On April 17, Prime Minister Mark Carney celebrated the anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and declared that “it is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter.”
Unfortunately, despite the fact that he has attempted to associate his Liberal government with the edifice of human rights in Canada, it is evident that Mark Carney has merely paid a glib lip service to Canada’s Charter and the fundamental human rights of all Canadians.
On September 26, 2022, several underwater explosions disabled three of the four Nord Stream pipeline lines in the Baltic Sea. The facts are well known: it was a deliberate act of sabotage against one of the key energy infrastructures linking Russia and Germany.
What remains unresolved, nearly four years later, is responsibility. Or at least officially unresolved.
That vacuum is now being filled by new narratives. The latest comes from journalist Bojan Pancevski, who in his book The Nord Stream Explosion introduces a particularly striking element: the involvement of a Ukrainian woman, a former adult model identified under the pseudonym “Freya,” in the sabotage operation.
Federal governments have for decades failed to reduce Canada’s dependence on U.S. trade, according to a new report, suggesting that Prime Minister Mark Carney faces an overwhelmingly steep climb in his effort to pivot the country away from its southern neighbour.
In a new report, the Fraser Institute studied the last 50 years of Canada’s trade diversification efforts, which included the signing of 16 free trade agreements with non-U.S. countries between 1988 and 2020. For all that work, however, Canada hardly increased its exports to non-U.S. trade partners, particularly in the last 25 years. Meanwhile, China — seemingly the sole benefactor from Canada’s diversification push — has gobbled up virtually all of what was diverted away from the U.S. in recent decades, the report found.
Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps.
The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall—and that he might see possible violence outside it.
Climbing the stairs from the subway left me winded. “You’re really out of shape you fat fuck,” I muttered to myself as I stopped to catch my breath, but the pain only started when I’d walked a block and turned the corner onto Simcoe Street, south toward the convention centre.
It was a new kind of pain. Since turning 50 there seemed to be some fresh variety of pain revealed annually, and I tried to play it down by telling myself I’d add it to the list. This was different, though – a steely sharpness that started in my chest and blossomed up through my shoulders to my neck and jaw.
I was on my way to a trade show for photographers and video makers in the big room on the north side of the convention centre where they hold the auto show every year. The same place where I’d lined up in the shadow of the CN Tower for the first dose of the COVID vaccine, joining the rest of the city eager to get back to normal life and a day like today – minus the chest pains.
NB: The author knew Kathy before I did.
WATCH:
Intense arrest unfolds at Union Station following allegations of an unprovoked assault.
Several officers work to subdue a shirtless suspect who appeared to be in distress.
Union Station is Canada’s busiest commuter hub.
📸 Apr 28, 2026#Toronto #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/XrdsxD0mQ2
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 29, 2026
It is undeniable now: war has been declared on British Jews. A fascistic crusade is being waged against our Jewish compatriots. The anti-Semitic atrocity in Golders Green today is further brutish proof of this unsettling fact. We’ve had firebombings at synagogues, the murder of Jews in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and now this frenzied knifing of Jews in London. There can be no more equivocating – this is a moral emergency.
🚨Here is the moment the Golders Green terrorist is subdued and kicked in the head as he clutched his bloody knife after stabbing two Jews.
I don’t think they kicked him hard enough. pic.twitter.com/NQRT3jWMr1
— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) April 29, 2026
Too late for Britain I fear.
We can’t have programs like this and we also need to stop giving free school to foreigners. Half of these are probably work permit/diploma farm kids. https://t.co/6SSQABsBHE
— Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) April 29, 2026
Families of seven victims of a mass shooting at a secondary school in British Columbia are suing OpenAI and the company’s CEO for negligence after it failed to alert authorities to the shooter’s troubling conversations with ChatGPT.
The lawsuits, filed on Wednesday in a federal court in San Francisco, allege that the violent intentions of the shooter, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, were well-known to OpenAI. Employees at the company flagged the shooter’s account eight months before the attack and determined that it posed “a credible and specific threat of gun violence against real people”, according to the lawsuit.
If the people of Iran had the right to bear arms, the regime that oppresses them would no longer be in power. That’s not far-fetched speculation. It’s a reality we can see by looking at how power works inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. When only the state has weapons, only the state has power. Defenseless citizens cannot rise up against a brutal regime.
Police in Vancouver rejected a request from Fifa to provide president Gianni Infantino with a level-four motorcade escort, the sort of security arrangements usually reserved for heads of state and figures like the Pope.
Fifa’s annual congress takes place in Vancouver this week and Global BC reported football’s governing body asked for its president to be given a full motorcade escort through the city, allowing his convoy to go through downtown traffic lights while roads are blocked off.
Grandiose declarations by Western politicians claiming preventive force against murderous regimes is somehow illegal have become de rigueur. The leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Norway and most European countries have weighed in with parallel and often identical statements on the essential importance of obeying international law while waging war against Iran and its terror proxies, such as Hezbollah.
One of the key figures in patriating Canada’s constitution and bringing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms into being says the Carney government is out of line. Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford, the last living elected official who helped seal the deal, says in asking the Supreme Court to alter the Notwithstanding Clause, the Carney government is acting unconstitutionally.
On Tuesday afternoon, CNN and MS NOW swooned over King Charles III’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress, choosing not to focus on the historical lessons and shared values that kept the West alive (although its current state is debatable), but on the moments regarding climate change, checks and balances, NATO, and Ukraine to name a few the left has declared outright jabs at President Trump.
A 28-year-old Toronto man accused of making 3D printed handguns is facing a number of charges in connection with a firearm manufacturing and trafficking probe, police say.
Toronto police said multiple 3D printed guns and components were seized following the suspect’s arrest in December 2025.
“These are fully functioning firearms that were not purchased through regulated channels and in many cases, are not traceable in the same way as traditional firearms,” Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday morning.
On December 9, 2025, Brian Narciso, 28, was arrested and charged with multiple offences related to firearm manufacturing, trafficking, and unauthorized firearm possession. The charges include a new offence under Canadian law: possession of computer data for the purpose of manufacturing or trafficking firearms, contrary to section 102.1 of the Criminal Code.
