Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland on Wednesday announced internal trade between provinces under her leadership “has become sexy.”
Freeland, who resigned as finance minister December 16, the day she was meant to present her department’s Fall Economic Statement, was appointed internal trade minister on March 14 by then de facto Prime Minister Mark Carney, who replaced Justin Trudeau as Liberal party leader.
The Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn’t possibly pass up – a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that’s illegal to drive in most of the world?
Few had seen anything quite like the Cybertruck when it was unveiled in 2019. Wrapped in an “ultra-hard, 30X, cold-rolled stainless steel exoskeleton”, the Cybertruck was touted as the ultimate doomsday chariot – a virtually indestructible, obtuse-angled, electrically powered behemoth that can repel handgun fire and outrun a Porsche while towing a Porsche, with enough juice leftover to power your house in the event of a blackout. At the launch, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the truck could tackle any terrain on Earth and possibly also on Mars – and all for the low, low base price of $40,000. “Sometimes you get these late-civilization vibes [that the] apocalypse could come along at any moment,” Musk said. “Here at Tesla, we have the best in apocalypse technology.”
The Guardian. They hate everything.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are the new buzzwords of the day, expressing our modern woke culture and society.
But for the next four years, DEI will DIE, but perhaps resurrect under a future Democrat administration.
DEI has “DIEd” since President Donald Trump has “shut down all DEI offices across the federal government.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly constituted cabinet met for the first time Wednesday on Parliament Hill as the government grapples with a whole host of challenges it will be charged with fixing.
The new ministry has three distinct challenges, among others, bubbling up on its watch: a U.S. trade war that’s already having an impact on Canada’s sluggish economy, persistent consumer affordability challenges and restlessness in Western Canada over the future of natural resources development.
Given Liberal Party policy has created or at the least made these challenges worse should make for some interesting double-speak.
The backlash against Keir Starmer has begun. Some senior figures within the Labour party have criticised the Prime Minister’s warning on Monday that Britain is in danger of becoming an ‘island of strangers’.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and Eluned Morgan, the first minister of Wales, are among those who believe the PM is being alarmist. Morgan said one should not use ‘divisive language when it comes to immigration.’ She added that reducing immigration, in the manner Starmer outlined on Monday, would damage Wales’s care sector.
And also presumably the country’s hairdressing industry. Yesterday it was reported that the town of Porth in south Wales (population 5,970) will soon have its 14th barber shop, this one run by a Kurdish businessman.
“They think women can be afraid on the street, but they don’t make the connection with immigration.”
Collectif Némésis is a French association that defends women’s safety in public spaces and women’s values in European civilisation. We spoke with its founder, Alice Cordier, about why she started the association, what it has achieved, and what frustrates her about the right wing when it comes to standing up for women’s rights.
The Alaskan Air Identification Zone extends 150 miles from U.S. territorial airspace and into Canada’s airspace in the North. It begins where sovereign airspace ends but is a defined stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of security.
On two consecutive days in February, two Russian Tupolev bombers accompanied by two Sukhoi Su-35 fighters flew into the zone. On both days, Feb. 18 and Feb. 19, they were intercepted by F-35 fighters, a Boeing E-3 Sentry early warning and control aircraft, and a KC-135 Stratotanker for aerial refuelling. All American aircraft.
BBC under fire after putting transgender man who lived 16 years as a girl on gay dating show I Kissed A Boy
The BBC has sparked furious backlash after putting a biological woman on its gay dating show I Kissed A Boy with critics branding the move ‘homophobic in the extreme’.
The reality show, fronted by pop star Dannii Minogue, features single men looking for love but with a twist. Contestants must kiss before getting to know one another.
But controversy erupted after it was revealed that one of the participants, Lars, was born female and lived as a girl for 16 years despite now identifying as a ‘gay man trapped in a woman’s body’.
For decades, Klaus Schwab ruled over Davos like royalty. That reign ended when he hit “send” on an email to World Economic Forum trustees on a recent Friday afternoon.
Schwab was seemingly headed for a graceful exit from the organization he founded more than a half-century ago, after a 2024 investigation by The Wall Street Journal exposed evidence of a toxic culture at the Forum for women and Black employees. But by Friday, April 18, the trustees’ audit committee recommended opening a probe into a new wave of whistleblower allegations against Schwab and his wife, Hilde.
Incensed, Klaus Schwab fired off a two-paragraph message to the board’s audit committee, threatening trustees with an investigation into how they were carrying out their duties and accusing them of risking the future of the organization.
The Parliamentary press gallery is all aglow over Mark Carney’s new cabinet. It’s so much smaller than Justin Trudeau’s last cabinet, they beam. And its full of so many rookies. Surely that proves Carney intends a clean break with the Trudeau past.
24hr after Steven Guilbeault becomes a cabinet minister he SAYS NO PIPELINES
NO one wants to invest in them
we are at PEAK oil consumption. NO need for oil in future.
Meanwhile: $1 trillion gas deal
pic.twitter.com/o9Jt122qZL— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) May 14, 2025
In an earlier life, as a newly appointed member of the National Energy Board, I participated in a conversation about pipeline regulation with citizens affected by pipelines and hence, by their regulation. I was as thrilled by the opportunity, as I was to visit a part of the country new to me.
That is when I was educated about two important aspects of the legal process.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is opposed to Alberta sovereignty but understands the frustration in the province that is driving the possibility.
He spoke about the issue Tuesday as he commented on the new federal cabinet announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“I’m against separation. I’m a born and raised Albertan. I love Canada. I think we need to unite this country,” Mr. Poilievre said.
President Joe Biden got out of bed the day after the 2024 election convinced that he had been wronged. The élites, the Democratic officials, the media, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama—they shouldn’t have pushed him out of the race. If he had stayed in, he would have beaten Donald Trump. That’s what the polls suggested, he would say again and again.
His pollsters told us that no such polls existed. There was no credible data, they said, to support the notion that he would have won. All unspun information suggested it would have been a loss, likely a spectacular one, far worse than that suffered by his replacement as the Democratic nominee, Vice-President Kamala Harris.
The disconnect between Biden’s optimism and the unhappy reality of poll results was a constant throughout his Administration. Many insiders sensed that his inner circle shielded him from bad news. It’s also true that, for Biden to absorb those poll results, he would have had to face the biggest issue driving them: the public had concluded—long before most Democratic officials, media, and other “élites” had—that he was far too old to do the job.
The first celebrity economist was the prime minister’s ‘influencer.’
Justin Trudeau, an open admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” has now given way to Mark Carney. The new prime minister’s mentor will be of interest on both sides of the border.
Mark Carney earned a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied economics under John Kenneth Galbraith. Born in Ontario in 1908, Galbraith moved to the United States in the 1930s, earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, and during WWII President Roosevelt tapped him to lead the Office of Price Administration. In 1949 the Canadian transplant became a professor at Harvard.
Many people have no idea about the Indian version of Titanic, which is just as compelling as the American film.
The musical score adds so much to this brief scene. pic.twitter.com/D6bXSxTR8l
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 14, 2025
