Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.
Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.
WTF?
For everyone but Canadian students. 😡 https://t.co/PS4Rxi0fzN pic.twitter.com/OJ4xTGzawz
— wastedcanadian (@melissacare01) March 25, 2026
The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered a couple thousand paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump weighs a significant escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and declines to rule out putting U.S. troops on Iranian soil.
U.S. officials approved written orders for soldiers from the division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and the 82nd’s headquarters at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, said two U.S. officials and a third person familiar with the move, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Verbal orders previously had been approved, two people said. It is not yet clear whether they will deploy to Iran itself, officials said.
OTTAWA — Right before Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in public services, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood at a national prayer breakfast and declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.
Carney’s display of his Catholic faith Tuesday stood in stark contrast with a heated debate about the value of state secularism that played out an hour later at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Where Carney quoted from the Gospel of Matthew and from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to talk about the grace and generosity that politicians should channel, Quebec’s lawyers argued religious beliefs should not be on display by public officials, saying the state should be neutral, and public services delivered without signs of any religious belief.
Carney a Christian? Please.
Iran’s combative Parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, is emerging as an unlikely figure in Washington’s search for a deal to halt a widening Middle East war.
Ghalibaf, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air-force commander and Tehran mayor, has denied any talks with the U.S. are under way. He has taunted President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and called the U.S.-Israeli air war with Iran a quagmire. He served in the Revolutionary Guard during Iran’s brutal war with Iraq in the 1980s and is known as a hard-liner’s hard-liner.
What is reportedly in Trump’s 15-point peace plan?
And ... Iran completely rejects Trump’s 15-point cease-fire plan — and makes wild demands instead
The scale of growth of Canada’s assisted-dying industry has become an easy talking point for skeptics both in Canada and abroad. The New York Post, in typical tabloid fashion, announced that Canada will “soon cross the sickly six-figure threshold” of 100,000 deaths by medical assistance in dying (MAID), noting the figure will surpass the number of Canadian deaths during the Second World War. Conservative MPs cited that figure in social-media posts, adding that what was once pegged as a “last resort” has metamorphosed into an entirely different operation. During a press conference announcing new restrictions on MAID in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith noted the pace of growth in MAID deaths in cautionary terms (up 64 per cent nationally between 2021 and 2024), saying these trends “should give anyone pause.”
Two men have been arrested after an anti-Semitic firebomb attack in north London.
Four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity were set on fire outside a synagogue in Golders Green in the early hours of Monday.
Counter-terror police are leading an investigation into the arson amid fears it may have been orchestrated by Iran.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand delivered a clear message at the Chatham House Global Trade Conference in London last week: “This is (Canada’s) moment to lead.” The only question is: who exactly is following?
Anand’s speech was billed as a means to “underscore Canada’s trade diversification efforts to strengthen economic security and resilience.” But it more closely resembled a marketing campaign to hype the speech Prime Minister Mark Carney gave at the World Economic Forum in January.
A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed sympathetic on Tuesday to the idea that the Trump administration should be able to turn away asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
If the court backs the administration, it will allow President Trump to revive a policy first used in 2016, in which the government stopped asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil, where federal law would entitle them to try to claim asylum and receive protection from persecution.
Under federal law, any noncitizen who is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States” can apply for asylum. Migrants who announce their intention to do so are then referred for an interview to determine whether they have a credible fear of persecution.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree faced pointed questions Tuesday about why the federal government has deported one Iranian official, despite longstanding concerns about how the regime operates in Canada and abroad.
Finding himself in the hot seat before a parliamentary committee, Anandasangaree said Canada is “aggressively trying to remove” members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a branch of Iran’s military that Canada listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code in 2024 — but said due process has to be followed.
A former Boston community organizer and Black Lives Matter activist has been ordered by a federal judge to repay more than $224,000 after pleading guilty to charges related to misusing money donated to her now-defunct charity.
Monica Cannon-Grant, who gained notoriety during the widespread BLM protests in 2020, will pay a sum of $224,063 to the government, according to an order from District Court Judge Angel Kelley.
The forfeiture amount was calculated based on funds the 44-year-old admitted to fraudulently obtaining.
VANCOUVER — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a global network of 16 individuals and entities, including a company in Canada, accused of laundering and diverting more than $100 million to Hezbollah since 2020.
Iran launched a cruise missile attack on a US aircraft carrier despite Donald Trump’s claim that talks to end the conflict had begun.
The Iranian military claimed the strikes had forced the USS Abraham Lincoln to change its position in the Arabian Sea, and warned additional “powerful strikes” would follow once it entered range.
Earlier on Wednesday, a senior Iranian official confirmed that Iran had received a peace plan from the US via Pakistan.
The Trump administration is pushing for talks in Islamabad as early as Thursday, with JD Vance, the vice-president, set to lead negotiations.
More … Pakistan delivers US’s 15-point peace plan to Iran
Air Canada’s chief executive officer was summoned on Tuesday to explain himself before the Committee on Official Languages regarding his English-only message of condolence to the families of the pilots, including one from Quebec, who died on Sunday evening in the plane collision at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
The statement provoked the committee’s “strong indignation” and is “incompatible with the obligations set out in the Official Languages Act and the expectations of the Canadian public,” according to the motion tabled in the House and adopted almost immediately by a unanimous vote of MPs.
Get a life people!
h/t Mauser
The organisation that oversees girl guide groups in the UK has said transgender girls must leave the organisation by September.
It follows an announcement in December by Girlguiding that it would no longer accept biological boys who identify as girls from joining.
It said the action was being taken in response to the Supreme Court ruling in 2025 that said sex meant biological sex in equality law.
RCMP officers executed search warrants at the homes of former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek and current city councillor Andre Chabot, Global News has learned.
According to Gondek, who served as Calgary’s mayor for a single term between 2021 and 2025, officers executed a search warrant at her home and seized a cellphone.
h/t Mauser
