Ontario’s recent call to legalize pepper spray highlights a contradiction. Canadian self-defence law allows people to use force to defend themselves. But other laws make it a crime, or legally precarious, to possess the tools that would let them do so effectively.
The Ontario government’s decision to purchase and later return a $28.9-million private jet appears to have created turbulence for Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives.
According to a new poll by Liaison Strategies, for the first time in its monthly provincial tracking, the PCs trail the Ontario Liberal Party by two percentage points among decided and leaning voters.
The Liberals, which do not have a permanent leader at this time, have the support of 38 per cent of decided and leaning voters while the Tories are in second place at 36 per cent.
NEW YORK — A federal indictment unsealed this week has exposed what prosecutors describe as an industrial-scale methamphetamine manufacturing operation engineered by two Chinese national engineers, shipped from Shanghai across two continents, and designed to flood global markets with synthetic drugs at a volume that would dwarf most known production facilities.
The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate at 2.25 per cent as expected on Wednesday and said any changes in the rate could be small if its projections for the economy held true.
Governor Tiff Macklem said the key rate is probably at about the right level if the economy follows the central bank’s projections, though he didn’t rule out future adjustments depending on how the risks play out.
“If the economy evolves broadly in line with the base case, changes in the policy rate can be expected to be small,” he said.
A Yellowknife judge has insisted a man who claimed to be Caucasian get a report meant for Indigenous offenders before he sentences him for breaking into a hotel.
Jeremy Kuneyuna — who already has 90 convictions — appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories recently to be sentenced for breaking into a hotel.
Hundreds of police officers have today raided an Islamic sect operating out of a heavily guarded former orphanage in Cheshire following allegations of rape, modern slavery and forced marriage.
The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL) was previously based in Sweden before relocating to Crewe in 2021, moving into a former orphanage.
But it has faced allegations that followers are asked to offer up their salaries or sell their possessions to contribute to the religious sect.
On April 17, Prime Minister Mark Carney celebrated the anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and declared that “it is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter.”
Unfortunately, despite the fact that he has attempted to associate his Liberal government with the edifice of human rights in Canada, it is evident that Mark Carney has merely paid a glib lip service to Canada’s Charter and the fundamental human rights of all Canadians.
On September 26, 2022, several underwater explosions disabled three of the four Nord Stream pipeline lines in the Baltic Sea. The facts are well known: it was a deliberate act of sabotage against one of the key energy infrastructures linking Russia and Germany.
What remains unresolved, nearly four years later, is responsibility. Or at least officially unresolved.
That vacuum is now being filled by new narratives. The latest comes from journalist Bojan Pancevski, who in his book The Nord Stream Explosion introduces a particularly striking element: the involvement of a Ukrainian woman, a former adult model identified under the pseudonym “Freya,” in the sabotage operation.
Federal governments have for decades failed to reduce Canada’s dependence on U.S. trade, according to a new report, suggesting that Prime Minister Mark Carney faces an overwhelmingly steep climb in his effort to pivot the country away from its southern neighbour.
In a new report, the Fraser Institute studied the last 50 years of Canada’s trade diversification efforts, which included the signing of 16 free trade agreements with non-U.S. countries between 1988 and 2020. For all that work, however, Canada hardly increased its exports to non-U.S. trade partners, particularly in the last 25 years. Meanwhile, China — seemingly the sole benefactor from Canada’s diversification push — has gobbled up virtually all of what was diverted away from the U.S. in recent decades, the report found.
Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps.
The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall—and that he might see possible violence outside it.
Climbing the stairs from the subway left me winded. “You’re really out of shape you fat fuck,” I muttered to myself as I stopped to catch my breath, but the pain only started when I’d walked a block and turned the corner onto Simcoe Street, south toward the convention centre.
It was a new kind of pain. Since turning 50 there seemed to be some fresh variety of pain revealed annually, and I tried to play it down by telling myself I’d add it to the list. This was different, though – a steely sharpness that started in my chest and blossomed up through my shoulders to my neck and jaw.
I was on my way to a trade show for photographers and video makers in the big room on the north side of the convention centre where they hold the auto show every year. The same place where I’d lined up in the shadow of the CN Tower for the first dose of the COVID vaccine, joining the rest of the city eager to get back to normal life and a day like today – minus the chest pains.
NB: The author knew Kathy before I did.
WATCH:
Intense arrest unfolds at Union Station following allegations of an unprovoked assault.
Several officers work to subdue a shirtless suspect who appeared to be in distress.
Union Station is Canada’s busiest commuter hub.
📸 Apr 28, 2026#Toronto #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/XrdsxD0mQ2
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 29, 2026
It is undeniable now: war has been declared on British Jews. A fascistic crusade is being waged against our Jewish compatriots. The anti-Semitic atrocity in Golders Green today is further brutish proof of this unsettling fact. We’ve had firebombings at synagogues, the murder of Jews in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and now this frenzied knifing of Jews in London. There can be no more equivocating – this is a moral emergency.
🚨Here is the moment the Golders Green terrorist is subdued and kicked in the head as he clutched his bloody knife after stabbing two Jews.
I don’t think they kicked him hard enough. pic.twitter.com/NQRT3jWMr1
— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) April 29, 2026
Too late for Britain I fear.
We can’t have programs like this and we also need to stop giving free school to foreigners. Half of these are probably work permit/diploma farm kids. https://t.co/6SSQABsBHE
— Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) April 29, 2026
Families of seven victims of a mass shooting at a secondary school in British Columbia are suing OpenAI and the company’s CEO for negligence after it failed to alert authorities to the shooter’s troubling conversations with ChatGPT.
The lawsuits, filed on Wednesday in a federal court in San Francisco, allege that the violent intentions of the shooter, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, were well-known to OpenAI. Employees at the company flagged the shooter’s account eight months before the attack and determined that it posed “a credible and specific threat of gun violence against real people”, according to the lawsuit.
