Six years ago, after Gabriel Wortman of Nova Scotia committed the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history, the Trudeau government banned more than 2,500 models of firearms because they looked scary. Even though other models of the same firearms had the same firepower, those versions were not banned because they lacked the militarist features that made the others look like “assault-style” weapon.
I BET the Iranians, both prior to the mad mullahs’ revolution of 1979 and since, never thought they would ever have a Persian king called Charles.
The current kerfuffle in the Mother Country over the woke King’s parking of Christianity and its replacement as the UK’s official religion/ideology by Islam has exercised quite a few minds, not least Gavin Ashenden’s.
OTTAWA — In this discussion with Jason James, I break down the stunning rise of Liberal floor-crosser Michael Ma — a story The Bureau has led Canadian media on with at least 10 investigative reports since mid-December 2025, culminating in our coverage of his suspicious cross-examination of expert Margaret McCuaig-Johnston.
This is a wide-ranging conversation.
Israeli police protecting a cardinal vs. Islamic terrorists killing Christians. Who does the West villify? It’s the same perverse logic that turned Gaza into a global obsession while ignoring Chinese camps for Uyghurs, church burnings in India, beheadings in Somalia and Iran massacring protestors.
“If we do not wake up, Islam will impose its law and culture on us,” Cardinal Robert Sarah said on Le Figaro TV, appearing to be the last prelate in the Vatican still willing to speak uncomfortable truths.
But I fear Sarah is wrong. Judging by what happened last week, it’s not that we won’t wake up-it’s that the loudest part of us has already chosen to sleep deeply.
The death toll of Christians massacred on Palm Sunday in Nigeria rises to 53: just background noise in the global media chaos.
When news broke that the Donald Trump administration and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire, markets reacted instantly. Oil prices plunged within minutes, wiping out days of gains and triggering a wave of optimism. For many consumers, the assumption seemed obvious: lower oil prices should mean lower food prices.
That assumption is fundamentally flawed.
Imagine calling for the destruction of a civilisation. Imagine dreaming about violently scrubbing an ancient nation from the face of the Earth. Imagine flirting with the idea of obliterating a land with thousands of years of rich history. I am referring, of course, to the activist class and its annihilationist hatred for the Jewish State. For nearly three years, these people have beat the streets and swarmed the digital networks to agitate for the erasure of Israel, all the way ‘from the river to the sea’. President Trump’s juvenile bluster on Iran has nothing on their existential loathing for the Jewish homeland.
Let’s just do the right thing by Heritage Canada and rename it for what it is, the Canadian Ministry of Propaganda. Or if you want to follow the official style sheet, Propaganda Canada.
Top of mind today is a draft rewrite of Canada’s Citizenship Guide, Discover Canada. This is the book they give prospective immigrants, an explanation of how the Government of Canada sees itself, the country, and the people living in it. The present one was published in 2012 during the Stephen Harper ministry, when Heritage Canada was known as Canada Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism.
A North Carolina homeless man accused of murdering Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in a brutal on-camera attack has been found ‘incapable to proceed’ to trial, his attorneys claim.
Attorneys for DeCarlos Brown Jr, 35, said in court filings Tuesday that his trial on state murder charges should be called off following an evaluation by a psychiatrist.
Under North Carolina state law, a defendant is only incapable to proceed to trial if they cannot understand the nature of their charges, cannot comprehend their role in court proceedings and cannot help their own defense.
The news that Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu is crossing the floor to join the Liberal caucus, effectively guaranteeing Prime Minister Mark Carney a parliamentary majority, has not been hailed universally by her constituents.
“She thinks she knows better than her voters?” said one resident of Sarnia–Lambton–Bkejwanong on social media. “What is the flipping point? You wonder why people get radicalized? This is why people get radicalized.”
The Liberal party may yet lose byelections in Toronto’s University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest next week, but the odds are about as likely as Canada or Scotland winning this summer’s World Cup (about 150 to 1). The third byelection in Terrebonne in Quebec will be closer, but with Gladu’s road-to-Damascus conversion, it has become less crucial to the Liberals.
A video allegedly taken by the twisted firebug who started the massive warehouse blaze in Ontario shows him lighting the blaze while apparently criticizing his employer.
Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, of Highland, has been arrested on two felony arson charges for torching the warehouse operated by consumer goods company Kimberly-Clark in San Bernardino County.
A video posted by an Instagram account bearing Abdulkarim’s name shows him lighting a goods on fire in the warehouse while taking aim at his company.
NEW: Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot warehouse in Ontario, California.
29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim was arrested on arson charges for setting a Kimberly-Clark warehouse on fire.
Abdulkarim apparently filmed himself on Instagram setting… pic.twitter.com/VSpZKh3CgF
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 8, 2026
This has the potential to grow into something bigger than Mangione.
Nobody’s separating. Yet what’s happening in the suburban riding of Terrebonne on Monday may tell us something just as consequential about the country.
Three federal by-elections are being held that day. Two are in safe Liberal ridings in Toronto vacated by former ministers Chrystia Freeland and Bill Blair. The third is in Terrebonne. The largely francophone community northeast of Montreal is where Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste defeated the Bloc Québécois’s Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by a single vote in last year’s general election. That result was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court over irregularities with mail-in ballot envelopes.
He’s building it by defection.
As an American living in Europe, I am frequently asked if my compatriots understand the extent of the damage being done to all facets of transatlantic relations by the Trump administration’s bullying policies. My answer is, sadly, no.
More and more Europeans no longer view the United States as a reliable ally. The reasons are not hard to find. The president has threatened to leave NATO, sidelined allies in negotiations over Ukraine’s future, imposed steep tariffs on the European Union and threatened to seize Greenland by force — prompting Europeans to prepare for the real prospect of military conflict with their oldest ally. One recent survey found that one-quarter or more of respondents in some countries — including France, Germany and Spain — see the United States as a rival or adversary. Another found that an absolute majority view Trump as an “enemy” of Europe and U.S. foreign policy as “recolonization.” Polls also reflect a growing belief that China is a more dependable partner.
As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world’s bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.
China Labor Watch (CLW) received a complaint last fall from one of the thousands of migrant workers brought to Hungary from China to help build BYD’s first European plant in the city of Szeged — a $6-billion investment intended to supply the European market with around 300,000 vehicles per year.
NEW: Zohran Mamdani vows to push a race-based "equity" plan on New Yorkers because he claims White families are making more money compared to Black families.
Sounds like race-based discrimination to me. pic.twitter.com/gSDh7rtnQ1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 8, 2026
As Patti Jo notes isn’t that just like Sharia law’s Jizya tax on infidels?
Until the U.K.’s political and cultural elite can defend confidently what it means to be British, the nation will sacrifice women’s safety, Jewish security, and core liberal principles such as free speech.
In Britain, March meant Ramadan. My local supermarket advised me to “Make this holy month meaningful” and offered “everything you need for Iftar, Suhoor, and beyond,” including a range of halal foods. At televised Premiership football matches, play stopped to allow Muslim players to break their fast. Days before Eid, Muslims gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to pray in public. The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, hailed the “power of being Muslim” as he addressed thousands at the “biggest Iftar in the Western world.”
