Ukraine has said it is ready to accept an immediate 30-day ceasefire with Russia proposed by the US, after a day of US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would present the offer to Russia and that “the ball is in their court” – Moscow is yet to publicly comment on the issue.
Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky said it was now up to the US to convince Russia to agree to the “positive” proposal.
It’s official: Mark Carney has won the prize of prime minister. Now, he must figure out how to keep it. Carney comes to the job with a lot of pluses, chiefly his steady demeanour and economic experience, but also a pile of vulnerabilities. Already the Conservatives are gleefully exploiting them, branding him a liar, sellout, and globalist. They are saturating social media with memes and clever ads, trying to define him before he calls an election, which is likely imminent, considering the latest Nanos poll puts them a mere percentage point ahead of the Liberals.
President says charges on Canadian steel and aluminium will go ahead on Wednesday, and that Canada should consider becoming ‘our cherished 51st state’
President Trump dismissed the chaos his tariffs have unleashed on stock markets as a price worth paying to “rebuild our country” after another turbulent day fuelled by his on-off trade war with Canada.
The Canadian province of Ontario suspended its reprisal duties on electricity bound for several US states after Trump announced he would double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium from midnight.
OTTAWA — Toronto’s Jewish community is reacting with alarm to remarks made by a pair of Toronto Police constables in a now-deleted podcast episode.
Constables Haroon Siddiqui and Farhan Ali — both Muslim liaison officers — hosted an episode of the police-produced Project Olive Branch where they made a number of questionable comments, including praising the Oct. 7 2023 Hamas terror attacks for an increase in converts to Islam.
Why are @TorontoPolice officers in uniform at a police station boasting about Muslim conversion rates to Islam as a direct result after October 7th, the largest mass casualty of Jews since the Holocaust?@TPSOperations @TPSMyronDemkiw @TPAca @CACP_ACCP pic.twitter.com/bgjOeKpq9k
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) March 10, 2025
Donald Trump could deactivate supplies of American F-35 fighter jets making their way to Germany at the push of a button known as a “kill switch”, officials fear.
Germany is set to receive 35 of the world’s most advanced fighter jets for €8.3 billion (£6.9 billion) next year in a deal with the US.
The ability of the US to flip a switch that would render them inoperable has long been the subject of speculation, but until now, it has not been proven.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Canadian man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for shootings at an oil pipeline in South Dakota and an electrical substation in North Dakota that caused $1.7 million in damages after a judge found that his crimes met the definition of terrorism.
Cameron Smith, 50, was also ordered Monday to pay more than $2.1 million in restitution, the Bismarck Tribune reported, as well as fines totaling $250,000. He faces deportation after his release.
Environmentalist.
LONDON — Adrian Fenton and his wife, Joanne, had just returned home from vacation in France when they were startled to discover they had company. A teenager had somehow climbed into the bike rack on their motor home and returned with them all the way back home to Essex, in southern England.
Their next surprise: They were fined almost $2,000 for it.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the “removal” of a convicted Canadian drug trafficker, who was caught transporting more than 125 lbs of cocaine across the country in 2022.
The government agency said Tuesday that Christopher Anthony Frater, 32, was returned to Canadian authorities last week after he was convicted of a drug-related charge in 2023.
In the past few months, I have not been alone in suggesting that the people responsible for reporting on President Donald Trump’s tariff threats should read his book about negotiation. If they merely read the second chapter of ‘Art of the Deal,’ there would be a lot less amazement, and a little more confident commentary.
Now that Mark Carney has become the Liberal offering to lead Canada, does he have any books of his own to offer as a window on what he really thinks, that might matter to us, but didn’t come up in a leadership campaign during which little of him was revealed anyway?
Five more suspects have appeared in court over the brutal attacks on Jewish football supporters in Amsterdam last November, as Western liberal media outlets remain cynically silent on the incident.
One of the accused, 32-year-old Mounir M., is charged with being the administrator of the WhatsApp group in which the violence was incited and organized. As the court heard, participants in the group encouraged each other to “hunt down Jews.”
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney is hoping to be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister by the end of the week but there are some logistical hurdles like security clearances for senior members of his transition team that must happen first.
Canada’s new unelected prime minister is living, breathing proof that technocrats can’t be trusted.
Canadians have a new prime minister. After a leadership election in the ruling Liberal Party, it’s out with the woke globalist, Justin Trudeau, and in with the woke globalist, Mark Carney.
Extraordinarily, in an age where justified populist rage against an out-of-touch establishment is spreading across the globe, Canadians have ended up with a leader who embodies that very establishment. In many ways, Carney is the technocrat’s technocrat. A bone fide citizen of nowhere.
Greenland Election Update 6: Final Post
Here is the final tally for tonight:
The Democrats (Center-Right): 29.9%
Naleraq (Right): 24.5%
Inuit (Center, Incumbent): 21.4%
Siumut (Center-Left): 14.7%
Atassut (Center-Left): 7.3%
Qulleq (Who Cares): 1.1%Democrats and Naleraq are…
— CA ET Nerd (@earlyvotedata) March 12, 2025
Greenland’s centre-right opposition wins election
Greenland’s centre-right opposition has won its general election, near-complete results show, in a vote dominated by US President Donald Trump’s pledge to take over Denmark’s autonomous territory.
With more than 90% of Tuesday’s ballots counted, the Demokraatit party – which favours a gradual approach to independence – is getting nearly 30% of the vote, election officials say.
Naleraq, another opposition party which wants to immediately kick-off divorce proceedings from Copenhagen and have closer ties with the US, is polling second with about 25%.
Prime Minister Mute B Egede’s Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) – also a pro-independence party – is third with over 21%.
h/t Mauser
The United States’ fertility rate has fallen to around 1.78, which, combined with the general downward trajectory, is a cause for concern. To replace the population, a country needs to maintain a rate around 2.1.
When I was a young lieutenant arriving in Germany in 1995, I was surprised by three observations: how good beer can be, how secular European society had become, and the fact that Europeans weren’t having kids.
Asylum is a big issue in UK politics. In 2023, something like 84,000 asylum-seekers (not including Ukrainian refugees and family reunions, who took the number to just over 140,000) came to the country. After appeals, it can be expected that roughly 60% of these people will be granted the outcome they seek (for the last 10 years this has been the average rate), which is obviously to be granted leave to remain. As of June 2024 there were 224,742 cases ‘in the system’, meaning people who were waiting for a decision and those who were waiting for the outcome of an appeal having been initially refused asylum, alongside the 41,200 people in the country who had come to claim asylum, been refused and exhausted all avenues of appeal, but were still here for some reason or other.
