We find ourselves suddenly returned to the great days of the set-piece speech. At a time when attention spans are said to be shorter than ever, when the media is consumed with clickbait and politics is all about getting likes on TikTok, in recent weeks the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have each chosen to deliver lengthy, learned, intricately argued speeches on, of all things, foreign policy.
Coyne back on his meds?
The story you heard first — that President Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem over a $220 million ad campaign — isn’t wrong, exactly. But it’s incomplete. The ad spending lit the fuse; an eight-word question that Noem refused to answer in plain English plunged the detonator.
Sales of alcohol declined for the fourth straight year in 2024-25, according to a Statistics Canada report released Wednesday.
From April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025, sales dropped by three per cent to 2,898 million litres on a volume basis, marking the fourth consecutive year volume sales have declined.
Ten people have been arrested across London in relation to a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into Iranian spying in the city, four of them on direct intelligence suspicions, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday.
Counter Terrorism Policing detectives arrested four people on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service and a further six people on suspicion of “assisting an offender”, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. The men are said to be suspected of spying on the Jewish community in London on behalf of Iranian intelligence.
More than two decades ago, the United States invited Canada to join in a new Middle Eastern misadventure. The invitation was premised on a big lie about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction.
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien declined to participate. It’s not that he foresaw the disaster to come — but he had a team of good advisers, as well as credible intelligence showing Saddam posed no imminent threat and had had no role in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Perhaps more important, Chrétien also didn’t trust his American counterpart, President George W. Bush.
That’s a lot of bluster for a guy whose army is more concerned with sex change operations than being combat ready.
We’re involved in military actions in Iran, including the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei. We’re also sourcing oil and minerals from Venezuela, Kristi Noem has been dismissed, and the fate of the SAVE Act remains uncertain. With the 2026 midterms approaching, these issues often get overlooked, and the results can be unfavorable. The investigation into Biden’s autopen use has concluded, with the Justice Department quietly ending it, supposedly due to the lack of a suitable criminal statute to pursue charges…
Quebec is moving ahead with plans to recognize fromage en grains du Québec — cheese curds — as a controlled designation.
If adopted, the rules would be simple: The milk would need to come from Quebec, the curds would need to be produced there, and producers would have to follow a prescribed production protocol. Cheese curds made outside the province simply could not be marketed under the name fromage en grains du Québec.
A drink and drug-fuelled thug who planned to ‘wipe out a whole family’ will never be released from prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s sister and her three children.
Sharaz Ali, 40, has been given a whole life order for murdering Bryonie Gawith and her children Denisty, nine, Oscar, five, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle by setting fire to their house in Bradford in August 2024.
The blaze was a revenge attack on Bryonie’s sister, Antonia Gawith, who had been staying with the family after she ended her seven-year relationship with Ali.
A central figure accused in the Project South police corruption probe has been linked in court documents to an alleged accomplice of cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding, connecting for the first time the two sprawling investigations into organized crime in Canada.
Brian Da Costa, an alleged drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto police officers and leaking computer data later used in organized crime intimidation campaigns, has been ordered not to contact Gurpreet Singh − a Toronto-area man who allegedly conspired to transport hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Canada for the Wedding network.
Young people gathered in Berlin’s central Potsdamer Square on Thursday and marched through the German capital to protest against the government’s plans to reintroduce military service. While the police counted around 3,000 participants, organizers claimed there were 6,000 demonstrators in Berlin and 50,000 in more than 130 towns and cities across Germany.
“I don’t think I’ll be dying for my friends, relatives or acquaintances, in the worst-case scenario,” 17-year-old Shmuel Schatz, spokesperson for the School Strike Committee, told DW’s Gasia Ohanes. “Rather, in the end, only for those who are put into the trenches for the interests of large corporations like Rheinmetall, ThyssenKrupp, and others, so they can line their pockets at the expense of war.”
OTTAWA—Given his short tenure to date, Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have fully grasped something every leader eventually must: power doesn’t corrupt, it deludes. By reconciling the irreconcilable, it persuades its holder that contradiction is sophistication.
… At the World Economic Forum in Davos back in January, Carney presented himself as the custodian of coherence in a splintering world. He warned against economic coercion, and the fragility of rules-based co-operation. He cautioned against an overreliance on singular partnerships, and urged renewed commitment to multilateralism and international law. It was the technocrat at his level best: sober, strategic, and alert to all the systemic global risks.
Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.
The assistance, which has not been previously reported, signals that the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America’s chief nuclear-armed competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities.
Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
Toronto will get a better picture this weekend of just how much support there was for Iran’s fallen spiritual leader and how much opposition there really is for the war being prosecuted by Israel and America that eliminated him.
While some local mosques have martyred Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Saturday’s planned protest at the U.S. consulate in Toronto by those mourning his death will provide a bellwether of where Canadians stand on this conflict?
Not Iran. Toronto. 🇨🇦
After the supreme loser, Ali Khamenei, was turned into a kotlet on Saturday, this is how Hamas and Islamic Republic loyalists in Toronto reacted.
Deport. pic.twitter.com/gQ4lAce4Ts
— Scarlett Grace (@ScarlettGrace92) March 3, 2026
The folks who do al Quds Day usually draw a pretty good turnout in Toronto with their marches typically drawing several thousand Shia Muslims among others.
We have been betrayed by our elite as they should never have been allowed to settle in Canada to begin with.
For a sixth day, the US and Israel are battering targets in Iran, waging war from the air. Could there soon be boots on the ground? Maybe. But not American ones.
Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in exile in northern Iraq have told the BBC they have plans to cross the border – and have had them for decades – but they flatly deny claims that their fighters have already done so.
“We have been preparing for this for the past 47 years, since the age of the Islamic Republic,” said Hana Yazdanpana, of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), which claims to have the biggest armed force.
I don’t think the IRGC or the army will want to be caught exposed above ground should the Kurds advance leaving the prospect of an ugly urban war fought in the rubble of Iran’s cities.
More than $2.3 million worth of suspected fentanyl was seized and four individuals have been charged following an interprovincial drug trafficking investigation that spanned between Alberta and the Greater Toronto Area.
In a news release, police say the investigation, dubbed “Project OLLIE,” began in May 2025 when the OPP launched an intelligence-led probe into a network trafficking fentanyl between the GTA and Calgary.
