Many quaint expressions have passed from common usage in recent years, like “it’s a free country” or “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” Similarly, “talk is cheap” is something you don’t hear much, at least not in government circles around Ottawa. That may be because the governing Liberals, like many politicians, don’t seem to know the difference between saying you’re going to do something and actually doing it.
On Feb. 27, 2025, fifteen online MAGA influencers walked out of the West Wing holding white binders stamped “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” Rogan O’Handley, AKA “DC Draino,” held his high for the cameras. Liz Wheeler went live on X and flipped through the pages. Jessica Reed Kraus described the scene as though she’d been handed the Pentagon Papers. Attorney General Pam Bondi had personally delivered the documents, with President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel in attendance.
Some health-care workers who either directly provide medical assistance in dying or work in that field say they are strongly opposed to Bill 18 — which, if passed, would prevent doctors or nurse practitioners from administering MAID to patients if they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months.
In a letter published in the Edmonton Journal on Friday and shared with CBC News, 25 health-care workers signed their names to make their opposition known.
Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have again rejected demands by US President Donald J. Trump’s “Board of Peace” to lay down their weapons. This rejection underscores the determination of terror groups to continue their fight against Israel.
The Palestinian terror groups’ refusal to hand over their weapons shows they do not take seriously Trump’s repeated threats that they must disarm as part of the October 2025 US-brokered ceasefire and reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip. Trump made his latest threat in February 2026, when he warned that Hamas would be “harshly met” if they failed to disarm.
An internal RCMP report says that nitazenes — synthetic opioids police describe as “20 to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl” — could become a defining feature of the opioid crisis in Canada in the coming years.
Those drugs, which have been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada, “are emerging as a growing threat,” the report says.
Sweeping job cuts at Big Tech companies have become an annual tradition. How executives explain those decisions, however, has changed.
Out are buzzwords like efficiency, over-hiring, and too many management layers.
Today, all explanations stem from artificial intelligence (AI).
In recent weeks, giants including Google, Amazon, Meta, as well as smaller firms such as Pinterest and Atlassian, have all announced or warned of plans to shrink their workforce, pointing to developments in AI that they say are allowing their firms to do more with fewer people.
Mezhgan Aini had a husband and three children she cared about, family in Afghanistan who she talked to regularly, and a thriving seamstress business in Mississauga.
Then she was gone.
Mezhgan, 38, was reported missing by her sister in August 2025. Seven months later, Peel police issued a news release: The probe into her disappearance was now a homicide investigation.
Maybe the same reluctance that lead to the torture and death of a child was at work on this case?
Plainclothes police officers were present and actively surveilling an Antifa cell during a protest, which saw a conservative student suffer fatal blows to the head in an alleged mob leftist killing, raising questions about whether law enforcement could have intervened to save his life.
As you already know, the New Democrat Party over the weekend elected a new leader in Avi Lewis.
But prior to him stepping into Jagmeet Singh’s Gucci loafers, there were some other events that took place during the NDP Leadership Convention in Winnipeg.
This is what nightmares are made of.
Could easily be a comedy skit. pic.twitter.com/Y1UwYdr3wZ
— Retard Finder (@IfindRetards) March 29, 2026
Between the non binary chair looking, and might I say acting, a little like Nazi youth combined with the equity card shuffle, this seems like an episode of Portlandia pic.twitter.com/yXDH2qKSdy
— Iseult (@iseult) March 29, 2026
My suspicion is the Juno’s and the NDP Convention are the same event rebranded.
Comment of the week goes to @KidTokyo86 😆 pic.twitter.com/KVnAsO85bm
— Stacey (@StaceyMonette27) March 30, 2026
TEL AVIV — As U.S. and Israeli military commanders met to map out war with Iran, they deliberated over how to divide responsibility for an array of targets, including missile batteries, military bases and nuclear sites.
It was clear from the outset, however, that one grim mission would belong to Israel: hunting and killing Iran’s leaders.
Israel has pursued this assignment with ruthless efficiency, killing Iran’s supreme leader in the opening salvo of the war and more than 250 other “senior Iranian officials” since, according to a count maintained by the Israeli military. The latest blow came Thursday when Israel said it had killed the naval commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Years of Western sanctions haven’t prevented money flows out of Tehran: ‘They probably learned from the Russian oligarchs’
On a leafy residential stretch of North London dubbed Billionaires’ Row, Saudi royals and wealthy Russians have long come shopping for high-end real estate. The Iranians were a more surprising addition to the neighborhood.
Several sprawling mansion plots along the thoroughfare more formally known as The Bishops Avenue make up a chunk of the extensive London property holdings funded by Iranian money that Western officials have linked to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iranian banker Ali Ansari acquired the Bishops Avenue plots and other nearby property in 2018 for around 90 million pounds, equivalent to around $120 million today, according to people familiar with the deal. The transaction took place offshore through an entity registered in the Isle of Man, the people said.
A small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators was met by a large police presence on Sunday, as they marched in North York to test a directive banning them from residential parts of a local Jewish neighbourhood.
At 1 p.m., about 20 people carrying Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Israel slogans walked west along Sheppard Avenue from its intersection with Bathurst Street, the site of competing weekly rallies about the Mideast conflict since at least fall 2024.
A line of Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers and cruisers blocked off each side street along the main thoroughfare. At each one, organizers asked if they would be allowed down the street, and officers instructed them to keep moving.
WATCH:
Protesters at Bathurst and Sheppard complain to police about an individual wearing a makeshift niqab and draped in a Pride flag.
“This is incitement,” says a protester, himself dressed in a full keffiyeh face covering and sunglasses.
📸 Mar 29, 2026#Toronto… pic.twitter.com/TzwiKq4KkD
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 29, 2026
That’s a lot of cops and firemen to deploy. The cost of policing these cranks is unsustainable.
Happening now
Hwy 401 near Keele Collector Lanes
High risk take down#hwy401 #toronto #TPS pic.twitter.com/et5MvdqwQK— At the Scene Photography (@AtTheScenePhoto) March 30, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has called for the withdrawal of all US soldiers from the country.
Tino Chrupalla, the far-Right party’s co-leader, told a meeting on Saturday that it was time to remove allied troops and nuclear weapons from Germany in order to pursue an “independent” foreign policy.
“Let’s start implementing this with the withdrawal of US troops from Germany,” he told supporters in Saxony.
Long a popular opinion in Germany, it may hasten the end of NATO.
A Ukrainian refugee says Manitoba’s rejection of her requests to help her remove her deadname from official documents leaves her exposed to transphobia and infringes on her right to express her