As Arab and Western leaders continue to discuss plans to rebuild the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has again rejected laying down its weapons.
For Hamas, preserving its weapons and military wing, Izz a-Din al-Qassam, is apparently more important than the reconstruction of thousands of homes and buildings destroyed during the Hamas-Israel war, which erupted after the terrorist group’s October 7, 2023, bloodthirsty attack on Israel.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is unsure about a 30-day tariff reprieve for automakers, which he believes could be used to try and tempt companies to move their operations south of the border.
Speaking at Queen’s Park on the second day of Canada’s tariff battle with the United States, Ford said he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were aligned in their demand that tariffs be scrapped, not reduced or delayed.
President Trump’s address to the Joint Session of Congress apparently went so well that the set of ABC News’s The View became a copium den during Wednesday’s episode. So desperate were they to find fault with Trump’s speech that Joy Behar stoked fear of Trump shaking hands with members of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, moderator Whoopi Goldberg shouted down the one ounce of criticism lobbed at Democrats for their antics.
TORONTO – Ontario will charge 25 per cent more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans starting Monday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday.
Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. Earlier this week, Ford warned the governors of those states about the coming changes.
A border wall upgrade construction project canceled by President Joe Biden is back underway in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that the Trump administration ordered the restart of a Biden-era-canceled border wall upgrade project along the Texas border with Mexico.
According to their own bizarre logic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney should be overjoyed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff jihad against Canada may cause a massive recession here.
Wonder what brought this on …
Excuse us? The @JustinTrudeau government is now in favour of oil and gas production after advocating policies for the past decade designed to keep them in the ground?
Joint Statement From Canada's Energy and Mines Ministers https://t.co/tGt5RrJJGx via @BOEReport— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) March 6, 2025
Hunter Biden is asking to withdraw his lawsuit against a former White House aide, Garrett Ziegler, whom he accused of “illegally” accessing and sharing the contents of his infamous laptop because he “does not have the resources to continue to litigate this matter.”
In a court filing on Wednesday, attorneys for President Biden’s surviving son asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed. Mr. Ziegler, who worked at the White House during Mr. Trump’s first term, maintained a comprehensive, searchable database where the public could access the contents of the laptop, including obscene photos and videos of Hunter Biden using crack cocaine and consorting with women believed to be prostitutes.
Smartest man in the room according to his demented Pappy.
Justin Trudeau said today – in what was one of, if not his final press conference as prime minister – that he won’t try to stay on in a caretaker capacity once his successor is named.
Appearing to get emotional at times when talking about his decade in power, Trudeau said he is looking forward “to a transition to my duly elected successor in the coming days or week.”
Justin Trudeau is crying. pic.twitter.com/jhCCSvqluD
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) March 6, 2025
South Korean F-16 fighter jets accidentally dropped Mk82 bombs on a town near the North Korean border during a live-fire drill, injuring 15 people and damaging multiple buildings, local media reported.
South Korean Fighter Jet Accidentally Drops Bombs on Residential Village During US-ROK Drill
During a joint US-ROK military training exercise, a South Korean fighter jet mistakenly dropped eight bombs on the residential village of Pocheon, injuring four severely and leaving… pic.twitter.com/Ul95PwvqYO
— Matt Kim (@FreeMattKim) March 6, 2025
h/t DS
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will temporarily waive tariffs on products from Mexico that fall under the North American free trade agreement, two days after launching a continental trade war.
The announcement did not mention Canada, which is also facing sweeping tariffs, despite Trump’s commerce secretary saying earlier that both countries would “likely” see a reprieve. It came shortly after Trump levelled new attacks against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a heated exchange Wednesday.
Update: Trump pausing tariffs on some Canadian goods until April 2
h/t Shasta
Donald Trump’s administration held secret talks with some of Volodymyr Zelensky’s top political opponents, it has emerged.
Four senior members of the Trump entourage spoke with Yulia Tymoshenko, the opposition leader, as well as senior members of former president Petro Poroshenko’s party, Politico reported.
Discussions centred around whether Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections, according to the report.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump’s tariffs days ahead of Sunday’s leadership vote this week.
… According to multiple Liberal sources with knowledge of what happened at Wednesday’s virtual national caucus meeting — including an MP who was there — Joly suggested that she has not yet briefed the other Liberal leadership candidates.
Actress, model, and artist Julia Fox
– Ms. Fox comes the closest to delivering the dress code The Academy was seeking.
– We can see her chest bits clearly
– However, her downstairs is covered with a nude-colored undergarment, and a long hair piece, taking the look off-track.
-… pic.twitter.com/LxoxfZ21wK— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) March 6, 2025
I have not watched the Oscar’s in years. I don’t consider myself a prude. Remember these are the folks who lecture us about wimmins rights and trannies and well everything.
h/t Patti Jo
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the most contentious blockbuster of them all? On any list of the most trouble-plagued releases in recent Hollywood history, Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would surely rank heigh-ho, heigh-ho highly. The $270 million-budget spectacle, starring Rachel Zegler as the storybook princess, finally hits cinemas this month after four years of seemingly never-ending online fury and negative news stories.
From calls to boycott the film and attacks over its alleged “f______ backward” depiction of little people, all the way to the sight this weekend of the movie’s two biggest stars onstage at the Oscars, supposedly refusing to make eye contact with each other over disagreements about Gaza, this is a film beset by controversies. Controversies that, even with a magical, fortune-telling looking-glass like the one hung in the Evil Queen’s castle, Disney could hardly have seen coming.
I’m on Team Evil Queen.
The King should stand up to Donald Trump over his threat to annex Canada because it is a “direct confrontation” to British sovereignty, the head of the Commonwealth nation’s richest province has said.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Alberta premier Danielle Smith said that the King had a duty to confront the US president in his role as head of state.
“We sing ‘God save the King’ every week when we’re in the legislature,” Ms Smith said. “I swear an oath to the King, our cabinet secrecy is affirmed by our oath to the King, and we’ve got him on our bank notes.”
