Canada

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Chinese electric vehicles still pose a national security threat despite Canada lifting its tariff blockade, security experts warn, adding that nothing has changed since the previous federal government voiced concerns nearly two years ago.

Yet those experts also warn that the cybersecurity and privacy threats extend beyond Chinese-made vehicles to any car connected to the internet, which requires a robust response from Ottawa.

The new trade deal signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Jan. 16 allows for up to 49,000 Chinese EVs to enter Canada at a significantly reduced tariff rate of 6.1 per cent in exchange for China lifting tariffs on Canadian agricultural goods.

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Experts say the potential for Chinese governments or businesses to use internet-connected vehicles to listen in on drivers’ phone calls or record their movements remains a very real threat, particularly to the Chinese diaspora in Canada.

There are also broader cybersecurity concerns, said Neil Bisson, director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge Network and a retired intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

“It just allows another portal into our infrastructure, both communication-wise and energy-wise, because we’ll be plugging these vehicles into our own electric infrastructure,” he said in an interview.

“The opportunities to potentially do cyberattacks, to shut down critical infrastructure, it’s all there.”

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In June 2024, when Ottawa was weighing whether to match U.S. tariffs on Chinese EVs to stop those cheaper models from flooding the North American market, then-deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland made clear the concerns were not just economic.

“We’re also looking at the national security aspect of this: the security aspect, including cybersecurity, when it comes to Chinese exports of high technology items like EVs,” Freeland said.

Not long after those comments, Canada ultimately followed through by slapping 100 per cent tariffs on all electric vehicles made in China.

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At the time of Freeland’s comments, David Shipley, the CEO of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, called those EVs “rolling spy vans” because of the technology they contain, including microphones and cameras.

That assessment hasn’t changed 18 months later, he told Global News in a new interview.

“The concern about China is that China is motivated to do this,” he said, “and they have the capability and they have legal infrastructure and requirements for their companies to co-operate with them” under Chinese national security laws.

Those same authorities are behind the spying and national security concerns surrounding TikTok.

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Bit of a shake in Southern Ontario. Some folks on Meshtastic report feeling it in the GTA.

“Court of Appeal and King’s Bench [judges] are chosen by the federal government. In fact, I just wrote a letter to [Prime Minister] Mark Carney saying maybe we should look at a way, now that we’ve got some openings on King’s Bench, for us to have a joint process to choose those judges so we start choosing judges in Alberta that reflect the values of how we want them to operate here.”

Emphasis mine.

Like wtf... that is exactly what is NOT supposed to happen. They shouldn't be ruling on values, they should be ruling on the god damn law.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is dismissing a claim that he walked back the remarks he made in Davos last week during a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday. 

"To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos," Carney said Tuesday on his way into a meeting with his cabinet.  

Asked directly if he walked his comments back, Carney said "no."

Closes Feb 18th.

Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled

Whereas:

• Postmedia, one of Canada's largest media companies, is controlled by Chatham Asset Management, an American hedge fund, placing a key part of Canada’s news media under foreign influence;
• Foreign ownership introduces perspectives shaped by American political and cultural priorities, which often do not reflect Canadian values or concerns;
• Independent Canadian journalism is essential to democracy, ensuring accountability, accuracy, and representation of Canadian voices;
• Foreign control risks skewing news coverage, undermining media integrity, and eroding public trust; and
• Other countries, such as Australia and France, have established policies to safeguard domestic control of media, providing workable models for Canada.

We, the undersigned, Residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership and control of print, digital and other non-audio-visual news media, to protect Canadian sovereignty, ensure journalism integrity, and guarantee that our media reflects Canadian priorities and values.

The leader of the BC Green Party is calling for a boycott of Save-On-Foods and other businesses owned by B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison.

Emily Lowan made the call on social media Saturday following U.S. news reporting that revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is in talks to buy an Ashland, Virginia, warehouse from a Pattison-owned real estate company.

According to a letter sent by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the Hanover County planning department, ICE plans to use the warehouse as a processing facility “in support of ICE operations.”

Allie Carpenter, a resident of nearby Richmond, Virginia, who is active in opposing the Trump administration and ICE’s aggressive deportation push, said she hopes Canadians will pressure the Jim Pattison Group to stop the sale.

Canada's economy could gain nearly seven per cent, or $210 billion, in real GDP by fully removing internal trade barriers between the country’s 13 provinces and territories, according to a report published Tuesday by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

On average, the barriers are the equivalent of a nine per cent tariff nationally, estimates the report, which was co-authored by IMF researchers Federico J. Diez and Yuanchen Yang with contributions from University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.

That would-be tariff is even higher in service-oriented sectors like healthcare and educational services — more than 40 per cent — where professional mobility between provinces is highly regulated.

"Such a level would be prohibitive in most international trade agreements," the authors wrote. For comparison, the Bank of Canada estimates that the U.S.'s average tariff rate on Canada was 5.9 per cent in November 2025.

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Dominican authorities say pair died of natural causes, family blames carbon monoxide

The initial results the family received from Dominican authorities said the cause of death was due to respiratory failure, pulmonary edema, high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus.

But Gilles Sauvé Jr., Christine's brother, found it unlikely that the two would die from natural causes on the same night — and blames carbon monoxide poisoning

These Canadian media figures went on trips sponsored by the Exigent Foundation, a pro-Israel organization

The proposal complements the campaign’s other policy plans in housing, health care and the environment.