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Why Mark Carney was wrong to provoke Donald Trump in Davos speech
Canada is making a costly mistake in managing its relationship with the United States. Mark Carney’s Davos speech, widely praised abroad, is the clearest recent example.
Canadians have been rattled by the aggressive approach the Trump administration has taken over the past year. There is no question that Canada needs to diversify trade and take concrete steps to protect its sovereignty.
But there is a growing tendency to treat antagonism toward Washington as a substitute for sovereignty. Publicly needling the U.S., or provoking its president, is increasingly framed as proof of strength or moral superiority. Those who question this approach are often treated as naïve at best, disloyal at worst.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Mark Carney:
“He rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message, and that's not a great place to be when you're negotiating with an economy that is multiples larger than you are.”
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) January 28, 2026
How China supercharged ‘birth tourism’ and scammed American citizenship for up to 1.5 million babies
As we sang “Auld Lang Syne” in the early morning of Jan. 1, 2025, the first American newborn of the year arrived to much fanfare and celebration.
But this time, the baby was the progeny of Chinese citizens, and the mother had intentionally traveled to give birth on American soil, so that the child would automatically be granted US citizenship, a practice known as birth tourism. When such children turn 21, they can also apply for resident status for both of their parents.
Alberta independence advocates reportedly want U.S. to ‘bankroll’ province if referendum on separation succeeds
United States government officials have held talks on three separate occasions with organizers of an Alberta separatist movement, according to reports.
The information, which was published in the Edmonton Journal and the Financial Times, comes at a time of increased tension between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump, and as the Canadian government tries to reduce its exposure to the U.S. on matters of trade, defence and foreign policy.
More … Trump Officials Held Secret Meetings With Prominent Canadian Group Seeking To Secede
A new bombshell report in Financial Times says that US officials have held recent talks with Canadian separatists seeking to break Alberta, Canada’s oil-rich western province, away from Ottawa.
“Officials in the [US President] Donald Trump administration discussed loaning Alberta $500 million to break up Canada and make it the 51st state,” one source told the FT.
h/t patthedog
Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura says state should seek to become part of Canada
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura says the people of his state should consider leaving the United States. In an interview on the SpinSisters podcast that premiered Saturday, Ventura pitched his plan by saying that it’s clear President Donald Trump doesn’t want the state.
“How about since Trump dislikes Minnesota so bad and we’re so out of control, let’s join Canada. Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state of America and lose their healthcare…. I’d like to see Minnesota, all of us become Canadians,” Ventura said. Make this part of Canada, because it’s obvious Donald Trump don’t want us. It’s obviously he’s ready to fracture the whole country for his own folly.”
Minnesota has more commies than Canada.
WTF?
Power to the peeeeeepppple! ✊🤡@fancypants_s https://t.co/WLj63wd6sb
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) January 29, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Canada’s New Reality: What can we learn from Canada’s pivot away from the U.S.?
I’m still processing how the world changed last week. President Trump’s wild threats against Greenland — and by extension against America’s NATO allies — crystallized for many leaders what they already believed but perhaps were too scared to say out loud: The rules-based international order is no more.
The man who said it out loud, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, became something of a hero in Davos. Today, I’m writing about what Canada’s efforts to pivot away from an increasingly volatile America can teach other countries.
Katy Perry urges fan to contact their U.S. senator and demand they block funding for ICE
Since returning from space last spring, pop star Katy Perry has been jet-setting to Davos and beyond with her boyfriend, former Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau. But she found time in her very busy schedule to urge her more than 200 million Instagram followers to contact their U.S. senator and demand they block funding for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE).
GM Canada layoffs hit Oshawa plant, putting up to 1,200 autoworkers out of work Friday
The day Oshawa, Ont., autoworkers have dreaded for months has arrived, as GM Canada is poised to cut a shift at the city’s plant, costing over a thousand workers their jobs.
Up to 1,200 workers throughout the auto supply chain are expected to complete their final shift on Friday as the company scales back its Canadian operations, according to the union president who represents them.
GM Canada confirmed Thursday approximately 500 of those people are its employees.
Live TV report on cougar capture in San Francisco neighborhood interrupted by coyote
Live television reporting about an incident where a young mountain lion was safely tranquilized and captured in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood took an unexpected turn on Tuesday when a coyote wandered into the background during the broadcast.
Your eyes do not deceive you. That's a coyote strolling on by during ABC7's Frances Wang live shot. Ironically, she was reporting on the capture of a 2-year-old mountain lion who was seen roaming around San Francisco streets. https://t.co/oLF6kRdF75 pic.twitter.com/4rIIVHrKMK
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) January 28, 2026
Ottawa spends $885M on health care for migrants and refugee claimants
Ottawa spent nearly $885 million last year providing a wide range of health services to illegal immigrants and refugee claimants, according to newly released figures tabled in Parliament that have triggered a Commons committee audit.
Blacklock’s Reporter says records disclosed through an inquiry of ministry show the Interim Federal Health Program cost taxpayers $884.6 million annually, including hundreds of millions for services not typically covered under provincial health plans.
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WTF?
This person built a home for stray cats to find comfort in winter.. pic.twitter.com/hdniysGaOM
— o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 21, 2026
Iran has ‘fingers on the trigger’ as standoff with US intensifies
Iran has its “fingers on the trigger” and is ready to respond to another attack from the United States, the regime’s foreign minister has warned, in an escalation of the standoff between the two countries.
The threat came after President Trump declared that Tehran must abandon its nuclear programme or face a “far worse” attack than the strike on its uranium enrichment facilities in June last year.
WTF?
The same CIA operatives who ran color revolutions overseas are now running one in Minneapolis.
Barbara Boyd exposes Maria Stephan, the NED, and the regime-change playbook being used against Trump.
Names. Files. Receipts.
Watch now: pic.twitter.com/5dYRuBLkQd
— Promethean Action (@PrometheanActn) January 28, 2026
Opting out of F-35 purchase would be ‘three ways from Sunday stupid,’ says retired major general
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra created the diplomatic equivalent to a sonic boom recently by stating that if Canada doesn’t go ahead with the purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets, that will mean the United States would have to buy more of the advanced fighter aircraft for its own air force, and fly them more often into Canadian airspace to address threats approaching the U.S.