On March 22, a second letter was sent to Ontario’s Chief Firearms Officer.
It asked one question. A simple one.
“Will the Chief Firearms Officer revoke the firearms licences of those who do not turn in their newly prohibited firearms?”
And then, for clarity: “Yes, or no. Please choose one.”
If the purpose of trolling — the posting of offensive or inflammatory messages about an individual on social media — is to produce an overreaction, Donald Trump is a grandmaster of the genre.
He lashed out at Pope Leo XIV for opposing the Iran war. “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician.”
OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s minority government transformed into a slim but workable majority in Parliament courtesy of two Monday night byelection victories in Toronto, meaning the prime minister can now more easily advance his high-spending economic and defence agenda over any opposition objections.
The majority gives Carney greater control over parliamentary committee membership and votes in the House of Commons. More importantly, it gives him the luxury of time to govern as he sees fit amid global turmoil.
With 173 of 343 seats in the House of Commons, Carney has up to three more years before he will need to call a federal election.
A key government adviser will accuse the UK’s leaders of “corrosive complacency” towards defence and warn the country’s security is “in peril”.
Lord George Robertson, the former Nato secretary general who wrote the government’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR), will use a speech later on Tuesday to accuse “non-military experts in the Treasury” of “vandalism”.
The government has promised to publish a 10-year defence investment plan to fund the SDR’s vision but it has been repeatedly delayed.
When officials from the United States and Iran walked away from negotiations in Pakistan this weekend with no deal on the Strait of Hormuz, markets didn’t wait for clarity. They reacted. The subsequent announcement by United States Central Command of a naval blockade targeting Iranian ports was meant to reassure. Instead, it raised more questions than answers.
Markets, as they often do, may be reading this correctly.
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On March 6, the body of Masood Majoody, a mathematics professor at Simon Fraser University and a vocal critic of the theocratic Iranian regime, was found in Mission, B.C. He went missing on Feb. 2, a victim of suspected foul play.
Police have now arrested and charged two individuals, Mehdi Razavi and Arezou Soltani, alleged to have ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran’s military responsible for internal repression and overseas operations, with his murder.
Canada’s dominant Liberal Party has introduced legislation that may soon make Christian speech illegal.
In March, the Canadian House of Commons passed Bill C-9, also known as the “Combatting Hate Act.” The bill was introduced under the guise of mitigating antisemitic attacks in the wake of Hamas’ violent attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Liberals claimed it was developed to protect religious communities, but C-9 eagerly expanded to prohibit public displays of “hate,” including “Islamophobia, homophobia, and transphobia.” The Canadian Liberals have used so-called hate speech as a Trojan horse to enact censorship laws — the same thing American Democrats are trying to do here.
Four provinces and the federal government are dialling back their freedom-of-information (FOI) laws, moves that ominously mirror one another.
British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Ottawa are tightening transparency legislation, or proposing to do so, to make internal government documents harder for citizens, journalists and others to obtain.
Timelines for governments to provide responses to such requests are being extended, for example, and more records are being declared off-limits.
Environmentalists used to warn that there are ‘too many people on the planet’. In The Population Bomb (1968), the late Paul Ehrlich warned that ‘overpopulation’ would lead to mass starvation by the 1970s, to US life expectancy plummeting to just 42 by the 1980s, and by the year 2000, England would cease to exist. We now know that the world faces the precise opposite challenge – of unprecedented demographic collapse in the face of falling birth rates.
The struggle over Panama is not a trade dispute. It is a pre-kinetic tug-of-war between Beijing and Washington — and Canada should be watching.
OTTAWA — The Panama Canal is one of the great arteries of the world economy, a narrow thread of water through which roughly five percent of global maritime trade passes each year. For three decades, the ports at each end of it — Balboa on the Pacific, Cristobal on the Atlantic — were operated by a subsidiary of CK Hutchison, the Hong Kong conglomerate controlled by the family of billionaire Li Ka-shing. That arrangement ended this year when Panama’s Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, the government physically seized the terminals, and Beijing erupted in fury, threatening that Panama would “pay a heavy price.”
The Simi Valley, California Police Department had a momentous announcement on Wednesday: they revealed that they were “investigating a possible ‘hate incident’ at an Islamic Society of Simi Valley building,” according to NBC Los Angeles. What kind of “hate incident”? That’s unclear. What is clear from several recent incidents, however, is that although most people, especially political and law enforcement officials, are much more worried about “Islamophobia” than they are about Islamic jihad, the latter is actually much more of a threat.
A simple row of spruce trees marked the finish line for Canadian army reservists and combat members after a marathon two months pushing through one of the harshest environments on Earth: Canada’s vast Arctic.
The patrol, which ended on Friday in Churchill, Manitoba, was the largest northern mission in the history of the Canadian Rangers – a branch of the Canadian Armed Forces responsible for monitoring the country’s remote regions. For 5,200km (3,200 miles), they moved across the Arctic, following a route that had not been attempted in 80 years.
They drove snowmobiles across ice-covered terrain, navigating blizzards and high winds as they travelled for hours between remote northern communities. Some nights, they camped on the ice in tents as temperatures plunged to -60C (-76F).
If you were to celebrate the Tucson Pride Festival this past February, you were out of luck. Organizers of Tucson Pride had to dissolve their organization and cancel the annual festival, which for some reason wasn’t held during national Pride Month, which is in June.
OTTAWA—Avi Lewis concluded nearly four decades ago that the NDP had lost its way.
He was a 20-year-old roadie on the Ontario New Democratic Party’s 1987 election campaign, helping leader Bob Rae in an uphill fight to take credit for the NDP’s policy wins under a minority Liberal government.
It didn’t work. Premier David Peterson got his majority and the NDP lost six seats.
The media are still trying to breathe life into the commies Carney must want it so.
Q: You don't have a seat in parliament… will you be doing what Poilievre did, which is persuading one of your caucus to gently step aside?
Avi Lewis: There is no way I'm asking one of these spectacular people to step aside. Not in a million years. pic.twitter.com/NiJD5z2TXA
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertsonca) April 13, 2026
Germany’s latest police crime statistics (PKS) have reignited the migration debate, with new data showing a stark overrepresentation of foreign nationals in violent offences.
According to the figures, non-German suspects—particularly from Syria and Afghanistan—feature disproportionately in serious crimes. While foreign nationals account for around 15% of the population, their share of violent crime suspects is significantly higher.
