Unpublished Newswire
An independent candidate who looks and sounds a lot like El Salvador hardliner Nayib Bukele is winning over conservative Colombian voters tired of that country’s rising rates of violent crime and ever-increasing public deficit. Abelardo de la Espriella, who adopted the nickname ‘El Tigre’ (The Tiger) due to his uncompromising personality and fierce reputation as a criminal lawyer, promises to root out corruption with an iron fist and dislodge criminal organizations once and for all. His support for megaprisons has prompted comparisons to Bukele, El Salvador’s wildly popular hardline...
May 18, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
The Alberta Medical Association is calling on the provincial government to adopt dozens of safeguards as the province crafts regulations designed to allow physicians to practise in both the public and private systems.
May 18, 2026 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
I’m trying to figure out what Prime Minister Mark Carney thought he was doing at this year’s Global Progress Action Summit.
The Global Progress Action Summit is an annual gathering of Canadian Liberals, United Kingdom Labour figures, United States Democrats, and assorted compatible figures from other countries. Carney spoke at this year’s summit on Saturday in Toronto, which took place the day after former US president Barack Obama gave a speech for Canada 2020, the Canadian organizers of the Global Progress Action Summit. This was, in turn, the day after the Public Policy Forum’s annual...
May 18, 2026 - 06:30 | Paul Wells | Walrus
An Ontario university is going on the offensive against a YouTube prankster in a unique lawsuit, asking a judge to force him to turn over the profits from viral videos filmed without permission on their campus. In a statement of claim, Ontario Tech University alleges content creator Fique Ayub Fique and his co-defendants associated with the @FiqueAyub YouTube channel were “unjustly enriched” by recording and posting the videos of two pranks where Ayub affected “an exaggerated Indian accent” to interrupt lectures with mocking questions, before cooking curry on a portable stovetop that...
May 18, 2026 - 06:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
May 18, 2026 - 06:00 | Lindsay Jones | The Globe and Mail
May 18, 2026 - 05:45 | Chris Hannay | The Globe and Mail
