Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is “looking for a closer partnership” with the European Union — but not to become a member.
While speaking from the NATO summit in the Netherlands — where he announced Canada’s promise to spend five per cent of gross domestic product on defence by 2035 — Carney was asked whether he has given any thought to trying to join the bloc of European nations.
“The short answer is no,” he said. “That’s not the intent. That’s not the pathway we’re on.”
Bullshit.
From the perspective of European NATO allies, it all went to plan: A short, one-page and five-point declaration, a nice group photo and even dinner with the Dutch king and queen. At the NATO summit at The Hague, US President Donald Trump was also in good spirits.
When he addressed the press, Trump claimed credit for ending the war in Iran and for getting NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5% of their national GDPs by 2035.
He praised European members of the alliance for “the love and passion they showed for their countries,” but also said they needed the US. He hailed the new pledge as a “big win for Europe and for western civilization.”
@SecGenNATO: "For too long, one ally, the United States, carried too much of the burden of that commitment — and that changes today. President Trump — dear Donald — you made this change possible… we will produce trillions more for our common defense to make us stronger and… pic.twitter.com/qK5yT0cUdE
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 25, 2025
Federal infrastructure bank provided $1-billion in financing for BC Ferries purchase of four new Chinese-made ships
The federal government’s Canada Infrastructure Bank provided $1-billion in financing for BC Ferries’ plan to buy four new ships from a Chinese state-owned shipyard, a fact that Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland did not mention last week when she sharply criticized the purchase.
Ms. Freeland sent a strongly worded letter last week to B.C. Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth expressing her “great consternation and disappointment” with the planned purchase.
The letter referenced a previous $75-million loan by the CIB for four other ferries and Ottawa’s annual grant for ferry operations, but did not mention that the bank is also providing $1-billion in low-interest loans for the specific purchase she was criticizing.
The head of the CIA has said US strikes “severely damaged” Iran’s nuclear facilities and set them back years, diverging from a leaked intelligence report that angered President Donald Trump by downplaying the raid’s impact.
John Ratcliffe, the US spy agency’s director, said key sites had been destroyed, though he stopped short of declaring that Iran’s nuclear programme had been eliminated outright.
It comes a day after a leaked preliminary assessment from a Pentagon intelligence agency suggested core components of Iran’s nuclear programme remained intact after the US bombings.
The United States failed to "achieve their intended goal" and "gained nothing" from getting involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran, says Iran's Supreme Leader.
Ayotollah Ali Khamenei says President Trump "exaggerated" what happened and that Iran claimed a victory over… pic.twitter.com/ag7H5IU9tO
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) June 26, 2025
This is one lucky cat! pic.twitter.com/Zc7dh9pjAX
— Trump Girl (@TrumpGirlLove) June 26, 2025
H/T Mauser
While the broad 25 percent tariffs once floated by President Donald Trump never fully materialized, Canada’s retaliatory measures—covering over 1,800 U.S. product lines, representing more than $90 billion in Canadian imports from the U.S. last year—remain largely in place. Though some exemptions and supports have softened the impact (and created confusion), the economic consequences of these tariffs are starting to take shape.
Newly released trade data for April 2025 allow us to take a detailed look at how Canadian imports have shifted in response.
President Trump blasted Zohran Mamdani’s politics – and looks – Wednesday after the socialist’s stunning upset in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary.
“Democrats have crossed the line by elevating a 100% Communist Lunatic,” Trump railed in a Truth Social post.
“We’ve had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous,” he added.
President Trump says Demcorats have “crossed the line” following Muslim Communist Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory in New York.
“He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he’s not very smart.”
“Even our great Palestinian Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is groveling over him.” pic.twitter.com/yWVpLYh57v
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 25, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s point-person in the Senate is pressing for the swift passage of the government’s landmark “nation-building” projects bill, but he isn’t certain he can get it through unamended before the upper house is scheduled to break for the summer.
In an interview with CBC News on Wednesday, Sen. Marc Gold, the government representative charged with shepherding C-5 through the Red Chamber, said he wants the bill to pass this week with no changes.
But, with senators essentially free agents after a series of changes under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, it’s hard to say what the outcome will be — given the criticism from some Indigenous leaders and environmentalists, Gold said.
Trudeau packed the senate like Liberal sardines.
A woman in a “Make America Great Again” hat leads a chant for “regime change” in Iran.
The crowds dance and wave Iranian, Israeli and American flags as Persian music blasts. Car horns beep in support but also some annoyance in LA’s gridlocked traffic.
Protests outside the West LA Federal Building are a common site, but even by LA standards this one is unusual, happening under the watchful eyes of armed US Marines, controversially ordered there by President Trump during protests against immigration raids.
Canada Issues Deportation Orders, Cancels Visas for Iranian Regime Members
The federal border agency says three people have been found ineligible to remain in Canada in recent years for being senior officials of the Iranian regime.
The Canada Border Services Agency says deportation orders were issued for all three and one has been removed from Canada.
It is said that people get more right-wing as they grow older. A quicker way to achieve this appears to be having a large number of asylum seekers housed nearby.
Almost three-quarters of voters in Kreuzberg—described as one of Germany’s most liberal districts—backed the three major left-wing (pro-migration) parties in the last federal election. The more right-wing parties did not achieve double-digit support.
Somebody should tell the government of Canada there is only one Canadian flag.
Perhaps Premier Doug Ford can make the call. He and his Ontario government got it right with their massive, traditional Canadian flag attached with help of cranes to Queen’s Park this week.
That’s how you do that.
A federal grant program aimed at encouraging more women to enter the skilled trades was exploited by men who falsely self-identified as female to receive the higher funding, according to a report by the Department of Employment.
The Apprenticeship Grants: Evaluation Report found that applications were approved solely based on self-identification, with “a few focus group participants, 18%,” reporting that male apprentices received the grant by declaring themselves female on forms
Neera Tanden, former head of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, admitted that she authorized autopen signatures without knowledge of who issued the final approval in a closed-door hearing before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, according to Fox News.
In her role as staff secretary, before she was moved to the Domestic Policy Council, Tanden “was responsible for handling the the flow of documents to and from the President,” sending decision memos to “Biden’s inner circle” and affixing the president’s autopen signature to the documents when she received approval. Tanden was not privy to any of the decision-making process or who was giving the final approval. She rarely interacted with Biden. The system, according to her opening statement, was a relic of previous administrations.
The Autopen authorized it.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won a Nobel Peace Prize for its opposition to the existence of nuclear weapons. Its slogan was ‘We must eliminate nuclear weapons before they eliminate us.’ Unless the nukes are in the hands of Islamic terrorists.
After Israel launched its campaign to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program, ICAN denied that Iran was developing nuclear weapons and instead condemned Israel for striking Iran’s nukes.
