Trump has finally ditched Macron for Marine Le Pen

It’s official, the bromance between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron is over. It had always been a rocky relationship but on Thursday it ended in a spectacular fashion.

The French president, reacting to Trump’s decision to impose 20 per cent tariffs on all EU products, announced: ‘Investments to come or investments announced in recent weeks should be suspended until things are clarified with the United States.’

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Canada and NATO allies asked by Rubio to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP

Canada and other NATO allies were met by a request from the Trump administration to massively hike defence spending at the military pact’s meeting of foreign affairs ministers Thursday in Brussels.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, who attended the meeting, declined to say whether she thought Canada could increase military expenditures to reach 5 per cent of gross domestic product, as Mr. Rubio requested. “I’m not into speculation,” she said in an interview.

Canada currently spends about 1.37 per cent of its annual economic output on defence and has pledged to reach 2 per cent by 2030. No NATO ally has so far committed to increasing 5 per cent, although Mr. Rubio said Thursday the United States plans to do so.

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Who Controls the ‘World Ocean’ Commands the World

US Carrier Group – Strait of Hormuz

In a previous article in The American Spectator, I asked: “Are we at the end of American maritime hegemony?” The article noted the concern expressed by two naval experts that our diminished shipbuilding capacity was endangering our maritime supremacy. I noted that in his much-overlooked book Britain and the British Seas, the great geopolitical thinker Sir Halford Mackinder wrote that “the unity of the ocean is the simple physical fact underlying the dominant value of sea-power in the modern globe-wide world.”

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Standing up for supply management is not standing up for Canadians

What do you call a Canadian political leader, in the age of Trump, who seems to put their own interests “ahead of the country” in the matter of Canada-U.S. relations?

It depends on the province, and it depends on its particular interests. If you’re Premier Danielle Smith in Alberta, and the particular interest is oil and gas, and you really lean into it — “Our province is no longer agreeable to subsidizing other large provinces who are fully capable of funding themselves,” she said last month — you get called a traitor and a quisling.

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Pierre Poilievre says willingness to quickly drop problematic candidates sets him apart from Mark Carney

OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has rebuffed criticisms of his party’s vetting process after he dropped four candidates in less than 48 hours.

Instead, the Conservative leader said he was better than Liberal Leader Mark Carney at handling situations involving controversial candidates because he has responded to concerning allegations more quickly.

“Our vetting process is stronger than all the other parties. That’s why we have a zero tolerance for anyone who acts unacceptably,” Poilievre said at a news conference in Kingston.


Half the LPC caucus could be thrown out for this …

Liberals drop Edmonton candidate who praised Hamas, Hezbollah in video

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Well, Lookie Here: Congresswoman and Harvard Prof Are Caught Planning Massive Anti-Trump Riots?

We now know the names of the people leading the “resistance” against President Donald Trump and the attacks on Elon Musk. They occupy the highest levels of Congress and the pinnacle of the Ivy League. They’ve called for more attacks against Tesla and are leading “resistance” training to get more of it on the streets. Just like they did in 2017, leading to the Summer of Love.

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LILLEY: Carney tells another fib – the man can’t recognize the truth

Mark Carney’s sales pitch to Canadians is that he is an economist and the man who saved two economies in crisis.

But his claims don’t really live up to scrutiny, including a claim that he made on Thursday while responding to Trump’s latest tariffs.


I get a sense that Carney believes his honeymoon is permanent and Canadians will uncritically eat any shit he offers.

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Anti-Israel protesters block access to McGill University buildings, disrupt classes

Professors moved classes online and protesters blocked access to classrooms at McGill University this week as a three-day student strike kicked off.

“Anti-Israel protesters are physically blocking access to lecture halls inside the Bronfman building and disrupting classes, preventing fellow students from accessing their right to education,” wrote the pro-Israel advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada on X on Wednesday.

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Britain is lurching towards civil war, and nobody knows how to stop it

I now fear Britain is heading for open sectarian conflict, possibly war, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Here’s a snapshot of what I’m hearing.

On one night in Westminster, I met someone who argued for voluntary repatriation, two generations back; a Labour activist told me we must “re-educate” Muslims; and Jacob Rees-Mogg, debating me on

GB News, said Britain should take “zero” refugees. I spluttered a reply about the good Samaritan and staggered off to bed, confused and depressed.

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Crisis for Canadian Jewry

… At the eye of the storm is the Liberal Party of Canada and its new leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney. Many would argue that in the past decade, the Liberal government under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau increasingly empowered antisemitic elements. In the name of “diversity”, “equity” and “inclusion”, it has encouraged extreme radical ideologies and runaway antisemitism. It has failed to act decisively against imams who call for the shedding of Jewish blood. It has ignored incitement on university campuses, tolerated the spread of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish libels and defamation through public broadcasters that it funds. In the process, it has encouraged antisemitic opinions to intensify and be legitimized.

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American tourist arrested in India for attempting to contact Sentinelese tribe

An American tourist who attempted to make contact with an isolated tribe while bearing gifts of Diet Coke and coconuts has been arrested in India.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, travelled for nine hours in a small inflatable boat with an outboard motor in order to reach North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean.

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