The opposition parties were all trumped, as it were, in last year’s election. They may well face the same fate again this year as talk of an election call in Canada grows. If an election does occur, Donald Trump’s continued raft of threats, insults and incoherent rants is a gift to the Liberals. His behaviour underlines the threat he represents — and the need for a strong and effective Canadian prime minister to challenge him. Barring unforeseeable events, Mark Carney owns that card.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing mounting calls to speak out against the United States for widening its restrictions on fuel reaching Cuba, or to send aid to the country.
For more than a year, Global Affairs Canada has warned travellers of “shortages of basic necessities, including food, medicine and fuel” across most of Cuba. In January, the island lost its main source of fuel when the U.S. took control of Venezuela’s oil reserves.
Who’s making these calls? Justin and his brother?
The political climate in the United States is more tumultuous than it’s been since the 1960s—if not the 1860s. Many Americans are dissatisfied with the Trump administration, which, in turn, has responded with escalating violence, locking both sides into a vicious cycle of hostility. Most recently, of course, Trump sent 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents to Minneapolis. As thousands of protesters gathered on the streets, federal agents used increasingly aggressive tactics that culminated in the murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. Soon after Pretti was killed, Governor Tim Walz deployed the Minnesota National Guard to Minneapolis. They were stationed around the city, armed and outfitted in full camo gear. The streets were eerily empty, and many shops shuttered for weeks. Tens of thousands of immigrant families locked themselves in their homes, too afraid to venture out in case ICE abducted them. Instead of the regular flow of shoppers and diners on the sidewalks, legal observers—volunteers who trail ICE agents—patrolled streets by foot and by bike, often masked. The two groups often clashed directly, resulting in heated confrontations, with ICE and other federal forces beating and arresting observers. The Trump administration finally gave in and announced it was ending the crackdown, but it set a dangerous precedent.
Time to cure that communist chancre sore that’s been suppurating off America’s coast for over 60 years since that sissy JFK failed to send in the Air Force, the Navy, and the 82nd Airborne to back up the Cuban freedom fighters at the Bay of Pigs. Fidel Castro should have been swinging from a telephone pole in 1961; maybe, then Kennedy would not have been murked by some Marxist malcontent from the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
Marco Rubio’s warning against civilizational suicide.
If you live long enough, you can trace the river of history apart from the smaller tributaries and streams. You’ve watched it rise or fall according to the acts of men. You’ve seen great leaders bend it where it wasn’t going, and bad leaders redirect it into the shoals. And you can tell what will lead to greatness and what will end in disaster. Which is how I know Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech last Saturday at the Munich Security Conference was not only the finest of this century, but the most potentially consequential.
Democratic politicians have found themselves indirectly defending Islam’s 7th-century hatred of man’s best friend, dogs.
Several Democrats have instinctively accused Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) of racism after he reacted to a New York-based Muslim advocate, Nerdeen Kiswani — who said house pet dogs will not be welcome in a non-secular, Islamic New York.
Remigration looks better every day.
Hamit Coskun’s conviction for a religiously aggravated offence was quashed on appeal but is back in the High Court. The United States is taking an interest
Burning books in central London is not an “intrinsic” public disorder, the High Court was told during an appeal for a man who burnt a Quran outside the Turkish embassy.
Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence last June, after shouting “f*** Islam” and holding the flaming Islamic text aloft during a protest in Knightsbridge, on February 13 last year.
Minnesota law enforcement authorities have said the FBI is refusing to share any evidence on its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration authorities in late January.
Pretti was shot on 24 January by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement operations in the city. His killing came just two weeks after an immigration official shot and killed Renee Good and 10 days after the shooting of Julio C Sosa-Celis.
BBC Verify has confirmed the location of US aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran using satellite imagery, as Washington continues to put pressure on the country over its military program and recent deadly crackdown on protesters.
US and Iranian officials are set to meet in Swizerland on Tuesday for a second round of talks. Iran says the meeting will focus on its nuclear programme and the potential lifting of economic sanctions imposed by the US. Washington has previously indicated it wants to discuss other issues as well.
The Abraham Lincoln, which leads a strike group with three guided missile destroyers, carries 90 aircraft including F35 fighters, and 5,680 crew, was reportedly deployed to the Gulf region in late January but has not been seen in satellite imagery until now. It has been located off the coast of Oman, around 700km from Iran.
Canada is still working closely with the United States when it comes to intelligence, despite its tense trade relationship with its southern neighbour, according to a senior official with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
CSIS Assistant Director Paul Lynd told MPs during his testimony before the House of Commons foreign affairs committee that Canada and the United States have been partners “for decades” and that the two countries’ intelligence departments are still working in unison.
LAS VEGAS/VANCOUVER — The Chinese transnational criminal at the center of what began as a counter-terrorism raid on a Las Vegas residential garage told a co-conspirator that his fraudulent theft of U.S. scientific property would help “defeat the American aggressor and wild ambitious wolf.”
In another exchange — part of a sprawling CAD $330 million American IP theft ring run from Vancouver — Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu offered a darker philosophy: “The law is strong, but the outlaws are ten times stronger.”
Palmer Luckey was 13 when he read Donald Trump’s The Art of The Deal.
Twenty years later, the 33-year-old — complete with trademark flip-flops, Hawaiian shirts and shorts — is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the president’s border crackdown, having made millions from lucrative contracts with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Hillary Clinton rocked a conference room in Germany after admitting that migration ‘went too far’ and has had ‘disruptive and destabilizing’ effects on countries with open borders.
The 78-year-old former Secretary of State’s change of heart shocked the Munich Security Conference on Saturday as she spoke on the panel, ‘The West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.’
‘There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration,’ Clinton began.
She lies even when she tells the truth.
Among the verdant gardens of Havana’s diplomatic quarter, Siboney, ambassadors from countries traditionally allied to the United States are expressing increasing frustration with Washington’s attempt to unseat Cuba’s government, while simultaneously drawing up plans to draw down their missions.
Cuba is in crisis. Already reeling from a four-year economic slump, worsened by hyper-inflation and the migration of nearly 20% of the population, the 67-year-old communist government is at its weakest. After Washington’s successful military operation against Cuba’s ally Venezuela at the beginning of January, the US administration is actively seeking regime change.
As discussion around Alberta separation continues, a new survey suggests many Canadians believe the United States would back the province if it chose to leave Confederation.
A Nanos Research survey commissioned by CTV News found four in five Canadians believe the U.S. would support Alberta separating from Canada. Respondents in the Prairie provinces reported the highest levels of that belief at 58.2 per cent, whereas less than 30 per cent of Quebec residents believe that it is likely that the U.S. would support Alberta separating.
