Prime Minister Mark Carney admitted last week that he has prepared for a once-unthinkable scenario – a US invasion.
Noting the risk was low and the likelihood highly improbable, he told the New York Times he had a responsibility to consider all possibilities as the US-Canada relationship is redefined under the Donald Trump presidency.
“That’s just risk management,” Carney said.
The green shoots of rational thought may finally be surging out of the ground in the current imbroglio between Canada and the United States. In his recent interview with the New York Times, Prime Minister Carney made a good many appropriate conciliatory noises, without backing down an inch on the legitimate points of Canadian sovereignty that he has been making. It was perhaps foreordained that before this exchange reverted to reasonable civility between apparently responsible people, it was necessary that reference be made to the possibility of armed conflict between Canada and the United States.
Moderates in the Democratic Party increasingly worry that the far-left faction could undermine the party’s electoral competitiveness and eventually take control of the party itself. Yet the response from moderates so far has emphasized accommodation over confrontation. From their perspective, it may be better to welcome Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-aligned candidates into the fold and hope that the demands of governing temper their revolutionary fervor. This strategy of containment and assimilation rests on the assumption that the radical elements remain sufficiently distinct from the rest of the Democratic Party.
Coming from a Muslim family and being raised in Syria and Iran, I am all too aware of politicians and influencers such as Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani and others who carry that same formative identity.
Americans should be clear-eyed: Islamist politicians and influencers in the United States will never place their first loyalty with America. It will not happen. Do not even think about it.
Dear DSA:
You and I — are we really so different? Why, I think not! We both live on planet earth, and… well, I’m sure we have lots of other stuff in common, too.
Enough to build a friendship.
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing Saturday with six people on board, including four Canadians.
The Gulfstream G100 jet, identified as C-GRJP, was flying from Bermuda and was scheduled to land at Boston Logan International Airport around 1:30 a.m., according to the tracking website Flightradar24.
The jet is registered to Latitude Air Ambulance, an Ontario-based company that operates out of John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, according to the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register.
Clip and save this op-ed, because I may be the only person in the free world predicting that in the midterm elections next month, the Republicans are going to win and win big. They’re going to hold both the House and the Senate, and they’ll even increase their margins in both chambers.
Wouldn’t be the first time polls were distorted to aid Democrat candidates.
The Trump administration’s full-court pressure campaign on Europe to release diesel supplies or face a U.S. export ban heading into the winter has split and angered European leaders, entangled oil companies and raised private charges of “blackmail.” It also appears to have worked.
Senior White House officials led a pressure campaign on European governments to open the spigot on their strategic reserves, according to 10 oil industry executives and European government officials who were granted anonymity to describe the negotiations. Their tactics ultimately led to G7 countries announcing they would release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil from their strategic reserves over the next four months.
BRUSSELS — Some NATO allies are resisting a U.S. effort to set up a close-knit group of alliance countries ostensibly based on their defense spending, arguing the initiative risks undermining unity just when Russia steps up its hybrid campaign in Europe.
The frustration comes after POLITICO reported that Washington had met a select group of favored allies twice since the spring in what has been dubbed the “Bergen Group,” after the collective’s first meeting in the eponymous Norwegian city earlier this year.
So far, the group’s members have included Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. After meeting in Bergen, the U.S. organized a similar meeting on the sidelines of the NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara in July, which Denmark and Turkey also attended. Members of the group are expected to meet again in Poland next month.
Yet another party Canada wasn’t invited to.
Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the “Dumb and Dumber” of the British Commonwealth.
King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada’s economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength.
Merriam-Webster defines a “fifth column” in its original, literal sense: “a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders.” That is a high bar (i.e., hidden agents under foreign direction with actions timed to a military objective), and almost nothing discussed in American politics today clears it.
The term has widened in recent years. Political scientists now treat fifth-column politics as rhetoric, policy, or mobilization against domestic “enemies within.” Scott Radnitz of the University of Washington splits it into two types: subversive claims aimed at vulnerable minorities or immigrants and collusive claims aimed at elites said to serve a foreign power. Neither needs a hidden army or single chain of command. Both describe a domestic network—whether organized or not—whose activities, funding, or ideology line up with a foreign adversary, or that treats the U.S. constitutional order as illegitimate and works to replace it from the inside.
Prime Minister Mark Carney appealed to common values like democracy and reliability when he called for deeper trade and defence ties at the European Parliament earlier this month.
But some experts say with the rise of far-right parties on the continent, key European allies may not always share those values — and Canada should keep that possibility in mind as it crafts its alliances.
Canada is diversifying its trade relationships around the world amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade war. But many far-right politicians in Europe share Trump’s views on migration, isolationism and minority groups, say political scientists.
Typical far left CBC Fear Mongering Drivel.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
As we head toward the midterms in this last month of October, it’s time to reflect on who are the leadership of what we would call the democratic socialist-Islamist new basis or alliance with or absorption of the Democratic Party.
On October 10, 2026, the Hilton Toronto Markham will host a training session. The trainers are Muslim elected officials from the United States. The trainees are Muslims in Canada. The subject is how to capture political power for Islamic interests.
The session is called “From the Masjid to City Hall”. The convention is the 24th Annual UMAA Convention, organized by the Universal Muslim Association of America, a Shia Muslim NGO with consultative status at the United Nations. The theme: “The Next Chapter: From Identity to Impact.”
The Special Relationship has seen more special days. Earlier this year, President Trump delivered his verdict: “How is the relationship? It’s the relationship where, when we asked them for help, they were not there. When we needed them, they were not there. When we didn’t need them, they were not there. And they still aren’t there.”
Trump was referring to divisions between the US and UK over the wisdom and conduct of the war in Iran. (Even amid a spat, though, he can dish out praise. Just this week, following the arrest of five men outside RAF Fairford, used by American bombers to strike Iran, the President said the UK authorities had done an “amazing job.”) But his remarks landed at a moment of divergence in the US-UK relationship that extends well beyond Iran. Washington has imposed and reimposed tariffs on Britain. Last year the UK paused intelligence-sharing that could have assisted American strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean, which London views as illegal. Trump has branded the deal to hand the Chagos islands to Mauritius an “act of great stupidity.”
