The cost of a barrel of oil has now crossed the $90 mark and some analysts are warning that it could soon exceed $100. If that happens, Canadians should brace themselves — not at the gas pump, but at the grocery store.
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‘Canada at a crossroads’: Jewish groups call for action after 3 synagogues hit by gunfire
The leaders of several Jewish organizations in the Toronto area are calling for urgent action after three synagogues were hit by gunfire in the past week.
“Canada is at a crossroads,” said Noah Shack, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). “We’re not going anywhere, and we need every Canadian of conscience to stand up with us for our fundamental Canadian values so that we can ensure that the Canada, the Ontario, and the city of Toronto that we want to see in the future comes to fruition.”
I honestly, HONESTLY thought this was AI at first.
But besides the thousand-yard stares, the utter lack of emotion (not anger, not sadness, just deadness), the wooden reading of the TELEPROMPTER, the terribly awkward posture, & the body language that screams “I KNOW this video… pic.twitter.com/oSB7FN092Q
— Greg Brady (@gregbradyx) March 8, 2026
Ha! @fancypants_s https://t.co/pJ3QwBJJXr
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 9, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
MAiD deaths predicted to surge to 100,000 by spring 2026 — How did we get here?
Canada will kill its 100,000th patient through its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program, come spring 2026.
This estimated figure was popularized by Kelsi Sheren, a Canadian anti-MAiD podcaster, who shared the news in an article and on British rapper Zuby’s podcast.
The figures estimate a 4% increase in MAiD deaths in 2025 (statistics not yet released), with a similar projected estimate for 2026.
Debate over a foreign spy service for Canada influenced by allies, money: study
The decades-long debate over whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign spy agency has been coloured by pressure from allies, budgetary restraint and internal federal rivalries, a new study reveals
OTTAWA – The decades-long debate over whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign spy agency has been coloured by pressure from allies, budgetary restraint and internal federal rivalries, a new study reveals
Much of the discussion about Canada’s foreign intelligence aspirations has taken place — fittingly perhaps, given the subject matter — in classified memos and behind closed doors in the halls of government.
“To spy, or not to spy,” a new paper by researcher and former Canadian intelligence analyst Alan Barnes, draws on recently released archival records to trace the history of official thinking on the question from 1945 to 2007.
CBSA pauses removing inadmissible people to Israel and Lebanon due to war
The Canada Border Services Agency says it’s putting a pause on removal orders to Lebanon and Israel due to the volatile situation in both countries.
The agency says the temporary halt, known as an Administrative Deferral of Removals, is put on countries that are unsafe due environmental disasters or violence.
Seems like the best time to remove them.
Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it
Amid rising tensions in the United States, many Americans are looking to Canada — and their roots — for a possible way out.
Lynn Rutman, a Cape Cod, Mass., resident with family ties to Quebec and Nova Scotia dating back centuries, said she’s worried about the political situation in her country, citing recent events surrounding controversial immigration enforcement policies and long-standing ideological divides.
“It’s not just me, many of us are concerned,” she said.
The CBC should be ashamed for leading on these deluded progressives but I am sure the Elbow people eat this slop up.
Their enthusiasm for Canadian citizenship will quickly end once they realize what a dumpster fire the nation has become.
U.S. intelligence sees Canada as ‘serious place of concern for Iranian activity’: National security analyst
While the war in Iran intensifies, the ripple effects of the conflict are already being felt around the world, including inside Canada.
The Islamic Republic of Iran operates a global network of regime sympathizers and sleeper cell operatives connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Government of Canada designated the IRGC a terrorist organization that has aligned itself with other militant groups and terrorist organizations like Hezbollah.
Poilievre Says US Action in Iran, Venezuela Part of Strategy to Counter China
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and Iran is part of a broader strategy to counter China’s reach around the globe.
Poilievre said Canada must decide how it fits into the American strategy and suggested strengthening ties with its southern neighbour for Canada’s economic and security benefit. He made the comments during a March 4 appearance on the Triggernometry podcast while visiting the U.K.
The Elite have Betrayed the People – Canada’s Opposition Leader, @PierrePoilievre
Watch the full episode right here on X. pic.twitter.com/BfQOBKZ63o
— TRIGGERnometry (@triggerpod) March 4, 2026
In Canada’s major cities, fertility rates are in steep decline. What happened?
Every major city across Canada has seen a drop in fertility rates over the past five years – with many cities falling to record new lows – according to data obtained by The Globe and Mail.
While Canada’s fertility rate has been declining for more than six decades, it’s fallen especially steeply over the past decade, earning Canada entry in 2023 into the club of “lowest-low” fertility countries, alongside South Korea, Italy and Japan. The Globe and Mail requested data from Statistics Canada on fertility rates for major urban areas between 2020 to 2024, in order to understand how this has played out in our largest cities.
Slain Windsor woman expressed fears of Sikh extremism days before she died
Less than a week before she died, a woman stabbed in a small southwestern Ontario town had spoken to CBC about the threats she was facing for speaking out about Khalistan extremism.
Nancy Grewal, 45, was identified by police as the victim in a stabbing outside a home on Todd Lane in LaSalle, Ont., on Tuesday.
She was at the home working as a personal support worker.
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Who is anti-Khalistani activist Nancy Grewal? Indian-origin influencer stabbed to death in Canada as family reveals threats
Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say
Police in Canada have concluded that a missing Iranian activist was most likely the victim of murder, prompting fears that his disappearance has the hallmarks of a transnational repression campaign targeting critics of Tehran.
Masood Masjoody, a mathematician critical of both Iran’s theocratic regime and the exiled family of the former shah, went missing in early February in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
53% of Americans rate others living in the U.S. ‘morally bad,’ compared to 7% of Canadians: survey
A survey of 25 countries by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center has found that Americans are most likely to rate others living in their country as morally or ethically bad. In fact, it was the only country where more people defined others as bad than good.
At the other end of the scale was Canada.
Supreme Court says asylum seekers entitled to subsidized Quebec daycare
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Quebec discriminated against female refugee claimants by introducing regulations that denied them access to subsidized daycare spaces.
This marks the third ruling against the Quebec government on the matter.
A Canadian Lawmaker, and Friend of JD Vance, Channels Charlie Kirk
Jamil Jivani, a Canadian lawmaker who bonded with JD Vance at Yale Law School and delivered a Bible reading at his wedding, arrived at the University of Calgary on a recent winter evening — the latest stop on his tour of Canadian college campuses.
If the tour sounded familiar — Mr. Jivani celebrated masculinity and reached out especially to young men in the age of diversity, equity and inclusion — that’s because it was inspired by the movement started by Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. A month after Mr. Kirk’s killing in September, Mr. Jivani began his tour to “honor that same commitment to free speech and free debate” represented by the “great Charlie Kirk,” he told Breitbart News, the right-wing site.
With echoes of President Trump’s movement, Mr. Jivani called his own “Restore the North.”
Pierre Poilievre plants the seeds of an alternative to the Carney doctrine
We find ourselves suddenly returned to the great days of the set-piece speech. At a time when attention spans are said to be shorter than ever, when the media is consumed with clickbait and politics is all about getting likes on TikTok, in recent weeks the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have each chosen to deliver lengthy, learned, intricately argued speeches on, of all things, foreign policy.
Coyne back on his meds?