Canada taking control of its future, Mark Carney tells new investment gathering

Canada taking control of its future, Mark Carney tells new investment gathering

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is “taking control” of its future as his inaugural Investment Summit kicks off in Toronto this week amid renewed trade tensions with the U.S.

Addressing a room of business and government leaders Sunday night during the summit’s welcome reception, the prime minister also hinted at deals that could be announced in the coming days.

“Tomorrow, something remarkable will happen,” Carney said. “The world is looking at Canada differently. And I suggest we should look at ourselves differently too,” he added.

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Cuban dance teacher ordered EU sabotage attacks from Russia

Cuban dance teacher ordered EU sabotage attacks from Russia

On social media platforms, the man called himself “Adrian” or “Dios,” meaning “God” in Spanish. In 2024, accounts linked to the man posted job ads on Telegram. “Work as a photographer,” one offered in Russian in a chat about opportunities in Poland. “To those interested in applying, send resume, phone number and passport,” another advertised in a group for Cuban expatriates in Russia. “Looking for people with military experience in monitoring, intelligence, logistics and tactical maneuvers,” one said in Spanish in a group for Latinos, promising $1,500 (about €1,300) plus a bonus for each operation completed.

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Canada and the EU is an alliance of weakness that will cost Carney

Canada and the EU is an alliance of weakness that will cost Carney

It will be a “comprehensive partnership” covering trade, security and diplomacy.

Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, is expected to announce a new deal with Canada in her state of the union address next week.

Before long, she will be shaking hands with Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, and the Ode to Joy may be ringing out across Ottawa.

But this may not be the miracle agreement it’s cracked up to be.

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Russia Is Churning Out Smart, Cheap New Weapons Faster Than Ukraine or the U.S.

Russia Is Churning Out Smart, Cheap New Weapons Faster Than Ukraine or the U.S.

Just as Ukraine was learning how to parry Russia’s drone attacks, Moscow has moved the goal posts with a new generation of innovative jet-powered weapons.

New Geran drones and Banderol cruise missiles are lethal reminders that Russia still has the resources and supply chains to field fresh threats, this time packed with advanced electronics that allow them to find targets accurately and evade interception. Crucially, the leap forward was enabled in large part by components sourced from China, in violation of international sanctions, say Ukraine and others, based in part on wreckage from the few shot down so far.

China has said it regulates exports of technologies that could be used in war.

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Make sure acid is part of your Diversity Toolkit

Make sure acid is part of your Diversity Toolkit

Woman, 40, is arrested over ‘acid attack’ as 40-year-old man is rushed to hospital and road closed

A 40-year-old woman has been arrested over a suspected acid attack after a man was rushed to hospital.

Emergency services were called to an address in Crawley, West Sussex, just after 5am on Sunday morning.

The 40-year-old man is being treated for his injuries while the suspect was also taken to hospital.


Teenager has ‘potentially life-changing injuries’ after an ‘unknown substance’ is thrown at him in Manchester: Man, 19, is arrested on suspicion of assault

A teenager has suffered potentially life-changing injuries after an unknown substance was thrown on him outside a shopping centre.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault following the attack and is being held in custody for questioning.

Police said that a man in his mid-teens had a substance thrown at him after getting into an argument with a man.

I don’t recall any “Acid Attacks” before the onset of the Diversity blight.

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Montreal Mosque fined for ‘undue benefits’ to president’s business as part of refugee program

Montreal Mosque fined for ‘undue benefits’ to president’s business as part of refugee program

A Montreal charity that helped bring Syrian refugees to Canada was fined $60,900 for providing “undue benefits” to a company owned by its president as part of its sponsorship program, according to documents recently made public.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) notified the Centre Canadien Islamique Al-Jamieh/Canadian Islamic Centre Al-Jamieh of the penalty in a Sept. 12, 2024 letter, which has now been made available through the IJF’s Open by Default database.

The notice says the mosque, a registered charity, paid $58,000 to a consulting company in March 2017. That company was wholly owned by the charity’s then-president, Ahmad Chaar.

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Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China

Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China

US President Donald Trump has downplayed risks posed by artificial intelligence following days of dire warnings by experts.

“You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen,” Trump said during a visit to Ireland.

One of the warnings came from a former Anthropic researcher who said “there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future” if the current pace of development continued.


China ain’t gonna slow things down.

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Protests planned for Carney’s Canada Investment Summit in Toronto

Protests planned for Carney’s Canada Investment Summit in Toronto

Protests are planned for the prime minister’s high-stakes summit aimed at attracting new investment to Canada, with organizers saying Mark Carney is keeping company with business leaders they say are exacerbating global crises.

Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are set to arrive in Toronto for Canada’s first-ever investment summit to get a look at major projects in various stages of development.

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JD Vance’s Catholicism could be at odds with Maga evangelicals in 2028

JD Vance’s Catholicism could be at odds with Maga evangelicals in 2028

US vice-president JD Vance has worn his religion on his sleeve since converting to the Catholicism in 2019. He recently published a book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, and memorably met the late Pope Francis at the Vatican on Easter Sunday in 2025, a day before the pontiff died.

But his religious identity could take on new weight as he positions himself for a presidential run in 2028, in which a successful campaign would make him only the third Catholic president in US history. Vance’s winding spiritual path – combined with his avowed evangelical roots – have the potential to stymie him, as he seeks to retain the Christian nationalist voters that have sustained Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (Maga) movement while wooing fellow Catholics.

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Carney says Canada planning to discuss ‘unique alliance’ with EU, but not membership

Carney says Canada planning to discuss ‘unique alliance’ with EU, but not membership

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada plans to begin discussions for a “unique alliance” with the European Union — but not membership — as he gears up to address the European Parliament this week.

“We’re not looking to become a member of the European Union,” Carney said Sunday evening on the red carpet of the Toronto International Film Festival. He attended the festival shortly after giving a speech to kick off the two-day Canada Investment Summit, which begins Monday.


Carney’s investment “summit” reminds me of this Bugs Cartoon “One For You”

 

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British Muslims ‘must report grooming gangs or be complicit’

British Muslims ‘must report grooming gangs or be complicit’

British Pakistanis must condemn grooming gangs or be complicit in the abuse through silence, a prominent Pakistani cleric has said.

Muhammad Hassan Haseeb-ur-Rehman, who is on a speaking tour of the UK, said British Pakistanis needed to report child groomers to the police so they could face the toughest possible punishments.

“If people from within our own community are involved in wrongdoing, they must be opposed. Remaining silent in the face of wrongdoing is, in effect, becoming complicit in it,” he said.

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Geoff Horsman: How Canada’s federal research grants have normalized deceit

Geoff Horsman: How Canada’s federal research grants have normalized deceit

Last week, a report by Macdonald-Laurier Institute senior fellow Eric Kaufmann and co-authors detailed the high cost of the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) quota system in academia. They showed that the prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program — a $300 million annual federal expenditure to keep research talent in the country — has sacrificed excellence in pursuit of diversity.

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Eritrean illegal migrant raped woman on night out after being freed from jail after previous sex attack instead of being kicked out of the country

Eritrean illegal migrant raped woman on night out after being freed from jail after previous sex attack instead of being kicked out of the country

An illegal immigrant raped a woman on a night out after being freed from prison for a previous sex attack.

Radiet Meles, 35, an ex-soldier from Eritrea, was expected to be deported after finishing his sentence for a horrific sexual assault in 2019.

However he was allowed to stay in Britain after serving a five-year sentence for the attempted rape of an unconscious woman at a house party in Newport, South Wales.

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CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s food inflation problem isn’t Donald Trump, it’s Canada

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s food inflation problem isn’t Donald Trump, it’s Canada

The United States is imposing tariffs on much of the world, disrupting supply chains and inviting retaliation from its trading partners. Yet American food inflation remains lower than Canada’s.

For Canadians repeatedly told that external forces are primarily responsible for their rising grocery bills, this is an uncomfortable comparison.

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