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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning 🌄everyone. I am not certain how much of the news I will be able to deliver on time today. I have a dentist's appointment at 11:00 AM; not certain if that will cut into my news time. If it does, the Tree House News will be published later today. I thought I would check back on the latest happenings or not happenings with Ontario Health Care hiring new doctors.*_

I'm a little disorganised this morning, but I think I've finally got both ends to connect. For a moment there, I thought my train of thoughts weren't going to quite make it around that sharp bend and end up in the swamp with the gators! 😱🌾🐊🐊🐊 *Checking my checklist 📜 Hey!* What do you know? They all made it, in one piece! Miracle In Ogden's Swamp! 🌾🫟🐸~ croak ~ ♪♫ - 🎵🎶 A bilingual frog?

OK! That's enough nonsense from me, now "ON WITH THE SHOW!" shouts Bugs Bunny as he leans against a fake tree on the stage, takes a chomp from his cawwot and says, "Eeep, What's up, Doc? - 🐰🥕 🧑‍🔬 "Oooh! That Long Eared Galoot!" Yosemite Sam shouts out loud, smoke coming out of his ears 🧑‍🎄👂💨 There! I even ended this morning's Newsroom Report with Drama and Cartoons, my personal diary, and my thoughts, feelings, and opinions. How do you like that? I pray you all have a better day than yesterday.

"HOLY 💩 MY BOOMERANG 🪃 WON'T COME BACK!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRniKsa5kls

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

IS ONTARIO HIRING NEW DOCTORS?

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Question:

Update on Health Care Ontario hiring new doctors, March 11, 2026?

🔹AI Overview

As of March 11, 2026, Ontario is heavily investing in expanding its primary care workforce *to address significant doctor shortages*, with a focus on team-based care and accelerated licensing for foreign-trained physicians. The province is currently in the process of selecting recipients for a new round of funding aimed at connecting 500,000 more residents to primary care teams.

*- Ontario-ca -*

• Key Updates as of March 2026:

Primary Care Expansion: The 2026–2027 call for proposals is underway, investing over $250 million to create/expand approximately 75 new primary care teams, with final selection expected by Spring 2026.

• Targeted Recruitment & Immigration:* On February 2, 2026, the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) issued 129 invitations to foreign-trained physicians (specialists and general practitioners) under a new, streamlined category, with further rounds expected.

• "As of Right" Rules:* Effective January 1, 2026, new rules allow physicians and nurses already certified in another Canadian province to work immediately in Ontario without waiting for registration, enabling faster, in-some-cases 10-day, hiring.

• International Doctor Pathway:* As of Jan 1, 2026, self-employed, internationally educated doctors can apply for permanent residence in Ontario without a traditional employer job offer, provided they have a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) registration and an OHIP billing number.

• Medical School Expansion:* The province is implementing the largest expansion in over a decade, adding 340 undergraduate seats and 551 postgraduate positions by 2028-29, which will increase family medicine graduates by 67%.

• Local Recruitment:* In specific regions, such as Muskoka-Almaguin, recruiters are actively working to establish sponsors to officially hire incoming doctors, satisfying federal immigration criteria as of early March 2026.

Ontario Newsroom

Progress Toward Goals:

• Patient Attachment: Since 2018, Ontario has added nearly 20,000 physicians, including a 14% increase in family doctors.

• Waitlist Reduction: The Health Care Connect waitlist has been reduced by over 75% as of January 2026, with a target to connect all Ontarians to a primary care provider by 2029.

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Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan: 1-year progress update

Learn about Ontario’s progress towards connecting every person in Ontario to primary care by 2029.

*Overview: Primary Care Action Team*

Question: Ontario's Primary Care Action Plan Progress Update

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• February 2024: Ontario announced the first expansion of primary care teams in more than a decade, investing more than $110 million to connect up to 328,000 people to primary care.

• December 1, 2024: Based on the success of recent primary care team expansion, Ontario established the Primary Care Action Team (PCAT), led by Dr. Jane Philpott, with a mandate to connect every Ontarian to primary care by 2029.

• January 27, 2025: The government launched the Primary Care Action Plan, with the goal of attaching everyone in Ontario to a publicly funded primary care clinician or team by 2029. This plan is supported by a historic $2.1 billion provincial investment, which builds on the government’s February 2024 investment of $110 million.

• January 2026: Ontario marked one year since the launch of the Primary Care Action Plan, with the province on track to meet its first-year goal of attaching 300,000 patients in Ontario to primary care.

Investments to date

Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government continues to take action to grow the province’s highly skilled health-care workforce and ensure people and their families have access to high-quality care, closer to home, for generations to come.

Closing the gap

• Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan:

Mandate: Attach two million more people to primary care by 2029.

• Connecting you to a primary care team:
• Making primary care more connected and convenient:
• Supporting primary care providers:
• Connecting everyone by 2029:
• Primary care team expansion timelines:

Next steps

Next steps

• The 2026–27 call for proposals will invest over $250 million in approximately 75 new and expanded primary care teams to connect 500,000 more people to care, with selection and funding occurring by Spring 2026.

• Selection of locations for primary care teaching clinics and funding to support early capital planning.

• Minister of Health to release annual report outlining how the government is achieving objectives outlined in the Primary Care Act, 2025 in June 2026.

And More:

Steps taken to improve Health Care Connect

Appendix

• Calculating primary care attachment:

Steps taken to improve Health Care Connect

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Updated: January 12, 2026

Ontario's Primary Care Action Plan Progress Update

BREAKING NEWS:

Attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz escalate, as Iran launches ‘intense’ strikes

Here's The Latest:

• Attacks near strait: Three vessels were hit by unknown projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz today, the UK’s maritime agency said. Meanwhile, three crew members on board a Thai vessel remain unaccounted for after it was struck today. Sources told CNN Tehran had begun laying mines in the key waterway.

• Iran ramps up: Iran claimed it launched its “most intense and heaviest operation” since the start of the war, state media reported, as interceptions were reported across Gulf states and Israel. Russia is also now giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics, a source tells CNN.

• Renewed attacks: Israel said it had begun an “additional wave” of strikes on targets in Tehran today. Beyond the capital, a CNN team in northern Iran reported nighttime air raids lasting nearly an hour. Strikes in Iran have killed more than 1,300 since the conflict started, according to Iran’s UN ambassador.

• Supreme leader: The son of Iran’s president says new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei “is safe” amid rumors he was injured in US-Israeli strikes. Khamenei has not been seen in public since his election on Sunday.

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Updated 8:36 AM EDT, Wed March 11, 2026

The news about Ontario's plans to make the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) more responsive to Ontarians' increasing needs is wonderful. It has plans to invest in bringing more doctors and licensed medical practitioners to the province within the stated delivery times. The information available to the public about these improvements lacks one crucial detail: progress against plan.

How are your plans doing, Mr. Ford? How much has been spent, and what did we buy with it? "Show me the money trail!"

BREAKING NEWS:

Attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz escalate, as Iran launches ‘intense’ strikes

Here's The Latest:

• Attacks near strait: Three vessels were hit by unknown projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz today, the UK’s maritime agency said. Meanwhile, three crew members on board a Thai vessel remain unaccounted for after it was struck today. Sources told CNN Tehran had begun laying mines in the key waterway.

• Iran ramps up: Iran claimed it launched its “most intense and heaviest operation” since the start of the war, state media reported, as interceptions were reported across Gulf states and Israel. Russia is also now giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics, a source tells CNN.

• Renewed attacks: Israel said it had begun an “additional wave” of strikes on targets in Tehran today. Beyond the capital, a CNN team in northern Iran reported nighttime air raids lasting nearly an hour. Strikes in Iran have killed more than 1,300 since the conflict started, according to Iran’s UN ambassador.

• Supreme leader: The son of Iran’s president says new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei “is safe” amid rumors he was injured in US-Israeli strikes. Khamenei has not been seen in public since his election on Sunday.

Read More:

43 min ago

What to know about the Strait of Hormuz, as 3 vessels hit by projectiles

More Misery To Read:

Updated 8:36 AM EDT, Wed March 11, 2026

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Trump’s war of choice in Iran hands Putin an opportunity

Russian President Vladimir Putin knows how to find opportunity in crisis, and the metastasizing Iran war is the latest case in point.

Putin began the year projecting confidence about his campaign to subjugate Ukraine, despite incremental progress on the battlefield. But in early January, the Trump administration dealt a blow to Russia’s prestige with the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a strategic partner of Moscow, in a daring commando raid.

And when the new war erupted in the Gulf region, Putin initially looked to be a loser: US-Israeli decapitation strikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, another longtime ally of Russia, and decimated Iranian military targets. The strategic partnership Moscow inked with Iran last year appeared to be a mere scrap of paper.

Khamenei, it’s worth remembering, was only the latest friend of the Kremlin to fall: In early December 2024, just over a year before the toppling of Maduro, the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a longtime client of Moscow, came crashing down...

• A global energy crisis helps Putin:
• Ukraine reaches out to Iran targets:

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PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2026, 12:00 AM ET - 9 hr ago

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Another Creep, A dangerous CREEP from CREEPS VILE RUSSIA, this one has brains, "but beware! They're defunct brains of The Evil Genius! 🤠 put that in your pipe 🪈 and smoke 💨 it Mr. Putin.

CANADIAN NEWS:

First Nation in northern Ontario praises mining company for 'true reconciliation'

Landore Resources Canada Inc. withdraws application to renew mining lease

As the Ontario government continues to push for development in northern Ontario, an Anishinaabe First Nation in the region is praising a mining company for “demonstrating true reconciliation” by agreeing to withdraw from an area in the community’s traditional territory. Landore Resources Canada Inc., the company behind the BAM Gold Project at Junior Lake, has been conducting exploration activities in the Thunder Bay district.

But after hearing concerns from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg (also known as Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation) about potential exploration in an area known as the Seeley property, Landore withdrew its application to renew its mining lease there. The property sits on lands of cultural significance to the community...

"I think what's important for proponents and industries to remember is to have that dialogue and to include First Nations. Don't do it in absence of us."

LISTEN | Gary Quisses: Ring Of Fire:

• ‘There's a little bit of a trade off’:

WATCH | How Ontario will accelerate Ring of Fire development:

Read More:

Posted: Mar 11, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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ONTARIO HEALTH CARE REPORT

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, peeps! I do pray you are all well and blessed on this mild and, for now, beautiful sunrise morning. It is supposed to be a rainy day today, then turning colder again for, well, wet, damp, grey, mid-thirties type of weather for a few more days, according to the weather map for March, it's supposed to get back to above 50° F until about the end of the month or the beginning of April 😝🤢🤮_

The weather 🌫️ sounds like Trumpo The Typo's lump of carrion meat 🪰🪱🪳🥩 for a heart. G-d bless his rotten heart, or should I say, brain. It is as though he is possessed by destroying anything that has the word " democracy " in it, as if it were a blasphemous word. BEWARE OF OUR NEW ORANGE GOD. He is about to rewrite his own Ten Commandments 🎃⛑️✏️📜

PUT THAT IN YOUR HAT AND SMOKE IT! ⛑️🦯🌪️

☮️✊~ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ~✊☮️

Well, folks, that's my commentary for today. Thank you again for visiting the Newsroom and reading the Tree House News 🏡 It's now time for Today's Discussion.

OPPOSITION?

Where is the Opposition? Where I live, I get most of all the major news networks, yet I mostly hear the noise emanating from the pack of hounds from Baskerville, the Right Wingnuts barking loudly, trying to frighten everyone about the bad Democrats and scare all who hear out of their boots! Well, maybe they can hold a boot sale afterwards from boots left by the Left Wingnuts 🪽⚙️ You know, the Right Wingnuts, are like nuts in a large briefcase 🫘🧳 the nuts are poison, they're a dime a dozen, good bait for Democratic squirrels 🐿️

But Democrats don't make much of a howl except for the odd grumble that gets through on the major newscasts, maybe a couple times through the week. WHAT KIND OF HAPPY 💩 IS THIS? APPARENTLY, THEY GAVE UP ON BEING THE LOYAL OPPOSITION!

WHERE 🎵🎶 OH WHERE 🎵🎶 HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE! ♪♫♭

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3QVsW30j0

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*Question: What is the meaning of Opposition?*

🔹AI Overview

*Opposition* refers to strong disagreement, resistance, or disapproval, often involving conflict, protest, or being on the opposite side in a contest or political setting. Key synonyms include resistance, objection, oppositionism, antagonism, conflict, and competition. Usage examples include:

Political: "

Disagreement: "

Competition: "

*Detailed Breakdown of "Opposition"*

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*BIG BREAKING NEWS:*

**Why U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats have Canada ‘between a rock and a hard place’**

DND has no plans to alter Caribbean mission, but experts say changes are needed

Canada’s Department of National Defence says it will continue a long-standing operation with the U.S. Coast Guard to capture drug smugglers in the Caribbean, despite a string of deadly U.S. airstrikes in the region.

Operation Caribbe — ongoing since 2006 — sees the Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force partner with the U.S. Coast Guard to find and stop suspected drug boats in the Caribbean, taking any detainees to the U.S. to face prosecution. The U.S. Air Force has taken a much different approach in recent weeks, bombing four suspected drug boats and killing 21 people.

Canadian officials are now distancing themselves from those attacks, saying they have nothing to do with Canadian military or intelligence personnel in the region...

WATCH | CBC's Eli Glasner breaks down the controversy around the U.S. Strikes:

• EXCLUSIVE Canadian tech helped U.S. strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats: report

• U.S. military kills 11 in strike on alleged drug boat leaving Venezuela, Trump says

• Canada must avoid Venezuela, says professor:
• Detainees low-level cartel members:

Posted: Oct 10, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 10, 2025

- CBC News -

They should put the capital letters M.F.L. under Trumpo The Typo's name, for Major F'n Lunatic.

Where have all the flowers gone? Where is the love and compassion, the empathy? Did Elon kill the Empathy? Must there be only hurting, sadness, and tears? Who killed the laughter, who has slain the beauty and colors of flowers, the butterfly fluttering by, and the softness and tenderness of nature, like a loving mother with a babe in arms?

Not a soldier in the dirt of a battlefield with bombs detonating all around, while you lie there in a foxhole, squirming in excruciating pain of a gutshot! I can quite imagine that scene in my mind; that is the way I felt when I had my appendix blow up in me last year. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO PEOPLE, UNNECESSARILY, just to please or impress the other World Leading Demented Sadistic Psychopathic Dictator #1. F'n Tootin 💩 Putin!

BREAKING NEWS CON.

US will end war with Iran ‘on our timeline,’ Hegseth says

Global oil giant warns of looming catastrophe as Trump gives mixed messages on Iran war.

Here's The Latest

• War timeline: The US will not relent in its war with Iran until “the enemy is totally and decisively defeated,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, adding this will be done on the US’ timeline. His remarks came after President Donald Trump made contradictory statements on when the war will end.

• Trump on new leader: Trump said he doesn’t believe Mojtaba Khamenei, whom Iran has tapped to succeed his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, can “live in peace.” The new supreme leader has yet to release a video message or written statement.

• New strikes: Israel launched a “broad wave” of strikes in the Iranian capital of Tehran overnight. One resident told CNN of “constant shelling” while another said “it felt like one of the worst nights so far.”

• Oil crisis: The world’s top oil exporter has warned there could be “catastrophic consequences” for the world’s markets should the Iran war continue to disrupt access to the Strait of Hormuz.

Read More:

7 min ago

US military burned through more than $5B worth of munitions in first 2 days of war

More To Read:

Updated 10:44 AM EDT, Tue March 10, 2026

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51 min ago

Iran's new supreme leader is still nowhere to be seen

Nearly 48 hours since being appointed as the third supreme leader of the Islamic Republic in Iran’s history, Mojtaba Khamenei is nowhere to be seen.

No video message has been put out from him addressing the crowds of supporters that have gone onto the streets across Iran to pledge their allegiance to him, nor has a written statement been issued by him or his office. State media has relied on archive footage to introduce him to the audience, and state propaganda networks have heavily relied on AI video and stills to create an image of an all-wise leader who rightly inherits the mantle of leadership.

The main mural at Vali Asr Square in Tehran, long a canvas for the official state narrative, now shows a young Khamenei receiving an Iranian flag from his slain father as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Revolution, looks on approvingly. The message is deliberate: a seamless passing of the torch. What it conspicuously avoids is any reckoning with the central contradiction at its heart, a father-to-son succession in a system born from revolution against hereditary monarchy.

One clue in the new leader’s absence may come from state media reports that he too has been injured in what’s being dubbed the “Ramadan War.” Perhaps his reported injuries have prevented him from appearing on video, though that wouldn’t explain the lack of a written statement. Another factor could be the disappointment expressed by US President Donald Trump in Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment following his father’s assassination. Asked Monday if the new supreme leader has a target on his back, Trump responded that he didn’t want to say...

55 min ago

Why Iran's chokehold on this crucial waterway is such a problem

Updated 10:44 AM EDT, Tue March 10, 2026

- CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadian Coast Guard captain fired for 'willfully' ignoring distress call: labour board

Former captain maintains he did nothing wrong, says he was 'railroaded'

The Canadian Coast Guard fired one of its captains on the grounds he "willfully" ignored a distress call about a sinking boat in cold and choppy P.E.I. waters, according to a recently posted federal labour board decision.

"His misconduct was significant, both in terms of the reputation of the coast guard and the consequences for public safety," notes the decision from the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board, which was made public last week. The case dates back to May 13, 2024, when the mussel boat Knot a Chance ran aground on a sandbar in the infamously dangerous Malpeque Harbour channel and started taking on water in rough seas. Another vessel tried to help and sent a mayday call, according to the decision ...

• Fired captain feels 'railroaded':
• Captain reduced volume of mayday call: decision:

WATCH | Fishing boat takes on water:

• Callaghan says rescue would have been dangerous:
• 'No higher authority' than to save lives:

Posted: Mar 10, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

- CBC -

Iran war sparks energy crisis

The world could face one of the most severe shocks to energy markets since the 1970s as we enter week two of the war in the Middle East.

The strait of Hormuz, the artery for 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas, has been effectively shut down. Qatar, which makes up one fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas exports, has stopped production of LNG after Iran struck two of its sites. In the aftermath natural gas prices spiked in Asia and Europe. Jim Krane, a fellow in Middle East Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is here to talk through the high stakes. Jim also reported for the Associated Press in the Middle East for years.

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Posted: Mar 10, 2026 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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Based on search results, there is no direct Snopes article specifically addressing "Mint Mobile" as a hoax or scam.

Trump Says Hormuz Safe With US Navy, Putin Warns Oil Flow Could Halt Within A Month | Watch

By Mint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSEi5wl_03Q

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good Monday morning to everyone! I would like to begin the morning with a short prayer of my own, if you don't mind a Martian praying 👽 "I pray that today will be better than yesterday, which was better than the day before yesterday. Now, just do the best you can, one day at a time.

🌄🌞🌅

It is going to be a nice sunny day out today, a little on the windy side though, but who cares? I'm not going out GOLFING or something like that. If I took up an outdoor sport, I would like to find a nearby crossbow range. I used to be pretty good with both a crossbow and a bow and arrow, more so with the bow and arrow.

I had a homemade bow and arrows. For the bow, I used a willow branch soaked in the lake for several days, held down under the water with stones. I whittled the thick end to the same tapering thickness as the tapering smaller end, then *gradually* curved both ends using the twine I salvaged from store packages. After the taut twine had stretched, I waxed it with candle wax and let it dry.

The arrows and arrow tips were made from filed-off nails, nails I had nailed into holes drilled into the big end of a stick I was using for an arrow shaft. Then I would nail the nail into the hole, whittle down the stick, wind electric tape around the end of the stick, cut it to the right length, notch the back end of the shaft, and voila, an arrow! They would stick in a tree and could easily take down squirrels if I had a desire to do so, which I didn't.

This was when I was around 10ish years old. Na! I wouldn't think of killing anything except for maybe a couple of frog casualties when showing off to other kids. I liked doing mostly target practice, like, pine cones, a piece of bark, trees, especially the knots in birch trees made good targets; tree stumps, and of course, tin cans were the most fun; the nail would go right through the can <- -- 🥫-- {

That was just one of the things I picked up on how to build stuff just from reading magazines, books, fiction, non-fiction, imagination, adventure, and discovering there was lots of adventure in reality. Still, I spent a lot of time back then reading pocket novels, books from bookstores and libraries, etc., my silent teachers. So this narrative establishes one thing: even back then, I was playing survivalist, adventurer, and discoverer, like when I used to play Robinson Crusoe on his lost island, I had my own island on the other side of the lake.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Imagination and Ingenuity

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🔹AI Overview

Question: What is the meaning of Ingenuity?

Ingenuity is the quality of being clever, original, and inventive, particularly when solving difficult problems or adapting to challenges with limited resources. It involves using imagination and resourcefulness to devise new methods or create, often described as a combination of skill, brilliance, and practical creativity.

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Key Aspects of Ingenuity:

• Problem-Solving: The ability to find clever, often unconventional solutions to tough, complex, or mundane problems.
• Creativity & Invention:
• Resourcefulness:
• Intellectual Sharpness:

Examples in Context:

• Human Ingenuity:

Practical Application:

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Question: Imagination

🔹AI Overview

Imagination is the cognitive ability to form mental images, sensations, or concepts not currently perceived through the senses, functioning independently of immediate external input. It enables creativity, problem-solving, and empathy by allowing humans to simulate future scenarios, recall past experiences, and visualize possibilities beyond reality.

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<- This last part could be my own words to describe this psychological phenomenon.

• Cognitive Function: It is essential for learning, allowing individuals to mentally simulate situations to acquire knowledge without direct experience.
• Creativity and Innovation:
• Mental Imagery:
• Power of Visualization:
• Developmental Tool:

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BREAKING NEWS:

Israel resumes strikes on Iran as oil prices surge

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as his successor.

Here's The Latest:

• On the ground: Israel has started a “wide-scale wave” of strikes against what it says is regime infrastructure in three areas of Iran. Turkey said NATO air defenses shot down another Iranian missile as it entered Turkish airspace, and Gulf nations also reported overnight strikes.

• Oil prices soar: G7 finance ministers are meeting today to discuss the potential joint release of strategic reserves as oil surged past $100 per barrel, a four-year high. Meanwhile, Bahrain’s national oil company declared force majeure as the war continues to threaten energy sites.

• Iran’s new leader: Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei has been named the next supreme leader. US President Donald Trump previously said Mojtaba would be an “unacceptable” choice and Israel vowed to target any successor.

• School strike: New video appears to confirm a US airstrike targeted a naval base next to an Iranian school. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US was “still investigating” while Trump cast blame on Iran.

Read More:

10 min ago

We are now in the biggest oil disruption in history, analysis shows

More To Read:

Updated 9:47 AM EDT, Mon March 9, 2026

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ANOTHER CAN OF FLESH-EATING WORMS 🥫 🧛‍♂️🪱🪱🪱

Most European leaders have tiptoed around Trump’s war with Iran. Not Spain’s PM

Most European leaders have trodden a fine line between offering limited support for US military action against Iran and warning of a regional conflagration.

Not Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. He has been outspoken in his criticism of US strikes, provoking anger and threats from the White House. But rather than back down, Sánchez and his government have doubled down. Spain has significant trade and investment ties with the United States and a fellow member of NATO. Last year 4 million Americans visited the country. And just this month, Amazon said it would expand its investment in data centers in Spain to total nearly $40 billion...

• Europe’s minefield:
• Trade matters:

There is another dimension to Sanchez’s hostility toward American influence. For years he and his family have been the targets of abuse on social media, and he has railed against US tech firms for not doing enough to combat hate speech. ...

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Updated Mar 8, 2026, 12:45 PM ET - 21 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadian military personnel identified on white supremacist dating site

CBC News visual investigations unit identified more than 200 Canadians in leaked data

WARNING: This story contains racist, antisemitic and violent language.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces had accounts on a white-only dating site that promoted white supremacist ideology, a CBC News visual investigation found. The website WhiteDate, launched in 2017, explicitly marketed itself as a white-only dating platform, welcomed white supremacist and neo-Nazi members and has been referred to as "Tinder for Nazis" by an extremism expert and international media.

In December, an anonymous hacker known as Martha Root shut down WhiteDate and published its data, exposing thousands of users from around the world on a site called OKStupid...

WATCH | How we identified Canadian military members on WhiteDate:

• Whites-only site:
• Uncovering military members on WhiteDate:
• Several known white supremacists also identified:

Posted: Mar 09, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

- CBC -

How are MPs passing so many bills without voting?

Half the bills passed in the House this session have cleared 3rd reading without a head count

MPs don't officially have to vote in order to pass bills in the House of Commons and it appears to be happening more frequently than usual this session of Parliament. Passing legislation "on division" allows members of Parliament to approve bills without having to register their support or their disapproval.

It essentially means that the parties don't agree on the piece of legislation in question, but don't feel the need to have a head count on who supports it and who doesn't. Instead MPs just agree to allow it to go through...

• How many bills have passed third reading on division?:
• Why is it happening with such frequency this session?:

WATCH | Carney's budget passes confidence vote:

• Liberals' omnibus budget bill passes final hurdle in the House of Commons

• Liberals accept Conservative proposals to limit 'immense' cabinet powers in budget bill

• Analysis If question period is 'broken,' is anyone going to fix it?

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Posted: Mar 09, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 39 minutes ago

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Exposing the Canadian military on ‘Tinder for Nazis’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WalclVNEfGc

 

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BREAKING:

ANOTHER ROCKET SCIENTIST ON THE BLOCK:

Who is Jim Cantrell?

Jim Cantrell (born October 5, 1965) is an American entrepreneur, mechanical engineer and road racer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Phantom Space Corporation, which aims to build space transportation technology.

What did Jim Cantrell have to do with Elon Musk's SpaceX?

🔹AI Overview

Jim Cantrell was a critical early advisor, consultant, and part of the founding team of SpaceX in 2002. As an expert in aerospace and Russian rocket technology, he served as Elon Musk's industry mentor, helped with initial business development, and was instrumental in shaping the company's direction after assisting Musk in trying to purchase Russian rockets.

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Question: What did Jim Cantrell have to do with Elon's Starship?

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Jim Cantrell did not work on the development of the modern Starship vehicle, as he left SpaceX in 2002 shortly after its founding. However, he was instrumental in the origins of SpaceX, which eventually led to the development of Starship, by serving as a key mentor and consultant during Elon Musk's initial attempts to enter the space industry in 2001–2002.

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His involvement in the early days of SpaceX included:

• Advising on Russian Rockets: Musk approached Cantrell in 2001 for help purchasing Russian ICBMs for a planned Mars mission, acting as an expert consultant.
• Mentoring and Education: Cantrell helped educate Musk on rocket science and industry players, famously lending him textbooks that Musk reportedly never returned.
• Forming the Initial Team: Cantrell was on the founding team and helped establish the company, often described as a mentor to Musk in the early days.
• The "Pivot" to In-House Production:

Cantrell left in 2002 because he did not share Musk's intense, long-term passion for colonizing Mars at the time. He currently leads Phantom Space Corporation.

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Phantom Space Corporation

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Phantom Space Corporation is a Tucson, Arizona-based aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider founded in 2019/2020 by industry veterans, including former SpaceX employee Jim Cantrell. It aims to "democratize space access" by mass-producing low-cost satellites and the Daytona launch vehicle to provide rapid, affordable space transportation and data services.

 

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Amazon: Stop Powering ICE’s Deportation Machine

Amazon Web Services is a prime driver of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) incarceration and deportation

regime by providing ICE with a host of data storage services. Along with other major tech corporations, Amazon has built a

revolving door with the US government to entrench Silicon Valley's role in expanding the acceleration of ICE's surveillance,

data accumulation, arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of immigrants. ICE cannot wage its war against immigrants

without the critical infrastructure support provided by tech corporations like Amazon.

How does Amazon fuel mass deportation?

The Amazon Cloud: DHS relies heavily on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud storage. In fact, Amazon has

evolved from being a one-stop shop for consumers to the biggest broker of cloud storage space on the planet. By using

AWS cloud storage services, DHS is able to store, sort, and share huge amounts of information used to target immigrants

in its growing tech enforcement portfolio. AWS’s cloud service allows ICE and DHS to:

● Collect, store, and organize a massive repository of information on immigrants, their friends and family: ICE

purchases and collects unprecedented amounts of information on immigrants and the people connected with them.

This includes biometric (facial, iris, etc.) and personally identifiable information collected by ICE and CBP officers,

DMV data, license plate and other tracking data, utility bills, business and property data, healthcare provider

information, cell phone records, location tracking social media accounts, and much more.

● Scour Regional, Local, State, and Federal Databases to build profiles to surveil, track, and ultimately deportimmigrants: The Trump administration’s prioritization of targeting immigrants en masse has accelerated ICE’s acquisition of massive amounts of data and spurred on the enlistment of tech companies to develop solutions for

data accumulation and analysis...

● Undermine Sanctuary City policies through unprecedented data sharing among all levels of law enforcement...

Amazon gets richer from ICE's deportation machine by:

● Further entrenching the "cloud industrial complex" — a lucrative public-private partnership between industry

lobbyists, key federal legislators, tech executives, and former tech-executives-turned-government officials and vice

versa...

● Supporting the development of systems that allow the US government to target and punish en masse those which

the Trump Administration has deemed "undesirable—immigrants...

This is why we're targeting Amazon

It’s time to hold Amazon accountable for its outsized share in building the deportation machine, and demand that they stop. It won’t be easy—Amazon makes billions from these contracts...

We can force Amazon to stop helping DHS and ICE target immigrants if enough of us call them out, stay engaged, and keep the pressure on. For more info & the report Who’s Behind ICE: Tech Companies Fueling Deportation

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