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Latest from the U.S.: using a pretty low-key court to kick out an Afghan woman whose son and son-in-law pleaded guilty to planning an election day attack. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-secretive-alien-terrorist-court-nazira-haji-zada-isis-2024-allegation/...

Wonder how many folks who think charging people for some of the worst of what they say online is bad will say this arrest is bad?

How about some counselling/convincing to get the birth rate up? https://thehustle.co/news/not-sure-about-having-kids-theres-a-coach-for-that?mainArticle=true&_hsmi=430009836

Eastern Ontario Ford-ite MPPs have questions ... https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/premier-doug-fords-eastern-ontario-caucus-questioning-high-speed-rail-project/ ... after "no jets for YOU, Toronto Island" decision...

I can only speak for myself, but (and this may be an old-school Canadian view) there's got to be a way to deal with provable* outside interference in Canadian political processes (be it at the federal level, AB/QC separatism, whatever) in a way that both 1) nails the worst offenders...

Remember these guys? Guess what? https://globalnews.ca/news/11995886/canadians-returning-from-isis-highly-likely-threat/

SO far, it's been pretty consistently a Canadian "citizen" since the first statement issued by BEL authorities (attached, in Dutch). Born here vs. naturalized, I can't tell outright. Not in the LinkedIn profile, but based her jobs, the term would have come up once or twice in her various...

All true, but methinks this isn’t the biggest fish to be fried at this point :) Maybe once she finishes being a guest of the Belgian court & penal system, though …

Also spent time in jail for trying to join ISIS.

For the tea leaf readers out there, a quick hit with the latest as of today. https://www.thewrit.ca/p/the-writs-federal-vote-and-seat-projections Just one data point - take that as you will.

Loving the "Entrepreneurial Mindset Certificate" cert :)

BEL media update (according to Google translate): she stays in jail for the moment ... https://www.rtbf.be/article/la-stagiaire-canadienne-du-shape-maintenue-en-detention-preventive-pour-espionnage-11763770 ... with this multi-media-outlet investigation into who the woman in question might be...

Using AI willy-nilly without knowing how it works (and doesn't) is bad, but in the bigger scheme of things, I wonder if, maybe, if political parties allowed their members to speak their piece without having to generally be centrally controlled by a party borg, you wouldn't need as much "reading...

Still, not without its uses to some ;) https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/alerts-advisories/safeguarding-our-secrets.html https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/five-eyes-warn-of-chinese-spies-posing-as-job-recruiters/

Sam Cooper got the latest on that: Standard response, for now. Also, a bit broader analysis, original in French ... https://www.politiquematin.fr/otan-arrestation-stagiaire-origine-chinoise ... with Google translation attached. This tidbit on the process going foward: