Mojtaba Khamenei has been named Iran’s new supreme leader and successor to his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war with the US and Iran.
Some pro-establishment crowds have taken to the streets to celebrate the appointment of a hardliner close to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
But other Iranians have told the BBC that they believe it will not bring about change.
Canadian military police are now involved in investigating the leak of a document used to undercut the Liberal government’s consideration of an alternative to the American-made F-35.
The Ottawa Citizen reported Dec. 15, 2025, that the Department of National Defence had launched an initial investigation into the leak of the four-year-old document. At the time the DND refused to say whether police would be involved.
An alleged war criminal is facing trial accused of crimes against humanity in the first UK prosecution of its kind.
The 58-year-old man, who now lives in this country, faces three murder charges, three charges of torture and a single charge of conduct ancillary to murder.
It is the first time the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has brought charges of murder as crimes against humanity under the International Criminal Court Act 2001.
Three Toronto-area synagogues were hit by gunfire in the span of one week last week. No one was obtuse enough to express “shock.”
These acts are not shocking when one Toronto synagogue has been vandalized 10 times in 18 months. When swastikas were spray-painted on three Jewish-owned businesses in Montreal – and on a synagogue in Winnipeg, and two in Halifax, and another in Montreal. It’s not shocking when a Jewish student in Halifax was bullied out of his school, where classmates taunted him with labels of “Jewboy” and “Jewseph.” When a Jewish girls’ school in Toronto has been shot at multiple times. When a Jewish woman was stabbed in an Ottawa grocery store known for its large kosher section. When Toronto protests about the war in Gaza somehow, repeatedly, end up marching through Jewish residential areas.
This is the current state of play … it’s too late. Canadian cities look like NYC to me.
Liberal white people will literally tell you to stop being “Islamophobic” while Muslims launch bombs over their heads…
We’re dealing with the dumbest people to ever exist pic.twitter.com/vkhDwXbKEc
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) March 9, 2026
Nobody masters combat skills better than cats. pic.twitter.com/tF6cnrQBg7
— Cat Knows Nothing (@CatKnowsNth) March 9, 2026
France has announced preparations for an “international mission” to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, as the war surrounding Iran threatens one of the world’s most important energy routes. The move signals that Paris is considering direct military participation in efforts to secure shipping through the narrow waterway linking the Persian Gulf to global markets.
Montreal Palestinian refugee Samar Alkhdour doubles down on her comments regarding white people stating “fuck white people a million times.”
Palestinians indisputably continue to improve the lives of anywhere they colonize. https://t.co/cJIftC04lm pic.twitter.com/Xtcxnhp83C
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) March 9, 2026
Number of Ontarians taking stimulants more than doubled after pandemic, study finds
The number of adults in Ontario who started taking stimulants, mainly to treat ADHD, more than doubled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study that found women were the most frequent new consumers of medications once taken mostly by hyperactive boys.
The research, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, showed that more than 220,000 adults in Ontario filled a new prescription for a stimulant such as Vyvanse or Concerta in the four years after March, 2020, up from about 107,000 in the four years beforehand.
Although U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in taking over Greenland appears to have faded — at least publicly — Canada’s Governor General says concern remains that the fight over the semi-autonomous territory isn’t over yet.
“Even though the threat has kind of gone to the wayside … People are still very worried it could come back,” Gov. Gen. Mary Simon said in an interview airing Sunday morning on Rosemary Barton Live.
“It creates a lot of anxiety. It creates a lot of turmoil,” she added.
Where in her job description is “interfering where you shouldn’t” written?
THE WAR on Iran is not another ill-conceived Western intervention in the Middle East. It has been a long time coming. Unlike the false arguments made for the war in Iraq in 2003 and the ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011, Iran has been a continuous source of instability in the region. Without Iran there would be no Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon or Houthi action in Yemen. Settling the Sunni and Shia factions in Iraq after the Iraq war would have been much easier. And there would not have been the October 7 attacks on Israel.
The regime in Iran is plain old evil. The UK’s and Europe’s obsession with a negotiated settlement is madness. There can be no negotiation with an enemy that wishes to destroy you.
OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s refugee tribunal told a parliamentary committee Monday that she does not know the name of a suspected senior Iranian regime official whose identity her own board concealed from the public in a deportation hearing — and that the concealment was granted at the man’s own request.
Death is supposed to clarify a life, not distort it.
Obituaries are meant to record history, not rewrite it.
But in today’s corporate media, even death cannot escape ideological spin.
Consider the recent coverage of Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Iran’s Supreme Leader for more than three decades.
Growing up in suburban Toronto, I occasionally had classmates who, being the children of immigrants, like myself, seemed spiritually homeless. They spent their summers in their parents’ countries, which were like gauzy pocket universes, while Canada remained a land of mud and chores, tolerated but not loved, pallid against the glow of a romanticized elsewhere.
