The Israel Defence Forces have told CBC News that they dug 20 to 30 metres deep in a Gaza war cemetery where 22 Canadian soldiers are buried in order to destroy a Hamas tunnel.
An IDF officer who spoke to CBC News on background and who was involved in combat operations in the area said he was not able to give any assurance that Israeli forces had taken measures to preserve human remains.
A Bangladeshi immigrant deported from Canada two decades ago after the refugee claim he made using a false identity was rejected has won another shot at keeping the Canadian citizenship he obtained after marrying a woman in Bangladesh five months later who had permanent residency status here.
The federal government is shaking up its main economic immigration program to facilitate the entry of high-skilled military recruits for the Canadian Armed Forces, part of Ottawa’s renewed focus and spending push on the defence sector.
On Wednesday, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced new categories for selecting immigrants via Express Entry, a points-based system that is the main entryway for skilled workers seeking permanent residency.
A Lebanese immigrant ordered deported in December 2019 after he was convicted for possession of fentanyl and hydromorphone for the purposes of trafficking has won another chance to stay in Canada.
Mohamad Kassar, who arrived in Canada as a permanent resident about 35 years ago, was scheduled to be removed to Lebanon on Feb. 13. Instead, Federal Court Justice Angus Grant stayed his removal because Kassar has a preliminary diagnosis suggesting he might have a lung tumour.
A transgender woman incarcerated as a dangerous offender since 2001 for sex offences against multiple women wants a judge to order Correctional Service of Canada to transfer her from the men’s prison system to a women’s institution following her recent gender surgery.
Correctional officials have opposed requests from Amanda Joy Cooper, 58, to be moved to a women’s prison, citing in court records her risk to reoffend and history of “obsessive attachments” to female staff, concluding she would pose a “very high risk to the safety” of the other inmates.
Tax dollars paid for this perverts twisted fantasy.
First, some context.
We have half a million asylum claimants in Canada currently…triple from 2022 levels and now accounting for 1 in every 84 people in the country.
— Ben Rabidoux (@BenRabidoux) February 18, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will fight for a united Canada as a movement in Alberta pushes for that province to separate.
Answering a question from a reporter today, Poilievre said the Conservatives are “entirely a federalist caucus” and that he has not had a single member of Parliament on his team express they are in favour of Alberta separatism.
The group Stay Free Alberta is seeking a referendum vote for the province to become its own country, and has until May to get nearly 178,000 signatures.
Canada’s falling unemployment rate is being read as good news. It isn’t. The decline reflects fewer Canadians working because fewer people are looking for work and fewer people are here to work at all.
We in Canada rely on Statistics Canada for the labour and population data that tell us how the economy is actually performing, not how we might wish it to be performing.
Germany was postwar Europe’s greatest economic success story. Today, it is a cautionary tale. Once the continent’s industrial engine, Germany has spent the past decade dismantling the foundations of its prosperity through energy and immigration policies driven more by ideology than evidence or good sense. The results have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash. Canada should study this record closely because we are pursuing many of the same policies.
Germany has one thing going for it Canada does not – The AfD.
The opposition parties were all trumped, as it were, in last year’s election. They may well face the same fate again this year as talk of an election call in Canada grows. If an election does occur, Donald Trump’s continued raft of threats, insults and incoherent rants is a gift to the Liberals. His behaviour underlines the threat he represents — and the need for a strong and effective Canadian prime minister to challenge him. Barring unforeseeable events, Mark Carney owns that card.
The political climate in the United States is more tumultuous than it’s been since the 1960s—if not the 1860s. Many Americans are dissatisfied with the Trump administration, which, in turn, has responded with escalating violence, locking both sides into a vicious cycle of hostility. Most recently, of course, Trump sent 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents to Minneapolis. As thousands of protesters gathered on the streets, federal agents used increasingly aggressive tactics that culminated in the murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. Soon after Pretti was killed, Governor Tim Walz deployed the Minnesota National Guard to Minneapolis. They were stationed around the city, armed and outfitted in full camo gear. The streets were eerily empty, and many shops shuttered for weeks. Tens of thousands of immigrant families locked themselves in their homes, too afraid to venture out in case ICE abducted them. Instead of the regular flow of shoppers and diners on the sidewalks, legal observers—volunteers who trail ICE agents—patrolled streets by foot and by bike, often masked. The two groups often clashed directly, resulting in heated confrontations, with ICE and other federal forces beating and arresting observers. The Trump administration finally gave in and announced it was ending the crackdown, but it set a dangerous precedent.
The RCMP-led Criminal Intelligence Service Canada is sounding the alarm about organized crime groups across the country seeking to infiltrate police databases and corrupt civil servants.
The warning from the police group appears in a late-January report. Last week, Ontario’s top police watchdog ordered a provincewide review of the integrity of police data, prompted by the arrests of seven serving Toronto Police officers who are accused of corruption-related criminal offences.
The Canadian soldier’s cries are anguished, made all the more poignant by the fact he’s recording the sounds with his own Go-Pro camera.
“My foot is f—ed. Help me,” he shouts into the darkening Ukrainian forest, no-man’s land between friendly and Russian lines, before groaning in agony. “Hey, someone, come help me.”
Paying the health-care premiums of refugee claimants will cost Canadians a record $1 billion this year, with some of the beneficiaries continuing to receive free health care despite their claims having already been rejected.
That’s according to a new analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and it’s just one of several ballooning costs wrought by the unprecedented number of foreign nationals currently living in Canada by virtue of a claim of refugee status.
Senior officials at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) say anti-feminist ideology is becoming “increasingly relevant” to Canada’s national security landscape and may lead to radicalization and violent extremism, but added that the ideology alone does not yet rise to the level of a security threat.
The comments came during testimony last week to the House of Commons standing committee on the status of women, which is conducting a study on the anti-feminism movement that has sprung up in some online circles and advocates for regressive roles for women in society and relationships.
OMG the witnesses names were withheld to protect their identities. No doubt they felt stupid.
