Former federal MP and cabinet minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay has been elected as the new leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, securing a razor-thin victory at the party's leadership convention in Vancouver.
Findlay won on the fourth and final ballot with 51% of the vote, narrowly defeating political commentator Caroline Elliott, who finished with 49%. Out of more than 25,000 cast ballots under the party’s weighted system, Findlay secured the leadership by a margin of just 182 points (roughly 60 raw votes). She succeeds former leader John Rustad.


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Former Vice President Mike Pence has launched a major public push urging the Republican Party to reject Donald Trump's "big-government populism" and return to the traditional conservative principles that have defined the GOP for the past half-century.
Speaking across various national platforms, Pence warned that the GOP has "lost our way". His comments coincide with the promotion of his upcoming book, What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience.


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Maurice Nadeau, a 72-year-old military veteran from Chapais, Quebec, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for smuggling 7.2 kilograms of heroin into Canada from South Africa.
The sentencing was handed down by Quebec Court Judge Éric de Champlain, who denied a defense request for Nadeau to serve his sentence within the community, citing the necessity to denounce drug trafficking as a severe "social scourge".


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Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, has warned that President Donald Trump’s trade policies and the ongoing war with Iran risk fracturing the Republican Party's critical rural base and jeopardizing the farmer vote for the GOP.

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President Donald Trump has appointed Bill Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), as the new acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The appointment has sparked immediate controversy due to Pulte's complete lack of intelligence background and his history of targeting Trump's political opponents.

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has permanently scrapped plans for Donald Trump's controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" following intense backlash from Congress and critical legal setbacks. The fund faced severe bipartisan criticism. Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, refused to support it. The controversy completely stalled a crucial $70 billion immigration enforcement funding bill because lawmakers refused to advance it while the fund existed.

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As the types and uses of this technology have grown, lawmakers at both the state and federal level have tried to draft laws to curtail it, but that has proven to be very difficult, the entire image is A.I.-generated based off that person. So it makes a fairly convincing image or video that is sexual in nature based on that. And there's even apps where you can face-swap. So you might have a video clip and in some cases a pornographic video clip, and they upload of someone's face and it just essentially swaps that person's face onto another actress' body.

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The U.S. is currently threatening to block the opening of the new $4.6 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. President Donald Trump has stated that he will not allow the vital trade route to open until the U.S. receives significant economic and regulatory concessions from Canada.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency for Orange County due to an overheated industrial chemical tank at risk of causing a catastrophic toxic explosion. The emergency order mobilizes state-level emergency services, opens up state properties for evacuees, and expands emergency shelters as fire crews race to contain the crisis.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak in Central Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Announcing the decision on May 17, 2026, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the virus is "spreading rapidly" through urban centers. It now poses a very high risk nationally and regionally, though the global threat level remains low.
The declaration represents the WHO's highest level of alarm short of a pandemic emergency. It comes as the virus threatens to fracture fragile local healthcare networks.


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