David Scarlett’s The Battle at the Border documentary is an insightful and impactful look into one of the most contentious and critical issues facing the United States today: immigration and the security of our southern border. Through a blend of first-hand accounts, historical context, and eye-opening visuals, Scarlett delves into the complexities of the U.S.-Mexico border, highlighting the human and political struggles that occur daily in this often misunderstood region.
Despite an eventual resignation, the initial decision by Liberal Leader Mark Carney to back a candidate after learning he had made light of a Chinese government bounty on the head of a Conservative rival has diaspora community advocates on the front lines of the foreign interference threat saying they’ve lost confidence in the party’s commitment to protect them from transnational repression.
Yet, while Paul Chiang, the incumbent Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville, Ont., eventually announced late on March 31 he would be standing aside so as not to “cause a distraction in this critical moment,” his delayed departure and Carney’s initial confidence have already caused damage.
Michael Stewart – head of the UK government’s counter-extremism scheme, Prevent – announced he was stepping down last week after a damning review exposed Prevent’s failures in relation to the Southport attacker, Axel Rudakubana. Good. Stewart presided over a truly catastrophic failure, leading to the murder of three young girls. But Prevent’s problems go much deeper than the man at the top.
Last summer, after Old Joe Biden was forced out of running for reelection and Kamala Harris was anointed as the Democrat candidate for president, the far left’s propaganda arm (that is, the establishment media) made a massive push to make this failed vice president and longtime party hack seem new and exciting. A key part of this effort was a gaggle of young “influencers” who took to Instagram and TikTok with an enthusiastic pro-Harris message. It was sincere, it was spontaneous, it was exciting — or at least that’s what it seemed to be. Now (I know, knock me over with a feather) it turns out that the whole thing was faked: the entire Harris bubble was the artificial creation of a bunch of leftist billionaires.
Sounds vaguely familiar …
President Donald Trump has unveiled plans for new import taxes on all goods entering the US, in the biggest upheaval of the international trade order since the aftermath of World War Two.
His plan sets a baseline tariff on all imports of at least 10%, consistent with a proposal he made on the campaign last year.
Items from about 60 trade partners that the White House described as the “worst offenders”, including the European Union and China, face higher rates – payback for what Trump said unfair trade policies.
FULL REMARKS: Watching Trump. President Trump Participates in the Make America Wealthy Again Event at the Rose Garden on Liberation Day – 4/2/25 #Trump #TrumpTariffs
“The U.S. can no longer pay the deficits of Canada and Mexico… The Great Depression was caused by the US… pic.twitter.com/MeRrAqXvWj
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) April 2, 2025
U.S. senators vote to block Trump’s Canadian tariffs in stinging, but likely symbolic, rebuke
A bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators voted in favour of ending the state of emergency that allows the Trump administration to unilaterally impose tariffs on Canadian goods, arguing that the White House overreached by targeting its northern neighbour.
The vote is the most significant Republican rebuke of the Trump administration’s second term, with four Republicans – Kentucky senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, as well as Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, and Susan Collins, of Maine – breaking rank. The vote passed 51 to 48. The win is largely symbolic because it’s unlikely to have any practical effect in Congress. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has pledged not to intervene in Mr. Trump’s tariff agenda, and the president has veto power that can only be overridden by a two-thirds majority vote in each chamber. The fate of the resolution was unclear until votes were tallied late Wednesday evening.
‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs: See Which Countries Have the Highest Rates
President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs on Wednesday afternoon, announcing a minimum 10 percent tariff on all trading partners as well as so-called reciprocal actions on dozens of other countries, including some of America’s biggest trading partners.
In announcing the new tariffs, his most expansive to date, Mr. Trump said that the global tariffs would help correct decades of unfair relationships and stop other countries from ripping off the United States.
China, for example, will see its tariff rate rise to 34 percent, which includes a previous blanket import tax imposed on the country’s goods earlier this year. Vietnam’s imports will be taxed at nearly 50 percent.
Canada exempt from Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs, PM Carney promises countermeasures to auto, sectoral levies
The Irving family businesses dominate Saint John, New Brunswick. They are a major employer, but residents say those jobs have come with a steep cost.
Even in a frequently fogbound port city along the Atlantic Ocean, the billowing clouds of steam rising from Canada’s largest oil refinery over Saint John, New Brunswick, are impossible to miss.
On a ridge overlooking the refinery sit six enormous tanks, each containing one million barrels of crude oil. Letters painted in dark blue spell “Irving,” the family whose businesses dominate not only Saint John, but most of New Brunswick.
The larger of the Irvings’ two local paper mills looms above the Saint John River like a medieval fortress. Irving-owned railway tracks crisscross the city, linking smaller factories owned by the family to ports under Irving control. Irving-owned building-supply stores and gas stations dot the streets in this city of 78,000 people, where park signs honor Irving contributions to their upkeep.
Worth a visit for the pics alone, but note you will have to scroll down a bit for the story which provides a slice of Carney’s support.
When Uri Berliner began his career at National Public Radio 25 years ago, he did so with a sense of pride and the knowledge that his stories would be heard in all corners of the nation.
‘One of the things I found really kind of inspiring was, if I worked on a story, there might be a farmer in Nebraska on his tractor first thing in the morning listening to, you know, a story I worked on,’ he told the Daily Mail.
‘That was one of the reasons I wanted to work at NPR, because of its reach to all kinds of people. But, you know, I don’t know that farmer still listens.’
The French authorities insist that the conviction of Marine Le Pen, which disqualifies the leader of the National Rally (RN) from standing for election as president of France, is not political. No, they say, it simply reflects the neutral ‘rule of law’ and the ‘independence of the judicial system.’
Really? Strange then, that supposedly ‘independent’ judges and officials across Europe and America have all reached remarkably similar verdicts against right-wing politicians.
It looks less like judicial independence and the old-fashioned rule of law than a globalist establishment plot to use the courts as a political weapon against the rising national populist revolt.
Are emerging polls showing the Carney Liberals ahead of the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre accurate?
A March 27-29 poll from The Globe and Mail, CTV, and Nanos Research has sparked debate over plausibility. It surveyed 1,182 people.
“These polls are cherrypicking Carney’s demographic,” said one X user.
Because of the vastness of Canada’s territory, the differing interests of its various regions, the abundance of competing economic and social interests, and the weakened state of democratic instruments for reconciling conflicting interests, national unity will be a perpetual challenge for whomever we choose to form our national government.
Recent polling by Pollara Strategic Insights shows a temporary decline in support for secession in Quebec but, paradoxically, support for the separatist Parti Québécois remains high. Were the PQ to win the next provincial election in Quebec as predicted, it has promised to hold another referendum on secession. And so the next federal government, no matter who forms it, will be faced yet again with a challenge to national unity on the Quebec front.
As CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. ambassador to NATO in the Obama administration, Ivo Daalder is a member in good standing of the foreign policy establishment. In a recent piece on the Foreign Affairs website, Daalder, after the obligatory criticism of Donald Trump’s alleged undermining of NATO, concludes that Trump has been right all along: Europe is “fully capable of ensuring [its] future security [and] [t]he time to start is now.” NATO faces the worst crisis in its 76-year history, Daalder writes, because Trump has “questioned the two core principles” of the alliance: its shared threat perception and its commitment to collective defense.
I’m a proud Anishinaabe who asserts my Indigenous sovereignty. That’s why I won’t vote
I was 13 when my mom taught me an important lesson: I am not Canadian — I am Anishinaabe, and it’s the reason I will not participate in a colonial political system or vote in this year’s federal election.
We were sitting on the crowded bleachers of my school gymnasium when silence fell and a familiar song followed.
BREAKING: Zachary Sandi, the male teacher who pretends to be a woman at @redoakisd and said he got gender euphoria from being called "ma'am" has resigned from his position and is no longer allowed back in the school following our exposé.
BIG WIN for students and parents in Texas https://t.co/QNY3ona3YS pic.twitter.com/u081HNccZn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 1, 2025
Pierre Poilievre put forward a solid pitch to voters during his visit to St. John’s on Tuesday, focusing on the “lost Liberal decade” and the policies that contributed to the “poorest growth in the G7.”
He used a letter sent to political leaders by the CEOs of Canada’s 14 largest energy companies as a frame for his case, contrasting Conservative positions with those of Mark Carney’s Liberals on five key demands: the need to simplify regulations by overhauling C-69, the Impact Assessment Act; the need to ensure major projects are approved within six months; the removal of the cap on oil sands emissions the CEOs argue will shrink production; the requirement to kill the carbon tax on large emitters; and the desirability of creating ownership opportunities for Indigenous Canadians by extending federal loan guarantees.
Have you met the King of BBLs, Mateo?
He has a very unique aesthetic and has spent a large amount of money to achieve this perfection. pic.twitter.com/ZhuQ7kpUEy
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 31, 2025
