OTTAWA — Canada is sending another $51-million aid package to Ukraine.
The money, announced Friday by Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai, will go towards humanitarian relief, preparing Ukraine for post-war elections, and support for veterans of the war against the now four-year old Russian invasion.
Randeep who?
Jonathan A. C. Brown, a professor at Georgetown University, has deleted his X account after sparking a firestorm by expressing his contempt and disdain for the victims of the Muslim rape gangs who (with willing aid from leftists) destroyed the lives of a generation of British girls. That’s good, as Brown has nothing of value to say to anyone on any topic, but it leaves untouched the larger question: why is this thoroughly distasteful individual, who has previously justified Islamic slavery and rape, a professor at a major American university?
If it weren’t for this newspaper you’re reading right now, you wouldn’t know about a lot of absolutely bananas criminal-justice and immigration-related stories in this country. But even Toronto Star readers are getting a window into the madness this week, via its sister paper the Hamilton Spectator. Readers learned that one Erik Kalanyos, who is now 29, has been identified as the suspect in the murder of Daniel Musafiri, who was then 29, outside a Hamilton billiards parlour in December 2023.
Crime in London has soared since Labour mayor Sir Sadiq Khan came to power despite his claims that the capital is a ‘safe city’, figures show.
The Mayor of London, who succeeded Boris Johnson in 2016 and was re-elected in 2021 and 2024, this week urged British diplomats around the world to challenge ‘disinformation and lies’ about the capital, amplified by Donald Trump.
Sir Sadiq boasted on Tuesday that homicide rates were at their lowest since records began and pointed out that there had been a decline in 2025 in incidents of phone-snatching, for which the capital has become notorious in recent years.
On March 2, when Pierre Poilievre sat down for a podcast interview with former CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge, he jokingly noted that Mansbridge had called him Mr. Poilievre.
“You’re the leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition,” said Mansbridge, explaining his formality.
“It’s the worst damn job in the country,” said Poilievre, grinning.
NATO endures on American backing while many allies demand U.S. action abroad but withhold it when asked, exposing a widening gap between rhetoric and responsibility.
NATO members are not legally required to join any member’s military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership.
But they often do just that.
Retired Lt. Colonel David Redman, former head of Alberta’s emergency management, has accused federal authorities of the intentional erosion of Canada’s national security apparatus over the past 11 years.
“To go from calling China the largest strategic threat to Canada one year ago and now calling it a very significant strategic partner is a completely intentional act. You can’t say it’s not. And so from my point of view, each of the steps in the degradation of Canada’s 10 elements of national security have been thought through and are intentional.”
(Incognito)
A 31-year-old black woman is being charged with first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly shooting her former co-worker in the back, killing her 61-year-old victim. The criminal complaint by the Madison, WI police notes that the two women had frequently clashed at work over the victim’s support for President Trump, and that the perp had routinely labelled her a racist because of it.
Pastor Derek Reimer is not liberal Canada’s favourite free-speech champion. The Bible-bashing leader of Calgary’s Mission 7 ministry has waged a one-man war on his government’s progressive, LGBTQ-friendly agenda – especially its promotion of transgender rights.
In 2023, he was arrested three times after protesting against “family-friendly” storytime events at Calgary’s public libraries, in which local drag queens read to children. He denounced it all as “pervert grooming sessions”, and told a librarian that if she carried on “corrupting kids”, he would post her details online. He also quoted from Deuteronomy 22:5, which states: “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak.”
So far, his protests have earned him a conviction for harassment, more than 100 days in jail, and limited sympathy from the wider public – who, whatever their views on transgender issues, often see his methods as extreme.
Yet in recent months, his name has frequently been cited in a growing row over freedom of speech – centred around a planned new law that would remove the right of religious activists to quote scripture as a defence against hate crime charges.
HOLY SH*T: @BaxterMemorial, a PUBLIC library in Maine, is hosting an "ALL AGES" drag storytime featuring THIS drag queen.
His entire social media is filled with extreme, s*xual-themed content.
THIS is what they want to push onto your kids. YOUR tax dollars are supporting this.… pic.twitter.com/7UOcnHTQuY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 2, 2026
And there you have it. Britain is a country where a musician who says ‘Heil Hitler’ gets to headline festivals while a musician who plays with a Jew from Israel gets cancelled. Threaten to go ‘death con 3 on Jewish people’ and you’ll be grand. Jam with a Jewish person and you’re toast. Selling T-shirts adorned with the swastika? No problem. Doing a duet with someone from the Jewish state? Don’t even think about it.
A Canadian warship has raised the transgender flag.
This is the international symbol for “we are ready to be taken over now.” https://t.co/wATOfF79bY
— Billboard Chris 🌎 (@BillboardChris) April 3, 2026
As gasoline prices keep ticking higher toward $2 a litre and diesel sits near $2.50, there is little relief for Canadian drivers as the global energy crisis grows with no end in sight to the Iran war.
The conflict continues to choke transit through the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off roughly 20 per cent of the world’s oil and natural gas supply from international buyers.
Countries around the world are feeling the strain. Governments have ordered staff to work from home, reduced the work week and closed universities to conserve fuel.
There is no clear answer.
One month into Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a long-overdue conversation has finally broken into the open: What, exactly, is the enduring rationale for NATO? For decades, this question has been treated in Washington foreign policy circles as heretical. But it isn’t. And to their credit, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are now saying so plainly.
The B.C. Court of Appeal has confirmed the Nuchatlaht, a First Nation with 180 members, has Aboriginal title over more than 200 square kilometres of land off Vancouver Island’s west coast.
The Nuchatlaht won Canada’s second-ever finding of Aboriginal title in 2024, but only over a small fraction of their claim area.
On Thursday, the court recognized the First Nation’s full claim, saying the B.C. Supreme Court erred by disregarding material evidence, setting an arbitrary boundary, and incorrectly limiting evidence of occupation to village and reserve sites.
