On the morning of Saturday, Feb. 28, we all awoke to an alarming development.
Addressing the world, the president of the United States revealed that joint military forces of the United States and Israel had begun a coordinated strike against the 47-year-old Islamic regime in Iran. In measured tones, President Trump explained that the operation had been launched in response to a clear and present danger posed by Iran’s continued nuclear ambitions and the regime’s longstanding support for terrorism against the West.
So the race everyone said was too close to call wasn’t so close after all. The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election with 14,980 votes, nearly 41 per cent of all those cast in the Greater Manchester seat. Meanwhile, Reform UK has pushed a flailing Labour Party into third place, taking 10,578 votes to Labour’s 9,364. That noise you can hear in the background is blood vessels bursting in Downing Street.
Gas prices inched up a few cents overnight in Canada as the North American oil market reacts to escalating tensions in the Middle East, where the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran Saturday that threatens to destabilize the rest of the region.
If you’re filling up a gas tank this week, higher gas prices could last as long as the conflict continues to disrupt oil tankers from accessing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s busiest and most important naval shipping routes, according to experts.
AT THIS year’s Bafta awards, a moment of pure neurological chaos unfolded. John Davidson, the Tourette syndrome campaigner and subject of the film I Swear, let out an involuntary shout of the N-word while the black actors Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented an award. Davidson has coprolalia, a severe form of the disorder that forces out taboo words without warning or consent. He did not choose it. He did not mean it. Yet the backlash was swift, vicious and revealing.
But the private lands claim is again denied in this article…
What we know about Ottawa’s land rights deal with the Musqueam First Nation
What does this mean for B.C. property owners?
Based on the information in the press release, the new arrangement between Ottawa and the Musqueam does not impede on private property ownership in the region.
Again the feds deny that private property will be affected.
Feds release Musqueam title agreements covering much of greater Vancouver
OTTAWA – The federal government has released details of recent agreements with the Musqueam First Nation recognizing Aboriginal title over an area potentially covering much of Greater Vancouver, but it says the agreements do not have any effect on privately owned land.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei left behind a corrupt and repressive legacy, following his assassination on February 28.
Before his death, he was the longest-serving ruler in the Middle East, having taken power in 1989 following the death of his mentor Ruhollah Khomeini.
His 36 years and eight months leading Iran resulted in the mass repression of women, the slaughter of civilians and the funding of terror groups including Hamas and Hezbollah.
Mark Carney wasted no time in backing U.S. military action to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It was a quick decision to pick a side but also to pick from a menu.
It is hard to claim that preventing Iran from getting the bomb is the cause for this war.
It’s particularly hard because U.S. President Donald Trump provided a whole menu of justifications in the eight-minute video he released Saturday – from Iran’s nuclear-weapons program to its decades of sponsorship of terror – but really made his war about regime change in Iran.
Canada has no skin in the game so it’s easy to feign support. But Carney had better hope a Canadian sleeper cell doesn’t seek vengeance stateside.
No pleasure cruise!
Two days ago, the Iranian regime had 11 ships in the Gulf of Oman, today they have ZERO. The Iranian regime has harassed and attacked international shipping in the Gulf of Oman for decades. Those days are over. Freedom of maritime navigation has underpinned American and global… pic.twitter.com/nzdkMVMqZC
The 2025 Veiligheidsmonitor survey of the Dutch central statistical office (CBS) reveals a troubling shift in the Netherlands as 37% of respondents now report feeling unsafe at least occasionally, a rise from 33% in 2019. This increase marks the end of a 20-year downward trend in perceived unsafety. Young women aged 15 to 25 are disproportionately affected, with 60% reporting feeling unsafe at times—more than double the 27% seen in their male peers.
An Alberta judge has sentenced a transgender parent to five years in prison for stabbing his two children, a term that falls on the higher end of the scale for such offences.
Alice Michael Attwood received the sentence in provincial court. The Crown had been seeking five and a half years, while the defence argued for a term of three to four years.
After the United States and Israel launched military operations in Iran, wacky Jane Fonda decided to insert herself into the news again. At an anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles on Saturday, the 88-year-old Fonda said, “This is a desperate immoral act in the hopes that he (Trump) can score a victory and be declared war President. This political trick will generate support. I truly believe that enough people in this country have learned the lessons of the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, and other unnecessary and illegal wars, that we can say loud and clear: The people of the United States are here to tell the Trump administration, ‘You may wage this war in our names, but not with our consent.’
I appreciate Jane Fonda taking the time to come down from her multi million dollar house in the hills to tell all the Iranian people why their liberation is a bad thing pic.twitter.com/FOpo1s9KnF
Wary U.S. allies try to avoid getting drawn into criticizing Washington or attacking Tehran
As American and Israeli war planes finished their first attacks against Iran over the weekend, carefully worded statements from Western allies started to roll out.
Iran “must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon,” said a spokesperson for the British government. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he shared the U.S.’s interest in ending “this regime’s terror.” French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on diplomacy.
All said they weren’t involved in military action, but carefully skirted judgment of the legality of U.S. actions. No loud applause, no condemnation. Just “whispered warnings” about what it could spark, said French newspaper Le Monde.
I bet CBC hates this…
Newly released footage shows a local approaching a U.S. fighter jet pilot after she was forced to eject from a crashed jet in Kuwait pic.twitter.com/Kzbv1NTPhd
Never forget who Democrats are protesting to protect:
“We’re here to arrest a child s*x offender, and you guys are out here honking… impeding our investigations while we’re trying to arrest a child s*x offender. That’s who you guys are protecting. Insane.” pic.twitter.com/PraIvlC4jR
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a man whose life has been defined by the harshness of his rhetoric against the West (specifically, the US and Israel) and his ruthless rule, has died a martyr’s death under the rubble of his compound in Pasteur, Tehran.
It was always going to end this way. Khamenei came to prominence as a revolutionary first and then second as a wartime leader when he assumed the role of President of Iran during the Iran-Iraq war.
OTTAWA — Canada’s spy agency says India remains one of the main perpetrators of foreign interference and espionage against Canada, contradicting a claim by a senior government official last week that Indian agents are no longer linked to such crimes.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has repeatedly cited the Indian government as one of the main perpetrators of foreign interference and transnational repression in Canada in recent years.