Iran is attempting to “dig out” its bombed-out facilities during the ceasefire, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday morning.
The country is “digging out [its] remaining launchers and missiles,” he told reporters during a press briefing, adding that it does not have the “the ability to replenish [its] remaining launchers and missiles.”
Crescendo of tiny violins. https://t.co/fXVC1h6vMj
— davrola (@davrola) April 16, 2026
A 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel will begin at midnight Israel time, US President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social Post on Thursday.
Trump stated that the ceasefire was reached after separate conversations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
The federal Liberals now have their Parliamentary majority, completing the job with byelections but having had to set the stage with opposition MPs crossing the floor. How it happened becomes secondary to what they now do with it.
The composition of the House of Commons will always be fluid, just as righteous howls over floor crossing will always be with us.
Marilyn Gladu, MP for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, recently revised her opinion on the matter when crossing to join the Liberals. Yes, it’s a frustration for those in her riding who voted Conservative. Gladu’s socially conservative views have also prompted cynicism among some Liberals regarding Carney’s core values.
Donald Trump wants to make a “grand bargain” with Iran, JD Vance has claimed, with the US considering offering incentives in return for peace.
The US vice-president said the message given to Tehran was that it would thrive if it agreed to curb its nuclear programme, hinting that a string of financial rewards could be on the table.
“[Trump] doesn’t want to make a small deal. He wants to make the grand bargain,” Mr Vance told a Turning Point USA event in Georgia.
You can call it a majority by the letter of the law — but it’s actually an act of institutional arson.
Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, parachuted in to save Justin Trudeau’s sinking ship, just pulled off the ultimate boardroom maneuver. After Monday’s by-election victories in Toronto’s University-Rosedale, Scarborough Southwest, and Montreal’s Terrebonne, the Liberals have manufactured a majority government out of thin air.
Embattled former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax killed his wife and then shot himself inside their home early Thursday in the throes of a “messy divorce,” cops said.
The 47-year-old Democrat repeatedly shot his dentist wife, Cerina Fairfax, in the basement of their Annandale home just after midnight before turning the gun on himself, according to police.
The couple’s two teenage children were inside the home at the time of the murder-suicide. Their son was the one who called 911 to report the shootings, cops said.
h/t PA Cat
The three byelection wins by the Liberals on Monday night give the Carney government an unassailable majority. With 174 seats, they can pass any bill they like without having rely on the Speaker of the House of Commons to cast a deciding vote to break a tie.
Let’s put aside for a moment the fact that the Liberal majority was undemocratically obtained.
Iran secretly acquired a Chinese spy satellite that gave the Islamic republic a powerful new capability to target US military bases across the Middle East during the recent war, according to a Financial Times investigation.
Leaked Iranian military documents show the satellite, known as TEE-01B, was acquired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force in late 2024 after it was launched into space from China.
Time-stamped coordinate lists, satellite imagery and orbital analysis show that Iranian military commanders later tasked the satellite to monitor key US military sites. The images were taken in March before and after drone and missile strikes on those locations.
A few years ago, I was in New York with my 21-year-old daughter. We visited museums, ate at great restaurants, did some shopping. During our trip, she found a pair of sandals made of embroidered Chinese fabric and fell in love with them.
But that summer, I noticed she never wore them. When I asked why, she said: “I just feel like there’s a chance I’ll offend someone.”
A controversial American YouTuber was sentenced to six months in a South Korean labor prison after he obscenely disrespected a monument honoring wartime sex slaves.
Johnny Somali, whose real name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael, was found guilty of multiple charges, including obstruction of business and distributing fabricated sexually explicit content, by the Seoul Western District Court on Wednesday.
In October 2024, Somali, 25, caused outrage when he uploaded a video of himself kissing and performing a lap dance on the Statue of Peace. The Seoul monument pays homage to the women sexually abused and trafficked during wartime.
h/t Patti Jo
The Canadian economy is losing businesses faster than it can create new ones, and it is time for federal and provincial governments to act to reverse this trend, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
A new report by the organization, calls it an “entrepreneurial drought,” which it defines as a year or more in which “business entry rates are strictly lower than business exit rates.”
It says the drought has been ongoing since 2024, making it the worst period for entrepreneurs outside of the pandemic.
A new German online search engine is helping people to discover if their ancestors were members of the Nazi Party.
Christian Rainer, from Austria, told the BBC he found the name of his grandfather “within a few seconds”.
“I found out that he became a member of the Nazi Party around 21st of April 1938, just a few days after the Anschluss,” when Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Germany, he said.
This World Cup soccer ball is hitting Canadian fans right in their pocketbook.
Canadian taxpayers have already paid $380 million out of their pockets for these World Cup soccer games, and now there’s a proposal to charge kids $10 to join the excitement from under the Gardiner Expressway.
Huh ? pic.twitter.com/5WO5aDlEuF
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 15, 2026
A beautiful game ruined by grifters.
An Ontario judge has launched a remarkable attack on the Canadian judiciary, arguing that the justice system is “at an inflexion point” and must decide whether to prioritize the needs of vulnerable Canadians or criminals who have abused them.
Justice Antonio Skarica’s broadside on his fellow judges came as he sentenced a Nigerian university student who extorted a Canadian woman and left her in “constant fear” by sharing her intimate image. He sentenced Boss Omeire to 28 months in prison in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice.
Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are cutting Donald Trump out of plans to patrol the Strait of Hormuz once the war against Iran is over.
The two leaders are piecing together a coalition of mostly European countries in a similar alliance to the French and British-led “coalition of the willing” nations working on Ukraine.
The idea is to send mine-sweeping and other vessels to clear the shipping lane and give companies the confidence to use the strait once the fighting is finished.
But the plan risks angering the mercurial Mr Trump, who has repeatedly castigated his Nato allies for failing to join his war and threatened to reconsider membership of the alliance.
European leaders have insisted this is not their war and ignored US calls to send warships to the strait.
