Ontario premier Doug Ford recently spoke about "sleeper cells" during a press conference about a series of shootings in Toronto targeting synagogues and the U.S. consulate. Read More

A Canadian immigration official who refused refugee protection for a 64-year-old survivor of "one of the worst atrocities in recent memory" failed "to adopt a trauma-informed, intersectional approach," according to a recent Federal Court decision. Read More

A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney may have just pulled off the coup de grâce in his plan to cobble together a majority government by exploiting the weak convictions of federal politicians. Read More

At least five U.S. diplomatic missions have recently been targeted in Iranian retaliatory strikes across the Middle East. With no definitive time frame on the end of the war, embassies are now being targeted beyond the region as well. The latest apparent incident occurred in Toronto, where unknown assailants fired shots at the U.S. consulate early Tuesday — an act the prime minister has condemned as intimidation. Read More

In his book "From Auschwitz to Tehran," Eran Hermoni recounts a meeting in October 2000 between Spanish prime minister José María Aznar and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As Khamenei prepared tea, Aznar asked him a direct question: “When you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you think about?” Read More

A majority of Canadians say they are in favour of granting provinces more control over immigration as a means to curb the inflow of newcomers, with a majority also in favour of the Alberta government’s suggestion of restricting publicly funded social services for temporary residents, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Read More

As the war in Iran intensifies, reports are that Canada is looking at ways to boost our oil supply to the world. Indeed even Energy Minister Tim Hodgson got in on the act saying Wednesday Canada would “do its part” to help the International Energy Agency in its release of 400 million barrels of oil from strategic stockpiles around the world and calm oil prices. Though, in typical fashion, Hodgson did not say what our “part” would be. Read More

Canada’s prison service is converting a historic heritage building in downtown Edmonton from a prison for men into one for women to help accommodate a national doubling of female inmates. Read More

British media recently reported that the country’s internet regulator, Ofcom, imposed millions of pounds worth of fines for forbidden content, but collected only a pittance from scofflaw firms. Unmentioned was that some of the targeted companies are based in the United States, where they're protected by the First Amendment, and have no presence in the United Kingdom beyond their websites’ accessibility. In an age in which bureaucrats worldwide are seeking power beyond national borders, U.K. censors are distinguishing themselves for their ambitions — and the humiliation they’ve so far suffered. Read More