The oil-rich Canadian cowboys who want their own kind of Brexit

The premier of Alberta province has offered separatists the tantalising prospect of a referendum. Will Trump get his 51st state after all?

Many of the Albertans who have concluded the province must secede from Canada contemplate the potential breakup of their country with regret, if not outright grief.

Not so Ron Robertson.

The retired police detective and leader of the Independence Party looks forward to the day Alberta, an energy powerhouse often compared to Texas, is unshackled from the rest of the nation.

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German Decline: A Warning From Across the Atlantic

DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The general state debt spiral should be a constant feature in daily headlines. Its prominence should force policymakers into a radical fiscal turnaround. Yet while Germany is working under immense pressure to ban the AfD, forming alliances with left-wing extremists, and eroding the political culture, on the other side of the Atlantic, preparations are underway for the approaching storm.

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Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine

The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University, freezing all future grants and threatening to strip the school’s tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has adopted some conciliatory measures— rebranding its DEI office and cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies—but, behind the scenes, the university’s discrimination machine continues to operate at full capacity.

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So called community groups sign letter opposing proposed ‘bubble zone’ bylaw

OTTAWA – Efforts by the City of Toronto to protect schools, seniors’ homes and places-of-worship from disruptive protests are being opposed by city activists.

The Toronto Sun intercepted a letter distributed among city non-profit groups and community activists opposing a proposed “bubble zone” bylaw declaring “vulnerable institutions” no-go zones for protesters.

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Trump Lets China Win in Tariff War — First Round, Anyhow

On May 12, President Donald Trump announced a “total reset with China.”

“The best part of the deal,” he said, was that “China agreed to open itself up to American business.” Beijing, Trump proclaimed, will “suspend and remove all of its non-monetary barriers.”

In the meantime, both the U.S. and China agreed to drop tariffs by 115 percentage points. The general American tariff rate on China’s goods is now 30%. The general Chinese rate is 10%. Both reductions will be in effect for 90 days.

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Lithium battery recycling firm Li-Cycle files for bankruptcy protection in Canada

Toronto-based lithium battery recycling firm Li-Cycle said on Wednesday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada and expects to start a formal sale for its business or assets.

The firm’s U.S. units have also commenced proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Li-Cycle has entered into a $10.5-million debtor-in-possession financing and a stalking horse credit bid for at least $40-million with London-listed Glencore, its largest secured creditor.

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The View’s Racists Decry White South Africans, Defend Their Racism

The View’s racism was on full display during the Thursday edition of the unfortunately popular ABC News program. Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin bitterly lashed out at the white South Africans fleeing persecution and parroted the South African president’s denials. And while they denounced America as a racist and sexist country, moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended her and Hostin’s racism.

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WARMINGTON: Man on bail at Toronto mosque faces accusation of fear of terrorism

Days before the RCMP picked up a Kitchener man believed to be planning to travel abroad to join an international terror organization, he was arrested at Pearson International Airport for allegedly making death threats to police officers, the Toronto Sun has learned.

Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee, who has lived in Canada for a number of years but is originally from Yemen, was charged on April 15 after allegedly uttering threats toward officers and released on an undertaking to appear at a later date in court for that allegation.

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Kash Patel announces FBI ditching DC headquarters, transferring 1,500 agents

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that the bureau is leaving its longtime DC headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building and transferring 1,500 employees to locations around the country.

“This FBI is leaving the [J. Edgar] Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” Patel told Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo in an interview set to air on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”


h/t PA Cat and Mauser and reader Dave with Kash

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Carney’s cabinet: a familiar mix of quotas, duplication and pork-barrel politics

Ladies and gentlemen, we have been had.

Cast your mind back two months, to March 14. On that day, just five days after he had won the Liberal leadership, Mark Carney was sworn in as Prime Minister, at the same time appointing a new cabinet. The air was thick with talk of “new realities” and “existential crises.”

In keeping with the tone of seriousness the Prime Minister was anxious to cultivate, the new cabinet was sharply reduced in size, from the 39 ministers it had averaged in Justin Trudeau’s last government to just 24 – the smallest it had been in decades.

Coyne alert

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Criticising Islam, ‘Globalists‘ and Migrant Crime Listed in AfD ‘Extremism‘ Report

Suggesting that Islamic culture is not compatible with Christian society, criticising “globalist” elites, claiming that immigration and certain ethnic minorities are linked to higher rates of crime, and even calling for the use of private firms to assist in deportations were all listed as evidence that the populist Alternative for Germany party is a “right wing extremist” organisation.

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It’s official. Some Canadians’ votes are more equal than others

For a while, the razor-thin election-night outcome in Terrebonne, a riding just north of Montreal, struck many Canadians as an example of the system working as it should: Liberal Tatiana Auguste was initially declared the winner by just 35 votes; standard validation procedures flipped the riding to the Bloc Québécois by 44 votes; and then a judicial recount, triggered automatically because the outcome was so close — less than 0.1 per cent of the turnout — found Auguste had won by a single vote.

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‘I didn’t come here for fun’ – Afrikaner defends refugee status in US

Last week, 46-year-old Charl Kleinhaus was living on his family farm in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. With its scenic beauty, wildlife and deep canyons, it’s known as “the place where the sun rises”.

His new home – for now – is a budget hotel near an American highway.

He and dozens of other white South Africans were moved to the US under President Donald Trump’s controversial policy to protect them from the discrimination he alleges they are facing – an accusation that South Africa rejects.


A harmless ditty, a sort of Negro Spiritual we’re told.

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Widow of quadriplegic man who chose MAID blames hospital for his death

In her final testimony at a coroner’s inquest into the death of her husband, Sylvie Brosseau wept at length on Thursday as she recounted the horrors Normand Meunier suffered at the St-Jérôme Hospital before he chose to end his life with medical assistance in dying (MAID).

Meunier, who was quadriplegic at the time of his death on March 29, 2024, developed gaping, irreversible bed sores on his buttocks — over 20 centimetres in width — after languishing four days on a bare stretcher in a harried emergency room. Brosseau reiterated that the hospital failed to provide until it was too late the mattress her husband absolutely needed for his festering bed sores.

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