OTTAWA — Bad news for the less than one quarter of Canadians who still get door-to-door mail delivery.
A little under five months after the federal government lifted moratoriums on installing new community mailboxes, Canada Post is moving ahead with eliminating door-to-door mail delivery in Canada.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the NATO alliance will have to be “re-examined” given the failure of European powers during the Iran conflict.
Speaking with the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Media Network, Secretary Rubio expressed deep disappointment with the response of allies in Europe to the conflict in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz and suggested that America may be better off without NATO.
The Juno Awards ceremony on Sunday completely ignored Quebec, with the francophone album trophy handed out at an earlier gala, almost no Quebec artists performing (the only one was former Montrealer Allison Russell during the Joni Mitchell tribute), and the only person to utter a word in French was our prime minister.
The Junos are billed as “Canada’s Music Awards.” But based on Sunday night’s gala, that’s false advertising. These Junos apparently don’t include Quebec.
I don’t consider the Juno’s to be “Canadian”. The only talent required is to be a left wing crank.
Tanya Tagaq, the Inuk throat singer at the Junos, confronted Frances, Dallas and others when we were run off the UVic campus with smoke bombs, physical attacks, and noise. She had a megaphone. https://t.co/B0WB765nnw
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) March 30, 2026
h/t Mauser
At least 70 people have been killed and 30 injured during an attack in Haiti’s breadbasket Artibonite region, significantly more than official estimates, a human rights group has said.
Police initially reported 16 dead and 10 injured, while a preliminary report from civil protection authorities suggested 17 had died and 19 were wounded.
The Collective Defending Human Rights group, which reported the higher death toll, said the “massacre” on Sunday had forced nearly 6,000 people to flee their homes.
🇭🇹 Gang violence in Haiti has reached extreme levels
The “Gran Grif” gang, one of the most brutal in Haiti, carried out an attack on the town of Jean-Denis, killing more than 70 civilians, including children. They also burned numerous homes and buildings in the area.
Unlike… pic.twitter.com/L9crElcssd
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 31, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he is “absolutely not” considering proroguing Parliament if he were to secure a majority government.
“Absolutely not. It has never even entered my thinking, the possibility of that, so I couldn’t have been more surprised to see [the] suggestion that … was under consideration,” he said at an announcement in Wakefield, Que., surrounding the protection of land and waters on Tuesday.
ROME — As President Donald Trump amped up criticism of NATO countries for refusing to do more in the Iran war on Tuesday, European allies were doubling down on their resistance.
Italy in recent days denied landing rights to U.S. war planes seeking to land at Sigonella base in eastern Sicily after determining their flight plans were linked to the war effort, according to a senior Italian official.
That revelation — involving a nation led by a key Trump ally, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — emerged a day after Spain said it had gone further in its direct opposition to the war, now refusing not only use of its bases, but also overflight rights to aircraft involved in the conflict, its defense minister said.
Nato will defend Norway’s Arctic territory against a Russian invasion “from the first centimetre” after learning from Ukraine, the commander of the Norwegian army has said.
For decades, Nato’s plan for defending the High North from Russia was a fighting withdrawal from the northern Finnmark region by British Royal Marines and Norwegian troops, buying time until US reinforcements arrived to help retake lost territory.
Yet President Putin’s war has demonstrated how difficult it is for a large force to move forward under drone-saturated skies, and President Trump’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric against Nato has thrown American support into doubt.
The banning of protests in a Jewish neighbourhood in North York proved to be easier said than done.
Toronto Police found out about that.
Protesters stop their march at Bryant Street and try to negotiate past the police line:
“We don’t know what the boundaries are.”
The sergeant replies, “Bathurst and Sheppard.”
📸 Mar 29, 2026#Toronto #ProtestMania
Support independent reporting on Canada’s protest circuit… pic.twitter.com/kHzif98A3E
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 31, 2026
I’m not a lawyer nor do I play one on this blog but given Canada’s left leaning judiciary I doubt these restrictions would survive a court challenge.
A multinational consortium will take over the management of the Strait of Hormuz under plans put forward by the Trump administration.
Diplomatic sources told The Telegraph that Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, presented the idea last week at a meeting of G7 foreign ministers.
Mr Rubio stressed there would be “no fees, and free circulation” through the key shipping route, according to one interpretation of his intervention.
The independent tribunal that decides refugee claims has since 2019 ruled on more than 45,000 asylum cases based on paperwork alone without an in-person hearing, raising concerns from the Conservatives and experts that this could dilute scrutiny and compromise national security.
Figures provided to MPs on the Commons immigration committee by the Immigration and Refugee Board show that in that period, Iranian asylum claimants have had the most claims decided without an in-person hearing, with 10,730 claims decided based on paper reviews of their files.
An immediate halt to all refugee clams followed by mass deportation works for me.
🚨BREAKING
the driver who filmed himself demeaning and berating a female Montreal police officer
calling her “his slave”
has been identified as Mohamed Bekkali, 24 years old, by TVA. His name is Moroccan, and he visited that country recently. https://t.co/KPpBSwi4N4 pic.twitter.com/uCxJ6CP28M
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 31, 2026
“Filthy whore,” “dirty female dog,” “you’re my slave”: a Montreal police officer was subjected to extremely violent language while intervening with a motorist last summer. However, she had no legal means to silence the aggressive man.
h/t Patti Jo and NeoCon
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk have asked to delay a preliminary hearing scheduled in May, saying they need time to review an enormous amount of material and a bullet analysis that could contribute to his defense.
Tyler Robinson’s defense team said in recent court filings that an analysis from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a federal law enforcement agency, could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during an autopsy to the rifle found near the scene. The FBI is running additional tests, according to court documents.
The US won’t allow Chinese electric cars from Canada to enter its market, President Donald Trump’s ambassador in Ottawa said, after a January deal in which Prime Minister Mark Carney lowered tariffs on those vehicles.
“Those cars can come in from China, come into Canada, but they’re not going to cross the border into the US,” Pete Hoekstra said in an interview with Canada’s Rebel News. “That ain’t gonna happen.”
Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine’s allies have urged him to scale back attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure amid the ongoing global fuel crisis – but that they would only end if Russia stopped targeting Ukraine’s first.
The Ukrainian president told journalists in a WhatsApp voice message that, by launching attacks on Russia’s energy system, Ukraine was only responding in kind.
It is unclear which countries he may have been referring to. China and India remain heavily dependent on Russian oil, and the EU on Russian gas.
