Europe’s nuclear delusion

Macron would never risk Paris for Vilnius

He’s not even chancellor yet, but Friedrich Merz already wants to revolutionise European security. In a recent interview on German television, he called for a European nuclear umbrella, with the Federal Republic swapping US protection for the backing of Britain and France. His geopolitical gambit isn’t surprising: the current generation of European political elites has never experienced such a crisis of confidence in the transatlantic relationship, with Donald Trump smashing the certainties they’ve held dear since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Mark Norman: Canada faces a lonely future of isolation

A darkening mood is settling in across Canada as it becomes clear that our country has come under siege by those we had previously believed to have been our closest friends and partners. We may have hoped that this would not come to be, but we are here now and we can’t pretend otherwise. Despite the appearance of randomness and incoherence, we are beginning to more clearly understand the rudimentary strategy at play behind what some have observed as “a dumb” move.

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Slain gang leader who ‘lured nine Mexican students to cartel-ridden city’ jokes on camera before horror murders

A startling video has revealed the moment a gang leader pranked one of the nine students whose dismembered bodies were found on the side of a road in Mexico last weekend.

José ‘EL Jocha’ Lavariega was seen in the clip trying to scare one of the young people inside a hotel – before they were all found dead, with their hands chopped off, on the side of a road in Puebla.

Lavariega – who was friends with the nine slain students and invited them to cartel-ridden Oaxaca to commit robberies against local people – was also shot dead in his car not long after, with the culprit leaving a note at the scene, calling him a ‘thief.’

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Ramadan instead of a Carnival: they call it multiculturalism

There must be a moment when we understand the logic of multicultural madness. And this should be one of them.

“Nuremberg cancels children’s carnival,” the BILD reports.

Threats have forced the German city to cancel the Rose Monday children’s carnival parade. The reason: the terrorists named potential targets, including carnival parades. No carnival in Munich.

“Ramadan instead of carnival: the failure of the multicultural project,” writes Anna Diouf with the necessary irony.

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Liberal Government to create pathway allowing corporate parasites to impoverish Canadian citizens & hire illegal alien invaders as cheap labour

Canada to grant legal status for thousands of undocumented construction workers

Up to 6,000 undocumented construction workers will be given a pathway to gain legal status in Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said in a news conference Friday.

“These undocumented migrants are already living and working in Canada, and are contributing to the sector,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said in a statement.

“This pathway will keep them here legally so that they can continue to build the homes our economy and communities need with the proper protections.”

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Mark Milke: Chronic Canadian apologies

Justin Trudeau crying on cue.

Canadian politicians agree on virtually nothing except that apologies are owed.

In recent decades, the first high-profile regret for history came in 1988 from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for the internment of Japanese Canadians and the government’s theft of their property during the Second World War. Next was a 1990 apology for how the government declared Italian Canadians “enemy aliens” in that same war (after Italy joined the Axis against Canada and her allies). In 2001, Ron Duhamel, the Veterans’ Affairs minister in the Jean Chretien government, expressed official regret for the army’s execution of 23 soldiers during the First World War. In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized for residential schools, where native Canadian children attended (sometimes by force, and sometimes at the request of parents) between the 1880s and 1990s and where sexual and physical abuses occurred.

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Trump targets Canadian dairy, lumber with threats of reciprocal tariffs

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose new tariffs on Canadian dairy products, claiming that Canada has been unfairly shutting out American farmers.

Trump insists Canada’s “tremendously high tariff of 250%” makes it “impossible for us to sell dairy products into Canada,” and warns the US could respond with reciprocal measures.

“This isn’t fair,” said Trump in the Oval Office.

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Europe Must Fully Cooperate with Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts

Coalition of the unarmed

Although a ceasefire to stop the killing in Ukraine appeared closer this week after Ukrainian President Zelensky sent President Trump a letter promising to cooperate with his peace efforts, European states are floating several unhelpful proposals that could hurt the peace process.

Zelensky was supposed to sign a deal at the White House last Friday, giving the U.S. access to his country’s rare earth mineral deposits. However, Zelensky’s insistence on first resolving other issues and his rude behavior during an Oval Office meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance caused him to be booted from the White House and his relationship with Trump to break down.

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Will Canadians Warm Up to the Steely Banker Eyeing Trudeau’s Job?

It was the summer of 2007. Deep inside Canada’s finance ministry, high-ranking officials were staring down the barrel of a global financial meltdown.

They weren’t sure exactly when, or how, the market would crash, but as Mark Carney tells it, “We knew that the thing was going to fall apart.”

It was a turning point for Mr. Carney, then a senior public servant, and began the next chapter of his career managing economic crises as the governor of national banks in Canada and Britain.

Nope.

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Cut Federal Funding to Barnard

President Donald Trump has pledged to cut federal funding to schools that do not protect Jewish students from anti-semitic harassment and violence. The best place to begin this process is Barnard College in New York City. Cutting funding to major research universities threatens cutbacks on grants for medical and other important scientific research. Barnard College, on the other hand, is not a university. It does not have a medical school. Its faculty does little or no research that would affect Americans on a day-to-day basis. Cutting off federal aid to Barnard would have few negative impacts on issues that legitimately concern Americans, especially if it focuses on discriminatory actions and does not interfere with protected free speech.

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Poilievre pledges to close ‘Carney loophole’ on disclosures for leadership candidates

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would amend the Conflict of Interest Act if elected prime minister, saying it would close the “Carney Loophole.”

… In a video posted to social media, Poilievre blasts Liberal leadership front-runner and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney for whom the policy is named after. 

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