Global Affairs spent $59K on art for Milan consulate, records show
Subhead:Among the items purchased was a work titled Erased, described as a pair of “upcycled” pink cowboy boots sourced from a thrift store in New York City and modified with beads,…
Trump Orders Navy 'Shoot & Kill' Iranian Boats, Says 'Doesn't Need A Deal' - While Iran Insists Could Build Nuke 'If We Wanted To'
Trump Orders Navy 'Shoot & Kill' Iranian Boats, Says 'Doesn't Need A Deal' - While Iran Insists Could Build Nuke 'If We Wanted To' Summary Iranian sources to Chinese state…
Goldman: Fast Food's 'Bang For The Buck' Gains As Casual Dining Appeal Craters
Goldman: Fast Food's 'Bang For The Buck' Gains As Casual Dining Appeal Craters Goldman analyst Christine Cho has published her latest quarterly survey of 2,000 consumers for 1Q26, pointing to…
Andurand's "Hedge" Fund Lost 52% In First Two Weeks Of April On Levered Oil Bets
Andurand's "Hedge" Fund Lost 52% In First Two Weeks Of April On Levered Oil Bets Three weeks ago, when Bloomberg pointed out that Andurand was the best performing hedge fund…
Kalshi Bans 3 US Politicians For Betting On Their Own Election Races
Kalshi Bans 3 US Politicians For Betting On Their Own Election Races Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Two US congressional candidates and one sitting lawmaker have received fines and…
'Unsafe roads': Truckers say 'illegal drivers' crisis is spiralling out of control
Subhead:A growing number of truckers and industry insiders sounded the alarm over what they describe as a deepening safety crisis on Canadian roads, an issue now taken up by Bloc…
Air Force Advances Microreactor Deployments at Three Bases
Air Force Advances Microreactor Deployments at Three Bases The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has moved forward with its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) initiative, announcing specific company…
Tether Freezes $344 Million USDT Stablecoins Flagged For Illicit Activity
Tether Freezes $344 Million USDT Stablecoins Flagged For Illicit Activity Tether froze more than $344 million in USDT across two Tron addresses on Thursday, in coordination with the US Treasury’s…
Liberals spent more than $275M on healthcare coverage for rejected asylum claimants since 2016
Subhead:Rejected asylum seekers have been receiving benefits like physiotherapy and free vision care while millions of Canadian citizens have no family doctor.# The federal government spent more than $275 million providing…
Prince Harry makes surprise Kyiv visit, calls on U.S. to do more for Ukraine
Harry, whose visit comes as the country endures its fifth year of war with Russia, said it was 'good to be back in Ukraine' upon arrival at the city's main…
Rejected asylum seekers keep free federal health coverage until deportation
Subhead:The Liberal government has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars since 2016 on health expenses for over 130,000 rejected refugee claimants.# Failed asylum claimants continue receiving taxpayer-funded federal…
Minecraft, Warcraft, Statecraft
Minecraft, Warcraft, Statecraft Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank While mediators are pushing to get Iran and the US back into negotiations on Friday, the US still says it wants…
« On nous traite d’extrême droite — mais on essaie simplement de survivre » : au cœur de la révolte du carburant en Irlande
Subhead:Ce qui a commencé comme une protestation contre la hausse des prix du carburant s’est transformé en un point de tension national, alors que des citoyens irlandais ordinaires accusent leur…
‘Shoot and kill’ Iranian boats laying sea mines, Trump tells military
“I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be...that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,”…
UBS Warns Drought Shock Unfolding Across Breadbasket Of America
UBS Warns Drought Shock Unfolding Across Breadbasket Of America It's not just us sounding the alarm about severe drought conditions hitting America's breadbasket as spring plantings ramp up, or warning…
US Business Confidence Soared In April Amid "Panic, Emergency" Buying Ahead Of Price Spike
US Business Confidence Soared In April Amid "Panic, Emergency" Buying Ahead Of Price Spike Despite the recent slide in 'hard' macro data, analysts expected an incremental improvement in the preliminary…
Easier to Die, Harder to Vote: The Rigged Architecture of the Warfare State
Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East. Video footage of disabled military veterans—some in wheelchairs, others leaning on canes—being zip-tied and dragged out of the Capitol Rotunda…
SPONSOR | Canada Has a Sickness System, Not a Health System
Subhead:We spend billions treating preventable disease while ignoring the food system that causes it.# YouTube-embed:7IhmbMObouY
Tanker Seizures By Iran Don't Breach Ceasefire: White House
Tanker Seizures By Iran Don't Breach Ceasefire: White House Not only did President Trump this week unilaterally extend the Iran ceasefire by at least three to five days (upon initial…
A Secret Act of Judicial Tyranny
In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court’s rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that…