Cuba running on fumes as fellow travelers in Canada consider sending relief to repressive communist regime

Cuba a Communist Shithole serves as a role model for the Liberal Party of Canada

The government of Canada says it is still thinking about whether to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, as the island confronts a looming disaster under an American oil embargo that is, in practice, a full blockade.

“Canada is monitoring the situation carefully and is concerned about the increasing risk of a humanitarian crisis on the island,” said Global Affairs Canada’s Charlotte MacLeod in a written statement shared with CBC News.

“As the situation continues to evolve, Canada is evaluating options to support Cuba’s most vulnerable people. Canada has a long-standing record of providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to Cuba in response to acute crises.”

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CHARLEBOIS: The high cost of doing food business in Canada

With Tuesday’s release of new data from Statistics Canada, the conclusion is unequivocal: for the second consecutive month, Canada is posting the highest food inflation rate among G7 countries. Food inflation now stands at 7.3%.

Beef, nuts, pork, and even chicken are between 5% and 7% more expensive than a year ago. The only relief comes from eggs and fresh fruit, which are cheaper on a year-over-year basis.

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Canada looks to trade talks after US Supreme Court tosses Trump’s tariffs

Celebrations in Canada over the decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were both brief and muted.

The high court’s decision, which included the “fentanyl” tariffs Trump imposed on Canada, China and Mexico, reinforced Canada’s position that the levies were “unjustified”, US-Canada Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on X.

But LeBlanc noted the challenges ahead in Ottawa. There is the “critical work” to do in dealing with impacts from levies on steel, aluminium and automobiles, which Trump said will remain.

There is also the upcoming review of the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal, the USMCA, which covers a market of more than 500 million people.

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Look how much Canadians hate the United States now

OTTAWA — It’s the world’s most awkward breakup.

More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada and repeatedly threatened debilitating tariffs on its goods, many Canadians are convinced their former pals to the south have lost the plot.

New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest a lasting chill has settled over the world’s former bosom buddies. Americans are rosy as ever about their northern neighbors, but Canadians don’t share the love.

Their message to America: It’s not us, it’s you.

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How Canada became poorer than Alabama

Huntsville Alabama

In December, Tommy Battle’s dream came true. The five-term Mayor of Huntsville is Alabama to the bone, born in Birmingham and a graduate of the state university in Tuscaloosa, but for the past

18 years he’s tried to distance his city from the state’s unsavoury stereotypes.
Huntsville, in the north, is the home of the Saturn rocket program that took on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik. It houses the second-largest biotech research hub in the United States. And it has attracted high-end manufacturing investments such as Blue Origin’s rocket engine plant.

But Alabama tropes are hard to shake: The state is backward and full of bible thumpers and bigots – allegedly. When local companies try to hire from afar, Mayor Battle says recruits often hear the same responses when telling their spouses: “‘Huntsville?’ With one question mark. Then they say, ‘Alabama???’ With three question marks.”


Huntsville is now considered “UFO” central with start ups some suspect may be linked to alien tech.

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What Does Alberta Want? And How Soon Does The Province Want It?

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.

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Poll finds 80% back fast-tracking deportations in extortion cases as Liberal Party Voter Import Program continues to draw negative attention

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).

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John Robson: In Mark Carney’s Canada, nothing matters

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.”

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Deflects from China Sell-out: Carney government shifts advertising budget to pseudo – patriotic slop only the Elbow people will believe

Mark Carney announces a deal transferring Canada’s Arctic to China while he receives a Beijing luxury condo.

Carney government shifts advertising budget to more patriotic messaging

The federal government reallocated its advertising budget after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet was sworn in last year, recently disclosed figures show, shifting its priorities to patriotic and economic messages and purchasing pricey television airtime during major sporting events like the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics.

The Treasury Board Secretariat’s proactive disclosure of spending from its central advertising fund for the third quarter of 2025-26 itemizes how advertising resources were distributed across government departments, allowing for comparisons with the first two quarters of this year, as well as earlier fiscal years when Justin Trudeau was at the helm.

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While we focus on Trump, Carney is quietly consolidating corporate power in Canada

As Canadian fury grows against Donald Trump with each new outrage, Mark Carney has found a sweet-spot.

As long as Carney keeps his elbows up, signalling his defiance of the menacing U.S. president, Canadians have mostly given the prime minister a free hand in running the country.

And Carney has used this considerable leeway to quietly consolidate corporate power in Canada — with dangerous consequences that are receiving insufficient media attention.

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces fall referendum on immigration, constitutional questions

Premier Danielle Smith wants to hold a referendum in October on measures to limit immigration to Alberta and changes she believes would give the province more rights under the Constitution.

In a 13-minute televised address Thursday evening, Smith said she wants Albertans to vote on nine questions on Oct. 19. She said the subject of each question was based on what the Alberta Next Panel heard the most when consulting with Albertans during town halls and through written submissions last year.

“The fact is, Alberta taxpayers can no longer be asked to continue to subsidize the entire country through equalization and federal transfers, permit the federal government to flood our borders with new arrivals and then give free access to our most-generous-in-the-country social programs to anyone who moves here,” Smith said.

Contrast Smith with Doug “My Buddies Need Cheap Labour from 3rd World Dumpsters” Ford.

Coyne gets his ass kicked as always.

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Can the U.S. finally just shut up about Canada’s defence spending?

Our trailblazing Prime Minister was at the podium in Montreal. “Over the last few decades,” Mark Carney said, “Canada has neither spent enough on our defence nor invested enough in our defence industries.”

That has to change, he added, setting out plans for far more domestic spending on military hardware because “the assumptions that defined decades of Canadian defence and foreign policy have been turned upside-down.”

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‘SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE’: Smith addresses Canada’s population jump outpacing European countries

CALGARY — Premier Danielle Smith’s Chief of Staff, Rob Anderson, says Smith will address staggering immigration numbers on Thursday in a televised address to the province.

Anderson was reacting to a post by David Coletto on X, CEO of Abacus Data Canada on Wednesday.

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