The first few weeks of the Trump administration have been so shocking that even seasoned observers of American politics are having a hard time keeping up. One of the latest proclamations from the President is that he may attempt to cut the American military budget in half. Defence company stocks in the United States declined significantly following the news.
German women are making TikTok dances support of the AfD party, the only political party that supports mass deportations.
The German media portrays AfD as a far right party, but most of their positions are normal. They merely also want deportations.pic.twitter.com/IOg2xAyc8e
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 17, 2025
‘We’ve been tokenized’: Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s entire Indigenous advisory circle resigns
Members of an Indigenous advisory committee at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet say they’re cutting ties with the organization after seven years.
The Indigenous advisory circle — comprising lawyer Danielle Morrison, two-spirit elder Albert McLeod and University of Winnipeg professor Kevin Lamoureaux — resigned en masse along with a board member via letter on Friday afternoon.
The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada’s oldest ballet company “a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization,” the ballet’s website says.
What the Hell? Why is cultural appropriation always a one-way street?
“It was absolutely disgusting. They sought to defame and slander a bunch of young people whose only crime that they had committed, in the eyes of the liberal Left, were loving America, supporting Donald Trump and being jubilant about his return to the White House,” said CJ Pearson, co-chairman of the GOP Youth Advisory Council which organised the party.
The Retail Council of Canada says Ontario’s blue-box recycling program will cost companies $740 million in 2026 to run, nearly four times as much as when they shared the cost of curbside collection with municipalities before the program was privatized beginning in 2023.
The retail council is asking the provincial government to revamp the program to offset these costs for companies, which include any business or manufacturer whose materials end up in the blue box.
The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration has quit after a disagreement with Elon Musk over the ‘First Buddy’ and DOGE attempting to access government records.
Musk, a ubiquitous presence beside President Trump early in his second term, has used DOGE in his quest to slash unnecessary waste, fraud and abuse from government.
Social security is no different, as Musk today shared staggering data claiming there are millions of dead Americans still eligible for social security payments.
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
WTF??? Elon Musk’s DOGE finds $4.7 trillion in Treasury payments on untraceable budget line – and no one knows where the money went
h/t Mauser
As President Trump looks north and repeatedly presses his case to absorb Canada as the “51st state,” politically minded Democrats who are otherwise outraged by almost everything else about his agenda find themselves contemplating a potential electoral boon should it ever happen.
Few in Washington take the prospect all that seriously, of course. Canada has made clear that it has no interest in joining the United States, and Mr. Trump seems unlikely to send in the 82nd Airborne Division to force the matter. But if the idea appeals to Mr. Trump’s grandiose sense of himself as an empire-building historic figure, it could also undercut his own party’s prospects.
We are a stereotype in the NYT’s world view.
Few recent pieces of British legislation have proved as controversial as the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, introduced by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater. Despite assisted suicide being decisively rejected by parliament multiple times in past years (including by 330-118 votes in 2015), Leadbeater has pushed on with her bill in the face of mounting opposition.
The bill was published only days before its second reading and one of its supposedly “robust” safeguards was a requirement for sign-off from a High Court judge for each individual case. For many MPs, who were denied the chance to take more time over this life-and-death issue, this so-called ‘safeguard’ was central to its appeal, and they saw judicial oversight as a vital check.
All five Liberal leadership candidates say they’ve paid the final $125,000 due Monday evening that’s required to stay in the race. Now, ahead of English and French debates in Montreal next week, the contenders are rolling out more policy proposals to sway Canadians to join their side.
On Monday morning, the Liberal Party announced former TVA-Québec anchor Pierre Jobin would moderate the French leadership debate in Montreal on Feb. 24. The party also announced former CBC News host Hannah Thibedeau would moderate the English debate that will take on Feb. 25.
In America they teach you to defend yourself from a man with a knife with a hollow point 9mm round to center mass. https://t.co/AkQHVqVc5v
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 18, 2025
Overnight, the leader of the “Ziz” trans terror cult Jack “Andrea” LaSota, also known as “Ziz,” and co-member Michelle Zajko were arrested in Maryland. Zajko has been on the run since the Inauguration Day killing of border patrol agent David Maland during a traffic stop in Vermont.
Why are so many Canadians soft on crime?
Who do we care about in this country?
Victims or soft-headed, hand-wringing liberals who don’t have their priorities together?
Shocking video has captured the moment a Delta plane carrying 80 people burst into flames upon landing on an icy runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The extraordinary footage comes as Canadian authorities reveal they are still working to determine the cause of the crash, calling for patience as they seal off two runways and recruit reinforcements from the United States.
All 76 passengers and four crew members survived the Monday crash, which comes on the heels of a terrible month of aviation disasters across North America.
A clear visual of the the Delta CRJ900, operated by Endeavor Air as Flight DL4819 from Minneapolis St. Paul, crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, flipping onto its side on the snow-covered Runway 24R, but miraculously, all the occupants survived.
— FL360aero (@fl360aero) February 18, 2025
