NEW YORK (February 13) — Today Bloomberg News announces the appointment of Chrystia Freeland as a contributor, effective immediately.
She will regularly appear on Wall Street Week and other Bloomberg Television programming, offering analysis, insight, and reporting on the intersection of economics and geopolitics. In addition, she will contribute essays to Bloomberg Weekend.
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) February 13, 2026
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Amazon’s Ring says it is canceling its video doorbell partnership with police tech provider Flock Safety — following severe backlash over a Super Bowl ad that depicted a “surveillance state,” in the eyes of some critics.
The commercial touted the ability of Ring doorbells to reunite families with their lost dogs using a feature called “Search Party.” Owners can upload images of their lost pets to the app, which will launch the feature and use AI to scan neighborhood Ring cameras for matching images.
No one thought this through? No one said “wait a minute”?
Ayatollah Khamenei may not know there could be up to 300,000 people on Toronto streets Saturday hoping for the end of his tyrannical extremist Islamist dictatorship.
And U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who has posted to social media that “help is on way,” may also be unaware.
I wish them well but they won’t be heard by anyone least of all by Carney and his Islamist caucus. Given the number of Mullah regime members found to be resident in Canada I suspect the LPC is working on ratline to secure a safe haven for them.
Never do this if you’re in a slow car pic.twitter.com/zqyHnw1E4V
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) February 13, 2026
A Palestinian activist has called for dogs to be banned as pets in New York City claiming they aren’t Islamic.
Nerdeen Kiswani said dogs have a ‘place in society’ but ‘not as indoor pets.’
‘Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean,’ she wrote on X.
BREAKING: The leader of the pro-Palestinian movement and protests in New York, Nerdeen Kiswani, is now calling for a ban on dogs as pets in the city. Dogs are considered haram in Islam.
Who knew that Mamdani winning the election would embolden all the extremists? pic.twitter.com/Eh3F3BmU5e
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) February 13, 2026
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) February 14, 2026
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Canada’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Mark Carney is being sold as pragmatic, sophisticated, and globally minded. In reality, it is incoherent, unserious, and increasingly detached from Canada’s national interest. It reflects the same Liberal instinct that defined the Trudeau government and prioritizes moral posturing over power, symbolism over strategy, and international applause over outcomes.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Crown Royal will remain on liquor store shelves in the province after its parent company agreed to $23-million in spending in Ontario.
Ford has been threatening for months to pull the product after Diageo announced it is closing a Windsor-area Crown Royal bottling plant.
The massacre at Tumbler Ridge feels like the militant wing of grievance culture.
There was a double tragedy at Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia this week. The first was the shooting to death of five schoolkids and an education assistant in what ought to have been the sanctuary of their place of learning. The second is that the names and even the bloody fate of those innocents will not be long remembered. Why? Because they had the great misfortune of being murdered by a member of a celebrated minority. By an adherent to that most sainted ideology: transgenderism.
OTTAWA — Ten Hong Kong diaspora organizations—spanning Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe—have issued an extraordinary open letter to the Government of Canada expressing “deep fear and anxiety” over Mark Carney’s deal on law enforcement cooperation signed between the RCMP and the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China.
Information on the current mood on the Iranian street can be found here: “Iran fears US strike could break Islamic regime’s grip on power by reigniting protests, sources say,” Jerusalem Post, February 2, 2026…
A federal government assessment examining trends in violent extremism from 2014 to 2024 describes a domestic threat landscape increasingly defined by young adult lone actors using everyday weapons, with radicalization unfolding over years but violence often erupting with little warning.
The assessment, which reviewed 20 attacks that occurred during the 11-year period and that resulted in 29 victims killed and at least 60 physically injured, was obtained by the IJF through Access to Information legislation.
The report states that 90 per cent of violent extremist attacks in Canada over the period were conducted by lone actors, with all except one attack committed by men. The average age of attackers was 26.
It has been just over two years since I last wrote an article in the Daily Sceptic about excess deaths. In the meantime I have continued to compile data from the weekly ONS mortality reports in the hope that an obvious fall in excess deaths would eventually appear in the mortality statistics, but unfortunately this has not yet happened to any significant degree.
Five full years have now elapsed since the year that the first two most deadly Covid waves hit in 2020, so it is a good time to summarise where we are in terms of aggregate data gathered thus far.
