When news broke that the Donald Trump administration and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire, markets reacted instantly. Oil prices plunged within minutes, wiping out days of gains and triggering a wave of optimism. For many consumers, the assumption seemed obvious: lower oil prices should mean lower food prices.
That assumption is fundamentally flawed.
Imagine calling for the destruction of a civilisation. Imagine dreaming about violently scrubbing an ancient nation from the face of the Earth. Imagine flirting with the idea of obliterating a land with thousands of years of rich history. I am referring, of course, to the activist class and its annihilationist hatred for the Jewish State. For nearly three years, these people have beat the streets and swarmed the digital networks to agitate for the erasure of Israel, all the way ‘from the river to the sea’. President Trump’s juvenile bluster on Iran has nothing on their existential loathing for the Jewish homeland.
Let’s just do the right thing by Heritage Canada and rename it for what it is, the Canadian Ministry of Propaganda. Or if you want to follow the official style sheet, Propaganda Canada.
Top of mind today is a draft rewrite of Canada’s Citizenship Guide, Discover Canada. This is the book they give prospective immigrants, an explanation of how the Government of Canada sees itself, the country, and the people living in it. The present one was published in 2012 during the Stephen Harper ministry, when Heritage Canada was known as Canada Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism.
A North Carolina homeless man accused of murdering Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in a brutal on-camera attack has been found ‘incapable to proceed’ to trial, his attorneys claim.
Attorneys for DeCarlos Brown Jr, 35, said in court filings Tuesday that his trial on state murder charges should be called off following an evaluation by a psychiatrist.
Under North Carolina state law, a defendant is only incapable to proceed to trial if they cannot understand the nature of their charges, cannot comprehend their role in court proceedings and cannot help their own defense.
The news that Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu is crossing the floor to join the Liberal caucus, effectively guaranteeing Prime Minister Mark Carney a parliamentary majority, has not been hailed universally by her constituents.
“She thinks she knows better than her voters?” said one resident of Sarnia–Lambton–Bkejwanong on social media. “What is the flipping point? You wonder why people get radicalized? This is why people get radicalized.”
The Liberal party may yet lose byelections in Toronto’s University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest next week, but the odds are about as likely as Canada or Scotland winning this summer’s World Cup (about 150 to 1). The third byelection in Terrebonne in Quebec will be closer, but with Gladu’s road-to-Damascus conversion, it has become less crucial to the Liberals.
A video allegedly taken by the twisted firebug who started the massive warehouse blaze in Ontario shows him lighting the blaze while apparently criticizing his employer.
Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, of Highland, has been arrested on two felony arson charges for torching the warehouse operated by consumer goods company Kimberly-Clark in San Bernardino County.
A video posted by an Instagram account bearing Abdulkarim’s name shows him lighting a goods on fire in the warehouse while taking aim at his company.
NEW: Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot warehouse in Ontario, California.
29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim was arrested on arson charges for setting a Kimberly-Clark warehouse on fire.
Abdulkarim apparently filmed himself on Instagram setting… pic.twitter.com/VSpZKh3CgF
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 8, 2026
This has the potential to grow into something bigger than Mangione.
Nobody’s separating. Yet what’s happening in the suburban riding of Terrebonne on Monday may tell us something just as consequential about the country.
Three federal by-elections are being held that day. Two are in safe Liberal ridings in Toronto vacated by former ministers Chrystia Freeland and Bill Blair. The third is in Terrebonne. The largely francophone community northeast of Montreal is where Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste defeated the Bloc Québécois’s Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by a single vote in last year’s general election. That result was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court over irregularities with mail-in ballot envelopes.
He’s building it by defection.
As an American living in Europe, I am frequently asked if my compatriots understand the extent of the damage being done to all facets of transatlantic relations by the Trump administration’s bullying policies. My answer is, sadly, no.
More and more Europeans no longer view the United States as a reliable ally. The reasons are not hard to find. The president has threatened to leave NATO, sidelined allies in negotiations over Ukraine’s future, imposed steep tariffs on the European Union and threatened to seize Greenland by force — prompting Europeans to prepare for the real prospect of military conflict with their oldest ally. One recent survey found that one-quarter or more of respondents in some countries — including France, Germany and Spain — see the United States as a rival or adversary. Another found that an absolute majority view Trump as an “enemy” of Europe and U.S. foreign policy as “recolonization.” Polls also reflect a growing belief that China is a more dependable partner.
As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world’s bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.
China Labor Watch (CLW) received a complaint last fall from one of the thousands of migrant workers brought to Hungary from China to help build BYD’s first European plant in the city of Szeged — a $6-billion investment intended to supply the European market with around 300,000 vehicles per year.
NEW: Zohran Mamdani vows to push a race-based "equity" plan on New Yorkers because he claims White families are making more money compared to Black families.
Sounds like race-based discrimination to me. pic.twitter.com/gSDh7rtnQ1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 8, 2026
As Patti Jo notes isn’t that just like Sharia law’s Jizya tax on infidels?
Until the U.K.’s political and cultural elite can defend confidently what it means to be British, the nation will sacrifice women’s safety, Jewish security, and core liberal principles such as free speech.
In Britain, March meant Ramadan. My local supermarket advised me to “Make this holy month meaningful” and offered “everything you need for Iftar, Suhoor, and beyond,” including a range of halal foods. At televised Premiership football matches, play stopped to allow Muslim players to break their fast. Days before Eid, Muslims gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to pray in public. The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, hailed the “power of being Muslim” as he addressed thousands at the “biggest Iftar in the Western world.”
Stop with the grass. Yards are racist and based on white supremacy, according to this person (don't assume gender).
At the very end is a screenshot from my new book, which ties into what she (?) says. pic.twitter.com/xLcyvh0ZuX
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 7, 2026
Last summer, Canada’s Supreme Court sent an inadvertent message to all young offenders in Canada: you will almost certainly never be sentenced as an adult.
Even before the Court released its judgement in R v. I.M., which changed the standard for which youth can be sentenced as adults, it was already true that young offenders would be treated more leniently in sentencing than adults. For a second-degree murder conviction, for example, which comes with a life sentence without parole for 10 to 25 years for an adult, a youth offender would be eligible for parole after five to seven years, depending on his or her age at the time of the offence, even if the youth was sentenced as an adult. That discrepancy is reasonably justified if we, as a society, accept that young people are of “diminished moral blameworthiness” for their actions compared to fully developed adults.
The fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran appears to have broken down after Tehran shut the Strait of Hormuz and attacked a Saudi oil pipeline.
Iran stopped oil tankers heading through the critical sea passage in protest at continued Israeli air strikes on Lebanon. The US insisted Lebanon was not covered by the ceasefire agreement.
On Wednesday afternoon, Israel hit 100 targets in 10 minutes during a surprise attack on central Beirut, in what it said was a campaign to root out Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces. Some 112 people died, according to local authorities. Iran also claimed that “enemy” air strikes hit Tehran.
The Canadian military is studying what kind of tanks and armoured troop carriers it will need in the future and how quickly those projects can and will be advanced, says the commander of the army.
An internal presentation, delivered to a closed-door audience in the United Kingdom last winter, suggested the timelines for buying new armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and main battle tanks (MBTs) were being accelerated.
In a recent interview with CBC News, Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright acknowledged the need to move quickly on the modernization of the army, but suggested the recent lessons and technological advances on the battlefield, particularly in Ukraine, need to be factored into future decisions on what kind of armoured vehicles and tanks are purchased.
