Mezhgan Aini had a husband and three children she cared about, family in Afghanistan who she talked to regularly, and a thriving seamstress business in Mississauga.
Then she was gone.
Mezhgan, 38, was reported missing by her sister in August 2025. Seven months later, Peel police issued a news release: The probe into her disappearance was now a homicide investigation.
Maybe the same reluctance that lead to the torture and death of a child was at work on this case?
Plainclothes police officers were present and actively surveilling an Antifa cell during a protest, which saw a conservative student suffer fatal blows to the head in an alleged mob leftist killing, raising questions about whether law enforcement could have intervened to save his life.
As you already know, the New Democrat Party over the weekend elected a new leader in Avi Lewis.
But prior to him stepping into Jagmeet Singh’s Gucci loafers, there were some other events that took place during the NDP Leadership Convention in Winnipeg.
This is what nightmares are made of.
Could easily be a comedy skit. pic.twitter.com/Y1UwYdr3wZ
— Retard Finder (@IfindRetards) March 29, 2026
Between the non binary chair looking, and might I say acting, a little like Nazi youth combined with the equity card shuffle, this seems like an episode of Portlandia pic.twitter.com/yXDH2qKSdy
— Iseult (@iseult) March 29, 2026
My suspicion is the Juno’s and the NDP Convention are the same event rebranded.
Comment of the week goes to @KidTokyo86 😆 pic.twitter.com/KVnAsO85bm
— Stacey (@StaceyMonette27) March 30, 2026
TEL AVIV — As U.S. and Israeli military commanders met to map out war with Iran, they deliberated over how to divide responsibility for an array of targets, including missile batteries, military bases and nuclear sites.
It was clear from the outset, however, that one grim mission would belong to Israel: hunting and killing Iran’s leaders.
Israel has pursued this assignment with ruthless efficiency, killing Iran’s supreme leader in the opening salvo of the war and more than 250 other “senior Iranian officials” since, according to a count maintained by the Israeli military. The latest blow came Thursday when Israel said it had killed the naval commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Years of Western sanctions haven’t prevented money flows out of Tehran: ‘They probably learned from the Russian oligarchs’
On a leafy residential stretch of North London dubbed Billionaires’ Row, Saudi royals and wealthy Russians have long come shopping for high-end real estate. The Iranians were a more surprising addition to the neighborhood.
Several sprawling mansion plots along the thoroughfare more formally known as The Bishops Avenue make up a chunk of the extensive London property holdings funded by Iranian money that Western officials have linked to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iranian banker Ali Ansari acquired the Bishops Avenue plots and other nearby property in 2018 for around 90 million pounds, equivalent to around $120 million today, according to people familiar with the deal. The transaction took place offshore through an entity registered in the Isle of Man, the people said.
A small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators was met by a large police presence on Sunday, as they marched in North York to test a directive banning them from residential parts of a local Jewish neighbourhood.
At 1 p.m., about 20 people carrying Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Israel slogans walked west along Sheppard Avenue from its intersection with Bathurst Street, the site of competing weekly rallies about the Mideast conflict since at least fall 2024.
A line of Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers and cruisers blocked off each side street along the main thoroughfare. At each one, organizers asked if they would be allowed down the street, and officers instructed them to keep moving.
WATCH:
Protesters at Bathurst and Sheppard complain to police about an individual wearing a makeshift niqab and draped in a Pride flag.
“This is incitement,” says a protester, himself dressed in a full keffiyeh face covering and sunglasses.
📸 Mar 29, 2026#Toronto… pic.twitter.com/TzwiKq4KkD
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 29, 2026
That’s a lot of cops and firemen to deploy. The cost of policing these cranks is unsustainable.
Happening now
Hwy 401 near Keele Collector Lanes
High risk take down#hwy401 #toronto #TPS pic.twitter.com/et5MvdqwQK— At the Scene Photography (@AtTheScenePhoto) March 30, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has called for the withdrawal of all US soldiers from the country.
Tino Chrupalla, the far-Right party’s co-leader, told a meeting on Saturday that it was time to remove allied troops and nuclear weapons from Germany in order to pursue an “independent” foreign policy.
“Let’s start implementing this with the withdrawal of US troops from Germany,” he told supporters in Saxony.
Long a popular opinion in Germany, it may hasten the end of NATO.
A major immigration reform bill is now law in Canada. Some worry it rolls back refugee rights
A major bill reforming immigration powers is now law in Canada, giving Ottawa powers to mass cancel groups of visas and setting time limits on asylum claims in the name of bringing immigration numbers under control.
But the legislation, passed Thursday, has also raised concerns from a coalition of civil society groups, including Amnesty International, immigration lawyers and public sector unions, that says it places too much authority in the government’s hands and is vowing to fight it.
“Bill C-12 attacks the rights of refugees and migrants,” Julia Sande, a lawyer specializing in privacy and migrant rights at Amnesty International Canada, said in an interview with CBC News. “It makes it harder for people to have their claims for refugee protection fairly assessed, so it puts people at risk of being deported to face persecution and torture.”
Just the usual scammers dislike this and frankly it doesn’t go far enough.
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to address members of the European Parliament. Many of the things I said will sound familiar to regular readers of my column, but I believe I was able to deepen some of my thoughts, and would like to share them with you here.
Revolutions make for fascinating case studies in hindsight. We like to imagine them as eruptions of grand philosophical discontent, the oppressed masses rising against an unjust order in the name of some great principle. And there is always a philosophical dimension lurking in the background. But the spark that actually ignites a revolution is often far more mundane than historians care to admit.
Closer to home …
Canada is becoming a feudal state. pic.twitter.com/ujPA252tq8
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) March 29, 2026
Farmers around the world are feeling the squeeze of the Iran war. Gas prices have shot up and fertilizer supplies are waning due to Tehran’s near shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli bombing.
Iran is seriously limiting shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage that usually handles about a fifth of the world’s oil shipments and nearly a third of global fertilizer trade.
Canadian farmers are also bracing for higher costs and warning consumers could soon feel the impact at the checkout line.
While commentators trade in familiar fears, events on the ground point to a far more decisive outcome than the online debate suggests.
A commentator in (mirabile dictu) The Washington Post made an excellent point about how the war in Iran is being understood. “We are living through the first alt-war,” the Tel Aviv University scholar Jen Brick Murtazashvili wrote. On the one hand, we have the war as it is fought online. On the other, we have the war as it is fought in reality, on the ground. The two “have diverged so completely,” Murtazashvili noted, “that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information; it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality—one that confirms what they already believe.”
The Qom Turbine Engine Production Plant produced gas turbine engines for attack drones and aircraft components used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The photo dated on March 6, 2026 shows the plant before U.S. airstrikes and the second photo shows the plant three days… pic.twitter.com/wCxiE7Qnka
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 23, 2026
The white liberal woman’s war
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Iranian woman goes BERSERK on a smug white liberal who is supporting the Islamic regime
"Convince me of WHAT? Of R*PE?! Of women not having rights?! I am Iranian, I've been imprisoned by that regime!"
"Iranians are ASKING for the bombs! Iranian youth are asking… pic.twitter.com/abMfw5x0RR
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 29, 2026
It’s hard to say what’s the worst part about Toronto City Council voting in favour of government run grocery stores. Perhaps it’s just that, shockingly, it’s a real thing that actually happened, taking valuable time and resources away from serious governance that could improve the livability of Toronto.
Last week, Councillor Anthony Perruzza put forward a motion that “City Council establish a pilot project to open four municipally operated grocery stores within the City of Toronto.” The locations would be chosen with “priority given to neighbourhoods with limited access to full-service grocery stores and where residents have lower average household incomes.”
The arrival of American ground invasion forces in the Middle East over the weekend provides Donald Trump with the muscle for a perilous attempt to forcibly open the strait of Hormuz, Iran’s biggest pressure point in the war.
Iran’s chokehold on the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade normally passes, gives Tehran leverage that Trump understands, sending oil prices rocketing to more than $100 a barrel. The American president says he’s prepared to give diplomacy a chance, though bombing of Iran continues.
But even for talks, the dealmaker will seek a better hand. Trump said on Sunday that he wants to “take the oil in Iran”.
From the Commander and Chief …
h/t Mauser
A Ukrainian refugee says Manitoba’s rejection of her requests to help her remove her deadname from official documents leaves her exposed to transphobia and infringes on her right to express her