A federal court in Pakistan on February 3rd granted custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl, Maria Shahbaz, to a Muslim man who had kidnapped her, converted her to Islam, and ‘married’ her.
Judges rejected the birth certificate Maria’s parents provided, which proved her age. Furthermore, the judges disregarded earlier judicial findings that the marriage was illegal, Safdar Chaudhry, chairperson of rights group Raah-e-Nijaat Ministry, told Christian Daily International–Morning Star News.
The sight of Canadian police and journalists extending fraudulent courtesies to a trans-identified mass-murderer may prove to be a clarifying moment.
On 10 February, Jesse Van Rootselaar (also known as Jesse Strang) killed eight people in the remote British Columbia mining town of Tumbler Ridge. The first two victims were the killer’s mother and half-brother, whom Van Rootselaar shot at home. Van Rootselaar then went to a local secondary school and murdered six more people—five of whom were twelve- or thirteen-year-old students—before committing suicide. Twenty-seven others were injured. It was the deadliest Canadian school shooting in almost four decades, and the highest-casualty mass-shooting event in the nation’s history.
A fourth note has been sent to TMZ by somebody claiming to know what happened to Nancy Guthrie and demanding confidential payment for their information — with the outlet’s founder, Harvey Levin, asking them to prove their claims are real by revealing what they know.
“If you’re worried about getting this money, and you really do have this information, send it to us,” Harvey said in a Monday X post. “We will forward it to the FBI, and that way there’s a record that we have that you supplied this information.
Weeks after Ottawa announced that it would allow a limited number of Chinese-made vehicles into the Canadian market, some have warned that the move puts data privacy at risk. But that might not be a significant turn-off for consumers who are in the market for a new car.
While roaming the Canadian International AutoShow on Friday, Dianne Dougall and Pat Shephard — who were scouting for a new EV to replace their Tesla — said that a Chinese-made EVs would “absolutely” interest them.
Privacy wouldn’t pose any more of a concern than any other connected vehicle, they said.
Given Carney’s policies will likely devastate domestic ICE vehicle manufacturing do you think it’s possible some Canadians may vandalize ChiCom EV’s?
Gee I hope not for the sake of our Quisling 5th Columnists.
Some people don’t belong behind a wheel. pic.twitter.com/bL0QClQU1Q
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) February 16, 2026
Shooting at ice rink in Pawtucket ends with 3 people dead, 3 injured
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WJAR) — Three people, including the suspected shooter, were dead and three people were injured in a shooting Monday at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena ice rink in Pawtucket during a high school hockey game between two co-op teams.
… NBC 10’s Dan Jaehnig reported, citing a law enforcement source, that the suspect was a father, who may have been dressed in women’s clothing, and that he intentionally targeted family members who were at the hockey game.
🚨#BREAKING: Watch as New video shows the moment sh0ts were fired inside the Dennis M. Lynch Arena ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, during a high school hockey game, killing a young girl and injuring four others. The suspected shooter was also found dead at the scene. pic.twitter.com/nMVGSZJG0q
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 16, 2026
Local news is reporting that the shooter at the hockey rink tonight was a man in women’s clothing pic.twitter.com/GnjA5H5nia
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 17, 2026
h/t Patthedog
So much craziness and Mayhem packed into 3 minutes 53 seconds. Enjoy 🫣😆🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/pbOIrMOef0
— Johnny B. Good (@Cat5SMASHICANE) February 15, 2026
Replacing a ban on gas cars with strict new emissions standards sounds more sensible but will kill the auto industry just as effectively
Prime Minister Mark Carney, recognizing the need to act decisively to support our auto sector, has scrapped Canada’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. Or has he? Unfortunately, close inspection shows that he merely rephrased the policy but the effect remains the same. Following the pattern of indecision and obfuscation set by his “Memorandum of Understanding” with Alberta, in which Carney sounded like he was greenlighting a new pipeline without actually doing so, the new auto policy repeals the mandate in name only.
I am really hoping that Trump does a Maduro on our WEF snake.
Meanwhile down south … The New York Times is sad!
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.
As Gerald Baker wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal, the biggest threat to modern journalism is the journalists. He pointed out that bias and incompetent reporting are the major causes of media distrust these days. But while those factors are highly important, they aren’t the entirety of the news business’ failure.
The Canadian government, faced with increasing hostility from the Trump administration, plans to divert billions of dollars in military spending it long gave to U.S. defense companies and direct it instead to domestic manufacturers.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s wholesale expansion of Canadian military spending was prompted by pressure from President Trump, but with relations between the longstanding allies deteriorating, American companies will no longer reap the benefit.
As part of an attempt to persuade the United States and the rest of the international community that the Palestinians are seeking to create a democratic state “based on the rule of law and human dignity,” the Palestinian Authority leadership last week published a draft of the Palestinians’ temporary “constitution.”
The 162-article draft “constitution,” however, shows that, if and when the Palestinians have a state of their own, it would actually not be different from the two mini-states they have had for the past two decades: the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette to head Canada’s trade negotiations as it prepares for a review of the North American trade pact this year.
Charette’s title is chief trade negotiator to the United States, according to a Monday news release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). She’ll be a senior adviser to Carney and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
What belt does she have? https://t.co/MEdSicdKbQ
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 16, 2026
A ghost story falls in the category of fantasy. And former ABC reporter Tara Palmeri’s Halloween-in-February hot take in Vanity Fair on Thursday, “Epstein’s Ghost Is Calling All the Shots in Trump’s White House,” certainly falls within the realm of fantasy. She updates Banquo’s ghost to the 21st century and engages in the fantasy that Epstein’s ghost is somehow haunting Trump’s every move.
Liberals in this country are going out of their way to undermine a man who only wanted to help the country in trade talks with Trump.
First, they said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani wasn’t qualified to go to Washington. Then he was, according to Liberals, a Nazi sympathizer for going to Washington. And then he was too ugly to help.
Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.
On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to a group of 9-year-olds when one of his phones started blowing up with calls from the White House. Six days into the new administration, President Trump was already deploying his favorite weapon: the threat of crippling tariffs to bend countries to his will.
This time, the president was threatening Colombia, after it refused to accept U.S. military planes of deported immigrants. Mr. Greer would not join the Trump administration for some time yet, but he was already a key adviser on trade, flying to Mar-a-Lago in the weeks before to help plan Mr. Trump’s agenda.
“Why do you have two phones?” a student asked him.
“I have a kind of crazy job,” Mr. Greer replied.
