Carney says more work to do on U.S. trade talks after negotiators return from Washington

Carney says more work to do on U.S. trade talks after negotiators return from Washington

Prime Minister Mark Carney said his negotiating team made “some progress” during trade talks in Washington this week, but there’s “lots more to do” to land an overall agreement.

Carney’s comments on Thursday came as Canada-U.S. Trade minister Dominic LeBlanc and the country’s chief trade negotiator, Janice Charette, briefed a special advisory council for more than two hours about their meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

Flavio Volpe, who sits on the advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, described the briefing as “very candid” and said the details suggest conversations are moving in the right direction.


I just do not believe a words he says.

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West Coast, Messed Coast™ — A Medicaid Scam You Never Saw Coming Has California Circling the… Drums

West Coast, Messed Coast™ — A Medicaid Scam You Never Saw Coming Has California Circling the… Drums

What’s the emptiest place on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ this week? It appears to be the election counting offices in California where navel-gazing vote counters are taking their sweet time to tell Californians if their vote for change has been diluted by Tom Steyer and Karen Bass ballot harvesters and vote “cure” experts. We have an update.

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Nolte: Quentin Tarantino Says Today’s Movies Are ‘Plain Stupid Sh*t’

Nolte: Quentin Tarantino Says Today’s Movies Are ‘Plain Stupid Sh*t’

Writing for Sight and Sound Magazine, Oscar-winning writer and director Quentin Tarantino correctly describes modern movies as “plain stupid shit.”

“I loved going to the movies. These days, however, the concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity,” he writes. “Which is fair enough, because by comparison the movies of the last six years make the ‘80s seem like the ‘30s.”

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‘We can’t afford to do what Mexico can do’: Can Trump play Canada and Mexico against each other?

‘We can’t afford to do what Mexico can do’: Can Trump play Canada and Mexico against each other?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mexican leaders are weighing a U.S. proposal to revise the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement’s (CUSMA) auto rules of origin — changes that could force a major restructuring of North America’s tightly integrated auto supply chains.

Last week, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s team told their Mexican counterparts that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to raise the overall required North American parts threshold from 75 to 82 per cent and, more controversially, require that 50 per cent of all components originate specifically in the United States.

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Ukraine strikes cargo ships and admits Romania drone blast

Ukraine strikes cargo ships and admits Romania drone blast

Ukraine says it has struck five ships carrying illegal cargo in the Sea of Azov and in coastal waters of Russian-occupied territories.

The Ukrainian drone forces commander said the vessels were involved in “stealing” Ukrainian grain, as well as transferring military cargo and fuel.

The strikes come a day after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky offered face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin on ending the war, an offer the Russian leader rejected while visiting St Petersburg for an economic forum.

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Feds fear Netflix, Spotify price hikes, order review of CRTC rules

Feds fear Netflix, Spotify price hikes, order review of CRTC rules

OTTAWA — Fearing the move could trigger a massive price spike, the federal government is directing Canada’s broadcast regulator to review its contentious plan to regulate and tax foreign streaming platforms.

Canada’s Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller made the announcement on Wednesday, a reaction to the contentious May 21 decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions (CRTC) requiring streaming giants such as Spotify and Netflix to spend some of their Canadian-sourced revenue to acquire or produce Canadian programming.

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German Court Punishes Facebook Insult With €2,000 Fine

German Court Punishes Facebook Insult With €2,000 Fine

Germany’s controversial Section 188 of the Criminal Code has come under renewed scrutiny after courts imposed substantial fines on citizens for insulting Chancellor Friedrich Merz online.

According to prosecutors in Heilbronn, a Facebook user was ordered to pay a fine of more than 2,000 euros after referring to Merz as “Lügenfritz” (“Lying Fritz”) in a comment posted under a police announcement about the chancellor’s visit to the city last year.

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LILLEY: Senate’s mistaken attempt to criminalize residential school denialism

LILLEY: Senate’s mistaken attempt to criminalize residential school denialism

Even as Canada comes to terms with the fact that not everything we’ve been told about residential schools is true, some people want to criminalize asking questions about it. On Monday, the Senate’s human rights committee voted for an amendment making it a criminal offence to engage in what they called “residential school denialism.”

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Kelly McParland: The Carney paradox — as Canada swirls down the drain, his popularity goes through the roof

Kelly McParland: The Carney paradox — as Canada swirls down the drain, his popularity goes through the roof

Something weird is happening in the fevered little beaver brains of the Canadian collective. The world is going to pot, yet here we are feeling more chipper than we have in years.

Oil costs a fortune, no one can afford houses and don’t even get me started about health care. Food costs are through the roof. Tech bosses are blithely unleashing algorithms hardly anyone understands and apparently no one can control.

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‘Jews are eating kids’

‘Jews are eating kids’

A raging woman spewing antisemitic hate targeted a Jewish rider on a Big Apple subway Sunday, shouting in the packed train car “Jews are eating kids,” according to the victim and shocking video.

The suspect was shouting her furious rhetoric against Jewish people on a C train around 2:15 p.m., the victim, a 23-year-old Upper West Side woman, told The Post.

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Fresh Corruption Scandal Rocks Ukraine’s Energy Giant

Fresh Corruption Scandal Rocks Ukraine’s Energy Giant

A major corruption scandal has once again engulfed Energoatom, Ukraine’s state-owned energy giant, after anti-corruption investigators uncovered an alleged embezzlement scheme involving nearly UAH170 million (€3.3 million) during the construction of critical infrastructure at the Tashlyk hydroelectric power plant.

The case was exposed by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), the same Western-backed agencies that previously uncovered an alleged $100 million extortion operation at Energoatom linked to businessman Timur Mindich, a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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U.S. tells Canada, Europe to boost NATO air and naval forces as Washington steps back

U.S. tells Canada, Europe to boost NATO air and naval forces as Washington steps back

BRUSSELS/BERLIN – The U.S. expects European NATO allies and Canada to swiftly increase the number of manned and unmanned aircraft and ships they contribute to the alliance’s defence plans as Washington steps back in these areas, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday.

The statement by U.S. Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s top commander and the head of U.S. forces in Europe, followed a decision by the Trump administration to shrink the pool of U.S. military capabilities available to NATO in a crisis.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO and told its European members they will have to take over primary responsibility for the conventional defence of the continent.

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Jesse Kline: It’s simple. Islamic extremism is behind all the Jew hate

Jesse Kline: It’s simple. Islamic extremism is behind all the Jew hate

Canada has an antisemitism problem, but listening to our politicians, government agencies and some in the media, it’s easy to get the impression that no one really knows where the hatred is coming from or who is committing attacks against Jews.

In his much-discussed speech Monday at a Toronto synagogue, Prime Minister Mark Carney called out Jew-hate as a “crisis” that is testing the very “nature” of our country. He tacitly admitted that some immigrants are bringing old-world hatreds with them when he said, “When you come to Canada, you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story. You leave behind your wars and your animosities.”


Islamic extremism is enthusiastically supported by our so called “elites” in government, the academy, the justice system, the media, policing and unions.

I won’t even hazard a guess on how much our political class spends on KY Jelly per Islamist vote.

h/t Patti Jo

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