With Tuesday’s release of new data from Statistics Canada, the conclusion is unequivocal: for the second consecutive month, Canada is posting the highest food inflation rate among G7 countries. Food inflation now stands at 7.3%.
Beef, nuts, pork, and even chicken are between 5% and 7% more expensive than a year ago. The only relief comes from eggs and fresh fruit, which are cheaper on a year-over-year basis.
Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.
And for what?
Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to ramp up his use of sector-based duties and others after the Supreme Court ruled against a swath of his existing tariffs on Friday, raising new risks for a Canadian economy that’s struggled mightily with duties that target specific industries.
Sectoral tariffs implemented under Section 232 of the U.S. Trade Expansion Act of 1962 – including those on autos, steel and aluminum – have delivered the harshest blow to Canada, because most other products continue to trade tariff-free under a crucial exemption.
Chutzpah much?
Somali community activists in Minneapolis held a press conference to demand grants and emergency relief following recent ICE enforcement actions.
Members of Neighbors United called for direct payments to immigrant-owned small businesses earning less than $200,000 a year, and speakers described “ICE terror,” claimed widespread trauma, and asked state and federal officials to fund housing support and business stabilization.
🚨 JUST IN: Americans are telling the Minnesota Somali community to SCREW OFF after they demand “reparations” because of the “damage” done by ICE
Are you kidding me?
THEY should repay US for all the fraud!
Pay us back and GTFO.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 20, 2026
Celebrations in Canada over the decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were both brief and muted.
The high court’s decision, which included the “fentanyl” tariffs Trump imposed on Canada, China and Mexico, reinforced Canada’s position that the levies were “unjustified”, US-Canada Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on X.
But LeBlanc noted the challenges ahead in Ottawa. There is the “critical work” to do in dealing with impacts from levies on steel, aluminium and automobiles, which Trump said will remain.
There is also the upcoming review of the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal, the USMCA, which covers a market of more than 500 million people.
The redcoats of internet censorship are coming but an American midnight rider is coming to save Europeans from their own governments, the Trump White House teases, stating: “Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”
A growing number of websites have chosen to simply block users rather than comply with arduous censorship demands in response to Europe’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act, with many more hidden behind government-mandated age-verification making linking a real-life identity to internet use a prerequisite for access.
OTTAWA — Federal officials say they won’t stand in the way of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to put a number of constitutional and immigration-related questions to a referendum in the fall, and say they’re already taking meaningful steps to bring migration down to a sustainable level.
Gabriel Brunet, a spokesman for Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, said his office was aware of the nine referendum questions Smith put forward to Albertans in a televised address on Thursday evening and didn’t quarrel with her plan to seek input on these matters.
A driver armed with a flamethrower has rammed a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation in a possible “terrorism-related event.”
The rented silver Nissan Sentra crashed through a secured gate at the site in Boulder City, Nevada, before a gun went off on Thursday.
More … Las Vegas police investigate possible terror attack in Boulder City
ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June
Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said.
While using ChatGPT last June, Van Rootselaar described scenarios involving gun violence over the course of several days, according to people familiar with the matter.
Her posts, flagged by an automated review system, alarmed employees at OpenAI. Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on Van Rootselaar’s posts. Some employees interpreted Van Rootselaar’s writings as an indication of potential real-world violence, and urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about her behavior, the people familiar with the matter said.
In a dramatic repudiation, CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Friday rescinded or revised 19 intelligence reports the agency produced dating back to the Obama era because they were politically biased or used poor spy tradecraft, including one analysis suggesting that women who pursue traditional motherhood were at danger of becoming violent extremists.
A senior CIA official told Just The News the reports were initially flagged during a review by the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, then reviewed by career agency officials before being retracted, recalled or revised.
The upper range of the budget estimate for a new fleet of Arctic vehicles has jumped from $249 million to $1 billion in less than a year, the defence department has confirmed.
Defence industry representatives were told in April 2025 that the budget for the project to buy the 170 vehicles would be between $100 million and $249 million.
Who does their budgeting? This sounds like graft is built into the system.
Frankfurt must continue permitting twice-weekly protest prayers outside the closed Imam Ali Mosque after the Hessian Higher Administrative Court ruled that the gatherings are protected under Germany’s constitutional freedom of assembly.
The court held that the prayers—held every Thursday and Friday at noon in the Rödelheim district—amount to a “performative expression” of the message: “We want to use this mosque, but we are not allowed to.” Because the events serve a purpose of public communication, they qualify as assemblies under the Basic Law, even though they take the form of religious acts. The ruling means the city must tolerate related road closures and bus diversions through 2026.
In the beginning, there were pigs. Domestic breeds, such as Duroc, Landrace and Yorkshire have been staples of the Prairie Provinces for more than a century, and while plenty escaped their resident farms over the years, few survived their first Saskatchewan winter.
Then came European wild boar, a species imported gleefully throughout the 1980s to diversify Canada’s livestock sector. For meat, and for “shoot farms,” boars materialized in most Canadian provinces, but especially in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. When these escaped their resident farms, the result was a slow-moving catastrophe.
An Afghan man who allegedly stabbed three people including his landlord while facing eviction may never be fit enough to stand trial for murder, a court heard
Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of murdering council worker Wayne Broadhurst, who was out walking his dog at the time of the assault.
Dawood’s landlord, Shahzad Farrukh and a teenage boy were also hurt in the disturbance.
