OTTAWA — In this episode, former senior Mountie Garry Clement joins Sam Cooper to answer a question that should unsettle every Canadian: how does a figure like Ryan Wedding — an Olympic athlete from Coquitlam — end up becoming one of the most feared Sinaloa Cartel operatives in North America? The answer, Clement argues, has less to do with Wedding himself than with the country that made his rise possible.
Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception.
For this reason, new AI tools have begun to carry the site’s contents far and wide. Chatbots and AI-generated search summaries – which are rapidly transforming the way people get their information – both use Wikipedia as a key source.
Now, we can reveal Wikipedia has been subject to shady, paid-for edits ordered by partners at an elite London PR firm with links to Downing Street. And the clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
Good summary below
The “Wikilaundering” scandal is finally blowing wide open and it’s worse than we thought
A massive investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its core
You do not get information. You get propaganda…. articles… pic.twitter.com/CyTfc8VfjR
— X Freeze (@XFreeze) March 4, 2026
Canada’s former budget watchdog Yves Giroux says the government’s failure to appoint a new parliamentary budget officer after both his and his interim successor’s terms expired is a “conscious decision” to silence the office and prevent it from holding the government accountable.
The Strait of Hormuz, one of the most vital shipping routes in the world, has been closed by Iran since the US and Israel began their airstrikes last week. This event might not seem as newsworthy as the assasination of Ayatollah Khamenei and the potential demise of the Islamic Republic – but make no mistake, the consequences could be just as profound. Particularly for the UK.
And with one slick soundbite — we take the world as it is not as we wish it to be — Prime Minister Mark Carney gets to straddle whatever political or foreign fence he is confronted with.
Difficult choices and questions can all be deferred or deflected with this simple mantra.
Terrifying bodycam footage of Sunday’s mass shooting at a bar in downtown Austin shows cops take down pro-Iran terrorist Ndiaga Diagne after a fierce gun battle.
The video shows the deadly encounter from multiple angles in real time as officers traded gunfire with the Senegalese immigrant, who was wearing a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt and an Iran flag t-shirt.
NEW: Austin Police Department just released bodycam footage of the deadly bar shooting committed by 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Senegal.
The shooting is being investigated as a terrorist attack. pic.twitter.com/qfnxc9JOIU
— Jordan Chamberlain (@jordylancaster) March 5, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to back American strikes against Iran has provoked much controversy. Even though he and several of his ministers partially walked back some of this initial enthusiastic support, the debate still raises difficult questions about what Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand refers to as principled pragmatism. Is Canada moving away from its allegedly traditional support for international law? How can Canada’s rhetorical support for the war in Iran, even if watered down, be reconciled with the principles Mr. Carney enounced in his speech in Davos in January? And how can these principles be reconciled with Mr. Carney declining to close the door on Canada’s eventual participation in the war?
Seven. That’s how many times Israel has invaded Lebanon since 1978, yet this latest incursion could prove the most momentous of all. Unlike previous assaults, changes inside Lebanon itself mean the IDF could finally achieve a long-cherished goal: the crushing of Hezbollah and a political realignment in Beirut that removes future threats to Israel’s security. That, in turn, could shift the balance of power right across the Levant, extending Israel’s influence, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s political legacy, yet further. Still, as always in the Middle East, what happens when the dust settles is a very different question, as is its impact on the lives of innocent civilians — especially when the Lebanese are unlikely to accept Israeli domination for long.
The passions and prejudices seep across the ocean, seemingly inescapable.
Time and distance do not temper them. In fact, the New World seems to breath new life into old hatreds turning the place that was left behind into an idyllic land of lollipops, puppies, peace and perfection.
Sikh-Canadian woman stabbed to death in Windsor was an outspoken critic of Khalistani extremism.
She recently made a video about a Khalistani linked to the Gurdwara trying to set her house on fire. Although she reported these threats to the cops they never followed up. pic.twitter.com/zyIphxgvwJ
— Journalist V (@OnTheNewsBeat) March 5, 2026
Okay, so for weeks, there’s been some palace intrigue regarding Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Is she going to get the boot? Has the ongoing public relations war between the public, press, and DHS vis-à-vis the ICE surges eroded trust? Not the case, until now. On March 3, Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and revealed something that the president reportedly did not want known. In fact, rumor has it that he’s now mulling Noem’s replacement, which is how much this irritated him. National Review had the scoop earlier this morning, which was later confirmed by the president. Markwayne Mullin will be replacing Noem at the end of the month
In October 2024, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau announced an about-face on mass immigration, admitting: “We didn’t get the balance quite right.”
Trudeau’s mea culpa ranks among the starkest understatements in recent political memory: record-breaking immigration levels contributed to a severe housing shortage, strained public services to the breaking point, suppressed wage growth and, in the process, shattered Canada’s once-stable pro-immigration consensus.
Never believe academics, the corporate class or politicians when it comes to immigration.
I want to give you a little glimpse inside my TikTok algorithm. And this is the rather tame stuff. pic.twitter.com/fRNJKryQAb
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 4, 2026
A Pakistani businessman accused of plotting to kill Donald Trump told a federal jury on Wednesday that he was coerced into the scheme by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which he said had threatened his family to secure his participation.
Asif Merchant, 47, took the unusual step of testifying in his own defense at Brooklyn federal court, where he faces terrorism and murder-for-hire charges. Speaking through an Urdu translator, he told jurors he went along with the plot only out of fear for his wife and adopted daughter in Tehran.
“I was not wanting to do this so willingly,” he said.
“Red flag” orders were billed as a faster, simpler way to keep Canadian communities safe by temporarily removing legal firearms from the hands of those who might do themselves — or others — harm. They were part of a suite of gun control measures introduced in the wake of 2020’s Portapique, N.S., mass shooting, the deadliest in the country’s history.
But more than two years after the orders finally became federal law, it’s unclear if they are working as designed — because no one appears to be keeping track of when, where or how often they are being implemented.
