President Volodymyr Zelensky is worried America and the European Union will forget about Ukraine as focus turns to the Middle East, and that the deliveries of advanced Western missiles will dry up as they’re needed to fight Iran, he told an Italian newspaper.
An alleged drug trafficker accused of obtaining confidential information from Toronto police that was used to facilitate crimes has been granted bail.
Brian Da Costa is alleged to be a central figure in the criminal conspiracy dismantled by Project South, a months-long investigation by York police that also resulted in the arrests of seven Toronto officers and one retired constable.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has confirmed that the Trump administration is reassessing hundreds of thousands of aliens allowed in willy-nilly by the Biden administration with little to no vetting.
John Tory said he has made the difficult decision to not run for his old job as Toronto mayor in the fall municipal election.
Tory, who was mayor of the city from 2014 until he resigned in February 2023 after admitting to having an affair with a staffer, had considered putting his name in the hat.
The United States and Ecuador have launched joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations” in the South American country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday night, in what appeared to be a major expansion of the U.S. military’s unilateral strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific that the Trump administration has accused of carrying drugs.
U.S. Special Forces soldiers are advising and supporting Ecuadorean commandos on raids across the country against suspected drug shipment facilities and other drug-related sites, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.
🇺🇸🇪🇨 Washington has launched a military operation in Ecuador. According to the US Southern Command, US and Ecuadorian armed forces have launched a joint operation against drug trafficking and terrorist organizations in the country. pic.twitter.com/V7d0Zf3Rnb
— Маrina Wolf (@volkova_ma57183) March 4, 2026
A former Liberal cabinet minister and prominent Sikh-Canadian is calling for Prime Minister Mark Carney to urge for the extradition of Indian officials in relation to the 2023 killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
In an interview with The Hill Times, Herb Dhaliwal said he hopes the first item on Carney’s (Nepean, Ont.) agenda in India is “the full co-operation of the Indian government in the murder of a Canadian where Indian officials were involved,” as well as the discussion of extradition of Indian officials.
Instead we we get this crap …
🚨BREAKING – Canada to provide educational funding for INDIAN nationals, including:
– A $100 Million University of Toronto Scholarship Indian students — 200 fully-funded scholarships for top-tier Indian students.
– and, 300+ Funded Research Positions for Indian researchers. pic.twitter.com/nDKj5xg94X
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 3, 2026
h/t Mauser
A Black Lives Matter founder in Illinois was caught on camera in a violent office confrontation with a female worker who accused him of misusing the organization’s money, a report said.
The violent clash erupted into shoving, grabbing and a physical struggle along a corridor at the group’s headquarters, according to a police report.
Police in Waukegan, Illinois, were called to the Black Lives Matter Lake County Resource Center on January 12 after reports of a battery involving the group’s founder, Clyde J. McLemore, and project manager Nyesha A. Hill.
‼️A founder of Black Lives Matter was caught on video beating up a female worker who alleged that he was mishandling money.
In police reports, Nyesha A. Hill told officers that she saw Clyde J. McLemore spend money allocated for Black Lives Matter on other things, including… pic.twitter.com/zLiFSeioLu
— The National Pulse (@TheNatPulse) March 3, 2026
OTTAWA—Canada should align its trade and labour regulations with three of its “like-minded” anglophone allies in a partnership that would exclude the U.S., says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
Speaking in London at the Institute of Directors, a British business group, Poilievre on Tuesday revived an idea previously embraced by past Conservative leaders that Canada should strengthen its ties with its anglosphere cousins that share the British Westminster parliamentary system.
Not a nation among the lot that is a ‘powerhouse’.
Airstrikes have targeted organizations responsible for suppressing protests and cracking down on separatists; analysts are skeptical the strategy will work
TEL AVIV—Israel’s military is targeting the Iranian police state that brutally suppressed protests and killed thousands of people, with the hope of clearing the way for a popular revolt to overthrow the Islamic government.
Israeli airstrikes have targeted people responsible for internal security, from members of the Basij paramilitary force to senior intelligence officials, the Israeli military said. The U.S. has also hit some domestic-security agencies, including the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful group responsible for defending and perpetuating the regime.
The Revolutionary Guard and Basij militants were the main perpetrators of the bloody crackdown against antigovernment protesters in January. They opened fire on crowds, killing thousands in one of the deadliest acts of political crackdowns worldwide in decades. Police units and intelligence services also suppressed rallies and arrested protesters en masse.
Goldie Ghamari is concerned for her life after the Iranian-linked hacker group Handala placed a $250,000 bounty for her beheading, the former Ontario Progressive Conservative MP told The Jerusalem Post.
She has since filed a police report and was reassured that law enforcement was taking the incident “very seriously.”
h/t Mauser
The beleaguered Iranian regime, with very few international allies, has been counting on Moscow’s support amid the ongoing US-Israeli strikes, but so far it has been left deeply disappointed.
Just hours after Israeli and US bombs started hitting Tehran on Saturday, Russia came out with a blunt statement, with the country’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, calling it an “unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent UN member state.”
Moscow is one of Tehran’s few but staunchest allies, and a possible collapse of the Iranian regime could be a blow for its geopolitical and economic interests. Then why has it not come to Tehran’s rescue?
Child poverty in Canada rose for a third consecutive year in 2025, with nearly 30,000 more children falling below the poverty line, according to the latest Child and Family Poverty Report Card.
The report says progress toward eliminating child poverty is not only stalling but reversing, with rates now approaching levels last seen in 2017, signalling an erosion of gains made after the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit in 2016.
The US strikes on Iran may be the biggest story around the world, but in Texas – where voters head to the polls on Tuesday to select the Democratic and Republican nominees in November’s midterm congressional elections – it appears mostly to be an afterthought. At least for now.
At a banquet hall in the central Texas town of Waco on Monday, Ken Paxton, the Republican state attorney general running for the US Senate, made a pitch to voters that was heavy on domestic red meat for his conservative audience
Makes you wonder who the intended recipients of this statement really were … Trump says Iran strikes were “last best chance” to take out missiles, nuclear threat
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Department of War releases footage of a US submarine launching a TORPEDO and SINKING an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) March 4, 2026
h/t Mauser
Mark Carney left on a trip to India last Thursday but there has simply been no time to field reporters’ queries.
The Prime Minister cancelled the press conference scheduled for Monday, when embarrassing questions were to be posed, because his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ran long and his flight to Australia couldn’t be delayed and well, there was no time.
Oh no! Just when the PM was going to be asked if India is still involved in foreign interference in Canada, in the midst of a trip where he’s supposed to be patching up strained relations.
