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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, everyone! It's an improved, more spring-like morning out there in my Green Space. It was pleasant to linger out there with my coffee this morning, though it was still a little cool, so I wore a sweater. The weather appears to be back to normal here on the Niagara Peninsula, still mostly cloudy but with lighter clouds than the last couple of days. I pray it gets sunny, especially for Tuesday, when we are planning to go out of town.

_*Well, that's about it from me here in the Newsroom, other than I pray you all be well physically, mentally, and spiritually and blessed. Thank you for reading the Tree House News.

TODAY'S TOPIC:

ONTARIO HEALTH CARE

FORWARDED FROM YESTERDAY'S ARTICLE

"LIES!" like how the Ontario Health Care System sucks even after billions of federal dollars being pumped into it. What happened to the promise of hiring American doctors and nurses to expand the health care workforce? Where are the American doctors and nurses since the last infusion of federal funding? The Ontario Health Care system got worse, not better, under the usual way of governing

Ford, Trudeau sign $3.1B health-care funding deal that will see Ontario hire more health workers

Agreement comes year after feds promised to boost health transfers to provinces

Searching further into the ONTARIO HEALTH CARE CAPER,

I came up with this publication, The Bullet. It's a newsletter by the Socialist Project. I do not endorse socialism, but the information in their publication appears to track with other non-political sources to give you, the Tree House News reader, an idea of where Ontario Health Care is going. I SUSPECT IT'S BEING USED TO PAY FOR FORD'S PRIVATISATION DEALS. If Ford were doing it to benefit We, the People, he would not need to defend the destruction of our healthcare system. Rather than rejecting this socialist newsletter, I am posting it for your information and consideration.

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The Ontario Healthcare Crisis

The Budget plan was to decrease total provincial hospital funding for 2024/25 by $250-million, almost one percent. However, the Fall Economic Statement (FES) noted a one billion healthcare funding increase. While the FES did not reveal how this would be spent, the Financial Accountability Office indicated that health spending was 6.7% over budget ($2.6-billion) in the first half of the fiscal year and that this included $1.3-billion for hospitals and home care.

This mimics what occurred in 2023/24 where hospital funding was budgeted to increase 0.5% but, largely through an increase announced at the very end of the fiscal year (in the 2024/25 Budget in fact) the total planned increase was much higher (11%).

This is not the way to fund hospitals. It does not allow hospitals to plan appropriate staffing levels and encourages reliance on overtime and much more expensive for-profit staffing agencies. Hospitals need better funding, but they also need clear guidance on hospital funding when the fiscal year begins at the very latest.

By 2023/24 many hospitals were reporting significant deficits – deficits which they had to get special permission from government to run.

Now, it is not clear that the government will 100% fund the need created by the failure of their Bill 124 real wage cuts. The government has chosen to parcel this money out very slowly, if at all. As a result, by the middle of this fiscal year (2024-25) hospitals faced huge working capital problems, large deficits, negative operating margins, high long-term debt, and extremely high bed occupancy. This is no way to run a vital service that saves people's lives.

The Situation Under the Current Government and Its Future Plans

The PC government promised to end hallway healthcare. This promise is now largely forgotten, given the many hospital capacity failures that have occurred during this government's reign. However, the government does make some promises to increase capacity. These promises do mark a change in policy. After decades of stagnating capacity, the promise now is to increase it. The problem is that what has been done, and what has been promised for the future, are totally inadequate to meet the need for care.

The government's promise to increase LTC capacity remains officially in place – but the government's execution of this promise has been inept, inadequate, and slow.

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Ford defends health-care record as hospitals say financial 'crisis' is coming

Ontario Hospital Association calls for financial certainty to plan long-term

Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's health-care record ahead of his eighth budget, even as the province's hospitals say they face a billion-dollar structural funding deficit.

Ontario’s premier has repeatedly pushed back in recent weeks against criticism that his government is not providing the province’s hospital system with enough funding to address problems like hallway health care.

That comes as the association that represents Ontario’s hospitals is warning that funding uncertainty is causing critical financial strain. Ford, who promised to end hallway health care in hospitals when he was elected in 2018, says the province’s population has grown since then, compounding the problem. He has stressed that his government has rolled out tens of billions in new spending on health care in that time...

• Ontario budget expected to be tabled in coming weeks:
• 'Rapidly developing into a crisis':
• Hospitals face 'deepening structural deficit,' OHA says:
• Funding to recruit and retain medical professionals needed, Ontario's doctors say:
• 'A downward spiral':

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Posted: Mar 09, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 9

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My opinion, shout out ONLY •<- big period, that's it.

WAKE UP, PEOPLE! THE FEDERAL MONEY FOR ONTARIO HEALTH CARE IS BEING SIPHONED OFF TO PRIVATISATION.

MY WAKE-UP CALL!

HOW CAN WE HAVE A STRONG CANADIAN ECONOMY IF 90% OF CANADA WAS IN BED SICK OR LAYING HORIZONTALLY IN A COFFIN PASSED AWAY FROM SOME TERRIBLE VIRAL OUTBREAK, WITH NO TECHNICANS, MEDICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHERS, AND DOCTORS TO WORK ON A SIMPLE VACCINE OR HAVE A HOSPITAL BED AVAILABLE TO PUT THE ILL IN? BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF BEDS IN HOSPITALS, THEY DIE OUT THERE EVERYWHERE, IN ALLEYWAYS, ON THE STREET, IN SHOPPING CENTERS, PARKING LOTS, THEIR APARTMENTS, CARS, TENTS, WHATEVER. NO ONE TO GIVE OUT HEALTHCARE, OR TO CLEAN UP THE MESS AFTERWARD. AND WHO WILL RUN YOUR FACTORIES?

THINK ABOUT IT!

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump to send ICE agents to airports amid partial government shutdown

Here's The Latest:

• ICE agents deployed: President Donald Trump said ICE agents will head to US airports Monday, placing border czar Tom Homan in charge of the effort. Homan told CNN’s “State of the Union” that agents would be there to release Transportation Security Administration officers from “non-significant roles.”

• Shutdown stalemate: The move follows Trump’s warning a day earlier that he would deploy ICE agents if lawmakers failed to reach an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

• Travel woes: Travelers were warned to expect worsening airport wait times this weekend as Transportation Security Administration workers go without pay due to a partial government shutdown that began in mid-February. You can track wait times at major airports here.

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2 min ago

More than 400 TSA officers have quit since start of shutdown, DHS says

More To Read:

Updated 10:37 AM EDT, Sun March 22, 2026

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Iran vows to ‘irreversibly’ destroy infrastructure after Trump ultimatum on Strait of Hormuz

Dozens have also been injured in Iranian strikes on cities in southern Israel.

Here's The Latest:

• Iran’s threat: Iran says it will retaliate across the Middle East and “irreversibly” destroy the region’s critical infrastructure and energy sites, if US President Donald Trump carries out a threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz is “fully open” within 48 hours.

• Strikes on Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned Iran after a missile attack on the southern Israeli city of Arad, which injured at least 84 people. Several people were also wounded in a separate Iranian ballistic missile attack on the city of Dimona.

• Latest from the region: The number of people reported killed in Iran and Lebanon since the start of the conflict is now into the thousands. Saudi Arabia ordered Iran’s military attaché and several embassy staff to leave the country, as Tehran continued to strike neighbors in the Gulf.

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12 min ago

Israel escalates attacks in Lebanon as Iran vows retaliation if US bombs power plants

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Updated 10:47 AM EDT, Sun March 22, 2026

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Trump aims to end the revolution that Fidel Castro started. Can the US and Cuba strike a deal?

Cubans plunged into darkness twice in a week

1:27

Havana

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Donald Trump wants us to believe that a deal with Cuba is close at hand. After this past week, I am not so sure.

“They have no energy. They have no money. They’re in deep trouble,” Trump has said, explaining why he believes the Cuban government is desperate to reach an agreement to save the country.

Trump is correct that Havana is under the most severe pressure at any time since the 1962 missile crisis, when a US invasion of the island seemed all but guaranteed.,,

• The ‘Honor of Taking Cuba’:

VIDEO | Included:

Cubans plunged into darkness twice in a week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAC1sDYcWfk

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning! Well, it's good, I guess, if you're a duck, a frog, or a fish, with temps cool enough so even the birds are wearing raincoats and rubber boots. Seriously, one still needs to wear a coat in this grey, cool, damp weather and rain. Boooring!

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

GRIPE OR GRATITUDE

OH, STOP YOUR GRIPIN' ALREADY!

🌸~ MY GRIPE, PRAYER, AND GRATITUDE ~🌺

Before I begin my usual morning delivery, I just wish to reminisce a bit about my Dad and how much Mark Carney reminds me of him.

Listening to Mark Carney's speeches, how he explains what we only see from "The Maybe" position! Surprisingly, turns out to be in reality.

His thinking and policies are a breath of fresh air, instead of all the air sandwiches 🥪 we have been given in the past few years that we never hear about again, or that turn out to be the reverse.

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"LIES!" like how the Ontario Health Care System sucks even after billions of federal dollars being pumped into it. What happened to the promise of hiring American doctors and nurses to expand the health care workforce? Where are the American doctors and nurses since the last infusion of federal funding? The Ontario Health Care system got worse, not better, under the usual way of governing

Ford, Trudeau sign $3.1B health-care funding deal that will see Ontario hire more health workers

Agreement comes year after feds promised to boost health transfers to provinces

- CBC News - Posted: Feb 09, 2024 5:46 AM EST | Last Updated: February 9, 2024

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This man, Mark Carney, is probably the most prepared, capable, and effective prime minister we have had to lead our nation and represent Canada on the world stage since Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Back then, I didn't follow politics closely, but I will always have Pierre Elliott Trudeau and, in America, John F. Kennedy in my heart,

Now, as of today, March 21, 2026, we, the people of Canada, have this man Mark Carney, dedicated to his country and its people, like we were a family, or so it feels like to me when I listen to him speak. When I watch him stand behind the lectern, he reminds me very much of my own father. A businessman, my Dad managed Pine Land Timber Co., the biggest lumber company in Canada, back in the late 50's and early 60's.

Standing behind a lectern, Carney's profile closely matches my Dad's profile. It's like seeing my Dad alive and in action again. They could be brothers if you stood them side by side. My Dad, like Mark Carney, was friendly but poker-faced, standing with a confident posture and delivering eloquent, to-the-point speeches that any layman could understand. And if Dad didn't have the answer, he would always tell his clients, "I don't have the answer for that right now, but I'll have it for you by the morning." I miss my Dad, and I pray for Mark Carney's success. It's the success of our nation doing its part in the post-Trump world.

-**🙏 ~ PRAYER ~ 🙏**-

_*Let us all take a moment to send prayers and meditation to the Higher Power of Our Understanding to protect our Prime Minister of Canada from harm, and may he be guided to be successful in his endeavors. AMEN!*_

☮️~ CANADIANS 🍁 THE PEACE KEEPERS ~☮️

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🔹AI Overview

Question: Gripe or Gratitude

While a "gripe" is a common complaint about daily stressors, actively choosing gratitude over complaints reduces stress, improves sleep, and strengthens

BREAKING NEWS:

Inside Trump’s most difficult war decision yet: whether to put boots on the ground in Iran

In near-daily briefings with top military officials at the White House, President Donald Trump has reviewed options that include sending American troops into Iran.

The decision whether to go ahead is perhaps his most difficult of the war since US strikes began February 28. For many Trump allies in Washington, the deployment of thousands of US troops to the Middle East would mean the swift end of their public support for the war— and likely threaten the administration’s ability to deliver the hundreds of billions of dollars in supplemental funding the White House will soon seek.

But for Trump, fully realizing his objectives and mitigating the war’s fallout could require sending in American troops, a legacy-defining endeavor the president — while not ruling it out — tried to downplay this week...

• Declare victory and move on:

CHART | Tankers and cargo ships detected in the last 24 hours

CHART | Locations in and around Tehran hit by strikes since Feb. 28

• Going in on the ground:
• Diverging strategies:

CHART | New strikes on targets in Iran announced by CENTCOM

• ‘Iran isn’t Gaza’:
• Nuclear concerns:

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PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Alex Jones’ Infowars is shutting down, but his disinformation legacy lives on

Only after Trump leaves the stage, and the MAGA movement fades with him, will Infowars truly be gone.

When Alex Jones announced the death of his Infowars business earlier this month, you had to strain to hear him because he kept slurring his words. “We’re getting shut down,” Jones told fellow pro-Trump influencer Tim Pool on March 12. “We’ve beaten so many attacks. But now we’re shutting down in the middle of next month.”

For critics of Jones and the MAGA movement he had a hand in building, hearing him announce the end of his site might seem like cause for celebration. That would be dangerously naive. Jones’ influence is everywhere, as the U.S. finds itself roiled by the very conspiracy theories he turned into a multimillion-dollar business after starting Infowars on public access TV in 1999...

• The ranks of officials around Trump are now partially composed of Jones-influenced conspiracists, governing on baseless stories about antifa, vaccines and shadowy cabals.

• Only after Trump leaves the stage, and the MAGA movement fades with him, will Infowars truly be gone.

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Mar. 21, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

HELLO, MR. FORD, YOU OLD TOAD 🐸 THERE'S A DEAD x👅x SKUNK 🦨 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD 🛣️ A STINKIN 🤥 TO HIGH HEAVEN! ✨

Ford, Trudeau sign $3.1B health-care funding deal that will see Ontario hire more health workers

Agreement comes year after feds promised to boost health transfers to provinces

Posted: Feb 09, 2024 5:46 AM EST | Last

Updated: February 9, 2024

Europe is eyeing France's nuclear shield. Should Canada follow?

French deterrence in North America would risk inflaming tensions with Washington

A very quiet queue has formed in Europe where some of Canada's long-standing, closest allies are seeking shelter under France's small but robust nuclear umbrella.

The initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, who declared the next 50 years to be the "era of nuclear weapons," is — on paper — intended to add another layer of deterrence to NATO's American-backed security guarantees. Once again — on paper — Russia is the adversary that needs deterring...

WATCH | Trump says NATO is making a 'very foolish mistake':

WATCH | Carney asked about defence of Greenland:

WATCH | Trump orders new nuclear tests:

• "We will back that with measures as necessary." ...

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Cubans say every day is a struggle for survival as they face blackouts, water and fuel shortages

U.S. committing 'crime' against people of Cuba, says senior government official

Melanie Chantelle González Barrios, 15, has two young children and says she dreams that some day, when they grow older, they'll be able to leave Cuba and escape the daily fight for survival her family faces.

González Barrios lives in a one-bedroom home in Havana's Buena Vista neighbourhood with her 17-year-old husband, a daughter aged one and a half, a six-month-old son and her grandmother. The family keeps several tubs and jugs always filled with water because they never know when they'll be hit with a power blackout, which also cuts off the water...

WATCH | Cuba reels under Trump's oil embargo:

• Wide-ranging impact of fuel shortage:
• U.S. 'abusing its power': deputy minister:

• There have been violent flare-ups during the blackouts, including in the city of Morón, which sits about 460 kilometres west of Havana, where people earlier this month ransacked a Communist Party office

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Posted: Mar 21, 2026 9:37 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Nordic Leaders, Canada Back France Nuclear Deterrence Plan but Reject Hosting Nukes | APT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HzxCZ11Lg

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Well, here it is, Friday the 20th of March. No, it's not the Ides of March. That was five days ago. For me, it's "The Id of March!", and I got lots of Id but not too much marching 😁 In my imagination, the long dark-haired Id in me stands up on her soap box, picks up the microphone and makes an ugly freckled face, sticking out her tongue and blowing out a shower of spit at the camera directed in all due disrespect to our loathsome Kink in the (‿ˠ‿) Trumpo The Typo." Heil Trumpo! Blessed be his holy diaper, Amen!" You little piece of 💩Tin Can god. 🥫 🤣

It is another cloudy, grey, boring weather day, although it's supposed to get warmer after today, sometime ... I hope, before next year. I call this time of year, like for most, it's the guess what season? or *the sagging jetstream. I call it the three S's, the *Sagging Scrotum Season.* Affects mostly the macho males. 🥴 what a messed-up population of assorted, mentally disturbed variety of peeps, or better known as nutcases in many circles of society today. As I mentioned in another post, like scum is floating on the surface of a lake. Or like termite.

These Termites are coming out of the woodwork every day, coming out of the decaying logs of your termite-infested log cabin. SOMEONE CALL PEST CONTROL PLEASE! Or Ghostbusters! ... do they do termites? What about the SCUM? Let's make it ghost scum, then Ghostbusters will come to the rescue. "I'm afeered, Ma, there ain't no cavalry a-comin' to the rescue in this movie."

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

VICTORY AND FAILURE

You lost the victory when you had the chance. Now, all that's left, like the Titanic, are more survivors than there are lifeboats left. The Orange Pus Kink made sure of that. The Captain ordered most of the lifeboats to be discarded before they hit the iceberg.

Then, We, the People's hands were tied behind our backs, allowing the Orange Kink of Pus Bags to kick our butts. Now, what the Kink doesn't realize is that the shoe will fit our feet as well. It's time to kick some butt!

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🔹AI Overview

Victory and failure are rarely absolute endpoints, but rather interconnected, temporary stages in the journey toward success. Key insights on this topic include:

• Failure is a Prerequisite for Success: Rather than being the opposite of success, failure is often a necessary component, providing valuable data and lessons that build new neural pathways and strengthen resilience.

• The "Fail Forward" Mentality: Success is often described as going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Or Hope Embracing failures as learning opportunities allows individuals to grow, while seeing them as temporary setbacks - not permanent defeats - is critical.

• Redefining Winning:

• Managing Success:

• The Core Driver:

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• Key Takeaway: The only real failure is stopping, or *"giving up".* The ability to handle, learn from, and move past failure is the ultimate key to success.

_*The onus is entirely on you for how you get through failure on the way to victory, to continue to not just to *"fail forward"* or keep moving forward, survival, and ...*_

BELIEVE YOU CAN!

BREAKING NEWS:

**Oil rises to $110 as Israel strikes Iran during Persian New Year**

Analysts warn the war could keep prices high for years as energy infrastructure is damaged in the region and the Strait of Hormuz is effectively shut.

Here's The Latest

• Oil prices spike: As the war in Iran nears the end of its third week, oil prices rose today as energy infrastructure is damaged and the vital Strait of Hormuz remains effectively shut. US gas prices ticked up another 3 cents a gallon, marking the highest average price for a gallon of regular gas since October 2022.

• On the ground in the Middle East: The Israeli military struck the area of Nur, which is east of Tehran, today, as Iran continues to make retaliatory strikes around the region. Iran's supreme leader said in a written statement that security must be denied to all Iran's enemies.

• CNN town hall tonight: US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz and a panel of experts will answer questions from CNN's Dana Bash and a live studio audience about what may come next in the war at 9 p.m. ET.

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8 min ago

How Ukraine is helping the Middle East combat Iranian drones

More To Read:

Updated 9:51 AM EDT, Fri March 20, 2026

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Travelers face Friday rush and unpredictable airport wait times as TSA officers go unpaid

What You Need to Know:

• Airport woes linger:

Authorities have warned travelers could see worsening airport wait times today as Transportation Security Administration workers go without full pay. You can track wait times at major airports here.

• Shutdown drags on: TSA workers recently missed their first full paycheck since the partial government shutdown began in mid-February after funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed. But on Capitol Hill, the impasse shows no sign of breaking anytime soon.

• Airports could shut down: With TSA “fully stretched,” some US airports may be forced to shut down if the DHS shutdown continues, TSA’s acting deputy administrator said this week...

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32 min ago

Could your airport close if TSA screeners don’t show up to work?

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Updated 9:36 AM EDT, Fri March 20, 2026

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How does the Iran war end? Lawmakers say the answer isn’t so easy.

Republicans say the war will end when Trump declares victory. But Iran will have a say over the conclusion, too.

As the war in Iran approaches the three-week mark with no end in sight, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are at odds over one key matter: How will this end?

“That’s a loaded question,” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told MS NOW. “That’s a question that doesn’t lend itself to a quick answer in the hallway,” Wicker said. “So I defer on that … I think it’s going to end well.”

• “What does the next phase look like?” he asked:

• “But as we’ve said, we’re on plan,” he continued.

• Most Republicans are fine with that.

• “I mean, it’s criminal,” Murphy said.

• “It’ll be really difficult to wrap this thing up,” he said

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Mar. 20, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadian company helping white supremacists fundraise from hateful livestreams

Website allows viewers to donate directly to creators of racist, antisemitic content

WARNING: The following story contains mature subject matter, including racist and hateful imagery.

An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences.

Within two years after it launched in 2019, Entropy processed more than $3 million in transactions and experts say it has since grown to become an essential service for dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Many creators have found a home on the Canadian platform after being kicked off and blocked from making money on mainstream platforms such as YouTube for posting antisemitic and racist content that violates the streaming giant’s terms of service.

Jeff Tischauser, an analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a U.S-based civil rights non-profit organization, is responsible for monitoring 160 of the hundreds of hate groups across the U.S. and says about half of them use Entropy to fundraise and solicit donations.

"They're making money off of intimidating people. They're making money off trying to provoke and harass people," said Tischauser. "They've travelled abroad to bring their hatred to Holocaust sites. They're able to do that because of the money that they are making off Entropy." ...

Watch the full documentary "The Business of Bigotry?" from the fifth estate on YouTube or CBC-TV on Friday at 9 p.m.

WATCH | Explaining the significance of websites like Entropy in funding hate groups:

• Hate group comes to Nashville:

WATCH | Journalist Phil Williams says neo-Nazi hate group came to Nashville to 'create havoc':

• Fighting against censorship, say Entropy founders:
• A network of companies in Georgia:
• Ties to a deadly shooting:
• Lack of regulations around online hate:

WATCH | Canadian legal expert Emily Laidlaw says regulating hate online is challenging:

• The fight against online regulation:

Posted: Mar 20, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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Prime Minister Carney secures ambitious new partnership with India

March 20, 2026 - 2 days ago NEW DELHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZubkW0AIA

 

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NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

 

Great Spirit bless 🙏

I pray you all have as pleasant a day as you can make it 🌅 I have combined the space for Today's News Room report and Today's Discussion under one TOPIC for today. Thank you.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION Part 1

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🔹AI Overview

If you don't like what's happening in the country, you only have two choices: resist or lump it. I don't mean resist it with violence 🤜💥🤛 I mean more like ... How about a country-wide shutdown where everyone, from the floor sweep at the nuclear facility to the neighborhood mom and pop store; from the top engineer and the CEO of a small company to multinational corporations, all the way down and up, or should I say up at the top management at the underground level, to the "spooks" like at Area 51 and stuff like that. They don't like getting much attention. I can imagine it would be like petting a cat backward 🐱

Can you imagine how frazzled those cats down there in the catacombs would be ... They're also very much connected with the above-ground level. I have to believe this; it is hope. As for factual, no. Just suspicions from years of researching such topics, and an educated gut-hunch 😉

For sure, the Great Spirit creates miracles, and many of them are through the hands of peeps like you and me. Here, I pray there are still such peeps left in control to restore sanity to our government.

If there is one of the aforementioned that has anything resembling a heart, join the rest of us peeps. Get stocked up on munchies, beer, and other beverages, and

WE, The People, Will Have A Party!

Then sit on our butts and do nothing except eat a baloney sandwich and drink a bottle of Coca-Cola while listening to Men Without Hats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM

sitting in front of the boob tube for the whole day, watching cartoons and soap operas 😵‍💫👹🤡👽🤖🐰🦄🍄| 🫂👁️👀🙅‍♂️🙅‍♀️ I got lots of soggy potato chips, beer, and ice cream, have some. Anyone want some whiskey? 🥪🍨🍺🍾🍷🥃🍹🫟🪣

And then you threaten to do the same the next day, too, more baloney sandwiches plese! 🥪

In this case, on this topic today, I would like to say that this song is more suitable for the occasion. It can be a better world if we it can be. "BELIEVE!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhGJ0gVW13o

TODAY'S DISCUSSION Part 2:

GUT-HUNCH

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Question: What is a gut-hunch?

🔹AI Overview

A gut hunch is a strong, intuitive feeling or suspicion that something is true, likely to happen, or wrong, without conscious reasoning or evidence. Often called a "gut feeling," this immediate, non-rational reaction is thought to stem from subconscious pattern recognition, where the brain processes past experiences and environmental cues faster than conscious thought.

Key Aspects of a Gut-Hunch:

* Physical Sensation:

* Subconscious Insight:

* Origin: LinkedIn*

Hunch vs. Gut Feeling:

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An educated gut-hunch is putting the research behind to get as many pieces together as is possible. Lots of DETECTIVE work if you are interested in getting deeper into the topic or subject; then analyze and come up with the closest proposition or analogy, and connecting ideas as a potential theory, which is a branch of mathematical physics focused on studying harmonic functions. It's a process. Why do I feel this way about it? 🤫

BREAKING NEWS:

Energy prices soar as attacks on Middle East gas facilities escalate

Trump threatens to "blow up" world's largest gas field, as Israeli strikes spark Iranian retaliation and fears of further economic shocks

Here's The Latest:

• Energy prices spike: Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, hit $115 a barrel this morning after Israeli strikes sparked Iranian retaliation on energy infrastructure across the Middle East, including on Qatar's critical liquefied natural gas hub Ras Laffan.

• Intel hearing: Iran "maintained the intention" to rebuild nuclear enrichment, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told lawmakers today. Her prepared remarks yesterday said that such capabilities had been "obliterated" last year. She also said the objectives laid out by the US and Israeli governments for the war "are different."

• Largest gas field: US President Donald Trump said the US "knew nothing" about Israel's plan to strike the South Pars field in Iran, but sources have told CNN that the US was aware of it. Trump threatened to "blow up" the gas field if Tehran keeps up its attacks on Qatar.

• Diplomatic showdown: Saudi Arabia told CNN it "reserved the right to take military action" against Tehran, while Qatar expelled Iran's military and security attachés.

*Read More:*

8 min ago

Iran war will have "material impact" on European inflation via energy prices, ECB says

More To Read:

Updated 11:21 AM EDT, Thu March 19, 2026

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Top intelligence officials back on Capitol Hill for House hearing on global threats

And in the Senate, Markwayne Mullin's nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary has advanced

*What We're Covering:*

• Global threats hearing: Top Trump administration intelligence officials are facing more questions from lawmakers now at a House committee hearing on the Annual Threat Assessment.

• What the intel chief said: Yesterday in the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fielded questions on underlying intelligence for the war in Iran and her presence at an FBI search of a Georgia elections office. She also said it is "not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat," instead saying that ultimately it lies with Trump.

• DHS nominee vote: Sen. Markwayne Mullin's nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary has advanced, meaning the full Senate is set to vote on it as early as next week. His hearing yesterday turned tense at times.

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Mullin’s nomination to lead DHS advances after Fetterman joins with Republicans in vote

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Updated 11:14 AM EDT, Thu March 19, 2026

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadians in Middle East warned not to record or share war videos

'Doing so could lead to fines, imprisonment or deportation,' Global Affairs Canada says

Global Affairs Canada is warning Canadians in the Middle East to refrain from documenting military activity as war engulfs the region. In a post on X Tuesday, the government warned that "taking, sharing or possessing" photos or videos of military activity or damage "could lead to fines, imprisonment or deportation." The post specifically mentions Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabi and the United Arab Emirates.

This comes after dozens of foreigners were arrested for sharing videos in Gulf states that are facing strikes from Iranian drones and missiles as part of the U.S-Israeli war in Iran. Legal group Detained in Dubai said last week that 21 people were charged under UAE's cybercrime laws, including a 60-year-old British man in Dubai...

WATCH | Dubai cracking down on social media posts:

• Arrests in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait:
• WATCH | Tight rules restricting social media activity:

Posted: Mar 18, 2026 4:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 18

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Assaults, injuries and classroom evacuations: Alberta teachers detail violence in schools

Many educators say complexity plays a role; some call for stricter discipline

Alberta teachers say they face increasingly dangerous conditions at school, with the most common threat coming from their own students. CBC News surveyed teachers across the province this year. Hundreds wrote about violence they experience on the job, including suffering concussions and other injuries; students kicking, scratching, punching and biting them; and regularly having to evacuate a classroom because of a student's temper.

• What has been your experience with Alberta schools? Whether you’re a teacher, parent or student, we want to hear from you. Send an email to ask@cbc.ca.

• Read our Inside the Classroom series at cbc.ca/inside.

Many respondents detailed how classroom complexity can sometimes tie into disruptive and violent behaviour in their classrooms.

CHART | 1 in 5 lost-time claims in Alta. school since 2021 caused by violence

• When complexity escalates:
• Need more than ‘sorry’:

Posted: Mar 19, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

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