KLEIN: Carney’s golden chance to rescue Prairie farmers

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been handed a golden parachute by the Chinese government. Their ambassador has said quite plainly: if Canada removes its 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, China will reciprocate by dropping its crippling levies on Canadian agriculture, most notably canola and pork. It’s not a gift. It’s leverage. But it’s an opportunity.

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Trump threatens Putin with sending Tomahawks to Ukraine

Donald Trump has threatened to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Vladimir Putin blocks a peace deal.

Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with the US president in Washington, DC on Friday, following two phone conversations this weekend in which they discussed the long-range missiles.

Provision of Tomahawks, which would theoretically allow Ukraine to strike Moscow and much of western Russia, would mark a major step-up in American support and a hardening of Mr Trump’s stance against Putin.

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‘If there is no demand, we can’t operate’: Small landlords ponder future after foreign student cuts

Issmat Al-Akhali had plans to expand his Halifax student residence business to other locations in Canada given that his Granville Hall residence had a wait list teeming with students.

He was on track to add another residence in the Nova Scotia capital and develop one near the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown. His long-term goal was to expand outside of Atlantic Canada.

Yea we should definitely swamp the country with 3rd World migrants so this guy can rent them rooms.

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Lottery-Based Military Conscription Comes to Germany

Germany’s governing coalition has reached a compromise on reinstating military conscription, agreeing that a lottery system will determine which young men will be required to serve.

The deal between the centre-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats (SPD) follows months of tense negotiations over how to address the Bundeswehr’s chronic manpower shortages amid rising security concerns in Europe.

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Many young Canadians will never earn more than their parents due to social mobility barriers: Report

When it comes to improving their standard of living, young Canadians are facing an uphill battle. A new report, published by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), highlights the difficulties younger Canadians in many provinces are facing in achieving higher earnings and a better standard of living than their parents. The report highlights the range of factors contributing to these barriers to social and income mobility, pointing to housing and high youth unemployment.

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HANNAFORD: Your body is not state property

Here we go again. According to a poll by Research Co., nearly three-quarters of Canadians — 72%  — believe childhood vaccinations should be mandatory in their province. That’s up five points from last year. To many, this seems a mark of progress: more public trust in science, more protection for the vulnerable. But before congratulating ourselves on our civic virtue, we ought to ask a harder question: what kind of society are we becoming when we endorse the state’s right to inject anybody – even children whose parents object — against their will?

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The Latest FBI Spying Makes Watergate Look Trivial

In 1972, a small team of operatives connected to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex to install listening devices. To this day, there is no conclusive evidence that Nixon personally ordered — or even knew of — the break-in beforehand. Yet Watergate shaped American political consciousness for decades. It gave the world a permanent suffix for scandal and became the ultimate symbol of abuse of power, a crisis so severe that it culminated in the only resignation of a U.S. president to preempt removal from office.

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Diplomacy with a Baseball Bat

The only people who should be surprised that U.S. President Donald Trump was able to broker a peace deal in Gaza are the ones who continue to underestimate this man.

The fact is, his language is far more deliberate and far more calculating than what often appears to be “top of the mind” or extemporaneous. So when he told Hamas that if they did not come to the peace table, he would give Israel a free hand to “finish the job,” the remaining leaders of that terrorist organization had to consider that Trump was telling them the game was up.

A for effort but peace never lasts when Islam is involved.

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No it wouldn’t …

It would be ‘idiotic’ for any party to topple government on budget vote only seven months after election, say some Liberal MPs

Barely seven months after the last federal election, it would be politically unwise for any party to topple Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government over its first budget, say Liberal MPs.

“It would be idiotic for any party to try to bring down the government at this stage,” said Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski (Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Ont.), in an interview with The Hill Times.

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The great ‘far right’ myth

IN HIS Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli says that the rulers of a republic must uphold the foundations of the official religion, for it enables them to keep the populace devout and united. He advises encouraging anything that reinforces that religion, even if false, since such fabrications inspire confidence. In ancient Rome, every form of superstition served as an instrument of manipulation and deceit in the hands of those in power. In other words, Machiavelli concluded that ideology – what the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser called the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence – is a strategic device to preserve order and impose obedience upon any human agglomeration. These days, ‘far right’ is one of the most conspicuous terms of abuse among a vast array of fallacies specifically designed to lure the uneducated.

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We must never forget the ‘progressive’ betrayal of the Israeli hostages

They’re home. After 738 days in hellish captivity, the last living Israeli hostages are free. After more than two years in the cruel bondage of that army of anti-Semites, they have tasted liberty again. Twenty souls returned to their families, and to a nation that prayed for their release. When they are ready they will tell of the horrors they endured in Hamas’s tunnels, those dank lairs of Jew hatred. But for now, in Israel and those parts of the civilised world not yet lost to Israelophobia, the emotion people will be feeling is joy.

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