WE ARE always being told by the more idiotic European and British political commentators that Donald Trump and his administration have betrayed something precious.
We are told that they have betrayed ‘the international rules-based system’. We are told that they have betrayed ‘the democratic norms’. We are told they have betrayed Nato. And we are told that they have betrayed their European partners.
TORONTO — Brian Da Costa, the central narco-trafficking suspect in an explosive Toronto police corruption case — one that allegedly enlisted serving officers to traffic drugs and to help target a jail official for murder — has been connected to Gurpreet Singh, the Indo-Canadian trucker that U.S. prosecutors describe as a key cross-border smuggler in the billion-dollar cocaine trafficking network of former Olympian turned Sinaloa Cartel heavyweight Ryan Wedding.
When Hamid heard news of the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a week ago today, he felt a wave of euphoria and took his wife and daughter into the street outside his home in Tehran to celebrate.
For the next few days, as US and Israeli bombs slammed into buildings across the capital, the family went onto the roof of the house to watch the airstrikes coming in, cheering every time a regime target was hit.
“Try to find anywhere else on this earth where the population would be happy with an external attack on their country,” he told me, via a cousin in the UK.
Amid changing messaging about the war in Iran, Canada is now examining whether it could fill a defensive role in the region, its top general said this week.
What this effort could look like is open to speculation, and it’s not yet clear whether it would even be helpful.
At its core, the transgender movement is based on the denial of reality. So perhaps it makes a warped kind of sense that a Maine middle school student is now being punished merely for mentioning the fact that the federal government is investigating his school district for allowing a trans-identified boy to join the girls’ cheerleading team.
… And despite the hundreds of thousands rallying in Toronto in recent weeks in support of Iranian anti-regime protests, many in the diasporas from the region say they are reluctant to show their support publicly. Some on the sidelines say they have been horrified by people thanking Trump and Netanyahu while waving American and Israeli flags.
It’s a scene that seems surreal to Reza Kasrai, an Iranian Canadian, who moved here in 1987 when he was in high school.
“Those two countries, specifically, have been the cause of so much suffering in that region, so to believe somehow that they’re going to be the salvation of Iran is delusional,” said Kasrai, who still has family in Tehran and Isfahan.
This Islamist insult to all we hold sacred is now normal in Canada symbolic of elite decay and decadence. We will not survive as a nation unless we wrest control of immigration from the cabal that currently uses the import of incompatible parallel societies as a weapon against… https://t.co/IywmHRRh7T
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) March 7, 2026
Harrowing footage shows the moment a passenger was removed from a flight, as a Southwest Airlines flight from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale was forced to divert and land in Atlanta Friday night due to a reported security threat.
After redirecting from its original flight path to Florida, Southwest flight 2094 landed safely in Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 9:06 p.m. and a passenger was ejected from the flight by the Atlanta Police Department, FOX5 Atlanta reported.
WTF? @fancypants_s https://t.co/GwJEMqjbSY
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 7, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing criticism at home as he tries to strike a balance on the US-Israeli military action in Iran, as Canada scrambles to get its citizens out of the region and faces the risk of being dragged into a widening conflict.
Carney expressed strong support for the initial strikes when they launched a week ago, arguing for the value of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and its regime “from further threatening international peace and security”.
Days later, he said it was a position he took “with regret” because the strikes appeared “inconsistent with international law”.
Carney – Man of Jello!
Europeans are terrified of fighting this war. Because they already have lost it at home.
Senator Lindsey Graham was very direct: “It’s pathetic. How far Western Europe has fallen. To our European allies: you have softened up pathetically and lost your enthusiasm for confronting evil, apparently unless it’s on your doorstep. What a shame.”
Graham is wrong: not even on our doorstep.
Countries like Spain were “reluctant partners” even in the coalition against ISIS, which filled our doorsteps with corpses.
Because, as Michel Houellebecq put it from Jerusalem, “we Westerners have lost the will to live and I fear that not even a war would awaken us.”
The clearest attempt at a line of demarcation during Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s speech on Canada-United States relations was an apparent rejoinder to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s insistence that a “rupture” has occurred.
Quoting a John F. Kennedy hymn about the geography, history, economics and necessity that have brought Canada and the U.S. ever closer, Poilievre said the former president’s “insight captures a reality deeper than any temporary dispute.”
Britain is to get a new ‘anti-Muslim hostility tsar’ under plans to be outlined by the government on Monday, which will also include a new definition of Islamophobia.
The Spectator has been leaked a draft copy of Protecting What Matters, a document outlining Labour’s new cohesion strategy which is to be unveiled in a cross government push next week. The 47-page paper features a crackdown on extremism and names Islamists as the biggest threat to community cohesion. It also outlines fresh demands that new arrivals in Britain seek to integrate and speak good English, described as a ‘fundamental basis for participating in society and an expectation of those who wish to call the UK home’. It states: ‘Those who come here must make a genuine effort to integrate into and engage with our shared way of life.’ The last census found that over a million people could not speak English well or at all.
One year into the trade war, Canadians are feeling more patriotic and more convinced the United States is a worse place under Donald Trump. And as the president dangles the fate of North American free trade above a wood chipper, a split has emerged between business leaders worried about bottom lines and Canadians who are simply over the president’s provocations.
Bear in mind that Politico called on a former hack from the universally despised Trudeau government to provide insight.
Food should be free. Prove her wrong.
You can’t, can you? pic.twitter.com/6caVdttGEE— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 7, 2026
Donald Trump is of a generation still scarred by the embassy hostage crisis in 1979 that defined US-Iranian enmity. It was a humiliation he has never forgotten
At the height of the Iranian hostage crisis, with dozens of American citizens held captive inside the US embassy in Tehran, Donald Trump advocated a full-scale invasion of Iran and the seizure of its oil fields.
On October 8, 1980, the 34-year-old real estate developer was being interviewed on television by the New York gossip columnist Rona Barrett when he suddenly swivelled from discussing the decor of his newly built Trump Tower to address the continuing hostage crisis.
Radical Islamist students had stormed the US embassy almost a year earlier. The supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini had refused to free the 52 hostages unless the ousted Shah was returned to Iran for trial.
POV: you come home from being gone for a few days and you walk into this.
Would it bother you? pic.twitter.com/nqDXZvAtNC
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 7, 2026
