Douglas Todd: Unsolved murder of Chinese spiritual group worker justifies ‘passionate’ scrutiny, B.C. judge rules

The unsolved murder of an employee of a giant spiritual health organization — which a Mountie ranked as one of the most “strange” cases he’s ever seen — is back in the spotlight after a B.C. judge ruled the matter of significant public interest.

The killing of Bo Fan, an employee of Create Abundance, has drawn international media attention over the past six years, including from Canadian news outlets, Le Monde in France, the South China Morning Post in East Asia, Newsweek in the U.S., and The Sunday Guardian in India.

Very weird.

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The Houthis Have Entered the Iran War – Here’s What That Could Mean

New Ballistic Missiles Displayed at the Houthi Military Parade

The war in Iran has taken another turn as Yemen’s Houthi rebels enter the conflict.

The Houthis fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at southern Israel on Saturday, opening up what could be a dangerous new front in a regional conflict that has already killed thousands and affected energy markets on a global scale.

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MORGAN: Dirty secret behind Canada’s high food prices — a Soviet-style cartel your politicians are too scared to touch

From RCMP raids on Alberta egg farmers to a billion gallons of dumped milk, Canada’s supply management system is robbing consumers in plain sight.

Imagine living under a system of market control so stringent that federal police will swarm your home and arrest you if you try to sell eggs from your own farm. You don’t have to imagine it in Canada. Southern Alberta chicken farmer Henk Van Essen had multiple RCMP cruisers descend upon his property last year, and he was jailed for the crime of selling eggs without a government-issued quota.

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AI: The Biggest Heist in World History

Davos, Big Tech, and the quiet looting of everyone’s intellectual property.

What do you get when you combine Big Tech, a Bill Clinton fixer, Davos, the architect of the Hunter Biden laptop disinfo, and “Artificial Intelligence”? The biggest heist in world history. A forced income transfer worth trillions of dollars, siphoned from the public, headed to a small sliver of the 1 percent.

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Conservatives put pressure on Carney to clarify his position on forced labour in China

The Conservatives have written to the Prime Minister to demand that he clarify his position on the forced labour of the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority in China after a Liberal MP was accused of attempting to cast doubt on the existence of the practice.

Michael Chong, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, wrote to Mark Carney Friday asking him if his assessment is “that Uyghur forced labour has and is being used” in China.

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More Man Than Ape

A recent book challenges humans’ common ancestry with primates.

Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature from apes and monkeys, the primates with which we share common ancestry. Chimpanzees, in particular, our closest living relatives, are likely to reflect many features of our early primate nature given that we and they shared a common ancestor who lived some 7 million years ago, not so long on evolution’s time scale.

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Jesse Kline: Tell me again why Air Canada must be officially bilingual

The horrific crash at New York’s LaGuardia airport last weekend, in which an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck on the runway, has been described by Canadian politicians as a “crisis” that’s completely “unacceptable.” Only they weren’t talking about who may be to blame for an accident that killed two pilots and injured 40 others. Oh, no. This is Canada, where a crash landing sparks a discussion not about aviation safety, but about language “rights.”


It’s silly to eliminate non-speakers of French from jobs in their own government.

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The War on Civilization: ‘Israel Cannot Outsource Its Survival’

A Conversation with Pierre Rehov

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.” — Zoheir Mohsen, late PLO senior official, Trouw, March 31, 1977.

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GUNTER: Feds’ attack on notwithstanding clause an attack on Canadian federation

It’s too bad federal government lawyers were at the Supreme Court this week arguing against Quebec’s use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause in conjunction with that province’s controversial 2019 law, Bill 21. Also known as the secularism law, Bill 21 forbids the wearing of religious symbols at work by any public servant including teachers, nurses, police officers, even clerks.

It’s a Carney power grab.

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More Craziness in Portland As Anti-ICE Mob Finds Out It’s Not a Good Idea to Break Open ICE Facility Gate

My colleague Bob Hoge wrote about some of the craziness at the Portland ICE facility in the wake of the No Kings protests Saturday night.

They were throwing projectiles at the federal agents, and one even tackled a federal officer in a wild brawl.

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Federal government pulls funding for Grassy Narrows fake grave search

Unless something changes, the former McIntosh Indian Residential School (IRS) will not be searched any further for unmarked graves.

Representatives from Grassy Narrows First Nation say they have been informed by federal officials that funding for searching for graves at the area IRS has not been approved ahead of the end of the current fiscal year, leaving those who were hopeful for the search with little to no recourse.

“This decision places at risk work that has already revealed more than a hundred unmarked burials at the site, with more graves expected to be found, and work that has provided former students, survivors, and families with critical information about children who never returned home,” the Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin Project said via media release following the decision.

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Republic of Somaliland Asks U.S. to Extradite Ilhan Omar There to Face Justice

After official confirmation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) did, in fact, commit immigration fraud, the Republic of Somaliland — which has good reason to be bitter at the crimes of Omar and her Somali family — offered to be the hammer of justice if the United States would extradite Omar there.

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Cost of living hitting food banks so hard in Carney’s Canada that visits are limited to once a month

Food banks across the country are being forced to scale back services at a time when Canadians need them the most, due to limited supplies.

In southern Saskatchewan, the Moose Jaw & District Food Bank plans to limit households to just one visit a month instead of the usual two, beginning April 1. They will also reduce the amount of food handed out to each visitor.

“Our resources aren’t keeping up with the demand,” said executive director Jason Moore in an interview with CTV Newsthis week.

h/t Patti Jo

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