Alex Bourgeois is car shopping and mentally preparing to pay a whole lot more for auto insurance.
His 15-year-old daughter will soon begin driving lessons and they’ll need a second vehicle.
Mr. Bourgeois, a Toronto-based contractor, needs his truck for work, so he can’t add his daughter as an occasional driver to any new car he purchases – a strategy that can help lower insurance premiums for new drivers.
The defense chief of Germany’s Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer, and the United Kingdom’s chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, have jointly stated the case for rearming, amid the threat posed by Russia.
The top military officials penned a joint letter, published in The Guardian and German newspaper Welt, in which they said there was a “moral” case to be made for rearming.
Recently, two major American medical groups endorsed age restrictions on gender-related surgeries, marking a dramatic shift in a debate long dominated by claims of consensus. First, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a policy statement firmly opposing “gender-affirming” surgeries for people under 19. Then, the American Medical Association (AMA) signalled its support. These pivots deal a significant blow to Canadian activists and politicians who rely on the supposed professional consensus to defend these highly contested, unproven treatments for youth.
The morning before he died, Dipu Chandra Das left home at first light, stepping out of his tin-sheet house in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh city, overlooking a warren of lanes off the highway from Dhaka.
The 28-year-old woke up his father, said goodbye to his wife, cradled his 18-month-old daughter. Then he boarded a bus for the 60km (37-mile) journey to the garment factory where he worked as a junior quality inspector, checking sweaters bound for global high-street brands such as H&M and Next.
His family would not see him again.
Yea that's what we need, snitching on neighbors especially when false claims can be made anonymously is guaranteed to enhance "social cohesion". Help me out. When did Canada become the DDR? https://t.co/JAxftqBhPs
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 16, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Canada’s new defence industrial strategy sets out a series of important, extraordinarily high benchmarks for the country to achieve over the next decade, including buying and maintaining most of the military’s equipment domestically.
The long-awaited plan, which was developed more as a response to NATO’s call for industrial clarity among allies than to annexation threats by the Trump administration, sets a goal of awarding 70 per cent of federal defence contracts to Canadian firms within a decade.
Along with being incapable of understanding the basic principles of supply and demand, progressives have a blind spot when it comes to race-based policies. They consider themselves champions of the downtrodden and minorities, yet they support the divisive policies that cause minorities to become downtrodden in the first place. They recognize that race-based policies caused injustice and wrongs for centuries, but feel the way to reconcile those wrongs is to implement more race-based policies. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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The Ukrainian former energy minister was arrested on Sunday, February 15 while attempting to cross the state border. His detention is linked to an energy sector-shaking corruption scandal known as “Midas”—involving more than $100 million (€84 million).
An armed guard who has publicly declared his loyalty to the head of an outlaw motorcycle club is among those charged in the sweeping anti-corruption investigation that has rocked Toronto police.
Ryan Cribbie, 33, is one of 19 civilians charged in Project South, a months-long probe into corruption and organized crime that led to the arrests of seven Toronto cops and one retired officer. Among the most serious allegations levied by York Regional Police is that Toronto officers leaked confidential information to “criminal associates,” which investigators claim was used to facilitate shootings, extortions and a conspiracy to murder a jail official.
This is just the best!😂 pic.twitter.com/wxpkoxcarR
— The Internet of Cats 🐈🐈⬛ (@KittiesInternet) February 15, 2026
The Ministry of Justice will deploy machine learning to identify at-risk children for early intervention and to help prevent them falling into a life of crime
Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to predict the criminals of the future under government plans to identify children who need targeted interventions to stop them falling into a life of crime.
A programme launched by the Ministry of Justice last week will aim to develop a system that can alert schools, health staff, police and other professionals to individuals most likely to be drawn into crime.
It will identify children most likely to be drawn to crime by using existing data that is currently siloed between different government departments and authorities.
Oh yea this sounds dandy.
Another unlicensed agent in India bragging online about getting someone a Canadian truck driver work permit, meanwhile, these permits are often being sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Even promises PR. @CitImmCanada @truckdriverpleb #canadianimmigration pic.twitter.com/s4nszwjdMU
— CICWatch (@CICWatch6) February 15, 2026
The deadly mass shooting at a school in British Columbia came as Canadian authorities face significant obstacles in rolling out a nationwide firearms buyback that is mired in practical and logistical complications.
Canada already has far stronger gun laws than the United States, and mass shootings are extremely rare. The government brought forward major reforms and bans on assault-style weapons after the country suffered its worst-ever shooting attack in 2020, when a man impersonating a police officer killed 22 people in northern Nova Scotia.
BREAKING – Video of a Washington State high school student screaming “I want my mommy” as she’s being arrested after assaulting officers during an anti-ICE school walkout is going viral.
Get your children out of public schools now. pic.twitter.com/spVK3xvAF6
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 15, 2026
