German, South Korean firms scramble to outbid each other on benefits of submarine deal

Brookfield Used Subs For Sale Or Lease

Both companies competing to build Canada’s new fleet of submarines are engaged in a battle of deal-signing this week, looking to convince the federal government and the public they’re serious about creating jobs in this country.

Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has signed an agreement with Vancouver’s Seaspan Shipyard to establish a maintenance facility for the new submarines should the federal government select its Type-212CD as the replacement for the navy’s aging Victoria-class boats.

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France: Asylum seeker assistance worker stabbed to death by her pro-Taliban Afghan refugee husband

Inès, who was stabbed to death on Monday, had filed six complaints against her former partner, an Afghan refugee, for violence and harassment, all to no avail. Her mother described him as a “dangerous” and “extremist” man who “did not want to integrate” and “intended to return to Afghanistan.”

Inès worked for an organization that helps migrants, particularly with administrative procedures. It was in this capacity that she met the accused man. A “dangerous” and “extremist” man who “didn’t want to integrate” and “intended to return to Afghanistan.” “He said the Taliban were heroes.”

When Inès met the man who would become the prime suspect in her murder, the young woman seemed oblivious to the warnings from her loved ones. Angélique had repeatedly alerted her to her partner’s unstable personality. “I didn’t like him when I saw him,” confides her mother, who describes the man as “a big macho” with “the mentality of his country.” Despite everything, the young woman stayed for two years: “I think she was in denial; she thought she could change him,” she continues.

Note – Google Translate

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First Nations chiefs laugh at the idea they’d be better off in an independent Alberta

Indian Money Dance

“We’ll triple the amount of money spent on the Indigenous people of Alberta, through a constitutionalized revenue-sharing program,” Rath said at the Stay Free Alberta event. “We’ll lift them out of the abject poverty that Ottawa has left them in, in an embarrassing fashion, for 100 and some odd years.”


The Chiefs know which side their grift is buttered on.

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US ‘nuke sniffer’ arrives in UK after Trump threatens Iran

A US air force plane dubbed the “nuke sniffer” has landed in Britain amid growing tensions with the Iranian regime.

The USAF WC-135R Constant Phoenix jet, which is used to detect radioactive particles in the atmosphere, has touched down at RAF Mildenhall, an American airbase in Suffolk.

It comes amid growing speculation that the US is considering striking Iran, following last June’s attacks on the country’s nuclear facilities.

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How Chinese EVs Have Impacted Global Markets—and What It Means for Canada as It Opens Its Market

Canada is set to open its automotive market to Chinese electric vehicles, as researchers and policymakers warn that a flood of Chinese products in markets such as Europe has come at the expense of domestic producers.

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a deal with China to allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into Canada annually at a 6.1 percent tariff, replacing the 100 percent tariff imposed in 2024 amid concerns over Beijing’s non-market practices.

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A Secret FBI Bust Nabbed an Alleged Drug Lord—and Rocked Relations With Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and FBI Director Kash Patel have told differing accounts about the role of U.S. agents in the arrest of former Olympian Ryan Wedding

MEXICO CITY—Ryan Wedding was on the run.

Mexican security forces were closing in on the 44-year-old Canadian—a snowboarder who once competed for Canada in the Olympics but has since landed on America’s most-wanted list for allegedly running a vast cocaine-trafficking network—said Mexican and U.S. officials familiar with the operation.

Long protected by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, Wedding suddenly had no options. By the time security forces caught up with him in Mexico last week, the officials said, members of the FBI’s Hostage

Rescue Team were also involved. Weeks earlier, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s elite, combat-trained unit participated in the capture of Venezuelan autocrat Nicolás Maduro in his heavily fortified Caracas compound.

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How many more British girls must be raped before the Left admits the truth about asylum?

Sir Sadiq Khan, our celebrated Mayor of London, says it’s time for “progressives” to “reset the immigration debate”. For too long, he declared at the weekend, this “debate” has been “dictated by the hysteria, hatred and fear-mongering of the far-Right”.

I’m sure we all wish Sir Sadiq the very best of luck in this noble endeavour. Sadly, however, he may find it difficult to overcome a certain unfortunate stumbling block. Which is that, practically every week now, the British public is confronted by yet another report of asylum seekers being convicted for rape.

Sadiq should be deported.

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Woman faints after being caned 140 times under Indonesian province’s sharia law

Sharia police have caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia’s Aceh province for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply conservative region adopted Islamic law.

Sexual relations between an unmarried couple are strictly outlawed in Aceh, the only place in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, to impose sharia law.

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Indian man spared automatic deportation after assaulting B.C. girlfriend

An Indian man who attacked his girlfriend while living in Kamloops, B.C., on a work permit won’t be headed back to India thanks to a judge’s ruling.

Joyson Lewis pleaded guilty on Jan. 22 in Kamloops provincial court to one count of assault. According to prosecutors, the 25-year-old got into a physical altercation with his girlfriend in a vehicle on April 28, 2025.

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Cables show Trump’s moves on Greenland rattled other nations

The Chinese hoped President Donald Trump’s push for Greenland would help them peel Europe away from America. The Finns were desperate to prevent a trade war over the island. And Iceland was furious over a suggestion that it’s next on Trump’s target list — the “52nd state.”

A batch of State Department cables obtained by POLITICO expose the deep reverberations of the president’s demands for Greenland as foreign officials vented their frustrations this month with American counterparts. The messages, which have not been previously reported, offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the thinking of allies and adversaries about the impact of Trump’s would-be land grab.

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Conservatives to decide if Poilievre gets a second chance

Pierre Poilievre is about to ask for something no Conservative leader has been granted by the party for more than 20 years: a second chance.
On Friday night, thousands of party members will vote on whether he should stay on as leader after losing the April election.

The party’s constitution mandates a leadership review when it fails to win a federal vote. Mr. Poilievre is expected to win far more than the simple majority of votes that the constitution also requires for him to remain.

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Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested on Friday on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., multiple people familiar with the matter said, in a case rejected last week by a magistrate judge.

Mr. Lemon has said he was simply reporting as a journalist when he entered the Cities Church on Jan. 18 to observe a demonstration against the immigration crackdown in the area.

The protesters interrupted a service at the church, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor, and chanted “ICE out.” Afterward, the Trump administration sought to charge eight people over the episode, including Mr. Lemon, citing a law that protects people seeking to participate in a service in a house of worship.

h/t patthedog and Mauser

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