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"When progressives talk about progress, what do they think is progressing? And when conservatives invoke stability and continuity, what is meant to be stable and continuous?"

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, is in Ottawa early this week as the House of Commons reconvenes after a two-week constituency break and will Tuesday address Parliament, her focus likely on the continuing Russian war in Ukraine and CETA.

"anada – in contrast to our southern neighbour – remains painfully alone in its sluggish action. As countries across Europe escalate their respective sanctions against the regime, Canada’s fair weather approach and light measures are impossible to justify."

While shoring up support for Iranian protesters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, prominent Iranian activist Masih Alinejad told True North’s Andrew Lawton that inaction from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the Islamist regime is getting protesters killed. 

The head of a Canadian group advocating for the rights of Iranians facing repression at home says that the European Union’s latest vote to call on member states to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity could tilt the table for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do the same. 

Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman hopes that the European Parliament’s recent vote to demand that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) be listed as a terrorist entity serves to push Prime MInister Justin Trudeau in the same direction. 

"The only person to have been convicted over the atrocity was Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who was jailed for life in 2001 and released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. He died three years later."

The host of the Parliament Hill meeting isn’t talking. And the guests that were portrayed alongside invitee Nazih Khatatba –whose Mississauga-based newspaper Meshwar has promoted Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism— issued brief and tepid statements before going into hiding.

On Day 30 of the Emergencies Act hearings, disclosed documents revealed that at least one bank executive tried to caution Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland against using the country’s banking system as a “political weapon”

On Day 27 of the Emergencies Act hearings, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service director David Vigneault confirmed that he advised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Act despite acknowledging that the Freedom Convoy did not meet the threshold of a national security threat.