Curling is often called chess or bowls on ice; a genteel, slow-paced and respectable sport of strategy and precision that stands in sharp contrast to the more extreme edges of the Winter Olympics.
Until Friday that is, when the sport was rocked not just with a cheating scandal, but a stream of F-bombs, accusations of secret filming, claim and counterclaim as well as a whole heap of bad feeling.
Over the weekend, we got a nostalgic glimpse of what could have been had Hillary Clinton defeated President Donald Trump back in 2016. My colleagues Stephen Kruiser and David Manney both captured a uniquely “Hillary moment” that happened over the weekend. Here’s how David described Clinton’s panel discussion appearance at the Munich Security Conference…
Nearly two thirds of Canadian survey respondents say they are concerned about the U.S. being a potential threat to Canada’s sovereignty, according to new data from Nanos Research.
According to the survey, 64 per cent of respondents say they feel concerned, while 19 per cent say they are not concerned, and 17 per cent say they are neutral, about the U.S. being a threat to Canadian sovereignty.
Palmer Luckey was 13 when he read Donald Trump’s The Art of The Deal.
Twenty years later, the 33-year-old — complete with trademark flip-flops, Hawaiian shirts and shorts — is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the president’s border crackdown, having made millions from lucrative contracts with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Robert Duvall, the steely-eyed actor whose performances in the first two Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, Lonesome Dove and The Apostle made him one of the finest actors of any generation, has died. He was 95.
Australian women and children held for years without charge were forced to return to a detention camp in northeast Syria on Monday after being released by Kurdish authorities for their expected repatriation to Australia.
The 34 women and children in the group are the wives, widows and children of dead or jailed Islamic State fighters and were being held at al-Roj camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
They were initially handed over to relatives who had helped arrange for their repatriation and were on their way to Damascus to leave the country when they were asked to stop on the way and turn back to the camp.
Alex Bourgeois is car shopping and mentally preparing to pay a whole lot more for auto insurance.
His 15-year-old daughter will soon begin driving lessons and they’ll need a second vehicle.
Mr. Bourgeois, a Toronto-based contractor, needs his truck for work, so he can’t add his daughter as an occasional driver to any new car he purchases – a strategy that can help lower insurance premiums for new drivers.
The defense chief of Germany’s Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer, and the United Kingdom’s chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, have jointly stated the case for rearming, amid the threat posed by Russia.
The top military officials penned a joint letter, published in The Guardian and German newspaper Welt, in which they said there was a “moral” case to be made for rearming.
Recently, two major American medical groups endorsed age restrictions on gender-related surgeries, marking a dramatic shift in a debate long dominated by claims of consensus. First, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a policy statement firmly opposing “gender-affirming” surgeries for people under 19. Then, the American Medical Association (AMA) signalled its support. These pivots deal a significant blow to Canadian activists and politicians who rely on the supposed professional consensus to defend these highly contested, unproven treatments for youth.
The morning before he died, Dipu Chandra Das left home at first light, stepping out of his tin-sheet house in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh city, overlooking a warren of lanes off the highway from Dhaka.
The 28-year-old woke up his father, said goodbye to his wife, cradled his 18-month-old daughter. Then he boarded a bus for the 60km (37-mile) journey to the garment factory where he worked as a junior quality inspector, checking sweaters bound for global high-street brands such as H&M and Next.
His family would not see him again.
Yea that's what we need, snitching on neighbors especially when false claims can be made anonymously is guaranteed to enhance "social cohesion". Help me out. When did Canada become the DDR? https://t.co/JAxftqBhPs
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 16, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Canada’s new defence industrial strategy sets out a series of important, extraordinarily high benchmarks for the country to achieve over the next decade, including buying and maintaining most of the military’s equipment domestically.
The long-awaited plan, which was developed more as a response to NATO’s call for industrial clarity among allies than to annexation threats by the Trump administration, sets a goal of awarding 70 per cent of federal defence contracts to Canadian firms within a decade.
Along with being incapable of understanding the basic principles of supply and demand, progressives have a blind spot when it comes to race-based policies. They consider themselves champions of the downtrodden and minorities, yet they support the divisive policies that cause minorities to become downtrodden in the first place. They recognize that race-based policies caused injustice and wrongs for centuries, but feel the way to reconcile those wrongs is to implement more race-based policies. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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The Ukrainian former energy minister was arrested on Sunday, February 15 while attempting to cross the state border. His detention is linked to an energy sector-shaking corruption scandal known as “Midas”—involving more than $100 million (€84 million).
