HOLY SHIT
Virginia Democrats are EXEMPTING THEMSELVES from a new gun control bill
“The provisions of this section shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly” pic.twitter.com/1pxhvjaNdS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 15, 2026
h/t Mauser
WINDSOR – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has unveiled a new auto plan aiming to secure tariff-free access to the U.S. market.
The plan would harmonize tailpipe emissions reductions with the U.S., and align Canada with the United States on Chinese tariffs in a move meant to give Canada leverage in trade talks.
Poilievre would also implement a rule where for each car produced in Canada, the same manufacturer would be able to sell a U.S. or Mexico-made car in Canada duty-free.
LIVE: A new tariff-free 🇨🇦🇺🇸 auto pact // EN DIRECT : Un nouveau Pacte de l’automobile 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 sans tarifs https://t.co/yGhrcZSYo0
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) March 15, 2026
VATICAN CITY — In the days after President Donald Trump unleashed a military attack on Iran, the Catholic Church was quickly on a war-footing — against the war.
America’s rational for preemptive strikes, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state warned, risked setting “the whole world … ablaze.”
Cardinal Robert McElroy, the church’s top authority in Washington, called the war neither “morally legitimate” nor “just.”
VANCOUVER — The killing of Iranian-Canadian activist and mathematician Masood Masjoody has triggered alarm across Canada’s Iranian diaspora, with prominent community voices warning that the case raises broader concerns about intimidation and possible transnational repression linked to Iran’s regime.
Police have charged Arezou Soltani of North Vancouver and Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi of Maple Ridge with first-degree murder in connection with Masjoody’s death. The two accused are scheduled to appear in court Monday.
Sure Gary Sure … Feds approach to Iranian regime in Canada ‘aggressive,’ public safety minister insists
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused European allies of seeking to “blackmail” Kyiv into reopening a pipeline transporting Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.
He said restoring the flow of Russian crude oil through Ukraine into the European Union (EU) would be like lifting economic sanctions on Moscow.
Ukraine says the Soviet-era Druzhba oil pipeline was damaged by Russian air strikes in January and has yet to be repaired.
Is he still looking for the “real saboteurs” of the Nord Stream pipelines?
A society that tolerates intolerance – as we now do – can pass as many laws as it likes against “hate” but it won’t reduce hate-motivated crimes.
We have never had as many laws against hate as exist today in Canada and yet we have never seen more hatred on our streets – as illustrated yet again by Saturday’s annual hate-fest known as the Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto outside the U.S. consulate, which was recently shot up.
Hate crimes against Muslims are almost twice as likely to result in prosecution than those against Jews, figures have revealed for the first time.
The rate of the offences targeting Muslims that resulted in a charge or summons was 6.7 per cent in the year to March 2025, equivalent to one in 15 offences recorded by the police.
However, just 3.8 per cent of anti-Jewish hate crimes led to a charge or summons in the same 12-month period, which was one in 26.
This is not an overnight development that just happened in the past two weeks, after the Trump administration and Israel launched attacks on Iran.
Reports were emerging in January that even while Iranian citizens fed an uprising that led to the murder of roughly 40,000 of them at the hands of the Iranian regime, members of the regime have been quietly relocating to Canada.
h/t PA Cat
An explosion at an orthodox Jewish school in Amsterdam on Saturday was “a deliberate attack against the Jewish community” and a “cowardly act of aggression”, the city’s mayor said.
The overnight attack on a school in Buitenveldert, an upmarket district in the south of Amsterdam with many Jewish businesses and synagogues, damaged an external wall of the building. There were no injuries.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote: “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
He was speaking of the citizen in relation to his community, but the situation for political leaders is rather different. They are compelled to wear more than one face when addressing the multitude – especially in democracies, which are made up of different constituencies with differing interests. Things get more complicated, however, when two different public faces are in tension with one another, as has been the case for Mark Carney since he assumed the premiership of Canada a year ago this week.
Left-wing activists have started a shoplifting spree across Britain in protest against “billionaires hoarding wealth”.
Members of Take Back Power, which is viewed as the successor to Just Stop Oil, stole food from supermarkets in four cities on Saturday morning and donated it to food banks.
The activists claimed “liberating” produce from the branches of Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Tesco was “non-violent action to resist the super-rich”.
Ben Woodfinden: Canada has failed its younger generations, which no longer have the opportunity to live the life that their parents did
In the 2024 World Happiness Report, Canadians over 60 ranked eighth in the world. Canadians under 30 ranked 58th. Happiness is, of course, subjective and hard to measure, but the gap between a country that still works for one generation and has completely failed another points to a broken social contract.
The monkey who lost her babies…and the kitten that changed everything ♥️ pic.twitter.com/W7nHyz8dqo
— We don't deserve cats 😺 (@catsareblessing) March 14, 2026
Donald Trump has said the US military has bombed a small island off the coast of Iran – home to a major oil terminal that is considered the country’s economic lifeline.
The US president said Kharg Island’s military facilities were “totally obliterated” but that it had held off targeting its oil infrastructure.
Trump, however, warned that he would reconsider the decision not to target oil facilities on the island should Iran or others “do anything to interfere” with the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz – one of the world’s most important shipping channels, located south of Iran’s coast.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Kharg Island sits just 15 miles off Iran’s coast, comfortably inside the range of Iranian missiles, drones, and coastal artillery.
So if the U.S. ever tried to land Marines there they’d be storming a beach while the mainland shoots at them the entire time.
Kharg handles… https://t.co/HreA4DtBBu pic.twitter.com/VK9WtCmIfK
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 14, 2026
Barbara Boyd gives her take on the Kharg Island action last night
President Trump is following the pattern/plan used in Venezuela
from Promethian Updates pic.twitter.com/8WaaSacVwg
— Dangerous Thoughts (@DangerousThinkg) March 14, 2026
Why certain types of honey are expensive.. 🍯 pic.twitter.com/fwgNUl7nyR
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) March 13, 2026
h/t Mauser
