Canada’s falling unemployment rate is being read as good news. It isn’t. The decline reflects fewer Canadians working because fewer people are looking for work and fewer people are here to work at all.
We in Canada rely on Statistics Canada for the labour and population data that tell us how the economy is actually performing, not how we might wish it to be performing.
Ramia was preparing for a family picnic, on a warm summer day in her village in Latakia province in western Syria, when a white car drove up, she said.
Three armed men got out, saying they were government security forces, and dragged her into the vehicle, the teenager, whose name has been changed for her safety and to protect her identity, told the BBC World Service.
The men beat her, she said, hitting her harder when she started crying and screaming.
New report warns Canada’s paper-based refugee fast track may be prone to abuse by terror-linked and transnational fraud networks.
OTTAWA — A sweeping new border control investigation has revealed that since 2019, Canada’s refugee hearing board has been quietly accepting tens of thousands of asylum claims without ever questioning the migrants, effectively rubber-stamping applications from some of the most dangerous countries on earth — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran — through a paper-based process that is wide open to fraud and bypasses the security screening architecture designed to protect the nation.
Iran’s supreme leader threatened to send US aircraft carriers to the “bottom of the sea” while talks to avert a war began in Geneva.
Ali Khamenei dismissed the American military build-up in the Persian Gulf after Donald Trump ordered a second carrier to the region last week.
“They constantly say we have sent an aircraft carrier towards Iran,” the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader said. “Very well, an aircraft carrier is certainly a dangerous machine, but more dangerous than the carrier is the weapon that can send it to the bottom of the sea.”
Germany was postwar Europe’s greatest economic success story. Today, it is a cautionary tale. Once the continent’s industrial engine, Germany has spent the past decade dismantling the foundations of its prosperity through energy and immigration policies driven more by ideology than evidence or good sense. The results have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash. Canada should study this record closely because we are pursuing many of the same policies.
Germany has one thing going for it Canada does not – The AfD.
A husband running from his wife, a cat running from a dog, and a thief fleeing from the police all appearing simultaneously on a street surveillance camera. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/7puUr5PZ13
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) February 15, 2026
When the soldier codenamed Blackbird was bundled into the back of the rescue robot, wrapped in a sleeping bag and bound with bloodied tourniquets, his life hung in the balance.
One leg was gone and the other was shattered, looking more like a burned branch than flesh and bone. His right arm, too, was smashed.
If his wounds did not kill him, the cold might have done so. It was minus 10C on the front line south of Kostiantynivka in the darkness of Sunday evening, even without the windchill. From time to time, gusts of snow blew across the robot’s camera.
For anybody confused, this is a Biblical curse. Having your homeland overrun by people who hate you and your heritage is a punishment from God. https://t.co/qSPxzSYY1o
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) February 17, 2026
The opposition parties were all trumped, as it were, in last year’s election. They may well face the same fate again this year as talk of an election call in Canada grows. If an election does occur, Donald Trump’s continued raft of threats, insults and incoherent rants is a gift to the Liberals. His behaviour underlines the threat he represents — and the need for a strong and effective Canadian prime minister to challenge him. Barring unforeseeable events, Mark Carney owns that card.
PM Mark Carney pushed back on the notion that Canada was founded on Christian faith, offering a different perspective from U.S. officials who frame Western nations as rooted in Christianity. Instead, he described Canada as a multicultural country. pic.twitter.com/yH0crjLiNn
— Juno News (@junonewscom) February 17, 2026
New data from the Federal Statistical Office has revealed that 15.5 million people in Germany do not speak German as their primary language at home. These figures, published for the International Day of the Mother Tongue, disclose the growing extent of linguistic parallel worlds.
Captured this semi flipping with @BlakeBrownWx south of Dumas, TX#txwx
pic.twitter.com/RdXINVRtm4— Jordan Hall (@JordanHallWX) February 17, 2026
Canada’s defence industry got a $6.6 billion boost Tuesday, as Prime Minister Mark Carney formally unveiled Ottawa’s new Defence Industrial Strategy. The plan promises to create 125,000 new jobs over 10 years and award 70 per cent of defence contracts to Canadian companies, through a “Build-Partner-Buy” framework that prioritizes domestic industry. It is part of the government’s plan to increase Canadian military spending to five per cent of GDP by 2035, in line with NATO targets.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing mounting calls to speak out against the United States for widening its restrictions on fuel reaching Cuba, or to send aid to the country.
For more than a year, Global Affairs Canada has warned travellers of “shortages of basic necessities, including food, medicine and fuel” across most of Cuba. In January, the island lost its main source of fuel when the U.S. took control of Venezuela’s oil reserves.
Who’s making these calls? Justin and his brother?
A man who left his family to live as a woman and threatened to “Go BERSERK” in defense of transgender ideology shot and killed his son and the boy’s mother at a Rhode Island hockey game on Monday, but the corporate media really don’t want you to know he was a fanatical adherent of one of their pet ideologies.
