Prepare Properly for Domestic Drone Terror, Says Think Tank

National drone defences are underprepared for the threat of domestic extremism, according to a new policy briefing.

The number of potentially violent plots making use of UAVs has increased sharply over the past five years. Researchers James Paterson and Lydia Khalil for Australia’s Lowy Institute claim that

Domestic extremist actors are incorporating drone technology into operational capabilities and attack plots, taking inspiration from the battlefield.

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Bronwyn Eyre: The ‘Gladue principle’ has caused immense harm to Indigenous women

A recent Investigative Journalism Bureau article, which appeared in the National Post, reiterated what we have long known: in Canada, Indigenous women are killed at a much higher rate — tragically, six-times higher — than non-Indigenous women.

The article quoted experts who blame the Canadian justice system for failing Indigenous women. They note that those found guilty of their abuse or murder generally face less serious sentences than perpetrators of crimes committed against non-Indigenous women.

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The Kill Switch Society

Increasingly, automobiles, once tools to facilitate individual independence, have been repurposed into systems of monitoring and control.

There was a time — not very long ago — when the automobile represented one of the clearest expressions of individual choice in a free society. Limited only by fuel, roads, and imagination, a person could choose where to go, when to go, and how to get there. The car was not merely a machine. It was mobility made personal — an extension of autonomy and freedom.

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Beijing’s “Two-State” Strategy Targets Indigenous Land Claims and Resources to Undermine Canada’s National Sovereignty, and Mark Carney’s PRC Pivot Makes It More Dangerous

VANCOUVER — At a moment when Canada is reassessing its economic sovereignty and Prime Minister Mark Carney is charting what he describes as a deeper strategic partnership with China, a long-running but poorly understood vulnerability is quietly advancing — one that cuts across the most sensitive fault lines in Canadian public life: Indigenous land rights, natural resource development, and Beijing’s patient, methodical campaign to secure the commodities it needs without ever having to negotiate with Ottawa.

The strategy, as intelligence documents obtained exclusively by The Bureau reveal, is not new. It is simply becoming more consequential.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Fix Social Science?

Artificial intelligence can do many of the things that social scientists do. It can analyze data, write and review code, identify appropriate statistical methods, and offer suggestions on study drafts. It can even take a dataset and a research question and produce an entire paper on its own. Given that human-led social science is often marred by mistakes, dubious methods, ideological bias, and even outright fraud, one can hope that AI will improve the field in the years ahead.

Some recent studies, though, highlight the limitations of current models. For now, AI is a productivity- and quality-enhancing tool, but not a panacea for what ails social science, nor a reason to let one’s guard down.


AI is easily enough co-opted by the left to suit any “studies” faculty.

ChatGPT’s ‘liberal’ bias allows hate speech toward GOP, men: research

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Colby Cosh: David Suzuki made his career crying wolf

David Suzuki is sad. Just ask him. CBC Radio’s Sunday Magazine was loyally rolling the log last weekend for the former television personality, who observed his 90th birthday on Tuesday — perhaps with some or all of his five children and his double-digit quantum of grandchildren. Suzuki is flogging a new memoir, which some of you will perhaps display on your bookshelves next to 2006’s “David Suzuki: The Autobiography” and 2015’s “Letters to My Grandchildren.” The ecological sage is feeling gloomy about the fate of our planet as he readies to depart: he thinks that despite all his hard work defending the environment, he has fundamentally failed, and the biosphere is now headed irreversibly toward catastrophe.

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Asylum seeker accused of gang-raping woman on Brighton beach ‘filmed assault to gather evidence for police’, court hears

Nice Try Rapist

An Egyptian asylum seeker accused of gang-raping a lone, drunk woman on Brighton beach claimed he filmed the assault to gather evidence for police, a court has heard.

Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, said he was shocked when he saw two of his friends raping the woman behind a beach hut.

The 33-year-old woman has claimed she was dragged onto the beach and raped after a night out with friends in the seaside city on October 4 last year.

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Canada might help oil tankers cross Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire, Carney says

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada might join efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in the Middle East if there is a ceasefire.

Reporters asked Carney on Thursday how Ottawa might get involved in efforts to reopen shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has blockaded in response to the U.S. and Israel launching a war on Iran a month ago.

Carney says Canada is talking to allies about how it could help restore the movement of vessels in the strait, offering the clearest scenario yet of how it might get involved.

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Trump extends deadline for Iran to open strait of Hormuz by 10 days

Donald Trump has extended his deadline for Iran to open the strait of Hormuz by 10 days to 6 April after saying talks are “going very well”.

The president made the statement on Thursday in a social media post, saying: “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

“Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.”

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