More than 7,000 banned guns have been declared in Alberta under the federal government’s gun buyback program, but owners in the province can’t collect compensation because of an ongoing dispute between Alberta and Ottawa over how the program is meant to operate.
That’s left firearms owners like James Bachynsky, president of the Calgary Shooting Centre, frustrated and out of pocket.
“It’ll impact me personally; it’ll impact my business partners, my family,” he said.
OTTAWA — In policing — particularly in national security and organized crime — we are trained to recognize a simple truth: the most serious threats rarely arrive with warning. They emerge gradually, through relationships, dependencies, and decisions that appear rational in isolation but carry strategic consequences in aggregate.
What concerns me today is not a single incident or headline. It is a pattern.
What started out as a small scrape is turning into a long bleed. On Wednesday, 11-year Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu left caucus and joined the Liberals after denouncing floor crossers. You can actually make it make sense if you really squint, but for Pierre Poilievre, that doesn’t help much.
Gladu should repulse the Liberals: she’s dined with Freedom Convoyers; stood up for an alleged constituent whose bank account was frozen for buying a convoy T-shirt; spoken at the National March for Life; praised Donald Trump before he was president.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas carried out the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, recording the horrors and sharing them online. The attack triggered a bloody Israeli invasion of Gaza that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. It also had immediate consequences far beyond the region.
In Canada, Jewish communities experienced what Deborah Lyons, the former Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, called an “unprecedented wave” of antisemitism involving “harassment, intimidation, threats of violence” and a near tripling of hate crimes. In Europe, pro-Palestinian demonstrations were marred by antisemitic chants. In Berlin, a synagogue was attacked with firebombs while Stars of David were scrawled on apartments housing Jews, reminiscent of Nazi intimidation.
I had a call with @OttawaPolice today. I was told if I don’t delete my X posts where I say Mosques in Occupied Iran are hubs of terrorism and should be bombed, I would be charged under the Criminal Code of Canada.
So I deleted my posts.
Meanwhile, Mosques in Occupied Iran: pic.twitter.com/TAL1z1Pg0i
— Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 (@gghamari) April 8, 2026
Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree needs to learn the meaning of the sunk-cost fallacy.
That’s because he needs to finally cut his losses and scrap Ottawa’s gun ban and confiscation scheme.
OTTAWA — Ontario Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu’s floor crossing gives the Liberals a virtual lock on a majority, and one that would allow them to do far more than simply survive confidence votes — because not all majorities are created equal.
Two of the three April 13 contests — in the Toronto ridings of University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest — are widely considered safe Liberal seats, while the Montreal riding of Terrebonne is expected to be more competitive.
The US Supreme Court is diving into the heated debate over ‘birthright’ citizenship, and it’s time Canada had the same conversation.
Birthright citizenship is pretty straightforward — if you’re born here, you’re a citizen, no questions asked. It’s what lawyers call jus soli, or “right of soil.”
The two-faced hypocrisy MP Marilyn Gladu demonstrated on Wednesday, in abandoning the Conservatives for the Liberals, is shocking even when considering the ever-malleable “political principles” of floor-crossers in general.
On Jan. 11, the then-Conservative MP for Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong since 2015 told her local Petrolia Lambton Independent newspaper she supported an automatic byelection for any MP defecting to another party.
OTTAWA — Ethics screens are little more than loopholes for politicians to cover themselves while sidestepping ethical compliance, an ethics watchdog said Wednesday.
One day after federal Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he officially recused himself from discussions involving the Alto high speed rail project, Democracy Watch Founder Duff Conacher said “ethics screens” like the one minister created for himself are little more than “secretive smokescreens” that don’t prevent cabinet ministers from ethically-questionable situations.
“The whole point of being an MP is to represent your constituents,” a Conservative MP told a local Ontario newspaper back in January, when she backed a call for automatic by-elections following an MP’s defection.
“So if they’re voting you in under one platform,” she continued, “for you to switch for whatever reasons, just seems to me to not be representing what you’re supposed to be there to represent.”
She wants in on that $300,000 in flight catering the Liberals offer. Have you tried the Filet Mignon? pic.twitter.com/FwJsKKBcCo
— JohnnyD (@John0Vision) April 8, 2026
With one warm floor-crossing welcome, Prime Minister Mark Carney challenged Wednesday what it means to be a Liberal, gave his primary opponent a big wake-up call, and planted the seeds for simmering caucus discontent.
A day before Liberals gather in Montreal for their biennial convention — Carney’s first as leader — the prime minister embraced four-term Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu to the Grits’ caucus. “I couldn’t be happier,” he said, as he shook Gladu’s hand and lauded her “tremendous” international business experience, her decade in Parliament, dedication to her constituents, and well-known reputation as one of the most collaborative MPs on the hill.
Deputy minister of national defence Christiane Fox broke conflict of interest rules by hiring an old acquaintance when she was the deputy immigration minister, the federal ethics watchdog has found.
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein published an investigation on Wednesday finding that Fox improperly influenced her department to hire Björn Charles in March 2023.
The report said that officials “felt pressured to hire him” at “a management level for which departmental officials had advised he was not qualified.”
Liberal MP Chris d’Entremont, who crossed the floor from the Conservatives in November, says current Conservative MPs have “absolutely” asked him what it’s like being a Liberal.
“They want to know what the caucus structure is, what we talk about, what kind of input that we have in decision making,” d’Entremont told host Mike Le Couteur in an interview on CTV Power Play Wednesday.
Every last defector will regret their actions.
It was during the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio on hardcore pornographers that Justice Potter Stewart famously offered as a threshold test for obscenity: “I know it when I see it.”
The news of Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu’s defection to the Liberals will shock many Canadian voters. It’s timely then to explore the question: are any floor crossings defendable or even laudatory?
Rat infestation.
Three months before Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu crossed the floor to the Liberals, she backed a call for an automatic byelection when an MP defects.
Gladu said she decided to join the Liberals because she has “heard clearly from constituents that (they) want serious leadership,” in a statement released today. But in January the Ontario MP who has represented Sarnia—Lambton–Bkejwanong since 2015, backed a petition calling for “immediate accountability” for voters.
Yup. @fancypants_s https://t.co/wVNC0uXGEK
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 9, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
