OTTAWA – Efforts by the City of Toronto to protect schools, seniors’ homes and places-of-worship from disruptive protests are being opposed by city activists.
The Toronto Sun intercepted a letter distributed among city non-profit groups and community activists opposing a proposed “bubble zone” bylaw declaring “vulnerable institutions” no-go zones for protesters.
Days before the RCMP picked up a Kitchener man believed to be planning to travel abroad to join an international terror organization, he was arrested at Pearson International Airport for allegedly making death threats to police officers, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee, who has lived in Canada for a number of years but is originally from Yemen, was charged on April 15 after allegedly uttering threats toward officers and released on an undertaking to appear at a later date in court for that allegation.
For a while, the razor-thin election-night outcome in Terrebonne, a riding just north of Montreal, struck many Canadians as an example of the system working as it should: Liberal Tatiana Auguste was initially declared the winner by just 35 votes; standard validation procedures flipped the riding to the Bloc Québécois by 44 votes; and then a judicial recount, triggered automatically because the outcome was so close — less than 0.1 per cent of the turnout — found Auguste had won by a single vote.
B.C.’s New Democratic premier and minister of health think that they can solve the province’s nursing shortage by enticing U.S. nurses to cross the border. The idea is laughable.
This week, Premier David Eby and his minister, Josie Osborne, announced that they had streamlined licensing applications for U.S. nurses, and approved a whopping — wait for it — 113 nurses to practice in B.C. This was following an online campaign with unknown costs, as per a statement Osborne provided to media.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that federal law enforcement is investigating a social media post made by former FBI Director James Comey that she and other Republicans suggest is a call for violence against U.S. President Donald Trump.
In an Instagram post, Comey wrote “cool shell formation on my beach walk” under a picture of seashells that appeared to form the shapes for “86 47.”
Sorry CBC but a great many more than “Trump Officials” agree it was a call to violence by a demented Comey.
Former FBI Director James Comey appears to be calling for the assassination of President Trump.
Totally normal stuff pic.twitter.com/XqkyNjvEv4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 15, 2025
UPDATE: Trump says ex-FBI director James Comey’s ‘86 47’ post called for his ‘assassination’
UPPERDATE: It’s ON! Kash Patel Responds to Seashell Threat Against President Trump and James Comey Better BUCKLE UP
H/T XC
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Thursday the lack of a federal budget sends “a bad signal” to investors and credit rating agencies.
Poilievre told a press conference on Parliament Hill that he wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to “steal his ideas” and offered to help him draft a budget.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney should “take a page from the Chrétien government’s 1994 program review” and cut tens of thousands of bureaucrat jobs, argued the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) in a new paper published on Thursday.
The economic think tank found that a program review like the one from 30 years ago would result in the elimination of about 64,000 federal government jobs. This would lead to a return to the pre-Justin Trudeau government per capita size of the bureaucracy and a permanent reduction in public spending of nearly $10 billion a year by 2029, MEI experts say.
Equalization has become a payoff system for keeping Quebec in Canada; and for some, an irritant that could drive Alberta out
Premier Danielle Smith raises hell with Ottawa over provincial grievances, to the joy of many Albertans and the discomfort of others.
Here’s one mammoth, nation-wrecking gripe:
Quebec has received $129.9 billion in equalization payments in the past 10 years.
Chinese money-launderers allegedly made six-figure deposits at Chase, Bank of America and Citibank branches across Los Angeles County
On a hazy Southern California morning, undercover police officers watched Jiayong Yu step out of a Range Rover in a strip-mall parking lot and walk into a Chase bank with a black-leather backpack full of cash.
At the teller window, Yu pulled out stacks of bills and waited while a woman fed them into a cash-counting machine. After Yu left, an officer asked the teller if he had deposited more than $10,000, the threshold requiring banks to flag transactions to federal regulators.
More like $100,000, the teller said. By then, Yu was already on his way to Chase and Bank of America branches in Claremont, Calif., about 35 miles away.
Federal authorities allege that Yu worked for an underground banking network that bought dollars at a discount from Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel and sold them at a premium, largely to Chinese nationals in the U.S.
Yemeni terror suspect placed under house arrest at Toronto mosque
A Yemeni arrested as he was allegedly trying to leave Canada to join a Middle East terrorist group has been released on bail to live under house arrest at a Toronto mosque.
A copy of an Ontario judge’s release order obtained by Global News shows Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee was ordered to “reside at the mosque” in Toronto’s North York district.
While the recent federal election was mainly a contest between the Liberals and Conservatives, most Canadians say they don’t think the country would be better off with a two-party system, a new poll suggests. Meanwhile, most NDP and Bloc Québécois supporters say they don’t want an election in the next two years.
Nearly half of Canadians say they don’t favour the idea of two parties dominating the political landscape in Canada, while just over 21 percent say the country would benefit from it, according to a recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies. Nearly 30 percent said they didn’t know.
Canada intends to expand its military training regime in the Arctic, deploying a variety of forces in the region for up to 10 months a year, starting this year, the military’s operations commander says.
Lt.-Gen. Steve Boivin says the military’s signature Far North exercise — Operation Nanook — will see additional elements created, resulting in a greater, consistent presence in a region that is increasingly the focus of geopolitical rivalry.
The plan, says one defence expert, is an unprecedented opportunity for the Liberal government to not only demonstrate Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic, but to rally NATO allies behind the country.
BREAKING: A powerful Muslim organization in Canada — that has yet to condemn October 7 — has presented government with "The Nakba Bill."
This is model legislation for Parliament. The organization says they’re optimistic it will pass.
Here are a few points the Bill includes:… pic.twitter.com/QiWMlAa1jX
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) May 15, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly constituted cabinet met for the first time Wednesday on Parliament Hill as the government grapples with a whole host of challenges it will be charged with fixing.
The new ministry has three distinct challenges, among others, bubbling up on its watch: a U.S. trade war that’s already having an impact on Canada’s sluggish economy, persistent consumer affordability challenges and restlessness in Western Canada over the future of natural resources development.
Given Liberal Party policy has created or at the least made these challenges worse should make for some interesting double-speak.
In an earlier life, as a newly appointed member of the National Energy Board, I participated in a conversation about pipeline regulation with citizens affected by pipelines and hence, by their regulation. I was as thrilled by the opportunity, as I was to visit a part of the country new to me.
That is when I was educated about two important aspects of the legal process.
