Ben Woodfinden: Canada has failed its younger generations, which no longer have the opportunity to live the life that their parents did
In the 2024 World Happiness Report, Canadians over 60 ranked eighth in the world. Canadians under 30 ranked 58th. Happiness is, of course, subjective and hard to measure, but the gap between a country that still works for one generation and has completely failed another points to a broken social contract.
The monkey who lost her babies…and the kitten that changed everything ♥️ pic.twitter.com/W7nHyz8dqo
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Donald Trump has said the US military has bombed a small island off the coast of Iran – home to a major oil terminal that is considered the country’s economic lifeline.
The US president said Kharg Island’s military facilities were “totally obliterated” but that it had held off targeting its oil infrastructure.
Trump, however, warned that he would reconsider the decision not to target oil facilities on the island should Iran or others “do anything to interfere” with the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz – one of the world’s most important shipping channels, located south of Iran’s coast.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Kharg Island sits just 15 miles off Iran’s coast, comfortably inside the range of Iranian missiles, drones, and coastal artillery.
So if the U.S. ever tried to land Marines there they’d be storming a beach while the mainland shoots at them the entire time.
Kharg handles… https://t.co/HreA4DtBBu pic.twitter.com/VK9WtCmIfK
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 14, 2026
Barbara Boyd gives her take on the Kharg Island action last night
President Trump is following the pattern/plan used in Venezuela
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CALGARY — While Statistics Canada released new data on Friday that Canada’s economy lost 83,900 jobs in February, Employment and Social Development Canada announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW), drawing consternation from many observers.
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Toronto police say a man has been charged following an investigation into a suspected hate-motivated criminal harassment case.
In a release, police say that between Feb. 28 and March 6, the accused engaged in harassing conduct targeting a complainant in the area of Eglinton Avenue East and Mount Pleasant Road.
News broke the other day that Winston Churchill’s image will be removed from the United Kingdom’s banknotes. (American Thinker’s Andrea Widburg did a splendid job covering that and all its implications here.)
Evidently flora and fauna are less “controversial” so we will see flowers and hedgehogs on their currency instead. That’ll work until the institutional left finds something objectionable about flowers and hedgehogs, but here we are.
Of course, any nation is free to redesign its currency at will, but this choice is consistent with the U.K.’s recent string of decisions to willingly, even lustily accelerate their own civilizational erasure.
Ontario’s transparency watchdog says the Ford government’s planned overhaul of freedom of information laws is a “shocking” proposal designed to hide the premier’s cellphone records from the public.
New policy announced by the government on Friday morning will retroactively block the release of communications from the premier, government ministers, parliamentary assistants or their staff through access to information requests.
THIS week, both the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary announced crackdowns on pro-Iran extremism.
The measures unveiled by Shabana Mahmood and Bridget Phillipson are fair but belated and disingenuous.
Iran fired missiles at a military base housing members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Carney government said nothing for almost two weeks.
When they finally did say something it was only because Montreal newspaper La Presse had reported on the matter.
This year’s Oscars feel oddly bloodless. Not because there are no good films in the race, but because the ceremony increasingly resembles a formality. As far as the acting awards go, Michael B Jordan looks like a well-deserved shoo-in for best actor, and Jessie Buckley seems nailed on for best actress. Even more contested categories like Best Picture feel like a foregone conclusion. We all suspect that One Battle After Another is going to sweep up the awards. There is no sense that there is a genuine competition going on here.
Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to enjoy an extended honeymoon with certain segments of the public with his popularity at near-record highs.
This, despite having made some glaringly rookie mistakes since taking office a year ago.
When news broke Thursday of the synagogue attack in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, the pattern felt grimly familiar: Another Jewish house of worship, another act of violence.
As I watched the media reports and anxiously waited for casualty numbers, it was clear that despite the different time and different place, the fundamentalist ideology that I grew up with in the Middle East has now taken hold in Middle America.
Antisemitism is rising across the West, with hatred that once lingered along the margins now appearing openly. Jewish communities feel its impact daily, from increased security at synagogues to harassment on college campuses and families hesitating to display their Jewish identity in public.
