NEW: High school track runner gets attacked with a baton in the middle of a relay at the VSHL Class 3 State Indoor Championships.
Kaelen Tucker was on the second leg of the 4x200m relay at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, when she got smacked in the head.
Tucker suffered a… pic.twitter.com/DXPMwZcaRP
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 9, 2025
Journalist James Bennet, formerly of the New York Times and once considered the “heir apparent” to run the paper, before being forced out amid a left-wing staff revolt in 2020, recently gave a talk for The Point, a Chicago-based scholarly magazine, titled “Is There a Mainstream Media?”
This is hysterical Enjoy pic.twitter.com/Z7o83xPDTF
— Michelle Maxwell (@MichelleMaxwell) March 9, 2025
h/t XC
OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government signed an initial deal with Irving Shipbuilding for the Royal Canadian Navy’s new River-class destroyers.
The implementation contract is worth $8 billion for the first six years and only covers part of the tab for the first three ships — which will eventually cost $22.2 billion.
Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee hailed it as a major step forward for the project meant to replace the Navy’s aging destroyers.
Irving? Good choice.
Leaks, ineffective anchors, mechanical breakdowns among ongoing problems facing new Arctic patrol ships
One Hollywood insider claims Netflix is “done” with Meghan Markle after her With Love, Meghan debut was savaged by fans. “They’ve lost so much money on her,” the source reportedly said. But conflicting reports suggest that enough viewers are hate-watching Markle’s food and lifestyle series, resulting the show getting renewed for another season.
My point is, given how the Liberals essentially ‘own’ anti-American-style nationalism, it’ll be difficult for the Conservatives to exploit anti-Trump feeling. Difficult, but not impossible.
To borrow a phrase from the movie Spinal Tap, the nationalistic feeling in Canada is amped up to 11.
Indeed, it seems like I get a patriotic meme from one of my friends featuring maple syrup, beavers, moose, or Canadian geese every day.
Of course, we all know why this is happening.
LOL! @fancypants_s https://t.co/yM2Dop2tYb
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) March 9, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Susan Delacourt: The handover will take a few days, but Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister will essentially wrap up this weekend. I know we both have thoughts on his legacy, Matt, and I suspect we may disagree on some points. Let’s start with the big question: how will you remember his nearly decade in power?
Matt Gurney: It’ll be tough to keep it all straight. Trudeau should get a mix of praise and blame for things he actively had control over. He’ll have wins and losses when historians do the final tally. But, overall, I think what I’ll remember most is that the prime minister missed the boat on big, threatening global changes. I think that may be what defines him. Wrong man for a new era that arrived on his watch.
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Armed man shot by Secret Service near White House while Trump out of town
WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed man believed to be traveling from Indiana was shot by U.S. Secret Service agents near the White House after a confrontation early Sunday, according to authorities.
No one else was injured in the shooting that happened around midnight about a block from the White House, according to a Secret Service statement. President Donald Trump was in Florida at the time of the shooting.
The Secret Service received information from local police about an alleged “suicidal individual” who was traveling from Indiana and found the man’s car and a person matching his description nearby.
‘Amped up over Trump:’ U.S. President top issue to influence federal election vote, survey says
A new Nanos Research survey released Sunday says U.S. President Donald Trump – and how to deal with him – is the top issue influencing how Canadians are voting in the next federal election.
The survey – done exclusively for CTV News – surveyed more than 1,000 Canadians, finding that 36 per cent of respondents said Trump is the most important issue to influence their vote. The economy followed closely in second, at 29 per cent.
“This speaks to a situation where Canadians are amped up over Trump and his threats to the Canadian economy,” Nanos Research Founder Nik Nanos said in a panel on CTV Question Period airing Sunday.
Remember – The same people who call us racist white privileged settlers occupying Turtle Island and spent the last 10 years denigrating Canada and Canadians have suddenly donned a Pre-Fab Patriotism, with the goal of retaining power for their Globalist pals.
Billionaire Elon Musk threw his weight behind a US exit from NATO, saying on his social media platform that it “doesn’t make sense for America to pay for the defense of Europe.”
The senior adviser to US President Donald Trump was responding to a post on X early Sunday that asserted the US should “Exit NATO *now*!”
Mark Carney will be selected as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday.
Oh, I know, there are three other candidates in the race, including former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. But Carney should win resoundingly.
Business deals inform the nation’s politics
Mounted atop a former warehouse in Hamburg’s industrial-era docklands, the billowing form of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall rises above Germany’s second-largest city like an ocean wave. The glass-panelled building crowns a new, forward-looking section of the city, a modern and elegant counterpoint to the seedy Reeperbahn nearby. Built with the help of taxes raised from round-the-clock trade from the sprawling port it overlooks, it’s a testament to the country’s remarkable success as a trading nation, as globalisation opened new markets for “Made in Germany” goods.
The building’s scope and ambition echo the Victorian grandeur that can be found in Liverpool and London, and the epic public buildings of Paris, Antwerp and Amsterdam. It’s a building that marks a golden age. Its foundation stone was laid in 2007, when Germany was still Exportweltmeister (world’s top exporter) and before the convulsions of Brexit, Donald Trump’s trade wars, and Vladimir Putin’s efforts to carve up and control Ukraine. The opulent venue was finally finished in 2017, the same year Angela Merkel secured her final term as chancellor and the far-Right AfD showed signs of its political potential. Less than a decade later, it looks like a totem to a bygone era.
Trudeau met with Paul King Jin in his first term as Prime Minister
Early in his time as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau met with Paul King Jin, a British Columbia businessman who would go on to become a central figure in the province’s money-laundering inquiry.
The existence of the meeting was confirmed by three sources with knowledge of the encounter.
Mr. Trudeau met Mr. Jin, who was among about a dozen people, in a conference room at the Executive Inn Express Richmond, a now-closed hotel near the Vancouver airport, one of the sources said.
Before Gene Hackman faded from public view in his adopted hometown of Santa Fe, N.M., the locals would see the aging movie star on the golf course or in his truck or walking his beloved dogs in the enchanted western city, amid the mesquite, juniper and pinyon pine.
His wife, Betsy Arakawa, was often alongside him. There was much about his life that she managed. She set up the golf games with his friends. She policed his diet, given the heart trouble that had dogged him for decades. She diluted his wine with soda water. She typed and edited the novels he wrote by hand.
OTTAWA — As Canada bids farewell to one of its most polarizing prime ministers in a generation, the past decade will undoubtedly be defined by Justin Trudeau’s many scandals and missteps.
