Welcome to this edition of Ridiculous Things the Liberals Said, where the war in Iran is the reason Canadians are unable to find work and can’t afford to buy a house.
First up is Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.
The Conservatives knew what they were doing – well, sort of – when they announced a petition to nominate former hockey commentator Don Cherry to the Order of Canada.
It’s a great cultural wedge issue: one that pits the millions of Canadians with fond memories of Coach’s Corner against the ostensibly smaller cohort of Canadians who still begrudge Mr. Cherry for his tactless comments that led to the segment’s cancellation in 2019. The Conservatives know that the Order of Canada, which was created back in 1967, has become something of a participation medal for a certain type of prominent Canadian – the kind who satisfies the palette of oyster-shucking Laurentian elites. Mr. Cherry, infamous for his rants about, for example, female reporters in locker rooms and immigrants not wearing poppies, upsets their stomachs. So by pushing them to accept Mr. Cherry into their club, the Conservatives put the elites on their back foot.
The Liberal government leaned further into its emerging leadership role among the world’s middle powers, with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand telling a London audience that now is the country’s time to lead internationally.
Making the keynote address at the 2026 Chatham House Global Trade Conference on Thursday, Anand said that a country’s greatness stems not just from its domestic successes, but in providing leadership that benefits the world.
Weeks after CBC News identified two Indian nationals deported from Canada for serious criminality, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has identified the pair as proof of expanded efforts to disrupt extortion networks.
According to Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) records obtained by CBC News, Arshdeep Singh and Sukhnaaz Singh Sandhu were known to each other — and to the alleged “prime conspirator” behind a series of extortion-linked shootings at a Surrey, B.C., café.
Both men moved between provinces, wracking up run-ins with police at every stop.
Heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries — including Canada — and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday.
The annual report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, also found that Finland is the happiest country in the world for the ninth year in a row, with other Nordic countries such as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway ranking among the top 10 countries.
Sunny ways, my friend, sunny ways. @fancypants_s https://t.co/guuBfFr94h
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 19, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Canada’s population declined by more than 100,000 people in 2025, marking the first annual decline in records that date back to the 1940s, as the federal government tries to rein in the number of temporary residents in the country.
The population decreased by 103,504 people, or 0.25 per cent, between Oct. 1, 2025, and Jan. 1, 2026, according to new estimates from Statistics Canada. This followed a decline of roughly 76,000 in the third quarter.
No matter the question the answer is always More 3rd World Migrants!
TAMPA/MONTREAL — Almost two years after Canadian federal police raided two synthetic opioid labs in Quebec and seized millions of deadly pills, a 49-year-old Montreal-area man has been indicted on charges of importing a narcotic three times more lethal than fentanyl into the United States — a case that connects, through prior federal filings, to a Chinese fentanyl precursor supplier and Mexican cartel-linked trafficking network operating out of Vancouver.
Ottawa wants to modernize a region in the north that’s about six times the size of Texas, ‘just like in the 1800s’
Picture an Arctic territory, marginalized by its own country, almost entirely lacking roads, ports and power sources, but rich in mining potential and suddenly feeling vulnerable to outside threats.
It’s not Greenland; it’s the Canadian Arctic.
After decades of underinvestment, Ottawa is now turning its attention to the country’s north amid an outbreak of nationalism and new spending, in reaction to provocations by the Trump administration.
Crown prosecutors have stayed the charges against a cult leader whose group occupied a former school in a southwest Saskatchewan village.
Romana Didulo was set to appear in Swift Current provincial court on Wednesday.
Didulo, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada,” was charged with failing to comply with an undertaking and intimidating a justice system participant.
This is one column where it’s not good enough just reading the headline.
This whodunit should be followed right to the end.
This piece is apologist nonsense.
No sharia at all anywhere, anytime in Canada.
Gurpreet Singh, a 40-year-old Indian national, is suing the Canadian government and employees of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), alleging they prosecuted him maliciously and violated his charter rights.
It’s the latest twist in a massive immigration fraud saga in Saskatchewan that has been winding its way through the justice system for many years.
At the heart of that drama lies a big mistake by the CBSA.
Electricity demand is set to boom in Canada by 2050, according to new modelling from the national energy regulator released on Tuesday.
The projections also foresee robust growth in natural gas production and expansion of renewable power in the country.
The latest modelling from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) focuses on an expected spike in power demand from coast to coast as consumption grows 44 per cent from 2023 to 2050.
The electricity abundance and affordability that Canada has enjoyed for decades are ending. Generation is down, exports are now imports, and investment is flat. Canada’s impending electricity shortage is not just an affordability
crisis; it is an economic and security one as… pic.twitter.com/MNvJK79dJ2— Heather Exner-Pirot (@ExnerPirot) March 16, 2026
h/t Mauser
Over the past year Canadians and Americans have begun to regard one another as adversaries. Trade disputes and political rhetoric have sharpened cross-border hostility, and polls suggest that trust between our peoples is eroding.
For a Canadian who looks back on a lifetime of fellowship with American relatives, friends, and colleagues, the present strife weighs heavily on the heart. All the more so because the actual disconnect is not between Canadians and Americans—it is ideological. For decades, we have been trapped in a conflict of left vs right, progressive vs conservative, globalist vs nationalist—and the discord runs through both nations alike.
Defence Minister David McGuinty said Tuesday that Canada’s decision not to join the U.S. and Israel’s military attacks on Iran was clear “from the beginning” of the war more than two weeks ago, while underscoring that position is not going to change.
During a press event in Brampton, Ont., highlighting Canada’s military aid to Ukraine, McGuinty was asked about the resignation Tuesday of U.S. National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent, who said he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war because “Iran posed no imminent threat” to the U.S.
Israel is pursuing a sweeping diplomatic and public relations campaign to convince Canada to change the way it tackles acts of antisemitism.
From the office of Israel’s president down to its ambassador in Ottawa, the message is the same: Canada must do more to curb threats against Jews.
But while the country’s ambassador is suggesting Ottawa should limit certain “freedoms” in order to deal with threats his government links to Iran, he hasn’t said which freedoms should be limited.
Tone-deaf statement aside Canada is likely past the point of no return.
In my many years of blogging I have witnessed the rise of Islam in Canada.
They have played the entryism card well appealing to the lust all pols have for votes.
It’s not going to get better, our system is far too corrupt, far too compromised to ever fix short of remigration.
Nothing ever gets better with Islam.
