A little over eight years ago The New York Times published a story that had profound implications for the way in which the UFO topic was perceived.1 It also began, at least in the U.S., a process by which the subject became increasingly more mainstream. In this article I want to address three questions: (1) How did ufology get here? (2) Where does ufology stand now? (3) What does the future hold for ufology?
In the quiet rural enclave of Arcadian Way, a Mother’s Day celebration turned into a nightmare of unimaginable violence. Arnold De Jong, 77, and his wife Joanne De Jong, 76, were found bound and lifeless in their longtime home on May 9, 2022, victims of a calculated home invasion that shocked the Fraser Valley community. What began as a welfare check by concerned family members unravelled into a chilling tale of greed, exploitation, and cross-border opportunism. Three young men from India, barely out of their teens, stand accused of orchestrating the robbery and murders – a case that highlights vulnerabilities in elderly isolation and the dark undercurrents of financial desperation among newcomers.
They all have to go along with the bastards who let them in.
When Defense Distributed first unveiled its Liberator model, it was kind of a special moment in the world of the Second Amendment. It was suddenly clear that you couldn’t stop the signal, and that gun control’s last hopes of stopping people from getting guns were over.
Yes, that’s a good thing.
The government of Canada says it is still thinking about whether to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, as the island confronts a looming disaster under an American oil embargo that is, in practice, a full blockade.
“Canada is monitoring the situation carefully and is concerned about the increasing risk of a humanitarian crisis on the island,” said Global Affairs Canada’s Charlotte MacLeod in a written statement shared with CBC News.
“As the situation continues to evolve, Canada is evaluating options to support Cuba’s most vulnerable people. Canada has a long-standing record of providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to Cuba in response to acute crises.”
This is not cool, it’s not smart, and its not a hack.
Washing your dirty underwear in the coffee maker of a hotel room is disgusting. This makes me want to vomit. pic.twitter.com/DGjHBNQ50a
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 20, 2026
In what is becoming a regular occurrence, someone trans-identifying is accused of committing a mass murder, this time during a high school hockey game, in suburban Rhode Island.
Robert Dorgan, who preferred to be called Roberta, killed his ex-wife and one of his own children and shot three more people before turning a gun on himself.
In 2020, Dorgan had told police that he was being kicked out of his home, by his father-in-law, after Dorgan had undergone “gender-reassignment surgery.”
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.
