House Republican Floats Making Alberta ’51st State’ if It Secedes: ‘Tremendous Oil Reserves There’

House Republican Floats Making Alberta ’51st State’ if It Secedes: ‘Tremendous Oil Reserves There’

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) suggested the United States should make Alberta its “51st state” if the oil-rich province breaks away from Canada, jumping on President Donald Trump’s repeated tease of the nation’s northern neighbor.

The House Republican floated the prospect during an interview on Newsmax’s National Report Monday morning while defending Trump’s aggressive approach toward Canada and other U.S. allies.

h/t RD

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WTF?

WTF?

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Dallas Stars Will Not Host Pride Night for First Time in Five Years

Dallas Stars Will Not Host Pride Night for First Time in Five Years

The Dallas Stars will not be hosting LGBTQ Pride Night for the 2026-2027 season, the first time in five years.

The NHL team did not provide a specific reason for dropping Pride Night in the coming season, which usually takes place in February or March. The team will instead reportedly “host a game dubbed ‘Hockey Unites Us: Women in Sports Night’ on March 23 against the Carolina Hurricanes,” per Dallas News.


I wonder if the Transgender cult was the real reason.

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EV charger thefts on the rise as value of copper reaches record high

EV charger thefts on the rise as value of copper reaches record high

As Canada aims for a goal of 90 per cent electric vehicle adoption by 2040, thefts from EV charging stations are becoming a prominent issue around the country.

The price of copper, the highly conductive metal which is used in EV charging cables, has been steadily climbing in recent years, to an all-time high of around $20.99 per kilogram earlier this month.

Thieves have been capitalizing on the rise in value, officials say, with thefts costing B.C.’s provincial power company more than $1 million in the past year.

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FBI Report Really Does Throw Water on Whole ‘More Guns Equal More Crime’ Thing

FBI Report Really Does Throw Water on Whole ‘More Guns Equal More Crime’ Thing

Gun sales go up year after year. The Bruen decision meant that subjective permitting requirements were unconstitutional, scuttling generations of oppressive anti-Second Amendment laws. Through it all, though, we were told how every bit of our rights being restored would result in our society becoming less safe.

Never mind that all of this happened after the spikes in homicides in 2020 and 2021, which suggested the status quo wasn’t exactly helping.

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The US-Canada trade war in 5 charts

The US-Canada trade war in 5 charts

The US and Canada appear no closer to resolving their ongoing trade dispute.

Tensions have been simmering between the two neighbours since President Donald Trump returned to the White House just over 18 months ago, and unleashed a wide-ranging global programme of tariffs.

Canada was one of the first countries the Trump administration hit with levies, and is one of two countries to respond with its own reciprocal measures.

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Netanyahu’s son evacuated from US after assassination threats

Netanyahu’s son evacuated from US after assassination threats

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son was evacuated from the United States after Israeli intelligence received word of an assassination threat.

Yair Netanyahu, 35, moved to Miami, Florida, in 2023, and remained there for most of the war following Hamas’s surprise attack on Oct. 7 of that year. A statement from Shin Bet said he was urgently evacuated after the intelligence agency assessed that there was a “significant threat” to his life, and that he should be quickly returned to Israel.

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Canada has leverage in this trade fight, but economists warn it comes with a cost

Canada has leverage in this trade fight, but economists warn it comes with a cost

With the Trump administration’s promise to impose more tariffs on us in January, many Canadians are asking: What leverage should we use to get them to change course?

The question suggests that there are actually real things we can do to change U.S. President Donald Trump’s mind — that if Canada hits back hard enough, or demonstrates its willingness to suffer enough, we will get that policy change.

Christopher Ragan, the founding director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy and former chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission put it this way: “Canada is in a set of negotiations with a party that appears to be unpredictable, volatile, so I don’t think anybody really knows what’s going to work here.”

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Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations

Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations

Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland, according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief.

The warnings — detailed for Hegseth by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America — appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), these people said. They described the assessment to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the document is classified.

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Immigration board asks feds to better track temporary residents

Immigration board asks feds to better track temporary residents

OTTAWA – Canada needs to make further cuts to the number of temporary residents in the country and generate better tracking data when they leave the country, the head of an expert panel on immigration said.

Parisa Mahboubi chairs the C.D. Howe Institute’s immigration targets council, which includes former immigration minister Jason Kenney and top academics in the field in its membership. The council is preparing a submission for the government’s annual immigration levels consultation period.

The report comes two years after Canada began moving to cut down on the number of temporary residents, including foreign students and workers, as soaring immigration contributed to significant issues, including housing shortages and overburdened social services.

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Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez defends ‘endless’ benefits of her oil deal with Trump

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez defends ‘endless’ benefits of her oil deal with Trump

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has defended her government’s highly controversial energy deal with Donald Trump, insisting the South American country will maintain ownership and sovereignty over its massive oil reserves.

Rodríguez, who assumed power in January after Trump ordered the abduction of the president, Nicolás Maduro, took to the airwaves on Saturday to push back against criticism of what the US president has called “the biggest oil deal in world history”.

“The benefits are endless,” claimed Rodríguez, a former vice-president whom Trump backed after ordering Maduro’s capture during a special forces raid on the capital, Caracas.

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Scott Stinson: Donald Trump gives Doug Ford the foil he desperately needed

Scott Stinson: Donald Trump gives Doug Ford the foil he desperately needed

Doug Ford had a rough spring and a summer that wasn’t going much better.

His government’s ill-advised purchase of a private jet blew a hole in his everyman persona so much that he might as well have started showing up to public events with a top hat and monocle. Spending scandals followed, solidifying the image of his governing PCs as a party that was self-satisfied, sloppy or both.

The Ontario premier’s poll numbers sagged, so much so that the PCs were behind a Liberal party that doesn’t even have a permanent leader.

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Trump calls for leaders of ‘failed nation’ Iran to be tried for ‘war crimes against humanity’

Trump calls for leaders of ‘failed nation’ Iran to be tried for ‘war crimes against humanity’

WASHINGTON — President Trump publicly called Monday for Iran’s leaders to be prosecuted for “war crimes against humanity” after trashing the Islamic Republic as a “failed nation.”

“Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD!” the president proclaimed on Truth Social. “They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.”
“The only thing they have is FAKE NEWS from the USA, a willingness to kill their protesters (now over 100,000 people dead. They must be tried for war crimes against humanity!), and a good line of ‘BULLS—.’”

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