CHARLEBOIS: Why the Iran conflict could hit Canadian grocery bills

U.S. President Donald Trump seems to prefer launching major geopolitical moves when markets are closed – for a simple reason: markets react.

The United States abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3 – a Saturday. The joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began Feb. 28 – also a Saturday. It gave markets time to digest the shock. But markets eventually reopen.

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Decades in the planning, the Islamic Republic of Britain

IN A recent speech given in the House of Lords to the Cambridge University Conservative Association, Dr Gavin Ashenden, for ten years a chaplain to the Queen, spoke of a ‘respected’ imam with whom he had worked ‘for quite a long time’ while running inter-faith seminars at the university where he was employed.

At the conclusion of one of these events, Dr Ashenden relates, this man confided in him as follows: ‘I’ve been doing this for an awfully long time, but my task is complete. I arrived in the 1970s with the aim of inaugurating an Islamic republic of Great Britain, and I’ve done it. This country is going to be an Islamic republic or, at least, a partitioned portion of it, in the time of my grandchildren.’

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Peter Shurman: We can dislike Trump, but that shouldn’t define us

Let’s begin with a blunt question: Does Donald Trump hate Canada?

There is no evidence that he does. During his presidency, he did not sever diplomatic ties, cancel trade outright or threaten military action. What he did do, repeatedly and unapologetically, was put American interests first. He drove a hard bargain in trade negotiations, imposed tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, pressured NATO allies (including Canada) to increase defence spending and used language that many Canadians found abrasive, even offensive.

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Partner of sitting Labour MP among three arrested on suspicion of spying for China

Labour MP Joani Reid and her traitorous ChiCom Spy husband David Taylor

A former Labour adviser who is married to a Labour MP is among three men who have been arrested on suspicion of spying for China.

David Taylor, the husband of the Labour MP Joani Reid, was arrested by detectives from counter-terrorism police in London on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service, and as part of a wider investigation into national security offences related to China.

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Muslim mothers barred from volunteering at Quebec schools over hijabs

Two Muslim mothers in Quebec say they have been told they can no longer volunteer at their children’s elementary schools because they wear hijabs.

Sabaah Khan, a resident of Brossard, says she has spent more than a decade volunteering at her children’s schools, helping with activities ranging from library duties to vaccination days.


Christians barred from living over being alive!

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Feminists for Killing Feminists

American feminist organizations rally to help Iran keep killing women.

While tens of thousands of protesters were being killed in Iran, many of them authentic feminists, young women demanding equal rights and freedom from the oppressive compulsory ‘hijab’, the Women’s March remained silent. So did the National Organization for Women.

The Women’s March stayed quiet as young women in Iran were gang raped by masked men at gunpoint, much as it had remained quiet during the rapes by Iran’s Hamas allies on Oct 7.

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What we’ve lost: Stigma

It turns out that population-wide disdain for those who live to get high was a very good thing

Progressives were so preoccupied with eradicating stigmas that contain anti-social behaviour in Canadian society, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Well, they accomplished their goal: that natural containment field of shame that once stood between people and bad decisions is gone. Is your life better because of it? Probably not.

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Top cleric issues fatwa calling on all Muslims to avenge ‘blood of the martyr’ Khamenei prompting fears of sleeper cell and lone wolf attacks across the globe

Waiting to be vaporized

A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to avenge the ‘blood of the martyr’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Following the death of the Supreme Leader on Saturday, Iranian religious leader Nasser Makarem Shirazi delivered a formal religious decree that claimed all Muslims were obliged to avenge him.

Shirazi stated that the US and Israel were the ‘main perpetrators of this crime.’


I’m sure there’s a cruise missile with his name on it.

h/t Patti Jo

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BERNARDO: The RCMP wants your data again — why millions of gun owners don’t trust them

Six years ago, an Order-in-Council (OIC) banned more than 2,500 models of what Ottawa calls “assault-style” firearms. That OIC included common hunting and sporting rifles that were owned, stored, and used legally.

In January 2026, Mark Carney’s Liberal government finally launched its long-promised “Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program.”

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Fear of the Domestic Mujahideen Is Suffocating Britain’s Foreign Policy

Whatever one’s view of the so-called ‘special relationship’ between the United Kingdom and the United States (and I, for one, think it’s non-existent and embarrassing), the UK’s refusal to support American action against Iran marks a troubling moment in British foreign policy. The decision to prevent the United States from using joint UK-U.S. bases while simultaneously (and endlessly) stressing Britain’s non-involvement signals a government more concerned with internal community relations than strategic reality.

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PM Flip Flop refuses to ‘categorically’ rule out military involvement in Middle East conflict

Mark Carney refuses to ‘categorically’ rule out military involvement in Middle East conflict

CANBERRA—Prime Minister Mark Carney now says he won’t rule out future military involvement in the spiralling Middle East conflict.

Speaking in the Australian capital, Carney appeared to harden Canada’s stance on the war, saying it’s too soon to call for an immediate ceasefire because it is not clear whether the objectives to knock out Iran’s nuclear program and support for terrorist groups have been achieved.

Asked whether Canada could get involved militarily, Carney said he could not “categorically” rule that out.

Yea? You and whose army?

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Whoopi Goldberg Is Left Speechless When Confronted With the Reality of Women in Iran

The Left often has no idea what causes they’re supporting, and we’ve all seen interviews from independent journalists asking Leftist protesters to articulate their stance on issues like Israel and Gaza, only to have the Lefty hem and haw and trip over their own words. That’s because the cause is never the cause. The ultimate goal is simply the destruction of Western Civilization in general and America in particular, and Leftists will cling to any movement they think might help them.

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Why even Iraq war hawks should oppose this war

When president George H.W. Bush went to war against Iraq in 1991, he sought and won the consent of the Congress of the United States. Resolutions authorizing military force passed the House, by a margin of 250 to 183, and the Senate, 52-47.

Mr. Bush had earlier secured the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 678. The cause was clear and compelling: to repel Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. The coalition in support numbered 34 countries in all.

Coyne Alert. h/t DM

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