Trump’s critics cry “war crimes” while ignoring decades of U.S. precedent—revealing less a legal argument than a reflexive, and deeply selective, political outrage.
The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet.
He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
A former international student in Canada has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge Wednesday, telling the court it was a “morally reprehensible idea” to support the Islamic State group by plotting to use automatic weapons to kill Jewish people at a Brooklyn centre.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 21, said he answered the group’s call for Muslims to kill Jewish people by plotting to attack the Jewish centre in October 2024.
Oh but he’s reformed!
You can’t screen because all Muslims believe in Jihad so ban them all.
This Green Party candidate in Scotland wants to abolish prisons. She notes that they are not safe, they are violent. Better to let people out of there. pic.twitter.com/izILNw8dx5
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 9, 2026
At a CUNY-hosted conference, apologists for Cuba’s Communist regime planned street protests and discussed strategies for bypassing U.S. sanctions.
On March 14 and 15, the City University of New York hosted a U.S.–Cuba normalization conference titled “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” At the gathering, activists praised Iranian drones, touted Cuba’s intelligence apparatus, and outlined an “action plan” centered on sustained street protests.
I just think women of a certain age shouldn’t wear pigtails. pic.twitter.com/alSoK4Uck7
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 9, 2026
“The whole point of being an MP is to represent your constituents,” a Conservative MP told a local Ontario newspaper back in January, when she backed a call for automatic by-elections following an MP’s defection.
“So if they’re voting you in under one platform,” she continued, “for you to switch for whatever reasons, just seems to me to not be representing what you’re supposed to be there to represent.”
She wants in on that $300,000 in flight catering the Liberals offer. Have you tried the Filet Mignon? pic.twitter.com/FwJsKKBcCo
— JohnnyD (@John0Vision) April 8, 2026
During World War II, my father served in the South Pacific. Whom did he think he was fighting? I know from reviewing his letters back home that it wasn’t “the Imperial Japanese government.” He was fighting “the Japs.”
GIs deployed to Europe, I’m willing to bet, didn’t identify their enemy as the Wehrmacht or even the Nazis. They were at war with the Germans — or the Jerries, or the Huns, or Fritz.
That instinct, to name the enemy as a whole people, is understandable in wartime. It’s also often wrong. If we get it wrong, then it’s to our detriment.
About 170,000 Canadian children had a parent in jail over a six-year span, a new study shows.
The estimate comes from a first-of-its-kind study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One. It tracked data from five provinces between 2015 and 2021, and found that thousands of children experienced a parent going to jail — some more than once. Until now, available data didn’t capture how many children were affected by having a jailed parent or how it shapes their lives, a gap researchers say has made it difficult to design effective supports and services.
Of course the parents who aren’t in jail will have to pony up for this latest crusade to “fix” the unfixable.
An April 5 speech by Hamas military spokesman Abu Obaida leaves no doubt: Hamas remains fully committed to jihad (holy war) and rejects disarmament.
Meanwhile, US President Donald J. Trump’s “Board of Peace,” an initiative to stabilize and rebuild the Gaza Strip, seems to be increasing pressure on Hamas. According to a report published in The New York Times, the board has set a deadline for the terror group to agree to a disarmament framework in the Gaza Strip by the end of the coming week.
With one warm floor-crossing welcome, Prime Minister Mark Carney challenged Wednesday what it means to be a Liberal, gave his primary opponent a big wake-up call, and planted the seeds for simmering caucus discontent.
A day before Liberals gather in Montreal for their biennial convention — Carney’s first as leader — the prime minister embraced four-term Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu to the Grits’ caucus. “I couldn’t be happier,” he said, as he shook Gladu’s hand and lauded her “tremendous” international business experience, her decade in Parliament, dedication to her constituents, and well-known reputation as one of the most collaborative MPs on the hill.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt faced a mostly liberal, elite media press corps Wednesday afternoon that had a Costco-sized carton of eggs on their face from President Trump’s Truth Social post the night prior unveiling a preliminary peace deal with Iran following declarations “a whole civilization will die,” so it was no surprise some arrived with adversarial question.
This included two questioning whether the U.S. has lost the “moral high ground” in the world and against Iran, which has killed tens of thousands of protesters in the last year, criminalizes homosexuality, oppresses women, and has one of the worst records for press freedom.
Deputy minister of national defence Christiane Fox broke conflict of interest rules by hiring an old acquaintance when she was the deputy immigration minister, the federal ethics watchdog has found.
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein published an investigation on Wednesday finding that Fox improperly influenced her department to hire Björn Charles in March 2023.
The report said that officials “felt pressured to hire him” at “a management level for which departmental officials had advised he was not qualified.”
First Lady Melania Trump is pushing back on claims she was linked to the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a surprise address at the White House.
‘I am not Epstein’s victim,’ she stated during the address on Thursday afternoon. ‘Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband by chance at a New York City party in 1998.’
Trump and Melania met that year at the Kit Kat Klub in New York when the former supermodel was 28 years old. Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agency boss who is serving as Trump’s special envoy for global partnerships, claims he introduced the couple. They later married in 2005.
JUST IN: First Lady Melania Trump calls on Congress to act regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
The comment came after the first lady ripped those, including Democrat strategist James Carville, for spreading “baseless lies” about her.
“My attorneys and I have fought these unfounded and… pic.twitter.com/j3JKRNLCdH
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 9, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
More than 84,300 houses across Ontario — around the number you’d find in a mid-sized city like Markham — were owned as investments by businesses or for-profit government entities such as public-sector pension funds in 2023, according to data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program.
This data, released in recent months, offers a glimpse at where, and how acutely, businesses of all types have invested in Canadian single-family housing stock.
A few weeks back, the Financial Times declared that Britain is no longer a global power.
It’s hard to dispute that statement. In fact, the FT was only saying aloud what everybody around the world has been thinking for quite a while.
