Canadian passport holds on to seventh spot in international mobility ranking
The Canadian passport has retained a spot in the top 10 of an annual international mobility ranking of passports. This year it remains at seven, a ranking it shares with six other countries whose passports open 182 doors without a visa. The Henley Passport Index says it collects exclusive passport data from the International Air Transport Authority. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThis year, Canada shares seventh spot with Australia, Czechia, Latvia, New Zealand, Slovakia and Slovenia. Singapore is the only country in the 2026 number one spot, with citizens enjoying visa-free travel to 192 countries.
Source:National Post
March 11, 2026 23:25 UTC
Fact check: Old video of missile attack in Israel
Fact check: Old video of missile attack in IsraelNewsDuration 0:59This video is real, but it's been posted online with false claims that it shows missile attacks in Israel on March 7. In fact, the video is from Oct. 1, 2024. Here's how we know.
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 22:58 UTC
This Canadian family fuelled Myanmar’s civil war with ’blood pearls’
One of those entities, Belpearl Myanmar, operates a pearl farm with two adjacent locations in the country. Exposing the Canadian family that fuelled a civil war with ‘blood pearls’A company with Canadian directors funnelled valuable pearls to Myanmar’s brutal military regime long after the 2021 military coup that sparked a bloody civil war — despite sanctions imposed by Canada and its allies. In response to CBC's queries, Belpearl Myanmar said our former Canadian shareholders were in compliance with Canadian sanctions law. Belpearl Myanmar and Belpearl Auctions both told CBC no Myanmar pearls were shipped to Canada, but they couldn't speak to others' exports. In a written response, Belpearl Toronto denied importing any Myanmar pearls into Canada since the 2021 coup.
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 22:36 UTC
Gas prices in Canada soar as U.S.-Israel war with Iran spreads
Gas prices in Canada soar as U.S.-Israel war with Iran spreadsNewsDuration 1:31We know one of the impacts of the U.S.-Israel war in Iran is spiking the price of oil — but why did filling up our gas tanks get so costly, so fast?
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 22:21 UTC
Charlottetown council considering new provincial transitional housing units
Charlottetown council voted to send an application from the provincial government to expand transitional housing to public consultation. The province wants to renovate a six-unit building that it owns on Hillsborough Street into an 11-bed transitional housing project. Public to have a say on P.E.I.’s new transitional housing projectThe City of Charlottetown is considering adding more transitional housing in the city. The province has an application before city council for a new 11-unit transitional housing project within an existing building on Hillsborough Street. Right now, the building has six units but would be renovated into an 11-bed transitional housing project.
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 21:52 UTC
Sask. woman says boyfriend removed surgical screw poking out of her head after doctor didn't believe her
When she finally got to see a doctor, she said he told her it wasn't a screw and that it was a cyst. "He wasn't even looking at it," Faure told CBC News, standing outside the hospital entrance on Monday. Boyfriend removes screwFaure went home, and that night her boyfriend used a pair of tweezers to pull the screw out. Stephanie Faure displays the screw her boyfriend pulled from her head. CBC tried to contact the doctor but didn't hear back before this article was published.
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 21:33 UTC
Schools closed, buses cancelled by freezing rainstorm
Wednesday's icy forecast has cancelled all but a few school buses and closed some schools entirely across eastern Ontario and western Quebec. That amount of freezing rain falling does not necessarily mean that's how much ice will build up, according to Environment Canada. Areas north and east of Kingston could see precipitation change back and forth between rain and freezing rain. There is a yellow-level freezing rain warning just south of the orange warning, affecting communities such as Brockville and Tweed. Just south of that less severe freezing rain warning is a rainfall warning for Mallorytown and communities to its west such as Belleville and Kingston.
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 21:14 UTC
'It’s kind of serious stuff,' Vegas hotel tells 911 after Canadian man's alleged flamingo theft
Security at a Las Vegas Strip casino hotel waited more than two hours for police to arrive and arrest a Canadian tourist who entered its flamingo habitat and bird-napped one of the “beloved” animals, according to 911 recordings. Meanwhile, a judge has ordered the man to remain in Las Vegas until the matter is resolved in court, as reported by 8 News Now. The security guard tells the dispatcher they were notified of a man carrying a flamingo through a 14th-floor hallway. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement“He stole one of the flamingo birds,” a resort security supervisor told 911 in a follow-up call at 8 a.m. to ask when police would respond. The injuries, and those to other birds, led to four charges of willful/malicious torture, maiming or killing of a “federally protected migratory species.”The namesake birds wade in the wildlife habitat at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
Source:National Post
March 11, 2026 20:41 UTC
Mark your calendar: April 13 looks promising as the day Carney gets his majority
With a fourth defection to the Liberal benches on Wednesday and three byelections called for mid-April, the federal Liberals are likely on the verge of a parliamentary majority. Victories in two of three April 13 byelections will secure a razor-thin Liberal majority government of 172 seats. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the three byelections in a statement from the PMO on March 8. Bill Blair, also a former Liberal MP and minister of national defence, left the riding of Scarborough Southwest vacant, when he was appointed Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom. But without the vote of the present holder of the office, Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia, a Liberal majority of one still means a deadlock.
Source:National Post
March 11, 2026 20:37 UTC
¡Hola! — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate
luckily we locked in a 1.8% fixed rate 4 years ago, so still reaping the benefits of that for another year. After three years the money becomes her property and can be removed at her lower tax rate (or maybe no tax, if she’s still at home). Maybe more, depending on the clumsy Iran war, the brewing energy debacle and the likely resurgence of inflation and interest rates – maybe even stagflation. Did you consider dumping your bonus against the home loan principal to blunt the impact of a doubling in the rate? So given the reality of dropping to a single-income family with three dependents and a serious mortgage renewal looming, is this the best use of that windfall bonus money?
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 20:04 UTC
First Nation in northern Ontario praises mining company for 'true reconciliation'
As the Ontario government continues to push for development in northern Ontario, an Anishinaabe First Nation in the region is praising a mining company for “demonstrating true reconciliation” by agreeing to withdraw from an area in the community’s traditional territory. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg says it’s not opposed to development, but it must be done on the community’s terms. You gotta try to make them understand why it's a good thing to return the land.”Private citizens returned land to Biigtigong Nishnaabeg last summer, he added. “They know that true reconciliation means the return of some of the land.”‘There's a little bit of a trade off’About 450 people live in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, located just over 300 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay off the Trans-Canada highway. As prospectors continue to stake claims all across the north, Biigtigong Nishnaabeg says there’s lessons to be learned from Landore’s approach.
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 20:02 UTC
Liberals promise $10 million to fortify Jewish spaces after three synagogues shot at
“Both incidents took place at a time when the buildings were empty and no community members were present,” the city’s Jewish Security Network (JSN) said in a community security update at the time. “Canada’s Jewish community is anxious, fearful, and those feelings are quite justified,” Anandasangaree said. When you attack a single group of Canadians, and in this case, Jewish Canadians, you attack all Canadians, you attack the very fabric of our society,” he added. But CIJA CEO Noah Shack argued that the Canada Community Security Program still needs significant improvement, such as additional funding and faster distribution of monies. “The level of security now required to protect Jewish Canadians in Canada is shocking.
Source:National Post
March 11, 2026 19:36 UTC
What we’ve lost (8) – Marriage: Peter Copeland in the National Post
This article originally appeared in the National Post. Freya India is precisely the kind of person the sexual revolution was supposed to have liberated: young, raised secular and formed by today’s liberal culture. Across the western world, marriage rates are plummeting, fertility is perilously low, and loneliness and depression rampant. Never has there been such robust data on the benefits of marriage and family for mothers, fathers, and children alike. ***TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE, VISIT THE NATIONAL POST HERE***
Source:National Post
March 11, 2026 19:06 UTC
Oil swings from nearly US$120 to low US$80s
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) also spiked above US$119.48 per barrel, up from about US$70 before the war began on 28 February, then dropped in tandem. BNN Bloomberg reports that on Tuesday both Brent and WTI fell about 15 percent – to US$84.73 and US$80.31 respectively – after US President Donald Trump predicted the war with Iran could end soon, which traders read as limiting supply disruption. Reuters said that by early Wednesday, WTI had rebounded 3.5 percent to US$86.33 after an 11 percent plunge the day before, while Brent traded in the high US$80s. Another Reuters report said oil eased again after the Wall Street Journal reported the International Energy Agency had proposed the largest release of reserves in its history. CBC News reports that the conflict has already created “the largest oil supply shock ever,” citing Cornell University historian Nicholas Mulder, who estimates Gulf producers are shutting in “roughly three to four times as many barrels of oil” as during the 1973 and 1979 crises.
Source:CBC News
March 11, 2026 18:31 UTC
NDP MP Lori Idlout crosses to Liberals, nudging Carney closer to majority
OTTAWA — Nunavut MP Lori Idlout is crossing the floor to join the Liberals. Idlout’s defection now places Carney within striking distance of securing a majority government, with 170 seats in the House of Commons, just two shy of a majority. Neither Carney’s office, the Liberal party, nor Idlout herself had yet to officially comment on her move before Davies did, suggesting the NDP got ahead of whatever plan the Liberals had for announcing it. “I’ve worked alongside (Lori Idlout) for many years and know the value she brings,” Justice Minister Sean Fraser wrote on X Tuesday night. During last year’s election, she won her riding by fewer than 100 votes, with the Liberals in close second.
Source:National Post
March 11, 2026 16:20 UTC