That's either a misleading headline that's deserving of criticism, or something is wrong with me.

I thought it was going to be about a chemical that makes us live forever, like a Lord of the Rings ring or something. Turns out, the "forever chemical" is just a toxic chemical that could harm killer whales.

As soon as I found out, I closed the article because I have no interest in reading about what's killing the killer whales. Boring.

So, misleading right? I'm not a terrible human, right?

Allowing Ukraine to buy proven Israeli drones would be pretty cool. But Israel doesn’t want to upset Russia

Just like Canadian interests, apparently.

More of a story for Australian and French relations than one about Ukraine sadly, but at least the Ukrainians get some shells out of this modest rekindling I guess.

And then blocked the transfer or sale of Israeli weapons to Ukraine

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/25/israel-ukraine-hawk-missile-biden-administration-request

If you think Canada is alone on this, I invite you to read up about the Confucius Institute, and how many universities in OECD countries have a Confucius Institute within their premises. You'll be disgusted by it.

EVERY developed nation was sold out to China by hedgies, capitalists and industrialists. Australia, USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, I could go on. China has been sending its students to universities around the world to gain military and non-military information.

There are only two things I can’t stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.

Intersting.. id agree facts or at least opinion based on valid research is a little more legit and not in the realm of manipulation.

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This country has been bought and paid for by the Chinese for awhile.

Yeah it’s as bad as you think. Even worse it’s done because the Chinese military is funding these projects for the Canadian Universities.

Soon we will know if these chips have been compromised by the NSA already. Hope the Russians know how to play this game of roulette.

Mmm. I expected better honestly. 2/10. Unoriginal and boring. Constructive criticism: find the nearest patch of grass and touch it, then ask the grass what it thinks about the situation because it probably knows more about it than you do.

Ms. Fletcher said UBC recognizes the “global political landscape” has changed and the university is now aware “some research collaborations may pose potential national-security risks.

Oopsie.

>China offers a lot of money to Canadian researchers and universities to work with them, she said.

Came here to say this. It's pretty grim when everything is for sale in your country. Political influence, your land and housing, corporations and their IP and your natural resources.

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Honey I probably know more about this whole situation than you and your four closest friends but please, entertain me further.

Wait, so what’s the problem with your neighbor working closely in a weapons related field with your adversary?

So we can also blame them for Covid?

Lmao that's not why Turkey is being difficult. You really don't have a clue what you're talking about sweetheart.

Canadian WTF!

The idea that Turkey would somehow be negatively effected by Sweden’s NATO membership is also dumb but here we are. Living in a world of dumb. Discussing dumb while talking about dumb theoretical situations.

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No, it is ridiculous. Sweden and Finland already have defense treaties outside of NATO. Both are EU members for example.

The idea that Sweden would sit by and refuse to let NATO run supply lines to Finland isn't just absurd, it's dumb.

"Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, former executive vice-president of NSERC and now senior fellow at the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa, noted that the new security guidelines only cover federal grants and not individual academic research with China’s military. China offers a lot of money to Canadian researchers and universities to work with them, she said.

“The People’s Liberation Army is not our friend and we should not be partnering with them,” she said. “Any collaboration with the National University of Defence Technology is clearly going to a military purpose and Canadian researchers should be using their own personal ethical lens to decide not to move forward with that research.”

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Dennis Molinaro, a national-security analyst and professor at Ontario Tech University, said “there is a lot of passing the buck” taking place on the subject of university research with China.

The universities say they need clarity from government on risks posed by their joint research. But CSIS, for instance, which gathers intelligence on foreign threats, is prevented from sharing specific details with Canadians – even with law enforcement unless it’s specifically for prosecution and regarding a criminal offence.

“Each are relying on the other to do the right thing, meaning the university wants to know what specific threat exists so it doesn’t curb academic freedom, and the intelligence sector wants the university to act on the basis of, in essence, ethics, that partnering with this kind of institution in the PRC is unethical,” Mr. Molinaro said.

He said the federal and provincial governments need clearer guidelines for academic partnerships and legislative reform to the CSIS Act that enables the spy service to talk more openly about threats that exist."