1/ The Russian government is blocking Telegram to destroy the Russian people's social connections, says former high-level government advisor German Klimenko. The frank admission has caused outrage among Russian commentators. ⬇️

'Very frustrating' — Windsor Unifor leader says Poilievre auto plan could cost jobs www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

On March 10, UN Ambassador Mike Waltz submitted an Article 51 letter to the Security Council laying out the United States's international legal justification for Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran which began Feb. 28. Read the letter, from @tylermcbrien.com.

Important report by B.C.’s auditor general of all the ways the provincial government failed a town of 300 that burned to the ground and has spent the last five years trying to rebuild

Chief Justice John Roberts warned against personal attacks on the judiciary, telling an audience that while criticism of opinions is fair game, “personally directed hostility” is dangerous and must stop. https://cnn.it/41eWoiw

#Opinion: A hard ‘no’ was long overdue for Donald Trump. He deserves to hear it more often, writes @susandelacourt.bsky.social

Une excellente nouvelle... dans les circonstances !🙏

New from me at TVO: the government's formal justification for gutting FOI law is nonsense and the only upside to all this is that legislative power can be a shield for this government and a sword for the next. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

“There was no political interference” from Trump in the Netflix vs. Paramount battle to take over Warner Bros., Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told us. He opened up about the deal, Trump, YouTube and more in an exclusive wide-ranging interview👇

Hungary and Slovakia have accused Ukraine of deliberately delaying the reopening of the Druzhba pipeline.

Brexit was “a colossal mistake” and the U.K. should rejoin the EU, Finland's President Alexander Stubb said today.

Jen Gerson: Who gave the Alberta Prosperity Society $1 million? open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

#NovaScotia Helicopter, snowmobiles help retrieve car abandoned on sea ice 3 km from N.S. shore www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

By increasing “wildfire salvage” of forests, B.C.’s forests minister Ravi Parmar is travelling down the same road that has seen the province’s logging rates plummet by more than half since the heyday of the 1980s. #bclab #OldGrowth

My latest in @thebulwark.com , the enemy always gets a vote.

A simple solution could put an end to unsanctioned St. Patrick’s Day gathering in Waterloo student neighbourhoods, but similar and unsuccessful efforts continue, writes Mike Farwell. www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...

A tragic and fiscally maddening story about how hopelessly inadequate social assistance rates create homelessness www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... right next to a piece about weight-reducing drugs that should be covered by pharmacare plans as soon as they become generics. #priorities

"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute reaches the alarming conclusion that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."

1. A few months before it started a war in Iran, the Trump administration decommissioned the last of its four mine countermeasure ships. These ships were “capable of finding, classifying and destroying moored and bottom mines.” Now the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

⚡️Former US general got drunk in Kyiv, suffered concussion, left classified maps on train, watchdog finds.

The EU today pressed ahead with the steps needed to get Ukraine and Moldova into the bloc, despite Hungary’s efforts to prevent further enlargement.

Soaring oil prices could give Canada the leverage it needs with Trump in upcoming CUSMA talks

Four individuals in Waterloo Region face charges in Project Deception Lake, involving a million-dollar drug trafficking ring. Multiple arrests, seizures and charges were made by various police forces. www.therecord.com/news/crime/d...

The gas plant is the city’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, and its continued operation will stand in the way of Toronto reaching its 2030 emissions reduction targets, according to Environmental Defence. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/10/n...

Scottish lawmakers to vote on whether to let terminally ill people end their lives

The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

WTF 🤬 VANCOUVER — Fisheries officials say they are reviewing a video showing crew on a large ship boasting about catching hundreds of Dungeness crabs while visiting Vancouver — and appearing to break numerous fishing regulations in the process. #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Health-care workers and supporters of Canada's public health care system rallied in more than a dozen cities across the country. globalnews.ca/news/1173354...

"One advantage the U.S. has had in our competition with China is this: We have friends and allies, while China has customers and clients. Trump has been doing his best to blunt that edge...He may prove one of the greatest friends the Chinese dictatorship has had." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

If Avi Lewis wins the NDP leadership on March 29, the key question won’t just be about him. It will be about whether Canada’s current political mood is compatible with the kind of politics he represents. My latest essay: open.substack.com/pub/davidco...

Transport truck collision closes Highway 401 on-ramp amid icy conditions: OPP

Listen folks, you won't be able to use Freedom of Information laws to see what corruption I'm to to, but at least you'll be able to chug tequila at farmer's markets toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/17/f...

1/ Russia's block on Telegram, crackdown on VPNs and mobile Internet shutdowns are threatening to destroy the 'People's Military-Industrial Complex' – a vast ecosystem of volunteer and start-up efforts that manufactures and supplies the army with drones and other equipment. ⬇️

Hassett: If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the U.S. economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, but that's really the last of our concerns right now.

"Canada is emerging as a notable exception to the regional drift toward emergency powers, owing to decisive judicial interventions that have reasserted statutory limits on executive power," writes Anvesh Jain.

Drug alert warns against white fentanyl after overdoses, deaths www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Unifor should have been consulted before release of Conservative auto plan, says union - The Chair of Unifor’s National Auto Council is disappointed the union wasn’t consulted on the Conservative Party’s proposed auto plan.

▶️ Price check. ▶️ Taking Cuba. ▶️ Space cash. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰Roundup is up for TUE MAR 17. Read and subscribe free here: open.substack.com/pub/davidaki...

After over a decade away, I'm making my return to the Globe & Mail as a semi-regular opinion freelancer. Will have a couple of pieces a month on issues impacting middle-class Canadians. Today's piece is on the challenges faced by second-time homebuyers:

NEW: How much public money has been spent shielding Doug Ford's calls from scrutiny? The government won't say, as it prepares a law that could nullify it's latest legal defeat. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1173396...

90% of drinking water in oman, qatar, and kuwait comes from desalination plants. bahrain already had one struck by a drone. jebel ali port — 12 miles from one of the world's largest desalination facilities — has also been hit.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Cooking like it’s the ‘last meal’: Inside the Operation Nanook kitchen in Cambridge Bay Canadian Armed Forces will be in Cambridge Bay until March 19

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Brace for pricier groceries as war in Middle East continues, warns University of Guelph prof Evan Fraser says rising fuel prices is pushing up the price of fertilizer, groceries

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Parental mistrust, hostile interactions a growing concern for Alberta teachers Some parents feel more and more alienated from the education system. We explored why that might be

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Could this new height detection system stop overpass strikes in B.C.? Over-height detection system will be tested near No. 3 Road overpass in Abbotsford

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... U.S. government confirms Tesla and LG Energy Solution large battery deal LG also owns and operates NextStar, a similar battery cell factory in Windsor, Ont.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... All Ontario drivers will be able to use HOV lanes in off-peak hours: transportation minister Ford government says allowing solo drivers in high-occupancy vehicle lanes will help fight gridlock

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 'He's out there somewhere,' say volunteers searching for missing Ontario man James Van-Veen failed to show up to work in January, vehicle found near Owen Sound