Only twice before in recorded history have the Oscars attracted fewer viewers. In 2021, only 10.4 million tuned in. Then in 2022, only 16.6 million tuned in.
On Sunday, only 17.9 million tuned in.
SIMS: Ratings and spending show why CBC should be defunded
The CBC is a huge waste of money. Nearly nobody is watching it and journalists should not be paid by the government.
With former employees testifying before a Parliament Hill committee, it’s easy to get lost in the drama.
Trump says he might destroy Iran’s leadership and let other countries deal with Strait of Hormuz
President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. might finish off the Iranian regime and let countries that rely on the Strait of Hormuz as an oil-shipping channel deal with its security.
Mr. Trump mused about the possibility while he urged other nations to help clear Iran’s blockade of the waterway, which carries 20% of the world’s oil supply.
“I wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it, we don’t, be responsible for the so called ‘Straight?’ That would get some of our non-responsive ‘Allies’ in gear, and fast!!!” he posted on Truth Social.
That’ll get their attention.
Doug Ford praises homeowner who shot man during home invasion: ‘These guys, they need to be shot’
Premier Doug Ford has applauded the Vaughan homeowner who shot one of four masked intruders breaking into his home early Tuesday morning, saying more people need to defend themselves with guns.
“Congratulations for shooting this guy — should have shot him a couple more times, as far as I’m concerned,” said Ford, responding to a reporter’s question Wednesday during an appearance in Kenilworth, in southwestern Ontario.
“These guys, they need to be shot,” he said.
Uncertainty remains, after 19 days of war in Iran
Four years and 24 days. Nineteen days. There’s a huge difference between those two numbers. The first numbers — 1,485 days altogether — is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number — just 19 days — is the number of days since U.S. and Israeli forces on Feb. 28 began bombing strategic targets in Iran.
The two attacks have this in common: their initial responses were far different from what many experts, in the United States and beyond, expected and predicted.
U.S. drops 5,000-pound bunker busters on underground Iranian missile sites along the Hormuz coastline
CENTCOM confirms GBU-72 Advanced Penetrator bombs were used to destroy hardened Iranian anti-ship cruise missile sites threatening commercial shipping in the Strait.
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— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) March 18, 2026
Liberal government appeals ruling against use of Emergencies Act to Supreme Court
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is honking its final horn in its legal battle to validate its use of the Emergencies Act to deal with the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government filed its application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on Tuesday in the hopes that the highest court in the land will overturn two earlier decisions that ruled the use of the draconian act was unjustified as a way to stop the protests.
To Live and Die in LA’s Film Industry
Someone likened it to ‘killing the Golden goose,’ and if there was ever anything golden about Los Angeles, it was the glitter of its legendary film industry.
I mean, the celebrity culture and mystique of the movie industry was, next to palm tree-lined boulevards, the association most often made in the average American’s mind when asked what represented Los Angeles to him.
The strident incoherence of Hollywood’s pampered leftists is nothing new but the internet has made it harder to get away with.
Speed is the new sovereignty in the Arctic
Speed is now the true measure of sovereignty in Canada’s North.
Ottawa can publish strategies and announce billions in investments, but if we can’t move people, ships and aircraft into our own Arctic quickly, and keep them there, our claims are only as strong as our press releases.
Cuba vows ‘unbreakable resistance’ to any takeover attempt
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has responded to takeover threats from Donald Trump, saying that the US would face “unbreakable resistance” if it tried to seize the country.
His remarks come as Cuba struggles with a multitude of economic woes largely brought about by pressure from the US, which is trying to cut off the flow of foreign currency and oil to the Caribbean island.
In his comments on X, Diaz-Canel accused the US of threatening “almost daily” to overthrow his country’s constitutional order by force, using as its pretext a weakened economy that Washington itself had “attacked and sought to isolate for more than six decades.”
Niagara Falls lights up for Long Covid Awareness Day
Niagara Falls was lit in a teal color last night to mark International Long Covid Awareness Day.
Among other locations illuminated to recognize the occasion was Canada’s tallest structure, Toronto’s CN Tower. The tower regularly changes colors to celebrate a variety of events during the year, including Kwanzaa, Human Rights Day and Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Israel confirms: Iranian Intelligence Minister eliminated
An Israeli official confirmed Wednesday morning that the Israeli Air Force carried out an attempted targeted assassination against Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib on Tuesday night.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed Khatib’s death, saying that Khatib had been “in charge of the Iranian regime’s mechanisms for murder and internal repression, and of advancing external threats.”
“Israel’s policy is clear and unambiguous: No one in Iran is immune, and they are all targets.”
Border agency ‘systemic collapse’ allows man found guilty of immigration fraud to walk free and sue Canada
Gurpreet Singh, a 40-year-old Indian national, is suing the Canadian government and employees of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), alleging they prosecuted him maliciously and violated his charter rights.
It’s the latest twist in a massive immigration fraud saga in Saskatchewan that has been winding its way through the justice system for many years.
At the heart of that drama lies a big mistake by the CBSA.
Islamist ideology rife within Civil Service, says ex-ambassador
A former UK ambassador has said it is undeniable that “Islamist entryism” is creating anti-Israel sentiment within the Civil Service.
Edmund Fitton-Brown, who was a British diplomat for more than 30 years, claimed that rising hostility towards the Jewish state in wider society was being mirrored across Whitehall.
His comments come after The Telegraph revealed Foreign Office staff attended an event at the Iranian embassy in London to celebrate the Islamic revolution, just weeks after the regime massacred thousands of its own people.
WTF?
TEAM VENEZUELA 🇻🇪
CHAMPS 🏆#WORLDBASEBALLCLASSIC pic.twitter.com/1hDTJWcI5V— World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) March 18, 2026
H/T Mauser
Canada’s Conservatives Want Chinese EVs Barred and Their Software Banned
Canada’s Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre on Sunday unveiled a plan to double the country’s vehicle production.
Polievre called for a tariff-free auto pact with the United States while pledging to scrap both the Liberal government’s Chinese EV import quota and its electric vehicle mandate.