It’s becoming clear that large parts of the Laurentian Elite have suddenly become nervous about the implications of Alberta’s unrest. After decades of turning a deaf ear to low rumblings of discontent, from somewhere beyond the Lakehead, the Andrew Coyne Brigade is in full force waving their law books, warning about why Alberta independence is against the natural law, God’s plan and more. @acoyne Smith has no mandate to hold a referendum… Among many, many other objections.
At last, we’re (probably) going to get disclosure:
Gosh. As Ross Douthat points out, we had better watch closely to see if the Department of Energy is on Trump’s list of “relevant agencies.” The DOE is where a lot of the UAP stuff has been handled.
If you haven’t already, read Diana Pasulka’s American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, which was foundational for me in getting me to take all this seriously, for once. I just read an advance copy of her forthcoming book (July 28), The Others, and I think it’s her most important one yet. It’s only secondarily about UAPs, but is is about non-human intelligence and the future of humanity. In my view, it is not a happy story, but one that calls for people to develop their powers of discernment.
In a move Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling a betrayal, Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux is joining the Liberal caucus.
“Matt, welcome to the government team,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday, sitting down with Jeneroux for a press conference in Edmonton.
The two did not take questions from journalists.
Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s Nato members. Russia, the ninth-largest economy in the world, is up against the third, sixth, seventh and eighth in the shape of Germany, Britain, France and Italy.
Yet the reality is that, militarily, it is the other way around. Russia has the world’s second-strongest military, while France comes sixth, UK eighth, Italy tenth and Germany 12th. To put a few figures on it, Russia has 1.32 million active service personnel, 560 fighter aircraft and 3,941 tanks ready for deployment. For Britain, the corresponding figures are 141,000, 67 and 187; for France 264,000, 178 and 342; and Italy 165,000, 62 and 142.
As for Canada, it ranks a lowly 28th, despite being a G7 nation with the world’s tenth-largest economy. It has 63,000 troops, 50 fighter aircraft and 56 tanks – all to defend a landmass that is larger than that of the US. Looked at from a military perspective, it is not hard to see why Donald Trump is considering incorporating Canada into the US. After all, Canada’s vast Arctic frontier is virtually a demilitarised zone.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld lower-court rulings on President Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Powers Act, confirming that Mr. Trump’s usage of such powers to impose tariffs at will is unconstitutional and must end.
Canada’s long nightmare over U.S. tariffs is poised to change. But whether that is for better or worse depends on who within Canada we are talking about – which industry and, by extension, which province.
CBC Live Feed – Canada retains exemptions in Trump’s new order for 10% global tariffs
Backup plan?
After today's Supreme Court decision, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Trump is going to utilize alternative methods that will result in "virtually unchanged" 2026 tariff revenue.
. pic.twitter.com/q1rz95tyvZ— Paul Villarreal (AKA Vince Manfeld) (@AureliusStoic1) February 20, 2026
President Trump's remarks after today's Supreme Court decision regarding his tariffs.
. pic.twitter.com/35tk6D8NpH— Paul Villarreal (AKA Vince Manfeld) (@AureliusStoic1) February 20, 2026
The Many Trump Tariffs That Will Remain in Place
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Transgender Minnesota State Rep Leigh Finke opposes age verification laws for adult sites because he thinks it can be “educational” for kids to access it
This dude is a disgusting creep pic.twitter.com/WWqjzMILW0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2026
The left’s inability to discern truth from fantasy culminates in unintentional performance art in Germany.
Some people fail to see their own irony.
A few of them attended the premiere of Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists in Bochum, Germany, last Saturday.
The play’s theme centers around a Portuguese family’s ritualistic annual murder of a fascist. If the spectre of fascism really hung over the West, then certainly one would expect the audience disruption — in Germany, no less — to come from neo-Brown Shirts. These creatures, however, more densely populate the imaginations of those behind Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists than they do our actual world.
Donald Trump starred in countless TV shows in the 1980s, some of which you have probably never seen. pic.twitter.com/pbwZt2u8La
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 20, 2026
The sheer amount of extortion attempts and extortion-related shootings in British Columbia has commanded national and international attention. It is not surprising to see more than half of British Columbians (56 per cent) saying they have followed news related to this situation “very closely” or “moderately closely” over the past month.
At this moment, respondents of South Asian descent are more likely to be captivated by this story (67 per cent) than their counterparts whose heritage is Indigenous (59 per cent), European (56 per cent) or East Asian (55 per cent).
Transgender issues have become a serious liability for Democrats, according to a new poll by the Substack-based, left-leaning publication The Argument. The poll, which surveyed 3,003 registered voters nationally between February 4 and 10, asked about hot-button policy questions related to gender self-identification, including access to bathrooms, participation in sports teams, teaching gender identity in schools, and the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries on minors. In all those cases, a majority opposed the policies favored by the progressive faction of the Democratic Party. The only area in which a majority supported trans policies was protection from discrimination in housing and employment.
OTTAWA — Canadians fear that tariff threats from the United States are only going to get worse, a new poll found.
Forty-six per cent of Canadians believe that U.S. President Donald Trump will raise tariffs on Canada, which is an increase of 19 percentage points since May 2025. Only 20 per cent of Canadians think that tariffs will be rescinded, a decrease of 20 percentage points from last year.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided to allow American data centers to buy Chinese equipment, thereby permitting Beijing to steal as much as it wants and perhaps remotely control or take down these critical facilities. Moreover, Commerce recently has not implemented a number of other obviously needed restrictions on Chinese technology and Chinese companies.
The Trump administration’s effort to protect American infrastructure from China has collapsed. It now appears Beijing has a veto on American tech policy.
Not even being conquered seems to matter all that much
The other day I got a really scary idea. Second-hand, this time, from Post columnist Chris Selley who cast it before X last December and I pounced. Does it matter?
Not that I’m pinching it. As John Ruskin said, borrowing is fine if you pay interest. And what Selley said that should interest us all and has been haunting me since was: “Historians will (hopefully) view this as the period when Canadians and their government(s) realize, to their horror, that some things actually matter.”
Virginia Giuffre’s family has called Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest a “stain” on the royal family and said they hoped the moment would lead to a “cultural change” where powerful people are held to account.
Giuffre’s allegations of abuse by Andrew more than a decade ago paved the way for a substantial US civil lawsuit settlement, the loss of his royal titles and patronages and his removal from public life.
They couldn’t do it.
It was hoped their cause would make more of an effort than just burping up daily hysteria fuelled by social media.
But they couldn’t resist. And so we get to experience another eruption of phoney outrage.
