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Christy Somos
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Award-winning 🇨🇦 Journalist, Analyst, Producer | Views are mine| Likes & RTs are news I’m following ≠ endorsements | National security, global affairs, extremism, geo-politics, OSINT| DM for Signal
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We need to talk about AI and Canada's National Security: Mainly, the plans laid out in 2024 didn't account for an extremely hostile administration in the White House and we have an AI Minister accused of avoiding tough questions.

Read my analysis here: substack.com/@thestateoft...
Canada's national security AI strategy: rose-coloured glasses or head in the sand?
Minister of AI Evan Solomon has been accused of pushing for 'AI innovation' above all and ignoring critiques left and right. What does that mean for our national security?
substack.com
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A guard saw the murdered boy’s injury. Staff cleaned up the bloody bathroom. No one called 911. How the Toronto children’s aid society almost cost this man ‘justice for my son’s life’
A guard saw the murdered boy’s injury. Staff cleaned up the bloody bathroom. No one called 911. How the Toronto children’s aid society almost cost this man ‘justice for my son’s life’
When police arrived, the bathroom of the Toronto children's aid society —the bloody scene where a 3-year-old boy was murdered — had already been cleaned up.
www.thestar.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Breaking news: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forced the ouster of a senior military adviser to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, officials said, marking the Pentagon chief’s latest intervention into the service’s internal affairs.
Hegseth forces ouster of senior Army spokesman in latest internal clash
Col. David Butler, who had been selected by senior Army leaders for promotion to brigadier general, will instead retire, officials said.
wapo.st
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.

By @richardawebster.bsky.social
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
www.propublica.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Indigenous communities nationwide are increasingly reporting encounters with immigration agents, including detention — despite them being U.S. citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.
Indigenous communities raise concerns over heightened ICE actions across the country
As immigration enforcement expands nationwide, Native families say increased ICE activity is creating fear in their communities, even among U.S. citizens and tribal members.
n.pr
February 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
“A top CSIS official said anti-feminist ideology can sometimes function "as an enabling factor along pathways to violent extremism."”

globalnews.ca/news/1166168...
Anti-feminist ideology ‘increasingly relevant’ to national security: CSIS - National | Globalnews.ca
Officials with Canada's security and intelligence agency told MPs the ideology 'can function as an enabling factor along pathways to violent extremism' but is not itself a threat.
globalnews.ca
February 17, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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The story of Anton Koh provides a rare window into the tactics of Kim Jong Un’s digital warriors, who have faked their way into remote IT jobs to generate cash for the North Korean regime.
A Defector Explains the Remote-Work Scam Helping North Korea Pay for Nukes
Kim Jong Un’s cyber operatives have faked their way into IT jobs at American firms and elsewhere, pocketing big revenue for the regime.
on.wsj.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Updated with the recent attack that killed three:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has killed scores of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Cuba's Havana piles with trash as US chokehold halts garbage trucks reut.rs/4aYrFuX
Cuba's Havana piles with trash as US chokehold halts garbage trucks
Garbage has begun to pile up on street corners in the Cuban capital of Havana, attracting hordes of flies and reeking of rotten food, in one of the most visible impacts of the U.S. bid to prevent oil from reaching the Caribbean's largest island.
reut.rs
February 16, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Last night trying to find the movie I wanted to watch (wasn’t on any streaming service I use) and said to myself, if only you could pay a subscription to get access to all streaming services….

Cable. I reinvented cable.

Also bring back DVDs if you’re going to charge for movies from 2005!
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces.

The aim is to short-circuit Donald Trump’s tariffs.

🔗 politi.co/4ayYnTn
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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UK to tighten online safety laws to include AI chatbots ft.trib.al/8bkJqfl
UK to tighten online safety laws to include AI chatbots
Keir Starmer to warn tech companies that ‘no platform gets a free pass’ after deepfake scandal involving Grok
ft.trib.al
February 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development. https://to.pbs.org/4kX5euJ
Israel's plan to install West Bank regulations denounced as illegal 'mega land grab'
The move would pave the way for the resumption of “settlement of land title” processes, which had been frozen in the West Bank since the Mideast War in 1967.
to.pbs.org
February 15, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped repeatedly by her husband, Dominique Pelicot — who also invited dozens of men into their bedroom to rape Pelicot.

In a candid and emotional interview, Pelicot opened up about the trial that shocked the world. nyti.ms/4rR0DfF
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Netanyahu condemns 'extreme minority' as female IDF soldiers are rescued from riots in ultra-Orthodox Israeli city
Netanyahu condemns 'extreme minority' as female IDF soldiers are rescued from riots in ultra-Orthodox Israeli city
Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned an "extreme minority" after two female IDF soldiers were rescued from riots in an ultra-Orthodox Israeli city.
news.sky.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Last week I asked why Minister Solomon didn’t include Yoshua Bengio in his consultation process for a national AI framework…seeing as he is one of the foremost names in the field in Canada.

This week:
February 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Ottawa’s shift away from US defence manufacturers aims to create 125,000 jobs ft.trib.al/85RYA9n
Ottawa’s shift away from US defence manufacturers aims to create 125,000 jobs
‘Buy Canadian’ strategy will raise military spending to 5 per cent of GDP and boost economy, new plan says
ft.trib.al
February 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.

“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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A British dinosaur convention is banning some paleontologists named in the Epstein files from attending DinoCon as the scientific community becomes the latest to grapple with the convicted sex offender’s connections to prominent people in business, politics and academia: https://cnn.it/4txJx8l
Jeffrey Epstein’s interest in dinosaurs has led to a reckoning in the paleontology community | CNN Politics
A British dinosaur convention is banning paleontologists named in the Jeffrey Epstein files from attending DinoCon – as the global scientific community becomes the latest to grapple with the convicted...
cnn.it
February 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison two years ago, was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, the Foreign Ministries of Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said on Saturday in a joint statement.
Navalny Was Poisoned With Frog Toxin, European Governments Say
Traces of the toxin were found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said in a joint statement.
nyti.ms
February 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Breaking: The Pentagon used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude in its military operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on.wsj.com/3OhxgEK
Exclusive | Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid
The use of the model through a contract with Palantir highlights the growing role of AI in the Pentagon.
on.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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Sudan civil war: RSF war crimes saw 6,000 killed in three days in el-Fasher, UN says
Sudan civil war: RSF war crimes saw 6,000 killed in three days in el-Fasher, UN says
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed the atrocities in the city of el-Fasher, says a UN report.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Exclusive: The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries reut.rs/4kErI3k
Exclusive: US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations
The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a ...
reut.rs
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
With what?
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM