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Canada has become America’s northern security threat

Canada has become America’s northern security threat

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.

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The Myth of an Energy Transition

The Myth of an Energy Transition

The summer 2026 news cycle continues to be dominated by the Iran War and its vicissitudes and consequences. The disruptions to oil and natural gas supplies and the economic fallout are animating articles with headlines such as Bloomberg’s last month, “Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition.”

The energy transition is the idea that the United States and the world are already starting to see the wholesale replacement of oil, natural gas, and coal by three politically favored energy technologies: solar and wind, moderated by batteries.

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U.S. to impose new 50% tariff on Canada over alcohol bans, dairy quotas

U.S. to impose new 50% tariff on Canada over alcohol bans, dairy quotas

The U.S. said Monday it will be imposing an additional 50 per cent tariff on Canadian imports due to retaliatory and “discriminatory” measures Canada took in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The new tariff will take effect 30 days after Trump signs the executive order and will apply to goods covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade, a senior administration official told reporters on background.


Trump’s new 50% tariff targets even CUSMA-compliant goods

Maybe Carney should be sent on a long vacation.

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Iran’s War on the Arabs: Time for the Gulf to Stand with Israel

Iran’s War on the Arabs: Time for the Gulf to Stand with Israel

For decades, governments of many Arab states have viewed Iran’s aggression primarily through the prism of its conflict with Israel. That illusion has now been shattered.

Over the past week, the Iranian regime has demonstrated once again that its ambitions extend far beyond destroying Israel. Tehran has launched an unprecedented campaign of missile and drone attacks against several Arab states, targeting critical infrastructure, ships, airports, oil facilities, power stations, desalination plants, ports and even residential neighborhoods.

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Dindunuffin!

Dindunuffin!

Two Toronto police officers racially profiled a group of Black and brown men sitting in a car waiting for a friend outside an apartment building, “completely invented a reason” for stopping them and then “tried to cover it up” in court, a judge has found.

In her decision critical of the “well-meaning rookie officers,” Superior Court Justice Tamara Sugunasiri excluded the evidence police said they found on a man sitting in the backseat — a loaded gun and fentanyl — and acquitted him of all charges.

“Race clearly informed the officers’ decision to detain,” Sugunasiri wrote in her decision last month.

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‘We are preserving a tradition’: how Ghana’s sensationalist film posters became collectible art

‘We are preserving a tradition’: how Ghana’s sensationalist film posters became collectible art

Sitting on his porch in Teshie near Accra, Heavy J dipped a brush into red oil paint and dabbed it carefully on to his canvas – a flour sack – adding blood to a knife being wielded by a man. Higher on the canvas, he had started on an outline of a skull.

Heavy J was creating a poster, but not as you might have expected for a horror film. Instead, it was for the animated fairytale The Little Mermaid. The man with the knife was not a killer but the film’s kind-hearted prince, Eric. The skull was also unrelated to the story. “We add more to make people interested,” said Heavy J, whose real name is Jeaurs Affutu.


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‘Bunch of rubbish’: Ford responds to Trump over threats of wildfire smoke tariffs

‘Bunch of rubbish’: Ford responds to Trump over threats of wildfire smoke tariffs

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.

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Bourbon banned, bridges empty: Border towns paying for Trump’s Canada feud

Bourbon banned, bridges empty: Border towns paying for Trump’s Canada feud

The collapse in American-Canadian relations since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is usually measured by tariffs, trade agreements, and diplomatic insults. But the real cost is being paid in border towns.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Michigan, where deteriorating relations between Washington and Ottawa are hurting communities.

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About Those Burn Bags President Trump Mentioned in His Address to the Nation

About Those Burn Bags President Trump Mentioned in His Address to the Nation

In addition to its general corruptibility, one thing you can be sure of when it comes to the federal government is that it’s probably not a good idea to trust federal employees to conceal your misdeeds. In the bureaucracy, “good enough” is the standard for quality work.

And so, when President Donald Trump delivered his address to the nation on July 16, he brought attention to something we should know much more about but don’t yet: the discovery of “burn bags,” which Trump said contained sensitive documents from the Obama administration.

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DONOVAN: The urbanization of small-town Canada — rural Canada should reject Ottawa’s radical demographic makeover

DONOVAN: The urbanization of small-town Canada — rural Canada should reject Ottawa’s radical demographic makeover

Ottawa is redirecting immigration into small and remote communities, a move which threatens to replicate in small-town Canada the same immigration-fuelled social and economic problems plaguing major urban centres.

The Rural Community Immigration Pilot (RCIP) was launched in January 2025, one of the last immigration policies implemented by the Trudeau government. A total of 14 communities are included, ranging from Claresholm in Alberta, Steinbach and Brandon in Manitoba, Peace Liard and West Kootenay in BC, and Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan.

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Silicon Valley is embracing armed robots. Washington is making room.

Silicon Valley is embracing armed robots. Washington is making room.

Looking for his next business, San Francisco entrepreneur Sankaet Pathak sought an idea that might change the future. He settled on building humanlike robots with weapons.

In May, his company, Foundation, released footage of its sleek Phantom robot loading a mortar. In the video, the robot moves gingerly — but Pathak says he can envision a future of autonomous weapons, with robots making quick decisions on the battlefield.

The launch of Foundation in 2024 was a radical step, given many in the industry’s long-standing opposition to letting autonomous devices decide where to attack without human sign-off and promises by other leading robot companies not to arm their creations.

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Trump again threatens tariffs over smoke after sitting with Mark Carney

Trump again threatens tariffs over smoke after sitting with Mark Carney

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.

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Armed loon sets off ‘incendiary device’ outside NYC fed HQ as terrorism task force probes anti-ICE attack

Armed loon sets off ‘incendiary device’ outside NYC fed HQ as terrorism task force probes anti-ICE attack

An armed maniac lit an “incendiary device” outside a federal building in lower Manhattan early Monday in an anti-ICE attack being investigated by the terrorism task force, according to officials and sources.

The unidentified man started a fire outside of 26 Federal Plaza around 8:30 a.m., ignited fireworks and threatened passersby with airsoft rifles around 8:30 a.m., police and sources said.

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