Canada

OTTAWA – Ottawa’s Indo-Pacific strategy has yet to give Canada adequate visibility or distinguish it from the U.S. in the region, experts have told researchers commissioned by the federal government.

The Liberals launched the strategy in late 2022 to make Canada a partner of choice for some of the fastest-growing economies on the planet. In releasing the strategy, Ottawa acknowledged that it is perceived locally as having engaged only intermittently in the region over the decades.

More than two years later, a report commissioned by Global Affairs Canada says regional experts see Canada as “a strategic but secondary player aligned with U.S. geopolitical priorities” that is “often perceived as an extension of U.S. foreign policy rather than an independent global actor.”

The State Department took issue with a stream of that initiative that prioritizes the hiring of diverse journalists, including those who are Indigenous, Black, have disabilities or are part of the LGBTQ community. The report claimed that discriminated “against journalists who fell outside of these favoured categories.”

OTTAWA – The U.S. State Department is taking aim at Canada’s Online News Act in a human rights report that criticizes press freedom in Canada — which experts characterized Thursday as Orwellian.

The Online News Act, which requires Meta and Google to compensate news publishers for the use of their content, is cited in a section of the report covering freedom of the press.

“The U.S. is determined to crush two important pieces of Canadian legislation, the Online News Act and the Online Streaming Act. Their end game is clear,” said Fen Hampson, an international affairs professor at Carleton University.

The only Newspeak spoken is by the racists attempting to mask their blatant support for DEI and their hatred of White males. 

And what “historical harms”? Correct spelling? Good Grammar? Coloring within the lines?

Oh look Hermida was with the bullshit BBC.

As the Carney government tries to sort out Canada’s relationship with the Trump administration, almost nothing’s been disclosed about the scope, content, timing or ultimate objectives of these talks, even though their outcome – whether success or failure – will be hugely significant for the country.

What we got from Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. relations, as he left Washington last week was that Canada had “a better understanding of the American concerns in the trading relationship…. So we’re prepared to stick around and do the work needed.”

Lots of poverty ahead, just what Carney and his cronies want.

OTTAWA — Canadians are split on whether Canada should go into trade negotiations with the U.S. with elbows up or down when it comes to retaliatory tariffs, according to a new poll.

The Leger/Postmedia poll suggests that 45 per cent of Canadians still believe Canada’s position vis-à-vis U.S. President Donald Trump should be “elbows up.” That means that Canada should impose counter-tariffs on all new U.S. border levies, even if it risks further retaliation from the Trump administration.

WATCH:

President Trump just made a BOLD statement:

"Canada does what we tell them to do." pic.twitter.com/jrNgWClmKF

— TrendingPolitics.ca (@TrendPolCa) August 14, 2025

I’m not sure faith in Carney is justifiable.

After doing gangbuster business in the post-COVID era, Las Vegas is in the midst of a slump, with the number of tourists down sharply as Canadians in particular avoid Sin City amid bilateral bad blood over trade.

The total number of visitors is off more than 11 per cent year-over-year, according to data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, one of the most dramatic declines in recent memory outside of the pandemic.

Airline figures reveal there’s been an even steeper decline among Canadians going to the desert gambling mecca.

No doubt the decline in Canadian visitors has played a part in Vegas’ slide but it’s far from the main reason.

But there are other factors not least of which are price gouging and fees upon fees. No value? No tourists. Easy.

Oh and most of us in the Great White Taxed To Death are watching our pennies. 

K loved Vegas. We were married there. Someday I may go back, just to visit the places we missed and promised ourselves we’d see our next trip out.