Foreign aid groups urge Canada to maintain funding for abortion, LGBTQ+ advocacy
OTTAWA — Feminist and development groups are urging Canada not to turn its back on funding reproductive health and gender initiatives, as Canada focuses its foreign aid cuts on global health programming.
“A bold diplomatic voice is really crucial,” Oxfam Canada executive director Lauren Ravon told a panel she hosted on Parliament Hill earlier this month.
“It’s easy to get into a scarcity mindset. We think ‘Well, we can’t afford it, so let’s cut out the work on LGBTQ+ rights, let’s cut off the work on abortion and just stick to the life-saving pieces.’”
Foreign aid is racist I declare.
WTF?
Black bear casually wanders into a packed backyard cookout in Pennsylvania. Instead of running, one guy squares up, slowly walks it toward the open gate and tries to guide it out. Bear turns and swipes him before strolling off like nothing happened
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) February 16, 2026
US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran
BBC Verify has confirmed the location of US aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran using satellite imagery, as Washington continues to put pressure on the country over its military program and recent deadly crackdown on protesters.
US and Iranian officials are set to meet in Swizerland on Tuesday for a second round of talks. Iran says the meeting will focus on its nuclear programme and the potential lifting of economic sanctions imposed by the US. Washington has previously indicated it wants to discuss other issues as well.
The Abraham Lincoln, which leads a strike group with three guided missile destroyers, carries 90 aircraft including F35 fighters, and 5,680 crew, was reportedly deployed to the Gulf region in late January but has not been seen in satellite imagery until now. It has been located off the coast of Oman, around 700km from Iran.
BERNARDO: RCMP ‘clarification’ — will the Liberal government use the military against its own citizens again?
The RCMP Communications team emailed CSSA last week to “clarify” the RCMP’s role in the Liberal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme.
That clarification confirmed everything we said about them in our commentary, “Ottawa Flips the Switch on Gun Confiscations, Hands Control to the RCMP.”
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Canadian Intelligence in ‘Lockstep’ With US Counterparts Despite Trade Tensions: CSIS Official
Canada is still working closely with the United States when it comes to intelligence, despite its tense trade relationship with its southern neighbour, according to a senior official with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
CSIS Assistant Director Paul Lynd told MPs during his testimony before the House of Commons foreign affairs committee that Canada and the United States have been partners “for decades” and that the two countries’ intelligence departments are still working in unison.
France: Muslim Foreigners Voting?
The left in France is pushing for a law that would give non-EU foreigners — most of them Muslims from North Africa — the right to vote in municipal elections. That could mean some city halls being taken over by Muslims, voting as a bloc, or by Muslim-pandering leftists of La France Insoumise. Once in power in city and town halls, these Muslims or Muslim-submissive leftists could pass local laws that promote Islam in a hundred sundry ways: turning over city-owned property to be repurposed as mosques, allowing the call to prayer to be electronically amplified, even in pre-dawn and late-evening hours, having school lunchrooms closed during Ramadan, making Muslim holidays into city holidays, ending coeducational swimming in the city-run pools, and much more to accommodate Muslim sensibilities.
‘Defeat the American Aggressor’: New Las Vegas Biolab Arrest Warrant Cites Fentanyl Test Kits and the Ideology Behind a Transnational Chinese Operation
LAS VEGAS/VANCOUVER — The Chinese transnational criminal at the center of what began as a counter-terrorism raid on a Las Vegas residential garage told a co-conspirator that his fraudulent theft of U.S. scientific property would help “defeat the American aggressor and wild ambitious wolf.”
In another exchange — part of a sprawling CAD $330 million American IP theft ring run from Vancouver — Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu offered a darker philosophy: “The law is strong, but the outlaws are ten times stronger.”
Disappearances in Mexico surge by 200% over 10 years
More than 130,000 people considered missing or disappeared in Mexico as drug cartels expand
It was a bright morning in August 2022 when Ángel Montenegro was taken. A 31-year-old construction worker, Montenegro had been out all night drinking with some work buddies in the city of Cuautla and was waiting for a bus back to nearby Cuernavaca where lived.
At about 10am, a white van pulled up: several men jumped out and dragged Montenegro and a co-worker inside before speeding off. Montenegro’s co-worker was released a few hundred meters down the street, but Montenegro was driven away.
As soon as she heard that her son had been taken, Montenegro’s mother, Patricia García, raced to Cuautla along with his wife, brother and some neighbors. Arriving at the bus stop, all they found were Montenegro’s cap and one of his tennis shoes.
Jamie Sarkonak: DEI in universities can be defeated. Just look to Alberta
On Jan. 26, the University of Alberta embarked on the process of ridding diversity, equity and inclusion from its hiring policy, at least in name. Identity is still a core part of the school’s ethos, but this is still a step in the right direction; the proposed change would have been unthinkable in 2021.
It’s little developments like these that give me hope in the future of Canada. Yes, progressive backwardisms are deeply embedded everywhere, but untrenching them is easier than you might think. It just takes having the guts to wield carrots and sticks.
Stolen Land From California to the New York Island..and Maine
Hypocritical, purely performative land apologies from leftists have become a boring trope from coast to coast.
I will happily admit that I know almost nothing about the current pop music scene. My former range stretched from Ritchie Valens to Tyrone Davis to Ronnie Spector to Bob Dylan, and the Kinks (See, e.g., this.) When California singer/sensation Billie Eilish made a splash at the Grammys two weeks ago—“No one is illegal on stolen land”—I could only wonder, “Who?”
Billie Eilish got me deported from the US
I spent 30 hours in custody at LAX trying to explain to the agents that my shitposts about moving into her mansion on stolen land were just a joke
Her lawyers seem to have actually compiled a dossier on me because the agents were asking… pic.twitter.com/y38z3EEBRH
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) February 15, 2026
Will Canada soon be euthanizing babies?
Donald Trump may or may not bomb Iran in the next few days. His cheerleaders will cite the Tehran regime’s brutal executions of Iranian protesters as justification. But if the President is in the mood for humanitarian interventions and stopping barbarism, he might also want to make good on his pledge to annex Canada.
Once praised as a paragon of decency and civility, Canada is now turning into a dystopian society in which so-called “healthcare” professionals wield increasingly terrifying power of life and death.
Eight severed human heads are found near a sign saying ‘no stealing’
Eight severed human heads have been found near a sign that says ‘stealing is forbidden’ as gang warfare continues to ravage Ecuador.
The gruesome discovery was made in the coastal province of Guayas on Saturday and is linked to a confrontation between criminal groups.
Guayas is one of the main areas rocked by bloody disputes between drug trafficking groups, which have turned the South American nation into the continent’s most violent.
WATER WARS: Global experts sound the alarm for Canada
CALGARY — A new Global Foresight survey from the Atlantic Council suggests that while climate change is slipping as the world’s top perceived threat, tensions over water sources are intensifying.
For the first time in the past three years, a smaller number of the roughly 450 geopolitical experts polled ranked climate change as the single biggest threat to global prosperity, with just 17% saying it tops the list, with fewer than one in five now believing climate change will drive international cooperation in the coming decade — a sharp drop from two years ago.
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