Ten years after jihadist bombings tore through Brussels, killing 32 people and injuring hundreds, survivors and officials gathered near Maelbeek station to mark an anniversary that remains unresolved for many of those who lived through it.
The tribute took place just metres from the metro stop where one of the explosions struck during the morning rush hour on March 22, 2016, when coordinated attacks on Zaventem airport and the city’s underground network brought the Belgian capital to a halt.
Canadian drag queen theater The Bird House is planning a big drag queen show to raise money for the radical Islamist Palestinian cause.
The even in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is scheduled for May 3 and will feature a performance by RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Eureka O’Hara.
Nobody Told Them They’re Cats pic.twitter.com/jIy1lNQ1pa
— Wholesome Side of (@itsme_urstruly) March 17, 2026
In Hezbollah’s northern stronghold, officials explained how far the tentacles of the Lebanese militant group extend into everyday life. “They run schools, food banks and hospitals, operate banks which support the poor,” said Ahmad Tfayli, the mayor of Baalbek. The Shia group, he claimed, never ask about religion and, he added, keeps the peace.
However, there’s little sign of peace in Lebanon, where as Israel’s land invasion of the south gets under way, thick plumes of smoke rise from Beirut’s southern suburbs — Hezbollah’s bastion in the capital.
That’s the kind of fish you talk about for the next 20 years.
Even better, he let the legend swim away. pic.twitter.com/QI7YtUIKie
— ™ (@1776Diva) March 17, 2026
Many Canadians are continuing to struggle to pay their bills each month, feeling the financial squeeze with housing costs, price of groceries, and now the rising gas prices due to the war in Iran.
According to a new survey conducted by Vividata, one out of three people is unable to pay off their credit card bills each month and almost half say they’re living paycheque to paycheque.
Despite his immense popularity, 'Knighty Knight Bugs' (1959) is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Oscar. pic.twitter.com/qWTBpxaySF
— old toons (@oldtoons_) March 16, 2026
Electricity demand is set to boom in Canada by 2050, according to new modelling from the national energy regulator released on Tuesday.
The projections also foresee robust growth in natural gas production and expansion of renewable power in the country.
The latest modelling from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) focuses on an expected spike in power demand from coast to coast as consumption grows 44 per cent from 2023 to 2050.
The electricity abundance and affordability that Canada has enjoyed for decades are ending. Generation is down, exports are now imports, and investment is flat. Canada’s impending electricity shortage is not just an affordability
crisis; it is an economic and security one as… pic.twitter.com/MNvJK79dJ2— Heather Exner-Pirot (@ExnerPirot) March 16, 2026
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THE spectre of the Batley Grammar School teacher-in-hiding debacle has once again raised its ugly head, with further guidance imposed on schools by Labour councils which deem that children’s illustrations in art lessons ‘might be idolatrous’ under Islamic law. Laura Trott, the Shadow Education Secretary, is right to demand that such guidance is withdrawn.
Since when was Islamic law imposed on this country? And how is it that the teacher involved in the catastrophe over images drawn of the Prophet Muhammad is still in hiding, in fear of his life four years after the event? Why are those involved in the threats and fearmongering not dealt with under British law? What happened to real equality?
OTTAWA — A senior officer of China’s Public Security Bureau who spent more than three decades supervising interrogations and detentions in Hebei Province has been barred from Canadian permanent residency — along with his wife and child — after a federal immigration officer found reasonable grounds to believe he was complicit in the systematic torture of criminal suspects.
It is impossible to understand our approach to matters of immigration and asylum except through the lens of political theology. We are in the grip of a politicised and secularised obsession with redemption. The asylum-seeker comes to our shores and, wherever he is from, whatever his background, and whatever he has done or might in future do, we stand ready to wash him clean and welcome him in as chosen of God. That the people who are most in thrall to this vision are almost invariably atheists is precisely the point: “All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularised theological concepts.” It is through the death of God, the killing indeed of God, that the state – and hence, man – is made the vehicle of redemption.
Among the G7 countries, Canada still posts the highest food inflation rate
Canada’s food inflation rate eased to 5.4% in February 2026, down from 7.3% previously. At first glance, this looks like progress. But the reality behind the numbers suggests Canadians shouldn’t celebrate just yet.
Food inflation remains 3.6 percentage points above overall inflation, which means groceries are still becoming more expensive faster than most other goods in the economy. While the pace of increase has slowed, the pressure on household budgets has not disappeared.
Different people believe in different things. Some believe that we go to paradise after we die. Others that we disappear into cosmic dust. But environmentalist prophet Paul Ehrlich believed mankind would be reduced to cannibalism unless we stopped having children. Right away.
And Ehrlich never gave up hope of seeing cannibalism in his lifetime.
Over the past year Canadians and Americans have begun to regard one another as adversaries. Trade disputes and political rhetoric have sharpened cross-border hostility, and polls suggest that trust between our peoples is eroding.
For a Canadian who looks back on a lifetime of fellowship with American relatives, friends, and colleagues, the present strife weighs heavily on the heart. All the more so because the actual disconnect is not between Canadians and Americans—it is ideological. For decades, we have been trapped in a conflict of left vs right, progressive vs conservative, globalist vs nationalist—and the discord runs through both nations alike.
