Twenty-five guns. That’s all the federal government collected in a recent pilot project in Nova Scotia for its new “buyback” (a.k.a. expropriation) program for prohibited firearms. “A total of 25 prohibited firearms, turned in by 16 participants, were destroyed,” spokesperson Noémie Allard said Friday. “The total compensation paid to pilot participants is $26,535.”
The U.S. government quietly acquired a device in late 2024 that officials believe may be connected to the debilitating condition known as “Havana Syndrome,” which more than 1,500 American officials have reported experiencing since 2016, according to multiple sources briefed on the matter who spoke with CBS News.
The device was purchased clandestinely in the final weeks of the Biden administration by the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations division, using Pentagon funding that exceeded eight figures, according to two people familiar with the matter. The device is portable, backpack-sized, and contains components of Russian origin, the two people said.
If Biden bought it then I call fake.
Homelessness in rural and northern parts of Ontario is surging and growing faster than any other part of the province, with fewer resources to address the crisis, according to a new report.
The report released Tuesday by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, which represents 444 communities, found that homelessness continues to increase across the province but is particularly acute in northern and rural regions and among Indigenous people.
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than having the island in U.S. hands is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks.
In a post on his social media site, Trump reiterated his argument that the U.S. “needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security.” He added that “NATO should be leading the way for us to get it” and that otherwise Russia or China would — “AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!”
“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” Trump wrote. “Anything less than that is unacceptable.”
🚨 JUST IN: Denmark and Greenland officials have ARRIVED at the White House to meet with JD Vance and Sec. Marco Rubio
Time to acquire Greenland!
NATO has another thing coming if they think Trump is going to surrender Greenland to China and Russia.pic.twitter.com/y3Ze2GYfmO https://t.co/3H78B93JTb
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 14, 2026
h/t Mauser
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement — the trade pact also known as CUSMA — is not relevant for the U.S., but Canada wants it, as he pushed for companies to bring manufacturing back to American soil.
“There’s no real advantage to it — it’s irrelevant,” Trump said. “Canada would love it. Canada wants it. They need it.”
The Detroit Three automakers are heavily reliant on supply chains that include significant parts production in Mexico and Canada, and all three produce hundreds of thousands of vehicles annually in both countries.
Not to worry, with luck we’ll be swimming in ChiCom EV’s thanks to Carney!
In China, driverless delivery vans have turned into roaming memes, unstoppable machines rolling over roads, bikes, and whatever’s in the way. pic.twitter.com/nncGpPktxo
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 12, 2026
No politician is more of an enigma than Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
For years she has been rumored to have married her brother – allegations she has called ‘absurd and offensive’. Her family fortunes, steered by her white, American husband, have curiously skyrocketed to $30million.
And more recently, her Minneapolis community has been mired in shocking fraud allegations.
OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to occupy Greenland will only make Canada’s sovereignty claims in the Arctic more vulnerable, defence analysts says.
Former chief of the defence staff retired Gen. Tom Lawson said the U.S. setting a precedent of taking Greenland for strategic hemispheric purposes should put the Canadian government on high alert.
Freedom of speech is under attack in the West, the Pope has warned.
Pope Leo XIV claimed an “Orwellian-style language” had taken root in the West and that democracies were becoming increasingly authoritarian by clamping down on “freedom of conscience”.
It marks one of the pontiff’s first interventions on the issue, which had also been taken up by his predecessor, Pope Francis.
Iran: Woman publicly removes her burqa to reveal a T-shirt carrying an explicit message against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Such an act is punishable by death under Iranian law… but protestors willing to take that risk and challenge the regime.
– @nabilajamal_ pic.twitter.com/6pOKDwnHSI
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) January 12, 2026
VANCOUVER—At a critical time of upheaval in global politics, Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to court the attention of one great power and avoid the ire of another, all while holding his political ground at home.
Carney was to leave Canada Tuesday afternoon. En route to Beijing, the prime minister detoured to do the thing he’s accused of not doing enough: listen to the political leaders who could make or break a key part of his ambitious trade agenda.
🇳🇿 Meanwhile in New Zealand
New Government Police Ai Surveillance & facial recognition tech is deployed to catch Motororists & Pedestrians doing anything the Government doesn’t agree we have said they can prosecute them.
Coming to a Western country near you. pic.twitter.com/UqYxLZqahd
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 13, 2026
A big complaint of western businesses when Beijing first opened up its economy was that the Chinese never seemed to understand the concept of a deal. There would be a handshake and a document signing but then, when the investment money arrived or the first order from a factory was dispatched, the Chinese side would seek to renegotiate terms all over again.
That must be how President Xi is feeling now, only with the boot firmly on the other foot — in this case that of President Trump, who has his own unique approach to dealmaking.
Court docs reveal that Derek Carl Kirven, who attacked and injured multiple senior citizens, was racially motivated.
Kirven reportedly called detectives names such as "confederate, hillybilly, and white trash" while saying he hoped to kiII people.
Story to disappear in… pic.twitter.com/QANIEzgZRZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 13, 2026
A B.C. Supreme Court trial starting this week is challenging the constitutionality of faith-based hospitals in the province opting not to provide medically assisted death for terminally ill patients.
The case stems from the death of a terminally ill woman, Sam O’Neill, who sought medical assistance in dying (MAiD) while receiving care at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.
