John Ivison: Carney’s diversification plan will turn to disaster if China attacks Taiwan

In his speech at his party’s convention in Calgary on Friday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre expressed his wariness about the “strategic partnership” the Carney government has struck with China.

Cognizant that many western Conservatives welcomed Beijing’s tariff relief on canola provided by an agreement to allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into Canada, he did not expand on his misgivings.

The deal is deliberately limited in scope and certainly does not justify the wilder ramblings of some MAGA types like President Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, who mused about Canada and China conducting joint military exercises in the Arctic.

Carney doesn’t care about no Taiwan.

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Pervert Migrant, 70, who told girl, 12, to ‘cover her head’ before sexually assaulting her on way home from school is spared jail

A 70-year-old migrant has been spared jail for sexually assaulting a young girl ‘while encouraging her to cover her head’.

Chaudhry Zaman had forcibly held the 12-year-old girl’s hand while she was walking home from school in Slough, Berkshire, then kissed her.

He told jurors he had been encouraging the girl to cover her head and telling her how she could do so.

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Canada shouldn’t rule out acquiring nuclear weapons, former top soldier says

Canada’s former top soldier says this country should keep its options open on the question of acquiring nuclear weapons, broaching a subject that has largely been closed to debate for decades.

Retired general Wayne Eyre was speaking Monday at a forum in Ottawa. The event’s topic was national sovereignty and Canadian military capability in an age of geopolitical turmoil and shifting alliances.


All we need is a crazy leader like Kim and we can be NOKO North!

Party Poopers … McGuinty: Ottawa remains opposed to acquiring nuclear weapons

OTTAWA – Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada remains opposed to acquiring nuclear weapons, despite a suggestion from a former head of the military that Ottawa should not rule it out.

McGuinty says Canada signed international treaties explicitly opposed to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s corrupt overclass – How do you purge a ruling elite?

Poor Starmer. Finding himself accused of looking the other way during one grooming gang scandal might be attributed to misfortune. But two? That seems, at the very least, like carelessness. As the furore deepens around new revelations on the favours traded between Labour peer Peter Mandelson, and paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, opposition MPs are calling for a Cabinet Office investigation. What did Starmer know, when he picked Mandelson as US Ambassador?

But the Epstein horror show has more in common with Britain’s rape gang scandal than just Starmer’s apparent wish to avoid grasping any awkward nettles. Both involved the grooming and trafficking of vulnerable girls. Both convened a close-knit network of depraved insiders, some bonded by sexual degeneracy and linked through a host of further personal and economic ties. Both have a way of bubbling to the surface at intervals, triggering horror and disgust, then disappearing off the front pages again.

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NDP leadership hopefuls say workers shouldn’t be fooled by Poilievre’s blue-collar message

OTTAWA — Three contenders to be the federal NDP’s next leader say they’re not giving up on the party’s traditional blue-collar base, after multiple speakers at the recent Conservative national convention touted the party’s electoral gains on their turf.

The Conservatives fell short of winning last year’s election but picked up 10 seats in NDP-held ridings, a moral victory some speakers played up to convention-goers.

The NDP is the party of out of touch cranks who despise the working class that rejected their nonsense.

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First They Came for the Plastic Pigs, but I Was Not a Plastic Pig, so I Said Nothing

Muslims have wanted to conquer and Islamize Europe for centuries. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, is said to have predicted that the armies of Islam would one day conquer Constantinople and Rome, which at the time this story was composed, were the two foremost cities in Christendom. Muslims did indeed conquer Constantinople in 1453, and more than one Muslim cleric in our own age has said that time has come, and it will soon be Rome’s turn.

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In the Trump era, the F-35 is no longer the right plane for Canada

For the first time in generations, Canada’s only neighbour is a threat.

The threat exists on two levels.

There are barriers to Canadian exports to the United States, and the possibility of more to come. That economic threat is reversing decades of continental trade and integration.

I bet Carney will announce a China bid.

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Gender Studies Got So Unhinged That Texas A&M Shut It Down

The field consists only of whacko ideology served up in stranger and stranger ways.

Texas A&M University announced Friday that it will be shutting down its women’s and gender studies program. The university’s interim president said the decision was based on low enrollment as well as “the difficulty of bringing the program in compliance with the new system policies.”

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Stephen Harper calls for Liberals, Conservatives to come together in the face of Trump, separatist threats

Former prime minister Stephen Harper urged the Liberal and Conservative parties to take on the challenges of our time together as the country stares down two potentially existential threats to its sovereignty: an imperialist president to the south and separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec.

Speaking at an event Tuesday where his official prime ministerial portrait was unveiled on Parliament Hill, Harper said while the two major parties may differ on some matters of policy, those issues should be secondary to keeping the country together.


There is the Canada I grew up in and the Canada of today.

I have very little connection to the latter and believe the situation beyond fixable.

I don’t think I’m alone.

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Minnesota ignores history’s warnings and slouches toward another Fort Sumter

Minneapolis stands with illegal alien murderers

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union.

Not all Unionists believed a civil war was inevitable: Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see the stain of slavery gone from the Union.

Similarly, others agreed that the emerging Confederacy was not worth the trouble and costs of war, and the secessionists could just form their own nation and stew in their own backward, servile juice.

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Ottawa considers reviving EV incentives just in time for ChiCom Spycars arrival!

The federal government is considering bringing back consumer incentives for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids as it finalizes its national automotive strategy, CBC News has learned.

Sources with knowledge of the plans, whom CBC News has agreed not to name because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, say that a decision on the incentives — and whether they would be similar to a suspended rebate program — has not yet been made.

Canada’s incentive program for zero-emissions vehicles, known as iZEV, was suspended more than a year ago after it ran out of money due to high demand.

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China’s Year of the Horse is Already Coming Up Lame

The Chinese New Year celebration observed later this month is the “Year of the Horse,” but you probably will not want to put any money down on either win, place or show.

Perhaps not since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had at least eight of his top generals tortured and executed on the eve of World War II have we seen another nation dismantle their top military brass in the manner just pursued by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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Canada-U.S. relationship ‘will not go back to what it was,’ Hillman says

Outgoing Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman says a “loss in trust” among Canadians with regard to the country’s relationship with the United States won’t be easy to undo.

“I think the Canada-U.S. relationship has changed and will not go back to what it was, at least for a very long time, if ever,” Hillman said in an interview with The West Block guest host Jackson Proskow.

Carney is working at it as hard as Trump.

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