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Zero population growth expected in Canada this year: Budget watchdog

The parliamentary budget officer (PBO) predicts Canada’s rate of population growth will remain flat in 2026, mainly due to cuts to non-permanent resident admissions in the latest federal Immigration Levels Plan.

This would be the second year in a row with zero population growth in Canada, which follows several years of above-average growth, including the record-breaking years of 2022 and 2023.

Statistics Canada reported flat growth in 2025, with the PBO report finding any gains were offset by a decline in the non-permanent resident population of 382,000 people.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•"Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with Anthropic

Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

As a standoff between artificial intelligence firm Anthropic and the Pentagon deepened this week, the two sides offered starkly different accounts of a key discussion about a hypothetical nuclear strike against the United States, revealing the intensity of their showdown over the American military’s potential use of lethal autonomous weapons.

A defense official said the Pentagon’s technology chief whittled the debate down to a life-and-death nuclear scenario at a meeting last month: If an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at the United States, could the military use Anthropic’s Claude AI system to help shoot it down?

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Energy-hungry India tells Carney ‘we are willing to buy whatever Canada is offering’

India wants to buy any energy product it can from Canada, and its officials are urging the federal government to streamline approvals for various projects so it can tap into new supplies to feed a rapidly growing country with relatively few natural resources of its own.

That’s the message India’s high commissioner to Canada, Dinesh Patnaik, relayed in an interview with CBC News before Prime Minister Mark Carney left for a five-day visit to the country.

It’s a trip that will be laser-focused on cutting new business deals and getting negotiations for a free trade agreement underway as part of a push to diversify from the American market.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India

‘I saw nothing that gave me pause’: Bill Clinton says he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton said in an opening statement made public on Friday that if he had knowledge of crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein when the two men were acquainted, “I would have turned him in myself.”

Clinton, 79, is giving a closed-door deposition on matters related to the investigations and prosecutions of the late, convicted sex offender to a Republican-led House oversight committee from his Chappaqua, N.Y., hometown.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•"Clintons"

Researchers who studied who’s spreading the most conspiracy theories in Canada found to be spreading misinformation

Researchers studied who’s spreading the most conspiracy theories in Canada. Here’s what they found

Canadians are becoming more exposed to conspiracy theory content in their social media feeds, but only a certain number of accounts are responsible for promoting the vast majority of it, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) analyzed more than 14 million posts between 2023 and 2025 across popular online platforms — TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram and Bluesky — and found there are only about 100 very active Canadian users who account for nearly 70 per cent of conspiratorial content.

… The claims that Canadians reported they were most aware of on social media were ones about public health threats (such as COVID-19) being exaggerated to expand government control (63 per cent), schools are indoctrinating kids with radical gender ideology (54 per cent) and the media-elite collusion (47 per cent).

A 750K fine for saying there are only 2 genders that was levied in a case brought by the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) on behalf of the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association (CTA) against former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld says transgender indoctrination in schools is no conspiracy theory.

Why would the Media Ecosystem Observatory publish such a sketchy study?

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•"Disinformation"

Pakistan defence minister says country in ‘open war’ with Afghanistan after strikes

Pakistan’s defence minister has said the country is in “open war” with Afghanistan, after Islamabad launched airstrikes on Kabul as part of a wave of attacks across the country.

“Our patience has now run out,” said Khawaja Muhammad Asif following the attacks.

The strikes came after the Afghan Taliban announced a major offensive against Pakistani military posts near the border on Thursday night.

The latest attacks follow months of clashes between the two neighbouring nations, despite agreeing to a fragile ceasefire in October.

I wish them a long and bloody conflict.

Pakistan VS Afghanistan.

Both sides chant "Allahu Akbar".
Both sides praise Allah for killing the other side.

Fewer evil people in this world.
Good luck to both sides. pic.twitter.com/hrLFjaC0lX

— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 (@EliAfriatISR) February 26, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•Afghanistan, Pakistan

Carney’s bid to forge the world’s largest trading bloc will be an uphill battle

No one can accuse Prime Minister Mark Carney of lacking ambition.

But high on the agenda for a three-country trip that will take him over the next week to the eastern reaches of the globe is what may be his most audacious gambit: trying to forge the world’s largest trading bloc as an antidote to U.S. President Donald Trump.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Cuba says group shot on US-registered speedboat planned ‘armed infiltration’

Cuba has accused 10 people aboard a US-registered speedboat it intercepted off its coast on Wednesday of planning “an infiltration with terrorist aims”.

Border guards shot dead four people and injured the other six on the boat, the Cuban interior ministry said, alleging that those on the Florida-registered vessel had fired first.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was investigating the “highly unusual” incident.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 26, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Poilievre says China is no substitute for the United States as Canada grapples with Trump

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said trade with China is no substitute for trade with the United States and Canada should build on its leverage to secure a tariff-free trade deal with our neighbour to the south.

“Canada’s prosperity and security are inseparable from a stable relationship with the United States,” said Poilievre, during a speech at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Thursday.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 26, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

‘High levels’ of illegal family voting in Gorton and Denton by-election

Nigel Farage has claimed a report of high levels of illegal family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election “raises serious questions about the integrity of the democratic process in predominantly Muslim areas”.

An election observer group on Thursday night raised concerns over what it called “concerningly high levels of family voting” in the constituency.
Democracy Volunteers said they attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending 30 to 45 minutes in each, and witnessed family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 26, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", UK, WTF?

LILLEY: New pipeline to U.S. to piggyback on shuttered Keystone XL project

It’s not quite Keystone XL, but Canada could be looking at an expanded pipeline capacity of 550,000 barrels per day into the United States.

The plan, still seeking approval stateside, would use existing infrastructure in Canada from the Keystone XL project and include a new 1,038-km pipeline through Montana and Wyoming.

by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 26, 2026•0•"Energy Matters"

Remigration Now!

Part 2: MTO officers put the Singh trucking duo out of service and hand them a bunch of fines.

Why do we let non English speaking immigrants drive commercial vehicles? Do we even test for the large amounts of opium the co driver, Prabjot, consumes? https://t.co/Amw63BCdPY pic.twitter.com/Wo1WVnYgl0

— AwareBears (@bears_aware) February 26, 2026

But wait there’s more …

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by Blazingcatfur•February 27, 2026February 27, 2026•0•"Diversity Fatigue"

Russia will test Nato in the Baltic, suggests Germany’s top admiral

Russian warships are becoming increasingly hostile amid concerns that the Kremlin is seeing how far it can push the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defence clause

Germany is preparing for Russia to escalate its aggression against Nato on the Baltic Sea, the head of its navy has said.

Russian warships have become increasingly hostile, while combat jets have flown recklessly low over Nato vessels and German shipyards and naval bases have been sabotaged, Vice-Admiral Jan Christian Kaack told The Times.

There is significant concern in Europe that the Kremlin might seize on uncertainty around the US commitment to Nato to see how far it can push the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defence clause before it elicits a military response.