Good morning. President Trump has said he would bomb much of the civilian infrastructure of Iran on Tuesday night if Tehran doesn’t, among other things, allow the Strait of Hormuz to open. He has set a tight deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time.
Trump has made numerous threats to Iran since the war began in late February. Sometimes he has followed through, and sometimes he has backed down.
OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has been unable to participate in decisions related to the federal government’s proposed high-speed rail line after setting up an ethics screen last year due to his partner’s ties to the Crown corporation behind the project.
The screen means the finance minister has had to recuse himself from all discussions related to the Alto proposal for an electric rail line between Toronto and Quebec City — which the Carney government considers “transformative” — because his partner, Anne-Marie Gaudet, became the Crown corporation’s vice-president of environment last August.
A gunman was killed and two were injured in a shootout near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
Two policemen were “slightly injured” in the gun fight, Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci said.
Ciftci said the attackers had come to Istanbul from the city of Izmit by rental car and that two of them were brothers.
In December, the Liberals extended Canadian citizenship to everyone in the world over the age of three months who can prove that one of their ancestors was born here, no matter how far back.
This was the result of Bill C-3. It means that potentially millions of people with no natural democratic right to intervene in our politics will soon be able to vote in our elections. Millions who haven’t contributed a cent to our economy will become eligible for our social safety net. Among them will be organized criminals, terrorists spawned from parents who left Canada to engage in barbarism overseas, people who can’t speak English or French, scammers, drug dealers, and many more undesirables.
Actor James Woods used a Sunday night X post to note that Britain went-all in on disarming its people in the late 20th century and now is “standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss.”
Woods wrote, “Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today.”
Ontario’s transparency watchdog is renewing her calls for the Ford government to scrap its controversial freedom of information crackdown, saying the changes will make the province “less transparent than even the federal government.”
Shortly after a court concluded Premier Doug Ford was using his personal phone to conduct government business and ruled some of those records should be public, the province moved to change access to information laws.
The Vatican has announced that as part of his upcoming African tour, Pope Leo XIV will visit Algeria 13–15 April.
Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming trip is a historic event. No acting pontiff has ever visited Algeria, a former stronghold of ancient Christianity whose current population of 48 million is about 99% Muslim.
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the 1996 attack on an Algerian monastery in which seven monks were kidnapped and beheaded by an Islamic group. Today, religious freedom has significantly deteriorated in the country, particularly impacting Algeria’s roughly 156,000 Christians. Algeria is currently ranked as the 20th most oppressive nation for Christians by the human rights organization Open Doors.
Canadian consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in almost a year as the war in Iran, which has sent energy prices soaring and stoked worries about persistent inflation, entered its sixth week.
The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Consumer Confidence Index fell to 46.93 in the week ended April 3, while the expectations index extended its four-week loss to almost 10 points. A reading below 50 indicates net negative views. It was the lowest reading for both indexes since May 2025, when consumers and businesses were still digesting the initial shock of US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.
Donald Trump has threatened to wipe out Iran on Tuesday if it does not agree to a ceasefire.
The US president said he could bomb the Islamic Republic back to the “Stone Ages”, destroying all of its power stations and bridges within four hours, if no deal were in place by 1am UK time.
“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Mr Trump told a White House press conference on Monday evening. “I hope I don’t have to do it.”
Update …
President Donald J. Trump posted to Truth Social just minutes ago, stating, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” pic.twitter.com/Z36aL7ytyL
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 7, 2026
h/t Mauser
Iranian military capabilities continue to decline as U.S. forces relentlessly strike military targets inside Iran. pic.twitter.com/EyYkisgR5B
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 6, 2026
Two years after the killing of a suspected drug trafficker in Niagara Falls, Ont. — purportedly targeted by a gunman hired by Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal network — police are still trying to unlock the victim’s iPhone and identify at least one other suspect.
Investigators are also seeking to piece together how the homicide, allegedly carried out by a hitman known as Mr. Perfect, fits into a web of unsolved crimes suspected of being linked to the drug-trafficking organization allegedly led by Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada.
❗️❗️WOW, Poilievre EXPOSES the entire foreign worker SCAM
"Employers know they come from a poor country and can't leave their job…. and so, they'll accept a lower wage.."
"Pay more and Canadians will apply!" pic.twitter.com/vEPLJexVyi
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) April 6, 2026
Seems to be getting it.
CALGARY — Canada’s navy raised a transgender flag at its morning colours ceremony, accompanied by a message online stating it will not tolerate “hateful online conduct,” which may be subject to the “criminal justice process.”
Last week, “Transgender Day of Visibility,” was observed by the Royal Canadian Navy, or the East Coast Navy, on Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Halifax — Canada’s largest military base in terms of population.
Denying the U.S. the use of its European bases is an insane level of ingratitude and entitlement.
he United States has to be done paying for everything and everyone in the rest of the world.
We have to go back to the Founders’ vision of not entangling ourselves in foreign conflicts, unless it is clearly, absolutely in our best and vital interest to do so.
This is not a criticism of the decision to attack Iran, per se. Any reasonable person can see that there could be great benefit to knocking out or laying low a nation with Iran’s destructive capabilities, a nation that has made it clear for almost half a century that it would love nothing more than to kill the Great Satan.
OTTAWA – On the night of January 8, 2020, a Boeing 737 carrying 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents climbed out of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and was destroyed by two missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. One hundred and seventy-six people died. Iran denied it for three days, bulldozed the crash site, and then blamed a single soldier’s misidentification error.
Canada accepted that framing, more or less. It still does.
