Both the president and vice president have thrown out the term “grand bargain” in recent days to describe their aspirations for a deal with the Iranian rump regime.
It’s a term fraught with past failures that screams Iranian deception, not the interests of America First.
Bill Clinton was the first to use the phrase toward the end of his second term to describe his aspiration to end a low-intensity conflict that had been simmering for 20 years.
OTTAWA — Immigration officials submitted a plan of action to House of Commons committee on Monday, following an auditor general’s report that highlighted serious integrity controls in the international student visa program last month.
Part of that is ensuring voluntary compliance by student visa holders.
Russia said on Monday that it had arrested a German woman found with a homemade bomb in her backpack in an alleged Ukrainian plot to blow up a security services facility in southern Russia.
In a statement published by state media, the FSB security agency said that the woman, born in 1969, was to be used as an unwilling suicide bomber in the plot and had been dragged into it by a citizen from a Central Asian country, who was alleged to be working on orders from Ukraine.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s view that Canada’s “weakness” stems from its longtime close trade ties with the U.S. was mocked by the Conservatives Monday, and met skepticism by an Eastern premier who warned it will likely further anger the U.S.
In a video message posted Sunday on YouTube, Carney said the U.S. “has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses, weaknesses that we must correct.”
Carney’s choice of words was no error.
In a move that has reignited the debate over free speech and government overreach, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has officially intervened to block U.S.-based MAGA influencer Valentina Gomez from entering the United Kingdom.
Gomez, a 26-year-old Christian conservative originally from Colombia, was scheduled to address the “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London on May 16th—an event organized by populist figure Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) and expected to draw significant crowds following the 100,000-strong turnout in September.
Earlier this month, during a panel discussion on the Canadian economy at the Liberal Party convention in Montreal, former Google CFO Patrick Pichette suggested that the government should restrict the ability of young Canadians to work in the United States, because Canadian taxes had funded their education. A clip of these remarks went viral, and for good reason: as Shopify founder Tobi Lütke said in response, “making Canada a cage” is not the right strategy to build a strong economy.
When a ceasefire in the Gulf was first being discussed, an Iranian military spokesman accused President Trump of “negotiating with himself”.
The regime loves pouring scorn on America, calling its politics stupid and unsophisticated. But the comment rang true to more than just the Iranians.
President Trump’s rhetoric, especially on his personal platform Truth Social, often seems to take issue with his own policies.
Alberta is going to daylight saving time all year round.
Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government have made the decision. It will go to the Alberta legislature for debate this week.
Makes sense to me.
special agents out on duty pic.twitter.com/XGN6MwurqQ
— Kitty Cat Empire (@KittyCatEmpire) April 19, 2026
Muslims walking around the UK moaning about pubs.
Nobody asked you to come to the developed world.
And pubs have existed long before Mohammed started abusing children and killing dogs.
If you don't like our world, go back to the desert. pic.twitter.com/kzGuzhM6W3
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) April 20, 2026
The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, the former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, and other European figures have speculated about the possibility of Canada joining the European Union (EU). Prime Minister Mark Carney has dismissed the notion of Canada joining the EU but has advocated for closer, stronger ties with the bloc. If he were inclined toward EU membership, it would be imprudent for him to announce it at this time. It would be far better to continue aligning Canadian laws and regulations with those of the EU before making any formal announcement. Joining the EU is a slow, multi-year process that often takes a decade or more.
(Incognito)
A senior citizen who went to Vancouver General Hospital for diagnosis and treatment after experiencing sudden pain was offered euthanasia by a doctor – before she had even been asked what was wrong with her.
Must of gone something like this.
Any Hospital
Anywhere In Canada
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Today I deliver a keynote speech at the annual training of the Washington State Narcotics Investigators Association. The talk is densely packed with cases and analysis — Vancouver casino ledgers, United Front banking cells, the Six Nations–Sinaloa grow-op corridor, the Canadian encryption shops that have become the nerve endings of a hemispheric cartel network. The presentation is complicated.
In a nutshell: hostile regimes in China and Iran are attacking North America in partnership with Latin American cartels that operate with state-like capacities in technology and intelligence, and they are using Canadian cities as a “center of gravity” for transnational operations.
Allah may have to go back to Afghanistan.
The local media has done its best for him. The newspapers in upstate New York argue that it’s been years since he stabbed anyone and since then he’s been keeping busy selling Halal food.
Also he’s a refugee.
With the very notable exception of promising to learn French, then failing to do so, Mary Simon has not been a terrible Governor General. She spent money rather freely, of course, but they all do, and Parliament makes the budget, after all. You didn’t hear much from or about her, which is Job One for a governor general. That is, except in the francophone media, where she is a constant thorn in nationalists’ side because of her linguistic shortcomings.
