Ottawa has reconvened its Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety, and one name is a cause for concern, Bernie Farber. The announcement from Canadian Heritage says Farber, founding chair emeritus of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), will again help guide federal policy on “online harms.”
The same release also says the panel’s 2022 advice helped shape Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which later died in January 2025. That alone should have set off alarm bells in Ottawa.
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A senior U.S. counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday, March 17th to protest the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joseph Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump.
There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."
This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.
As President Trump has clearly and… https://t.co/AC8M5L8lye
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) March 17, 2026
President Donald Trump’s late-night musing about Venezuela potentially becoming the 51st state was likely well received in the Prime Minister’s Office.
It suggests that Mark Carney’s speech in Davos — widely viewed as standing up to the bully president — has persuaded Trump to move on and find an easier target than Canada or Greenland.
That may be temporary, of course, given the president’s mercurial nature.
The mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, spent St. Patrick’s Day morning talking about the supposed Palestinian genocide, as he hosted Ireland’s former President Mary Robinson for breakfast just days after a reporter stumped him with a question about the Irish liberation movement.
Some had fun …
☘️Happy St Patricks Day☘️#StPatricksDay pic.twitter.com/bwcDEJ3Elf
— YFI (@YFIHQ) March 17, 2026
Defence Minister David McGuinty said Tuesday that Canada’s decision not to join the U.S. and Israel’s military attacks on Iran was clear “from the beginning” of the war more than two weeks ago, while underscoring that position is not going to change.
During a press event in Brampton, Ont., highlighting Canada’s military aid to Ukraine, McGuinty was asked about the resignation Tuesday of U.S. National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent, who said he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war because “Iran posed no imminent threat” to the U.S.
Meanwhile in Toronto …
St Patrick’s Day attendees wearing Palestinian keffiyehs protest against St Patrick in Toronto, accusing him of genocide.
“F**k St Patrick. He’s a killer. He killed people. He got rid of people. He genocided people.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 17, 2025
As the crowds thronged Main Street, a drunken brawl erupted, prompting a shocked TV newsreader to declare: ‘What you are seeing is a total disregard for the things St Patrick stood for. All this drinking, violence and destruction of property. Are these the things we think of when we think of the Irish?’
At the time, that episode was far more controversial with Irish Americans than people who actually lived in Ireland, who thought it was hilarious. But that was then and this is now – and the modern Irish tend to take themselves far more seriously.
🇨🇮 St. Patricks day parade in Ireland is now full of migrants
This is what Colonisation looks like pic.twitter.com/BPpqCw41Ev
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) March 17, 2026
JAW DROPPING
Health Canada caught funding "booty bumping" kits with your tax dollars.
Nearly $3 million tax dollars went to a Toronto organization in the name of "harm reduction".
One of the funded services was kits to help people insert hard drugs through their rear end.… pic.twitter.com/tzLYdZzw0F
— Dan Mazier (@DanMazierMP) March 17, 2026
Lori Idlout’s first act as Liberal MP in the House of Commons, after crossing the floor from the NDP, was to vote against her new party in favour of an NDP motion calling for a stricter arms export control regime.
Prime Minister Mark Carney may have felt sympathy for Louis XIV’s maxim that every time he filled an office, he created a hundred malcontents and one ingrate — although, to be fair, Idlout was the one doing the favour by inching the Liberals closer to a parliamentary majority.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has blasted mass migration and stressed the right of nations to defend and preserve themselves and their distinct culture.
In an interview with the European Conservative, the former Prefect of the Congregation (now Dicastery) of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) said that European citizens and Western nations need to “decide if they want to be marginalized in their own country,” given the radical demographic shifts occurring.
Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to spend more and run deficits more than twice as large over the next five years compared to those planned by the previous Liberal government, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
As a result, Carney’s combined deficits are projected to total $321.7 billion from 2025-26 to 2029-30 — $167.3 billion higher than the $154.4 billion former prime minister Justin Trudeau was projected to spend during the same period, according to the report by the fiscally conservative think-tank.
The spectacular American military operation that removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power earlier this year has inevitably inspired comparisons among strategists searching for solutions to the Iran crisis.
When Maduro was captured during a dramatic U.S. raid on January 3, 2026, it was widely seen as a striking demonstration of American resolve under President Donald J. Trump. Maduro’s removal loosened the Venezuelan dictatorship’s grip on power and triggered a rapid political recalibration in Caracas. Washington quickly secured commitments on oil production, financial transparency, and the partial restructuring of Venezuela’s state energy giant PDVSA. Oil production, which had collapsed from roughly 3.2 million barrels per day in 1998 to around 800,000 by late 2025 after decades of corruption and mismanagement, began a gradual recovery as U.S. energy companies moved to revive extraction in the Orinoco Belt, home to some of the world’s largest heavy-crude reserves.
The BBC has asked a US court to throw out Donald Trump’s $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit over the way a documentary edited one of his speeches, warning that proceeding with the case would have a “chilling effect” on its reporting on the president.
In papers filed to the Florida court dealing with the case, the BBC’s US lawyers claimed Trump’s reputation had not been damaged by the documentary, given it aired in the UK a week before his re-election.
The broadcaster’s lawyers also reiterated that the Panorama documentary, Trump: a Second Chance, was simply not published in the US, including Florida, meaning the court had no jurisdiction to hear the case.
Once the fun and games of World Cup Soccer are over in Toronto, look for numbers as people who brought the games to the city try to justify the unbelievable expense and social upheaval.
The latest mind-boggling move is reported by Toronto Life: “Last month, the city declared that vast swaths of Toronto would be off-limits to road work from May 1 to July 31 to keep streets clear, what with the deluge of soccer fans expected to descend on the city. These restricted zones would cover everything south of Bloor Street to the lake between Sherbourne and Landsdowne as well as Parkside Drive, Roncesvalles Avenue, and long stretches of Dufferin, Bathurst, Avenue, Broadview and Yonge north of Bloor.”
