St Sebastian has been depicted as an Asian transgender man in a National Gallery installation.
Transgender models are retelling the story of the early Christian martyr, who was sent to be executed by archers.
When arrows miraculously failed to kill him, he was clubbed to death on the order of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
On the surface, Pierre Poilievre’s recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast had more good than bad. The Conservative leader came across as likable, down-to-earth, and clear. He stressed the need to unleash Canada’s energy potential. He called for cutting regulations that have suppressed innovation. He pushed for lower government spending. These are all sound ideas and Canada would surely benefit from them.
The joy of parenting summed up in one video. pic.twitter.com/GJ75r6fyMX
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 5, 2026
So this is purest speculation on my part. But watching the incredibly complex multi-domain rescue mission this weekend, it suddenly struck me that new, powerful AI might be behind this. Moving all these units into so many places at once, making sure that they have communications organized, fuel, ammunition, food, the right troops with the right transports, and so on is enormously complex. It normally requires the work of hundreds of staffers to do this sort of thing, and that takes time. But it happened awfully fast, and nearly flawlessly.
Hundreds of SEAL Team 6 commandos, fake CIA intel and a battle for survival atop 7,000-foot ridge: Inside the historic US mission to save F-15 airman in Iran
During the rescue of the second F-15E crew member in southwestern Iran (April 3–5, 2026)… U.S. special operations forces were operating deep in hostile territory under real pressure.
The downed airman evaded capture for roughly 48 hours while Iranian forces… including IRGC… pic.twitter.com/z5h2Jt43lX
— A Gene Robinson (@AlGeneRobi96834) April 5, 2026
🇯🇵 A Muslim lady from the UK explains: "Japan is overrated. I don't like it because it's not Muslim friendly. Their rice is boiled in pork water".
Actually, one of the best things about Japan is exactly that: we're not Muslim friendly. 🤷🏻♀️ Too bad for you. pic.twitter.com/6oRYQGq8ei
— 鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 (@harukaawake) April 4, 2026
A dispute has broken out over who should manage $2 billion of assets left behind by murdered business tycoon Barry Sherman.
On one side is his son Jonathon and his nominee on the board of the Sherman family trust, Toronto lawyer Michael Woollcombe.
On the other is Jonathon’s sister Alexandra, along with her former husband, and a money manager Barry trusted for years to handle the fortune he built up as founder of generic drug giant Apotex.
If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which nearly everyone could agree.
Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies project due tomorrow. Or scanned its list of countries for Latvia, because that is the country you are representing next week in Model U.N. Even better, you wandered the earth in your imagination as you held the physical Factbook in your own hands, unfolding its maps and understanding, perhaps for the first time, that the thumbs-up gesture your friends flash each other is considered an obscene insult in parts of the Middle East, Europe and Argentina.
A pity, as a blogger I have relied on it on many occasions.
When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he would reduce the Liberal government’s consumer carbon tax to zero, he also promised to introduce a “carbon border adjustment mechanism.”
He described the CBAM as a new government measure to “promote fair competition and improve environmental outcomes” while “supporting Canadian jobs in … energy-intensive, trade-exposed sectors, such as steel, chemicals, cement, and aluminum.”
Like the fighter who distracts his foe with feints before bringing an uppercut that knocks out his opponent, the world has been exclusively focused on Iran shutting the Straits of Hormuz while ignoring the chilling fact that it is a regime of theocratic extremists who have launched ballistic missiles capable of hitting Europe as well as US bases in the Indian Ocean. Iran’s ruling ayatollahs want to put nuclear warheads on those missiles. That is where the real threat lies — not in a Middle East waterway — but in Iran’s missile silos and nuclear weapons program.
Raised in a moderate Muslim family in the Middle East, Kiwi Mottahed was once almost obsessed with watching online “anti-Christian” videos.
The videos, which are widespread, did not invoke hatred of Christians. But they did vociferously argue that Christian theology was wrong and Islam was the only right way to God, said Mottahed, a University of B.C. business student.
Moderate Muslim? No such thing but a good column nonetheless.
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Five years after their wide deployment, first on a voluntary basis, then under threat of firing for nearly 100 million Americans at the direction of the White House, COVID-19 vaccines for at least low-risk groups may be on the way out amid higher regulatory requirements and indifference to the jabs by the vast majority of Americans.
A man in his 20s and a teenage boy were killed when gunfire erupted Friday night on the grounds of an elementary school in Brampton.
Peel Regional Police say officers responded to the deadly shooting near Rutherford Rd. and Weybridge Tr. – east of Kennedy Rd. N. – around 10:20 p.m. and located the two victims soon after.
Crime? In Brampton? I’m Shocked!
The moves by European leaders to stymie the United States in its conflict with the Islamist Iranian regime, apparently motivated by fear of potential blowback from Tehran and its proxies, appear set to incur a far greater strategic setback as Republicans call for a complete re-assessment of the NATO alliance.
The Hells Angels and other organized crime groups are increasingly involved in the lucrative black market cigarette business. The revelation comes after two recent seizures of illegal cigarettes and nicotine vapes in Southwestern Ontario.
Police identified 173 organized crime groups – including the mafia, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and their support clubs – involved in black market tobacco, said Rick Barnum, chief executive of the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco.
Boy am I SHOCKED!
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have dropped off the radar a little bit after things settled down in Minneapolis, but a flurry of arrests just outside Pittsburgh suggests that ICE is as active as ever and addressing a problem that’s been a long time coming.
ICE arrested a reported 13 people at a driver’s license center in a quiet, rural location 40 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh on April 3.
