In a development raising red flags across the Atlantic, Britain’s Labour government has appointed the UK’s first “anti-Muslim hostility tsar” and adopted a new definition of anti-Muslim hostility — reframed from “Islamophobia” — as part of its £4 million social cohesion strategy.
The definition describes such hostility as “a type of racism” targeting “expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness,” including prejudicial stereotyping that could incite hatred.
Once a friend of the former astronaut-turned-viceregal, John Fraser describes how Julie Payette crumbled into “perpetual petulance,” in this excerpt from his new book, The Governors General: An Intimate History of Canada’s Highest Office.
It should not have ended this way. It should have ended with a national celebration of an amazing, vibrant, and still young woman who managed to surmount all the challenges in a mostly male world; who managed to storm through a mostly male engineering school right up to the day she graduated summa cum laude; who managed to get through mostly male selection and training at the Canadian Space Agency; and ultimately, who managed two trips to outer space with mostly American male crews at NASA. As if all that were not enough, she also managed to crown this extraordinary record by being appointed governor general, the highest and noblest position Canada has to offer its most outstanding citizens.
Lawmakers have set a strict deadline for federal agencies to hand over secret UFO videos as officials warn the unidentified objects could threaten US forces.
Republican Rep Anna Paulina Luna penned a letter to the US Secretary of War requesting 46 specific Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) videos, telling Pete Hegseth to deliver them no later than April 14, 2026.
The requested footage includes dozens of military-recorded encounters showing spherical, cigar-shaped and Tic Tac-like objects spotted over war zones, oceans and sensitive airspace around the world.
If you were trying to develop a detailed policy program to get Canada back on track, you could do worse than looking at the proposals of the new NDP leader, and self-described ‘Eco-Socialist,’ Avi Lewis and doing the exact opposite.
Lewis advocates for a rapid shift away from hydrocarbon energy by means of a Canadian “Green New Deal,” which he says is both a moral imperative and an economic opportunity.
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has launched an interactive online tool tracking knife attacks across Berlin, as the party seeks to make rising violent crime a central issue in the city’s election campaign.
The so-called “knife app” provides a detailed overview of incidents reported by police over the past 30 days, including an interactive map showing where attacks occurred, the number of injuries, and comparisons with official police crime statistics (PKS).
Mark Carney and Doug Ford’s deal to cut development charges by up to 50 per cent for three years won’t, by itself, solve the province’s housing crisis. But it will provide much-needed temporary relief to homebuyers and renters.
Housing news has not been all bad in recent years, as the drop in rents and resale home prices has been welcome news for Ontario renters and buyers. However, even as prices fell, housing starts declined, and pre-construction sales dried up in the GTA because construction costs have not kept pace with prices. This has created a paradox: homes remain too expensive for most middle-class buyers, yet not expensive enough to build profitably.
While Pete Hegseth has mocked the ‘big, bad Royal Navy’, the First Sea Lord has sounded the alarm about its readiness
The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he singled out the “big, bad Royal Navy” in a recent press update on the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Hegseth’s sarcastic comment was the latest in a long line of jibes against the capabilities and readiness of the British Royal Navy.
However, less political figures have also warned of the perilous state of the UK’s naval warfare force, including the First Sea Lord, the highest-ranking naval officer on active duty.
James Moore is a former federal cabinet minister under prime minister Stephen Harper, and is a contributing columnist for CTVNews.ca.
Now that the federal New Democrats have selected Avi Lewis as their leader, Canadians know the leadership offering that they will be presented by the major parties in the next campaign.
Now the race is on between the parties to try to frame the ‘ballot question’ of the next campaign – whenever that may be. But at this moment, given the climate and context in which we live, the ballot question for the next campaign seems quite cemented.
King Charles won't give an address for Easter, but he'll give one for an Islamic holiday
The UK has fallen. https://t.co/wORBWD6ZcV pic.twitter.com/wKUnHG4mUi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 2, 2026
I think those rumours may be true.
The overdue end of NATO is finally coming fast.
The American president and secretary of state have signaled that the defense umbrella provided to Europe under the auspices of the North Atlantic Treaty is no longer a priority for the U.S. government.
This cannot have been a surprise in European capitals, but apparently it nonetheless is being treated as a shock.
Imagine paying $850 for general admission standing-room only seats for a Bruce Springsteen concert?
And then he gets up there and just lectures you about how much he hates Trump?
Was that a mention of the new world order? pic.twitter.com/OPkiVVkXGN
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 2, 2026
Tom Stamatakis is president of the Canadian Police Association. He represents more than 60,000 front-line officers. He has decades of experience in public-order policing. He has personally navigated riots, international summits, and the full chaotic repertoire of crowd dynamics. He is, by any reasonable measure, exactly the sort of person whose voice ought to count for something when Canadians ask why their streets have become a theatre of tolerated intimidation.
And what does Mr. Stamatakis have to say for himself?
The Democratic Socialists of America is prioritizing local elections to advance radical policies.
Americans pay too little attention to local politics. A decade ago, progressive billionaire George Soros took advantage of this fact, pouring millions into local races to get progressive district attorneys elected across the country.
Now, the increasingly radical Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has adopted the Soros strategy. Rather than supporting candidates at the national level, the organization increasingly focuses on small, local elections. Races for city councils, state assemblies, and state senates often get scarce media attention but represent real opportunities for power that the DSA is increasingly seizing.
Based on what Prime Minister Mark Carney, a Liberal cabinet minister, and a Liberal MP said publicly about China’s use of forced labour, the idea they are fiercely criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping about it in private is laughable.
Indeed, watching the performance of Carney, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, and former Conservative, now Liberal, MP Michael Ma on the issue over the past week, would have been hilarious if their milquetoast responses weren’t so alarming.
Many Westerners, it seems, still choose to believe a lie: that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is a political and social movement that can be engaged, moderated, and safely accommodated within democratic systems.
This belief is both mistaken and dangerous.
Recent developments in Egypt expose an alarming reality that should shake not only the Egyptians, but also the US and other Western countries.
