Sabrina Maddeaux: Are synagogue shootings a tipping point that will lead to real action?

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The synagogue shootings continue. This is a sentence that seems like it belongs in an archival newspaper clipping from Nazi Germany, not a Canadian newspaper in 2026. This month, three separate Greater Toronto Area synagogues were hit by gunfire within a five-day span. Not even a week later, an armed man plowed his vehicle into a Detroit synagogue, which had 140 children inside at the time, before being killed by security.


There will be no action.

There is no political will because our elite are complicit in the crimes.

You don’t import Islamist hate unless you share it.

One day if we are lucky we will interrogate those responsible.

I can tell you now I will not believe anyone’s claim of naive innocence.

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Housing affordability has been improving. It’s not enough and may not last much longer

Canada’s housing market is waking up for the spring selling season, but young prospective homebuyers would be justified to remain in a state of prolonged hibernation.

For over two years homes in much of the country have been getting more affordable, thanks to a mix of softer prices and, later, falling interest rates. The problem is that, for the most part, we are still nowhere close to pre-pandemic levels of affordability. With the exception of condos, owning a home remains far more expensive than it was before the last housing boom.

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I spoke to over 30 sources about Mark Carney’s first year as prime minister. This is the picture that emerged

“Let the party begin.”

That’s how Mark Carney started his first press conference after being sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister, on March 14, 2025, after a whirlwind leadership contest.
Weeks earlier, he’d jettisoned an emblem of the Liberals’ brand by promising to scrap the consumer carbon price, describing himself — as he does now — as a “pragmatist” tied to results, not dogma.

Usual Star Tongue Bath.

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61 per cent of Canadians disapprove of U.S. military actions in Iran: poll

New Ipsos polling conducted for Global News reveals 61 per cent of Canadians disapprove of the U.S. military action against Iran.

Only one in four (23 per cent) Canadians approve (eight per cent strongly approve, 15 per cent somewhat approve), while 16 per cent are unsure either way.

Forty-two per cent were found to strongly disapprove, while 19 per cent somewhat disapprove.

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Two Charged in Killing of Iranian-Canadian Activist Masood Masjoody as Gary says Feds approach to Iranian regime in Canada ‘aggressive

VANCOUVER — The killing of Iranian-Canadian activist and mathematician Masood Masjoody has triggered alarm across Canada’s Iranian diaspora, with prominent community voices warning that the case raises broader concerns about intimidation and possible transnational repression linked to Iran’s regime.

Police have charged Arezou Soltani of North Vancouver and Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi of Maple Ridge with first-degree murder in connection with Masjoody’s death. The two accused are scheduled to appear in court Monday.

Sure Gary Sure … Feds approach to Iranian regime in Canada ‘aggressive,’ public safety minister insists

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Al-Quds Day shows how Canada tolerates intolerance

A society that tolerates intolerance – as we now do – can pass as many laws as it likes against “hate” but it won’t reduce hate-motivated crimes.

We have never had as many laws against hate as exist today in Canada and yet we have never seen more hatred on our streets – as illustrated yet again by Saturday’s annual hate-fest known as the Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto outside the U.S. consulate, which was recently shot up.

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Rats Are Jumping Ship: Is the Iranian Regime Relocating to Canada?

This is not an overnight development that just happened in the past two weeks, after the Trump administration and Israel launched attacks on Iran.

Reports were emerging in January that even while Iranian citizens fed an uprising that led to the murder of roughly 40,000 of them at the hands of the Iranian regime, members of the regime have been quietly relocating to Canada.

h/t PA Cat

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The two faces of Mark Carney show a leader skirting a fine line

Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote: “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

He was speaking of the citizen in relation to his community, but the situation for political leaders is rather different. They are compelled to wear more than one face when addressing the multitude – especially in democracies, which are made up of different constituencies with differing interests. Things get more complicated, however, when two different public faces are in tension with one another, as has been the case for Mark Carney since he assumed the premiership of Canada a year ago this week.

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China Owns Canada’s Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play

In the rugged interior of Newfoundland, an hour’s drive west from the Canadian Forces Base in Gander, sits a dormant mine with profound implications for the nation’s security and prosperity. Beaver Brook could be the largest North American producer of antimony — a critical mineral threaded through the entire spectrum of modern military hardware, from small arms and artillery shells to advanced missile seekers and night-vision goggles.

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Mixed reviews for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s northern defence plan

OTTAWA — Canada’s $35-billion plan to strengthen defence along its northern frontier is getting mixed reviews.

While Canada has a history of making lofty plans — especially when it comes to its underfunded and under-equipped military — the devil always ends up showing itself in the details.

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Canadians told us what they think of Mark Carney after a year as prime minister.

One year ago this week, Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s prime minister. It happened at a moment when my polling indicated that the mood of the country was well into a major shift. The past few years had been marked by what many now call a period of permacrisis. Pandemic recovery, climate emergencies, rising living costs, geopolitical instability and technological disruption all arrived at once. At Abacus Data we have described the public mood that emerged from this as a precarity mindset.

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Canada lost 84,000 jobs in February as unemployment rate edges higher

OTTAWA — Canada lost 84,000 jobs last month as unemployment inches higher, the latest jobs report from the government says.

And the number of full-time workers experiencing chronic, long-term unemployment is now higher than during the pandemic.

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Closing Debate on Ottawa’s Anti-Hate Bill Risks Undermining Canada’s Religious Freedom

I am writing as a concerned citizen to express my profound concern over the federal government’s March 9, 2026, move to close debate on Bill C-9, Ottawa’s anti-hate bill.

As recently reported by the National Post, Khaled Al-Qazzaz, executive director of the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, said he and other Muslim groups representing hundreds of Muslim organizations opposed the bill and felt “ambushed” by the government’s decision to limit further debate.

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