Ontario’s transparency watchdog says the Ford government’s planned overhaul of freedom of information laws is a “shocking” proposal designed to hide the premier’s cellphone records from the public.
New policy announced by the government on Friday morning will retroactively block the release of communications from the premier, government ministers, parliamentary assistants or their staff through access to information requests.
THIS week, both the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary announced crackdowns on pro-Iran extremism.
The measures unveiled by Shabana Mahmood and Bridget Phillipson are fair but belated and disingenuous.
Iran fired missiles at a military base housing members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Carney government said nothing for almost two weeks.
When they finally did say something it was only because Montreal newspaper La Presse had reported on the matter.
This year’s Oscars feel oddly bloodless. Not because there are no good films in the race, but because the ceremony increasingly resembles a formality. As far as the acting awards go, Michael B Jordan looks like a well-deserved shoo-in for best actor, and Jessie Buckley seems nailed on for best actress. Even more contested categories like Best Picture feel like a foregone conclusion. We all suspect that One Battle After Another is going to sweep up the awards. There is no sense that there is a genuine competition going on here.
Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to enjoy an extended honeymoon with certain segments of the public with his popularity at near-record highs.
This, despite having made some glaringly rookie mistakes since taking office a year ago.
When news broke Thursday of the synagogue attack in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, the pattern felt grimly familiar: Another Jewish house of worship, another act of violence.
As I watched the media reports and anxiously waited for casualty numbers, it was clear that despite the different time and different place, the fundamentalist ideology that I grew up with in the Middle East has now taken hold in Middle America.
Antisemitism is rising across the West, with hatred that once lingered along the margins now appearing openly. Jewish communities feel its impact daily, from increased security at synagogues to harassment on college campuses and families hesitating to display their Jewish identity in public.
The missiles that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei set off celebrations in the streets of Tehran, Toronto and other Canadian cities. But not everyone was cheering. As U.S. and Israeli strikes dismantle Iran’s military infrastructure and end the reign of a cleric who ruled with an iron fist for more than three decades, the Iranian-Canadian community is split between relief and rage.
Most Iranian-Canadians agree the Islamic Republic was a repressive regime that terrorized its own people. But they sharply disagree on whether the strikes were justified, whether they will ultimately help ordinary Iranians and what Canada’s response should be.
Shermineh Esmati-Novak, CEO and founder of NOVASHER Ventures, helped organize a Toronto rally celebrating the strikes. She says the attack represents an overdue reckoning. Samira Mohyeddin, journalist and founder of On the Line Media, calls it an illegal war paid for with civilian lives.
Samira Mohyeddin? The Star will platform any rabid “progressive” lunatic.
Samira Mohyeddin —aka the Butch
Of Tehran — who once tried to claim I was homophobic for criticizing her ties with Hamas, tries a new tactic! I hate myself because I support the only democracy in the Mideast!
Omg the woman is f—-ed in the head. https://t.co/LtyRzNhKfj— Sue-Ann Levy (@SueAnnLevy) May 30, 2025
This piece was originally titled Should Canada celebrate or condemn the strikes on Iran?
New analysis from the Conservative Party warns that nearly four in ten newly built homes in the UK by 2030 may be required to accommodate incoming migrants. Drawing on projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the report estimates that net migration between 2026 and 2030 will reach almost 1.2 million people, creating demand for roughly 500,000 additional homes.
The OBR projects that around 1.34 million new homes will be delivered over the same period, meaning that 37.1% of all housing could be allocated to new arrivals, with the proportion rising to nearly 40% by 2030.
Opposition is mounting among Quebec’s federal Conservatives to their own party’s push to award the Order of Canada to controversial hockey commentator Don Cherry.
In a social media post late Thursday, the party’s Quebec lieutenant Pierre Paul-Hus said he believes appointing Cherry would be “a bad idea” given his “unacceptable remarks toward the Quebec nation and francophones.”
The Order of Canada is awarded in recognition of exceptional achievements, extraordinary contributions to the nation or remarkable dedication to a community.
Overnight on Wednesday, around 100 Basij soldiers were killed across Tehran by dozens to hundreds of suicide drones in a covert operation some are comparing to Israel’s previous pager operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The drones hit Basij bases, motorcycles, and vehicles, targeting IRGC, Basij, and special forces checkpoints.
Iraq also experienced a heavy night of strikes against pro-Iranian militias.
At the same time, the regime in Iran continues its efforts at self-preservation through sustained attrition from within Iran and on other fronts.
🚨 NEW: Israel appears to be opening a new phase of the war—suicide drones striking IRGC & Basij checkpoints across Tehran.
Street-level regime control posts are being taken out, potentially weakening the regime’s grip and giving Iranians space to take to the streets.
Stay… pic.twitter.com/TbnR1SEJkI
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 11, 2026
A heavy police presence was evident during the Al-Quds rally held in downtown Toronto on Saturday.
Two arrests were made in the early going. Toronto police said in X post that they were “on the ground today to uphold the right to demonstrate lawfully while holding those who engage in criminal activity accountable.”
Our elites have turned Canada into a shithole.
Last week, gunfire struck three synagogues in the Greater Toronto Area. We have grown accustomed to the response: hollow expressions of sympathy, feeble condemnations and the familiar promise that the city stands with the Jewish community.
But what is unfolding in Toronto is not an abstract rise in hateful rhetoric. It is the steady normalization of violence against Jews, and the city’s leadership appears determined to ignore the reality that we are at risk of a mass-casualty attack targeting the Jewish community.
The rot runs deep. Chow is just one public symptom.
Spotted in #Newmarket, Ontario: robbery/assault
WTF is going on in this clip? 🧐 pic.twitter.com/sZvJvO38Ae
— Curious George (@01CuriousGeorge) March 14, 2026
A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, the deal that began integrating the Mexican economy with the United States and Canada in the 1990s, has been a politically charged topic for decades.
Centrist Democrats and Republicans supported the agreement as a way to strengthen the North American economy. But its legacy has been mixed. In some parts of the United States, the agreement shuttered factories and put people out of work as companies moved production to Mexico, where labor was cheaper. President Trump won over unions and other workers as a candidate by labeling NAFTA the “worst agreement ever” and promising to improve or scrap it.
A new paper adds to the understanding of NAFTA’s costs. In it, economists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago found that American workers in communities that were more exposed to competition from Mexican imports saw a significant shortening of their life spans after the trade deal went into effect in 1994.
Is there a name for this body shape that's wide on the top and progressively gets narrower like an ice cream cone? pic.twitter.com/EKGRef9Yvo
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 14, 2026
