Pope Leo XIV recently spoke during his visit to Algeria and called for Catholics to be a little less fearful of Islam, urging dialogue and respect instead of concern about mass immigration from Muslim countries. He pointed to Lebanon as a place where Christians and Muslims live as friends.
What was once billed as a free World Cup celebration in Toronto could now cost fans anywhere from $10 to $300 to attend.
The FIFA Fan Festival, scheduled from June 11 to July 19, 2026 at Fort York and The Bentway, was initially promoted as a free event which would feature live match broadcasts, cultural performances and food vendors.
The Disney Grooming Syndicate laid off around 1,000 staffers this week, including a whopping eight percent of the staff at its flailing Marvel division. It’s specifically where the Marvel layoffs occurred that I find interesting…
“[N]early the entire Academy Award-winning visual development team at Marvel Studios is being let go,” reports Financial Express
At an overseas education consultancy in the Indian capital, Delhi, students sit with their parents, flipping through brochures from universities in Italy, Germany and Australia.
But one destination, once the top choice, is now largely absent.
“Until 2023, most of our applications were for Canada,” says Shobhit Anand, who runs the consultancy, which helps students navigate the admission process, including visa applications.
Now, he says they have seen a drop of nearly 80%.
When immigration scammer Conestoga college announced layoffs I laughed and laughed and laughed https://t.co/KazRAVlwTs https://t.co/JjgLvXIhll
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) April 15, 2026
President Donald Trump said that Beijing assured him it would not supply any weapons to Iran.
China is Tehran’s most valuable ally, and Iran’s ballistic missile program is reliant on Chinese chemicals. In a Wednesday morning post on Truth Social, Trump boasted that he’d won over China.
“China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them, also – And the World. This situation will never happen again. They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran,” he wrote.
IRCC orders asylum claimants who crossed U.S. border irregularly to leave or face deportation
Asylum seekers who crossed the border from the United States irregularly and claimed asylum are being ordered by the immigration department to leave Canada as soon as possible or face being deported, after the passing of a new law tightening up asylum rules.
Immigration lawyers have expressed fears that many foreign nationals receiving warning letters from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will now cross back into the U.S. and be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and deported.
And deported? They say that like it’s a bad thing.
The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days, as the Trump administration attempts to pressure Iran into a deal that could end the weeks-long conflict there while considering the possibility of additional strikes or ground operations if a fragile ceasefire does not hold, U.S. officials said.
The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it, said current and former officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military movements. About 4,200 others with the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are expected to arrive near the end of the month.
Landing a first job can be challenging at the best of times, but in recent years, the search has become even more daunting for young Canadians.
“I’ve applied for over 100 companies and so far I haven’t found any even for an interview,” said recent graduate Jay-Owen Angeles at a Calgary job fair aimed at youth ages 15 to 24.
A fallback plan to ensure Europe can defend itself using NATO’s existing military structures if the U.S. departs is gaining traction after getting buy-in from Germany, a long-term opponent of a go-it-alone approach.
The officials working on the plans, which some officials are referring to as “European NATO,” are seeking to get more Europeans into the alliance’s command-and-control roles and supplement U.S. military assets with their own.
The plans—advancing informally through side discussions and over dinner meetings in and around the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—aren’t intended to rival the current alliance, participants said. European officials are aiming to preserve deterrence against Russia, operational continuity and nuclear credibility even if Washington withdraws forces from Europe or refuses to come to its defense, as President Trump has threatened.
Seeking to explain just where the Liberals draw the line on accepting members of other parties into their midst, House Leader Steven MacKinnon said the party would “keep a light on and a door open for all of those who want to support Liberal Party principles,” which he described as “immutable.”
And of course, he’s right. Liberal policies may come and go – see carbon pricing, immigration, defence spending, from a long list – but Liberal principles are as constant as the North Star. There’s only one. It is this: whatever it takes. Whatever it takes to get and stay in power. What. Ever.
🚨Watching the CBC circlejerk reach peak levels of delusion tonight. 🌀
"Bald Rachel Maddow" is so busy celebrating a Liberal majority that he’s completely ignored the elephant in the room. 🐘 It wasn't the policy or the charm ..it was the Trump factor 🇺🇸 that flipped the… pic.twitter.com/KucrvqDNiE
— wealthmoose (@wealthmoose) April 14, 2026
A shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK, the BBC has found.
In the first part of a major undercover investigation, we reveal how migrants whose visas are due to run out are being given fake cover stories and instructed in how to obtain fabricated evidence, including supporting letters, photographs and medical reports.
They then apply for asylum claiming to be gay and in fear for their lives if they return to Pakistan or Bangladesh.
OTTAWA — Despite being dealt double-digit defeats in the three federal byelections that handed Prime Minister Mark Carney his majority, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he has no plans to resign.
“Canadians might be discouraged right now because of the current political situation, but let us say this, Canadians should not give up,” he said in the House of Commons on Tuesday, vowing to continue fighting for Canadians.
“And I will continue to lead that fight in this House, across this country, and in the next election.”
In the film Mad Max, an oil shortage leaves Australian society teetering on the brink of total collapse.
In real-life, things aren’t quite that dystopian yet Down Under. But with barely a month of stockpiled diesel left and hundreds of forecourts running dry, the anxiety is palpable.
Australia has one of the highest per-capita rates of diesel consumption in the world but it relies almost entirely on imports to meet that demand. There are two domestic refineries producing petrol but up to 90pc of that is imported, too.
Lots of ink has already been spilled on the impact of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s historic majority: the implications for the Liberal agenda, for House of Commons committees, and for the country. But one byelection matters more than the others: the riding of Terrebonne, which saw Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste score a victory in traditional Bloc Québécois territory with a 731-vote margin, and which could reshape politics in both Quebec and Ottawa.
Ukraine has been able to retake territory seized by Russia in an operation using only robots and drones for the first time during the war, President Zelensky has said.
Russian soldiers surrendered when confronted by the army of unmanned vehicles and there were no losses on the Ukrainian side, Zelensky said in an address to the workers of Ukraine’s defence-industrial complex on Monday.
