This is about Control, but its also about everything else

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Two structural factors help explain the low arrears rate. First, Canada’s banking regulations, particularly the mortgage stress test, require borrowers to qualify at higher interest rates than those on their loans, making the system more resilient to rate increases.

Second, mortgage default carries significant consequences. Canadian mortgages are generally full-recourse, meaning lenders can pursue borrowers’ other assets if the proceeds from a foreclosure sale do not fully cover the loan.

This differs from several U.S. states during the 2008 housing crash, where lenders in some cases could not pursue borrowers’ other assets, allowing homeowners to walk away from underwater mortgages.

Two men fired multiple shots at the US consulate in Toronto early on Tuesday in what police described as a “national security incident”, prompting beefed-up protection for US and Israeli diplomatic buildings in the city.

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I find it to be the most unbiased source and it respects religion too.

They've added a new mod (u/FamousPlan101) and he's spamming their shit and removing anything that's calling it out.

Fucking reddit lol

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Mark Carney’s Canberra address and the Geelong Treaty reveal the architecture of a powerful middle-power bloc ready to be assembled.

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Aukus delivers hard power: nuclear-powered submarines, quantum technologies, AI-enabled defence systems, hypersonic weapons, and directed-energy capabilities. But hard power without economic depth is brittle. Canzuk supplies the missing dimension – trade diversification, skilled labour mobility, critical minerals coordination, and a diplomatic network that spans every major ocean and time zone. Together they form something greater than the sum of their parts: a full-spectrum alliance that can deter adversaries, withstand economic coercion, and provide mutual resilience when the global order fractures.

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Australia and Canada together possess the largest mineral reserves held by democratic nations. In an era of accelerating decoupling from Chinese supply chains, this is an asset of extraordinary and growing strategic value.

The polling data confirms the political feasibility. A February 2026 survey by Canzuk International found 68 per cent support in Australia, 72 per cent in Canada, 75 per cent in New Zealand, and 70 per cent in the United Kingdom for a multilateral free trade and mobility agreement. These are not marginal numbers. They represent a democratic mandate waiting to be exercised.

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The institutional scaffolding is more advanced than most commentators acknowledge. The four Canzuk nations share King Charles III as head of state, Westminster parliamentary systems, common law traditions, and deeply interoperable intelligence services through Five Eyes. The ABCANZ Armies program – encompassing all four Canzuk nations plus the United States – already facilitates military interoperability across the Anglosphere. Workforce mobility initiatives are being pursued to facilitate movement of skilled defence personnel between Australia and the United Kingdom, including reciprocal recognition of security clearances. Add Canada and New Zealand to this framework and you have a defence-industrial ecosystem that spans the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean – with Arctic reach thrown in for good measure.

New Zealand, often treated as the quiet partner, brings its own distinctive value. Its Pillar II potential under Aukus – advanced cyber capabilities, undersea sensing, and Antarctic logistics – complements the submarine focus of Pillar I. And its extraordinary 75 per cent public support for Canzuk suggests a population ready for deeper integration than its cautious political class has yet been willing to deliver.

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The high-stakes competition between Korea and Germany for a 60 trillion won ($40 billion) submarine contract with the Canadian Navy has become more complicated.

The bid to build 12 submarines is also turning more multinational as Britain is backing Hanwha Ocean through a strategic partnership with Babcock International — the British defense giant currently responsible for maintaining Canada’s submarine fleet. Germany’s bid, meanwhile, is being aided by Norway, which has already purchased German Type 212CD submarines.

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Canada and Australia are tying together two of the world’s largest retirement systems through a new investment pact that aims to push more pension capital into both markets.

More than a dozen Canadian and Australian pension giants have entered a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding (MOU) under the Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative (CAP Invest Initiative).

CPP Investments said the initiative asks leading pension investors to make a voluntary commitment “to facilitate dialogue on investment environments and policy barriers to generate solutions that unlock greater opportunities for value creation.”

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Under the arrangement, funds will cooperate to channel more pension capital into opportunities in both markets.

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Signatories include AustralianSuper, which manages A$410bn (US$289bn), and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, with $781bn (US$571bn) in assets, along with eight other major Canadian funds.

Canada operates the world’s second-largest pension system, while Australia’s A$4.5tn pool is No. 4, and Canada’s system is forecast to reach $8tn while Australia’s is projected to swell to A$11tn by 2040.

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The EU and Canada have begun to negotiate a so-called ‘Digital Trade Agreement’ (DTA), alongside Europe’s clash with the US on digital regulation.

The DTA is to boost legal certainty and fair digital trade across the Atlantic Ocean.

Negotiations for the new deal were announced on Friday (6 March) and will build on the 2017 EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

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The aim of the collaboration is to create digital consumer protection, add legal certainty for businesses operating digitally (for example, clarifying the legality of electronic signatures, contracts, and invoices), and to achieve fair digital trade, shielded from protectionist data or digital practices.

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Digital trade is growing in size and importance, with over 60% of global GDP linked to digital transactions. The EU is the world's leading exporter and importer of digitally deliverable services. As of 2023, 54 % of the EU's service trade was conducted digitally, amounting to €670 billion in imports and €661 billion in exports from outside the EU. This includes, for example, telecommunication services, computer and information services, and other services that are typically delivered digitally (financial services, insurance and pension services, etc).

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Canada will invest more than $900 million for defence innovation in Canada, including money for drone technology and a new Bombardier aircraft, managed through the National Research Council (NRC), according to an announcement by Industry Minister Melanie Joly, National Defence Minister David McGuinty and Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr.

The National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) new programs in support of Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy reinforce its long-standing partnership with the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces. This enduring collaboration represents the single largest client relationship of the NRC today.

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• Initial investments under the Defence Industrial Strategy contribute to Canada spending 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2025–2026.

• Increasing investments in core military capabilities, building up Canadian industry and investing in dual-use technologies are putting Canada on a pathway to meet the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defence Investment Pledge to invest 5% of GDP by 2035.

• The Canadian defence industry contributes nearly $10 billion to Canada’s GDP and supports over 81,000 jobs.

• Since 2021, the NRC has delivered more than 975 joint projects with DND, advancing aerospace, sensors, marine and biosecurity technologies.

• The NRC’s Challenge programs have provided more than $240 million in joint research and development funding since 2018. They have produced 2,600 technologies and tools and nine spin-off companies.

Most trees grow up to their mature size and then stay that size, or at least greatly reduce their rate of growth so as to only compensate for damaged parts that need replacing; like (most?) animals, they don't continue to grow larger and larger until they die.

But what if mangosteen is different?

Mangosteen trees are slow. Notoriously slow. They are also extremely delicate. Yet I've heard of a 200-year-old tree in the Philippines that was at least 20 metres wide. Could it be that mangosteen trees simply never stop growing, as most of them don't survive long enough for it to become an issue? Or is it that people who plant mangosteen trees never see them reach maturity (due to either the tree or the grower dying before then)? If the latter is the case, then it makes sense what they say: You don't plant a mangosteen tree for yourself; you plant it for your grandchildren.

Just a train of thought that I had recently.

The claim was filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday on behalf of Gebala by her mother, Cia Edmonds.

It alleges that the company designed its chat tool, ChatGPT, in such a way that there were risks users "would become psychologically and socially dependent" upon it.

The lawsuit states that the company "had specific knowledge of the shooter's long-range planning of a mass casualty event," but "took no steps to act upon this knowledge."

CBC News has reached out to OpenAI for a response to the lawsuit. None of the claims have been proven in court.

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Speakers include:

Australia: Greens Senator David Shoebridge Philippines: Cora Fabros, International Peace Bureau New Zealand: Political analyst Eugene Doyle South Korea: Sung-Hee Choi USA: Ret United States Army Colonel Ann Wright Others to be confirmed

I can only wish them safety, the evil iranian regime will not be pleased by this