The death of 26-year-old Kiano Vafaeian by MAID on Dec. 30, 2025, is emblematic of what Canadians can expect to become commonplace in the coming years.
Vafaeian, who had diabetes and whose natural death was not foreseeable, found that Vancouver physician Dr. Ellen Wiebe was willing to end his life. The young man had been doctor shopping before he found her.
Finally back from a week-long unexplained absence, ABC co-host Joy Behar returned to The View as crazy as ever. Delivering her first public comments about the arrest of disgraced form CNN host Don Lemon, on Tuesday, Behar defended not only Lemon but the rioters who stormed the Cities Church in St. Paul Minnesota. She claimed they had a right to protest in the church and ludicrously equated Lemon being in the church to General Dwight D. Eisenhower bringing in journalists to document concentration camps and the Holocaust.
Canadians have been dealing with sticker shock for years as grocery prices have shot up by more than 30 per cent since 2020, according to the most recent data from Statistics Canada.
Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a suite of affordability measures to help Canadian families who are struggling to cope with the rising cost of living. The flagship measure is the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit.
We now know what that will cost. On Monday, the parliamentary budget officer announced that the federal government’s plan to increase the GST credit and offer a one-time payment to Canadians will cost Ottawa an estimated $12.4 billion over five years.
Once upon a time, it was relatively easy to spot an email scam. They were flawed. Bad grammar, broken formatting, poor spelling and typos, and a sort of odd cadence often referred to as “Engrish” exposed them for what they were: attempts to extract money from “rich” Americans, most commonly by people outside America. Often the scams seemed reasonable, except when they weren’t, as with the famous Prince of Nigeria scam: send me a couple thousand dollars so I can release my $1.7 million account, and I’ll split it with you. And for a little while they worked, until people’s reason caught up with their greed.
OTTAWA—Nobody likes a bully, and at his recent World Economic Forum speech in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Mark Carney garnered international kudos in calling for middle powers to stand up to would-be super-power bullies.
Carney deliberately refrained from naming the United States in his brief address, but President Donald Trump was astute enough to know Carney’s words were aimed at him.
The government has ditched a victims panel that was advising the national inquiry into the scourge of the Muslim child rape grooming gangs and the failure of local authorities to protect vulnerable girls from sexual abuse.
The Metro newspaper has reported that multiple former members of the victims panel confirmed that it was shut down after the government appointed Labour peer Baroness Longfield to chair the national inquiry.
"Diversity has been our demise"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaking at our hearings today👇 pic.twitter.com/BI5KKSsaOI
— The Rape Gang Inquiry (@rapeganginquiry) February 3, 2026
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney government said Wednesday that it is eliminating Canada’s special envoy positions on fighting Islamophobia and antisemitism.
The positions will be replaced by a new “Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion, ” Culture and Identity Minister Marc Miller said in a news release.
“The Advisory Council will be comprised of prominent Canadians from academia, experts and community leaders with a mission to foster social cohesion, rally Canadians around shared identity, combat racism and hate in all their forms, and help guide the efforts of the Government of Canada,” Miller said.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/dpMH8dn9dl
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) February 4, 2026
You and I will be in the Kommissar’s cross-hairs.
h/t Patti Jo
The Trump administration will draw down 700 federal law enforcement officers from Minnesota “effective immediately,” border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.
After that partial withdrawal, around 2,000 federal agents will remain in the state — a roughly 25% reduction — with most concentrated in the Twin Cities area encompassing Minneapolis and St. Paul, Homan said at a press conference.
Homan announced the pullback after touting “unprecedented cooperation” between the federal government and state and local entities.
With petition drives for Alberta separatism gaining steam across the province, it’s perhaps more important than ever that Canadians outside Alberta understand the province’s important role in the federation and policymakers find a compromise on key issues fuelling separatist sentiment.
Khrystyna Yurchenko worked hard to build a life in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, where she poured her energy into the popular dance studio she owns.
But she would give it all up, she said, for lasting peace. Ms. Yurchenko is among a growing number of Ukrainians who say they would hand over the part of the Donbas still controlled by Ukraine to Russia if that would end the war.
This represents a notable shift for a war-weary Ukrainian population. Giving up territory that Russia has been unable to capture has long been considered a red line. But what once seemed impossible now appears less so, as the Kremlin insists that U.S.-backed peace negotiations will advance only if Ukraine agrees to walk away from the Donbas.
At the Conservative Party of Canada’s national convention in Calgary, the proposal to remove the ban on conversion therapy was defeated despite receiving a narrow majority of popular support from delegates. The proposal failed because it did not meet the party’s “double majority” requirement for constitutional and policy changes. Delegates were 52% in favour of opposing the ban. They also debated hot button issues such as DEI, abortion, and immigration. With polarization at an all time high, the issue risks crashing out with alienated grassroots, and not enough competency to discern the subject from atrocious woke policies.
(Incognito)
Casey Wasserman was in Italy for the Winter Olympics, scheduled to make a presentation to the International Olympic Committee on the progress of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Peter Attia, the longevity doctor with cult followers and a bestselling book, was days into a new role as a CBS News contributor. And Brett Ratner was promoting “Melania,” his documentary about the first lady—his first film since 2017, when six women accused him of sexual misconduct.
All three men had reached—or returned to—the pinnacle of their industries in February 2026. And all three, it turned out, had secrets in the Epstein files.
I feel sorry for her.
@BillGates is a sneaky little fucker pic.twitter.com/5GkFsuNdsU
— Bandanna Banana 🍌 (@bandannacapital) February 3, 2026
It was the rhetoric no one saw coming from a President supposedly dedicated to law and order: threats not just to limit or alter trade with Canada, but “absorb” the country altogether as the 51st State. Falsely labeled as a solution to fentanyl abuse and alleged subsidies, coupled with “liberating” Canada from its far-left leader and lowering taxes, the 51st state narrative sprung to life from nowhere, dispersed like wildfire, and directly influenced an election handily going to Pierre Poilievre straight into Mark Carney’s hands.
NATO on Tuesday said “planning is underway” for an Arctic mission, coming weeks after US President Donald Trump frayed the strategic alliance by claiming the US needs to control Greenland to avert unverified security concerns from Russia and China.
Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, told reporters that a “NATO enhanced vigilance activity” will “further strengthen NATO’s posture in the Arctic and High North.” He did not provide further details as planning has just begun.
A Toronto crack cocaine dealer caught back in business three times over the course of ten months managed to convince a judge that he deserves some leniency because putting him behind bars would mean hardship for his nine children, but not because he’s addicted to the drugs he was caught peddling.
