DOJ Seizes Iranian Intelligence Websites Behind $250,000 Beheading Bounty on Canadian Politician — Cartel Directed to Kill Her at Ottawa Home

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA — The United States Department of Justice announced today the court-authorized seizure of four websites operated by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, dismantling a regime-run cyber and psychological operations network that issued a $250,000 bounty death threat against former Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Goldie Ghamari, which directed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to behead her at her Ottawa home.

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John Carpay: Liberals have Canada leading the West in state surveillance

Among the western democratic powers, Canada is quickly emerging as a leader in internet regulation and state surveillance.

The federal government, whose efforts are encouraged by a mostly compliant public, is driving more and more of the human experience into a digital realm. This digital realm is a vast infrastructure of legislation, law enforcement and corporate partnerships in which people are becoming the objects of government analysis, modelling and manipulation.

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To chop spending, Ottawa will cut science, tourism, foreign aid programs

The federal government has tabled details of how it plans to cut billions of dollars from programs that support science, tourism, harbour improvements, journalism, foreign aid, and even the development of a Canadian-made lunar rover module.

The cuts are detailed in hundreds of pages of departmental plans tabled in the House of Commons last Friday as MPs were preparing to return to their ridings for March break week.

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What Kind of Access to Private Data Would Security Agencies Gain With Bill C-22?

Lying Liberal DEI MP

The Liberal government is making a second attempt to establish a legal regime that would allow security agencies to more easily identify users of cellphone and internet services and access certain account data.

Law enforcement has welcomed the move as necessary to conduct investigations in the modern world, while civil liberties advocates are raising privacy concerns.

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BOWLER: Political Judas — why MPs who ‘cross the floor’ betray voters

Ever since that fateful day 2,000 years ago when Judas Iscariot sold out his friend for 30 pieces of silver, switching sides and joining the enemy camp has had a bad name.

Indeed, the names of those who do so, like Benedict Arnold during the American Revolution and Vidkun Quisling in Nazi-occupied Norway, have become shorthand for treachery.

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Adam Zivo: Liberal sanctimony won’t reopen Strait of Hormuz

The unsinkable Royal Carney Navy makes steam for the Strait of Hormuz!

It is in Canada’s interests to militarily support an end to Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Doing so would reaffirm the credibility of the West’s military alliances, and, more importantly, slow down global nuclear proliferation by showing Tehran that economic blackmail doesn’t work.

To understand why Ottawa must get involved, it is helpful to step back and remember the broader context of this war.

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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Federal Firearms Ban

The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a challenge against the Liberal government’s ban on around 2,500 types of what it calls “assault-style” firearms.

On March 19, the top court granted leave to hear an appeal challenging the federal ban on firearms that Ottawa classifies as suitable only for military use, rather than for hunting or sport shooting.

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Foreign minister Anand declares Canada’s ‘mission’ is to ‘lead’ amid global disorder

The Liberal government leaned further into its emerging leadership role among the world’s middle powers, with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand telling a London audience that now is the country’s time to lead internationally.

Making the keynote address at the 2026 Chatham House Global Trade Conference on Thursday, Anand said that a country’s greatness stems not just from its domestic successes, but in providing leadership that benefits the world.

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GOLDSTEIN: Can Canada’s chief justice be objective about the Freedom Convoy?

The federal government, which has twice lost its legal argument that its use of the Emergencies Act to end the Freedom Convoy protests in early 2022 was justified, is now asking for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The high court may or may not decide to hear it, but it it does, past comments by Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner condemning the Freedom Convoy will raise the question of whether he can be objective.

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Defence minister ‘didn’t know’ about Iran strike on base housing Canadians until after media report

Defence Minister David McGuinty said he did not know about a strike on an air base in Kuwait where members of the Canadian Armed Forces were stationed until after it was first reported by a media outlet.

“No, I didn’t know about it before La Presse reported on it,” McGuinty said Thursday in a response to a question about whether he knew about the strike before the story was published, in a press conference in Kitchener, Ont.

That inspires confidence.

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Don’t mistake announcements by Carney and Ford for progress

Let’s talk for a moment about the scale of Canada’s ambition and how it compares to the scale of what we can plausibly achieve.

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced major plans for Arctic infrastructure. Much of the $35 billion budgeted for them will be used to expand and upgrade existing military facilities; these, in theory, will increase the Canadian Armed Forces’ capacity to respond quickly and in strength to any crisis.


Every day is Al Capone’s vault day with these two.

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Canada slips further in World Happiness rankings continuing a decade-long downward trend … oddly coinciding with Liberal Party misrule

Heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries — including Canada — and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday.

The annual report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, also found that Finland is the happiest country in the world for the ninth year in a row, with other Nordic countries such as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway ranking among the top 10 countries.

h/t Patti Jo

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How Canada’s embrace of Chinese EVs could scramble the American market

Americans will soon catch a glimpse of something North American politicians once tried to keep far away: cheap Chinese electric vehicles.

As Canada begins importing the EVs, U.S. residents in border cities like Detroit and Buffalo, New York, may see their northern neighbors at the wheel. Or American tourists visiting Canada may experience brands like Xiaomi, Leapmotor and BYD when taking a ride-share.

It’s a situation that the U.S. and Canada sought to avoid for years, worried that the introduction of China’s low-cost, high-tech EVs would undermine domestic automakers and lead to Chinese surveillance. But President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff on Canadian autos and auto parts has scrambled the North American auto market.

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