Ontario minimum wage workers are getting a cost of living boost that will bring their earnings to $17.95 an hour next October but that won’t pay bills in Toronto, says the Ontario Living Wage Network.
While an increase is appreciated, most workers earning basic wages in Toronto region need another $9.25 to reach the $27.20 living wage required for survival, said the network’s spokesperson Craig Pickthorne.
‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address
President Donald Trump will use a primetime Oval Office address Wednesday night to declare that the month-long war in Iran is winding down, against a backdrop of spiking oil prices and increasingly dismal poll numbers.
The president has telegraphed that message in interviews, social media posts and public comments over the past 24 hours, laying the groundwork for a speech that is expected to claim that all military objectives have been met, according to six people familiar with the planning and granted anonymity to speak candidly. He also intends to harshly scapegoat NATO allies for the biggest unresolved matter of the war, Iran’s ongoing restrictions of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
It was a painful wake-up call for Britain. When, last month, the United States and Israel launched an air assault against Iran, it wasn’t long before French President Emmanuel Macron announced he would be sending a powerful armada to the Eastern Mediterranean. The justification for the impressive deployment, which involves about half of France’s entire surface fleet and the country’s sole aircraft carrier, the magnificent Charles de Gaulle, was a series of Iranian drone attacks against EU member state Cyprus. Yet it wasn’t really Cyprus itself that was attacked, but the sovereign British territory of RAF Akrotiri. Nevertheless, even as Paris dispatched a potent naval force, Starmer’s Britain announced only the deployment of HMS Dragon, a Type 45 class destroyer — to add insult to injury, the British vessel malfunctioned en route to Cyprus. What is happening with the once-feared Royal Navy?
OTTAWA — The federal government says more than 67,000 guns have been registered to be turned in for compensation under its program for banned weapons.
Public Safety Canada announced the figure on Wednesday, one day after the compensation window, which opened in mid-January, closed for owners of the more than 2,500 makes and models of firearms the federal Liberals have prohibited since 2020.
Deranged leftist wants women to cheat on their husbands if they support Trump pic.twitter.com/0yIGsBMuor
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 30, 2026
Hypocrisy — and amnesia — continues to reign among the kleptocrats in Turtle Bay.
If ever there was any doubt as to the utterly worthless character of the United Nations — the universe’s premier wretched hive of scum and villainy — that was put to bed on Wednesday of last week.
The end, not that there shouldn’t already have been an end, came when the successor regime to the West African Ashanti Kingdom — that being the nation of Ghana — proposed a resolution indicating that the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the 15th through the 19th centuries was the worst sin against humanity, and called for reparations to be paid.
If you told me this was members of congress, I’d believe you. pic.twitter.com/5aGIRCSw42
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 1, 2026
For dreams to become reality, you first must get elected. That’s going to be a challenge for the NDP’s new leader.
The NDP put its best foot forward at last weekend’s convention, and the opening speech by Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was a highlight.
Deeply experienced and wise, Kinew represents the best of the NDP. He shone in both official languages, very much at ease on his home turf in Winnipeg.
His speech contained a strong message of hope, as one would expect.
The Human Rights Campaign thinks so, but its own data undermine that narrative.
Today, on International Transgender Day of Visibility, advocates will likely claim that transgender people are facing an “epidemic” of deadly violence driven by white supremacy, transphobia, and politicization by the far Right. For more than a decade, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has pushed this narrative, publishing annual “Epidemic of Violence” reports documenting transgender homicide victims in the United States. Relying on the HRC’s analysis, activists, presidents, members of Congress, the American Medical Association, celebrities, journalists, and scholars have repeated the HRC’s claims so often that for many they feel like established facts.
This is the person who created “transgender day of visibility” pic.twitter.com/OB1dmOEStC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 31, 2026
Stellantis NV is discussing options for building electric vehicles in Canada with its Chinese partner, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of how quickly the auto industry is being reshaped after Canada opened the door to companies from the world’s largest car market.
The talks are in an early stage, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing information that’s not public. If the companies proceed, it would be the first major Chinese auto investment in Canada since Prime Minister Mark Carney reached an agreement with President Xi Jinping in January to reduce tariffs on Chinese-made EVs.
CCP forced labour is enriching!
In the turmoil of revolutions and the fall of empires, history sometimes seems to extend a helping hand: the opportunity, in this instance, to end at least one expansionist movement that has been threatening the West. The possible destruction of the mullahs’ regime in Iran would not merely represent a geopolitical victory; it would mark the dawn of an era in which the idea that all human societies must be governed by Allah’s law and not by men could finally be escorted back to where it came from.
We’re going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). https://t.co/X27QJejNDt
— NASA (@NASA) April 1, 2026
Scheduled for 6:24 PM EDT
Kid just SMOKED a CNN reporter outside of Artemis II launch:
CNN: "Why do you want to be here?… Why do you love being a part of history?
Kid: "We're going back to the f*cking moon, that's why!" 🤣https://t.co/olarncM5jA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 1, 2026
The group behind the Alberta independence petition said it has received the 177,732 signatures it needs to force a referendum.
Mitch Sylvestre, head of Stay Free Alberta, confirmed to the National Post that it has met the threshold. The petition still needs official approval from Elections Alberta, which will review the signatures according to the Citizen Initiative Act after the petition is submitted after the official deadline of May 2.
Milly Alcock, who stars in the title role of this summer’s upcoming Supergirl movie, is already pre-blaming sexist superhero fans in the event her movie tanks at the box office.
There is honestly no other way to interpret her stupid remarks in Vanity Fair. Her blockbuster movie comes out in June, and she’s already bracing herself for the attacks (that will never come), and comparing what she expects to her experience starring in the HBO Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
Another Rachel Zegler!
Provincial rules around alcohol and the federal government’s “Buy Canadian” policy have been flagged in a new report citing several trade irritants between Canada and the U.S.
The annual document prepared by the Office of the United States Trade Representative said market access barriers imposed by provincial liquor control boards “greatly hamper” exports of U.S. wine, beer and spirits to Canada.
