A French criminal court’s disqualification of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French populist party, the Rassemblement National, from running for office for five years, along with a sentence of four years’ imprisonment—meaning two years under effective house arrest—and a fine of $110,000 has, not surprisingly, acted like a stick poked into a hornet’s nest. The disqualification means that Le Pen will not be able to run for the presidency, which she had a reasonable chance of winning, in 2027.
Elite Capture, Foreign Interference, and Crime: Canada Must Confront the Threat Within
Canada’s political landscape has long been characterized by a balance between geopolitical alliances and domestic priorities. But in recent years, this balance has been upended by our country’s failure to respond decisively to China’s expanding political interference, the rise of foreign-influenced elites, and the unchecked growth of transnational organized crime. What’s at stake is nothing less than our national sovereignty—and a growing perception that, through complacency, Canada is not only eroding its own democratic foundations but playing directly into the hands of U.S. strategic interests.
Jihadists are murdering, raping, torturing, kidnapping, enslaving, and, in some instances, burning people alive — across Africa, and now in Syria. Recent videos posted on X show that Syrian Islamists are doing to Alawites what Hamas did to Jews living near Gaza. Christians, Druze and Yazidis in Syria — like their non-Muslim or non-Arabized counterparts in Africa— fear they may be next.
Canada may still be reeling from a bout of political and diplomatic shock—call it Post-Disruption Stress Disorder (PDSD)—following the April 2 announcement in the Rose Garden by President Trump.
But for both Canada and Mexico, the news was less damaging than feared. Despite the sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs unveiled that day, our two nations were spared. So were American grocery shoppers.
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman once warned that artificial intelligence “may cause significant harm to the world.” His chatbot is already harming babies, mothers and pro-life volunteer organizations by directing them to the baby-killing organization Planned Parenthood for information on crisis pregnancy centers.
An Ottawa man accused of trying to sow hate and fear by helping create racist recruitment videos and other propaganda for a now defunct far-right international neo-Nazi terrorist group has been found guilty on all charges
Justice Robert Smith found Patrick Gordon Macdonald guilty of the three charges against him on Wednesday: participating in terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity and committing an offence for a terrorist group.
Joy has returned to the CBC.
This happened last weekend at the University of Maryland. A female fencer named Stephanie Turner chose not to compete against a trans woman named Redmond Sullivan at an event called the Cherry Blossom Open. As the match began, Turner took a knee and removed her mask. For this she was given a “black card” and ejected from the competition.
OTTAWA — Canada is hitting back against U.S. auto tariffs, slapping a 25 per cent retaliatory border levy on all American-made vehicles not covered by free trade deals but exempting auto parts.
In Ottawa Thursday morning, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would retaliate to part of the new 25 per cent U.S. border levy on foreign-made autos and parts as he warned that more American border levies may be coming on lumber, agriculture, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.
Age limits for gun purchases are very popular with anti-gunners. They love the federal age limits on handguns and they want the same limits on at least some long guns.
They’ll tell you that these age limits keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are young enough that their brains haven’t fully developed and can’t be trusted to be rational while owning guns.
Freedom Convoy Organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been found guilty of mischief as “protest leaders” and “social influencers.”
“The Crown has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Lich and Barber have committed mischief,” said the Court of Ontario judge overseeing the mischief trial.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A third defendant pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in an attempt to bribe a juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for acquittals in a massive COVID-19-related fraud case in Minnesota.
Abdulkarim Shafii Farah pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a juror. He was the third of five defendants to admit to federal charges arising from the bribery case, which broke last year during the first trial of people charged in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Two of the seven defendants in that trial were Farah’s brothers.
Ilhan Omar was likely married to all of these guys at one point.
Yes, poor gullible, fearful Canada. You were played.
Not by U.S. President Donald Trump. You were played by power-seeking politicians in this country. You were played by many in the press in this country.
Reality came to call one day after the date set aside for playing jokes on people.
Chicken Little was wrong. The sky isn’t falling. Canada’s end times are not upon us.
Canadian-born Neil Young is worried he may be barred from returning to the U.S. by President Donald Trump’s administration after his upcoming European tour, lamenting Tuesday his outspokenness against Trump may make him a target for summary retribution.
“Well, I hope Neil Young will remember a MAGA man don’t need him around anyhow”
A deeply flawed argument has slipped into the national election conversation.
It goes like this: there isn’t much policy difference between front-runners Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre, so it really comes down to who can best handle Donald Trump.
True, handling the U.S. president is job one and polls show Carney more trusted on this file. But the first part of the argument — that the two men have similar policies — is fundamentally wrong and dangerously misleading.
It’s true what they say about progressives every accusation is a confession.
Dutch police confirmed there was an explosion inside a car in central Amsterdam on Thursday, just days after a knife attack in the city that investigators are treating as terrorism.
The reasons for this latest incident are not yet known, but police said they had arrested the driver of the car, a 50-year-old Dutch national.
BREAKING NEWS
Potential terrorist attack in Amsterdam.
A man sets himself and his car on fire. Police suspect it was a bomb.
Europe continues to destroy itself.
— Radio Europe (@RadioEuropes) April 3, 2025
