On Wednesday, the PBS News Hour brought on union chief Paul Perez of the National Border Patrol Council (who represents 18,000 Border Patrol agents), and anchor Amna Nawaz pressed him on why 6 in 10 Americans think immigration enforcement has “gone too far.” Perez argued “the media’s misleading the public,” and Nawaz wasn’t going to accept that argument!
Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, first introduced in the House of Commons on September 19, 2025, was paused at the Consideration in Committee stage in the House on January 26, 2026, when the Justice Committee voted to suspend the bill’s clause-by-clause study.
The bill aims to create a standalone hate crime offence, criminalizing intimidation, regulating hate symbols, and removing Attorney General consent for hate propaganda charges, all contentious issues.
Some local hate …
U of T’s Dean of Dentistry on leave pending investigation into racist images used in lecture
Ajax councillor alleges suspended Durham deputy police chief used N-word during meeting
Channel 12 news reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump were shown an image of the body of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, after it was recovered by Iranian authorities from his compound in Tehran.
Israel carried out a massive strike on Khamenei’s compound in the opening salvo of attacks on Iran this morning.
Not so fast… https://t.co/H3fLk6jUTR
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 28, 2026
h/t XC
MUMBAI—In Prime Minister Mark Carney‘s world of trade crisis and American disruption, Canada’s road for middle power survival now leads to India.
Carney’s vision of a “pragmatic” foreign policy landed him in this country’s financial epicentre on Friday, where he is set to court closer trade and deeper relations with a government Ottawa has accused of links to murder and other violent crimes on Canadian soil.
Anywhere Brookfield can make a buck.
The latest forecasts predict a sharp decline in the population. One reason is that too few children are being born. Immigration, even in greater numbers, will not offset the trend.
The figure 1.35 should set off alarm bells for policymakers: on average, each woman in Germany now has just 1.35 children — a record low, and far below the 2.1 needed to keep the population stable. These latest calculations from the Federal Statistical Office underscore the scale of the demographic challenge.
In 2025, about 650,000 children were born in Germany, down from around 677,000 the year before. In both years, around one million people died. By December 31, 2025, the population stood at approximately 83.5 million — 100,000 fewer than at the end of 2024.
Trade negotiations used to be underpinned by an unspoken assumption: that trade barriers were lose-lose propositions. All sides could gain something if they mutually disarmed.
Each country would agree to lower its tariffs, a little or a lot, in return for others doing likewise. Trade negotiations were always about how much tariffs and other walls would go down, not how much they would go up.
Trade deals hollowed out manufacturing in Canada and the US, no one but the connected made money.
How fast things change in Trump’s America.
It wasn’t long ago that the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros looked a done deal, bar regulatory approval, after its board accepted an $82.7bn offer in December.
Now Netflix has walked away, declining to match Paramount Skydance’s new $111bn offer because the price has got too high.
“The deal is no longer financially attractive,” it said in a statement – so what happened?
It’s kind of a big deal.
‘David Ellison Scares the S— Out of Me’: How Paramount Beat Out Netflix, Won Warner Bros. and Will Change Hollywood Forever
Ted Sarandos had just wrapped up a White House meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday when Warner Bros. Discovery released a statement announcing that Paramount’s latest bid for the media company was a “superior proposal” to the one that Netflix had offered. With his deal to buy the 100-year-old film and television giant hanging in the balance, Sarandos quickly consulted with a key team of executives, which included CFO Spencer Neumann and his co-CEO Greg Peters, who had been overseeing Netflix’s bid for Warners, sources say.
Taxes in Canada are exceptionally high – in provinces like British Columbia, leftist governments are wringing even more cash from the pockets of beleaguered taxpayers. But the federal government continues to spend millions of dollars on LGBT activism.
I’m often asked how things in Canada got so bad, so quickly. There are many answers, but one is that in Canada, the revolution was funded by the taxpayers. While organizations that attempted to defend Canada’s moral foundation fundraised from fellow Christians, radical LGBT organizations and abortion groups were funded by the government.
As we are distracted, fecklessly try to convince the liberal mental bellyflops on Facebook that, anyway they slice it, Trump wasn’t one of Jeffrey Epstein’s pedos, the Chinese are taking advantage of our botheration and have been creating, quite successfully, a forward operating base (FOB) in Canada, and it’s less than 500 miles from the United States. Even worse, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Canadian government is in on the commie caper to hand Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) over to the filthy Chinese communists who seek to, with Islam, take over the world.
The office of Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is the latest agency to launch an investigation related to the sprawling allegations in the Project South police corruption probe.
In an e-mail on Friday, Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim said her office hasn’t been officially asked by the government to consult on any matters related to Project South, nor has it been notified of any privacy breaches by police.
America’s allies in Europe have called for “restraint” following a series of military strikes against the Islamist Iranian regime, while the United Kingdom has warned against potential “escalation” into a broader regional conflict.
Donald Trump may yet survive – but he is currently losing
There will be no Ceausescu moment, no “at long last sir have you no decency” turning point, no dramatic climax in which the tyrant’s power suddenly evaporates: That instantaneous, simultaneous crystallizing of long-inchoate doubts, wherein those who feared him lose their fear, and those who believed in him lose their faith. Life rarely supplies the needs of narrative, and if it did America is no longer a society capable of coming to that kind of collective moral awakening.
Well played Canada.
Andy, here’s 4.5 minutes of your 2026 TDS posts, not including any replies to other posts.
It’s only February. 🤦🏻♂️🙄 pic.twitter.com/ZMbLxSlmHo
— Kevin Pacitti 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇬🇧 (@kpac_15) February 28, 2026
h/t Mauser
The United States is discussing a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, Donald Trump has said.
The US president said Washington was pursuing an amicable form of regime change in Havana, as sanctions continue to cripple the communist-run island.
Tensions between the US and Cuba have risen since Mr Trump imposed an oil siege on the island following the capture of Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, a key ally and oil supplier of Cuba, in January. He has threatened to impose tariffs on any country that exports oil to Cuba.
The Canada Border Services Agency says charges have been laid against a Quebec company that hired several unauthorized foreign workers.
The CBSA said charges were laid on Thursday against Camping Havana Resort, 9267-1551 Québec Inc., company directors Ariane and Dominic Perrier, and an employee named Oscar Fuentes Labrada.
The Justice Department announced on Friday that 30 additional people have been charged with disrupting a Sunday worship service with a protest during the peak of the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The new indictments bring the total number of people accused in the protest to 39, including Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor.
The demonstration on Jan. 18 took place at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., where one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is also a senior official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mr. Easterwood was not at the church during the service that day.
