• The Telegraph

    Dire day for Tories as Labour wins in West Midlands and London

    Rishi Sunak’s hopes of reviving Conservative fortunes suffered a double blow on Saturday as his party lost the West Midlands mayoral election and Sadiq Khan secured a third term in London.

  • The Telegraph

    It’s time to get behind the Prime Minister

    It is often said, and usually true – the party of government rarely performs well in local elections.

  • The Canadian Press

    Montreal launches cruise season with ship that protected 1,500 Ukrainian refugees

    MONTREAL — Cruise ship Staff Capt. Rakesh Prasad can't forget the traumatized expressions on the faces of hundreds of Ukrainians who boarded Holland America's Volendam in April 2022. The 1,500 refugees, who had fled their homeland two months earlier after Russia's invasion triggered an ongoing war there, boarded the ship with their scant possessions largely packed in plastic bags. The ship they boarded at the Port of Rotterdam would be their home for the next six months. "You looked at the kids,