I’m not making this one up. Minnesota’s Democrats, called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party because we are weird here, have proposed a law to make owning an AR-15, the most popular rifle in America, selling 3-4 million copies a year, a felony with a sentence of up to five years.
Attempting to rape somebody in the presence of a child is, in Minnesota statutes, a lessor crime than owning one if this law passes.
Canada’s artificial intelligence minister says he has summoned representatives from the technology company OpenAI after the company declined to alert police after suspending the account of a user who became the perpetrator of one of the country’s worst-ever school shootings.
Evan Solomon says he is “deeply disturbed” by reports that the company, which operates the popular ChatGPT chatbot, suspended the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar over the “furtherance of violent activities” in June 2025 but did not reach out to Canadian law enforcement.
Canadians seen looting a store in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico because they believe the store owner is American… pic.twitter.com/BCeDXmYYaK
— Isaac’s Army (@ReturnOfKappy) February 24, 2026
h/t Mauser
Even as the 2026 Winter Games were winding up, a city in northern Japan began its own winter sports competition with ambitions that it will one day become an Olympic event: snowball fighting.
Snowball fights, or yukigassen in Japanese, are a seasonal childhood pastime in many northern countries, but in Sobetsu, Hokkaido, it’s a major event, and corporate sponsors and teams compete from across Japan and overseas.
Conservative MP and public safety critic Frank Caputo says he will keep asking the federal government to release its agreement with China on law enforcement cooperation until it discloses the document that so far has been kept confidential to the public.
Caputo sent a letter to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree on Feb. 9, requesting a copy of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation in combating crimes between the RCMP and China’s ministry of public security, which Ottawa signed during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China in January.
Donald Trump has declared that he can use tariffs in a “much more powerful and obnoxious way”, as the UK and the EU said they were seeking urgent clarity on the US trade deals they struck last summer.
Trump threatened to escalate his global tariff war on Monday, after a supreme court ruling last week that he had overstepped his legal authority to impose his “liberation day” measures last year.
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said he did not expect Trump’s new 15% global tariff – announced on Saturday – to affect the majority of a UK-US economic deal that was agreed last year.
New data released by the Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) shows a troubling human trafficking trend in Waterloo Region compared to the rest of the country.
During WRPS’ latest board meeting, data presented showed that local human trafficking cases have been on the rise since 2020.
Police say it has gotten to a point where Waterloo Region cases now nearly triple the national average.
The mysterious masked figure who was seen trying to obscure Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera on the night of her abduction is said to have visited the house before.
Federal investigators released eerie footage of the unidentified suspect standing at Guthrie’s front door in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona in the early morning hours on February 1.
Police have yet to arrest any suspects or produce any concrete leads into the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie.
“Don’t go to Mexico,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged travellers Monday after the killing of a powerful drug cartel boss by Mexico’s army Sunday led to burning cars and shootouts with security forces in cities across Mexico — and adding to the latest disruptions for Canadians seeking March Break beach getaways.
“It’s amazing how all of these things have sort of collided — the U.S. (tariff wars), the Cuban situation and then this,” said Richard Vanderlubbe, president of TripCentral.ca.
Lord Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of committing misconduct in public office.
The former Labour minister was pictured being led from his London home by plain clothes police officers on Monday afternoon.
The Metropolitan Police started investigating Lord Mandelson after it emerged that he appeared to have leaked sensitive government documents to Jeffrey Epstein while serving as business secretary in Gordon Brown’s cabinet.
When Edmonton police arrested Arshdeep Singh for shoplifting at West Edmonton Mall last November, they launched an investigation that ultimately put the young Indian national at the heart of a network believed responsible for the extortion crisis plaguing Canadian communities.
Singh’s phone held a cache of images and messages linking him to an arson in Ontario, a shooting in Edmonton, extortion cases in Surrey and auto theft and insurance fraud in the Lower Mainland, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
There was even a photograph of Singh alongside the alleged “prime conspirator” behind a series of extortion-linked shootings at a Surrey café.
Locals and tourists in Mexico have described the “heartbreaking” unrest after one of the most powerful and feared cartels in the country unleashed a wave of violence across several states.
It comes after Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, Mexico’s most wanted man and leader of the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel, was killed during a security operation to arrest him on Sunday.
Footage recorded by locals and tourists showed burnt vehicles and plumes of smoke rising above several towns and cities, including the beach resort of Puerto Vallarta.
Footage out of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico allegedly shows Canadians looting an Oxxo convenience store.
When one is confronted with his alleged theft, he responds by accusing the man of being American.
Do you think this behaviour is reflective of the "elbows up" ethos? pic.twitter.com/7S7Zc9eenr
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) February 24, 2026
Dominican actress Massiel Taveras was prevented from showing her cape with an image of Jesus on the Cannes red carpet.
If it were the flag of Palestine, they would allow it.
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) February 23, 2026
The community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has suffered the tragic loss of eight victims — all but two under 14 years of age. A picture is quickly emerging of a community that was failed on multiple levels by mental-health services and law enforcement. Now that the dust has settled, it’s time for an independent investigation into how this tragedy happened in the first place, in the hope that changes can be made so that something like this never happens again.
