Canada has become America’s northern security threat

Canada has become America’s northern security threat

Canada’s failed policies are doing more than fouling American air. Summer across the Midwest and East Coast has again brought unhealthy and hazardous air-quality warnings from Canadian wildfires. Poor forest management threatens public health and daily life. Canada’s immigration policies pose a deeper and more lasting danger.

Most Americans still regard Canada as a polite northern extension of the United States: familiar, friendly, and strategically harmless. That view belongs to another era. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that “nostalgia is not a strategy.” Neither is complacency.

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‘Bunch of rubbish’: Ford responds to Trump over threats of wildfire smoke tariffs

‘Bunch of rubbish’: Ford responds to Trump over threats of wildfire smoke tariffs

Premier Doug Ford says U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to introduce new tariffs on Canada over northern Ontario wildfire smoke that’s drifted south of the border is a “bunch of rubbish.”

“Rather than sit there and complain, why don’t we see some help from President Trump. Send up some water bombers, send up some wildland firefighters, but then again, they have thousands of fires going in the U.S. right now, but you don’t hear Canada ever complain,” Ford said at a news conference Monday.

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Trump again threatens tariffs over smoke after sitting with Mark Carney

Trump again threatens tariffs over smoke after sitting with Mark Carney

After sitting together with Prime Minister Mark Carney during Sunday’s World Cup final in New Jersey, U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t letting up on his threat to tariff Canada over wildfire smoke.

Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night, Trump said he has a good relationship with Carney, but the fires need to stop.

He said the fires are poisoning U.S. air, and that maybe Canada should pay damages, or the U.S. should impose tariffs.

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Canada Post spent $194 million on climate initiatives as losses topped $6 billion

Canada Post spent $194 million on climate initiatives as losses topped $6 billion

Canada Post spent nearly $194 million on climate-related initiatives over the past eight years while posting billions in losses, raising stamp prices and seeking billions in federal financial assistance, according to documents tabled in Parliament.

Blacklock’s Reporter says records submitted to the House of Commons government operations committee show the Crown corporation has spent $193.7 million on what it describes as “net zero initiatives” since 2017 — the last year it reported a profit.

(Incognito)

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Husband of ‘Maple Leaf Menace’ threatened local politicians, mocked Charlie Kirk’s death

Husband of ‘Maple Leaf Menace’ threatened local politicians, mocked Charlie Kirk’s death

The husband of the illegal immigrant from Canada arrested by ICE after allegedly slapping a patriotic teen on a Jersey Shore boardwalk mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination and threatened local pols, his twisted online posts show.

Matthew Geroni railed against local politicians to his over 142,000 followers in vile rants about gentrification in Ocean Grove, data centers and parking tickets in the June 17 video first reported by Shorenewsnetwork.

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Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower’

Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower’

Faced with a moribund economy and a more uncertain future, the federal government says Canada will exploit its abundant resource endowment to become a global energy superpower. Ottawa paved the path this week for oil producers to double production with a big pipeline announcement. Billions in government money is on the table.

If that’s the plan to revive the economy, it won’t work. We know this because that’s the strategy which the country has used over the last generation, and it has failed to deliver growth.

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Rubio urged to Fight Canada’s Bill C-22 Surveillance Law

Rubio urged to Fight Canada’s Bill C-22 Surveillance Law

Ron Wyden wants the Trump administration to treat one of America’s allies as a counterintelligence threat.

The Oregon senator wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is doubling as acting national security adviser, on July 16.

His warning centers on an invasive surveillance bill moving through Canada’s Parliament that could turn American technology companies into tools for spying on Americans.

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Noah Shack: Iran’s terror-crime nexus is a growing threat to Canadians

Noah Shack: Iran’s terror-crime nexus is a growing threat to Canadians

On July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds in the deadliest terror attack in Argentina’s history.

In the devastating aftermath, Argentina’s Jewish community — the largest in South America — was left questioning its safety and future in their country. Deepening that sense of fear was the fact that those responsible remained unidentified for more than a decade. Prosecutors ultimately identified the suicide bomber as a 21-year-old Lebanese member of Hezbollah and concluded that the attack had been directed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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‘Just stop burning fossil fuels.’ Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix

‘Just stop burning fossil fuels.’ Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix

It’s another smoky summer in southern Ontario, and people breathing poor air in and around Toronto are once again asking what governments can do about wildfire smoke.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has defended the province’s wildfire budget and has asked Ottawa for extra help. Some Republican lawmakers in the U.S. have also demanded Canada do more to stop smoke from drifting across the border.

I say we start burning EV’s instead!

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Hoekstra says Trump serious about tariff threat over wildfire smoke

Hoekstra says Trump serious about tariff threat over wildfire smoke

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump‘s threat to impose new tariffs over smoke from Canadian wildfires should be taken seriously, arguing the ongoing haze is causing economic damage in the United States.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed several major American cities, including Detroit, Washington and Chicago, prompting Trump to lash out at Canada on social media Friday.

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GOLDSTEIN: Canada still reeling from lost decade of economic opportunity under Trudeau

GOLDSTEIN: Canada still reeling from lost decade of economic opportunity under Trudeau

It’s no accident Prime Minister Mark Carney presided over the worst record of economic growth during his first year in office of any Canadian PM in more than half a century.

Actually, it was negative growth of 0.05% as reported by Bloomberg News.

Despite that, a Nanos-Bloomberg poll showed most Canadians are satisfied with Carney’s performance on the economy.

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