An illegal immigrant serving a lengthy prison sentence for the murder of a Michigan woman is suing President Donald Trump, alleging he faced humiliation when his case was used as a political talking point, and is demanding $75 million, a public apology, and U.S. citizenship.
Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 27, who was previously deported from the United States, is serving a sentence of 39 to 102 years in prison for killing Ruby Garcia in March 2024.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney inflicted a damaging blow on Canada-U.S. relations with his Elbows Up shenanigans but this last weekend it was America’s turn take a hammer to the alliance.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was openly gloating at the prime minister being embarrassed over the Gordie Howe Bridge deal while Donald Trump said he was considering demanding Canada pay damages over wildfires in this country.
Canada has experienced a sharp decline in business investment per worker over the past decade, in stark contrast to gains in the United States, highlighting a deepening productivity crisis north of the border, a new study suggests.
Inflation-adjusted business investment per Canadian worker fell 18.8 percent from $20,310 in 2014 to $16,493 in 2024, according to findings from the Fraser Institute’s latest study. The United States’s equivalent surged 31.3 percent from $23,263 to $30,555 over the same decade.
Patriotic Americans have been celebrating their country’s two-hundred-fiftieth birthday all year. Although an increasing number of Democrats now despise America and even admit to feeling revulsion at the sight of Old Glory waving in the wind, 2026 has been an incredible opportunity to commemorate in grand fashion America’s founding principles, accomplishments, and enduring legacy.
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.
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.
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.
CBC guest Lori Daniels — UBC forestry professor and vocal climate change believer — just dropped some rare inconvenient common sense on CBC:
"I'd really love to see us diversify our forest management for resilience… and use fire to fight fire in good ways."She went on:… pic.twitter.com/lhPBi27JCe
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 19, 2026
The United States is once again trying to put an end to the ritual of changing the clocks twice a year.
The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent, leaving the Senate to decide whether Americans should remain on summer time throughout the year.
A permanent year-round standard time may soon be the norm in some parts of the United States, but that will mean little to Ontario if a couple of its neighbours stick with the status quo on twice-yearly time changes.
e’ve seen a parade of deep staters over the years, everyone from the FBI lovebirds, Peter Strozk & Lisa Page; to the Brookings Institute’s impeachment crew led by Fiona Hill; to the hideous FBI and Justice Department officials Who Got Away With It — looking at you, Kevin Clinesmith, and you, too, Bruce & Nellie Ohr; to CIA presidential briefing officer Amy McFadden who famously cheered Hamas; to the spies at the heart of the impeachment plot, colluding with Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, e.g., Eric Ciaramella. All of them did their part to undermine the first Trump presidency.
But the surface has been barely scratched, and these characters were in fact low-hanging fruit. The higher (or deeper) tentacles of the deep state were revealed by President Trump in his address to the nation this week, the speech the media refused to run.
Whatever the ultimate truth of President Donald Trump’s allegations of Chinese meddling in American elections, Canadians have no excuse for the kind of reflexive dismissal in which the CBC indulged Friday. Despite their ruling class’s attempts to hush up and smooth over what they had allowed to happen, Canadians nevertheless know from what limited government admissions were made exactly what Beijing is capable of. Whether what Trump said is the exact or entire truth, or timed to influence the midterms, is not the point.
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US President Donald Trump must abandon his plans to sell Turkey highly sophisticated F-35 stealth fighters because of the deeply duplicitous conduct Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan displayed during efforts to end hostilities between the US and Iran.
Why do so many Americans oppose the war against Iran?
The biggest reason is that they do not believe Iran was close to obtaining a nuclear weapon. If Iran was nowhere near a bomb, President Donald Trump’s decision to use military force looks unnecessary, even reckless. But if Iran was close, as Trump claims, the debate changes dramatically.
That is why NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s recent assessment should have been a major news story.
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.
Canadian national Kaitlyn Tracey, who overstayed her U.S. visa, was arrested for allegedly slapping a minor wearing pro-Trump clothing on a New Jersey boardwalk. She is now in ICE detention. Her American husband Matthew Geroni is publicly pleading for help with her legal case. pic.twitter.com/e5cWcg5boy
— RPN Entertainment (@rpnenter) July 19, 2026
The Chinese planned to stoke Black Lives Matter riots and other social unrest in 2020, using the corporate media to launder the narrative in order to tank the election for President Donald Trump, according to documents released by the White House on Thursday.
Intelligence summaries from 2020, which were apparently hidden from the president at the time, show that the Chinese planned on “encouraging violent demonstrations and looting to increase the appearance of social unrest” ahead of the election, and to “exploit U.S. societal fissures and vulnerabilities,” in part by “alleging that White people hate Black people.”
