OTTAWA — A former Central Intelligence Agency analyst whose Washington think tank documented a swarm of Chinese Communist Party-linked community organizations across Western democracies — and identified Canada as the most heavily penetrated per capita — told Parliament that a sitting Canadian senator’s effort to discredit the research amounted to “a kind of laziness,” after that senator’s own newly founded advocacy group was identified by the same researchers as the 576th United Front-linked organization in Canada.
Child social media bans, the Trojan horse for the State surveillance of adults
AUSTRALIA’S government was the first to introduce a ban on under-age use of social media platforms. Though the ban, introduced in December for under-16s, likely had some positive effects, many teenagers had little difficulty outwitting the systems designed to lock them out.
The whole saga should serve as a warning to other governments of the folly of attempting to micro-manage children’s access to a widely accessible communications technology. Governments need to take a step back and ask themselves how they can support, rather than supplant, the supervisory role of parents.
ISIS recruiter being released from prison still holds ‘extremist views’
An ISIS recruiter who is being released from prison remains radicalized and poses a danger to the public, according to a Parole Board of Canada decision.
The ruling obtained by Global News said that while Ashton Larmond was now eligible for statutory release, special conditions were needed to protect public safety.
Larmond was arrested during a 2015 RCMP counterterrorism operation. He has now served two-thirds of his sentence and therefore must be released from custody.
A warning from Britain’s Iranian diaspora
Walking through central London as part of the Free Iran protest movement a couple of Sundays ago, I kept noticing the faces of bystanders. There was certainly very little in the way of support. But equally, open hostility wasn’t the predominant response either. Many of the expressions were marked by something harder to discern – a kind of consternation, an ill-disposed bemusement, as though what was in front of them couldn’t quite be metabolised, not without a certain level of discomfort anyway.
Jesse Kline: Carney gets a little help from his international banking friends
As the Liberals prepare to table their economic update next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s banker buddies are stepping in to defend his government’s high-spending ways.
Speaking to Bloomberg News last week, Nigel Chalk, director of the International Monetary Fund’s Western Hemisphere department, said that among the G7 economies, “Canada’s probably in the strongest position fiscally,” and lauded the Carney government’s “very strong focus on the debt path.”
Lena Dunham is not a genius or an inspiration. She’s a morbidly obese, self-obsessed mediocrity… with a very disturbing past
Lena Dunham, one of New York City’s worst exports, is back with a new memoir — and the media is treating her like a returning hero.
Trust me: Dunham is particularly, specifically awful.
She is unwell. She tells us in so many ways in Famesick, the book she’s currently promoting on podcasts, TV, in magazines and newspapers, and on a book tour, which she conducts while reclining on stage — in bed.
Dunham has, by all accounts, eaten herself into morbid obesity before age 40, yet is considered by The New York Times and others to be a generational oracle, a font of insight, an artist for the ages.
I forgot how truly awful she is.
QUESNEL: Two tiers, one country — Canada’s ‘two-tier media system’ is undermining trust in journalism
During recent Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage hearings about the state of media in Canada, witnesses and outlets pointed to two urgent realities reshaping the sector: government-funded journalists embedded in conventional newsrooms and the rapid rise of independent outlets. Sheila Gunn-Reid’s testimony for Rebel News crystallized the debate when she warned these developments have produced a “two‑tiered media system,” a split between outlets that rely on public handouts and those that do not.
Nigerian Migrant Eats Stray Cat in Italy
Nigerian man was arrested for setting fire to and eating a stray cat in Sarzana, Italy, last week.
Italian news sites reported on the incident, including the English version of LaMilano.it. However, interestingly, the article on the site about the incident is now blocked. A different site, Jen.jiji.com, has republished a verbatim copy. The local news site La Gazetta della Spezia has also covered the story.
Nigerian migrant arrested in Italy after grilling a cat in a park near a kid’s playground pic.twitter.com/qXSvIXhwvy
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 19, 2026
John Ivison: Carney’s feel-good video is weak medicine for our grave economic reality
Was the timing of Mark Carney’s feel-good “fireside chat” video released Sunday mere coincidence, landing as it did the day before concerning inflation numbers?
Or was it a deliberate calculation to point out that Canadian fur traders were all over the northern plains before the Americans had left St. Louis, a day ahead of confirmation that consumers are now paying $2.50 for a single bloody cucumber?
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard sidelines president as military grip expands
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite branch of the Iranian armed forces, has blocked President Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidential appointments and erected what sources described as a security cordon around Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, a report published Tuesday by Iran International said.
The IRGC effectively has assumed control over key state functions, the report claimed.
NEW: The U.S. is STILL awaiting confirmation about whether or not Iran will attend peace talks in Pakistan as the hours tick down on the ceasefire. @MattFinnFNC reports on the latest. | @AmericaRpts pic.twitter.com/QcrbH7R3gG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 21, 2026
Trump got his regime change in Canada. Now he may regret it
Well, the Iranian case is up for debate, but there’s no question your commander in chief effected “regime change” here in Canada. After last week’s special elections, Mark Carney, the prime minister whose elevation Donald Trump helped bring about, has at last secured a parliamentary majority for Canada’s Liberal Party.
But, as observers are keen to note, there is never a guarantee the leader you don’t like will be replaced by someone less problematic.
What she said…⬇️ https://t.co/hcb1wATpDw
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) April 21, 2026
We’re the one’s who will regret it not Trump, not Carney.
WTF?
Just out for a stroll in my skin shoes with a couple of demons. This is normal; what are you looking at? pic.twitter.com/GciF3Da3GI
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 20, 2026
What happened to Britain’s fighting spirit?
When war is in the air, young men traditionally sign up – and they traditionally sign up, disproportionately, from the northeast of England, where I grew up. The country must be prepared for war, says Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, head of our armed forces. But what use is all this puffed-up talk of a battle-ready Britain if we have no soldiers? In the northeast, the supply of soldiers has slowed not just to a trickle but to a drip.
Sunderland, for instance, home to nearly11,000 veterans, sent just ten men into the army in 2025. A reporter called Fred Sculthorp went to Sunderland for Dispatch magazine last month, to work out what had happened to the northeast’s fighting spirit, but all Fred found was apathy: why sign up when you can sign on? No loss to the army anyway, said the secretary of the Sunderland Gunners club. The lads these days “couldn’t fight a cold.”
WTF?
Septum-pierced leftist says that "peaceful protest won't fix this" and "violence is the answer."
How are we supposed to share a country with these violence-loving lunatics? pic.twitter.com/LgGBh5NiwJ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 20, 2026
Canada’s top cardinal urges Mark Carney and Liberals to stop Kill Krazy euthanasia expansion
Cardinal Frank Leo, the metropolitan archbishop of Toronto, called on Prime Minister Mark Carney and all his MPs to “choose life” and allow support to a Conservative Party private members’ bill that would stop a planned expansion of euthanasia to those with mental illness.
“I ask you to choose life and not death; to help build a civilization that cares for those suffering and does not eliminate them, but instead surrounds them with dignity, compassion, and love,” wrote Cardinal Leo in a letter released today, addressed directly to Carney and his MPs.
