chow went into Bradford’s ward to hold a news conference and claim that he doesn’t care about tenants living with bad landlords.
She scares me.
U.S. mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz will be temporary, Hegseth says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. mission to protect commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz would be temporary and other nations would soon have to take responsibility, emphasizing Tuesday that the fragile ceasefire with Iran remained in place despite attacks on U.S. ships a day earlier.
Speaking at a briefing alongside Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hegseth said the United States had established a powerful “red, white and blue dome” over the strait as a “direct gift” to other nations to allow commercial ships to pass through.
“This operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury,” he said, using the Trump administration’s name for the war with Iran.
"And I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't." Pete Hegseth
"Kamikaze dolphins. It's like sharks with laser beams. Right." General Kaine
What a time to be alive! pic.twitter.com/YEyE0rNakS
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) May 5, 2026
After a decade in power useless layabouts in Ottawa to start tracking which if any temporary foreign residents have left Canada after permits run out
Ottawa is for the first time to track which foreign students and other temporary foreign residents have left the country after their permits to remain in Canada expire, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab told a committee of MPs on Monday.
Economists have been warning for years that Canada has been dramatically undercounting the number of temporary residents living here by presuming that international students and others leave the country after their permits and visas run out.
Minister @CitImmCanada says she’s unsure what became of 800 foreign students identified as fraudsters in federal audit by @OAG_BVG 6 weeks ago.
“I don’t have that information.”
— @LenaMetlegeDiab https://t.co/NnGntFLGOZ@BradRedekopp @MichelleRempel @CostasMenegakis #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/d40xlcenjS— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) May 5, 2026
There’s a pattern here. Carney puts extremely stupid people in charge of important portfolios knowing they will outright lie if needed. They simply lack the dignity to admit they’re in over their heads.
That’s a lot of shoes …
NEW: Police airlift a crocodile with the body of a 59-year-old businessman inside.
Local police in South Africa say they suspected the crocodile ate the man after observing it from drones. They then shot it and airlifted it off.
When they landed back on the ground, the… pic.twitter.com/12NBTQbmis
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 4, 2026
His ring was found inside the animal along with six other pairs of shoes…
h/t handynhandsome
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
The Department of Homeland Security tried to obtain a Canadian man’s location information, activity logs, and other identifying information from Google after he criticized the Trump administration online following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis early this year.
Lawyers for the man, who has not been named, are alarmed in part because they say that the man has not entered the United States in more than a decade. “I don’t know what the government knows about our client’s residence, but it’s clear that the government isn’t stopping to find out,” says Michael Perloff, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia who is representing the man in a lawsuit against Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of DHS, over the summons. The lawsuit alleges that DHS violated the customs law that gives the agency the power to request records from businesses and other parties.
I hope it was Avi Lewis or Chairman Chow!
Meanwhile Canada has a whole data base dedicated to crushing dissent.
💥Imagine this: One post about an MP gets flagged. The PPS quietly pulls your name and full social-media history from its database. Under Bill C-70 and existing MOUs, it’s handed to CSIS as a “threat assessment.” That then triggers a Bill C-22 ministerial order, forcing your ISP… pic.twitter.com/0iQccApUeA
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) May 4, 2026
Trump accuses pope of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with Iran stance
Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Evil white people to blame for poor results on Ontario teacher’s math test
Data show racial, language disparities in mandatory Ontario teacher math test
… However, the new data from the fall of 2024 to the fall of 2025 appears to show some wide gaps even after multiple attempts. After three attempts, for example, 92 per cent of white candidates succeeded while 64 per cent of Black teacher candidates were successful.
The numbers also suggest that the vast majority of that one-third of Black teacher candidates who were still unsuccessful after three attempts gave up, and did not try again.
“What really troubles me is the question of how many great teachers did we lose as a result of the barrier that this math test put in place?” Cowley said.
Lord knows the system needs as many math illiterate teachers as possible.