For the first time since his defeat a decade ago, former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper took centre stage this week with a refreshing show of bipartisanship and a call for national unity — a message the country and his party needed to hear.
The occasion was Harperpalooza or Harperfest as some Conservative staffers referred to the celebrations, a week’s worth of events in the capital to mark 20 years since Harper first became prime minister.
Nanaimo RCMP arrested a family driving home after officers spotted an empty pack of alleged illegal cigarettes in the car 🚓👀
Police told everyone inside the vehicle they were under arrest, even though the cigarette pack contained no cigarettes. pic.twitter.com/k6uEjzvXjC
— 604RAW (@604RAW) February 4, 2026
h/t Hermes
The Toronto police constable called the “genesis” of a months-long corruption probe has been denied bail.
Const. Timothy Barnhardt, 56, was denied bail in a Toronto court on Friday afternoon, although defence asked that he receive protective custody, which was granted. He is scheduled to appear in court next on March 19.
Barnhardt is among seven police officers who were arrested this week, along with one retired officer, as part of a months-long corruption probe by York Regional Police that has resulted – so far – in numerous charges, including conspiracy to commit murder to drug trafficking.
Read this …
I’m a Police Liaison Officer in Toronto.
My job is community relations.
The tow truck community.
I provide information.
To my contacts.
In the towing industry.
They provide information back.
To my bank account.
That’s community policing.
My father is also a cop.
He does… pic.twitter.com/e2kbw0ZQ0O
— Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) February 6, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
It is doubtful any country has ever been in quite the national security dilemma Canada now finds itself in: with so much land and so few people to defend it; wedged between two expansionist superpowers, one of which was until very recently our best defence against the other, but which has since become more or less aligned with it.
The dilemma is particularly acute in light of our charmed history. A country that had always considered itself invulnerable to attack – because of the oceans that surround us, because of the forbidding climate in our North, because of the Americans – wakes up to discover that it has suddenly become peculiarly vulnerable.
Coyne alert!
Canadians are not short on warnings.
Over the last several years, the country has been presented with a growing library of books, investigations, and front-page reporting outlining a pattern that should alarm any democracy: foreign interference, transnational organized crime, illicit finance, and institutional fragility converging inside Canada.
Carney just sees corruption as a cost of doing business.
When Jesse Jia-Bei Zhu left British Columbia in 2015, the 62-year-old had a six-month jail sentence and a multimillion-dollar B.C. Supreme Court judgment hanging over his head — fallout from his thwarted plans for global domination of the lucrative bull semen industry.
Nearly a decade later, the wily entrepreneur’s name has resurfaced in the U.S. in connection to equally bizarre — if unsettling — allegations involving a pair of biolabs in California and Nevada stocked with vials of potentially hazardous substances.
OTTAWA — Canada’s decision to abolish special envoys on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia is being met with concern and criticism.
The week, the federal government announced it would abolish the Offices of the Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia and the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism — replacing them with a “national unity committee.”
A suspected high-ranking Iranian official caught living in Canada appeared at his deportation hearing on Thursday as the regime he is accused of serving faced growing condemnation for killing protesters.
Before arriving in Canada, the Iranian citizen was a senior member of his government, according to the Canada Border Services Agency, which has asked the Immigration and Refugee Board to order his expulsion.
Who is approving entry for regime criminals? The LPC? We are a Banana Republic.
A Calgary man who joined the Islamic State group in the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison.
“Terrorism has been described as the most vile form of criminal conduct,” Court of King’s Bench Justice Corina Dario said as she sentenced Jamal Borhot.
“The sentence must also send a clear and unmistakable message that terrorism is reprehensible and those who conduct it will pay a heavy, substantial price.”
If you feel like Chinese cars are suddenly right around the corner, you’re not alone. The notion has received a groundswell of both direct and indirect support lately, and as affordable new cars drop like flies from U.S. lineups, American consumers are becoming more open-minded about the prospect of allowing Chinese OEMs to enter the market.
Given the political climate, it’s no wonder that dealers feel caught a bit off-guard by this development. And now they’re getting vocal about it.
An article from The Guardian has exposed satellite images and firsthand accounts of the destruction of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery containing 23 Canadian soldiers.
The cemetery, located in the al-Tuffah district of Gaza City, contained graves of Canadian, British, Australian, and Indian servicemen who died in the First and Second World Wars, as well as those who died in UN peacekeeping service.
Satellite images show that the southernmost part of the cemetery, the section containing the Canadian graves, has been completely destroyed.
(Incognito)
U.S. President Donald Trump has reacted harshly to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s acclaimed speech at Davos. First Mr. Trump claimed Canada was a small-power satellite dependent on the U.S. Then Mr. Trump threatened 100-per-cent tariffs if Canada made a deal with China.
Till this day, we are still feeling the aftershock of the speech. Some observers have criticized Mr. Carney for provoking Mr. Trump. McGill University’s Andrew Potter called Mr. Carney “reckless.”
I bet the author of this love letter caught the clap from Carney.
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could face prison time if they do not turn in their newly prohibited guns under a supposedly “voluntary” gun buyback program that is testing the strength of Canada’s bureaucratic regime.
Since May 2020, the Canadian government has attempted to institute a massive “assault-style firearms compensation program” that will purportedly trade cash for prohibited guns. If Canadians do not turn in a prohibited gun by October 2026, they could face up to five years in prison. The program has faced massive pushback from provincial leaders and gun rights organizations who say it will only disarm law-abiding Canadians.
The first time the Parti Québécois came to power promising to hold a referendum on sovereignty, in 1976, Quebec accounted for 27.2 per cent of Canada’s population. More than 100,000 anglophones left the province during the PQ’s first term in office alone. The exodus continued after the 1980 referendum that saw Quebeckers vote to stay in Canada.
By the time of the second referendum – in 1995, following the PQ’s return to power the previous year – Quebec’s share of the Canadian population had declined to 24.7 per cent. While fewer anglophones left the province in the wake of that plebiscite, lower immigration levels than in the rest of Canada meant that Quebec’s population grew much more slowly than the populations of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia during the subsequent three decades.
The three Ontario men accused of storing materials that could be made into explosives had been looking for money to back the production of a military system designed to prevent drone attacks.
The accused, Jerry Tong, Zekun Wang, and Fei (Frank) Han, had created videos to pitch the project, which include footage of a device that could be transported in the back of a pickup truck. The most recent video, viewed by CBC News, was uploaded on Oct. 25, 2025.
