Canada’s Immigration Department is sending tens of thousands of refugee claimants letters that they may not be eligible for asylum — and is telling some of them that they should leave immediately.
The move comes after Ottawa passed a law last month that tightened how and when claimants can apply.
“These are not deportation letters,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) told CBC News in a statement confirming that the letters have started going out to some 30,000 applicants.
More than 7,000 banned guns have been declared in Alberta under the federal government’s gun buyback program, but owners in the province can’t collect compensation because of an ongoing dispute between Alberta and Ottawa over how the program is meant to operate.
That’s left firearms owners like James Bachynsky, president of the Calgary Shooting Centre, frustrated and out of pocket.
“It’ll impact me personally; it’ll impact my business partners, my family,” he said.
As a professor at Georgetown University and Washington Post columnist, Shadi Hamid is a made guy in today’s leftist establishment, and it is from those positions of oracular authority that he has delivered a sobering message to the growing movement to ban Sharia in the United States. In the WaPo on Wednesday, he declared that Muslims should not have to assimilate into American society and should not be expected to do so, and that efforts to ban Sharia were not only bigoted and “Islamophobic,” but also futile, as Muslims simply weren’t going to give Sharia up. And he’s right about that part, albeit in the midst of being wildly disingenuous about the nature of Sharia itself.
OTTAWA — In policing — particularly in national security and organized crime — we are trained to recognize a simple truth: the most serious threats rarely arrive with warning. They emerge gradually, through relationships, dependencies, and decisions that appear rational in isolation but carry strategic consequences in aggregate.
What concerns me today is not a single incident or headline. It is a pattern.
A series of prosecutions and a landmark trial signal a shift toward treating Antifa as a terrorist threat, testing whether the rule of law can restrain political violence.
Donald Trump is not our Caesar. Yet could he be our Sulla? Given the American Right’s inability (or refusal) to build a mass movement capable of matching the Left when it comes to protests, fundraising, campaigns, and political organization, state action from the top is the last card to play. Recently, the Trump administration won a major legal victory that could provide a way forward if we are serious about ending the seditionist groups that have plagued nationalists for so many decades. More importantly, another case could end the threat altogether.
It’s tragic and pathetic that the Trump administration has received so much criticism for “doing nothing,” given what the online Right has done in the months since Charlie Kirk’s murder.
OTTAWA – An internal Canadian Security Intelligence Service memo says allowing the spy agency to collect foreign intelligence overseas would capitalize on its “existing footprint and expertise,” but might also invite a host of problems.
The memo says giving CSIS the capabilities of a foreign human intelligence service — like the American CIA or Britain’s MI6 — could create governance, accountability and privacy concerns about what constitutes a threat, and about the prospect of targeting Canadians.
At around 2 a.m. on the last day of Passover in Israel, weary Israelis once again hauled themselves from their beds into air-raid shelters and safe rooms as the sirens started to wail.
Iran had fired yet more barrages of missiles at Israel and the Gulf states. That was its reaction to the announcement that had just been made by U.S. President Donald Trump that Tehran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire. The regime’s response was immediately to break it.
The Western Standard is preparing to defend itself before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after multiple complaints were filed by transgender activist and repeat litigant Jessica Simpson, formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv, alleging discrimination in a series of published articles, commentary, and media posts.
(Incognito)
Rival Turkish barber shop workers who swung scissors and spanners in huge ‘turf war’ brawl over plans to open up new shop in the town are spared jail
Rival Turkish barber shop workers who swung scissors and spanners at each other in a huge ‘turf war’ brawl on a busy high street in Wales have been spared jail.
Witnesses described a ‘very violent gang fight’ after workers from the Kurds Barbers in Newbridge, Caerphilly, travelled to nearby Blackwood to confront workers at the town’s Marmaris Turkish barbers on February 13.
Marmaris barber Omed Pirot, 31, was planning to open another shop in Newbridge which was ‘not well received’ by staff at Kurds.
It’s like déjà vu all over again.
Yet another Conservative MP, uncomfortable with the direction of the party or doubtful about its electoral prospects, has decamped to the Liberals. The fourth floor crossing from the CPC in six months — with more MPs reportedly considering the move.
Although the first three departures smacked of opportunism with a side of dissatisfaction at the culture of the party under Pierre Poilievre, the most recent defection speaks to a more concerning issue: the abandonment not only of the leader, but of conservative ideology itself.
Nine months and six days before a Tomahawk missile tore through the gaily decorated classrooms of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, ripping apart the bodies of schoolchildren, teachers, and parents, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal pastor delivered a sermon at the Pentagon.
“There’s a temptation to think that you’re actually in control and responsible for final outcomes, especially for those who issue the commands and do the aiming and the shooting,” preached Brooks Potteiger, Hegseth’s closest spiritual adviser, at the first of what have become monthly Christian worship services at the Department of Defense. “But you are not ultimately in charge of the world.”
Citing a verse from Matthew 10, Potteiger told the gathered leaders of the US military: “If our Lord is sovereign even over the sparrow’s fallings, you can be assured that he is sovereign over everything else that falls in this world, including Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles …
“Jesus has the final say over all of it.”
All I got to say is thank goodness Iran is a secular state able to curtail an expansionist US Christian Nationalism!
Gilead is real!
A tenured professor at the University of Winnipeg, who has become the focus of a dispute over course material that draws connections between race, IQ scores, and the likelihood of committing murder, insists his claims are factual and shielded by academic freedom.
According to a Manitoba Labour Board decision document from October 2024, a student lodged a complaint against the professor, who teaches in the university’s psychology department, over claims made during class.
The complaint alleges that the professor “has explicitly said that Black individuals’ IQ scores may be lower because of genetics,” adding that he has also “presented data showing that Black people are 4.5x more likely to commit murder than White people.”
“Academic freedom” only applies when White people are villainized.
Grab some popcorn there’s going to be a witch burning!
Here’s why we no longer talk honestly about police race-based data h/t NeoCon
Drew Thomas Allen’s Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup: The Declassified Story of the Trump–Russia Delusion is the book that previous authors on the scandal could only dream of writing. Published in 2026, it arrives with the full weight of Tulsi Gabbard’s declassifications as Director of National Intelligence, the Durham report, the Horowitz IG findings, and—most crucially—the long-buried Russian intelligence memos that the FBI received as early as January 2016 but chose to sideline.
While earlier works like Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax, Andrew McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion, and Lee Smith’s The Plot Against the President laid important groundwork, they were constrained by classified material. Allen’s book removes those constraints and delivers the complete, unvarnished picture.
What started out as a small scrape is turning into a long bleed. On Wednesday, 11-year Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu left caucus and joined the Liberals after denouncing floor crossers. You can actually make it make sense if you really squint, but for Pierre Poilievre, that doesn’t help much.
Gladu should repulse the Liberals: she’s dined with Freedom Convoyers; stood up for an alleged constituent whose bank account was frozen for buying a convoy T-shirt; spoken at the National March for Life; praised Donald Trump before he was president.
She’s quite passionate about her belief that slaves suffered more than Jesus. pic.twitter.com/vIIznzFwy9
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 9, 2026
