OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he supports keeping one of the biggest trade irritants identified by President Donald Trump, specifically the Liberal government’s three per cent digital services tax on tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
Speaking on a French language election show hosted by three Radio-Canada journalists, Poilievre said the imposition of the tax on global digital giants is “fair.”
Civil liberties groups say that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech using vague laws
The police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms.
Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail.
Custody data obtained by The Times shows that officers are making about 12,000 arrests a year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dismissed accusations that Washington was left unable to help in the Myanmar earthquake due to the Donald Trump administration’s shuttering of its humanitarian aid agency.
Asked by the BBC why the US had not meaningfully responded, as it routinely has to past such disasters, Rubio said “we are not the government of the world”.
… Rubio said the US had to balance global humanitarian rescue work with “other needs” and “other priorities” that were in the US national interests.
“There’s a lot of other rich countries in the world, they should all be pitching in.
The storm over Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs over the Canadian border crisis has been baked into a vote-winning meme by Canada’s Liberal Party. Yet with an election only weeks away on April 28, can a sentimental appeal to a vanished Canada secure a win for Mark Carney?
Trump’s tariffs were expected to hit Canada on Wednesday’s “Liberation Day,” refueling a furor over Canadian sovereignty which has led some to say this is “shaping up to be the trade war election.”
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Friday that, earlier in the day, they struck and eliminated terrorist Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Awad, a senior commander in the Military Intelligence Array in the Gaza Strip, affiliated with senior commanders of the Palestinian Mujahideen terrorist organization.
Toronto police spent nearly $20 million to secure protests related to the Israel-Hamas war and to conduct community outreach within the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities last year, a new report shows.
“Maintaining public order is integral to core service delivery and adheres to provincial standards of adequate and effective policing,” the report, which will go before the Toronto Police Services Board next week, states.
The report says that in 2024, the service responded to over 2,000 “unplanned events” and that more than half of those were associated with Project Resolute, which was launched after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and saw police ramp up their presence throughout the city via command posts and community engagement.
It’s not as if the city rolled out the welcome mat for Hamas.
h/t Patti Jo
Left “so afraid of fundamentalists” that it cannot confront the influence of Islamism in Europe
On Thursday, April 3rd, the European Parliament’s Strasbourg plenary adopted a resolution to condemn Iran for executing hundreds of political prisoners each year and to call for revoking the death sentence of two prominent activists facing imminent execution.
However, when the national conservative Patriots for Europe (PfE) wanted to add an amendment to also condemn the treatment of women under Sharia law and warn about the informal spread of the practice in Europe, the Parliament blocked the initiative before MEPs could even vote on it.
Poilievre vs Carney supporters get into fight outside Liberal campaign event.
Book this for WrestleMania @TripleH. #cdnpoli #Scarborough #ProtestMania https://t.co/B92P4U6mJc pic.twitter.com/G8CaD1eklJ
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 4, 2025
Charges may have been laid against the reluctant to be photographed Liberal.
We have been in a historical turning point in the global order for several years. Certainly now, that reality should be starkly obvious to all.
The rules-based order that arose from the ashes of the Second World War, by which institutions and norms provided guardrails that successfully prevented another bloodletting of a global scale for eight decades, is in its death throes. The final nails are being driven into its coffin by a White House that has offered, in the recent words of American strategist Dr. Eliot Cohen, “aid and comfort to our enemies in increasing regularity.”
These TDS casualties were all happy with the status quo when the USA was footing the bill.
Canada stood proudly among the biggest freeloaders while remaking the CAF into a Transgender Parade Rapid Deployment Force.
These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis!
They will never sink our ships again! pic.twitter.com/lEzfyDgWP5
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2025
h/t Everyone who sent this in.
The King has been dragged into the Duke of York’s Chinese spy scandal through the release of new court documents.
A witness statement provided to an immigration tribunal by Dominic Hampshire, a senior adviser to Prince Andrew, claims that the King was aware of an investment fund in which Yang Tengbo, an alleged spy, was directly involved.
Mr Hampshire states that he and the Duke were twice smuggled into Windsor Castle for clandestine meetings with the King during which the Eurasia Fund was discussed.
The owner of a Scarborough jewelry store that has been targeted for robberies twice in two months says her children were “terrified” when a group of suspects backed into their business with a pickup truck on Thursday night in a shocking incident captured on video.
Scarborough Robbery Attempt Different view + aftermath of robbery https://t.co/4qfYakMvVc pic.twitter.com/9cZbNkJnbI
— RTN (@RTNCanada) April 4, 2025
The United States has warned that it will not be fooled by President Putin into “endless negotiations” over a ceasefire in Ukraine, as European governments criticised the Russian leader for dragging his feet.
Speaking at the end of a two-day Nato meeting in Brussels, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said Washington would “know soon enough, in a matter of weeks, not months, whether Russia is serious about peace or not. I hope they are”.
Rubio added: “If this is dragging things out, President Trump’s not going to fall into the trap of endless negotiations about negotiations.”
The CBSA said the three businesses pleaded guilty to employing a foreign national without authorization on Feb. 28, 2025.
CDA Landscape Services faced 20 counts of the aforementioned charge, while TDA Landscape Services and SDA Services, all located in Oshawa, faced two counts each. The CBSA said CDA Landscape Services was fined $400,000, TDA Landscape Services was fined $25,000, and SDA Services was fined $25,000.
