Canadian diplomacy just did an about-face with India.
At the beginning of the week, Mark Carney signed off on “One Earth, One Family, One Future,” a partnership agreement with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Britain needs a tsar focused on Islamism, not Islamophobia
According to a leaked draft copy of the Government’s new social cohesion strategy titled “Protecting What Matters”, the UK is to have a new “special representative” on matters of “anti-Muslim hostility” – essentially, an Islamophobia tsar. But will it ultimately do more harm than good?
The document states that the new anti-Muslim hate tsar will have the central responsibility of “tackling hostility and hatred directed at Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim”. The so-called special representative in this area will be expected to “engage with communities and stakeholders”, supporting cross-sector action to “strengthen understanding, reporting and response”.
Debate over a foreign spy service for Canada influenced by allies, money: study
The decades-long debate over whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign spy agency has been coloured by pressure from allies, budgetary restraint and internal federal rivalries, a new study reveals
OTTAWA – The decades-long debate over whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign spy agency has been coloured by pressure from allies, budgetary restraint and internal federal rivalries, a new study reveals
Much of the discussion about Canada’s foreign intelligence aspirations has taken place — fittingly perhaps, given the subject matter — in classified memos and behind closed doors in the halls of government.
“To spy, or not to spy,” a new paper by researcher and former Canadian intelligence analyst Alan Barnes, draws on recently released archival records to trace the history of official thinking on the question from 1945 to 2007.
Women’s rights activists swear and jeer at protesters demonstrating against Iranian regime… which has brutally oppressed women for decades
This is the ironic moment women’s rights activists swore and jeered at demonstrators protesting the Iranian regime – a government notorious for decades of oppressing women.
Shocking footage from today’s central London protest shows a woman in Trafalgar Square shouting ‘f*** you’ at anti-Iranian regime protesters and flashing her middle finger while holding a sign that read ‘Women Against the Far-Right.’
Further clips show other activists raising placards and jeering at the demonstrators, with one woman giving a thumbs down while holding a sign that ironically read, ‘Tear Down the Sexist System.’
Jonathan Milevsky: My synagogue was hit with a spray of bullets
It happened. Shots were fired Friday night at my synagogue, Shaarei Shomayim. To be honest, I have been expecting this. It is not as if this area, like every other Jewish neighbourhood, has not had an increased police presence for over two years. Indeed, I wonder if the increased presence of security personnel may have made this neighbourhood seem like more of a target.
A Pair of Terrorists Targeted an Anti-Islam Protest. You Won’t Believe How the Media Spun it.
A pair of apparent Islamic terrorists shouted “Allahu Akbar” after they lit and threw devices clad in black tape toward a group of Christians staging an anti-Islam protest outside of Muslim race-communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mansion.
More … Devices hurled at Gracie Mansion protest determined to be highly dangerous IED capable of ‘serious injury or death’: NYPD
@fancypants_s https://t.co/jwpMshimmX
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 8, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Complaints over ‘Made in Canada’ labels spike after U.S. tariff threats
Complaints about misleading “Made in Canada” claims on food products have skyrocketed since the United States signaled tariffs on Canadian goods, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Inspectors say the surge reflects growing consumer awareness of country-of-origin labeling.
From Bush Sr to Trump: the risks, lessons and legacy of US interference in the Middle East
This is the third Gulf war and umpteenth outbreak of conflict since the United States took over as the dominant power and influence in the Middle East at the end of the cold war. And it is arguably the most dangerous, consequential and confused of them all.
The destruction and chaos spreading across the region confirms the Middle East’s status as the world’s pre-eminent crisis factory, but it also raises questions as to how US presidents so often declare they are ending US interference in the region, only to be lured back in.
Since the second world war the US has set out to oust a government in the Middle East on average once a decade, and on almost every occasion it has left the country, and the US, worse off as unexpected consequences eventually emerge. As Donald Trump embarks on yet another regime change – this time in Iran, a country of 90 million people – the sense of foreboding is profound. Already the timelines are extending, and the sense is growing by the day that Trump is gambling with the fate of a country about which he knows next to nothing.
Everyone is counting Iran’s missiles. They are counting the wrong thing.
The number that determines the outcome of this war is not 2,000 or 2,500 or 3,000. Those are pre-war missile inventory estimates and they are now largely irrelevant. The number that determines the outcome… https://t.co/cgJ7yHJLwf pic.twitter.com/45jw3JbTsc
— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) March 6, 2026
It’s the Guardian but worth a look assuming you’ve had your rabies shot.
Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84
Country Joe McDonald, whose performance at Woodstock — in which he led a crowd of 400,000 through a subversive cheer before starting his satirical antiwar song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” — struck a chord so deep, it often obscured the variety and scope of his career, died on Saturday at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 84.
Suspicious transactions at GTA crypto shops reveal alleged links to Iran-backed terror groups. Is the regulator doing enough to police them?
In a row of small Yonge Street storefronts, Million Exchange angles for a corner of a booming market.
“Instant buying and selling of digital currencies,” it promises on its website, though the shop is not in the federal registry of authorized crypto businesses. Registration is a requirement meant to deter money laundering and terrorist financing.
Over the last year and a half, more than $200 million worth of digital currencies has moved through a virtual wallet used by Million Exchange.
WTF?
Trans teacher freaks out because some students don’t want to call him by his preferred honorific “Mrs” because he’s actually really a dude
He escalated this to human resources
The kids are all right!
Nobody should be forced to affirm the delusions of mentally ill people pic.twitter.com/PH6QmjNJlo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 5, 2026
Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader?
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, has been chosen as his successor.
Unlike his father, the 56-year-old has largely kept a low profile. He has never held government office, nor given public speeches or interviews, and only a limited number of photos and videos of him have ever been published.
But for years there have been rumours that he held considerable influence behind the scenes in Iran.
Social media account touting Khalistani extremism claims responsibility for death of Windsor, Ont., woman
A social media account promoting Sikh extremist views is claiming responsibility for the stabbing of a woman in the southwestern Ontario town of LaSalle this week.
LaSalle police on Wednesday identified 45-year-old Nancy Grewal of Windsor, Ont., as the victim in the stabbing. She died March 3 in the area of Todd Lane.
On social media, an account says in Punjabi that Nancy Grewal of Windsor was killed over her criticism of the Khalistani movement.
If only Britain was as important as Iran thinks we are
I am becoming rather fond of Prime Minister Starmer’s major foreign policy announcements. In early January, after US forces swooped into Venezuela and took President Maduro to New York to face trial, Keir Starmer was keen to get straight out in front of the cameras. There he said that he wanted to stress that ‘the UK was not involved in any way in this operation’. As though the whole world had been expecting to hear that the British armed forces were indeed central in snatching the narco-terrorist from Caracas.
This week it was again Starmer’s turn to stand behind a podium, British flags behind him, and deliver another statement that absolutely no one thought necessary. Speaking about the US-led strikes on Iran, he announced solemnly: ‘I want to set out our response.’ What could it be? The world wondered. ‘The United Kingdom played no role in these strikes,’ he declared.