Perhaps we forgot what it’s like when politicians act on their promises.
Perhaps our enemies forgot as well.
For decades, American presidents — Democratic and Republican — have said the theocratic dictatorship in Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
Rising grocery costs forcing Canadians to cut meals and rely on credit, survey says
More Canadians are relying on credit to put food on the table — and sacrificing nutrition in the process — according to a new survey that shows how the strain of Canada’s affordability crisis is increasingly surfacing in grocery aisles.
A new survey from insolvency and debt relief firm Spergel finds that a majority of the 269 Canadians questioned said they had skipped meals or reduced portion sizes in the past six months due to financial pressure. Fifty three per cent of the respondents, who were between the ages of 30 and 60, reported using credit, buy-now-pay-later services, lines of credit or payday loans to purchase groceries in the last six months.
Why “Legalize and Tax” Is the Wrong Solution to Our Drug Problem
The economic reasoning is powerful, but it breaks down against reality.
I hate to disagree with my colleague, the great Roland Fryer—and doubly so when it comes to economics. Fryer’s work is consistently both stimulating and insightful, and his contributions to public policy substantially outstrip my own. I nevertheless feel obliged to comment on his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which he uses sound economic reasoning to reach a conclusion I reject: that we should legalize and tax addictive drugs.
Carney government introduces latest tweak to cheap foreign labour scam
Canada launches new program to grant 33,000 foreign workers permanent residence, immigration minister reveals
… “We have launched it already,” Diab said during an interview with the Star this week, where she also touched on questions about her competence. “I am not in a position to tell you specifically how many so far, but we will in the month of April be able to provide more clarity and more detail on them.”
Government data showed that 2,125,035 temporary residents had their permits expire in 2025 and another 1,938,805 are expected to run out of status in 2026. The questions of where they have gone and will end up have prompted concerns over a potential surge of undocumented population.
Trump Has Highest Own-Party Approval of Any 21st Century President, CNN Survey Shows
“Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president’s own party supporters loved them at this particular point,” CNN’s Harry Enten reported Thursday, citing results of his network’s latest poll.
No other president of the 21st Century has had this high a percentage of overall approval by supporters of his own party at this point in his presidency, Enten said while explaining why almost all of the primary candidates endorsed by Trump win…
Pierre Poilievre plants the seeds of an alternative to the Carney doctrine
We find ourselves suddenly returned to the great days of the set-piece speech. At a time when attention spans are said to be shorter than ever, when the media is consumed with clickbait and politics is all about getting likes on TikTok, in recent weeks the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have each chosen to deliver lengthy, learned, intricately argued speeches on, of all things, foreign policy.
Coyne back on his meds?
The Real Reason Trump Fired Kristi Noem Is Not What You’ve Been Told
The story you heard first — that President Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem over a $220 million ad campaign — isn’t wrong, exactly. But it’s incomplete. The ad spending lit the fuse; an eight-word question that Noem refused to answer in plain English plunged the detonator.
Alcohol sales in Canada just saw ‘largest’ annual drop since tracking began
Sales of alcohol declined for the fourth straight year in 2024-25, according to a Statistics Canada report released Wednesday.
From April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025, sales dropped by three per cent to 2,898 million litres on a volume basis, marking the fourth consecutive year volume sales have declined.
Ten People Arrested in London Over Iran Spying Allegations
Ten people have been arrested across London in relation to a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into Iranian spying in the city, four of them on direct intelligence suspicions, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday.
Counter Terrorism Policing detectives arrested four people on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service and a further six people on suspicion of “assisting an offender”, the Metropolitan Police said on Friday. The men are said to be suspected of spying on the Jewish community in London on behalf of Iranian intelligence.
Trump’s war in Iran shows Carney has lots to learn about the new world order — one thing most of all
More than two decades ago, the United States invited Canada to join in a new Middle Eastern misadventure. The invitation was premised on a big lie about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction.
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien declined to participate. It’s not that he foresaw the disaster to come — but he had a team of good advisers, as well as credible intelligence showing Saddam posed no imminent threat and had had no role in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Perhaps more important, Chrétien also didn’t trust his American counterpart, President George W. Bush.
That’s a lot of bluster for a guy whose army is more concerned with sex change operations than being combat ready.
Remember the Biden Autopen Investigation? There’s Been an Update…and It’s Not Good
We’re involved in military actions in Iran, including the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei. We’re also sourcing oil and minerals from Venezuela, Kristi Noem has been dismissed, and the fate of the SAVE Act remains uncertain. With the 2026 midterms approaching, these issues often get overlooked, and the results can be unfavorable. The investigation into Biden’s autopen use has concluded, with the Justice Department quietly ending it, supposedly due to the lack of a suitable criminal statute to pursue charges…
CHARLEBOIS: Poutine, protectionism and cheese curds
Quebec is moving ahead with plans to recognize fromage en grains du Québec — cheese curds — as a controlled designation.
If adopted, the rules would be simple: The milk would need to come from Quebec, the curds would need to be produced there, and producers would have to follow a prescribed production protocol. Cheese curds made outside the province simply could not be marketed under the name fromage en grains du Québec.
Sharaz Ali who murdered his ex-girlfriend’s sister and her three young children after setting their house on fire given whole life term
A drink and drug-fuelled thug who planned to ‘wipe out a whole family’ will never be released from prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s sister and her three children.
Sharaz Ali, 40, has been given a whole life order for murdering Bryonie Gawith and her children Denisty, nine, Oscar, five, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle by setting fire to their house in Bradford in August 2024.
The blaze was a revenge attack on Bryonie’s sister, Antonia Gawith, who had been staying with the family after she ended her seven-year relationship with Ali.
Accused in Wedding case linked to Project South police-corruption investigation
A central figure accused in the Project South police corruption probe has been linked in court documents to an alleged accomplice of cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding, connecting for the first time the two sprawling investigations into organized crime in Canada.
Brian Da Costa, an alleged drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto police officers and leaking computer data later used in organized crime intimidation campaigns, has been ordered not to contact Gurpreet Singh − a Toronto-area man who allegedly conspired to transport hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Canada for the Wedding network.