Arrested NATO intern has history of fraud, was ordered to take ethics course

Arrested NATO intern has history of fraud, was ordered to take ethics course

A Canadian NATO intern arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying for China was ordered by a federal watchdog to take a course in ethics after being found to have committed fraud in applying twice under two slightly different identities for a public service job.

Claire (Biwei) Zhang, a Canadian of Chinese origin, worked in public service roles, including at Statistics Canada, before taking up the NATO internship at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, known as SHAPE, in Mons near the French border.


You get caught cheating and still keep your job?

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Wildfires scorch Washington

Wildfires rage: Authorities have declared a state of emergency as three major wildfires in Spokane County, Washington, force thousands of families to evacuate their homes. State officials deployed the Washington National Guard as firefighters work to quell the flames.

h/t Patti Jo

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Counterrevolution: Thirty Years of the Conservative Press

Counterrevolution: Thirty Years of the Conservative Press

In the spring of 1997, I was on the phone with Tucker Carlson when he asked me about Stephen Glass. Glass had written an explosive article in The New Republic. Called “Spring Breakdown,” it claimed that young men at the conservative conference CPAC were involved in drugs, drinking, and sexual assault.

Tucker and I had been discussing something totally different when he suddenly asked me about the Glass piece. I told him I had been at CPAC and not seen anything like what Glass described. I was a journalist for a magazine called Insight and certainly would have reported seeing something like that.

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GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s history of high-speed rail projects littered with political train wrecks

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s history of high-speed rail projects littered with political train wrecks

The history of federal governments touting high-speed rail projects between Ontario and Quebec has been one of false starts for more than five decades and last week we saw an example of why.

That was the threat by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to withdraw provincial support from Alto – the latest multi-billion-dollar, high-speed rail project touted by the feds to connect Toronto and Quebec City.


The only thing about this project that I am confident of is that it will be giant slush fund.

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Maker of ChatGPT discovers more of its AIs have gone rogue after bot attacked another tech firm

Maker of ChatGPT discovers more of its AIs have gone rogue after bot attacked another tech firm

OpenAI discovered that a cyber-attack driven by a rogue AI agent targeted another AI company in a series of ‘unprecedented’ strikes.

The maker of ChatGPT came under recent scrutiny after one of its agents escaped a supposedly secure environment known as a sandbox and targeted a company called Hugging Face.

The AI created its own cyber-attack during the ‘unprecedented’ scenes, which allowed it to escape the testing ground and independently find four logins online – allowing it to access four separate, unnamed services.

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Germany Has Stripped Just Two Jihadists of Citizenship Since 2019

Germany Has Stripped Just Two Jihadists of Citizenship Since 2019

German authorities have revoked the citizenship of only two dual nationals for fighting with terrorist organizations abroad, despite approximately 1,150 Islamists having traveled from Germany to Syria and Iraq between 2011 and 2024 to join the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, or other Islamist groups.

The issue has returned to the political spotlight following the Islamist attack on Berlin’s Christopher Street Day parade, with calls to strip convicted Islamist extremists of their German citizenship where legally possible.

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BRULOTTE: China is preparing for a different kind of war — is Canada ready?

BRULOTTE: China is preparing for a different kind of war — is Canada ready?

China is preparing for a different kind of war. Canada is still preparing for yesterday’s. The defining geopolitical struggle of the twenty-first century will not be fought solely with tanks, warships, or fighter aircraft. Increasingly, it will be contested through factories, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, supply chains, advanced manufacturing, and technological innovation. Beijing understands this. Most Western governments, including our own, are only beginning to catch up.

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Spain’s Illegal Alien Invasion Shows It Would Take Democrats Only A Few Hours To Destroy Trump’s Border Progress

Spain’s Illegal Alien Invasion Shows It Would Take Democrats Only A Few Hours To Destroy Trump’s Border Progress

It only took hours for tens of thousands of Moroccan illegal aliens to invade the Spanish territory of Ceuta this week. Removing those who remain will take far longer — if Spain even manages to remove them, given a recent court ruling that prohibits immediately deporting migrants who arrive by sea, as many did.

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Islam: when they tell you they want to kill you, believe them

Islam: when they tell you they want to kill you, believe them

In Terminello v. City of Chicago (1949), Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson wrote:

“The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”

It has also been said that some Muslims don’t want to kill infidels. They just want other Muslims to do it for them.

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Poll points to another decade of Liberal rule

Poll points to another decade of Liberal rule

According to a poll released two weeks ago by Abacus Data, Mark Carney and the Liberals hold a six-point lead over Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, 43 per cent to 37 per cent. Nothing startling there, most pollsters have the Liberals as much as 10 points ahead.

But just beneath the headline numbers, Abacus shows some intriguing facts about the Canadian electorate.

We’ll be a Chinese protectorate by then anyway.

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