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Both Canada and the U.S. have been quietly shadowing two Chinese icebreaking research ships in Arctic waters off Alaska over the last couple of weeks.

The Xue Long (Snow Dragon) and Xue Long (Snow Dragon) 2 sailed north through the U.S. exclusive economic zone in the Bering Sea in July, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The appearance of Chinese research ships every summer in the Arctic Ocean over the last few years has been a subject of growing concern among security and defence officials.

Data compiled by Steffan Watkins, an independent research consultant and ship tracker, shows a Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140 surveillance plane has been operating out of Alaska since early July.

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"The Canadian Joint Operations Command is actively monitoring maritime traffic in the Arctic, including the vessels Xue Long and Xue Long 2," defence spokesperson Cheryl Forrest said in a written statement.

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Last year, the Canadian military began a focused effort to better monitor northern waters and co-ordinate with allies in the Pacific Ocean, including the Bering Sea off Alaska, under the banner of Operation Latitude.

The Royal Canadian Navy has committed the frigate HMCS Ottawa and the Arctic offshore ships HMCS Max Bernays and HMCS Robert Hampton Gray, in addition to the air force's surveillance aircraft.

The defence department says Canadian Special Operations Forces Command personnel and the icebreaker CCGS Des Groseilliers are also taking part.

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When asked about the Chinese ships on Thursday, Defence Minister David McGuinty said the Canadian military actively monitors the country's waters.

China, which has declared itself a near-Arctic state, has repeatedly said the deployment of its icebreakers to the region is strictly for peaceful scientific research, environmental monitoring and global climate change studies.

Both research ships, however, have been known to deploy advanced sonar and telemetry buoys. Western defence officials say these devices not only track environmental changes and undersea topography, but are also useful in tracking submarine activity.

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There are no major international undersea fibre-optic cables in the Bering Sea region, but there is a regional subsea network vital to Alaska. Shimooka said he wonders how much time the Chinese are devoting to mapping that grid, in the same way the Russians are doing in the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic.

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The federal government has begun investing heavily in the construction of new destroyers and begun the process of acquiring Arctic-capable submarines. It also plans to deploy an undersea network of sensors.

[Conservative defence critic James] Bezan said time is of the essence because the country's sovereignty is at stake.

"Russia and China do not recognize our maritime claims" in the Far North, including the Northwest Passage, Bezan said.

"So, we need to be investing in the Arctic. When you look at the vast amounts of resources, a high percentage of energy resources that are locked in the Arctic, including in the Beaufort Sea, we have to do more to protect it and defend against these adversaries."

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Quantum technologies are expected to transform defence and security through advances in sensing, secure communications, navigation, computing, and decision support. The Quantum Defence Innovation Secure Hub (DISH) will provide a secure environment where government, industry, academia, and innovators can collaborate to rapidly develop, test, validate, and transition these technologies into operational capabilities for the Canadian Armed Forces. The hub will strengthen Canada's technological advantage, improve operational effectiveness, and reduce vulnerabilities in contested environments, including threats such as GPS spoofing.

A University of Calgary-led consortium will receive $20.3 million over two years to establish and operate the Quantum DISH in Calgary. Bringing together organizations from Canada's quantum, defence, and innovation sectors, the consortium will help accelerate the transition of promising Canadian quantum technologies from research into mission-ready capabilities that support Canada's defence and security priorities.

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"Quantum will shape the next generation of defence capabilities, and Canada must be prepared to lead—not follow," says David J. McGuinty, Canadian Minister of National Defence.

"Through the Quantum Defence Innovation Secure Hub, we're bringing together Canadian researchers, innovators, industry, and government to accelerate Made-in-Canada quantum technologies into mission-ready capabilities that strengthen the operational advantage of the Canadian Armed Forces while growing Canada's sovereign defence industrial base."

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How does a critic of China know when they’re being effective? Answer: When the Chinese state organizes online campaigns against you to try to destroy your credibility.

Opinion piece by Margaret McCuaig-Johnston is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project and the China Strategic Risks Institute, a global thinktank. She is a Senior Fellow, Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa and the China Institute, University of Alberta, Canada.

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In March, I appeared as a witness at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology to testify about Chinese electric vehicles. I spoke about the risk that its industry uses aluminum processed by forced labour of the Uyghur people, as documented by Human Rights Watch.

At the committee, Liberal MP Michael Ma asked aggressive questions that appeared aimed at undermining my expertise. He later apologized on X.

But Chinese state media such as Tianshan Net, the sole state news network in Xinjiang, portrayed Mr. Ma as a hero for taking on a critic of China, and me as a zero. From March to May, each of these posts generated thousands of comments from everyday Chinese people. Similar messaging appeared on the Chinese platforms WeChat and Weibo, and then in Canada, via WeChat.

Many comments mimicked the state’s messaging. But many others agreed I was right, saying that there is forced labour across China, with some referring to their own experiences. “How can I testify on behalf of this righteous woman?” one said. Others reached out through e-mail to thank me for speaking up about forced labour and offer evidence, which I’ve passed on to the non-profit China Labor Watch.

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Just when I thought these events had played out, I was contacted by the Office of the National Counter Foreign Interference Coordinator about another campaign against me. It was identified by the Rapid Response Mechanism, a team at Global Affairs Canada established to monitor Canadian elections for foreign interference, whose purview has expanded to identify attempts at transnational repression more broadly across Canadian society. According to the Hogue Commission, China targets diaspora communities and is “the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canada’s democratic institutions.”

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In targeting me by name, they might have added that I had been a friend of China for 40 years, helped develop their research regime, and had been vice president of the Canada-China Friendship Society in Ottawa. But China has changed dramatically under Xi Jinping, and those of us with strong values refuse to be silenced by disinformation campaigns.

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We can expect more of these attempts at silencing. China’s new Ethnic Unity Law was signed into law in March; that policy contributes to the reported “re-education” and “integration” of children as young as three to destroy Uyghur, Tibetan and Southern Mongolian cultures and languages. Article 63 is a provision declaring that those outside China deemed to have undermined “ethnic unity and progress” will be “pursued for legal responsibility.” It’s not clear how Beijing would enforce this abroad.

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Perhaps the Chinese government thought Canadians would meekly stand down when it sanctioned 20 of us by name in December, 2024, for speaking out about Uyghur and Tibetan repression. Sanctions mean we can’t visit China, but I would not visit a country that has kidnapped innocent Canadians and conducted what Canada’s Parliament has called a Uyghur genocide. Sanctions also mean that I’m no longer able to collaborate with my friends in China; I have cut ties for their protection. They will have seen the online posts about me, but they know that I’m describing an injustice about which they must be silent, or risk detention.

So no: Chinese state-backed campaigns won’t silence us. They only demonstrate that we’re having an impact – and that’s great motivation to speak out even louder.

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A new Chinese policy pushing Han Chinese over minority languages has Tibetan and Uyghur Canadians concerned about what it means for family and community affected by the law.

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A new law in China reinforcing Han Chinese identity at the expense of minority groups such as Tibetans and Uyghurs has rattled community leaders in Canada, who say Beijing is using it to recast their decades-old struggle as a purely domestic matter.

The Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, which took effect July 1, formalizes a shift that has been underway in China for close to a decade, pushing ethnic minorities toward what the state calls a single Chinese nation. Advocates call it Han Chinese assimilation: legal pressure on Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Inner Mongolians to prioritize Chinese over their own languages, layered on years of forced relocation, family separation, and labour policy already reshaping those communities.

“If they seriously considered us and inner Mongolians as Chinese, then they should also have rights to speak their languages. Especially, it’s already promised within the Chinese Constitution,” said Sherap Therchin, executive director of the Canada Tibet Committee. “[T]hen, they should also have the right to speak their own languages.” Article 4 of China’s constitution guarantees ethnic groups the freedom to use and develop their own languages, a guarantee the new law appears to directly contradict.

The new law, he said, contradicts those prior commitments while giving Beijing a legal basis to describe foreign criticism as interference in an internal affair.

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After publication [of the law], Global Affairs Canada said Canada continues to raise human rights concerns about China at international forums, and pointed to sanctions imposed in recent years on individuals and entities tied to rights violations in Xinjiang and Tibet.

Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland spoke out against the new Chinese law at a security forum in Taiwan this week.

The law took effect July 1. The next day, a Tibetan man, Lobga Rangzen, self-immolated in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York, the first such protest incident on American soil. In a final message hours before his death, he called on China to repeal the law, on Tibetans not to give up the cause, and on exile communities to stay united and not forget the people still living under Chinese rule.

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We have our bunch of fuckers but at least we have some official that stand for something

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We obtained internal communications between SEGM and McMaster University detailing what SEGM wanted out of anti-trans medical studies, and why it was willing to pay over CA$300,000 (US$215,300) to produce them.

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Usually I am sympathetic towards people losing their jobs. However, that goes out the window when their government is hostile and I am watching family struggle due to the trade war.

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Insert joke about a few sticks of RAM

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Perhaps the very best news for Canada's trade negotiators. Strong evidence that Trump's tariffs are harming the American economy more than the Canadian economy.

America's inflation rate is much higher than that of Canada.

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This is an interim schedule while we continue the consultation necessary. We urge parishioners to continue to attend and participate in the Sunday Mass in their ‘cluster,’ to use their parish envelopes to support their parish...

Ahh, yes. The most important reason. Nothing about spiritual fulfillment, all about cash flow.

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Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada must “be vigilant” of foreign actors targeting the country’s technology, pointing to artificial intelligence and intellectual property as potential targets.

McGuinty had been asked by a reporter what the government is doing to protect technology being stolen from competitors like China.

“That’s a very, very big question. The government has seized with this responsibility nowhere more obviously than I think in the field of artificial intelligence where Canada is becoming a major player,” he said.

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“We’re going to have to be vigilant. We have experience with this issue of the loss of intellectual property over time, for example, of Nortel previously.”

McGuinty added: “The safeguards that we’ve got in place now are significant. Our security and intelligence organizations have more than a watching brief on these kinds of activities,” he said on Thursday, announcing over $20 million in funding towards Canada’s third defence innovation secure hub dedicated to quantum technologies.

Canadian telecom giant Nortel dominated the global fibre optics industry for years before filing for bankruptcy in 2009 and liquidating in 2017.

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Chinese espionage and hacking has been cited as a critical factor in the company’s demise by former company employees and media reporting.

Chinese hackers are alleged to have had a wide array of access to the former telecommunications giant as far back as 2000, which included downloaded business plans, research and development reports, employee emails, among other documents.

As Nortel Networks declined, Chinese multinational technology corporation Huawei grew to become one of the more dominant telecom equipment makers.

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What, investors are beginning to think that maybe AI is more hype than substance? A really expensive way of doing not much of anything?

Didn't this also happen with the dot.com meltdown? A few good ways to productively use it, a lot of ways to wastefully use it.

You would think they would have learned.

The truth is, AI should not stand for Artificial Intelligence, it is in reality Algorithmic Intelligence. Same computer processing, except that it is thousands of computers in a single chip all processing the data at the same time, with each computer doing the same math (a*b+c) but each simultaneous computation uses different input numbers. Great for doing massive simultaneous calculations, but certainly not 'revolutionary'. Instead of one computer doing one program taking a thousand cycles, a thousand computers doing the same program taking one cycle. What IS revolutionary are the algorithms that are being developed, and the applications these massive calculator arrays are being used for. Some will bear fruit, most will not.

Let's take a 'for example'.

Weather predictions for the next day. You start with a given set of data, then run your predictive algorithm a thousand times, each with a slightly different set of possible future data points. One of them is probably the most accurate. The problem is to decide which one. The second problem is that it takes a week to do all the thousand runs. You can have a 95% accurate prediction in one week for what the weather is going to be tomorrow. See the problem?

But with the newest AI chips, you can do the thousand different scenarios at the same time. Also, you can calculate a probability for each scenario at the same time. The scenario with the highest probability is the most likely. Then you check the actual weather, feed it back to the system, and it gets better at calculating the probabilities for the correct scenario. You get tomorrows weather today, and the system gets better and better at calculating the probabilities. This is a useful application.

Second condition. In a lottery, you can use this same server to predict all of the potential combinations of numbers, before the next draw. Except that the probability of any one combination being drawn is, well, still equal. There is just no way the system can get better at selecting the correct random number. The selection of which combination to use is still random, from equal probabilities. You can calculate what all the potential outcomes can be, but this tells you nothing if they are all equally likely. So it tells you nothing. A completely wasteful application.

Yet there are far more companies trying to use 'AI' to do the second condition than for the first condition. After investing a fortune in hardware, they still have the same accuracy in decision making as before.

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Initiated by: Elizabeth Emerson from St. Catharines, Ontario

Whereas:

Canadians have a fundamental interest in protecting children and other vulnerable persons from sexual exploitation and abuse

For the purpose of this petition, "vulnerable persons" includes children and other vulnerable persons as recognized under Canadian law, are at greater risk of sexual exploitation or abuse

The National Sex Offender Registry is accessible only to law enforcement, leaving communities with limited access to information that could improve public safety

Limited public access to information about individuals convicted of designated sexual offences against children and vulnerable persons could help Canadians make informed decisions while respecting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

History:

Open for signature: August 7, 2026

Closed for signature: December 5, 2026

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Initiated by: Jenn Thompson from Calgary, Alberta

Whereas:

Many children with autism and functional capacity limitations are prone to wandering, and many autistic, non-speaking, or otherwise vulnerable children face immediate life-threatening risks when they go missing, even without evidence of abduction or foul play

Current emergency alert criteria are primarily designed for suspected abductions and often prevent or delay public alerts until special exemptions are granted

Parents and advocacy groups have called for reform so that the system responds to the danger facing the child rather than solely to whether a crime is suspected

There is an urgent need for the creation of a national framework for timely public alerts when vulnerable children go missing, strengthened first-responder training and search protocols, and clear authority for police to issue immediate warnings when a vulnerable child’s life may be at risk.

History:

Open for signature: August 7, 2026

Closed for signature: November 5, 2026

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We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada , call upon the Government of Canada to: 1. Immediately convene provincial and territorial governments, law enforcement, families, and relevant organizations to create a Canada-wide framework that allows timely public alerts when autistic, non-speaking, special-needs, or otherwise vulnerable children go missing, even when abduction or foul play is not suspected; 2. Strengthen first-responder training and search protocols specifically for missing autistic and non-speaking children, and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities; and 3. Ensure police have clear authority and the necessary tools to warn the public immediately when a vulnerable child’s life may be at risk, so that bureaucratic rules never cost precious time as every minute counts in protecting Canada’s most vulnerable children. History Open for signature August 7, 2026, at 9:08 a.m. (EDT) Closed for signature November 5, 2026, at 9:08 a.m. (EDT) Member of Parliament Michelle Rempel Garner, Calgary Nose Hill (Conservative)

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Initiated by: Joshua Benson from Ottawa, Ontario

Whereas:

The Battle of Ridgeway was fought on June 2, 1866, in what is now Fort Erie, Ontario, by Canadian militiamen defending the territory and people of what would become Canada

Nine Canadian militiamen were killed during the Battle of Ridgeway, and additional Canadians later died from wounds or disease contracted during the 1866 Fenian Raids campaign

Those who died during the campaign were among the first combat dead of what would become the Canadian Army

The service and sacrifice of those Canadians are not presently commemorated in Canada’s Books of Remembrance in the Memorial Chamber on Parliament Hill

Canada’s Books of Remembrance already commemorate individuals who died defending territories that became part of Canada before Confederation or before their entry into Confederation

Permanent recognition in Canada’s Books of Remembrance would ensure that the Canadians who gave their lives during the 1866 Fenian Raids campaign are appropriately honoured as part of Canada’s military history.

History:

Open for signature: August 7, 2026

Closed for signature: December 5, 2026

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Nine Canadian militiamen were killed during the Battle of Ridgeway, and additional Canadians later died from wounds or disease contracted during the 1866 Fenian Raids campaign; Those who died during the campaign were among the first combat dead of what would become the Canadian Army; The service and sacrifice of those Canadians are not presently commemorated in Canada’s Books of Remembrance in the Memorial Chamber on Parliament Hill; Canada’s Books of Remembrance already commemorate individuals who died defending territories that became part of Canada before Confederation or before their entry into Confederation; and Permanent recognition in Canada’s Books of Remembrance would ensure that the Canadians who gave their lives during the 1866 Fenian Raids campaign are appropriately honoured as part of Canada’s military history. We, the undersigned, Citizens and residents of Canada , call upon the Government of Canada to formally recognize the nine Canadian militiamen killed at the Battle of Ridgeway, together with the additional Canadians who died from wounds or disease contracted during the 1866 Fenian Raids campaign, by including their names in Canada’s Books of Remembrance, as befits their sacrifice defending our nascent country. History Open for signature August 7, 2026, at 9:20 a.m. (EDT) Closed for signature December 5, 2026, at 9:20 a.m. (EDT) Member of Parliament Fred, Davies Niagara South (Conservative)

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