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“Minority Report”

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Sam Cooper- “Fear or Freedom”: U.S. Lawmakers Warn CCP’s Digital Authoritarianism Is Going Global

Beijing’s one-party rule, enforced through “social stability maintenance” and mass data collection, is now being grafted onto global systems of communication, finance, and infrastructure. “What the CCP is doing will not stay confined within the PRC’s borders,” the report warns. “Its authoritarian practices are spreading outward, shaping a world increasingly hostile to America’s values and strategic interests.”

Only 43lbs Of Fentanyl

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We sure do make a lot of fentanyl for a country that has no major exports.

Border officials in B.C. seized thousands of litres of chemicals used to produce fentanyl and GHB from two containers shipped to Canada from China.

The Canada Border Services Agency announced the seizure, which happened in May at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility, on Thursday.

“which happened in May”

Nothing to see here, either;

Earlier this year, the RCMP near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, less than 100 miles from the U.S. border, charged two Calgarians with trafficking a massive quantity of fentanyl, enough to kill nearly four million people.

The accused, Kunwardeep Singh and Swati Narula, secured bail from the provincial court nearly three weeks after their arrest. Later, Singh, a truck driver, had his bail conditions relaxed to allow him to resume driving in the Calgary area.

This raised the question of how Singh, caught with such an enormous amount of fentanyl could walk away on just twenty-five thousand dollars bail.

It’s Probably Nothing

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Did China Down Two U.S. Navy Aircraft in South China Sea?

The incidents occurred amid President Trump’s tour of Asia, during which he is expected to meet a host of Asian leaders, including China’s leader, Xi Jinping, making it more suspicious, and embarrassing.

The South China Sea is an extremely sensitive geopolitical region, and potential flashpoint for conflict, where China asserts ownership over much of the region, despite an international court ruling rejecting Beijing’s claims.

Over the last two decades, China has bolstered its illegal claims by constructing military installations across the sea, including artificial militarized islands on reefs, challenging U.S. efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in these international waters.

The U.S. Navy’s operations in the region are part of a broader strategy to counter China’s maritime expansion and aggression.

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag

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Tyrants have always found the Magna Carta to be reckless…

Pierre Poilievre is by no means the first person to raise concerns about RCMP covering up of Trudeau/Liberal scandals.  And it’s not like there is a lack of evidence to take to trial.

But hey, we did get an apology….

Related:  Isee everyone got the talking points…

China Is Asshoe

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Inside Europe’s First National Security Seizure of a Chinese-Owned Chip-Maker;

The Dutch government has released court documents detailing the explosive national-security seizure of a Chinese-owned semiconductor firm, revealing that CEO Zhang Xuezheng fired senior European executives, transferred treasury powers to individuals “with no clear role,” and conducted more than $100 million in suspect financial transactions with Chinese-linked entities.

The disclosures, issued by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, explain the intervention announced by the Dutch government—its first use of the Goods Availability Act, a Cold War-era national-security law—to seize control of Nexperia, a chip manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen. The filings show that Dutch regulators and judges acted in response to a pattern of governance failures, conflicts of interest involving Zhang’s Chinese affiliates, and escalating U.S. export-control measures targeting Nexperia’s Shanghai-listed parent, Wingtech Technology Co.

According to the court, tensions inside Nexperia intensified in early September 2025. On September 4, Zhang revoked the banking mandates of the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Group Treasurer, and a senior financial officer, and reassigned them to individuals lacking treasury experience, including one person who was not employed by Nexperia. The following day, the company’s Chief Legal Officer raised formal objections, warning that the new arrangements departed from accepted corporate-governance standards.

I know, I find it hard to believe as well.

Chinada: Xi Jinping Island

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Regulator Admits 2018 Buddhist Land Probe Was Never Completed;

An investigation was launched in early 2016 into the land holdings of several Buddhist-related organizations under section 15 of the Prince Edward Island Lands Protection Act. According to IRAC’s response to legislators, a consultant prepared both an initial and a supplementary report and provided those documents to the investigating officers on a privileged basis. But for reasons not explained by IRAC, the Commission’s investigating officers did not ultimately produce a report, no hearing was held, and no order was issued determining whether the parties under investigation did or did not violate the Act.

The revelations have shocked legislators and residents who for years believed the province had quietly completed — and withheld — the 2018 report. Instead, the correspondence shows that the probe was effectively abandoned without explanation.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

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The Bureau;

In Ottawa they call it “arm’s-length.” Out in the real world, people call it duck-and-cover. At Meeting No. 6 of the House of Commons transport committee, MPs confronted a simple, damning timeline: Transport Canada’s top non-partisan official was warned six weeks before the public announcement that BC Ferries would award a four-ship contract to a Chinese state-owned yard. Yet the former transport minister, Chrystia Freeland, told Parliament she was “shocked.” Those two facts do not coexist in nature. One is true, or the other is.

There’s an even bigger betrayal hiding in plain sight. In the last election, this Liberal government campaigned on a Canada-first message—jobs here, supply chains here, steel here. And then, when it actually mattered, they watched a billion-dollar ferry order sail to a PRC state yard with no Canadian-content requirement attached to the federal financing. So much for “Canada first.” Turns out it was “Canada… eventually,” after the press release.

Conservatives put the revelation on the record and asked the only question that matters in a democracy: what did the minister know and when did she know it? The documents they cite don’t suggest confusion; they suggest choreography—ministerial staff emailing the Prime Minister’s Office on how to manage the announcement rather than stop the deal that offshored Canadian work to a Chinese state firm.

Follow the money and it gets worse. A federal Crown lender—the Canada Infrastructure Bank—underwrote $1 billion for BC Ferries and attached no Canadian-content requirement to the financing. In plain English: taxpayers took the risk, Beijing got the jobs. The paper trail presented to MPs is smothered in black ink—hundreds of pages of redactions—with one stray breadcrumb: a partially visible BC Hydro analysis suggesting roughly half a billion dollars in B.C. terminal upgrades to make the “green” ferry plan work. You’re not supposed to see that. You almost didn’t.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

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@LeslynLewis

BREAKING NEWS: Another Liberal Scandal

Chrystia Freeland stood in Parliament dismissing any federal role in BC Ferries’ $1-billion deal with a Chinese state-owned shipyard.

But leaked e-mails show the truth:

1. The Canada Infrastructure Bank (a federal Crown corporation) quietly financed the purchase.

2. Liberal staff scrambled behind the scenes to manage the optics instead of protecting Canadian jobs and security.

3. Even Liberal ministers admitted they were “dismayed” but still went along with it.

New Governor, Same As The Old Governor

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Dan Knight;

Maybe, just maybe, someone in Mark Carney’s office has thought: “Wait a second, all these goods from Amazon, all the crap piled high at Canadian Tire, maybe we should tax the carbon embedded in them, so we can actually build a Canada-first, Canada-strong economy.”

Seems obvious, right? Put tariffs on dirty imports. Level the playing field. Protect Canadian workers.

Nope. Not happening. Elbows down, Ottawa doesn’t tax a single ton of Chinese carbon. Not one. Thats right Beijing carbon heavy manufacturing gets a free ride.

Related:

Melanie Joly: The world is moving toward EVs.
Also Melanie Joly: People will only buy EVs if subsidized.

43lbs Of Fentanyl

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Fentanyl, what fentanyl?

A new civil forfeiture case in British Columbia has surfaced extraordinary details about a clandestine fentanyl production network that investigators say operated with academic-level expertise, imported laboratory equipment from overseas, and, significantly, relied predominantly on 4-Piperidone, a precursor chemical that Chinese suppliers moved to after the U.S. government cracked down on previous analogs.

The Bureau’s analysis of the filing and information from expert sources suggests the network is consistent with the hybrid model now driving the global fentanyl trade: Chinese Communist Party–linked chemical suppliers, Mexican cartel distributors, and Iranian transnational networks partnering with Canadian gangs, notably the Wolfpack Alliance, to embed industrial-scale production inside British Columbia.

Seems like a ton of trouble to go to, just to supply a small Canadian market.

I Want A New Country

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Master negotiators.

The state-owned trading giant has accelerated moves to secure supplies from Australia, the world’s second largest exporter, following Beijing’s decision last week to impose a temporary duty of 75.8 per cent on shipments from Canada following an anti-dumping probe, said the people, who asked not to be named because they’re not authorized to talk to the media.

China has typically relied on Canada for the bulk of its imports of rapeseed and the meal that’s derived from crushing the crop into a product that’s easily fed to livestock and fish. That trade was already under fire when Beijing slapped hefty tariffs earlier this year on cargoes of rapeseed meal in a tit-for-tat response to Canadian duties on Chinese goods.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

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The more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.

Why Are We Trading Our Breadbasket for a Battery Pack?

In protecting a shaky electric vehicle dream, Ottawa is putting a $43-billion canola reality at risk — sacrificing a cornerstone of our agricultural economy for a battery pack that may never deliver. […]

The backdrop to all of this is Ottawa’s high-stakes bet on the EV sector. Despite nearly $50 billion in combined federal and provincial investments, Canada’s EV industry is faltering. Sales are dropping, mandates are clashing with market realities, and major projects are delayed or shelved. Without a significant acceleration in charging infrastructure, policy recalibration, and restored investor confidence, the sector risks collapse.

Ottawa’s trade stance is effectively protecting a fragile EV industry at the expense of a robust and profitable canola sector. One is speculative and policy-driven; the other is market-proven and globally competitive. The policy choice here should be obvious: Canada must either adjust its EV tariff position toward China or carve out exemptions to protect agricultural exports. Beijing has made its expectations clear.

Related: Built in 1960, the Second Narrows Bridge was not designed for the volume and weight of modern freight trains, which have grown substantially in size and frequency to meet rising global demand.

China Is Asshole

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Real Agriculture- China announces new 76 per cent “anti-dumping” tariff on Canadian canola

The Chinese government is imposing a new 75.8 per cent tariff on Canadian canola seed to begin August 14 — the latest development in the trade dispute that escalated a year ago when Canada announced tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and steel. The new tariff on canola seed, announced today (August 12,) is the preliminary result of the anti-dumping investigation that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce launched in September 2024.

Our master negotiator was unavailable for comment.

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