Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn’t think supporters of the Alberta independence movement want their province to join the United States. Her comments came a day after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent weighed in on the separatism movement during a Jan. 23 interview on the American network Real America’s Voice.
Smith said Albertans have been “frustrated” with the federal government but have not indicated to her that they want the province to join their southern neighbour.
WASHINGTON—President Trump declined to say whether the federal officer who fatally shot a man in Minnesota this weekend had acted appropriately and said the administration was reviewing the incident.
In a five-minute telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Trump didn’t directly answer when asked twice whether the officer who shot Alex Pretti had done the right thing.
Pressed further, the president said, “We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination.” Administration officials have publicly defended the officer.
The president criticized Pretti—the 37-year-old who was killed by a federal Border Patrol agent Saturday morning on a Minneapolis street—for carrying a gun during protest activity.
There are WILDLY different narratives emerging from the SAME videos right now. Remember the 24-hour rule. The truth will emerge over time.
1. Conservative influencers say you can see the gun drop from Pretti’s hands right after he was shot (see screenshots. I’m sorry for the… pic.twitter.com/kUQ2lAdCEZ
— Wisconsin Right Now (@wisconsin_now) January 25, 2026
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Taking lessons from the Toronto Tim Hortons Police. https://t.co/YPEkl7N3ko— Allen 🐟 (@arlasko) January 25, 2026
To many economists, the affordability crisis is an illusion.
The financial pressure weighing so heavily on Canadian households over the cost of living doesn’t really show up in the numbers.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, incomes have grown faster than inflation. Average weekly wages have risen by 29 per cent since the end of 2019, according to Statistics Canada. The Consumer Price Index is up by 21 per cent over the same period.
Furious protesters hammered on the gates of a small boat migrant processing centre chanting ‘send them back’ in Dover this afternoon.
There were tense scenes as around 50 demonstrators – many of them women and some accompanied by their children – confronted police guarding the Western Jet Foil facility opposite Lord Warden House.
The processing centre, which serves as an entry point where health checks are conducted before the migrants are moved to Manston asylum centre in Kent, has been closed for days for urgent repairs.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose crippling tariffs should Ottawa and Beijing sign a trade deal is unacceptably coercive and mimics China’s behaviour. Yet, at the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney could be navigating this situation better, and seems to be prioritizing political theatre over Canada’s interests.
Throughout his second presidency, Trump’s approach to foreign policy has been erratic and disruptive. While his interventions in Venezuela and the Middle East have been commendable, their benefits have been outweighed by his bullying of traditional American allies, as well as his threats to punish western economies should they fail to obsequiously follow his agenda.
I honestly believe Carney’s theatrics are a deliberate ploy designed to ensure a deal with China and the personal enrichment of he and pals.
CALGARY — A woman in her 80s was euthanized through Canada’s medical assistance in dying program (MAiD) with the help of her elderly husband who was “experiencing caregiver burnout,” and experts question whether it was coerced.
According to a report released by the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee, a woman referred to as Mrs. B experienced complications after a coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
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Bloodstains and stab wounds: Germany has been shaken by a series of serious stabbings. Incidents in Berlin, Lüneburg, Friedrichshafen, and Duisburg have raised concerns about escalating knife violence involving both adults and minors, prompting ongoing police investigations.
In Berlin’s Treptow-Köpenick district on the evening of Friday, January 25th, a 19-year-old man was seriously wounded in a knife attack at a bus stop when two unknown assailants reportedly attempted to rob him. He suffered stab wounds to his chest and abdomen and was taken to hospital for surgery, while the perpetrators fled and police launched an investigation.
OTTAWA — Recent headlines have sensationalised reports that the Canadian Armed Forces modelled hypothetical U.S. invasion scenarios, framing them as evidence of deteriorating alliances or impending conflict. This narrative not only fuels unnecessary alarm, but misrepresents how serious militaries operate.
Having worked on modelling and contingency planning for highly improbable scenarios in both government and the private sector, I believe it is important for readers to understand the broader context behind scenarios that appeared on the front page of Canada’s “newspaper of record,” The Globe and Mail, on January 20.
Last year President Trump became the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. This year he is skipping the game. You should too.
Trump told the New York Post in a January 23 interview that the blockbuster event, set for February 8 in California, is “just too far away.” Proximity isn’t an issue for the many millions who will be tuning in on TV and streaming (the global total is around 180–190 million; last year’s game boasted a record American audience of 127.7 million viewers), but they should boycott it altogether because the National Football League leadership is openly dismissive of the interests and desires of American football fans.
Donald Trump’s latest broadside at Canada was theatrical and absurd even by his own standards. In a Truth Social post this weekend, the US President threatened to slap “a 100 % tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A.” if Ottawa “makes a deal with China”. He warned that “China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life”. He even called Prime Minister Mark Carney “Governor Carney”, deploying a jab he previously reserved for Justin Trudeau and alluding to his unfulfilled fantasy of Canada becoming America’s 51st state.
TDS ahead.
OUTRAGED cries and calls for US President Donald Trump to apologise for saying that ‘Europeans . . . stayed . . . a little off the front lines’ during the war in Afghanistan are still rebounding off the walls of Westminster days later. His statement was undoubtedly wrong and appeared to be crassly ill-informed. By late yesterday afternoon he had backtracked.
Trump’s generalisation was difficult to parse and therefore easy to condemn, so the truths in what he may have been thinking and what prompted his ire went unreported. Not least his patent disgust with ‘Europe’ for thwarting his peace-keeping efforts in Ukraine and Gaza.
From EV mandates to “new world order” rhetoric, the Prime Minister’s trade strategy risks Canadian jobs, energy sovereignty, and Alberta’s future.
Multiple mainstream media (MSM) news sources in Canada and the United States (US) have recently reported that Mark Carney struck a trade deal with China in response to Trump’s tariffs. This short statement says more than meets the eye.
The CUSMA (aka USMCA), which largely eliminates tariffs, became effective in 2020. This agreement removes tariffs from most agricultural goods, energy, and many industrial goods. A few items, such as steel, aluminium, and softwood lumber, are exceptions. This means that the recent US tariffs imposed by President Trump do not apply to Canadian goods qualified under CUSMA. Therefore, these new tariffs cannot be the primary motivating factor for Prime Minister Carney’s deal with China.
William Shakespeare was a ‘black Jewish woman’, a new book has claimed.
The real playwright is identified as the historical figure Emilia Bassano in The Real Shakespeare, by an LSE graduate and feminist historian.
She was a poet with connections to the Tudor court and wrote the Shakespearean canon of plays using the pen-name ‘Shakespeare’, according to the book.
