A made-in-Canada test to detect whether a criminal is a “psychopath” is outdated, unreliable, and a poor predictor of recidivism, says a University of Toronto researcher who is calling for an end to its use in criminal courts.
“We should probably consider a complete moratorium on these types of assessments,” says Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen, the lead author of the largest study yet of how psychopathy tests are used in legal settings.
KING Charles III should be growing up (he’s 77 years old) and moving on from his lonely youth and long, frustrating princeship. Instead, he’s repackaging his juvenile environmentalism as a wide-ranging philosophy.
Environmentalism has merits. But the King’s environmentalism has always been uneducated, egotistical, defiant, unresponsive and somewhat cuckoo.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has threatened Canada with annexation and economic ruin and destabilized much of the international order that has governed the world since the Second World War, leaving many Canadians feeling anxious and concerned.
The barrage includes comments about Canada becoming the 51st state, warnings not to challenge Trump, job insecurity because of the existing trade war and threats of increased tariffs.
“Any talk of assaulting my country in any way, whether it’s economic or territorially … I mean, I could cry right now,” said Lili Wexu, a French Canadian originally from Montreal who’s living and working in Los Angeles as a bilingual voice actress.
Driving through the vast, scorched landscape, I hear the words that have followed me all day. ‘They roasted the pastor and his wife alive in the church. We heard their screams.’
Plateau State stretches to the horizon. Rich black soil that once grew cassava and sugar cane is now ash. Trees are encrusted with soot. Fields of maize that shone gold in the sun are grey and lifeless, stalk after stalk standing in formation like an army frozen in defeat.
Bricks lie scattered in the scrub. Concrete blocks jut from the earth like jagged teeth. Roofs have collapsed inward.
More and more Canadian women are stopping at one child, if they choose to have children at all
I spent roughly 25 weeks in 2022 on my bathroom floor, inspecting the grout between the tiles and waiting for whatever food I futilely put in my stomach to come back up. “Grout is such a stupid invention – impossible to clean,” I’d think, and then press my cheek against the floor, preparing to reacquaint myself with a reconfigured version of the saltine crackers and ginger ale I consumed 20 minutes earlier. “I’m never doing this again.”
Culturally, self-flagellation has become a civic virtue; institutions once central to national life now frame their own founding stock as the problem to be solved.
The British countryside is “too white.” At least that is, according to Defra—the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, as reported earlier this month in these pages. Following a report in 2019, National Landscapes—a charity mostly funded by Defra—has been launching outreach programs aimed at encouraging ethnic minorities to break the stranglehold of “white communities,” “white spaces,” and “white environments.”
My first column on Tumbler Ridge argued that Canada has a threat-detection problem, not just a violence problem. The subsequent days have only sharpened that diagnosis. As the official timeline firmed up and the reporting deepened, what emerges is not a neat “cause” story but a systems story: a rural community hit by a two-scene escalation, an emergency response that moved fast but arrived late in the only way that matters, and a national information ecosystem that struggled to stay accurate when accuracy was most needed.
Up to 350,000 people flooded a stretch of Yonge Street in North York on Saturday in what police described as one of the largest Iran-related demonstrations the city has seen in recent months.
The rally, part of a worldwide Global Day of Action called by exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, brought major road closures, transit adjustments and hours of gridlock to the city’s north end — but for the most part, outside of one arrest, demonstrations unfolded peacefully.
BREAKING:
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians and Canadian allies are marching in Toronto for the fall of the Islamic Regime in Iran pic.twitter.com/u2nnS6trBT
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 14, 2026
Toronto Iranian Freedom Movement
Have you ever seen so many people marching in a Canadian City?
Amazing to witness. pic.twitter.com/KxfjkZXDCO
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) February 15, 2026
The fun thing about Ottawa is that it’s a town where people will swear with a straight face that they’re not thinking about a thing they are definitely thinking about, which is also the thing everyone is talking about.
This week, that thing is snap-election speculation.
It all depends on whether Xi decides the time is right.
You must follow this account. https://t.co/RBGfJ5ukau
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 12, 2026
I’ll start this off with a question, and it may take you some time to connect it to the bulk of this column’s subject matter. But I promise we’ll get there.
The question is this: who’s the most famous actor of the 19th century?
How could you even think for one second that this man who is a woman isn’t a female? pic.twitter.com/SNXEdzxN4J
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 12, 2026
Mark Carney’s deal to allow Chinese electric vehicles to enter Canada with a low tariff rate will make trade talks with the U.S. tougher, the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association says.
Brian Kingston, the organization’s chief executive officer representing Canadian auto plants of the Detroit-based General Motors, Stellantis and Ford, said the Prime Minister’s decision last month to remove the 100% tariff on EVs and replace it with a 6.1% most-favoured-nation rate “further complicates” trade talks later this year.
Will Cuba be Libre soon, and if so what happens next? And after that?
Cuba is coming apart at the seams. I know, I know — it’s been falling apart for literally decades, and one of the sad demonstrations of the past few years is just how long a country whose leaders don’t care about their people’s welfare, because they don’t have to, can be held more or less static. (See also Venezuela, Iran, North Korea). But, you now, “gradually, then suddenly.” There’s some reason to believe that Cuba is approaching the “suddenly” part of that equation. That’s bad news in the near term, but I have some thoughts on the longer term, too, and they’re much more positive.
Canada’s transgender school shooter was a sadistic 7-year-old, his own mother once said — and he grew more sinister in the months before the shooting as he became obsessed with twisted murder videos.
Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old high school dropout, carried out the second worst school shooting in Canadian history Tuesday, first slaughtering his mother and stepbrother at home and then storming into Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where he killed six people and injured 25 more before turning the gun on himself.
