Ryan Handlarski

Yes

When I was a law student in Ottawa, the local Chabad ran Friday night dinners out of a rabbi’s living room. Students everywhere. Total chaos. Total warmth. I wasn’t religious. They didn’t care. They just welcomed me. Years later, Lindsay and I helped build a Chabad center on that campus. Chabad shows up for Jews everywhere. With love. With pride. With zero judgment. No matter where you are in the world, if you’re Jewish, there’s a Chabad rabbi and rebbetzin opening their home for you. That is extraordinary. And I’ll always be grateful.

Check out our latest Google review. I wouldn’t trade being a defence lawyer for anything. Best of luck to our client who has been through a nearly five year ordeal. Her charges were finally withdrawn today.

It’s impossible to overstate the brilliance, resilience, and ingenuity of Israel. A tiny country surrounded by belligerents, that in just over two years has largely eliminated the leadership and military capacity of Hamas, Hizbollah, and now the regional superpower of Iran. I will never forget being at the Auschwitz death camp to commemorate the 65th anniversary of its liberation. After the Mourners’ Kadish, a squadron of IDF F-15s flew over the camp at low altitude, piloted entirely by the grandsons of Holocaust survivors. Chills. In moments such as this, one truly grasps that “never again” is not an empty bromide. It is Israel’s raison d’être. It is what led to today’s astonishing intelligence and military success. Am Yisrael Chai! 🇮🇱

Oh my god. The regime’s Chief Justice—who executed thousands of protesters by hanging during the Woman Life Freedom uprisings and recent protests—has been eliminated. I swear on everything, his elimination is the greatest justice of all. I cannot believe this is real.

The regime in Tehran is the principal source of terror in the Middle East and around the world. It tried to build nuclear weapons to annihilate our allies. It massacred tens of thousands of its own people. It orchestrated the attacks of October 7, 2023, murdered Canadian passengers on Flight PS752, sought to kill prominent Canadian leaders, and ruthlessly targets Canadians of Jewish and Iranian descent. It has shown no good faith in negotiations to change course. That is why Conservatives support the courageous people of Iran in toppling this terror regime and reclaiming their destiny after 47 years of the regime's occupation. Conservatives support a democratic, free and permanently-denuclearized Iran that lives in peace and security with its neighbours. And Conservatives support the United States, Israel, and our allies across the Gulf to defend their sovereignty and dismantle the clerical military dictatorship of Iran.

Ottawa students will now be able to take school buses short distances because it’s no longer safe enough for them to walk. Why do the rights of drug users and criminals trump the rights of kids? ottawacitizen.com/news/bus-autho…

@houmanhemmati @AlexpiersonAMP G-d bless Iran and the Persian people. Cyrus Accords 2026.

🇮🇷 47 years ago, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and hearing the chants that would steal my country. I didn’t have words for what was happening. Today, I am watching smoke rise over the same city — but this time the smoke is not the end of Iran. It is, God willing, the beginning of her resurrection. Several weeks ago I wrote in that the fever of 1979 was finally breaking. I never imagined I would wake up to see that fever confronted so directly. Israel — with the clear support of the United States — has launched a preemptive strike deep into Tehran and against the regime’s military machinery. Explosions in the capital. Military targets hit. The IRGC’s aura of invincibility, already cracked, is shattering in real time. I do not celebrate war. No decent person does. What I celebrate — what millions of Iranians inside the country and in the diaspora have prayed for in secret for decades — is the possibility that a regime which has no right to exist may finally be forced to go. This is the same regime that: - Armed and cheered the October 7 massacre against Israel for no reason other than pure genocidal hatred. - Murdered tens of thousands of its own sons and daughters who dared to walk peacefully in the streets demanding the most basic freedoms. - Gouges out the eyes of young women for the “crime” of wearing makeup. - Hangs teenagers from cranes for posting a tweet. - Exports terror, poverty, and darkness to every corner it can reach including the U.S. No nation, no people, should have to live under that. Not Israelis. Not Americans. Not Lebanese. Not Syrians. And certainly not Iranians. I am a physician who has spent his life trying to heal bodies and a son of Iran who has spent his life mourning a stolen homeland. What we are witnessing is not aggression — it is surgery. Painful, necessary surgery to remove a tumor that has metastasized for 47 years. The tumor is the Islamic Republic that has hijacked Iran. To the brave pilots and special operators of the Israeli Air Force and the men and women of the United States military now carrying out this mission: I pray for you with everything I have. May God shield you from harm. May every missile find its target and every soldier return home safely to the families who love them. You are not invaders. You are the answer to the prayers of millions who have whispered “enough” in the dark since 1979. You are giving our friends the chance to breathe free air again. The entire region will owe you a peace we have not known in my lifetime. To my fellow Iranians watching from inside the country right now, heart pounding, maybe hiding in basements or on rooftops: Hold on. The end is clearer than it has ever been. The regime’s fear is real. Their eyes — those same eyes that once stared down at us with absolute power — now show something they haven’t shown in decades: panic. The math has changed. The window of 1979 is finally closing. To the little three-year-old boy I once was — and to every little boy and girl in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz today who hears explosions instead of lullabies: This time the sounds are not the closing of a door. They are the opening of one. The road ahead will not be easy. Transitions never are. But the direction is unmistakable. A secular, prosperous, free Iran is no longer a dream — it is becoming an inevitability. I have lived the stolen life so that others might not have to. Today, for the first time in 47 years, I allow myself to believe that the stealing is almost over. Thank you, Israel. Thank you, America. The Iranian people — the real Iran — will never forget. The fever is breaking. The dawn of 2026 is here. And this time, the light wins. 🇮🇷❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸

Cyrus the Great the founder of the Persian empire freed the Jews 2,500 ago. Today Israel is repaying the debt.

For 47 years, Iranians have been waiting for this moment. Presidents on both sides of the isle avoided this. This is a VERY HEAVY decision on the President that comes with a ton of burden. If & when we succeed, the world will be a safer place.

Wow. Surprisingly good statement from Prime Minister @MarkJCarney. “Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” I say surprisingly because it’s a real departure from the usual moral equivalence tropes typical of the past decade in Canadian foreign policy. Full credit where it’s due.

@dbongino G-d bless you Dan. G-d bless America.

“What time is it?” If it’s become edgy to profess your hatred for Jews in whatever “movement” you think this is, then you can count me the fuck out. Unfollow me, forget my name, forget my number, and kindly roll up your spiritual darkness and shove it right up your ass. In the ongoing battle between the demon savages and the civilized man, I will always choose civilization. God bless America, and all those who defend Her.

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) says he was one of the Democrats to stand up for Iryna Zarutska and Erika Kirk at Trump's State of the Union "Even Erika Kirk. Can't we just be more kind to a WIDOW? How can't we acknowledge that?" 💯 "I clapped for the family that lost the Ukrainian girl...the Venezuelan political prisoner...the veterans." "I'll always clap for things I agree with, like striking the Iranian sites." "And if I don't agree, I certainly won't yell, scream and disrupt the whole thing." Folks, this is called acting like a normal American.

Fifteen new stations (10 underground) across 15 kilometres for $27 billion. Vancouver's Canada Line is 17 stations, 13 underground across 19 kilometers, for $2 billion in 2009. Why is it 10X more expensive to build the Ontario Line after inflation? Why do we put up with this?

@willchamberlain It’s not the Jews’ fault his movies are terrible.

The equivalent of showing up to Jackie Robinson’s first All-Star game in a Klan outfit

Durham Region (outside Toronto) has created a new tool to report non-criminal hate acts to police, such as offensive jokes and burning religious texts— both of which are protected expression. This is a threat to free speech and a bad use of tax dollars. victimservicesdurham.ca/antihate

The Welfare Voting Paradox We have created a system where 47% of Americans pay ZERO federal income tax, yet they vote on how to spend everyone else's money. When more people vote for benefits than pay for them, is that democracy or legalized plunder? Here is the genuine question nobody wants to answer: If politicians can win elections by promising more welfare to an ever-growing recipient base funded by a shrinking taxpayer base, what stops the spending? We have millions of voters whose "lobbyist payment" is their ballot for more handouts. That is not lobbying with cash, that is lobbying with votes. Democrats need people on welfare like plantation owners needed slaves - a permanent underclass dependent on them for survival. Welfare recipients outnumber net taxpayers in many districts. You honestly think those politicians WANT people leaving the system? Of course not! They need their voting bloc. The incentive structure is broken. Politicians get elected by promising free stuff. Recipients vote for more free stuff. Taxpayers fund the free stuff. And anyone who questions this cycle gets called heartless. That is not a sustainable republic. That is a fiscal death spiral with a democratic veneer. But what do I know, I am only someone who actually understands how incentive structures work and what happens when more people vote themselves benefits than contribute to funding them.

Government priorities of handouts: To families who can't afford food: $1,000 To rich Canadians who can afford a new EV: $5,000 Raises for politicians: $8,800+ It's all a joke, and you are the punchline.

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