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Thank Premier Danielle Smith and Minister Demetrious Nicolaides for hearing the concerns of citizens and taking action!

https://breaking-news.ca/thank-premier-danielle-smith-and-minister-demetrious-nicolaides-for-hearing-the-concerns-of-citizens-and-taking-action/

Bill 25 has officially passed third reading and received Royal Assent. Bill 25 is now law.

Bill 25 removes ideological and political agendas such as SOGI 123, the PRISM Toolkit, CRT, DEI, and land acknowledgements from Alberta classrooms.

Call to Action:

1) Copy and paste the letter below (or draft your own) and send it to Premier Danielle Smith and Minister Nicolaides. How to Copy and Paste.

2) Share this campaign widely—email, text, and social media

Emails: premier@gov.ab.ca; education.minister@gov.ab.ca

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Dear Premier Danielle Smith and Minister Demetrios Nicolaides,

Subject: Thank You for Passing Bill 25 – A Victory for Our Children

I want to sincerely thank you both for your strong leadership in successfully passing Bill 25.

By removing politics and ideology from Alberta classrooms and strengthening parental rights, you have delivered a meaningful victory for families across our province. This important step protects the hearts and minds of our children and youth and restores a clear focus on academic excellence in our schools.

Your willingness to listen to concerned citizens and take decisive action is greatly appreciated.

Thank you again for standing up for Alberta’s children and delivering common-sense education reform.

Sincerely,

Ottawa Police Charge Driver, Company After Stopping Trailer Missing 10 Wheels

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/ottawa-police-charge-driver-company-after-stopping-trailer-missing-10-wheels-6041014?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Ottawa police have charged a driver and his company after stopping a commercial truck/trailer combination that was missing 10 of its 12 wheels, with investigators warning the vehicle posed a serious danger to other road users.

Police stopped the vehicle on Lester Road in Ottawa on May 28, and called a Ministry of Transportation enforcement officer to conduct a full inspection of the trailer.

“The trailer should have had 12 wheels, but only had 2. Once safely directed off the road, the investigation revealed that the driver was taking the trailer to a scrap yard and had started the journey in Embrun,” Ottawa Police said in a post to X on May 29.

“The trailer had no operational brakes. All wheel fasteners on one wheel were loose, with one having been sheared off while driving.”

Police said an inspection of the trailer showed that there was a high probability the wheels would separate while the vehicle was in motion, which could result in an accident, causing the injury or death of other drivers.

Police had the compromised trailer removed from the road using a flat-deck trailer, with the cost for its removal charged to the company.

Police said the driver and company representatives would have to appear in court, but did not provide a specific date for the hearing. While they did not specify which charges were laid against the driver and which against the company, police said the charges included operating an unsafe commercial motor vehicle, operating a commercial motor vehicle without displaying the name of the driver, and operating a commercial vehicle for more than 16 hours consecutively.

Police said it is the responsibility of both drivers and companies of commercial vehicles to ensure that vehicles and trailers are safe to be on the road. Part of this responsibility includes ensuring that pre-trip inspections are properly conducted and that any defects are properly noted. Continue…

Kerry-Lynne Findlay Wins BC Conservative Leadership Race on Fourth Ballot

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/kerry-lynne-findlay-wins-bc-conservative-leadership-on-fourth-ballot-6040472?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Former Conservative MP and federal cabinet minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay won the B.C. Conservative leadership race on May 30 on the fourth ballot in a close contest that saw her secure 51 percent of the vote, with political commentator Caroline Elliott receiving 49 percent.

Coming in third was former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Iain Black, followed by entrepreneur Yuri Fulmer in fourth and MLA Peter Milobar, the party announced at a leadership convention in Vancouver.

Findlay, a lawyer, is a former minister of national revenue in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government and served as an MP from 2011 to 2015 and from 2019 to 2025.

In her victory speech, Findlay cited faith, family, and freedom as her priorities.

“In our national anthem, we cry out to God to make our land glorious and free—free people making free choices and free speech in a free-enterprise market economy, where hard work is rewarded and we are not crushed by socialist overreach that wants to dictate literally what we think, what we believe, what we can say, and who we associate with,” she said. Continue…

'Lenient': No jail for Tunisian national for 'cruel' violent domestic assault

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/lenient-no-jail-for-tunisian-national-for-cruel-violent-domestic-assault

A Tunisian national living in Quebec has received a conditional discharge and three years’ probation for a violent domestic assault and subsequent harassment, in a sentence the judge admitted was “lenient” and unlikely to satisfy the victim.

Mohamed Aziz Ben Ishak, who had arrived in Canada a year earlier as a temporary resident, attacked Fatma Abada because she had lit a cigarette before nightfall during Ramadan on April 30, 2021.

He kicked her in the ribs. She contacted a friend by phone, but he took it, pushed her to the ground and punched her repeatedly in the head. He grabbed the lit cigarette and put it out on her forearm, while continuing to kick her.

He then dragged her by the hair into the apartment’s entryway. She broke free but he attacked her again, striking her in the head. When police arrived, she refused to give a statement and said she did not wish to press charges. The police left but came back after subsequent calls from Abada and her friend, and arrested Ishak.

He was released the following day, under orders not to communicate with Abada and her friend, be in their presence or go to their places of work or study. But Ishak breached those conditions, eventually meeting Abada in a park and going to her workplace, contacting her by phone, and sending her text messages. He was arrested again.

Court of Quebec Justice David Simon said the “assaults committed by the offender are neither trivial nor minimal, far from it. They demonstrate a high degree of violence, manifesting itself repeatedly in various forms: multiple kicks to the body, including to the ribs; snatching the telephone from the victim’s hands; punches to the head; and hair-pulling to drag the victim.” Continue…

Honouring Canada's Afghan War heroes: Gen. Rick Hillier celebrates new military honours review board

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/honouring-canadas-afghan-war-heroes-gen-rick-hillier-celebrates-new-military-honours-review-board

Every other nation besides Canada appears to have the ability to go and look at past awards for valour, look at what was done to recognize people,' says Hillier

More than three decades after it was created to honour the nation’s military heroes, and years of passionate advocacy by supporters, the Canadian Victoria Cross could soon have its long-awaited first recipient.

The Carney government has announced the establishment of an Independent Military Honours Review Board to review cases of Afghanistan veterans, where new evidence suggests that their bravery meets the criteria for the Canadian Victoria Cross.

“These days in Canada, we have so few precious symbols of our nation to pull us together as Canadians,” said Gen. (ret’d) Rick Hillier, who commanded Canada’s troops in Afghanistan and fought for the review board to be established. In particular, he has advocated the case of Private Jess Larochelle, who fended off an attack from more than 20 Taliban insurgents.

Hillier helped lead six years of lobbying that included 66,000 emails, a parliamentary petition, the Senate, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs, unanimous calls from seven provincial legislatures, 109 veterans organizations, generals, admirals, Silver Cross mothers and wounded veterans.

The campaign was also the subject of a National Post initiative, Heroes Among Us, which proposed potential candidates for the Canadian Victoria Cross, including Pt. Larochelle. Continue…

Canadian pilot, 30, evacuates family of American doctor who contracted Ebola virus

https://nationalpost.com/news/canadian-pilot-evacuates-family-of-doctor-with-ebola-virus-as-outbreak-spreads-in-drc

In a high stakes rescue mission, a B.C. pilot successfully evacuated an American doctor’s family after he tested positive for Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Villeneuve, a Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot, flew the family to safety in neighbouring Uganda. The physician who contracted Ebola had been working at the remote Nyankunde Hospital and was evacuated separately to Germany for specialized treatment. The doctor’s wife — also a physician — their children, and another doctor who sustained direct exposure to the virus were aboard the flight piloted by Villeneuve.

The flight, which took place on May 20, lasted an hour and 15 minutes and Dominic Villeneuve, 30, tells National post that he was “not particularly worried for my own well-being.” He said that he was confident in the safety precautions in place, including his wearing PPE for the duration of the flight.

Villeneuve, a Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot, flew the family to safety in neighbouring Uganda. The physician who contracted Ebola had been working at the remote Nyankunde Hospital and was evacuated separately to Germany for specialized treatment. The doctor’s wife — also a physician — their children, and another doctor who sustained direct exposure to the virus were aboard the flight piloted by Villeneuve.

Originally from Kamloops, Villeneuve joined MAF, a Christian organization that uses aviation to provide aid to isolated communities, in 2019, having previously obtained his pilot’s licence through the Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta. He moved to DRC in 2021.

Villeneuve’s dream of becoming a pilot goes right back to his childhood. “My earliest memories are growing up in Kamloops, riding my bike to the airport with my dad and watching the planes come and go. Watching him and dreaming that one day I could become a pilot,” he told National Post. Continue…

Obama Secretly Gifted Thousands of Green Cards to Radical Iranian Regime Leaders in Disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal — Dissident Who Exposed It Was Brutally Executed

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/obama-secretly-gifted-thousands-green-cards-radical-iranian/

Since 2017, Iranians have widely discussed reports that the Obama administration granted a number of U.S. Green Cards (variously reported as 2,500 or 2,800) to Khomeiniist regime leaders as part of a secret codicil to the 2015 nuclear deal, the JCPOA.

This allegation was first published on February 14th of that year by Amad News, an outlet founded by dissident Ruhollah Zam, who was later lured into a trap by IRGC intelligence, forcibly taken to Iran, summarily tried, and then executed in 2020. At the time, the story did not gain traction in the West, though it was covered by prominent outlets such as Al Arabiya. Continue…

Belgium: 9 Migrant Teens Walk Free After Being Found Guilty of Repeated Gang-Raping 14-Year-Old Belgian Schoolgirl

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/belgium-9-migrant-teens-walk-free-after-being/

In a verdict that has ignited righteous fury across Belgium and beyond, nine migrant minors from cultures alien to Western Civilization have been convicted of the repeated gang rape of a 14-year-old Belgian girl in Kortrijk will serve no prison time whatsoever.

Instead, according to reports from the Belgian press, youth court handed down slaps on the wrist—probation, community service, and counseling—exposing once again how globalist immigration policies and a broken justice system prioritize offenders over the safety of native, law-abiding citizens.

The attacks, which unfolded in a secluded forest during the 2024 Easter holidays, have left the victim’s life in ruins, while the perpetrators, many from North African and Somali backgrounds, face little more than a brief interruption to their routines.

The horror began in early April 2024 in Kabouterbos, a wooded patch squeezed between the E17 highway and a decaying social housing estate in Kortrijk. The girl’s then-16-year-old boyfriend lured her there under false pretenses, only for his group of migrant friends to ambush and gang rape her.

What followed was not a one-off crime but a calculated nightmare repeated over four days, with the victim being coerced into returning twice more for further violations by the same pack.

Court records confirm the assaults occurred between April 2 and April 6. The girl endured at least two rapes and multiple other sexual abuses during three separate incidents. Smartphones captured the depravity, with footage gleefully circulated on Snapchat among the group, turning the young teenage girl’s private trauma into public spectacle. Continue…

Infected Lab Monkey Bites Government Employee in the US, GOP Senator Demands Investigation

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/infected-lab-monkey-bites-government-employee-us-gop/

In the seminal 2002 horror film “28 Days Later,” an apocalyptic zombie plague devastates the world — and it all began with a batch of sickly monkeys in a lab.

While zombies (likely) aren’t real, that hasn’t stopped at least one lawmaker from sounding the alarm about what just happened in sleepy Montana.

According to Politico, “a renowned federal research lab” in Big Sky Country saw a situation where an infected lab monkey bit an employee.

The incident occurred in November at a National Institutes of Health facility, and the culprit was a monkey infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.

Thankfully, the worker was promptly treated for the bite, and never picked up the lethal tick-borne illness. The employee was soon able to return to work.

While the story may have ultimately had a happy ending, the circumstances surrounding it require much deeper investigation, according to Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy: Continue…

US Treasury Sanctions GAESA: The Cuban Military Conglomerate That Controls the Economy and Thrives on Donations

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/us-treasury-sanctions-gaesa-cuban-military-conglomerate-that/

Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA) as a “Cuban military-controlled financial conglomerate that steals millions in aid for the Cuban people at the behest of the regime.” The United States sanctioned GAESA on May 7, 2026, under Executive Order 14404, signed by President Trump on May 1. The State Department issued the designations while the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administered them.

Founded by Raúl Castro, GAESA is the economic arm of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Despite existing within a nominally socialist state, it operates under an opaque structure resembling a capitalist corporation, with subsidiaries incorporated in Panama, Cyprus, and Liberia to bypass U.S. sanctions restrictions.

It controls an estimated 40 percent or more of the island’s economy, with gross profits representing close to 37 percent of Cuba’s GDP, total revenues 3.2 times greater than the annual Cuban state budget, and exports accounting for roughly 34 percent of the island’s total. The Food Monitor Program, in a formal complaint to the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, described GAESA as “a state within a state,” accusing it of worsening hunger and malnutrition through monopolistic control and financial opacity. Continue…

Former Scottish PM Nicola Sturgeon Refuses To Apologize for Husband’s Crimes – Peter Murrell Stole $540,000 From SNP Party To Fund Their Lavish Lifestyle (VIDEOS)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/former-scottish-pm-nicola-sturgeon-refuses-apologize-husbands/

How could she not know?

Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants Scots to believe she is just a victim of her (now estranged) husband’s crimes, like everyone else.

She is ‘defiantly’ rejecting any blame Sunday for Peter Murrell’s embezzlement of Scottish National Party funds, and insisting she wouldn’t apologize ‘for his crimes’.

Needless to say, what the press calls ‘party funds’ are actually donor and (very probably) taxpayer money. Continue…

Anthropic Confidentially Files For IPO As Frontier AI Labs Race To Go Public

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/anthropic-confidentially-files-ipo-frontier-ai-labs-race-go-public

Four days after releasing its latest Claude Opus 4.8 model and raising $65 billion at a $900 billion valuation, Anthropic confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the SEC late Monday morning for a proposed IPO of its common stock.

"This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review. The proposed initial public offering will depend on market conditions and other factors," the maker of the Claude chatbot wrote in a press release.

The move puts Anthropic and OpenAI in a race to become the first major frontier AI lab to tap public markets, as investor appetite for AI infrastructure and all things SpaceX remains hot into early June.

It's "worth noting: filing first ≠ pricing first a confidential draft S-1 starts the SEC clock but sets no date," CNBC reporter Deirdre Bosa pointed out on X. Continue…

The Prince Of Darkness's Shadow Phone: Mandelson's Refusal Exposes Starmer's Transparency Farce

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/prince-darknesss-shadow-phone-mandelsons-refusal-exposes-starmers-transparency-farce

Peter Mandelson spent much of the past four decades at the center of British power: New Labour architect, Blair-era fixer, former cabinet minister, lobbyist, peer, and one of Westminster's most notorious survivors. Oh, and he was sliding Jeffrey Epstein actionable inside info.

His old nickname, the "Prince of Darkness," was never subtle. It captured both his political skill and the suspicion that Mandelson was most comfortable operating where influence, money, and private access overlap.

Today, Ministers released more than 1,500 pages - three bulging volumes of emails, handwritten notes, and more than 160 pages of WhatsApps - in what they billed as "unprecedented transparency" over Mandelson's disastrous stint as Britain's ambassador to Washington. And of course, guess what: Mandelson flat-out refused to hand over his personal phone, and that's pretty much that. Cabinet Office solicitors formally requested access on March 31; he declined to comply. The government admitted it had "no further recourse."

MP David Davis called this a "National Security Issue." Continue…

Foreign Cargo Ship Struck By 'Massive Projectile' Just Off Iraq

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/foreign-cargo-ship-struck-massive-projectile-just-iraq

A commercial cargo ship navigating the Arabian Gulf was struck by an unidentified projectile, triggering a "large explosion," according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).

The maritime strike took place approximately 65 nautical kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Umm Qasr, Iraq. At this time, the UKMTO noted that it is unaware of any environmental damage resulting from the blast.

Initially Iraqi media reported the blast was due to "mechanical failure" - but soon after other regional media said it was the result of being hit by a "massive projectile".

"A cargo ship was hit by a massive projectile explosion off the coast of Umm Qasr in Iraq, according to Al Hadath, a Saudi-owned channel.

According to another maritime industry source: Continue…

Israel Warns There'll Be 'No Calm In Beirut' Until Hezbollah Ceases Attacks

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-warns-therell-be-no-calm-beirut-until-hezbollah-ceases-attacks

The US-Iran ceasefire is being tested on multiple fronts, with Tehran already having announced Monday the suspension of contact with Washington over the escalation of Israel's ground war in Lebanon, where the IDF keeps pushing further north of the Litani River. Israel looks poised to resume major airstrikes on Beirut, despite that technically it has a US-mediated ceasefire in place with the government of Lebanon. Israeli leaders have vowed to halt Hezbollah's persistent drone strikes on northern Israel, and to establish a security buffer zone.

Also on Monday Israel's defense minister threatened there will be "no calm in Beirut" if Hezbollah's rockets and drones continue raining down on Israeli communities and troop locations. This is a direct threat to resume airstrikes on the capital city. This has direct impact on the US-Iran ceasefire:

IRAN'S STATE TV SAYS PROBABILITY OF CEASEFIRE BETWEEN IRAN AND U.S. ENDING IS HIGH IF ATTACKS ON LEBANON DO NOT STOP Continue…

SpaceX IPO Update: New Filing Reveals Friends & Family Share Allocation, Anthropic AI Deal, And Water Risk

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/spacex-ipo-update-new-filing-reveals-friends-family-share-allocation-anthropic-ai-deal

SpaceX has provided fresh details in an amended S-1 filing regarding its upcoming initial public offering, including a directed share program for employees and insiders, a major AI computing agreement with Anthropic, and new risk factors.

The company will reserve up to 5% of shares in its IPO for certain employees and friends and family of its executive officers. The company disclosed that participants on its "friends and family" list will not be subject to a lock-up restriction, allowing them to sell shares immediately upon listing.

While directed share programs are common in IPOs, the lack of lock-up for this group stands out. More than 60% of shares outstanding immediately prior to the offering remain subject to an extended lock-up period, including shares held by founder and CEO Elon Musk. Continue…

Moderna Snags $50 Million Ebola Vax Contract

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/moderna-snags-50-million-ebola-vax-contract

Moderna is receiving up to $50 million to accelerate the development of an Ebola vaccine, as the virus continues to spread in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The funding is coming from global health organization ​CEPI, which told Reuters that it was possible to bring the vaccines to trial phase within a couple of months.

CEPI said it would also invest up to $8.6 million for a shot developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, and an initial $3.2 million for a vaccine developed by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. -Reuters

"Every day counts in the race against this deadly disease," said Richard Hatchett, head of CEPI, adding that the vaccines are on "a not infinitely distant horizon." Continue…

Aww… Look At The Cute Dancing-Robot Police-State Surveillance-Dog…

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/aww-look-cute-dancing-robot-police-state-surveillance-dog

Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot dogs are being deployed at designated World Cup venues in the US to perform perimeter security inspections, prompting concerns over the advance of surveillance tech.

The company has stated that the machines “will be used to assist security personnel with investigating things like suspicious packages or other potentially hazardous materials.”

These four-legged fiends are set to roam, and even dance (oh how cute) around AT&T Stadium in Dallas and other FIFA sites ahead of the 2026 tournament, sending live feeds back to human teams with their 360-degree cameras, thermal sensors, acoustic pickups, and AI anomaly detection. Continue…

SK Hynix Evacuates Thousands Of Workers At Chip Plant After Fire, Toxic Gas Leak

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/sk-hynix-evacuates-thousands-workers-chip-plant-after-fire-toxic-gas-leak

One week, unions are threatening labor action at memory giant Samsung. The next, SK Hynix suffers an industrial accident. Together, the events highlight just how fragile the global memory supply chain has become at a time when AI data center buildouts have already pushed memory chip supply into extraordinarily tight territory.

South Korea's main national wire service, Yonhap News Agency, reports that SK Hynix, the world's second-largest DRAM producer, evacuated about 3,600 workers from its Cheongju semiconductor factory in South Korea after a fire and toxic gas leak. Continue…

Arctic agenda: RT tours historic Russian nuclear icebreaker on northern passage (Video)

https://www.rt.com/russia/640805-russia-nuclear-icebreaker-arctic/

Russia has launched this year’s LNG shipment season (NSR), with its nuclear powered icebreakers clearing paths through Arctic ice to keep the Northern Sea Route open for energy exports.

Russia operates the world’s largest fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers. These massive ships support rapid Arctic development and maintain shipping along the NSR – the shortest sea link between Europe and the Asia Pacific, which is faster than traditional routes via the Suez and Panama canals.

An RT crew boarded Russia’s Yamal – one of the world’s most powerful nuclear icebreakers – for a rare look at how the crew lives and works for weeks at a time. Aboard this floating behemoth, a canteen serving four hot meals a day, a fully equipped gym, a sports court, a sauna, a swimming pool, and a Soviet era library help sailors unwind after long shifts. “Every corner of the ship is designed to keep you sharp, fit, and safe,” RT correspondent Anastasia Volodina reports.

Step aboard the Yamal with RT and see what life is really like on one of the ships powering Russia’s Arctic ambitions.

Alberta Fact Check: There is a legal path to Alberta independence—and it doesn't involve the U.S. Army

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_there_is_a_legal_path_to_alberta_independence_and_it_doesn_t_involve_the_u_s_army

In a posting on X, Canadian journalist Stephen Maher stated, “I don’t think separatists understand how difficult it normally is. The only way it will happen is with US military intervention, imho.”

Canada is one of the few countries on Earth that provides a democratic, peaceful path for regional secession through referenda as per the Clarity Act. There are many hurdles for a province to overcome before achieving full independence, but they are not insurmountable and don't require any form of military action. Much less from a foreign entity.

The Alberta independence movement has been explicitly peaceful and law-abiding. It has pursued its goals through petitioning for a referendum based on the rules set out in federal legislation. There have been no acts of civil disobedience nor calls for the formation of militias. There is no indication that the movement could morph into a rebellion requiring military intervention. Continue…

Alberta Fact Check: Pollster Frank Graves once told Liberals to run 'Obama vs. Palin' campaign against Alberta

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_pollster_frank_graves_once_told_liberals_to_run_obama_vs_palin_campaign_against_alberta

For years, EKOS Research president Frank Graves has positioned himself as an objective observer of Canadian public opinion. But his comments on Alberta sovereignty reveal a contradiction that is hard to ignore.

Speaking to The Hill Times this week, Graves argued that support for Alberta independence is being fuelled by misinformation spread through social media and AI-generated content, much of it originating from the United States.

Graves claimed Albertans are being exposed to misleading narratives that Canada is “looting” Alberta, that independence would eliminate taxes, or that Alberta would automatically prosper outside Confederation. He suggested Ottawa needs a stronger strategy to counter such information.

“If you could have a successful program which confronted that—and we know there is elasticity in the moderately disinformed, not the extremely disinformed—you could probably move enough pieces that you would really reduce the spectre of this problem," Graves told The Hill Times.

He further argued that Alberta has nearly twice as many people influenced by misinformation as the rest of Canada and warned that foreign actors should not be allowed to spread information that could encourage Albertans to leave Confederation.

But Graves' concerns about American influence look very different when viewed alongside his own political commentary from 2010.

According to reporting by The Globe and Mail, Graves advised the Liberal Party to wage what he described as a “culture war” against Conservatives. He framed Canadian politics as a struggle between: Continue…

Government unable to say if criminals are participating in gun confiscation program

https://www.rebelnews.com/government_unable_to_say_if_criminals_are_participating_in_gun_confiscation_program

The federal government says it cannot provide basic information about who is participating in its firearm confiscation compensation scheme, including whether any participants have criminal records or how many are members of the military, RCMP, federal public service or Indigenous communities.

The admission came in response to an Order Paper Question submitted by Conservative MP Alex Ruff, who asked for a breakdown of participants in the federal government's so-called Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program.

Ruff sought information on how many registered participants had criminal records, how many held restricted firearms licences, how many were first-time versus renewed licence holders, and how many participants were members of the Canadian Armed Forces, RCMP, veterans or federal public servants. He also asked how many participants were Indigenous and licensed under the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada Adaptations Regulations. Continue…

NorQuest College offers incentive payments to recruit foreign students

https://www.rebelnews.com/norquest_college_offers_incentive_payments_to_recruit_foreign_students

An Edmonton post-secondary institution is looking to pay recruitment agents for bringing international students to Alberta.

According to a procurement notice posted by NorQuest College, the college is seeking experienced international student recruitment agents under a new "pilot incentive-based service model" aimed at boosting foreign student enrollment. The solicitation states that successful vendors will receive incentive payments tied to confirmed student enrollments from targeted priority regions.

"NorQuest College is seeking experienced international student recruitment agents to provide targeted recruitment services under a pilot incentive-based service model," the tender documents state. Only confirmed enrollments originating from designated regions will qualify for incentive payments under the program.

The recruitment initiative comes as Canadian colleges and universities face declining international student numbers following federal restrictions on study permits and tighter immigration rules.

NorQuest already maintains a global network of authorized recruitment agents and openly states that it works with agents to actively recruit international students into its diploma, certificate, and foundational programs. The college currently lists authorized recruiters across dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Continue…

Alberta Fact Check: B.C. academics claim Premier Smith threatens the Constitution and treaty rights

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_bc_academics_claim_premier_smith_threatens_the_constitution_and_treaty_rights

In an op-ed written for The Conversation, associate professors from University of Victoria, Gina Starblanket and James Rowe accuse Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of spreading “dangerous rhetoric” which threatens the Constitution and treaty rights.

In scheduling a referendum to be held asking if Albertans want to hold a binding referendum, Premier Smith may be trying to pacify sovereigntist sentiment within Alberta, but she isn’t threatening the Constitution or any treaty rights.

Her public statements have been expressly in support of federalism and don’t constitute dangerous rhetoric by any measure.

The Supreme Court reference case on the secession of Quebec determined that provincial secession has a legal pathway to pursue without constitutional roadblocks. The Clarity Act reinforced and codified that provincial right.

The professors dive right into what they called “settler colonial” borders. It’s a way to frame the makeup of Canada as being a construct of the Crown that doesn’t apply to Indigenous people who are considered to be nations unto themselves. Continue…

Support for original MAiD law strong but Canadians divided on mental illness expansion

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/support-for-original-maid-law-strong-but-canadians-divided-on-mental-illness-expansion/73891

Canadians remain broadly supportive of the country's original assisted dying law, but new polling suggests support weakens sharply when eligibility is expanded to include people who are not near death or those seeking MAiD for mental illness alone.

A new Angus Reid Institute survey released Monday found 77% of Canadians still support the original 2016 Medical Assistance in Dying framework, which applied to people whose deaths were reasonably foreseeable and who were suffering from a severe and irremediable condition.

Support drops for the 2021 expansion of MAiD, which removed the requirement that a person's natural death be reasonably foreseeable.

Canadians are even more divided over whether MAiD should be available when mental illness is the sole underlying condition. The survey found 43% support that expansion, while 39% oppose it and 19% are unsure.

The findings suggest Canadians remain generally supportive of assisted dying in principle, but are increasingly uncertain about how far the law should go.

Mental illness as a sole condition is currently scheduled to become eligible for MAID in 2027, but Angus Reid found most Canadians are unaware of the pending change.

Among Canadians who say they are following the issue, 46% support expanding MAiD to include mental illness alone, while 44% oppose it.

The poll also found widespread concern over whether vulnerable Canadians have adequate support before MAiD eligibility is expanded further.

Nearly three-quarters of respondents, 74%, said government should be required to prove adequate housing, income supports and disability-related care are available to a person with a disability who requests MAiD.

Religious Canadians were more likely to express concern about the rising number of annual MAiD deaths. Angus Reid found 43% of religious Canadians were concerned about the increase, compared to 25% of non-religious Canadians.

The survey also found personal experience with MAiD affects public opinion. Canadians who know someone who used MAiD to end their life, representing 23% of respondents, were more likely to support each version of the law.

BC Man Sentenced to Just Under 2 Years for Beating Woman With Bat During Home Invasion

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/bc-man-sentenced-to-just-under-2-years-for-beating-woman-with-bat-during-home-invasion-6041462?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

A man who beat a mother of three with a baseball bat during a home invasion in west-central British Columbia has been handed a provincial sentence of two years less a day, after a judge concluded he had turned his life around since the drug-fuelled attack.

Craig Brentton Durando, 25, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, assault with a weapon, and robbery in connection with the September 2023 incident at a Terrace, B.C. home. His sentence was delivered by the B.C. Supreme Court in a ruling last week.

The court heard that Durando and four other friends planned to confront and assault a man named Nicolas Balatti in his home after Balatti and one of the friends got into a “verbal altercation involving mutual threats” at a house party in August 2023, and continued the argument over TikTok and Snapchat.

The group made their way to Balatti’s home in the early hours of the morning of Sept. 5 after one of the men sent him a message stating “see you tonight” accompanied by a kiss emoji.

The court heard Durando, who was 22 at the time, was impaired by cocaine and alcohol when he kicked down the door of Balatti’s home to search for him.

Durando instead found Nicolas’ mother, Kelly Balatti, in bed, according to the agreed statement of facts. He told her to remove her jewelry and lie on the floor, then hit her multiple times with a baseball bat while demanding to know the whereabouts of Nicolas. Continue…

Danielle Smith Pushes Back Against Rebuke from Manitoba’s Premier Over Referendum Question

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/danielle-smith-pushes-back-against-rebuke-from-manitobas-premier-over-referendum-question-6041321?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is challenging Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew’s criticism of her at the western premiers event last week about her province’s upcoming referendum question.

During the Western Premiers’ Conference in Kananaskis, Alta., on May 26, Kinew said Smith was wrong in her belief that a court ruling against a petition calling for a separation referendum is “anti-democratic.” He also said the court’s decision rightly called for proper consultation with First Nations.

Smith responded during her weekend radio program “Your Province, Your Premier,” criticizing the Manitoba premier’s comments.

“I would say, rather than lecturing Albertans about what they should and should not do—and should believe and shouldn’t—I would like to see other premiers give, as I am, reasons to feel confident in the western partnership and reasons to feel confidence in Canada,” she said. Continue…

Carney in Toronto to Outline Measures to Counter Anti-Semitism

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/carney-in-toronto-to-outline-measures-to-counter-anti-semitism-6041481?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting Toronto to present a plan on how his government intends to better tackle anti-Semitism.

The visit comes amid a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in recent years, prompting calls from Jewish groups for stronger action from the federal government.

“The Prime Minister will outline the next steps in the government’s effort to combat antisemitism and hate in Canada,” according to Carney’s June 1 itinerary.

Toronto has been the site of several high-profile anti-Semitic incidents, including shootings targeting synagogues and other acts of violence against the Jewish community. Continue…

'More than the sports': Security tight as Toronto hosts Maccabi Games

https://nationalpost.com/news/more-than-the-sports-security-tight-as-toronto-hosts-maccabi-games

Security will be tight at the Maccabi Games, an athletic competition bringing together Jewish youth from around the world, returning to Toronto for the first time in four decades this summer.

The Maccabi Games were created in 1982 and serve to “empower Jewish teenagers through transformative experiences” and “inspire Jewish pride,” according to a press release. Event will take place across Toronto, Vaughan and Markham between Aug. 2 and 7 and is distinct from the Maccabiah Games, also known as the “Jewish Olympic Games,” held every four years in Israel.

Alan Perlis, a Prosserman JCC board of directors member, said organizers have dealt with many concerns, particularly from American Jewish communities, who fear visiting Toronto because of recent media headlines about antisemitism in the city. Continue…

Maya Gebala's family living 'between a car and a couch' after struggling to find housing in Canada

https://nationalpost.com/news/maya-gebalas-family-living-between-a-car-and-a-couch

The mother of Tumbler Ridge shooting survivor Maya Gebala says the family are unable to acquire housing in Canada, in an update to a GoFundMe page.

“It has been nearly impossible to acquire housing. knowing she will likely be in a wheelchair,” reads an update posted on behalf of Cia Edmonds, Maya’s mother, on May 29.

“For a while little Dahlia (Maya’s sister) and I stayed in a series of Airbnbs, thinking we would find a home soon.”

Edmonds added that this was “Under the implication that victim services would cover accommodations and expenses as they offer on the government website.”

However, she shared that the family doesn’t qualify for the “list of potential benefits covered for traumatized families searching for a new normal in an unthinkable situation.”

She wrote: “Turns out, legislation is written in such a way, we don’t qualify. So all and any expenses are left to be fulfilled by any organizations holding donations, that has literally saved us so far. Continue…

Feds spent more than $46M promoting COVID vaccines, can't say how much spent studying risks

https://www.rebelnews.com/feds_spent_more_than_46m_promoting_covid_vaccines_can_t_say_how_much_spent_studying_risks

The federal government spent more than $46 million on advertising, marketing and influencer campaigns to promote COVID-19 vaccines, but says it cannot provide a comprehensive accounting of how much money was spent researching vaccine risks and adverse effects.

The figures were disclosed in response to an order paper question submitted by Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall, who asked for a detailed breakdown of federal spending related to COVID-19 vaccine research, promotion, public education and risk communication.

According to the response from Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, the government ran a series of vaccine promotion campaigns between 2021 and 2023 costing at least $46.7 million.

Among the largest expenditures were:

$11.3 million for the "COVID-19 Vaccine – Ripple Effect" campaign in 2021;

$7 million for the "COVID-19 Vaccine – Kids" campaign;

$5.3 million for the "COVID-19 Vaccine – Ask the Experts" campaign;

$4.9 million for the "Educate and Build Trust" campaign;

$4.8 million for the "Parents" campaign;

More than $132,000 for a dedicated social media influencer campaign.

The government said the campaigns were intended to promote awareness of vaccine availability and provide Canadians with “science-based, factual information” about vaccine safety, effectiveness, side effects and eligibility. Advertising appeared across television, radio, social media, digital platforms, print media, search engines and outdoor advertising.

When asked how much money was spent investigating and researching the risks and adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines, however, Health Canada responded that the information is “not systematically tracked in a centralized database.”

The department said producing a complete response would require a manual collection and validation process that could result in incomplete or inaccurate information.

The government also declined to provide a dollar figure for spending specifically dedicated to informing Canadians about vaccine risks and adverse effects, instead grouping risk information together with broader vaccine education and promotion efforts.

Health Canada noted that its regulators reviewed 189 COVID-19 vaccine submissions between October 2020 and February 2026 and maintained that benefits and risks were often evaluated together as part of the approval process.

Separately, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research reported investing more than $74 million in COVID-19 vaccine research since 2019-20, though it said it does not centrally track the specific information requested in the Order Paper question.

The response leaves unanswered one of the key questions raised by Wagantall: how much taxpayer money was directed toward studying and communicating potential vaccine risks compared to the tens of millions spent promoting vaccine uptake.

Toronto went woke, renamed public square to a Ghanaian word—Ghana just made being gay illegal

https://thepostmillennial.com/toronto-went-woke-renamed-its-public-square-to-a-ghanaian-word-ghana-just-made-being-gay-illegal

Toronto’s Sankofa Square will host Pride events this year, as attention returns to the Ghanaian origins of the name and ongoing legislation in Ghana that would impose prison terms for LGBTQ identification and activity. The downtown Toronto landmark, formerly known as Yonge-Dundas Square, was renamed Sankofa Square as part of a municipal rebranding of one of the city’s most heavily used public spaces, due to the namesake's supposedly controversial views on slavery.

The name “Sankofa” comes from the Akan language of Ghana and is commonly associated with the idea of self-reflection. The square works as a central venue for concerts, demonstrations, and civic events in Toronto’s downtown core and is scheduled to host Pride programming under its new name.

In Ghana, though, lawmakers have approved a bill that would criminalize identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, with proposed prison terms of up to three years. The legislation also includes provisions criminalizing the promotion of LGBTQ-related activity and introduces a requirement for members of the public to report prohibited conduct.

The bill still requires approval from President John Dramani Mahama before it can become law. It comes amid continued pressure from religious leaders calling for stricter enforcement of laws relating to sexual orientation.

Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, who sponsored the legislation, said it was intended to strengthen existing legal provisions. He said it would make them "more robust, more encompassing and more stringent in dealing with the practices of LGBTQI" he said, according to BBC.

Same-sex relations are already illegal in Ghana under colonial-era laws that remain in force. The new bill expands penalties and enforcement mechanisms, including provisions that could apply to individuals described as “allies” of LGBTQ people in certain circumstances.

DOT Subpoenas New York After Deadly Virginia Bus Crash — State Accused of Stonewalling Federal Investigation Into Chinese-Born CDL Holder

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/dot-subpoenas-new-york-after-deadly-virginia-bus/

The Biden-era policies that opened the floodgates to lax oversight and questionable licensing practices are once again under scrutiny after the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a subpoena to the State of New York over its refusal to cooperate with a federal investigation into a deadly bus crash that killed five people in Virginia.

According to a report from Fox News, the DOT confirmed it has formally subpoenaed New York officials after the state allegedly failed to provide records related to Jing Shen Dong, the bus driver accused of causing the horrific crash in Stafford County, Virginia, on Friday morning.

The crash left five people dead and multiple others injured, raising serious questions about how Dong obtained and maintained his commercial driver’s license (CDL). Continue…

HORROR: “I’ve Been Stabbed!” – UK Police Bodycam Footage Shows Stabbing Victim Henry Nowak Pleading with Officers as They Cuff and Drag Him (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/horror-ive-been-stabbed-uk-police-bodycam-footage/

UK police bodycam footage shows 18-year-old Henry Nowak pleading with officers after he was stabbed by a Sikh man named Vickrum Digwa.

Nowak, an accounting and finance student, was walking home from a night out in Southampton on December 3, 2025, when Digwa, 23, stabbed the teen 5 times with an 8-inch knife.

Digwa stabbed Nowak in the face, legs and chest.

Nowak tried to flee but he was bleeding profusely. When police arrived, Digwa told police that Nowak was a racist and knocked off his head wrap.

“We’ve just been attacked by someone racially, this [REDACTED]… we’ve been attacked racially by some white person,” Digwa’s brother told police in a 911 call.

Nowak told police that he had been stabbed, but police handcuffed him and dragged him away while he was bleeding out and dying.

“I can’t breathe!” “I’m dying!” the 18-year-old shouted as British police dragged him.

The police did not believe Nowak until it was too late.

“I don’t think you have, mate,” the officer told Nowak.

Moments later, Nowak is seen lying on the ground, lifeless.

Digwa was sentenced to life in prison

WATCH: France Intercepts and Seizes ‘Shadow Fleet’ Oil Tanker Linked to Russia – Kremlin Condemns ‘Borderline Piracy’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/watch-france-intercepts-seizes-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker/

This is the 4th ‘Shadow Fleet’ ship seizure by French troops.

As Europe is raging with rearmament efforts, Euro-Globalists continue with their non-stop campaign against Russia – but, mind you, they’re directing their military assets against ‘soft targets’ such as defenseless oil tankers.

Today it arises that the French navy has intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker linked to the Russian trade.

The operation took place in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, and the ship was taken to a French port.

Unsurprisingly, Russia protested the ‘illegal action’ that bordered on ‘international piracy’. Continue…

BUSTED: Homeland Security Task Force Uncovers Sophisticated Cartel Tunnel, Seizes Over One Ton of Cocaine Worth $45 Million Near Southern Border — Four Charged with Trafficking

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/busted-homeland-security-task-force-uncovers-sophisticated-cartel/

The Trump administration’s renewed focus on border security and cartel enforcement delivered another major victory this week after federal authorities uncovered a sophisticated cross-border drug smuggling tunnel linking Mexico to Southern California and seized more than one ton of cocaine worth an estimated $45 million.

The stunning discovery was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California following a months-long investigation led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and its Homeland Security Task Force. Continue…

Polish Minister Slams ‘Insane’ EU Climate Policies

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/polands-minister-slams-insane-eu-climate-policies/

EU’s ‘green’ agenda is a recipe for disaster.

You know the suicidal environmental policies emanating from Brussels are about to be ditched when even members of the Polish liberal government led by PM Donald Tusk are openly criticizing it.

Tusk was elected with a clear mandate to bring Poland closer to the EU after the conservatives from PiS had bucked the Globalist agenda on so many fronts.

But it turns out that the European Union has become so radicalized that even Tusk’s liberals can’t stomach it anymore.

EU cheerleaders from POLITICO hosted an Energy & Climate Forum in Brussels today, where Secretary of State Krzysztof Bolesta said the EU was ‘moving too fast’ in its emissions cut plans targeting heavy industry. Continue…

Trump Slashes Tractor Tariffs In Bid To Revive Ag Belt Optimism

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-slashes-tractor-tariffs-bid-revive-ag-belt-optimism

The Trump administration appears to be trying to inject new optimism across the nation's farm belt following the China meeting last month, during which Beijing committed to making billions of dollars of new purchases of U.S. agricultural goods. The White House's latest move is to reduce tariffs on tractors and combines, a policy shift aimed at easing cost pressures on farmers already squeezed by diesel, fertilizer, and machinery costs.

Late Monday, President Trump signed a proclamation slashing tariffs on imported agricultural equipment, including combines and harvesters, from 25% to 15% to lower costs for US farmers and manufacturers.

More color from the White House: Continue…

A bear injures 4 people in a residential area of Japan as the annual number of attacks rises

https://www.breitbart.com/news/a-bear-injures-4-people-in-a-residential-area-of-japan-as-the-annual-number-of-attacks-rises/

A bear injured four people in a Japanese residential area on Tuesday in the latest case of an attack by the animals in an area of the country where bears have increasingly encroached on the human population in recent years.

Japan’s Environment Ministry said 13 people were killed in more than 230 attacks by bears in 2025, exceeding the number of fatalities and attacks in any preceding year. Continue…

Bill Gates’ Carefully Managed Public Image Falls Apart Under Epstein Scrutiny

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/06/01/bill-gates-carefully-managed-public-image-falls-apart-under-epstein-scrutiny/

Bill Gates who transformed himself from a software tycoon into a leftist icon of environmentalism and health philanthropy, is seeing his meticulously crafted reputation crumble as new details emerge about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Wall Street Journal reports that for years, Bill Gates’ staff has managed every aspect of his public image, even keeping a custom-size mannequin to test outfits and an off-site inventory of neutral sweaters and button-downs, slacks om case they are needed. Before appearances, employees typically submit three wardrobe options for senior approval, aiming for the calm approachability of Mister Rogers. It’s one piece of a larger operation, with dozens of staff managing communications for Gates and his enterprises, that transformed him from Microsoft monopolist into respected global philanthropist.

That image has suffered as more information emerges about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, contradicting the 70-year-old’s attempts to minimize the relationship. At a February town hall, Gates acknowledged two affairs with Russian women mentioned in Epstein’s emails; sources say allegations of more than 20 affairs surfaced during his divorce. Justice Department files show Gates met Epstein repeatedly despite his then-wife’s concerns, that Epstein knew of some affairs, and that two senior advisers exchanged hundreds of messages with Epstein until his 2019 death. Gates has since been excluded from Microsoft’s CEO summit and the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting.

Breitbart News reported in February that Gates continued to insist to the staff of the Gates Foundation that he did nothing wrong with Epstein: Continue…

Kiev admitted launching drones at NATO member – media

https://www.rt.com/russia/640854-ukraine-finland-drone-launch/

Ukraine launched explosive-laden drones towards Finland, triggering an alert that affected 1.8 million people, Helsingin Sanomat reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The incident took place on May 15 and set off a major security alert in the southern Finnish region of Uusimaa, which includes the country’s capital, Helsinki. The warning halted air traffic at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport and triggered a lockdown order by the authorities.

Finnish officials did not initially disclose details of the alert, stating only that the drones could be approaching from Russia, creating the impression that the threat was linked to Moscow.

According to HS, however, the emergency measures were prompted by a warning from Ukraine, which said it had accidentally sent drones carrying explosives toward Finland.

The Finnish Defense Forces later said no violation of Finnish airspace had been detected. HS reported that it remains unclear why the drones never entered the country, noting that Russian air defenses may have shot them down en route.

The report has prompted criticism from Finnish lawmakers. Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee said they were not told that the warning came from Ukraine, which was essential information that should have been shared immediately. Continue…

Polyamory promoters push propaganda efforts to the next level

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/polyamory-promoters-push-propaganda-efforts-to-the-next-level/

The polyamory pushers have upped their game.

As I noted in this space in April and May, the polyamory “community” has begun their push for legal recognition with earnest. This campaign really ramped up in 2024, and activists are using the LGBT playbook to spearhead the next phase of the sexual revolution. I predicted at least one major news article a month sympathetically profiling the agenda of polyamorists, using almost identical language and tactics.

Well, here we are again. This time, the propaganda column appeared in Canadian Affairs, which is a bit on the nose, but I will refrain from too many jokes if I can. The title lets you know where the publication stands right from the get-go: “Love outside the law.” The subtitle: “A sizable number of Canadians are in polyamorous relationships. Canadian law does not recognize them.”

Now, for comparison, here is CTV’s headline from only a month earlier: “Polyamory is growing in Canada, but the legal system hasn’t caught up.” Notice any similarities?

Well, perhaps that’s just coincidence. Let’s try another paragraph. Here is how Canadian Affairs describes the situation:

Data suggest a sizable number of Canadians are in polyamorous relationships. Yet polyamorous families are not generally recognized in Canadian law — leaving them to rely on informal agreements or private contracts to define their rights and responsibilities.

OK, let’s check in with CTV:

As non-traditional relationships become more visible across Canada, a growing number of people are entering into polyamorous relationships. The legal system is struggling to keep up. While polyamory itself is legal, experts say gaps in Canada’s legal framework leave multi-partner families navigating uncertain terrain when it comes to property, parenting and financial protections.

Right. Let’s see what Canadian Affairs frames this … ahem … state of affairs: Continue…

Canada’s top abortion activist is now pushing euthanasia for everyone who wants it

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/canadas-top-abortion-activist-is-now-pushing-euthanasia-for-everyone-who-wants-it/

In Joyce Arthur's world, having guidelines around who can and cannot be killed by lethal injection is 'punishing' those who do not qualify.

Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada supports abortion up until birth, for any reason or for no reason at all, and funded by your taxpayer dollars.

To be clear for a moment about what that means: A baby in the womb likely begins to feel pain in the first trimester, and certainly by 24 weeks. Last year in Iowa, a premature baby survived after being born at 21 weeks. Arthur supports abortion—a violent and profoundly painful process—even when the baby can survive outside the womb. Even when she sucks her thumb and recognizes her mother’s voice.

Thus, when Joyce Arthur calls something “cruel,” you can be sure that something approximating the opposite is happening. This, after all, is someone who thinks abortion is compassionate healthcare (the crushing of baby skulls notwithstanding), and that objecting to the violence of abortion is reprehensible.

Sure enough, Arthur has surfaced to bestow her wisdom on the Canadian public once again—although this time, she is advocating for killing at the end of life’s spectrum rather than the beginning. CBC’s June 1 headline makes it clear that they agree with her: “Manitoba MAID law ‘punishing’ 94-year-old woman, pro-choice group says.”

To translate, Arthur is claiming that because a 94-year-old woman in Steinbach, Manitoba, does not qualify for euthanasia under Canada’s currently (very permissive) regime, the law is “punishing” that woman.

“It’s a mark of cruelty and trauma that’s inflicted on her,” Arthur told the CBC. “She’s having to resort to desperate methods like stopping her heart medication and antibiotics. She is forced to live in a hospital rather than a nice palliative care center, far from home. So the law is actually punishing her. And it’s really, really unjust and really unfortunate.” Continue…

Human rights tribunal accuses Canada of 'crimes against humanity' with 'genocidal intent' over treatment of indigenous people

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/human-rights-tribunal-accuses-canada-of-crimes-against-humanity-with-genocidal-intent-over-treatment-of-indigenous-people/73904

An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its indigenous population after a week-long hearing in Montreal.

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), an opinion human rights tribunal, ordered to look into "the missing and disappeared indigenous children and unmarked graves, and the forced and coerced sterilisation of indigenous women" in Canadian indigenous communities.

They claimed to base their judgement on "international law for the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity."

The PPT's final decision came Sunday, with seven judges comprising the panel and adopting several policies they deemed were "crimes against humanity" with "genocidal intent," including the "concrete manifestation of Canada's colonial policies," namely residential schools.

"Between 4,000 and 6,000 children are known to have died in these institutions, or shortly after leaving them (sometimes running away) in the century and a half up until 1997, when the last institution, Kivalliq Hall in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, closed," claimed the judges' statement.

To understand these claims — let's look at one case study — the most famous case still talked about today: the case of Kamloops, BC. Continue…

BC Court to Hear Appeal of Woman Fined $10K for Private Remarks

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/legal-advocacy-group-to-represent-woman-fined-10k-by-bc-tribunal-for-private-remarks-6041590

The Supreme Court of British Columbia will hear an appeal by a woman ordered her to pay a $10,000 penalty after remarks she made in a private conversation with a friend were ruled discriminatory by a B.C. tribunal.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) confirmed the hearing in a release this week, saying it will represent the woman.

According to the findings of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, B.C. resident Kristin Olsen and Terry Wiebe were longtime friends who also shared work and living arrangements before their relationship deteriorated.

Wiebe lived in a motorhome on Olsen’s property from 2014 to 2018. Following a dispute between the two, Wiebe filed a complaint with the tribunal in 2019.

Wiebe, who identifies as transgender, alleged that Olsen discriminated against her for her gender identity after Wiebe expressed to Olsen her desire to get “top surgery” to remove her breasts. According to the ruling, the tribunal had accepted that Olsen was concerned about Wiebe getting top surgery because of her mother’s battle with breast cancer and concerns with the medical risks of the surgery.

The ruling said that Olsen had advised Wiebe not to go through with the surgery, and that she was “fine as a lesbian” and did not need to “mutilate” her body. Olsen denied using the word “mutilate,” but the tribunal found it “more likely than not” that Olsen had used the term. Continue…

Agriculture Minister Reappoints Canadian Dairy Commission CEO Benoit Basillais

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/agriculture-minister-reappoints-canadian-dairy-commission-ceo-benoit-basillais-6041697

Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald says Benoit Basillais has been reappointed as CEO of the Canadian Dairy Commission.

Basillais will serve an additional three-year term effective July 4.

Basillais was appointed CEO of the commission in 2022, replacing Serge Riendeau.

MacDonald says Basillais’ contributions have helped to ensure a stable, co-ordinated and responsive dairy industry.

Basillais began his career with the Canadian Dairy Commission as an economist in 2003 and has held various leadership positions in the organization.

The Canadian Dairy Commission is a Crown corporation that oversees Canada’s dairy supply management system.

Saskatchewan Law Allows Victims of Drug Trafficking to Sue Traffickers

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/saskatchewan-law-allows-victims-of-drug-trafficking-to-sue-traffickers-6041756

A new Saskatchewan law allows people harmed by illegal drug trafficking, including those affected by addiction, to sue drug traffickers for damages in civil court.

Under the Response to Illicit Drugs Act, which came into effect on June 1, individuals harmed by illicit drug activity can bring civil actions to recover damages from people who produce, traffic, import, or export highly addictive drugs, the province said in a June 1 news release.

“By bringing this Act into force, the Government of Saskatchewan is ensuring that those who profit from trafficking deadly substances face meaningful consequences for the damage they cause,” Saskatchewan Justice Minister and Attorney General Tim McLeod said.

“At the same time, our government continues to address mental health and addictions through expanded treatment and recovery supports.”

The Act would also allow provincial authorities to void appointments, grants, and agreements held by an individual or entity convicted of offences related to Schedule I drugs including fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, morphine, codeine, and other highly addictive drugs.

However, the Act does not apply to offences related to simple possession of those substances, it said. Continue…

Schools, Band Office Closed After Saskatchewan Shooting Kills One, Injures Another

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/schools-band-office-closed-after-saskatchewan-shooting-kills-one-injures-another-6041959

The remote northeastern Saskatchewan community of Pelican Narrows has been left shaken after a shooting near its local health clinic that killed one person and injured another.

RCMP say a suspect was taken into custody late Monday, almost six hours after residents in the community about 500 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon were ordered to shelter in place.

Officials with Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation say that for safety reasons, schools and the local band office will be closed the rest of the week.

It also says the health centre will offer limited services to clients with serious medical needs.

Dr. John-Michael Stevens has provided services at the clinic for nine years and says staff he’s spoken to say that they—and the community at large—are shaken.

He says these types of shootings are starting to become common and there’s concern that something far worse could follow. Continue…

Here’s What Hydro-Québec Fought to Hide From the Newfoundland and Labrador Government

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/heres-what-hydro-quebec-fought-to-hide-from-the-newfoundland-and-labrador-government-6042010

Hydro-Québec fought to hide parts of letters from the 1960s showing what it offered to lure a French aluminum company to the province, including its internal comments about an energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador.

In a 2024 fight in front of Quebec’s access-to-information commission, the utility claimed the correspondence could jeopardize its present-day energy negotiations with Newfoundland and Labrador about Churchill Falls. Hydro-Québec lost the battle and released the information—including to The Canadian Press last month.

The letters reveal internal strategies and discussions as Quebec officials tried to persuade Péchiney, an aluminum company, to build a smelter in Sept-Îles, Que., on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River. At the time, the company was also considering building in the United States. Continue…

Carney Says Reduced Immigration, Lower Government Spending Causing Economic ‘Weakness’

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/carney-says-reduced-immigration-lower-government-spending-causing-economic-weakness-6042025

Prime Minister Mark Carney has responded to the news that the Canadian economy entered a technical recession by saying lower population growth and reduced government spending have contributed to “weakness” in the economy.

Statistics Canada reported on May 29 that Canada’s economy showed no growth in the first quarter of 2026 after negative growth in the last quarter of 2025. The country’s GDP declined for two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis, meeting the common definition of a technical recession.

Asked by reporters in Parliament on June 2 whether Canada was in a recession, Carney responded by saying his government had “been in the process of laying the foundations for a stronger, more resilient, more independent” Canadian economy. He said this involved the “difficult” work of making major investments, changing the way government operates, and securing trade agreements with other countries.

“As we do all that, the data is going to be uneven, and we will see some weakness,” Carney said.

Carney also said his government had tightened immigration policies, leading to slower population growth and, in turn, weaker economic activity. Canada’s population had increased by more than 3 million people from 2020 to 2025 due to immigration, but Ottawa began lowering its target immigration levels in 2024.

Budget 2025 stated that Canada would aim to admit 385,000 temporary residents next year and 370,000 in the following two years, while the 2024 immigration plan had said Canada would welcome more than 516,000 temporary residents for 2025. Continue…

Chief heart surgeon at Jewish General Hospital quits province amid rising antisemitism in Montreal

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/chief-heart-surgeon-at-jewish-general-hospital-quits-province-amid-rising-antisemitism-in-montreal

The chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital has tendered his resignation and plans to move to Atlanta in September, citing rising antisemitism in Montreal and worsening problems with the province’s health-care system, The Gazette can reveal.

Dr. Emmanuel Moss, who has worked at the Jewish General for the past 10 years, has already informed his patients and his synagogue of his imminent move to the United States. Moss’s departure from Montreal marks the second high-profile Montreal Jew — after Concordia University professor Gad Saad — to decide this spring to quit the city amid a sharp increase in documented antisemitic incidents in the past three years.

During a May 12 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Saad announced he accepted a post at the University of Mississippi, where he had already worked as a scholar during a two-year leave of absence from Concordia. He spoke of death threats he received while at Concordia, saying, “I’m now leaving in large part because it became difficult for me, if not impossible, to be a high-profile Jewish professor who supports the right of Israel to exist.” Continue…

President Trump Orders Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to FREEZE and SEIZE Illegal Alien Bank Accounts in Historic Assault on the Cartel-Backed Border Invasion

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/president-trump-orders-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-freeze/

President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new crackdown on the financial infrastructure supporting illegal immigration, revealing that his administration will move to shut down bank accounts used to facilitate illegal immigration, human smuggling, cartel activity, and even accounts used to store welfare benefits received by illegal aliens.

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that in a new executive order, the Trump administration directed the Treasury Department to increase scrutiny of financial activity tied to illegal immigration, including potential payroll tax evasion, concealed account ownership, off-the-books wage schemes, labor trafficking, and the use of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) without verified legal presence documentation.

Banks will now be pressured to strengthen customer identification requirements and think twice before handing out accounts, loans, credit cards, or any financial services to those here illegally.

In a fiery Truth Social post on Tuesday, President Trump declared that illegal immigrants and foreign fraudsters are stealing billions of dollars from American taxpayers every year and vowed that his administration would use every available tool to stop it.

Trump wrote on Truth Social: Continue…

WATCH: Trump Confirms Reports that He Went Off on Netanyahu – “I Was a Little Bit Perturbed at His Constantly Fighting With Lebanon”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/watch-trump-confirms-reports-that-he-went-netanyahu/

President Trump confirmed in an interview on Tuesday with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine that he was “perturbed” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week over Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, which jeopardized the fragile ceasefire with Iran.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Iran suspended talks with the US on Monday over Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon. Trump made phone calls to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hezbollah representatives to end the fighting, and he reportedly went off on Netanyahu, calling him “f**king crazy.”

When asked about the exchange on Miranda Devine’s Pod Force One podcast, Trump confirmed he had used those terms. “I wouldn’t say angry; I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon, you know? At some point, I said, Bibi we got to stop this. You’ve got to stop it,” he said. Continue…

Fauci’s Foreign National Bat Virus Mad Scientist Vincent Munster and His Researcher Charged with Smuggling Monkeypox into America from African Outbreak (Video)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/faucis-foreign-national-bat-virus-mad-scientist-vincent/

Top NIH virologist and gain-of-function advocate, Vincent Munster, has been charged with allegedly smuggling undeclared pathogen samples into America from Africa.

For years, animal testing watchdog White Coat Waste has documented how Munster’s reckless, cruel experiments on primates and bats waste millions in taxpayer dollars while posing serious biosafety and national security risks.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced that Munster, 53, a Dutch citizen and Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana, and his colleague Claude Kwe, 38, a Cameroonian research fellow in Munster’s lab, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States and making false statements to federal law enforcement.

According to the Justice Department complaint, Munster and Kwe flew into Detroit Metropolitan Airport’s McNamara Terminal on January 25 after traveling from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, where a monkeypox outbreak was actively underway.

Customs and Border Protection officers noticed the pair carrying a large black plastic case. When questioned, both men falsely claimed it contained only “diagnostics and testing equipment.”

According to the DOJ, “subsequent investigation by CBP and FBI agents revealed that the case actually contained 113 vials in Styrofoam coolers. As of the date of the complaint, the FBI has tested 20 of the 113 vials. Seventeen of them contained deactivated monkeypox virus, one contained the Chickenpox virus, and two contained only human DNA.”

The press release added, “the work of both men is focused on ’emerging viral pathogens’ and how those pathogens ‘cross the species barrier.’ They work at a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, which employs the highest level of biosafety precautions for scientific research of known and potential human pathogens.”

In a statement, U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. did not mince words: “These NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo. Let that sink in.”

FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan added, “No researchers should believe their positions, credentials, or professional status place them above the law… The allegations in this case are serious. They involve the dangerous and unlawful smuggling of deactivated Mpox virus into the United States and alleged efforts to mislead our federal agents.”

This is the exact smuggling incident White Coat Waste exposed weeks ago, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported. Continue…

EVIL SEED: Jeffrey Epstein Kept His Sperm in a Cryobank – Genetic Material from Sex Offender May Still Be Preserved

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/evil-seed-jeffrey-epstein-kept-his-sperm-cryobank/

Many people have had quite enough of Jeffrey Epstein updates for a lifetime or more.

This new report will perhaps be a bit too much for some.

But the New York Times reported (behind a paywall) that way before Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘suicide’, he took steps to preserve his sperm – yeah, sorry about that.

“Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019, but his genetic material may live on.” Continue…

EU Climate Scam Exposed: IPCC Admits Doomsday Scenario Was “Implausible” Garbage – But Brussels Refuses to Scrap a SINGLE Regulation Built on the Lie

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/eu-climate-scam-exposed-ipcc-admits-doomsday-scenario/

The House of the Great Climate Scam is collapsing. The United Nations’ own climate priesthood has finally admitted what skeptics have screamed for years: their favorite apocalyptic scenario, RCP8.5 – the one predicting civilization-ending warming, floods, fires, and famines unless we destroy our economies with Green New Deals – is “implausible.” Fake. Junk science sold as gospel.

But here’s the real bombshell the fake news won’t touch: The European Union, that bloated bureaucratic beast strangling its citizens with Net Zero madness, hasn’t pulled even one document, “scientific” report, regulation, or taxpayer-funded scare tactic based on this now-discredited fairy tale. Not a single one. Trillions in subsidies, destroyed industries, skyrocketing energy bills, and farmers rioting in the streets – all propped up on a foundation of lies. Continue…

LOL! “Treating Stupid is Really Hard” – Dr. Oz Asked for Advice to Those Suffering From Trump Derangement Syndrome (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/lol-treating-stupid-is-really-hard-dr-oz/

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz was asked to give medical advice to people who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome on Tuesday.

The doctor did not have a cure. “Treating stupid is really hard, and it becomes a real problem,” he said.

Oz took the podium at a White House press briefing this afternoon, subbing in for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is currently on maternity leave.

Various top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have stepped in as one-time Press Secretary.

Lindell TV correspondent Cara Castronuova asked Dr. Oz how to treat crazed, Trump-obsessed liberals on Tuesday, and he was stumped.

“I am concerned about folks who have focused their entire life energy on disliking the president,” he said.

“It’s disheartening to see people lost in that way, but treating stupid is really hard.” Continue…

European Central Bank: Gold Has Replaced US Treasuries as the World’s Top Reserve Asset

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/european-central-bank-gold-has-replaced-us-treasuries/

Gold has overtaken US Treasuries as the world’s leading reserve asset, according to a new European Central Bank report, marking a striking shift in the global financial order and a warning signal for the US dollar.

By the end of 2025, gold accounted for 27% of global central bank reserve assets, up sharply from 20% the previous year. U.S. Treasury bonds, long treated as the safest and most important reserve instrument in the world, fell from 25 % to 22%.

The change, while seemingly small, does not mean the dollar has been dethroned overnight or anytime soon, but it does show that central banks are increasingly hedging against a system dominated by American debt, American sanctions power, and Washington’s ability to weaponize access to dollar-based finance.

The United States, for decades, has benefited enormously from the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency. That status allows America to borrow more cheaply, run larger deficits, finance military commitments abroad, and export some of the consequences of its monetary policy to the rest of the world.

The ECB’s findings suggest that more countries are quietly asking a question many American policymakers prefer to ignore: what happens if that privilege is no longer guaranteed? Continue…

Leftists Melt Down as President Trump Reveals His Bold Pick to Replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/new-leftists-melt-down-as-president-trump-reveals/

Donald Trump has revealed who will replace Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard following her planned resignation, and the left is very unhappy.

Trump announced that Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will serve as acting Director of National Intelligence. Continue…

Quantum Computing: Hype Or The Real Deal?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/quantum-computing-hype-or-real-deal

The word “quantum” is defined as “an amount,” with its Latin root meaning “how much.” In physics, a quantum is the smallest discrete unit of any physical property. The adjective form, as in “quantum leap,” describes a sudden, significant, and fundamental change. It is also a perfect adjective for coining the next potential technological innovation—quantum computing.

Quantum computing is being hailed as the next technology to revolutionize computing, following in AI’s footsteps. The headlines below, though confusing for non-quantum experts, are quite impressive:

Google Unveils ‘Mind-Boggling’ Willow Chip, Solving 10-Septillion-Year Problem in Minutes

World’s First 10,000-Qubit Processor Achieves 100x Leap in Qubit Count

JUPITER Supercomputer Breaks World Record with 50-Qubit Quantum Simulation

Caltech Physicists Build Massive 6,100-Qubit Neutral Atom Array

A Photon Was Teleported Across 270 Meters in Stunning Quantum Breakthrough

But promising headlines loaded with industry jargon have a long history of appearing well ahead of reality. Accordingly, let’s better understand what quantum computing is, why it matters, and whether the hype is justified and worth investing in. Continue…

Ukrainian Drone Smashes Into Russian Passenger Bus, Killing 8 Civilians

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-drone-smashes-russian-passenger-bus-killing-8-civilians

The last 48 hours have seen massive, devastating Russian missile and drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital and other cities, which left at 18 dead and over 100 injured. Russia said this was in response to the Starobelsk dormitory attack of last month and other drone attacks targeting Russian territory.

But Ukrainian forces have upped the ante once again, this time with a mass casualty event in Russian-control Donetsk region. "A Ukrainian drone strike killed seven people and wounded 11 others in the occupied Donetsk region after crashing into a passenger bus, Kremlin-installed authorities said Wednesday morning, as overnight attacks killed at least two people in Russia," The Moscow Times reports. State media later revised the death toll up to eight killed. Continue…

Welsh Police Officers Ordered To Log Anti-Islam Comments In Chilling Free Speech Crackdown

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/welsh-police-officers-ordered-log-anti-islam-comments-chilling-free-speech-crackdown

Britain's free speech traditions face fresh erosion as South Wales Police directs officers to record conversations and comments about Islam that stray beyond what the force deems "legitimate" discussion.

The policy, exposed in recent social media posts, risks logging lawful criticism as hostility incidents that could surface in future employment checks.

This move builds directly on the Labour government's March definition of "anti-Muslim hostility" and exposes how public bodies are "gold-plating" safeguards meant to protect open debate.

Police force orders officers to keep record of Britons' anti-Islam comments

https://t.co/kQIa0v3VGz

- GB News (@GBNEWS) June 2, 2026

South Wales Police has told staff to log anything exceeding its view of 'acceptable' talk on Islam. The Free Speech Union immediately challenged the guidance, warning it hands officers unchecked power to decide acceptable speech and creates a chilling effect on expression.

The FSU post laid it out plainly, noting "South Wales Police are zealously enforcing their own definition of Islamophobia in a way that threatens free speech." Continue…

Three Killed in Royal Navy Helicopter Crash, Ministry of Defence Confirms

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/06/03/three-killed-in-royal-navy-helicopter-crash-ministry-of-defence-confirms/

Three Royal Navy aviators were killed in a helicopter crash in rural Devon on Wednesday morning, the latest fatal accident for the British Armed Forces in recent weeks. Continue…

Global Vaccine Alliance Gavi to Invest $40 Million to Secure Mass Production of Future Ebola Vaccine

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2026/06/03/global-vaccine-alliance-gavi-to-invest-40-million-to-secure-mass-production-of-future-ebola-vaccine/

The international vaccine development and distribution organization Gavi announced this week that it had committed $50 million to responding to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), $40 million of which would go to building up supply chains in preparation of mass production of an Ebola Bundibugyo vaccine. Continue…

Alberta Fact Check: No, a Manitoba AFN Chief and King Charles don't decide Alberta's future

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_no_a_manitoba_afn_chief_and_king_charles_don_t_decide_alberta_s_future

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak travelled to Buckingham Palace this week and emerged with a warning for Alberta's growing independence movement.

"The King was there with us in unison, that First Nations are foundational partners in the creation of Canada, and our relationship cannot be changed or moved just from politics," Woodhouse Nepinak told The Canadian Press.

She then added: "We've got a beautiful country. If you don't want to be part of it you're free to leave. You won't be taking any land with you."

There are a few problems with that claim.

First, Woodhouse Nepinak is not an Alberta First Nations leader. She is a Manitoba-based national political representative elected to lead the Assembly of First Nations, an advocacy organization. She does not speak on behalf of every First Nation in Alberta, nor does she possess any constitutional authority over Alberta's future. Continue…

Regina library pays author up to $35,000 a year to work on personal projects while seeking tax hike

https://www.rebelnews.com/regina_library_pays_author_up_to_35000_a_year_to_work_on_personal_projects_while_seeking_tax_hike

The Regina Public Library is paying an established author up to $35,000 annually through a Writer-in-Residence program that allows much of the recipient's time to be spent working on personal writing projects, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

The program cost taxpayers $35,240 in 2024 and $33,204 in 2025.

According to the library's own description, the Writer-in-Residence program is intended to provide advice and assistance to local writers while also allowing the selected author to devote time to a specific writing project.

Under the terms of the program, the writer is required to spend at least 16 hours per week fulfilling public-facing duties, including reading manuscripts and meeting with aspiring writers in Regina. The remainder of the writer's work time can be devoted to personal projects.

Records obtained by the CTF show the writer averaged 15 consultation meetings per month during the 2024-25 term and 7.8 meetings per month during the current 2025-26 term. Continue…

Alberta Fact Check: Alberta professor concludes that provincial independence would involve hard work. No one said it wouldn't.

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_alberta_professor_concludes_that_provincial_independence_would_involve_hard_work_no_one_said_it_wouldn_t

University of Alberta law professor Gerard Kennedy told Global News it would be extremely complicated to start a new country. This is in response to absolutely nobody claiming the process would be a simple one.

Many contemporary blueprints are available for the formation of a new, sovereign state. In fact, over 70 new countries have been created around the world just since 1966. The process for all of those new countries to gain independence wasn’t simple either. Many of them didn’t have guiding documents such as the Clarity Act to chart the pathway for them. Yet they managed.

“There would have to be a negotiation between Canada and Alberta, to negotiate the terms of departure and issues like that would have be considered,” Kennedy said. There is currently ongoing negotiation between Canada and Alberta just to get a pipeline approved. The province is getting plenty of practice in dealing with intransigent political leaders in Ottawa already.

In the event of Alberta’s garnering independence, Kennedy notes, “That ability to facilitate will be gone. Now, the independent Alberta would have to negotiate with the province of British Columbia, and the federal government in a separate country. That would be how that would work.” Continue…

Trump resumes saying Canada should become 51st US state

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-resumes-saying-canada-should-become-51st-us-state/

U.S. President Donald Trump recently resumed his theme of urging Canada to become America’s 51st state, prompting dismissal from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.

Since Trump’s return to the presidency, the prospect of the United States annexing its northern neighbor (something Canadians overwhelmingly oppose) has become a staple of Trump’s speeches and social media posts.

With his attention largely preoccupied by the Iran War and domestic battles such as his proposed ballroom addition to the White House, Canada has largely disappeared from Trump’s rhetorical repertoire in recent months.

On May 27, however, he revived the subject with a Truth Social post claiming that the price for Canada to join his proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense system would be $61 billion “if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State.”

“They are considering the offer!” he claimed, which Canadian leaders have consistently denied.

On June 1, Trump again posted to Truth Social, this time simply a link to a Bloomberg report on Canada’s economic struggles and the words “51st State!” Continue…

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The Diplomatic Gloves are off! Liberal media propaganda said Carney is the only one to fight trump in a trade war…

https://breaking-news.ca/the-diplomatic-gloves-are-off-liberal-media-propaganda-said-carney-is-the-only-one-to-fight-trump-in-a-trade-war/

Legacy Liberal media propaganda said Carney is the only one to fight trump in a trade war…

Canada in now in a recession….

The US Ambassador to Canada is not so diplomatic in saying it either.

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra @USAmbCanada has thought it prudent to share this with the world:

Ouch…

It is one thing for a head of state to have opinions, even late night rants about other countries on social media (such as Trump or whom ever runs his socials is apt to do).

Yet for a diplomat to share it… “Messaging”, the diplomatic way to read it?

There is no way this cannot start talks about it. Perhaps Canada will have to do some expelling and persona non grata.

FYI: Persona non grata is a Latin phrase translating to “an unwelcome person”. It describes an individual who is socially, professionally, or diplomatically rejected.

That would stall a lot. How can we keep this person in our confidences whistle he is working towards or supporting the dissolution of the state he is ambassador to?

Is this all part of it:

To stall and watch the Canadian economy more than just stall?

A real offer not just a snide retweet, a real on the table negotiation?

Is this a negotiation tactic?

What comes next terms of some sort of surrender?

Whatever this leads to it can be said the USA’s current admin made the solution, as they see it, clear to Canadians even if not so diplomatically.

Citing ‘institutional resistance,’ military police watchdog calls for broader powers

https://breaking-news.ca/citing-institutional-resistance-military-police-watchdog-calls-for-broader-powers/

CTV News reports that Military Police Complaints Commission chair Tammy Tremblay is calling for the third year in a row for legal changes to expand her office’s investigative powers, including broader subpoena authority.

Tremblay cites inadequate tools and increasingly entrenched institutional resistance from the Canadian Forces as significantly hampering her ability to handle complaints against military police.

The annual report, released June 2, 2026, proposes reforms to Defence Minister David McGuinty aimed at strengthening civilian oversight of the military justice system.

MPCC subpoena authority details

The Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) has limited subpoena-like powers, primarily restricted to public interest hearings, and lacks broad compulsory authority in most of its work. This is a key ongoing issue highlighted by Chairperson Tammy Tremblay. cfjctoday.com

Current Authority (under the National Defence Act, Part IV) Continue…

This govt is jamming Bill C-22 Lawful Access through Parliament, undermining democratic fundamentals.

https://breaking-news.ca/this-govt-is-jamming-bill-c-22-lawful-access-through-parliament-undermining-democratic-fundamentals/

Witnesses are being heard while the door has already closed for proposed amendments. Parliamentarians haven’t been provdied with briefs from witnesses.

“Liberals accused of rushing hot-button police data interception bill

Minister wants to see bill passed before Parliament breaks for summer

Two of the country’s most prominent civil rights advocates — Citizen Lab and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association — issued a joint report on Tuesday calling the proposed legislation “almost certainly constitutionally fatal” and urged the government to withdraw several elements and amend several others.

“The extreme fast-tracking of this bill by the government is itself cause for concern and reason to question whether the committee process is capable of remedying the legislative proposal’s many flaws,” the statement said.” – More @ Source: CBC

Apparently the Committee is refusing to look at briefs that are not translated, contrary to the Official Languages Act.

This was a fought & lost battle some years ago, when the FCA ruled, in effect, that EITHER means BOTH languages (LTA denied). Knopf v. Canada https://canlii.ca/t/1tj19

Predictable, sadly. A backdoor majority signalled Carney will do anything to get that coveted power. I dare say Carney prefers for service providers to leave to create state surveillance.. more Canadians will leave. – Criss Hochhold @CyberRiskLawyer

“Canadian lawmakers must understand that any measures that pose a security risk or threaten the competitive advantage of digital giants will land on the White House’s radar…”

https://breaking-news.ca/canadian-lawmakers-must-understand-that-any-measures-that-pose-a-security-risk-or-threaten-the-competitive-advantage-of-digital-giants-will-land-on-the-white-houses-radar/

“Canadian lawmakers must understand that any measures that pose a security risk or threaten the competitive advantage of digital giants will land on the White House’s radar, and draw attention from legislators on both sides of the congressional aisle…To address these concerns, Parliament must build safeguards directly into the legislation, not leave them to regulation or ministerial discretion. The law should clearly state that no regulation, compliance order or penalty may require a provider to weaken, or prevent, the use of end-to-end encryption — a term that should be defined as exhaustively as necessary to eliminate any loopholes,” write Peter Copeland (@CopelanPeter) and Jamie Tronnes in the @nationalpost. Source

Read here

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/parliament-must-not-allow-bill-c-22-to-break-encryption-peter-copeland-and-jamie-tronnes-in-the-national-post/…

In 2018, Australia passed the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment. The bill bears strong similarities to C-22.

https://breaking-news.ca/in-2018-australia-passed-the-telecommunications-and-other-legislation-amendment-the-bill-bears-strong-similarities-to-c-22/

What happened after?

– 22% of firms cut R&D investment

– 36% of firms reported TOLA made their global risk environment worse

– Australian firms lost contracts. Big ones.

The problem is, is much more exposed than Australia ever could be.

Alberta to Roll Out Combined ID Cards in July

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/alberta-to-roll-out-combined-id-cards-in-july-6042877?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

The Alberta government has announced plans to roll out three-in-one identification cards, eliminating the need for citizens of the province to carry multiple forms of ID to access programs and services.

Alberta will begin issuing driver’s licences and ID cards that feature an individual’s identity information, personal health number, and a citizenship marker beginning July 2, Premier Danielle Smith said in a social media post.

The change will eliminate the province’s paper health cards and will consolidate all essential information onto an individual’s driver’s licence or an Alberta ID card for those who do not drive.

“Albertans can get a new driver’s licence or ID card that includes their healthcare number and proof of citizenship, all on one secure card at no additional cost,” Smith said in the June 3 post. “No more flimsy paper cards. No more carrying multiple pieces of ID. Just a common-sense change that makes life easier.” Continue…

US Ambassador Hoekstra Explains Repost of Trump’s ‘51st State’ Comment

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/us-ambassador-hoekstra-explains-repost-of-trumps-51st-state-comment-6042871?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said he amplified a post by U.S. President Donald Trump calling again for Canada to join the United States because he wanted to present the president’s viewpoint.

“As the president’s representative to Canada, I present the president’s views, the United States’ views to Canada,” Hoekstra told reporters in Quebec City on June 3.

Trump made a post on Truth Social on June 1 that simply read “51st State!” alongside a link to a Bloomberg article about Canada hitting a technical recession. Statistics Canada reported on May 29 that Canada’s GDP declined for the past two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis, meeting the common definition of a technical recession.

Hoekstra’s X account reposted Trump’s post the following day. In his remarks to reporters on June 3 he noted he doesn’t manage the social media account alone.

“Mechanically, I don’t do all the reposting and retweeting myself. My understanding is we repost 100 percent of the president’s tweets that deal with Canada,” he said.

He also said that if he had not retweeted that post, then the Canadian media would have instead written articles about a rift between himself and Trump Continue…

BC Extends Pause on Mineral Claims in the North Amid First Nations Negotiations

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/bc-extends-pause-on-mineral-claims-in-the-north-amid-first-nations-negotiations-6042873?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

The B.C. government has opted to extend a moratorium on new mineral claims across large areas of the north of the province amid ongoing land-use discussions and negotiations with First Nations.

The temporary suspension applies to new mineral and placer claims across northwestern and north-central B.C. stretching from the interior toward the Alaska border, and will stay in effect until Jan. 31 of next year instead of expiring on June 3 as previously planned.

“The orders under the Environment and Land Use Act scheduled to expire on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, are being extended to provide sufficient time to complete the work with the Tahltan First Nation, Taku River Tlingit First Nation and Kaska First Nations, including more meaningful engagement with industry, local governments and other interested parties,” B.C.’s Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals stated.

The pause in this area has been in effect since June of last year. Continue…

President Trump Drops Bombshell Hint That Accountability May Be Coming on the 2020 Rigged Election: “We Know Who Rigged It… We Have Information Nobody Thought Was Possible”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/president-trump-drops-bombshell-hint-that-accountability-may/

President Donald Trump dropped a series of bombshell comments during an interview with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine this week, once again declaring that the 2020 election was “rigged” and suggesting that his administration has obtained information that could expose those responsible.

During the wide-ranging interview, Trump made it crystal clear: the election was rigged, it has now been proven beyond any doubt, and the people responsible are known. The only question left is how justice will be delivered. Continue…

DOJ Drops BOMBSHELL Superseding Indictment Against SPLC — Far-left Group Secretly Funneled $4.1 MILLION in Tax-Exempt Donor Cash to KKK Leaders, Neo-Nazis, and Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ Planners

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/doj-drops-bombshell-superseding-indictment-against-splc-far/

The same far-left smear machine that built a $786 million empire labeling patriots, Christians, and Trump supporters as extremists stands accused of bankrolling the real racists with donor money.

The Department of Justice dropped a devastating superseding indictment Tuesday against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the Middle District of Alabama.

The new charges expand on the original April 2026 indictment The Gateway Pundit reported, adding explosive details about how the SPLC allegedly used fictitious bank accounts and fake payrolls to funnel approximately $4.1 million in tax-exempt donor funds straight to leaders and organizers of violent extremist groups — including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, and others.

According to the superseding indictment, the SPLC’s stated mission was to “dismantle white supremacy.” Instead, prosecutors say, the organization secretly paid high-level extremists to recruit new members, host rallies, purchase materials for cross burnings and KKK robes, publish racist literature, and even plan the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Davidson put it bluntly in the charging document: Continue…

Seven Dead at Home, Outpacing War: The Behavioral Health Accountability Washington Refuses to See

https://joehoft.com/ablechild-seven-dead-home-outpacing-war-behavioral-health/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ablechild-seven-dead-home-outpacing-war-behavioral-health

Seven people are dead in Muscatine, Iowa—killed in what officials are already labeling a “domestic dispute” and moving on. In a single afternoon, one man carried out slaughters while overseas war in Iran claimed the lives of 13 Americans overall, yet the system that shaped the behavioral health and psychiatric industry remains shielded from public view. It is time to stop treating these slaughters as private tragedies and start exposing the web of behavioral‑health interventions and mental‑health courts that may have failed long before the first shot was fired. Continue…

JUST IN: President Trump Announces He is Nominating Todd Blanche to Serve as Attorney General (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/just-president-trump-announces-he-is-nominating-todd/

President Trump on Wednesday evening announced that he is nominating Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General.

Blanche, a former federal prosecutor in New York, was chosen to serve as the Acting Attorney General after President Trump fired Pam Bondi in April.

Prior to serving as Acting Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, Blanche served as President Trump’s personal attorney in New York.

“He’s Acting Attorney General,” Trump said at a Rose Garden event.

“Tomorrow, I’m instructing Dan and everybody else that’s involved in that very complicated process that we are going to make him permanent attorney general,” President Trump said Wednesday evening during remarks at an event at the Rose Garden. Continue…

Cause of Death for Missing Scientist and Nuclear Lab Employee Reportedly Revealed

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/cause-death-missing-scientist-nuclear-lab-employee-reportedly/

The cause of death for the missing scientist who was discovered dead in a New Mexico forest has been reportedly revealed, but it is simply raising more questions.

As The Gateway Pundit reported on Monday, New Mexico State Police announced that they identified the remains of 54-year-old Melissa Casias, a scientist and nuclear lab employee, who worked as an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Casias was last seen alive on June 26, 2025. Her body was found in the McGaffey Ridge area of the Carson National Forest.

This is about six miles from the last place Casias was seen walking before being declared missing.

Although the New Mexico State Police have yet to release an official cause of death, the Daily Mail has learned that her body had a gunshot wound to the skull, and a gun was found close by.

In addition, her body was found skeletonized and propped up in a seated position against a tree in a remote part of the National Forest.

While at first glance this may suggest suicide, Arizona-based investigator Thomas McNally does not agree. He has been working on the case of Casias’s disappearance on behalf of her parents, Joe and Joanne Mondragon.

He suspects that foul play was involved in her death. Continue…

YOUNG BLOOD: Norwegian Teenager Allegedly Recruited by Swedish Gang Linked to Iran – Gets Arrested and Prosecuted in the UK for Attempting to Carry Out a Murder for HireYOUNG BLOOD: Norwegian Teenager Allegedly Recruited by Swedish Gang Linked to Iran – Gets Arrested and Prosecuted in the UK for Attempting to Carry Out a Murder for Hire

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/young-blood-norwegian-teenager-allegedly-recruited-swedish-gang/

Another aspect of the migrant invasion in Northern Europe.

We have been reporting here on TGP about the rising criminality in the Scandinavian countries, with migrant gangs in Sweden and Norway taking the law enforcement challenges to unprecedented levels.

One of the commons features of these gangs is their use of minors for criminal acts. Usually, we see teens from migrant backgrounds – but now, it appears their reach has widened.

News arose today of a court session in which a white, middle-class looking Norwegian teenager is being charged with travelling to Britain to carry out a murder for hire.

The defendant was allegedly recruited by a ​Swedish organized crime group with ties to the Iranian government, prosecutors told a London court. Continue…

BREAKING: House Passes Resolution to End War with Iran – These FOUR Republicans Voted with Democrats

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/breaking-house-passes-resolution-end-war-iran-these/

The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 215-208 to end the war with Iran.

This is the first time the House has voted to stop Trump’s military action in Iran.

Four Republicans voted with the Democrats: Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett and Warren Davidson.

The resolution is likely dead on arrival in the Senate.

If it passes the Senate, Trump will veto the resolution.

The Hill reported: Continue…

The UN’s Quiet Gift to the Khomeinist Regime

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/uns-quiet-gift-khomeinist-regime/

Some scandals explode. Others are filed.

The Khomeinist regime’s nomination to the United Nations Committee for Programme and Coordination belongs to the second category: a scandal processed through procedure, hidden under consensus, and passed through the room before anyone could properly ask why a regime that terrorizes women at home should be given proximity to women’s rights programming abroad.

On April 8, 2026, the United Nations Economic and Social Council — ECOSOC — quietly nominated the Islamic regime in Iran to the UN’s Committee for Programme and Coordination, known as the CPC. This is not a ceremonial committee invented to keep diplomats busy between receptions. The CPC reviews and helps shape UN program priorities in areas that include women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention, according to UN Watch and reporting by the Jerusalem Post.

Russian Foreign Ministry Says Moscow and Washington Avoided ‘Fatal Breakdown’ in Relations With Secret Talks Last Week

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/russian-foreign-ministry-says-moscow-washington-avoided-fatal/

Normalization of diplomatic and commercial relations between the US and Russia has stalled – but it’s not dead.

While Russia is at war in Ukraine, and the US is in the Middle East, the ongoing process to normalize the bilateral relations was pushed to the back burner.

But the process is not dead, and the two superpowers reportedly avoided a major disruption by engaging in secret talks last week, as US and Russian experts met to discuss ‘mutual irritants’.

This comes a few days after top Russian aide Yuri Ushakov said that the Ukrainians are impeding the unfolding of the ‘understandings’ arrived at in the Donald J. Trump-Vladimir Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska. Continue…

John Bolton To Plead Guilty In Documents Case, Pay $2M Fine: Report

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/john-bolton-plead-guilty-documents-case-pay-2m-fine-report

John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, according to CNN, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

Under the agreement, Bolton will pay a fine of more than $2 million. A single count of illegal retention carries a possible sentence of up to 60 months in prison.

A court hearing is currently scheduled for June 26.

Bolton was originally charged in Maryland with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and ten counts of retention of national defense information. The charges centered on diary-like entries from his time in the Trump White House that were allegedly kept at his residence.

Prosecutors accused him of sharing more than 1,000 pages of information through his personal email with two unauthorized individuals - reportedly his wife and daughter - though these transmission allegations are not part of the plea deal.

According to the indictment, Bolton used personal email and messaging accounts to transmit Top Secret intelligence about foreign adversaries, future attacks, and U.S. foreign-policy relations. He also kept classified files at his home, including sensitive intelligence about foreign leaders and U.S. intelligence sources. Continue…

House Defies Trump By Advancing $8BN New Ukraine Aid Package

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/house-defies-trump-advancing-8bn-new-ukraine-aid-package

Late Wednesday saw President Trump receive a rare and much belated rebuke from the House of Representatives as it voted to pass a war powers resolution related to Iran. The passed resolution directs the withdrawal of US troops from armed hostilities with Iran, in a closely divided 215–208 vote, aided by four Republicans.

But this wasn't the only Trump-defying vote that took place Wednesday, as The Hill reports: "Six Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday to push through a vote on military aid for Ukraine, a blow to President Trump’s handling of Russia’s war against the country and his withdrawal of U.S. support for Kyiv." Continue…

Constellation's Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart Gets Boost With FERC Waiver

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/constellations-three-mile-island-nuclear-restart-gets-boost-ferc-waiver

Constellation Energy’s plans to restart the Crane nuclear power plant - formerly, and better known as Three Mile Island Unit 1 - were boosted Monday when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a waiver for the company from PJM Interconnection rules. FERC approved Constellation’s waiver request over the objections of PJM’s independent market monitor.

Under the decision, Constellation will be able to transfer 760 MW of Capacity Interconnection Rights, or CIRs, from its Eddystone power plant near Philadelphia to the Crane unit. The transfer will increase the amount of electricity the nuclear unit can deliver to the grid. Continue…

Germany, France, UK See Opportunity To Revive Putin Talks Without Washington

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-france-uk-see-opportunity-revive-putin-talks-without-washington

Europe's most influential powers of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom are trying to again jump-start Ukraine war peace talks, collectively operating as the E3 group.

They seek to implement a new framework aimed at engaging Russian President Vladimir Putin in direct negotiations to end the war. Reuters on Wednesday reports that "A window for dialogue is slowly opening between Russia and Europe on Ukraine, ​although it is likely to be months before talks can ‌begin, a German government official said at a briefing on Wednesday."

It seems this window of opportunity is based to some degree on perceptions that the war tide and momentum is finally shifting in Ukraine's favor, given the increasing effectiveness of Ukraine's devastating cross-border drone attacks of late.

European leaders apparently view the current battlefield and political dynamics as having strengthened Kiev's bargaining position, creating what they believe is the optimal moment to press Moscow for talks. Continue…

US Formally Rejects Somaliland Sovereignty In Blow To Israel

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-formally-rejects-somaliland-sovereignty-blow-israel

The US has reaffirmed “the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Somalia, in a move seen as a blow to Somaliland, the breakaway region recently recognized by Israel and close to the United Arab Emirates. In a report to Congress on “Potential Areas for Improved United States Engagement with Somaliland”, the US State Department stated that Somaliland was included in the Federal Republic of Somalia. Continue…

'Putin's Davos' Forum Opens Under Heavy Ukrainian Drone Attack, With Candace Owens & Trump Official In Attendance

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putins-davos-opens-under-heavy-ukrainian-drones-strike-candace-owns-trump-official

Ukraine's President Zelensky has freshly stated that he's ready for direct talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in order to end the war, but he also warned that the alternative is for Ukraine to increase its retaliatory strikes on Russia,

The head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, Kyrylo Budanov, stated this week: "Zelensky has instructed officials to try to end this war as quickly as possible, preferably before winter." But the ground war reality as well the escalating tit-for-tat air campaigns, tell a different story of a brutal and largely stalemated conflict which is likely to just grind on for the foreseeable future.

The last 24 hour period has seen a significant drone wave rain down on Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg. Continue…

Following U.S.-Mediated Talks, Israel and Lebanon Agree to Ceasefire if Hezbollah Ends Attacks

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/03/following-u-s-mediated-talks-israel-lebanon-agree-ceasefire-hezbollah-ends-attacks/

Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to implement a U.S.-brokered ceasefire framework contingent on Hezbollah ending its attacks, withdrawing operatives from southern Lebanon, and allowing the Lebanese Armed Forces to assume exclusive control over newly proposed security zones, as Iran simultaneously warned that renewed Israeli strikes on Beirut could trigger a “full-scale resumption” of the broader regional war. Continue…

Alberta Fact Check: No, Alberta wouldn't have to figure out how to sell its oil after independence

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_no_alberta_wouldn_t_have_to_figure_out_how_to_sell_its_oil_after_independence

Alberta Finance Minister Jason Nixon recently suggested that supporters of Alberta independence need to explain how an independent Alberta would sell its oil.

"If the new country is depending on oil they're going to need to know how the heck they're going to sell it."

But Alberta already knows how to sell its oil.

Oil isn't sold by the Government of Canada. Ottawa doesn't negotiate contracts, market Alberta crude or find customers. Alberta's oil is produced and sold by private companies using existing pipelines, rail networks, export terminals and commercial agreements.

The infrastructure already exists. The customers already exist. The industry already exists. Continue…

Alberta Fact Check: Separatism didn’t just grow under Trudeau’s time in office. It exploded.

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_separatism_didn_t_just_grow_under_trudeau_s_time_in_office_it_exploded

In a recent interview, outgoing Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault said “When you look at the support for separatism in Alberta, contrary to popular belief it didn't flame up when Justin Trudeau was prime minister — it stayed pretty stable, it has been pretty stable for the last 20 years or so."

While support for Alberta independence has always been a factor in Alberta politics, Justin Trudeau’s tenure in the prime minister’s office brought it up to record levels.

During the Harper era, support for Alberta independence polled at 19 percent. Two years after Justin Trudeau’s election in 2016, independence support had risen to 25 percent.

With Trudeau’s re-election in 2019, independence support rose to 33 percent.

Now with Mark Carney as prime minister, support for Alberta independence has blossomed into a full movement with a referendum scheduled this fall. That never could have come about without Trudeau planting the seeds of dissent in Alberta in 2016 and fostering it for over a decade.

Guilbeault’s claim that support for Alberta independence has remained stable for 20 years is pure mistruth.

Alberta Fact Check: No, free speech is not a threat to democracy

https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_check_no_free_speech_is_not_a_threat_to_democracy

Some opponents of Alberta independence appear upset about a billboard purchased by columnist and fact-checker Cory Morgan that urges Albertans to “Choose Alberta.”

According to Morgan, the town of Taber contacted the billboard company and implied the ad may need to be removed.

But political speech is not a threat to democracy. It's democracy in action.

The billboard contains a political opinion on a matter Albertans may soon vote on. It was reportedly placed through a registered third-party advertiser and includes the required authorization statement.

Whether you support independence or oppose it, the principle is the same: Albertans have the right to advocate for their position.

The answer to a billboard you don't like is another billboard, not an attempt to have the first one taken down.

The idea that lawful political advertising somehow threatens democracy gets things backwards. Democracy depends on free political speech, especially during referendum campaigns.

Canadian Heritage buys millions of Canadian flag pins from China despite Liberal promise

https://www.rebelnews.com/canadian_heritage_buys_millions_of_canadian_flag_pins_from_china_despite_liberal_promise

The federal government has spent more than $194,000 on Canadian flag pins and desk flags manufactured in China, according to a newly released Order Paper response tabled in Parliament.

The disclosure comes in response to Question Q-1077 from Conservative MP Arnold Viersen, which asked Canadian Heritage to detail its purchases of Canadian flags, flag pins and related products since January 2022.

Records show Canadian Heritage purchased three million plastic Canadian flag lapel pins from a Chinese manufacturer in September 2024 at a cost of $143,400. The department also bought 44,117 floating metal flag pins from China in January 2023 for $14,999.78, another 72,400 metal flag pins in November 2024 for $20,996, and 8,770 desk flags made in China for $14,996.70.

In total, Canadian Heritage spent $194,392.48 on Chinese-made flag-themed merchandise while simultaneously purchasing most of its full-sized Canadian flags from Canadian manufacturer L'Étendard.

The department spent more than $2.5 million on Canadian-made full-size nylon flags between 2022 and early 2026, including orders ranging from 9,700 to 30,100 flags. It also purchased paper hand flags from Canadian suppliers Broadway Import Export and Tobermory Press.

When asked why foreign-made products were selected instead of Canadian manufacturers, Canadian Heritage offered a brief explanation.

"For purchase of products manufactured outside of Canada, purchases were made pursuant to current Government of Canada procurement processes," the department stated.

The revelation stands in contrast to a longstanding Liberal commitment to source Canadian flag merchandise domestically.

In 2005, then-Liberal Public Works Minister Scott Brison pledged to end the practice of purchasing Canadian flag pins made in China after media reports highlighted the contradiction. At the time, the federal government announced it would seek Canadian suppliers for the patriotic merchandise distributed by MPs and government departments.

More than two decades later, millions of Chinese-made Canadian flag pins are still being purchased with taxpayer dollars.

The Order Paper response was signed by Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller and released on June 3, 2026.

Alberta Fact Check: Would B.C. embargo trade with an independent Alberta? Not likely

https://www.rebelnews.com/would_bc_embargo_trade_with_an_independent_alberta_not_likely

A trade embargo between B.C. and an independent Alberta would likely hurt B.C. more — Alberta could still ship resources south to American customers, while Canadian goods needing West Coast access would be blocked without Alberta's rail cooperation. Continue…

Canada is becoming a ‘refugee’ hub for LGBT-identifying Americans

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/canada-is-becoming-a-refugee-hub-for-lgbt-identifying-americans/

As nations around the world begin to restrict ‘transing’ minors, Canada risks becoming a destination where children can undergo irreversible surgeries before they can vote, drink, or drive.

According to CIC News – the largest trusted website tracking immigration in Canada – “eligible LGBTQ Americans are being fast-tracked in their applications for proof of Canadian citizenship certificates.” While most applications from the U.S. have to wait for at least a year, some LGBT-identifying American applicants are getting theirs in just two weeks.

LGBT-identifying Americans are taking advantage of a change in Canadian law that took effect on December 15 of last year. In 2023, an Ontario court ruled that denying citizenship to the descendants of Canadian citizens was unconstitutional because it discriminated against people based on where they were born. The government did not dispute this truly wild ruling, and responded with Bill C-3. Continue…

Senate rejects attempt to criminalize 'residential school denialism' after Indigenous backlash

https://www.rebelnews.com/indigenous_voices_push_back_against_move_to_criminalize_residential_school_denialism

A controversial attempt to criminalize so-called "residential school denialism" has been defeated in the Senate after drawing backlash from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians concerned about free speech and the pursuit of truth.

The Senate of Canada voted down (41-32) amendments to the Combatting Hate Act, Bill C-9, that would have made it a criminal offence to promote hatred against Indigenous peoples by, among other things, "condoning, denying or downplaying the Indian residential school system."

The vote comes just days after the Senate Human Rights Committee voted 7-1 to recommend the amendments, prompting widespread concern that legitimate discussion, debate, and historical inquiry could become subject to criminal sanction.

Among those sounding the alarm was Chawathil First Nation Hereditary Chief Aaron Pete, host of The Nuanced Show, who made it clear he was prepared to go to jail rather than stop having conversations about residential schools.

"The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate," Pete wrote on X, arguing instead for empathy toward residential school attendees and "truth based on facts."

"If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations," he wrote. "If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this." Continue…

90 groups urge Carney Liberals to stop euthanasia expansion to those with mental illness

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/90-groups-urge-carney-liberals-to-stop-euthanasia-expansion-to-those-with-mental-illness/

Advocacy groups warned that expanding euthanasia would threaten vulnerable, disabled Canadians and called for a permanent ban on the practice for the mentally ill.

A total of 90 organizations have now demanded that the Canadian federal government stop a planned expansion of euthanasia to those with mental illness.

Multiple disability, mental health, and other groups recently sent letters to Prime Minister Mark Carney, his Health Minister Marjorie Michel, and Justice Minister Sean Fraser, calling for Bill C-7, which seeks to expand the deadly practice, to be quashed.

Combined, the groups say that vulnerable Canadians, in specific, those with disabilities, are at risk should euthanasia be expanded, noting that support for those with mental health issues is not adequate.

Overall, the groups are asking that people with mental illnesses be permanently excluded from accessing Canada’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID) regime, as it’s known.

Currently, a parliamentary committee of MPs as well as senators is looking into the potential expansion of assisted suicide in Canada next year.

The deadly practice has become so prolific in Canada that doctors are approving the procedure in coffee shop parking lots, as reported by LifeSiteNews. Continue…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford celebrates ‘pride’ month on social media

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ontario-premier-doug-ford-celebrates-pride-month-on-social-media/

Ontario Premier Doug Ford posted a “happy pride month” social media video in which he openly celebrated the LGBT agenda.

“Happy Pride Month, Ontario!” Ford wrote.

“To everyone celebrating pride across the province, wishing you all a safe and fun month.”

In the past, Ford has attended so-called “pride” festivals and parades. Despite being the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, he has been liberal when it comes to certain LGBT agendas.

As reported last year, Ford encouraged Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre to abandon Conservative values if he wants to become prime minister.

“It can’t be one extreme or the other extreme. You can’t be far left or hardcore right,” he asserted.

Ford’s public records are at odds with being a Conservative. Between COVID mandates, abortion support, and implementation of LGBT propaganda in school libraries, Ford resembles his Liberal counterparts.

He is also a supporter of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney.

While most Canadian provinces and the federal government support “Pride Month,” the tide is turning south of Canada’s border.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, five U.S. states — Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Utah, and Tennessee — have disregarded homosexual and transgender “pride month,” casting aside the rainbow flag and reclaiming June for marriage, family, and God.

4 Arrested in Investigation Into More Than 100 Vehicle Thefts in Southern Ontario

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/4-arrested-in-investigation-into-more-than-100-vehicle-thefts-in-southern-ontario-6043330?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Two investigations by a southern Ontario police force has led to the arrest of four men and the disruption of two auto theft networks operating across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

The arrests follow investigations led by Halton Regional Police Service in Oakville, Ont., earlier this year, according to a June 4 press release.

Police launched “Project Joker” in April after officers traced the theft of a Lexus SUV to two suspects with alleged connections to a Quebec-based organized crime group.

“Investigators subsequently identified a rental vehicle associated with the suspects and conducted surveillance,” said the press release. “During the investigation, the suspects were observed stealing and attempting to steal vehicles in Oakville and Mississauga.”

Officers arrested Dany Hamel-Poirier, 27, and Damian Daneau, 20, both residents of Montreal on May 22 in connection with the case.

Police said that Hamel-Poirier was found to have multiple outstanding warrants in Ontario and Quebec, in connection with approximately 40 criminal charges, including auto theft. He is also on probation for previous auto theft convictions, and has multiple release orders in Quebec for related charges, the release says. Continue…

Conservative MP Announces Inquiry Into COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/conservative-mp-announces-inquiry-into-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-6043234?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Conservative MP Dean Allison says an inquiry focused on Canadians who say they were injured by COVID-19 vaccines is scheduled for September and will be broadcast live from Parliament Hill.

“My position is simple: compassion for those who suffered from COVID-19 and compassion for those who were injured following the vaccination, and a commitment to transparency, accountability, and giving people a chance to share their stories and to be heard,” Allison told reporters in Ottawa on June 4.

The Allison Inquiry website describes the initiative as a non-partisan inquiry that will hear from Canadians who reported injuries related to COVID-19 vaccines. The hearings are scheduled to be broadcast live from Sept. 8 to Sept. 11. The inquiry may also hear from experts to give context on the issue, but it will not make findings of fact or reach any final conclusions, according to the website.

Allison said that he appreciated the health care workers who carried an “enormous burden” during the pandemic, but said some Canadians who suffered serious adverse events following COVID-19 vaccinations “feel their stories have not been adequately heard.”

The Conservative MP noted that, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 58,000 adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines have been reported, including more than 11,000 that were classified as serious. The data has not been updated since January 2024.

Allison also noted that, while the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) received more than 3,500 claims, only 250 people have been compensated for their injuries. Allison said there are “legitimate questions” about whether the support program is delivering the assistance Canadians need. Continue…

5 Eyes Warns China Is Using Fake Recruiters to Target Sensitive Information

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/five-eyes-warn-china-is-using-fake-recruiters-to-target-sensitive-information-online-6043091?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

The bulletin said recruiters typically start with casual discussions before seeking information about government contacts or military activities.

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance on June 3 warned that China’s military intelligence services are using fake recruiters and consulting firms on popular job websites to recruit people with access to sensitive information.

In a joint security bulletin, intelligence agencies from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand said Chinese operatives target individuals, including military personnel and academics, with access to classified or privileged information.

The bulletin, titled “Safeguarding Our Secrets,” was released jointly by the FBI, the UK’s MI5, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service.

“China’s military intelligence services are using an increasingly wide array of professional networking sites and online job platforms to target Five Eyes government and military personnel—and anyone with access to classified or privileged information,” the agencies said in the bulletin.

Western security agencies have repeatedly warned that Chinese intelligence-gathering efforts span both cyberoperations and human recruitment networks.

Google Threat Intelligence Group said on Feb. 25 that Google and its cybersecurity partners disrupted a global espionage campaign that the group confirmed had hacked organizations in 42 countries. It stated that it suspects that the campaign infected at least 20 more. Continue…

Carney Unveils New AI Strategy With Plans for ‘Large-Scale’ Data Centres

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/carney-unveils-new-ai-strategy-with-plans-for-large-scale-data-centres-6043312?ea_src=ca-frontpage&ea_med=section-1

The federal government has released its artificial intelligence strategy, setting out a plan for how Canada will adopt the technology over the next decade, including the development of “large-scale” data centres and the broader use of AI across various sectors.

Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled the strategy, called “AI for All,” alongside Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon at a June 4 press conference in Toronto.

“Our strategy, AI for All, is designed to put Canadians back in control, to build trust, to seize opportunities, and above all, to harness AI to improve lives, and indeed to save them,” Carney said, noting that surgeons are using AI-assisted imaging during complex procedures.

Solomon said that as Canadians have “real concerns” about trust, safety, privacy, and control when it comes to AI, the goal of the new strategy is to build trust, create opportunity, and give Canadians a “greater sense of sovereign control.”

The strategy document says Canada will build “large-scale” data centres capable of scaling to at least 100 megawatts, and that partnerships currently being finalized are expected to provide 850 megawatts of computing capacity by 2030.

“Sovereign AI starts with sovereign infrastructure,” the strategy says. “Canada needs domestic data centre capacity and cloud services.” Continue…

BETRAYAL: House Bucks Trump, Passes Ukraine Aid Package with $9 BILLION to Ukraine and Sanctions on Russia – Here Are the 18 Republicans Who Voted Yes

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/betrayal-house-bucks-trump-passes-ukraine-aid-package/

The House of Representatives passed a bill approving an additional $9 billion in aid to Ukraine and placing harsh sanctions on Russia.

Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for both Russia and Ukraine to make compromises, and Zelensky calls for face-to-face negotiations with Putin in a letter sent to the Russian President.

Trump addressed the letter on Monday, saying, “I think it would be great if they met” and calling on them to “get it done.” Continue…

(VIDEO) Dems Falsely Claim Trump “Fell Asleep Multiple Times in the Oval Office” Yesterday and Call for 25th Amendment – White House Responds to “Dumbass Mouth-Breathers”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/video-dems-falsely-claim-trump-fell-asleep-multiple/

Democrats are now calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, claiming that Trump fell asleep during his Oval Office announcement on Thursday.

Trump’s health is coming under increased scrutiny as the left tries to distract the country from the doped-up puppet they installed in the White House and gaslight everybody who knew Joe Biden was mentally incompetent.

Trump made an “Announcement on Beautiful, Clean Coal” on Thursday, during a more than one-hour-long event, where he fielded questions from the press for approximately 40 minutes. Biden didn’t even speak to the press.

Now, the Democrats are claiming that Trump “passed out” during the event, using a clip of Trump leaning back, with his eyes open, as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin delivered remarks.

Trump appeared to look down during the speech, giving the impression that his eyes were closed for a second, but he was clearly never asleep. Continue…

BUSTED: American National Pleads Guilty to Working for Communist China After Six-Year Effort to Infiltrate U.S. Political Circles

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/busted-american-national-pleads-guilty-working-communist-china/

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that an American citizen who spent years living and working in Communist China has pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of the Chinese government inside the United States, exposing yet another alarming example of Beijing’s efforts to infiltrate America’s political institutions.

Thomas Weir Pauken II, 50, who lived and worked in China for over a decade while writing for Beijing’s state-run propaganda outlets under the pseudonym “Tom McGregor,” admitted in federal court that he acted as an unregistered agent for the People’s Republic of China. Continue…

(VIDEO) Bomb Squad Called in Amid Reported Explosion on Chicago Highway – Person Found Dead in SUV Surrounded by Shell Casings

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/video-bomb-squad-called-amid-reported-explosion-chicago/

An Illinois highway was shut down in both directions on Thursday as bomb technicians and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives investigated a vehicle parked on the road.

The highway was closed at approximately 10 am until 6:55 pm. According to authorities, a person was found dead inside the vehicle, which was surrounded by shell casings, according to CBS. Authorities have not released the cause of death.

Initially, the vehicle was seen on the Eisenhower Expressway in Cook County. Illinois State Police reportedly called in an “explosion.”

Video from the sky shows law enforcement officers, including one in a bomb suit, investigating the car. Continue…

BREAKING: Senate Votes 48-50 to Reject SAVE America Act – FOUR Republicans Join the Democrats

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/breaking-senate-votes-48-50-reject-save-america/

The Senate on Thursday evening rejected the SAVE America Act as part of the reconciliation package.

Four Republicans voted to reject the Graham Amendment: Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis, and Collins.

The amendment needed 60 votes to pass, but this voted showed that the Republicans likely wouldn’t pass the SAVE America Act if the filibuster was nuked.

Thursday’s vote on the SAVE America Act is part of the Senate’s vote-a-rama. Continue…

Putin Envoy Dmitriev Says Design Agreement for Tunnel Across the Bering Strait, Linking US and Russia, Will Be Signed During Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum

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US and Russia linked at the top of the world.

From June 3 to 6, Russia is holding the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that hey describe as a ‘key platform for dialogue between governments, business and the expert community’.

Even though smoke billows can be seen at a distance where Ukraine sent kamikaze drones against Oil facilities, the forum is ongoing – and reportedly will host an agreement between the US and Russia on a project that is bound to literally unite the two countries.

UPDATE: The signing will NOT be between Russia and the US, but with the company designing the tunnel. Continue…

Kash Patel Unveils FBI’s “Most Wanted Fraudsters” List as Officials Announce New Medicaid Fraud Indictments (VIDEO)

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FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday that the FBI is launching a “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list as the Department of Justice investigates criminal fraud rings across the country.

Patel credited Vice President JD Vance, the chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, for the idea. “Mr. Vice President, thanks to your vision, we’re here to deliver, and you see it here today,” he said.

“I want all Americans to take a look at these most wanted individuals and look at the amounts, the 10s of millions and billions of dollars in fraud that they have decimated our societies from,” Patel continued, urging Americans to provide tips on the fraudsters’ whereabouts. Continue…

WHOA: Disgraced Former Prince Andrew Seen With a HUGE Bruise on His Face

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Tough times for ‘Randy Andy’.

We have been reporting on how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is under investigation for Misconduct in Public Office and now also for sex offenses; on how he was arrested and exiled to a property away from the Royal Family; and how he was reportedly targeted by an armed man.

And now, a mystery is hounding the British press, as the disgraced former prince has been photographed with a large bruise across his face. Continue…

WATCH LIVE: Trump to Hold Press Conference After Announcing $700 Million Investment in Coal Plants

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President Trump is scheduled to make an “announcement on Beautiful, Clean Coal” this afternoon in the Oval Office.

The President will reportedly announce a nearly $1 billion investment in energy infrastructure in over a dozen states using the Defense Production Act.

Per CBS: Continue…

JUST IN: Todd Blanche, Dr. Oz Announce New Indictments Against 14 Defendants in Ohio Medicaid Fraud Schemes – 49 Home Healthcare Providers Suspended (VIDEOS)

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Federal officials announced on Thursday new indictments against 14 defendants accused of Medicaid and COVID-19 relief fraud in Ohio.

This comes after investigative reporter Luke Rosiak released a deep dive investigation last month into Somali fraud in Ohio, where he revealed the vast Somali Medicaid fraud ring in Columbus, Ohio, which is estimated to have stolen over a billion federal tax dollars.

Some of Rosiak’s findings include: Continue…

Micro-Cap 'War Unicorn' Merlin Soars After Advancing AI Pilot For C-130 Military Plane

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Aerospace and defense technology firm Merlin jumped in premarket trading after announcing that its AI-powered autonomous flight software for the C-130J Super Hercules cargo plane, developed with U.S. Special Operations Command, is moving toward formal testing.

Merlin wrote in a press release earlier that its AI-powered autonomous flight software has "successfully completed" the critical design review for the C-130J, adding the "milestone positions the program to enter a structured formal test campaign, including aircraft-level testing, reflecting a disciplined systems engineering progression from design through verification."

The Merlin AI Pilot will automate flight operations for the C-130J from takeoff to touchdown and is framed as an "operating system" for autonomous aviation. Continue…

ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation As Air Leak Worsens

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NASA senior adviser and press secretary Bethany Stevens wrote on X that astronauts aboard the International Space Station have quickly shifted into SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and are prepared to evacuate if needed, after cracks and leaks in the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel appeared to worsen.

"The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and has been mitigated by Roscosmos as much as possible to date. The cracks have always been a concern that NASA watches very closely," Stevens said.

According to NASA, the Zvezda service module is 43 feet long and contains living quarters, life support systems, communications systems, electrical power distribution systems, data processing systems, flight control systems, and propulsion systems. Continue…

Rubio: 'Most Of The World Assesses' That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday was asked whether Israel has nuclear weapons and acknowledged that "most of the world assesses that they do," but also reaffirmed the US policy of not acknowledging the existence of Israel’s nuclear stockpile and secret weapons program.

Rubio made the comments when being questioned by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), who recently led a letter to the State Department asking for answers about Israel's nuclear weapons program. Rubio’s State Department responded by referring the group of Democratic lawmakers to the government of Israel.

The stakes are too high to stay in the dark on Israel’s nuclear capabilities. Continue…