Trailer for Disney's "The Caliphate" pic.twitter.com/4bch5EkLBS
— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) February 21, 2026
Not so far fetched is it?
Invaders just attacked the 'March For Remigration' rally in Manchester.
A quick FAFO.
pic.twitter.com/Q24c0d9Eop— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) February 21, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
When Statistics Canada released the latest Labour Force Survey earlier this month, the headlines were predictable. The unemployment rate fell to 6.5 percent. Overall employment edged down by 25,000. The coverage, as it almost always does, mostly stopped there.
But buried several tables into the same release is a figure that deserves considerably more attention. In January 2026, 4.597 million Canadians worked in the public sector—all employees of federal, provincial, and local governments, government agencies, Crown corporations, and publicly funded establishments like schools, universities, and hospitals.
That represents 21.8 percent of everyone employed in Canada. It is a percentage that has been quietly climbing for five years, and it puts Canada on a trajectory back toward territory last occupied before the fiscal consolidations of the 1990s.
Keir Starmer has had a pretty torrid couple of months but, as the curtain comes down on another turbulent week, not even Donald Trump attacking the Chagos Islands deal again, or the exposure of how the pressure group that got Starmer elected was smearing journalists, compares with the turmoil in the royal household.
The Prime Minister waits anxiously to see what further demons are released from the Pandora’s box of the Epstein files, but for now No. 10 has done what it can to cauterise the wound by disposing of Peter Mandelson. There remains frustration in Downing Street that the police have not moved more quickly to let them release the files, but many were grateful when the spotlight shifted elsewhere with the arrest yesterday of the prince formerly known as Andrew on his 66th birthday.
Former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld has been ordered to pay $750,000 by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal for violating the Human Rights Code with “heated public speech” exposing LGBTQ people to hatred or contempt. The tribunal issued its final decision this week, issuing two sets of costs orders in the matter of the BCTF (on behalf of) the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association v. Neufeld, one ordering the payment of $750,000 in costs to the CTA, and a concurrent order of $10,000 for improper conduct during the lengthy process.
Former Chilliwack school board trustee Barry Neufeld is being fined $750,000 by the BC Human Rights Tribunal for simply believing in the biological fact that there are only 2 genders.
The BC Human Rights Tribunal needs to be abolished. It is merely a Left-wing political… pic.twitter.com/RwXSQF5nyw
— Dallas Brodie (@Dallas_Brodie) February 20, 2026
There is one thing the Iranian regime needs now more than anything else — something upon which its survival may depend. That lifeline is a deal.
Precisely for that reason, at this moment of maximum pressure, President Donald J. Trump’s offering Tehran an agreement — especially one that provides sanctions relief, legitimacy, or breathing room — could become the single most consequential mistake of the century.
Wow, that was a welcome change of direction for federalism, which has for decades now been drifting towards a stronger central government and weaker provincial governments.
The central theme of Premier Danielle Smith’s address to the province on Thursday evening was rebalancing Confederation, giving the provinces more control over matters that affect them most, such as health, education, immigration and judicial appointments.
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria, after an exodus from a camp that held jihadists’ families, U.S. officials familiar with the estimate said.
Security experts have long warned that the wives of Islamic State fighters were effectively raising the next generation of militants at the sprawling Al-Hol facility. Security at the camp fell apart in recent weeks after Syria’s government routed the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which had guarded Al-Hol for years, raising concerns about the release of people who might have become radicalized during the years held behind the razor wire.
An Ontario court has ruled that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) must hold a new hearing, with a different adjudicator, in the case of a Black trans man who complained of discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression at a walk-in medical clinic.
Jordan Renae Thorne originally filed an HRTO complaint alleging he was “repeatedly misgendered” by a physician and an office assistant at a walk-in clinic in December 2017.
The Trump administration has escalated its pressure against Cuba’s communist government, curbing oil supplies and threatening tariffs on countries that continue to ship fuel to the island as part of an effort to force regime change.
Since the United States captured former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in January, the Trump administration has turned its focus on Cuba.
With Tuesday’s release of new data from Statistics Canada, the conclusion is unequivocal: for the second consecutive month, Canada is posting the highest food inflation rate among G7 countries. Food inflation now stands at 7.3%.
Beef, nuts, pork, and even chicken are between 5% and 7% more expensive than a year ago. The only relief comes from eggs and fresh fruit, which are cheaper on a year-over-year basis.
Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.
And for what?
Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to ramp up his use of sector-based duties and others after the Supreme Court ruled against a swath of his existing tariffs on Friday, raising new risks for a Canadian economy that’s struggled mightily with duties that target specific industries.
Sectoral tariffs implemented under Section 232 of the U.S. Trade Expansion Act of 1962 – including those on autos, steel and aluminum – have delivered the harshest blow to Canada, because most other products continue to trade tariff-free under a crucial exemption.
Chutzpah much?
Somali community activists in Minneapolis held a press conference to demand grants and emergency relief following recent ICE enforcement actions.
Members of Neighbors United called for direct payments to immigrant-owned small businesses earning less than $200,000 a year, and speakers described “ICE terror,” claimed widespread trauma, and asked state and federal officials to fund housing support and business stabilization.
🚨 JUST IN: Americans are telling the Minnesota Somali community to SCREW OFF after they demand “reparations” because of the “damage” done by ICE
Are you kidding me?
THEY should repay US for all the fraud!
Pay us back and GTFO.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 20, 2026
Celebrations in Canada over the decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were both brief and muted.
The high court’s decision, which included the “fentanyl” tariffs Trump imposed on Canada, China and Mexico, reinforced Canada’s position that the levies were “unjustified”, US-Canada Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on X.
But LeBlanc noted the challenges ahead in Ottawa. There is the “critical work” to do in dealing with impacts from levies on steel, aluminium and automobiles, which Trump said will remain.
There is also the upcoming review of the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal, the USMCA, which covers a market of more than 500 million people.
The redcoats of internet censorship are coming but an American midnight rider is coming to save Europeans from their own governments, the Trump White House teases, stating: “Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”
A growing number of websites have chosen to simply block users rather than comply with arduous censorship demands in response to Europe’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act, with many more hidden behind government-mandated age-verification making linking a real-life identity to internet use a prerequisite for access.
