Cuba: Amid blockade, Pentagon chief issues military warning

Cuba: Amid blockade, Pentagon chief issues military warning

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a warning to Cuba during a visit to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday.

“It would be unwise of the government of Cuba ​to try to procure or get access to the types of ⁠weapons ​that could reach this ​base or the American homeland,” Hegseth said, ​without offering details on such weaponry.

“They would be inviting the kind of confrontation ​not only ⁠do they not want but they could ⁠not stand,” he said, claiming that “no ​country on Earth can match the capabilities of the United States of America.”

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Honda just issued a warning about its future in Canada. That could inadvertently hand a win to Chinese EV makers

Honda just issued a warning about its future in Canada. That could inadvertently hand a win to Chinese EV makers

One of Ontario’s biggest and most reliable automakers is warning Canadians not to take its presence here for granted.

“Companies don’t automatically keep building vehicles in the same country just because it’s always been that way,” Honda Canada president Dave Jamieson told an industry summit convened by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association in Vaughan this week.

It wasn’t a throwaway line. Jamieson spent almost his entire speech — one of his first since taking the job last year — making the case that Canada is at a policy crossroads that could determine whether his company keeps investing in its manufacturing base in Alliston, Ont.

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Trump Says U.S. Will Hit Iran Tonight, Plans to Take Key Oil Hub Kharg Island

Trump Says U.S. Will Hit Iran Tonight, Plans to Take Key Oil Hub Kharg Island

President Trump threatened to strike Iran “VERY HARD” again Thursday night and take “total control” of the country’s oil and gas markets, a sign that he has abandoned the diplomatic route and is aiming to force Tehran into a nuclear deal it has resisted for months.

The U.S. “in the not too distant future” would be taking Kharg Island, which sits off Iran’s southern coast and is the country’s main oil export hub, Trump added in the Truth Social post, “and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America.”

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Carney government makes long-awaited move to restrict social media access for children

Carney government makes long-awaited move to restrict social media access for children

OTTAWA–The Carney Liberals have introduced a revamped online harms bill that would restrict access to social media for those under 16, make AI chatbots safer, and impose new rules on digital platforms.

The Safe Social Media Act, tabled Wednesday, would compel social media companies to ban the creation of accounts for children under 16, but will allow companies to exempt themselves from those restrictions as long as they can demonstrate that “sufficient safeguards” are in place to protect children.

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Jasmine Crockett’s Take on Karmelo Anthony’s Conviction Is As Insane As You’d Expect

Jasmine Crockett’s Take on Karmelo Anthony’s Conviction Is As Insane As You’d Expect

Following the announcement of Karmelo Anthony’s murder conviction, the Left has amped up its outrage and is stoking racial flames by claiming Anthony was merely acting in self-defense. Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf in 2025. In a recent live-stream episode of her podcast, Representative Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) lamented the verdict and discussed what she would have done in the situation.

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WARMINGTON: Toronto Police officer critical after shot executing search warrant

WARMINGTON: Toronto Police officer critical after shot executing search warrant

A Toronto Police officer has been shot and is clinging to life after being taken to hospital in an emergency run.

A man is also believed to have been shot by Toronto Police and is also in hospital.


Black Creek and Trethewey is a very vibrant part of town.

Update: The Officer has died.

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Smug elites ignoring the dangers of so-called ‘asylum seekers’ is getting people killed — just look at Belfast

Smug elites ignoring the dangers of so-called ‘asylum seekers’ is getting people killed — just look at Belfast

Belfast has suffered its fair share of horror.

During “the Troubles,” decades of bombings, shootings and riots scarred a city riven by sectarian strife.

But this week a far more vicious kind of violence visited Belfast: an almost medieval act of wanton savagery that has provoked nausea and rage across Britain and Ireland.

It unfolded in all its grim terror Monday night on a dimly lit North Belfast street.

The media are furious!

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LILLEY: Donald Trump hedges his bets on CUSMA renewal despite hints of progress

LILLEY: Donald Trump hedges his bets on CUSMA renewal despite hints of progress

U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt on the idea that he will renew the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade come July 1. By that deadline, each of the three countries need to indicate if they will renew the trade deal that came into effect in 2020 for a further 16 years, if they will withdraw from it or allow the original 16-year process to play out but with annual reviews.

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Germans Want ‘Politician Insult’ Law Scrapped, Poll Finds

Germans Want ‘Politician Insult’ Law Scrapped, Poll Finds

The German Criminal Code’s controversial Section 188, which prohibits social media users from insulting or even criticizing politicians online, has become a hot topic in Germany again after a Facebook user was fined for over €2,000 for calling Chancellor Merz a “liar.”

Pollster INSA conducted a country-wide survey to discover what Germans actually think about the law, and found widespread opposition.

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Liberal MP defends his Somali Heritage Month bill amid online backlash

Liberal MP defends his Somali Heritage Month bill amid online backlash

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Yvan Baker says his proposal to create a Somali Heritage Month in Canada is intended to recognize contributions made by immigrant communities, responding to criticism that emerged after the bill was introduced in Parliament.

Baker’s Bill C-283, which received first reading this week, would designate July as Somali Heritage Month.

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Former top general warns against booing U.S. national anthem at sport events

Former top general warns against booing U.S. national anthem at sport events

OTTAWA — Canada’s former top general, Wayne Eyre, advised Canadians against burning bridges with their American neighbours, warning that actions like booing national anthems at hockey games can turn U.S. friends into foes.

While acknowledging that Canada’s relationship with the U.S. has changed and will likely never go back to “where it was or where we thought it was,” Eyre told attendees of a University of Ottawa event last week that the relationship with the Americans remains crucial.

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Now, a Boy Victim in Norway

Now, a Boy Victim in Norway

In recent days, while Britons have been in an uproar over the December 3 butchery of 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton by a knife-wielding Sikh, who was convicted of the murder on May 28, many Norwegians have been worked up over a similar crime. Late on the evening of May 17 – which in Norway is Constitution Day, a festive occasion celebrated around the country with parades and parties – an 18-year old boy, as yet unnamed by authorities, was brutally beaten by four individuals, strangers to him, who were aged between 15 and 17. Unlike Henry Nowak, the victim in Bergen survived the assault, which was completely unprovoked. At the time of the incident, he was dressed in a one-piece blue outfit that identified him as a “russ,” a person who is about to graduate, or who has just graduated, from secondary school. By all accounts he did nothing to provoke the attack, which was filmed by one of two witnesses who then shared the video on social media.

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Why the Southern Poverty Law Center Should Be Called the ‘$PLC’

Why the Southern Poverty Law Center Should Be Called the ‘$PLC’

We at VDARE always followed the lead of our old friend Paul Craig Roberts in believing that the bank fraud legislation that Congress cooked up in 1989–90, supposedly because of the War on Drugs and subsequently enhanced during the War on Terror, is a major infringement of liberty and a big step toward an American police state.

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Time to boycott the Asylum Industrial Complex

Time to boycott the Asylum Industrial Complex

I’M GOING to keep this simple. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advises against all travel to Sudan. FCDO ‘advises against all travel to Sudan because of the ongoing military conflict in Khartoum and other parts of the country. This does not include the Hala’ib Triangle and the Bir Tawil Trapezoid where FCDO advises against all but essential travel.’

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