A 19-year-old male substitute teacher in Northern Virginia who identifies as a woman has been arrested after authorities received an anonymous tip reporting his online threats targeting a local high school.
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Celebrity tag-a-long Justin Trudeau says U.S. economic coercion risks pushing Canada closer to China
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is warning that U.S. tariffs threaten to drive Canada closer to China in the auto sector.
Speaking at a CNBC event in Singapore on Thursday, Trudeau said “economic pressures and coercion” nearly drove Canadian aerospace company Bombardier “into China’s arms” almost a decade ago.
‼️NEW: Trudeau goes on American TV and says that Canadian aluminum WON'T be available
"when the US finally wakes up" ….. "its not your aluminum anymore"
and that Trump drove Canada to China. pic.twitter.com/Loe7aeYXEr
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) April 23, 2026
Canada’s Kamala Harris.
Al Gore Warns ‘The Day After Tomorrow‘ Ice Age Could Happen in 25 Years, 10 Years After ‘Inconvenient Truth‘ Prophecies Failed
Former Vice President Al Gore is still making climate doom predictions, 20 years after his warnings from An Inconvenient Truth proved false — this time invoking the science fiction film The Day After Tomorrow for a rapt Hollywood audience.
An ethics report just called on Mark Carney to sell his investments. Here’s why it likely won’t happen
OTTAWA — Lots of ink has been spilled this past year about the quandary of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sprawling past business dealings, significant investments and his many potential conflicts of interest, and a parliamentary committee unveiled some possible solutions this week.
Yet, most of these solutions are very unlikely to see the light of day.
Trump dinner shooting was targeting administration officials, authorities believe
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said that the man set to be charged with attacking the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration.
“It does appear that he did in fact set out to target folks who work in the administration, likely including the president,” Blanche told NBC’s Meet the Press in comments on the suspect, who has widely been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of California.
Quebec EV owner’s 16-month repair nightmare exposes limits of Canada’s first ‘anti-lemon’ law
A Quebec woman whose new electric vehicle was in and out of the shop for 16 months says the first-in-Canada anti-lemon law doesn’t go far enough.
“I find that it’s protecting more the companies than the actual consumer that’s buying the car,” said Natalina Recine.
Her ordeal began when she bought her new Chevrolet Equinox EV at Le Relais Chevrolet, Buick, GMC in Montreal in December 2024.
Aborted Pakistan Trip Leaves Trump With Tough Choices on Iran Talks
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—President Trump scrapped a trip by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan for talks with Iran, leaving himself tough choices over how to force Iran to make concessions the White House wants to strike a deal.
Trump said on Saturday that he had decided to cancel the trip after receiving an offer from Iran that fell short of the White House’s expectations. “We’re not going to spend 15 hours in airplanes all the time, going back and forth, to be given a document that was not good enough,” he said.
Why are veggies so expensive? Consumers crunched by climbing cucumber costs
Bad news if you recently decided to eat more greens because meat is so expensive.
It’s the produce section of your local grocery store that may trigger a double-take these days. Fresh veggies cost 7.8 per cent more year over year in March, according to Statistics Canada’s most recent inflation numbers. After prices increased 0.5 per cent in February, March’s increase is the largest since August 2023.
Washington hotel shooting raises questions about Trump security
“I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that is more dangerous,” President Donald Trump told reporters, just hours after he was at the centre of yet another major security incident.
While a small army of Secret Service agents make the president arguably the world’s most protected person, keeping him safe is proving to be no easy task.
First there was the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2024 in which a bullet grazed his ear. Just 64 days later, Trump was again the target of a would-be assassin as he played a round on his Florida golf course.
Nuevo intento de asesinato a Donald Trump en la Cena de Corresponsales: un individuo estaba escondido en un cuartucho armado con una escopeta y otras armas, intentó irrumpir donde estaba el Presidente, disparando a un agente en el chaleco antibalas. pic.twitter.com/x0tkuZ0kOg
— Sr.Liberal (@SrLiberal) April 26, 2026
OLDCORN: Ottawa should fund deportations, not health benefits for rejected asylum claimants
Ottawa has a strange idea of fairness.
Federal figures reported by Blacklock’s Reporter show taxpayers spent more than $43 million last year on healthcare benefits for rejected asylum claimants and illegal immigrants. That included basic healthcare, prescriptions, counselling, physiotherapy, vision care, transportation to appointments, and translation supports.
That is not a rounding error. It is a policy choice.
"My ancestors didn't fight in multiple wars and build this country from the ground up to see Canadians being used as mere tax slaves to fund every 3rd worlder who arrives here." And yet, that's what's happening. It started by supporting them over there; now we support them here,… https://t.co/tKHYtV8lCv
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) April 24, 2026
Growing Personnel Shortage Threatens Ukraine’s Front Lines
Ukraine has found itself in a paradoxical situation: while its “Army of Drones” has achieved unprecedented technical feats—including capturing Russian positions using only autonomous robots—the human foundation of the military is fracturing.
A sobering report from Dutch military intelligence warns that the casualty ratio, once heavily skewed against Russia, has leveled out. For a nation with a significantly smaller population, this parity is a slow-motion disaster.
Canada’s spy watchdog has become too antagonistic, experts warn
The federal watchdog responsible for keeping Canada’s spy services in check has grown so aggressive in its tactics that the agency is undermining the scrutiny role it was meant to strengthen, two national-security experts warn.
A study by Carleton University professor Stephanie Carvin and University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau, says the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency – established in 2019 to independently review Canada’s intelligence agencies − has adopted what the authors describe as a “lemon-sucker” posture. This is seen as an attitude that presumes the worst of the organizations it reviews and prioritizes conflict over constructive accountability.
Probably on Beijing’s order.
The IRGC thinks it’s having a good war. Why accept peace?
The operatives of Sepah, Iran’s state within a state, are many in number. They include the construction workers digging out underground missile bases, the skippers on speedboats harrying oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and the co-ordinators of militia activities in neighbouring Iraq. All of them will be reading the runes on how and when the war with America and Israel will end, as continued efforts by Pakistan to mediate a peace deal continue this weekend.
Sepah-e Pasdaran, usually translated as the Guards Corps, but habitually referred to by Iranians by that single word, grew from an army of the ultra-faithful during the bloody 1980s war with Iraq into an entity that controls up to one third of the economy and the military units used to crush dissent in the theocratic republic. However, its future power may depend on the degree to which sanctions on Iran are eased.
Man wanted after alleged assault at Vaughan synagogue
York Regional Police are investigating a suspected hate crime that took place in Vaughan on Saturday.
According to investigators, an unknown man attempted to force his way into a synagogue near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue just after 9:30 a.m.
Best-selling Chinese electric car records everywhere you’ve been
Electric cars made by a best-selling Chinese brand are recording drivers’ every journey and storing them forever, it has emerged.
Security researchers were able to extract the entire location history of a BYD Seal car sold in the UK, from its production in China to its eventual dismantling.
While the company said it was not transmitting location data overseas, experts said the ease with which location history could be obtained represented a security risk.
BYD is moving into the Canadian market.