Conrad Black: As Canada Seeks to Diversify Trade, It Should Have No Illusions About the Chinese Regime

After eight months without any trade or tariff agreements, some people said that it was a relief to see that Prime Minister Carney had reached a partial free trade agreement with China. It appears to be substantially a liberalization of our sale of canola in exchange for their exportation to us of 49,000 electric vehicles.

To the extent that this begins a process of making Canada less dependent upon the United States economically, it is useful. And to the extent that it inaugurates a series of enterprising trade agreements with a wide variety of countries, it is the beginning of a welcome and long-overdue procession of events to end Canada’s status as a branch-plant country. This process began with the Canada -U.S. Free Trade Agreement of nearly 40 years ago, prior to which almost every company in Canada, except Canadian Pacific and the large banks, had the words “Canada Ltd.” after their names.

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An Open Letter to Europe

In Europe, America is attacked relentlessly, while China is handled delicately.

I love Europe.

I took a job unexpectedly in Milan, Italy, when I was just 22 years old. I had graduated from college less than a year earlier, and my first real experience of adulthood was not in America, but in Europe. I did not arrive as a tourist drifting from museum to café. I arrived to work, to struggle, to adapt, and to build a life inside a foreign culture.

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Pakistani cop ordered deported from Canada for contributing to ‘crimes against humanity’ wins another shot at refugee status

A Federal Court judge has given a former head constable with Pakistan’s Punjab Police Service (PPS), who was ordered deported from Canada for making ‘a voluntary, significant and knowing contribution to the crimes against humanity’ committed by the notorious force, another chance to stay in Canada.

Munir Ahmad Malhi and his wife arrived in Canada in January 2020 and soon sought refugee protection.

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Who Counsels Qatar and Turkey, Hamas’s Representatives on Trump’s Board of Peace?

As Qatar and Turkey are set to play a key role in US President Donald J. Trump’s “Board of Peace” for the Gaza Strip, it is important to note that both countries do not believe in any peace process between Israel and the Arab and Islamic countries, and they continue to embrace and sponsor Islamists who support Islamist terrorists.

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Ontario’s health-care wait times are ‘remarkably’ long

Last week, in a story about the Doug Ford government’s plan to increase the number of private clinics and reduce wait times in Ontario, one Toronto-based doctor told CTV News that Ontario’s health-care system is in “remarkably good shape.”

According to the Progressive Conservative government, nearly a quarter of children in Ontario wait too long for general pediatric care. All children wait four months (on average) for “non-urgent” treatment, compared to the government’s ridiculously long target of no more than six months. Crucially, this is only after they first wait weeks or months to see a specialist or for any diagnostics (e.g. an MRI).

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Alleged ringleader of anti-ICE, Minnesota church-storming mob arrested, AG Pam Bondi says

The alleged ringleader of an anti-ICE mob, reportedly including Don Lemon, that stormed a Minnesota church during Sunday service has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday morning.

“We have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Bondi said in a statement on X.

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Judge bans Ontario man from bringing python as mental-health service animal to family court proceedings

An Ontario man has been ordered by a Superior Court judge not to bring a snake to ongoing proceedings in a family law dispute.

According to a November 2025 decision by Justice Calum MacLeod, the man appeared at a family court case conference with an albino ball python named “Rico,” insisting that the snake was a service animal.

h/t MP

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Whoopi: ‘It’s Time! It’s Time! It’s Time!’ to Overthrow Trump With 25th Amendment

They want him overthrown. President Trump’s visit to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum where he dressed down European leaders was the final straw for the leftists of ABC’s The View. They were so fed up that, on Wednesday’s episode, ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg was openly calling for Trump to be overthrown via the 25th Amendment. It would be a move she didn’t seem educated on since it required his cabinet to act and she wanted them gone too.

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Make me puke …

Praising ‘coexistence,’ Mark Carney says Canada can show the world ‘another way is possible’

QUEBEC CITY — Following the impact of his major foreign policy speech in Davos this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke directly to Canadians on Thursday in a second wide-ranging address framed as a clarion call for the government’s vision, national unity, and the value of Canadian “coexistence.”
Carney also used the opportunity to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump, who warned the prime minister this week that Canada “lives” because of the United States, and that the Canadian leader should remember that.

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Up in Canada, They’re Signaling Genuine Virtue for Once (Really!)

The nice thing about virtue-signaling is that it requires zero actual virtue. Recite the correct incantation, and — presto-chango! — you’re a terrific person of great virtue. And how could you not be when your similarly transmogrified comrades gently finger-snap their assent to your every word? Even if you did crib those words from them and they cribbed them from a Facebook post or one of those overly wordy yard signs?

h/t Auntie Polly

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U.S. Lays Out a Glittering Plan for Gaza, Including Skyscrapers

The Trump administration laid out an ambitious and highly speculative vision for the future of the Gaza Strip at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, as Washington tries to advance the thorny cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

The presentation by Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, featured slides that depicted gleaming skyscrapers rising on Gaza’s coast and the construction of entirely new cities. The plan would require investment of at least $25 billion in the devastated Palestinian enclave, according to the proposal.

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Media Claim ICE ‘Detains‘ Child in Minnesota After Illegal-Migrant Father Arrested

ICE officers protected a single young child after the illegal-migrant father was arrested but establishment media outlets are claiming the sheltered child was “detained.”

“ICE detains 5-year-old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait,’” said the NPR headline.

“Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says,” claimed the Star Tribune newspaper in Minnesota.

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