William Watson: Carney not signing trade deal was good, war talk wasn’t

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.

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Meet the American Iranians caught in the crossfire

Meet the American Iranians caught in the crossfire

Psychologist Dr Nezhat Farnoody sits in her well-appointed office in Irvine, an upscale, modern city about an hour and a half south of Los Angeles. She and her daughter, Nelly (who is also a psychologist), spend much of their time listening to Southern California’s Persian elite, a community caught between a country that welcomed and nurtured them and their mother country, Iran, with which the US is waging an on-again, off-again war.

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Harry and Meghan will look to become ‘private royals-plus’ while back in the UK and may only stay one year before moving to Canada or Australia, says source

Harry and Meghan will look to become ‘private royals-plus’ while back in the UK and may only stay one year before moving to Canada or Australia, says source

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will seek to have a hybrid private-royal status when they make their return to the UK, it has been claimed.

A source says the Sussexes will put attempts to work out a mutually beneficial relationship with the Royal Family as ‘private royals-plus’ at the top of their agenda.

However, there are now questions over how long Harry and Meghan will even remain in Britain, with suggestions that it could be as soon as six months to a year before the ‘international couple’ decide to leave again and go to Australia or Canada, the insider added.


God no.

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Vancouver, Montreal soccer fans boo U.S. anthem after trade talks break down

Vancouver, Montreal soccer fans boo U.S. anthem after trade talks break down

VANCOUVER — Soccer fans are again voicing their disappointment over trade relations between the United States and Canada by booing the American national anthem.

Jeers echoed through Vancouver’s BC Place ahead of a Major League Soccer game between the Whitecaps and FC Dallas on Saturday as singer Emma Currie launched into the opening notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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Europe’s Jihadi Migrants: Mapping Migrant Involvement in Jihadi Terrorism in Europe (2015–2025)

Europe’s Jihadi Migrants: Mapping Migrant Involvement in Jihadi Terrorism in Europe (2015–2025)

In a warm summer evening in late August 2024, a 26-year-old Syrian national named Issa al-Hasan carried out a mass stabbing at the ‘Festival of Diversity’ in Solingen, Germany, killing three people and injuring eight others.1 The attack took place in front of the main stage during a live performance by DJ Topic, who later revealed that security personnel had urged him to continue his set to prevent mass panic among the crowd. He kept playing for another 10–15 minutes, until the music was finally stopped. Eyewitnesses reported that al-Hasan, who had been in contact with an ISIS handler on Telegram the day before the attack, had shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the assault.2 One of his victims, Ines Wallusch, a 56-year-old pharmacist, bled to death in the arms of her husband after suffering a fatal stab wound to her carotid artery.

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Trump revives annexation comments as governors say tariffs on Canada will harm Americans

Trump revives annexation comments as governors say tariffs on Canada will harm Americans

U.S. President Donald Trump is reviving his annexationist rhetoric after Canada walked away from a punishing prospective trade deal.

In his first comments since talks collapsed late Friday, triggering an escalation in Mr. Trump’s continental trade war, the President posted to Truth Social shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday.

“Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!!” Mr. Trump wrote.

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It Is Not Racist to Notice Things, It’s Actually Racist to Pretend You Don’t

It Is Not Racist to Notice Things, It’s Actually Racist to Pretend You Don’t

As a charge, “racism” is completely irrelevant in 2026. “Wolf” has been cried so many times that even if it were a wolf crying it, no one would believe it or care. I should say “almost no one.” Democrats would still try to make something out of it, and Al Sharpton and Ben Crump would come to perform a little b******t two-step for the cameras and the checks. But otherwise, no one would care because, well, it is not racist to notice things.

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Mark Carney should ally with Michigan Islamist Abdul El-Sayed to score big against Trump in US midterms says Star

Mark Carney should ally with Michigan Islamist Abdul El-Sayed to score big against Trump in US midterms says Star

Abdul El-Sayed wants to be elected this fall as the next U.S. Senator for Michigan.

On Saturday, the Democratic candidate accused his Republican opponent of blindly supporting U.S. President Donald Trump and his new 50 per cent tariffs on Canada, which he said would cost Michigan families thousands of dollars a year.

“He’s a sock puppet who will do whatever Trump wants,” El-Sayed tweeted of Mike Rogers, a former FBI special agent, “no matter what it costs you.”


Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S.

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Trump says Canada wants ‘benefits’ of being US state after trade talks collapse

Trump says Canada wants ‘benefits’ of being US state after trade talks collapse

US President Donald Trump has said Canada wants “the benefits of being a State, without being one” after trade talks between the two countries collapsed late on Friday.

In his first comments since negotiations broke down, triggering new 50% US tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, Trump also said American farmers had been charged “massive amounts of Tariffs” for years.

It comes after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called the fresh tariffs a “miscalculation” designed to “hurt and divide us”.

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Cuba claims it’s the new Gaza – everything is genocide now

Cuba claims it’s the new Gaza – everything is genocide now

The UN is outraged over events in Cuba. Not at the political repression by the Communist regime, the detention of over 1,200 political prisoners, the arrests of protesters, and the government-backed prostitution of children to foreign tourists, but at the U.S. sanctions which have kept foreign tourists from coming by to molest little kids and spend money in Cuba.


This guys travelogue is often interesting

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