Canada’s top budget watchdog is sounding the alarm over soaring youth unemployment, warning that postsecondary students shut out of early work experience risk lower lifetime earnings and weaker attachment to the labour force.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques told the Senate national finance committee that failing to land a first job — especially one tied to a student’s field of study — can have lasting economic consequences.
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn’t enough fuel for airplanes to refuel on the island, the latest step in its moves to ration energy as the Trump administration cuts the Caribbean nation off from its fuel resources.
The government of Cuba published the notices to airlines and pilots on Sunday night, warning that jet fuel won’t be available at nine airports across the island, including José Martí International Airport in Havana, starting Tuesday and continuing until March 11.
Political pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump on Latin America has effectively severed Cuba’s access to its primary petroleum sources in Venezuela and Mexico.
As the iron door of reality slams onto the toe of even the most fervent advocates of climate change action, the Carney government has walked back its electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which would have banned the sale of new conventionally powered vehicles in Canada by 2035.
However, the government will not abandon its push to switch Canadians to EVs. It’s bringing back rebates of $5,000 for EVs under $50,000 (for vehicles made in Canada or in countries where we have free-trade agreements) and plans to offer billions in subsidies to automakers. The continued push for EVs highlights the significant discrepancy between how individual Canadians want to spend their money and how the federal government thinks they ought to spend it.
German police have uncovered a large-scale fraud network that enabled migrants to obtain language certificates and naturalization documents without meeting the required standards.
Authorities in Nuremberg said several suspects organised German-speaking deputies to sit language and naturalization tests on behalf of applicants who were unable to pass the exams themselves. The forged certificates were sold for between €2,500 and €6,000 and later used to secure residence permits or German citizenship.
Arise, arise, men of Britain!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now, ride!
Ride to ruin and the world's ending!
🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧pic.twitter.com/hAxKZ6n5jV
— Amelia (@AmeliajakSolana) February 9, 2026
If regulating social media to protect children from online harms was a simple matter, the nation’s Culture and Identity Minister, Marc Miller, wouldn’t be vowing to “act swiftly” almost five years after the Liberals tabled their first effort at an online harms bill.
That initial legislation, titled Bill C-36, came two years after then-public safety minister Ralph Goodale first raised the issue. That triggered a year of public consultations before the government rolled out legislation that died when the 2021 election was called.
This guy wakes up and thinks how can I nearly die today?pic.twitter.com/dxESbDRkdd
— Out of Context Human Race (@NoContextHumans) February 9, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.
But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.
h/t patthedog
Meet Breanna Harrison, a police officer with the Shreveport Police Department in Louisiana. She made a post telling white men that she's the "black officer your wife fears."
This sounds like a threat.
Harrison was already placed on leave once before in 2025 for posting videos… pic.twitter.com/v5moHLMNOq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 9, 2026
The Canadian military has destroyed 2,000 Second World War pistols but is still waiting to hear from Ukraine on whether it wants the rest of the guns for its arsenal.
The latest update from the Department of National Defence on the fate of the Browning Hi-Power pistols reveals a topsy-turvy strategy for the aging handguns.
In October 2022, the Canadian Forces decided that it would destroy the almost 11,000 sidearms since a new handgun was being purchased.
Canada’s health-care system is facing a worsening crisis, with half of Canadians reporting they either don’t have a family doctor or struggle to see the one they have, according to new data from the Angus Reid Institute.
The survey highlights a decade-long decline in access.
Fox News Digital published a lengthy piece Saturday morning entitled “‘White saviors’ use of whistles causes bitter internal rift inside anti-ICE movement.” It’s a festival of exactly the kind of “white privilege” you’d expect from these ‘60s burnouts and wannabes. It would be funny if it weren’t all so criminal, and cringe.
One of the many ways governments deceive the public on the progress they’re making in implementing their policies is through the setting of so-called “aspirational” targets.
What that really means is that the government is setting a target it knows it can’t achieve when it announces it.
A glaring example of this was evident in the climate policies of the federal government under Justin Trudeau. Even Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticized the practice, describing it as “too much regulation, not enough action.”
In the 20th century, it was customary for Latin American military juntas to start a putsch by seizing control of the national broadcasting company. This often happened during the night or in the early hours of the morning. On 11 September 1973, Augusto Pinochet and his troops took over the radio and TV stations in Chile by 8am. On 24 March 1976, the leader of the Argentinian military junta captured Isabel Perón at 1am. By 3.10am, all TV and radio stations started to play military marches.
The actors have changed since then and so have their methods. What is unchanged is the idea that political power is about the control of the media. This is why the US and the EU have been engaged in a raging dispute over social media regulation and content moderation since JD Vance criticised the Europeans at last year’s Munich Security Conference for suppressing free speech.
