Michael Higgins: Canada to America — Make a deal or watch how angry we get

Michael Higgins: Canada to America — Make a deal or watch how angry we get

Prime Minister Mark Carney has the luxury of vacationing in Tuscany as our U.S. relationship crumbles to dust but Canadians should buckle up for a rough ride.

Trade negotiators on both sides are reported to be working feverishly on a Canada-U.S. interim trade deal before Donald Trump’s new tariffs come into effect next Wednesday.

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It’s no surprise many Britons think migration is ‘mostly bad’

It’s no surprise many Britons think migration is ‘mostly bad’

A decade after the Brexit vote, YouGov has conducted a large-scale survey of the nation’s attitudes towards migration. Their work shows that the British people are significantly more negative about the subject than they were in 2016. On each occasion, people were asked ‘do you think the level of immigration over the past ten years has been good or bad for Britain?’ In 2016, a third of us thought it had been ‘mostly bad’, and 38 per cent said it was ‘both good and bad’. Now, 43 per cent of us said ‘mostly bad’, and just 29 per cent said ‘both good and bad’. Notably, the opinions of 2016 Remain voters have shifted the most: almost twice as many of them now say that migration has been bad for Britain.

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GOLDSTEIN: It’s absurd for Jewish Canadians to treat Liberals as allies

GOLDSTEIN: It’s absurd for Jewish Canadians to treat Liberals as allies

A measure of how seriously Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals take the unprecedented explosion of Jew hatred across Canada is indicated by their leisurely response to it.

On Feb. 4, they announced the creation of a “Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion” to replace the offices of the “Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism” and the “Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia”, created by Justin Trudeau.


45% of Canada’s Jewish community voted Liberal in the last federal election according to the main post-election survey of Jewish voters.

 

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CIA Files Raise New Questions About Smartmatic and Venezuela’s Elections

CIA Files Raise New Questions About Smartmatic and Venezuela’s Elections

The CIA has declassified its files on the Venezuelan electronic voting machine company, Smartmatic, appearing to confirm widely held suspicions that the company used complex algorithms to fix election results that helped keep Venezuela’s leftist regime in power for two decades. The firm that’s been newly based in the UK now provides election machines for California’s populous Orange County.

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Experts warn Trump may be driving wedges between provinces with threatened tariffs

Experts warn Trump may be driving wedges between provinces with threatened tariffs

OTTAWA – Experts are warning that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened new set of tariffs could drive wedges between Canadian provinces, allowing the U.S. to exploit regional grievances to force trade concessions.

The tariffs would have particularly heavy impacts on industries concentrated in B.C. and in small towns across Quebec.

“There’s an awareness that Canada can be a punching bag for the United States, but different parts of the country can be treated differently,” said University of British Columbia political scientist Stewart Prest.

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Hamas’s Secret Weapon to Continue Ruling Gaza

Hamas’s Secret Weapon to Continue Ruling Gaza

Is Hamas preparing to contest the Palestinian parliamentary election scheduled for late November? If so, the United States and its European allies need to make one thing clear immediately: Hamas must not be allowed to participate.

The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group that carried out the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel cannot be permitted to reinvent itself as a legitimate political party. After October 7, Hamas has no right to exist as a military organization. It should have no right to exist as a political organization either.

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As tariff deadline nears, what does Trump want from Canada? And will he get it?

As tariff deadline nears, what does Trump want from Canada? And will he get it?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada is less than a week away from 50 per cent tariffs taking effect on nearly US$20 billion worth of exports to the United States, after the White House invoked the never-before-used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose duties on more than 400 Canadian products beginning Aug. 19.

Trade watchers said the move was designed to create leverage and force Ottawa back to the negotiating table. Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Chief Negotiator Janice Charette have heeded the call, repeatedly showing up for meetings in Washington in recent weeks to try to head off the 338 tariffs and reach a deal on the Section 232 sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum, and lumber.

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The Left Has Overplayed the Race Card So Much That It’s Now Just White Noise

The Left Has Overplayed the Race Card So Much That It’s Now Just White Noise

There’s an old saw in conservative circles that says, “When a liberal calls you a racist, that means you’re winning the argument.” For the most part, that’s true. Leftists shout “Racism!” reflexively, not thoughtfully. Also, their responses to conservatives are based on fictional evil caricatures that, in their minds, justify their unhinged emotional responses to anything we say or do.

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Toronto police officer seriously injured after being shot while responding to stolen e-bike call

Toronto police officer seriously injured after being shot while responding to stolen e-bike call

Toronto police say one suspect is in custody after an officer was shot while investigating an e-bike theft in Toronto’s downtown core..

Speaking to reporters on Thursday morning, Deputy Chief Lauren Pogue said officers were called to the city’s St. James Town neighbourhood at around 3:20 a.m. for reports of a robbery involving an e-bike.

Officers located a suspect and a brief foot pursuit ensued.

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LeBlanc, U.S. counterpart meeting once again to negotiate deal as tariff deadline looms

LeBlanc, U.S. counterpart meeting once again to negotiate deal as tariff deadline looms

Canadian trade officials are meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington once again, as both sides hustle to lock down a crucial trade deal ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressing tariff deadline.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s office confirmed to CBC News on Thursday morning that he and chief trade negotiator Janice Charette will meet with Greer this afternoon.

It will be the second meeting this week between the Canadian and American trade officials, and the fourth in just three weeks.

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