Canada’s lead trade negotiator with the U.S. Janice Charette has warned her American counterparts that if the White House imposes new 50 per cent tariffs on Aug. 19, it could put further trade talks at risk.
Industry sources tell CTV News there was no ultimatum given to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, but that he does understand the reality of the situation.
Charette’s comments were first reported by The Globe and Mail on Wednesday.
Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran.
Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and the Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.
More than 135,000 hectares—1,350 square kilometres—of British Columbia Crown land has been identified or committed for transfer to First Nations through modern treaties and other agreements, according to provincial documents released this week. The area is roughly 12 times the size of Vancouver.
The province is also negotiating five modern treaties with the Te’mexw Treaty Association (TTA) that include approximately 1,565 hectares of Crown land in proposed treaty settlement areas.
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Female Toronto Police officer abandons her cruiser after it comes under attack
We need to have a conversation about this.
What would she do if your family was under attack and needed help?pic.twitter.com/J5knBpcnIE
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) August 12, 2026
This vid has been floating around for a couple of weeks but no backstory exists.
CALGARY — One Liberal MP, Shaun Chen has some questionable travel expenses that show him traveling from Toronto to Ottawa on the same date TikTok clips show him in China.
Chen, the current MP for Scarborough North, announced he would be retiring from his role on Monday, though this will not take effect until Saturday.
A drone captured the incredible moment a whale pushed a paddleboard with its fin.
Maximiliano Jonas filmed the amazing footage off the coast of Puerto Madryn, Argentina
[📹 maxijonas] pic.twitter.com/I3nVP7R9RU
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 12, 2026
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ran a counterintelligence operation appearing to run cover for Biden family Ukraine business dealings and other Democrats, labeling them victims of Russian disinformation, while labeling many prominent Republicans as “conduit(s)” of such disinformation.
When will the left admit this is Islamic conquest?
Police have laid charges against a Halifax man in connection with a bomb threat that closed several downtown streets Monday.
Ali Assakereh, 54, is charged with uttering threats against the U.S. consulate in Halifax and committing public mischief by misleading police.
Pretty much everything President Donald Trump does outrages leftists, including (and for some, especially) breathing, but few of his words and deeds drive them into the paroxysms of rage that his criticism of their favorite religion inspires. Although he was much stronger and more vocal regarding the jihad threat during his first term than his second, Trump steadfastly refuses to mouth “religion of peace” platitudes, and on Monday, that earned him yet another in an apparently endless string of New York Times hit pieces.
There is one line in the Home Office fact sheet on this year’s figures for Prevent – the UK’s counter-radicalisation referral scheme – that is more informative than the rest of the report combined: referrals for ‘fascination with extreme violence or mass-casualty attacks’ peaked at 286 between April and June, before falling to 183 over the summer. The Home Office’s explanation? The schools broke up.
Islam remains the most negatively viewed faith in Canada, but opinion of Judaism fell furthest over 15 months, according to a new national survey.
Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, which commissioned the Leger survey, said in an email that “the biggest change is in views toward Judaism.”
During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to flying saucers. At one point during the discussion, Fermi blurted out: “Where is everybody?” – or, as another participant remembered it, “Don’t you ever wonder where everybody is?” If aliens exist, in other words, why have we never encountered them?
The episode has become famous, marking the moment when extraterrestrial life went from a theme for philosophical speculation to a serious scientific problem. For centuries, people had wondered whether life exists on the moon or Mars, but they accepted that we would never know for certain, since making contact with another planet was impossible. By the 1950s, those limits no longer seemed so fixed. In addition to space flight, researchers were developing tools to detect the radio signals that reach us from stars many light years away. These developments were still in their infancy, but it was already clear that humanity was no longer bound to Earth the way it always had been.
The Oval Office: ET’s, UAP’s and Disclosure
Navdeep Bains, who casual political observers might recall as the “superclusters” guy in the Justin Trudeau government, had his first debate-night opportunity to demonstrate why he is the front-runner to become the Ontario Liberal Party’s next leader. Mr. Bains is the preferred candidate among establishment Liberals; he’s raised the most money, he has the greatest name-recognition, and he’s backed by a well-established political machine equipped to sign up new party members to vote in November.
Europe today resembles a civilization that has forgotten not only what it once was, but why it ever existed. There is something tragic, Shakespearean, about watching the slow eradication of nations that produced Aristotle and Aquinas, Dante and Da Vinci, Newton and Einstein, the Renaissance and the industrial age. Andre Rieu playing the violin while the continent burns.
Spoiled by prosperity generated by their entrepreneurs. Lulled into a deceptive sense of safety created by the rise of America’s military power after WWII. Deceived by their elites into seeing their shared cultural values as embarrassing relics of pre-globalist times. Opening the gates to migrants from dysfunctional societies, with no opportunities or demands for assimilation.
