The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a challenge against the Liberal government’s ban on around 2,500 types of what it calls “assault-style” firearms.
On March 19, the top court granted leave to hear an appeal challenging the federal ban on firearms that Ottawa classifies as suitable only for military use, rather than for hunting or sport shooting.
Monica Witt was a decorated US veteran with access to top secret information. Now she could do ‘damage to the US’, experts and former classmates tell The Times
Monica Witt was 34 and a former counterintelligence officer for the US air force when her Iranian visa finally came through. She celebrated the moment that had been months in the making.
“I’m signing off and heading out! Coming home,” the Texan wrote in a message to her handler in Tehran on August 28, 2013, alongside a smiley face emoji.
Witt had been groomed, recruited and finally turned into a spy by agents linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The way this Border Collie and Aussie both let each other know they are not a threat. pic.twitter.com/aNs6hjsw4w
— Wholesome Side of (@itsme_urstruly) March 16, 2026
The surreal case of an Albanian criminal who tried to dodge removal from the UK in part by claiming his son disliked foreign chicken nuggets—yes, really—reached its inevitable conclusion this week, when he won the right to stay in Britain.
Klevis Disha entered the country illegally under a false name, lied in his asylum claim, and was later jailed for two years after being caught with £250,000, known to be proceeds of crime.
Amazing. Why didn't I learn about him in school? @fancypants_s https://t.co/0uxZtSMYbI
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 19, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
The Liberal government leaned further into its emerging leadership role among the world’s middle powers, with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand telling a London audience that now is the country’s time to lead internationally.
Making the keynote address at the 2026 Chatham House Global Trade Conference on Thursday, Anand said that a country’s greatness stems not just from its domestic successes, but in providing leadership that benefits the world.
YOO-HOOOOOOO! 👇👀@fancypants_s https://t.co/zTb637VHl7
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 19, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
The U.S. and its allies have intensified the battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, sending low-flying attack jets over the sea lanes to blast Iranian naval vessels and Apache helicopters to shoot down Iran’s deadly drones, American military officials said.
The stepped-up operation is part of a multistage Pentagon plan to reduce the danger from Iranian armed boats, mines and cruise missiles, which have halted ship traffic through the waterway since early March. If the danger can be reduced, the U.S. could send U.S. warships through the strait and eventually escort vessels in and out of the Persian Gulf.
U.S. forces are destroying Iranian naval targets that threaten international shipping in and near the Strait of Hormuz. pic.twitter.com/qR6FJyI5ZS
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 19, 2026
Can’t wait for these useless dregs to get replaced by robots. pic.twitter.com/LXsWI2T8LR
— ɐ͎ʞ͎ć͎ı͎ɹ͎ɐ͎ɯ͎ (@leamaric) March 19, 2026
A year after protective hoarding was removed from the Ontario legislature’s statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, all monuments on the grounds are going under wraps to protect them from damage.
The move comes as MPPs return to Queen’s Park Monday for their spring session in the wake of a heated protest March 4 against Premier Doug Ford’s student financial aid cuts that saw a monument to Sir George Brown marred with graffiti.
OFFS. 🫸😞🫷@fancypants_s https://t.co/Yp84zcul64
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 19, 2026
H/T Auntie Polly
A Canadian study casts further doubt on a key plank of the harm-reduction agenda.
Supervised consumption sites (SCSs), which offer drug users a place to get high under the observation of staff, have become a popular proposed solution to the North American overdose epidemic. But a recently released Canadian study shows that, contrary to the claims of harm reduction activists, these sites do not save lives. American policymakers should take heed and avoid replicating their northern neighbors’ failed experiments.
I’M NOT sure that this is a good use of the Government’s time, what with the war and everything, but now it has made sure that our overseas territories are either unprotected or given away, and that we remain the most unreliable actor on the international stage, it has got back to doing the thing that it does best: interfering where it’s not wanted. This time by inventing concepts.
Under the impression that it has a mandate to run the English language along with the country, the regime has refreshed its approach to policing what we can say (and therefore think) by creating a definition of ‘Islamophobia’, a word which most of us thought was (at best) a neologism anyway.
