WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced byelections scheduled for April 13 in three ridings on Sunday, and if his party wins all three, the Liberals will secure a one-seat majority in Parliament.
Two Ontario seats, in Scarborough Southwest and University–Rosedale, are vacant due to the resignations of Liberal MPs Bill Blair and Chrystia Freeland, while the seat in Terrebonne, Quebec, is empty because the 2025 vote result was annulled by the Supreme Court.
DUBAI — The International Energy Agency on Wednesday announced that it would carry out its largest-ever release of oil reserves — 400 million barrels — in a bid to control spiking energy prices caused by the United States-Israel war against Iran, which shows no signs of slowing as it ends its 12th day.
The plan, aimed at stabilizing oil prices that have soared since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, came as Iranian leaders declared they were widening their assault on countries in the Persian Gulf, aiming to raise the economic price of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign to oust the government in Tehran.
A new survey suggests a significant share of older Canadians are struggling to meet basic needs, with one in five people aged 50 and older experiencing a standard of living comparable to the poverty line.
The findings are from the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) and its 2025 Ageing in Canada survey, which examines the financial and social wellbeing of more than 6,000 Canadians aged 50 and older.
The report found 20 per cent of respondents were experiencing “material deprivation,” meaning they struggle to afford essential goods and services.
h/t Patti Jo
Sudan’s ongoing civil war is not just a clash between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their former military allies-turned rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It is a calculated power grab by the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, recently listed by the US as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). The US announced plans to formally classify the group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) starting March 16, 2026, and accused it of carrying out mass violence against civilians during Sudan’s ongoing war. Meanwhile, the terrorist organization appears to be using the SAF as a Trojan horse to dominate northeast Africa and the Red Sea – a critical artery for global commerce.
United States customs officers conducted a record number of searches of electronic devices last year of people travelling to the U.S., and a recent update to its directives adds new devices such as smart watches, SIM cards and flash drives to the list of things subject to search.
Officers searched 55,318 computers, cellphones and other devices in 2025, up 17.6 per cent from the 47,047 devices searched in 2024 and up 32.4 per cent from the 41,767 devices searched in 2023, according to statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Three brothers have been arrested in Norway linked to an explosion outside the US embassy in the capital, Oslo, on Sunday.
The authorities believe the blast was caused by an improvised device that was placed at the building’s entrance. It caused minor damage and no injuries were reported.
The brothers, all in their 20s, are Norwegian citizens with links to Iraq, Norway’s police attorney Christian Hatlo told a press conference on Wednesday.
Seventeen Pride organizations in B.C. are calling on a member of the legislature to resign, citing a bill she introduced to repeal the province’s Human Rights Code as the latest example in a troubling pattern.
MLA Tara Armstrong rose in the legislature last month to introduce the Human Rights Code Repeal Act. The code protects people from discrimination based on characteristics including sex, race, disability, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, political belief, and religion.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has moved to a military base in Washington, D.C., after federal investigators flagged credible threats related to her work at the Justice Department, the New York Times reports. The move happened within the past month, after law enforcement warned her team that the danger had reached a level serious enough to force action.
The City of Toronto’s lawyers say Daniel Tate can’t treasure their trash.
Last year, Tate started selling T-shirts bearing the old Yonge-Dundas Square logo on his IntegrityTO website, which he uses to advocate for his accountability-first brand of politics. In addition to hosting petitions and political news clippings, Tate, a regular public speaker at Toronto City Hall committee meetings, sells a small collection of merchandise.
More than 400 criminal illegal aliens charged with or convicted of child sex crimes have been arrested in Houston, Texas, and an official stated parents can “sleep a little better” knowing those individuals are no longer a threat to their families.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday that ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston arrested 414 of the illegals during President Donald Trump’s first year back in office.
Smiling broadly, Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed MP Lori Idlout to the Liberal caucus on Wednesday after convincing yet another opposition member to defect to the governing party — a political coup that brings him one step closer to a majority government.
Speaking briefly to reporters on Parliament Hill with Idlout by his side, Carney said the former New Democrat is “one of the greatest constituency MPs” who has ably represented Nunavut, a riding he noted is as big as Mexico but has a small fraction of the people.
He said Idlout is “very down to earth,” and together they will work on projects “large and small in Nunavut.”
Call for bleed kit rollout on TfL bus network
Calls for bleed kits to be installed in every major bus station and on bus routes in areas affected by serious violence have been backed by the London Assembly.
Assembly Members unanimously passed a motion requesting that Transport for London (TfL) to work with the London Ambulance Service (LAS) to ensure the kits will be made available across the network.
Bleed control kits help stem severe bleeding from deep wounds before emergency services arrive – a “potentially valuable method of saving lives”.
h/t Mauser and Patti Jo
Ho-hum. Here we go again. Just another day in Toronto, another attack on the Jewish community. Just last week, in separate shootings, three synagogues and two Jewish-owned enterprises were fired on, not to mention antisemitic incidents elsewhere in Canada and the torrent of antisemitic venom online which goes under the radar. We know where this can lead.
Since the synagogue shootings of last week a number of articles have appeared calling for Carney and other of our elites to publicly denounce antisemitism.
I just can’t figure who the intended audience is for these proposed Great Man speeches.
It certainly isn’t going to sway the Muslims nor will it change the minds of their useful-idiot “anti-Zionists” who have been well and truly indoctrinated by DEI.
The 3rd World migrants our elites import for cheap labour have no shared history and no reason to listen.
Bad immigration policy, the officially approved racism of DEI, the erasure of Canada’s history and heritage, the extreme-left capture of our education system and the embrace of identity politics all point to Canada’s antisemitism problem being the handiwork of Canada’s elites as if it were all part of the plan.
Carney may as well scream at himself in the mirror.
I’m going to stop writing an article every week explaining how ‘Islamism’ is simply Islam and instead use this two-minute video from @GadSaad. pic.twitter.com/l7PxhSgsc0
— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) March 11, 2026
The government has approved a request from the police to ban the Al Quds Day march in London on Sunday to prevent “serious public disorder” given the conflict in the Middle East, the home secretary has said.
The Metropolitan Police asked for the ban saying it was concerned about the high number of protesters and counter-protesters, adding the march organisers were “supportive of the Iranian regime” .
The Islamic Human Rights Commission, who organise the annual march, insist it is a peaceful, pro-Palestinian event. It says a static protest will take place instead.
I bet they march anyway.
Meanwhile in Ontario … Al Quds Day Bad! But we’re too weak to cancel it.
Please see my statement regarding Saturday’s Al Quds Day rally. @UJAFederation @CIJAinfo @bnaibrithcanada @CanadianFSWC @IsraelinToronto pic.twitter.com/xtG2MGC4l3
— Michael Kerzner (@TeamKerzner) March 11, 2026
When the NDP’s arms-control bill that seeks to end largely permit-free Canadian military exports to the U.S. is put to a vote on Wednesday, it could garner the support of more than a dozen Liberal MPs.
That would be the first time some in the Liberal caucus split from the government’s position on legislation under Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“By my count, so far, I think there may be somewhere between … nine to 16 Liberal members who may support the bill,” said the NDP’s Jenny Kwan, the bill’s main sponsor, at a news conference on Tuesday.
