Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada should not have an election before it reviews the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) this year, and is instead calling for the Carney government to set up an all-party committee on the matter.
“I think that being united will be a real force going forward. We have disagreements, but I think all parties agree that we want tariff-free access to the United States,” Poilievre said in an interview on The Bridge that airs Monday.
MUMBAI, INDIA AND OTTAWA — As the United States and Israel launched a major assault on Iran, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday that Canada supports the attempt to stop Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon and urged Canadians in the country to shelter in place.
“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security, and the Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict,” said Carney, before a scheduled speech on Saturday in Mumbai, India.
Hey Grok – What is the size of the Iranian diaspora in Canada and how many of those are Shia Muslims?
The size of the Iranian diaspora in Canada (often referred to as Iranian Canadians or people of Iranian origin/ethnicity) is approximately 280,805 according to the 2021 Canadian Census data cited in sources like Wikipedia’s Iranian Canadians page and cross-referenced in Iranian diaspora overviews. This figure represents those reporting Iranian ethnic origin (including single and multiple responses).
Regarding Shia Muslims among them:There is no precise official census breakdown specifically for Shia Muslims within the Iranian Canadian community, as Canada’s census reports religion broadly (e.g., “Muslim”) rather than sects like Shia or Sunni.Among all Iranian Canadians (per 2021 data), about 43.8–49% identified as Muslim overall (around 103,560–123,045 people reporting as Muslim).
The community is described as predominantly Shia Islam (where religious affiliation exists), alongside a large portion of irreligion (around 42–43%, or 120,250 people reporting no religion). Minorities include Baha’i, Christian, Zoroastrian, Jewish, and others.
Oh my god.
The regime’s Chief Justice—who executed thousands of protesters by hanging during the Woman Life Freedom uprisings and recent protests—has been eliminated.
I swear on everything, his elimination is the greatest justice of all.
I cannot believe this is real. https://t.co/WIs8obU2ax
— Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن (@elicalebon) February 28, 2026
Donald Trump may yet survive – but he is currently losing
There will be no Ceausescu moment, no “at long last sir have you no decency” turning point, no dramatic climax in which the tyrant’s power suddenly evaporates: That instantaneous, simultaneous crystallizing of long-inchoate doubts, wherein those who feared him lose their fear, and those who believed in him lose their faith. Life rarely supplies the needs of narrative, and if it did America is no longer a society capable of coming to that kind of collective moral awakening.
Well played Canada.
Andy, here’s 4.5 minutes of your 2026 TDS posts, not including any replies to other posts.
It’s only February. 🤦🏻♂️🙄 pic.twitter.com/ZMbLxSlmHo
— Kevin Pacitti 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇬🇧 (@kpac_15) February 28, 2026
h/t Mauser
This is the moment a pro-Palestine activist is filmed defacing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue outside the Houses of Parliament in the early hours of Friday morning.
The monument was defaced shortly after 4am with slogans including ‘Zionist war criminal’, ‘Stop the Genocide’, ‘Never again is Now’ and ‘Globalise the Intifada’.
The Dutch phrase ‘groetjes uit den haag’, which translates to ‘Greetings from the Hague’, was also spray-painted on.
This is the man that defaced the Winston Churchill Statue in Parliament Square with “Free Palestine” “Globalise the Intifada 🔻” and “Zionist War Criminal” pic.twitter.com/OKp1n7BU04
— HJB News (@HJB_News__) February 27, 2026
Mexican security forces reportedly kill drug cartel boss ‘El Mencho’
One of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers – the Mexican cartel boss known as “El Mencho” – has reportedly been killed by his country’s security forces.
The drug lord, whose real name is Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, was killed on Sunday in the western state of Jalisco, Mexican newspapers reported, citing government sources.
The 59-year-old gangster was the leader of a group that in recent years has become Mexico’s most powerful and notorious criminal organisation: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Vehicles burn after being set fire by members of the CJNG Cartel in the streets of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. pic.twitter.com/cYKbcOjQpZ
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 22, 2026
Cartel war in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico pic.twitter.com/oXEga02ebf
— Christo🇧🇬🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@theGreyKardinaL) February 22, 2026
Having coordinated car fires across the Puerto Vallarta area and being told to stay in my Airbnb was not on my bingo card for trying to get home today.
All while trying to watch the Canada game we just lost. 😑
H/T: Mitch W, my friend in the hotel a block away. pic.twitter.com/QifBMbbt9E
— Ryan Voutilainen 🇨🇦🇫🇮 (@RyanVoutilainen) February 22, 2026
h/t Mauser
A ghost story falls in the category of fantasy. And former ABC reporter Tara Palmeri’s Halloween-in-February hot take in Vanity Fair on Thursday, “Epstein’s Ghost Is Calling All the Shots in Trump’s White House,” certainly falls within the realm of fantasy. She updates Banquo’s ghost to the 21st century and engages in the fantasy that Epstein’s ghost is somehow haunting Trump’s every move.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper urged the Liberal and Conservative parties to take on the challenges of our time together as the country stares down two potentially existential threats to its sovereignty: an imperialist president to the south and separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec.
Speaking at an event Tuesday where his official prime ministerial portrait was unveiled on Parliament Hill, Harper said while the two major parties may differ on some matters of policy, those issues should be secondary to keeping the country together.
There is the Canada I grew up in and the Canada of today.
I have very little connection to the latter and believe the situation beyond fixable.
I don’t think I’m alone.
Hillary Clinton took to social media to express support for the rioters in Minneapolis even as the disgraced former candidate and her husband were dodging a congressional subpoena looking into their relationship with family friend and Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein.
After condemning the Trump administration’s push to deport illegal alien criminals from Minneapolis, despite the obstruction of violent leftist rioters who had tried to murder federal law enforcement agents and bit off an agent’s finger, Clinton urged directing funding to the rioters.
Boy did America ever dodge a bullet.
On Friday, it was reported that Don Lemon was arrested for his part in the invasion of a St. Paul, MN church. The notoriously leftist Lemon (he’s a multiple winner of MRC’s Worst Quote of the Year) was so biased that he actually got fired from CNN.
For a look at the worst of Lemon’s time at CNN see here.
Since Lemon was canned from his CNN show, he has continued his horrible ways as a podcaster.
The federal refugee tribunal’s practice of assessing some asylum claims without first questioning applicants could heighten the risk of fraud and weaken security screening, a report by a former director of policy at the Immigration Department says.
The report, to be published on Thursday by the C.D. Howe Institute, expresses concern that the Immigration and Refugee Board’s assessment of asylum claims from certain countries without hearings removes an important layer of scrutiny.
An access to information request by the report’s author, James Yousif, found that between Jan. 1, 2019 and Feb. 28, 2023, the IRB accepted 24,599 asylum claims into Canada without personally questioning the applicants in hearings.
Our country is run by criminals.
Woke actor John Leguizamo is having an online MELTDOWN over ICE, demanding that anyone who supports ICE not watch his movies.pic.twitter.com/FQQUQsIU5m
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 28, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his recent jabs at Canada by saying “Canada is systematically destroying itself” and calling “the China deal” a “disaster.”
“Will go down as one of the worst deals, of any kind, in history,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday afternoon. “All their businesses are moving to the USA. I wanted to see Canada SURVIVE AND THRIVE!”
While Prime Minister Mark Carney says Qatar is a “critical partner to Canada in many shared pursuits of peace and stability,” the country also has a travel advisory warning “exercise a high degree of caution” when going there.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said Thursday it would welcome more Chinese investment in Canadian energy, including the oil sands, during a visit to Beijing that the Asian giant’s Premier called a “new starting point” for bilateral relations.
Mr. Carney released a blueprint for warmer and closer relations with Beijing, during his first trip to China this week in search of more foreign investment and markets for Canada to offset the damage of U.S. protectionist tariffs.
During the final stretch of Canada’s spring election campaign, Mark Carney told a debate audience that China was the country’s “biggest geopolitical risk”. He pointed to its attempts to meddle in elections and its recent efforts to disrupt Canada’s Arctic claims.
When Carney’s government plane touches down in Beijing this week, it will be the first time a Canadian prime minister has been welcomed in nearly a decade. The trip, undertaken amid the rupturing of global economic and political alliances, reflects a desire by Ottawa to mend a broken relationship with a global superpower that uses its vast and lucrative market to both woo and punish countries.
