As Canada looks to diversify its trade partners, it can’t be “naive” in dealing with the Chinese regime, which is a leading perpetrator of transnational repression, researchers behind a new report say.
The Feb. 17 report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security (MIGS) says the issue of transnational repression is a “systemic threat” affecting thousands of people across the country and undermining Canada’s security, democracy, and sovereignty.
A busy life 😅
If your driving skills aren't good, avoid Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.
The accident occurred at 11:30 AM today in Zhenyuan County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province.
The woman later posted online that she was unharmed, not even scratched.pic.twitter.com/3UgCeCNAmJ
— China pulse 🇨🇳 (@Eng_china5) February 18, 2026
Jammie Booker, the 2025 World’s Strongest Woman who was stripped of the title and accused of being a transgender ex-porn star, has resurfaced after months away from the spotlight.
‘Proof of life… the death threats didn’t work,’ Booker posted alongside a selfie from inside the gym. It is not clear when the photo was taken but it was posted on Instagram on Tuesday. It is the first time the American has spoken out since the strongwoman world was engulfed in scandal.
Likely BS.
NO. 😡🤬@fancypants_s https://t.co/kIN1ci6sXO
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) February 18, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
A 29-year-old man from Woodstock has been charged with drug offences after more than a quarter-tonne of methamphetamine was seized earlier this month at the Blue Water Bridge near Sarnia.
… The CBSA said Kulbir Singh was arrested and was handed over to the RCMP, along with the narcotics. He has been charged with importation of methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking.
h/t Cyclist & Patti Jo
There is a 90 per cent chance of war against Islamic Republic in coming weeks, says Washington source
US fighter jets tracked as heading towards the Middle East could be laying the groundwork for a major bombing campaign.
The uptick in warplanes travelling to the Gulf is likely to be used to clear the way for heavy bombers to strike at the heart of Iran’s regime, experts have said.
Large numbers of American combat aircraft and support planes such as air-to-air refuellers have been seen moving eastwards this week.
Hosting six World Cup soccer games in Toronto is already $350 million over budget.
Given those kinds of overruns, city hall should look for savings. Instead, municipal bureaucrats blew big money on soccer-themed sex supplies.
Rhetoric versus reality, plainly illustrated.
If you read or watch the news, you see constant marches and riots over the enforcement of immigration laws. Activists chase ICE and Border Patrol personnel in the streets, screaming insults and blowing whistles to alert others to the presence of Trump’s mean immigration cops. High school students storm out of their classes (behind their activist teachers, following authority as they protest against government) to “march against hate,” attacking people who disagree with them.
A Lebanese immigrant ordered deported in December 2019 after he was convicted for possession of fentanyl and hydromorphone for the purposes of trafficking has won another chance to stay in Canada.
Mohamad Kassar, who arrived in Canada as a permanent resident about 35 years ago, was scheduled to be removed to Lebanon on Feb. 13. Instead, Federal Court Justice Angus Grant stayed his removal because Kassar has a preliminary diagnosis suggesting he might have a lung tumour.
The difference between history’s winners and losers obviously depends on the criteria we adopt to discriminate between success and failure at the level of nation, culture, and civilization. For the purposes of this article, I will leave the display of military splendor and the creation of great art out of the equation. Neither military parades in a public square nor architectural wonders constitute a boon for ordinary people, even if they produce a feeling of national pride. Rather, I define success as a function of three complementary factors: the ability to survive intact for extended periods; the achievement of approximate prosperity in a largely impoverished world; and the fostering of a relatively free, confident, and vigorous citizenry. (Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian calculus developed in his A Fragment on Government, based on “the greatest happiness of the greatest number,” plainly does not consort with these observations, since happiness is both an ambiguous concept and a non-measurable “quantity.”)
CALGARY — A former Ontario man who opened his barbecue restaurant back in 2020 despite lockdown rules and was arrested and fined because of it — is finally getting his day in court.
Adam Skelly, whose barbecue joint, Adamson Barbecue, in the Etobicoke area of the GTA, is now permanently closed due to the financial strains Skelly experienced thanks to multiple charges brought against him.
h/t Mauser (Incognito)
Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson made history by becoming the first illegal alien Muslim councilwoman in Boston history. Then she made history again by marrying a convicted murderer serving life in prison with no parole. Then she made history yet again by becoming the first illegal alien Muslim councilwoman married to a lifer serving on the Boston city council while under indictment when she was charged in an illegal kickback scheme involving fraud and theft.
Lionel Shriver on the West’s porous borders, the corrosion of citizenship and how the debate turned ‘radioactive’.
The Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc investigation at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School has ruled out some areas on the grounds as areas where potential unmarked graves may be, while data from multiple surveys has identified other areas that “should now be the primary focus” of the search.
It’s been almost five years since the First Nation shared that preliminary findings from a ground-penetrating radar survey found some 200 potential unmarked graves on the grounds of the former residential school.
Nothing but theft.
A police worker who claimed her colleagues were members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has lost her race discrimination case.
Neelam Puri, 59, who is from an Indian-Asian background, sued the Scottish Police Authority at an employment tribunal after making the ‘ludicrous’ suggestion that members of the police force were part of the white supremacist group.
Mrs Puri raised concerns after she heard co-workers having a discussion about how ‘the KKK had Scottish roots’, which made her feel ‘unsafe’.
