U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on all cars and trucks to 50 per cent next year following a collapse in trade talks with Canada.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Canadians are backing Mark Carney on the U.S. trade war — but how far will the support go?
For the past 18 months, I’ve used the phrase “precarity mindset” to describe something deeper than financial stress. It is the feeling that the systems you depend on may not hold, that the future is getting harder to predict and that events beyond your control can suddenly change the course of your life.
When people feel that way, they do not need a leader to promise that everything will be fine. They need the risk acknowledged, the truth explained, a path forward and some sense that they still have agency.
That was the setting for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address to Canadians on Saturday morning.
Berlin Rejects Establishment as AfD, Die Linke Dominate ahead of September Vote
Berlin is heading towards one of its most fragmented elections since reunification, with the radical-left Die Linke (The Left) and hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surging as establishment parties that have dominated the capital for decades lose ground.
A Forsa poll published by t-online on Saturday put Die Linke first on 22 per cent, four points ahead of both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and AfD on 18 per cent. Die Grünen (Greens) stand at 16 per cent and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at just 12, while Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW and the liberal–centrist Free Democratic Party (FDP) would miss the 5 per cent threshold.
‘Put the national interest first’: Poilievre asks Carney to recall Parliament to scrutinize collapsed Trump trade talks
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is formally requesting that Prime Minister Mark Carney recall Parliament to scrutinize his decisions to end trade talks with the U.S. and retaliate with dollar-for-dollar tariffs.
Poilievre made his request in a letter sent to Carney on Sunday evening, saying “we must put the national interest first.”
“Canadians elect Parliament to defend their interests and decide the hard questions. Those questions can no longer wait. The Official Opposition has a duty to ask questions and hold the government to account. That is why I write to ask you to reconvene Parliament without delay.”
The images that shocked the world: How Taliban’s medieval barbarity was exposed by video showing a woman stoned to death for adultery
Standing in a hole dug into a barren Afghan mountainside, you can just about see Rukhshana’s face poking above the surface.
Surrounding her is a group of Taliban picking up rocks from the ground and, one by one, hurling them at the terrified young woman.
Her agonised cries grow louder and louder as the barrage of rocks strikes her with sickening thuds.
Charlebois: Ottawa’s tariff trap — don’t weaponize the grocery bill
Canada’s trade negotiations with the United States have failed. Washington has imposed 50% tariffs on approximately $28 billion worth of Canadian products, and Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised a dollar-for-dollar response beginning Sept. 8.
Retaliation may be politically inevitable. But Ottawa must proceed very carefully. In attempting to punish Washington, Canada could easily end up punishing Canadian families at the grocery store.
Tariffs are taxes. Full stop.
Iran threatens to strike US companies after Trump declares economic war
Iran has threatened to strike American businesses if Donald Trump launches his “economic D-Day” campaign to force Tehran to accept a deal to end the war.
Mohsen Rezai, the head of Iran’s national security council, also warned allies of the US that they would be considered enemies, and their interests harmed, if they joined the US president’s financial warfare.
Mr Trump said on Wednesday that Iran would face “economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale”.
John Carpay: Quebec Court Ruling a Hopeful Sign of Resistance to Cancel Culture in Canada
In a free society, should government-owned facilities be available only to people who hold the “right” opinions? The Superior Court of Quebec has given a clear “non.” Justice Alain Trudel has ordered Quebec Tourism Minister Caroline Proulx to pay $60,637 in general and punitive damages to Harvest Ministries International after she ordered the cancellation of its contract to use the Centre des congrès de Québec for a Christian conference.
This case is about whether government officials can use their control over public property to censor (and effectively punish) citizens who hold what are deemed controversial opinions.
WTF?
People will stop attending https://t.co/gyxISMeKub
— Diane Weber Bederman (@dianebederman) August 23, 2026
AUBUT: Tear down the ‘House of Mirrors’ — Canada desperately needs a reset
Identifying Canada’s democratic defects is easier than correcting them.
Part One of this series described a political system filled with institutions that appear to restrain government but frequently lack the independence or authority needed to do so. Parliament supposedly controls the government, although a disciplined majority government normally controls Parliament. Senators review legislation but are appointed. Courts protect constitutional rights but act only after someone launches a costly and lengthy challenge. Watchdogs investigate misconduct but rarely impose consequences. Elections allow governments to be replaced, but provide citizens with little control between votes.
WTF?
I think she's possibly the most delusional and repulsive person in politics. https://t.co/2ixo61rxX5
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) August 23, 2026
The collapse of the postwar order
Since 1945, several pillars of Western life have been taken as given. First, that Western armies can more or less have their way with lesser powers and that guerrilla resistance is all they can expect to face. Second, that immigration means greater cultural diversity and therefore represents a net positive for the nations on the receiving end. Third, that nearly any country can become a liberal democracy, for it is a universal good that everyone aspires to and is capable of achieving.
Iran Is Betting America Will Cut And Run
Iran has stymied the United States for the moment, even though, by almost any conventional measure, it should be decisively defeated. The American people grudgingly believed their president when he said the conflict would be over quickly. Unfortunately, the enemy got their vote.
Let there be no mistake: Iran has not achieved any victory, much less a military one. It has suffered hundreds of billions in damage and a decimated pool of former leaders. Yet, like a punch-drunk fighter, it still stands. Don’t confuse defiance for victory, though.
William Watson: Carney not signing trade deal was good, war talk wasn’t
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war , said Winston Churchill, who was well-versed in both. Of course, Churchill never jaw-jawed with Donald Trump, notorious bad-faith bargainer.
Near the end of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s news conference Saturday the National Post’s Christopher Nardi asked whether we were now in a trade war with the United States. “We were attacked,” Carney answered, “You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked.” So we are “at war” with by far our most important trading partner. It was a candid offhand remark that provided the lead to many news reports of Carney’s comments and is bound to have been noted in the White House. Firm action is good. Not signing a bad deal is good. Taunting a hair-trigger megalomaniac isn’t.
Islamist Groups to Move Up To $140M from Charity into Buying Elections
Islamic charity really isn’t ‘charity’, unlike Judeo-Christian charity, it’s about expanding the Islamic presence and subjugating civil society to Islam. So weaponizing Islamic ‘charity’ to elect Islamic candidates to take over America is the essence of Koranic ‘charity’.