Author: Blazingcatfur
Like Trump, Benjamin Franklin Sought to Annex Canada
After Madelaine Drohan left a long and distinguished career in journalism for graduate studies in history, she took on a largely forgotten aspect of the relationship between Canada and the United States. The result was her recently published book, “He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada.”
My conversation with Madelaine, who is now a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, has been edited for length and clarity.
WTF?
I wonder how many truck drivers here are seeing snow for the first time in their life… pic.twitter.com/83AYKYL8O8
— maybe danielle 💻🚛🇺🇸 (@maybedanielleee) December 6, 2025
Canada plays host to World Cup games that don’t live up to its dreams
If anyone was still under the misapprehension that Canada is an equal partner in the upcoming World Cup, FIFA disabused them of that notion shortly after noon on Saturday.
Friday’s draw determined who would play whom, and when. But for the first time, it did not decide where.
That was left to an opaque process of FIFA’s own. They took 24 hours to think about it, and then they shafted Canada. It was a gentle shafting, but a shafting nonetheless.
Someone will make money off the tax payers footing the bill for this scam.
WTF?
ICE captures and deports an undocumented Muslim man praying in a parking lot. Not even Allah can save him. Would you like ICE in Europe too? pic.twitter.com/QMUmUptK56
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) December 7, 2025
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Musk: EU must be abolished
The billionaire lashed out at the officials after social media platform X incurred a €120m (£105m) fine for transparency breaches
Elon Musk has called for the EU to be “abolished” after the bloc fined his social media platform X €120m (£105m).
The billionaire lashed out at the officials who handed out the punishment for transparency breaches and threatened to pursue each country individually in a series of posts on the site, which he rebranded from Twitter in 2022.
“The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people,” Mr Musk wrote.
WTF?
Deportation Park, starring Rupert Lowe.
Created by 'Brewgaloo'… pic.twitter.com/DbIdoJEh48
— Roncalli (@Ronkalli48849) September 25, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
BC’s newest political party OneBC takes hard stance against reconciliation
BC’s newest political party, OneBC, came into the spotlight this week after their leader tried to host a public, unsanctioned event at UVic.
The public speaking event focused on denying the existence of 215+ unmarked graves at the Kamloops Residential School, and refuting the fact that what was done to Indigenous Peoples in Canada qualifies as a form of genocide.
My chief of staff, Tim Thielmann defending the truth at @uvic’s “mostly peaceful” protest. https://t.co/OalkoEpjJd
— Dallas Brodie (@Dallas_Brodie) December 4, 2025
OneBC is doing splendid work.
The New Monroe Doctrine: Trump’s New National Security Strategy Is All I’ve Ever Wanted
Welcome to “The New Monroe Doctrine,” where I give you an update on what’s going on in the Western Hemisphere, south of our border, especially as it relates to the United States.
I had something else planned to write about for this column today — specifically how some Latin American countries are handling mass migration much better than Europe — but Donald Trump released his new National Security Strategy in the last 24 hours, and upon reading it, I got a little giddy. Don’t judge. I love this stuff.
CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s food economy has a hole in the middle – and we’re paying for it
Canada’s Food Price Report 2026 projects food prices will rise by another 4% to 6% next year.
For the average family of four, that means spending roughly $17,571 on groceries in 2026 – close to $1,000 more than this year. Food is now 27% more expensive than it was just five years ago.
SLOBODIAN: Calgary pastor jailed for refusing ‘forced apology’ in drag storytime dispute
So, Calgary street pastor Derek Reimer landed behind bars again Wednesday, facing a possible two years in prison.
He’d be a free man if only he had lied and said he was sorry for offending a librarian during a brief encounter in early 2023. That was when he showed up at Saddletowne Public Library to protest drag queens reading stories to children there.
Raking In Hundreds Of Millions For Trafficking Kids Destroys U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Credibility On Immigration
Earlier this week, Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) crooned: “As we enter the Advent season, we remember that the Holy Family themselves were migrants seeking safety.” It is a recurring motif to validate the resistance of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to curtailment of illegal immigration.
In November, the USCCB prepared for Advent by declaring war on the Trump administration with a “Special Pastoral Message on Immigration.” The insurrectionist tenor of this rare “special message” places the globalist conceits — and monetary interests — of the hierarchy ahead of the just laws of their own country.
Did you ever ask your dad about the day before Pearl Harbor
We will celebrate another anniversary of Pearl Harbor tomorrow. It turns out that my dad died on December 7, 2015, or an anniversary of that fateful day. Over the years, I asked him a lot of questions about that time period, or the buildup to the attack and the U.S. entrance in that war.
Don’t stop on my account …
‘Holding my breath:’ Fear in Ottawa after Trump tirade against Somali immigrants
Somali Canadians living in Ottawa have condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s tirade against Somali immigrants and their country, saying it has stoked fear and concern within the local community.
Trump’s invective came during a cabinet meeting Tuesday, soon after reports that federal authorities were preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota focused on Somalis living illegally in the U.S.
Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage” who “contribute nothing” to the U.S. and said “I don’t want them in our country.”
You have to read this LA Times Story – U.S. Proves Bewildering for Somali Refugees
“… In their three-bedroom home in a working-class neighborhood, Lamungu, his wife, mother and six children are learning the most rudimentary basics of American life. How to use mouthwash. Toothpaste. Deodorant. They have been taught, but frequently get the items confused: A stick of deodorant is placed next to cereal boxes in the kitchen; mouthwash is hard to distinguish from dish soap.
One day, they thought they were locked in their apartment because they forgot how to unlock the door. A car trip means passing out bags to the children because they get sick from the new motion. The family had to be told to take their own garbage out; they saw their neighbor’s trash bag and decided to add their trash to it.”
Is the Imminent Closure of 50 Universities Really Such a Bad Thing?
The Guardian reports that, in the next two or three years, 50 “higher education providers” — 24 of them within a year — could (just like the providers of other goods-and-services) close down or, as Sally Weale, its education correspondent puts it, “risk exiting the market”. Sally thinks — that is, takes it for granted — that this a bad and unhappy circumstance, to be spoken of as ‘collapse’, ‘threat’, ‘turmoil’, ‘worry’, ‘disorder’, ‘fear’. And no doubt, from the point of view of the providers themselves, that is just what it is. What provider of goods-and-services — no matter what — wants to be forced to exit its market? It is a poor look-out for all the employees thrown out of work, and can’t be a good look on the managers’ own CVs. And then there are all those job-seekers the provider provided with qualifications. If their provider goes bust and out of existence what does that suggest to potential employers about the worth of the goods they were provided with? From the point of view of everyone whose interest is bound up with the provider’s, its exiting the market is, as Sally suggests, very bad news.