Chinese EV Deal Embeds Sabotage Risk in the Country’s Roads, Ports and Grids

Chinese EV Deal Embeds Sabotage Risk in the Country’s Roads, Ports and Grids

OTTAWA — China keeps finding inventive ways to burrow into the West, and Canada’s new appetite for Chinese electric vehicles may be the most consequential opening yet.

That is the warning at the center of a report published this week by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and written by Brenda Shaffer, an energy and national-security specialist who teaches at the United States Naval Postgraduate School.

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Prince Harry and family’s UK visit ‘pulled from under their feet at 11th hour’

Prince Harry and family’s UK visit ‘pulled from under their feet at 11th hour’

The Duke of Sussex fears his children will not meet King Charles in the coming days after their UK visit was “pulled out from under their feet at the 11th hour”.

Prince Harry and Meghan were planning their first trip to Britain as a family in four years for events related to the Invictus Games, due to be held in Birmingham in July.

The duke was said to have been excited for Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, to be reunited with King Charles during the visit early next month.

However, the family trip now appears uncertain after the government declined his request for police protection outside royal residences.

Boo hoo.

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Colby Cosh: How long before Statistics Canada loses complete touch with the economy?

Colby Cosh: How long before Statistics Canada loses complete touch with the economy?

Last month, when Statistics Canada delivered unexpected bad news about a second consecutive quarter of negative real-GDP growth, there was a frenzy of pooh-poohing and counter-pooh-poohing about whether Canada was really in recession. On Thursday CP’s Craig Lord called attention to a different angle on the whole fuss, which isn’t the notional recession (yet), but the forecasting failure that preceded it. Economists at the Desjardins credit-union consortium are warning that StatCan’s monthly economic estimates are growing wobbly, leading to larger retrospective revisions — i.e., bigger surprises — when quarterly and yearly data are released later.

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‘There Is No Security for You Except by Islam or Jizya

‘There Is No Security for You Except by Islam or Jizya

Pakistan’s Federal Constitutional Court granted custody of 13-year-old Christian girl, Maria Shahbaz, to a 30-year-old Muslim man accused of kidnapping, forcibly converting, and marrying her. The court rejected her official birth certificate and ignored prior findings that the marriage was illegal, instead accepting her statement that she converted and married voluntarily—despite claims from her family and lawyer that it was made under coercion. Rights advocates and the girl’s family criticized the ruling, pointing to evidence that the marriage certificate was fake and raising concerns about police inaction and possible collusion. They argue the girl had been in the suspect’s custody for months, making any statement unreliable. — Morning Star News, February 1, 2026, Pakistan.

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Why is it so much easier to ditch a prime minister in the U.K. than in Canada?

Why is it so much easier to ditch a prime minister in the U.K. than in Canada?

Despite having nearly identical parliamentary systems, Canada has avoided the kind of prime ministerial parade that has befallen the U.K. in the past decade.

Political watchers point to the Brexit vote as the key moment that led to half a dozen leaders occupying 10 Downing Street in the 10 years since — but there are underlying factors that make it easier for U.K. MPs to ditch a leader than their Canadian counterparts.

“I think it’s more difficult to govern the country now and that there’s a lot of unrest about this decision,” Lori Turnbull, a political science professor at Dalhousie University, said of the U.K.’s decision to walk away from the European Union.

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How to Stay Calm in an Armed Encounter

How to Stay Calm in an Armed Encounter

We all pray that we never have to discharge our firearms in defense of our lives or the lives of someone else. Hell, most of us pray we never even have to draw our firearms. Unfortunately, I’ve had to a couple of times, though you have no idea how thankful I am that I didn’t have to pull the trigger either time.

In both cases, I was anything but cool and calm. Not internally, anyway. I had a million thoughts running through my head and my heart was racing. I was scared that everything was going to blow up in my face and someone I cared about would end up dead, even me.

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Ontario overhauls foreign worker program amid fraud concerns

Ontario overhauls foreign worker program amid fraud concerns

TORONTO – Due to concerns about fraud in one of Ontario’s most important economic immigration programs, the Ford government is effectively tearing it down and starting again.

On Friday, Labour Minister David Piccini announced a sweeping overhaul of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP), which allows the province to fill gaps in local labour markets by asking the federal government to fast-track permanent residency for a set number of foreign workers with in-demand skills.

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Canada’s citizenship study guide has glaring omissions. Neglects Slavery and Cannibalism of our 1st People’s Beheaders

Canada’s citizenship study guide has glaring omissions. Neglects Slavery and Cannibalism of our 1st People’s Beheaders

To prepare for his Canadian citizenship test, Stéphane Bazin from France read the federal study guide several times, memorizing facts about hockey players, prime ministers and historical figures.

Bazin learned far less, he said, about Indigenous Peoples and their history.

“The story in the guide is written by the winners,” said Bazin, 41, who wrote the test and became a citizen three years ago. “It’s a very settler-oriented narrative of the French and the British settling — it’s almost like they arrived in an empty country.”

1st People’s Beheaders!

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Sadiq Khan under fire as Met could reopen 4,000 grooming gang cases

Sadiq Khan under fire as Met could reopen 4,000 grooming gang cases

Scotland Yard could reopen 4,000 grooming gang cases in London following a Daily Express probe.

Police chiefs have been reviewing files dating back to 2010, amid fears many rapists are still roaming freely.


This is what happens when mohammedans are elected in the west.

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The Carney government’s Canada Day conundrums

The Carney government’s Canada Day conundrums

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto several weeks ago and denounced antisemitism and stated that, “Unity is not uniformity … our differences are strengths to be nurtured, not risks to be managed.” All Canadians of at least the age of seven have heard similar remarks by public figures, but they do not address the requirement of the comprehensive defence of minorities, and in particular the Jewish population. Carney flattered himself and his government for introducing Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, which has been described in this column before and has raised more concerns about the curtailment of freedom of expression than comfort for threatened minorities.

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