OTTAWA — Ontario Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu’s floor crossing gives the Liberals a virtual lock on a majority, and one that would allow them to do far more than simply survive confidence votes — because not all majorities are created equal.
Two of the three April 13 contests — in the Toronto ridings of University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest — are widely considered safe Liberal seats, while the Montreal riding of Terrebonne is expected to be more competitive.
Donald Trump has demanded that Nato allies send warships to the Strait of Hormuz in a matter of days, as he criticised the alliance for its inaction on Iran.
The fragile ceasefire between the US and the Islamic Republic appeared to hold on Thursday, while Israel said it would engage in peace negotiations with Lebanon after waves of air strikes killed hundreds of people.
After a meeting with Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, Mr Trump issued a deadline to European capitals to pledge military support for reopening the key trade route within days.
The US president said Nato had been “very disappointing” and only acted when pressure was applied.
The ultimatum risks driving another wedge between the Trump administration and Nato’s European members, who refused to directly take part in the president’s war on Iran.
The US Supreme Court is diving into the heated debate over ‘birthright’ citizenship, and it’s time Canada had the same conversation.
Birthright citizenship is pretty straightforward — if you’re born here, you’re a citizen, no questions asked. It’s what lawyers call jus soli, or “right of soil.”
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— cuteness overload (@cutecattoX) April 8, 2026
Tiger Woods just showed up at the Masters.
AI is hilarious 😂 pic.twitter.com/d8Ff3USqBN
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) April 9, 2026
The two-faced hypocrisy MP Marilyn Gladu demonstrated on Wednesday, in abandoning the Conservatives for the Liberals, is shocking even when considering the ever-malleable “political principles” of floor-crossers in general.
On Jan. 11, the then-Conservative MP for Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong since 2015 told her local Petrolia Lambton Independent newspaper she supported an automatic byelection for any MP defecting to another party.
A grumpy veto president is exactly what Trump haters should most fear.
The 1949 NATO treaty was ratified by the Senate. The agreement is that an attack on one member is an attack on all of them. NATO members are required to participate in mutual defense efforts.
Since U.S. NATO membership arises from a Senate ratified treaty, the Senate would have to approve withdrawal from NATO; however, there are enough Senate Democrats and RINO Republicans to block NATO exit.
WASHINGTON — Today two of the most powerful committees in Washington have jointly demanded that the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department take immediate enforcement action against Chinese Communist Party-linked organizations operating inside America’s tax-exempt sector — citing, among other evidence, the same New York diaspora networks that featured prominently in the high-profile foreign influence prosecution of former New York State government aide Linda Sun, and in investigative reporting by The Bureau and the New York Times into Chinese consulate influence over New York City elections.
The jihad terrorist Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its partner in crime, the “moderate” Palestinian Authority (PA), have just been hit in their pocketbooks.
The PLO is itself a terror group. The PA is a supporter of terrorism through its “Pay-For-Slay” program, that provides generous stipends to imprisoned terrorists, and to the families of terrorists who died while committing their attacks. In a suit brought by the families of Americans killed or injured in these terror attacks, a jury decided that the PLO and the PA were liable under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
OTTAWA — Ethics screens are little more than loopholes for politicians to cover themselves while sidestepping ethical compliance, an ethics watchdog said Wednesday.
One day after federal Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he officially recused himself from discussions involving the Alto high speed rail project, Democracy Watch Founder Duff Conacher said “ethics screens” like the one minister created for himself are little more than “secretive smokescreens” that don’t prevent cabinet ministers from ethically-questionable situations.
SHERIDAN Gorman’s face has haunted me ever since I first saw it online. It’s a rather nice face, actually quite a lovely face, the face of a vivacious young woman on the cusp of adult life and independence. It’s the face of a young woman other young women would like to befriend, and that teachers would be happy to have in their classes. I suspect it’s also the face of someone who had much to give, was a benefit and a blessing to all who knew her, and someone who went out of her way to serve others and put them at their ease, able to elevate the collective mood of any room she entered.
Nestled below street-level and hidden behind a dense wall of emerald shrubbery, Michelangelo Playground feels like a small miracle. Standing in the San Francisco park on a good day, when the weather is just right, you can see wild parrots visit from Telegraph Hill and lemons that hang like jewels from trees – even hear the sound of sea lions barking from down by the marina.
It’s quarter past 11 on a Sunday morning, and the park is eerily empty. It’s that time of the weekend when kids have been cooped up for too long, and parents are desperate to get them outside, to do something, anything. Yet, all four of the slides on this morning sit unused. The tire swing hangs perfectly still. There are no children shouting or shrieking or singing nonsense, no thumping of a basketball against the lifeless court. There’s only silence.
It’s a beautiful day in a beautiful playground. But where are all the children?
As we know in Canada importing the 3rd World is not a solution to demographic decline just a worse problem.
Trans darts star breaks down in tears and claims she has been ‘retired’ as transgender players are BANNED from women’s events in major rule change
😢 A tearful Noa-Lynn Van Leuven has announced her "retirement" after revealing a DRA ruling banning transgender players from women's darts events.
"I just got an email, apparently I just got retired. Not by choice but because I am longer allowed to compete, the DRA decided that… pic.twitter.com/rGwzjuYge4
— Tungsten Tales Darts (@Tungsten_Tales) April 9, 2026
Housed in the Women’s General Forensic Unit of Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is a male inpatient, detained there for committing violent acts. This individual identifies as transgender and is receiving hormone treatments, but their identity is a mystery.
It seems that it’s not just prisons that are struggling with preserving female spaces — it’s also the psych wards.
Had you been engaged in the gender-identity debate back in 2018, you might recall a case out of Canada, where a man named Jonathan / Jessica Yaniv contacted a number of Vancouver-based beauticians to request a ‘Brazilian bikini wax’.
