Within the massive federal government bureaucracy, there are only two independent offices that can be relied upon to give Canadian parliamentarians and taxpayers objective, independent, non-partisan evaluations of government spending.
One of them is the auditor general.
Top military officials told lawmakers in a closed door briefing on Tuesday that they may not be able to shoot down every Iranian drone being launched against US military installations and assets in retaliatory attacks, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The officials, led by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Dan Caine, said Iran has been deploying thousands of one-way attack drones and while they have capacity to take down the vast majority but not all of the barrage.
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Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.
“Alberta is excessively vulnerable to American interference,” Jean-Christophe Boucher, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, told Radio-Canada.
Boucher, whose research focuses on foreign interference, is unequivocal: “If there were a referendum in Alberta, there would be no one within the Alberta government who could analyze and collect data to ensure that the conversation about the referendum is not being manipulated by foreign actors.”
JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.
Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.
Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.
The blurring is… https://t.co/8U7w0X8ljJ pic.twitter.com/ZoxFr4ZOMg
— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) March 4, 2026
Sex acts and toilet visits are among the things shared unknowingly via Meta’s smart glasses, according to a review by Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten.
h/t Patti Jo
There appears to be a dark storm gathering over not only Jewish communities in Canada, but Iranian-Canadians who oppose the Islamic regime.
Late Monday night, gunfire struck the Temple Emanu‑El synagogue in Toronto, leaving several bullet holes in its windows. This followed a shooting on Sunday morning, in which multiple rounds were fired into an undisclosed business in Markham, Ont., just north of Toronto. Police have advised the community that they are aware of concerns that these violent incidents may be linked to what’s happening in the Middle East.
The CIA and Israel are working to arm Kurdish forces in Iraq and Iran to take on the regime in Tehran, sparking fears of sectarian conflict and a widening regional war drawing in Syria and Turkey.
President Trump spoke by phone to Kurdish leaders in Iraq and Iran in the past few days to urge them to get behind the plan, which could entail an armed Kurdish offensive within days in the northwest of Iran.
The outreach comes only weeks after the Trump administration cut off support to the pro-western Kurdish forces in Syria who defeated the Islamic State’s caliphate on the ground, switching allegiance to the former Islamist government in Damascus.
On February 18, Matt Jeneroux, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton-Riverbend, joined a cohort of other disgraced Conservative MPs, such as Michael Ma and Chris d’Entremont, and ‘crossed the floor’ in the House of Commons, to embrace the Liberal Party of Canada.
Predictably, a horde of liberal pundits and political actors have attempted to seize upon Jeneroux’s feckless politics and exit, in an effort to condemn the Conservative Party of Canada and claim that “moderates are fleeing the CPC.”
Ireland has grown more diverse in recent years, and so has the country’s variety of recorded crimes. In 2022, two gay men were murdered in Sligo by the son of Iraqi-Kurdish refugees. In 2023, three children were stabbed at random in Dublin; the attacker only spoke Arabic to his translator in the following trial. In October 2025, a Kuwaiti national pleaded guilty to the murder of his eight-year-old daughter in Wexford the previous year. A more modest addition to this catalogue of horrors happened last November in Cork, when a man walked past a woman and elbowed her in the face, knocking her unconscious. She sustained a broken eye socket, while her attacker remains at large.
Support thin in Canada for operation to neutralize Iranian regime
OTTAWA — American and Israeli efforts to maintain security in the Middle East by decapitating Iran’s despotic regime isn’t winning many fans in Canada.
A new Angus Reid poll released this week demonstrates little consensus over the joint operation, with 26% of those polled saying they strongly oppose the operation against the Iranian regime, and 22% saying they oppose.
Mark Carney got it right on Iran. Then he didn’t
U.S. forces have struck or sunk to the bottom of the ocean more than 20 ships from the Iranian regime. Last night, CENTCOM added a Soleimani-class warship to the list. pic.twitter.com/KgW8cS726P
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 4, 2026
For the better part of a year, Toronto politics has been suspended in a kind of waiting game.
Would John Tory try to come back? Would he test whether voters were willing to give him another shot? That question is now settled. He announced yesterday that is not running in October 2026.
With that uncertainty gone, the mayoral race snaps into clearer focus. What looked like a potentially crowded contest now looks increasingly like a head-to-head between Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford. And based on polling we conducted in late January as part of our Toronto Omnibus survey, I see a competitive race that Bradford can win.
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UK officials’ fear of being labeled racist or “Islamophobic” has allowed rape gangs—mainly composed of Pakistani-heritage men—to operate with near-impunity.
A total of 746 rapes were recorded in London in January, according to publicly available crime data from the Metropolitan Police Service.
The figures mean that, on average, one rape was reported roughly every 60 minutes in the British capital during the first month of the year.
Father of Jusiah Jones, who's charged with R*PING a 12-year-old girl in Miami, thinks his son shouldn't be jailed because he's black.
"This is a 12-year-old boy… We're gonna leave him in jail and put a life charge on a young man? A young black man!"pic.twitter.com/BQMNCYBKCt https://t.co/aEv85mVdYT
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 3, 2026
A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional.
Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, has published the cases since 2000 in articles for a series for its Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program. The articles usually start with a case description followed by “learning points” that include statistics, clinical observations and data from CPSP. The peer-reviewed articles don’t state anywhere the cases described are fictional.
h/t Patti Jo
