While most Canadians recoil at the thought of becoming the US’ 51st state, an increasingly vocal minority are convinced it is essential for the future of their country.
Secessionists in Alberta say they are sick of their oil-rich province subsidizing the rest of the nation.
A dissatisfaction with the status quo, along with avid support for Donald Trump, has led to around 10 percent of Canadians expressing separatist views, the Telegraph reports.
h/t pathedog
Russian agents set fire to a huge Ikea store because ‘the colours are same as Ukraine flag’, Lithuanian prosecutors have alleged.
The Kremlin’s military intelligence has been accused of orchestrating an arson attack on the shop in Vilnius in May 2024, which will now be tried as an act of terror.
March 17, 2025 – A whirlwind first quarter of 2025 has swept up Canadian politics and tossed it back down in an unrecognizable jumble.
Conservatives Crumble: Liberals surge past CPC into majority territory, but Grits’ vote commitment is softerhttps://t.co/D6J0FlkoTy pic.twitter.com/iQdNbluGaa
— Angus Reid Institute (@angusreidorg) March 17, 2025
h/t Mauser
A growing number of Canadians are interested in joining the European Union (EU) despite rising patriotism.
A recent Abacus Data poll indicates nearly half of Canadians are in favour of joining the EU.The survey was conducted from February 20-25, with a sample of 1,500 Canadian adults.
Get a WEF of this stinker … I think he spelled 3rd World wrong
PM Carney: “I want to ensure that France and the whole of Europe works enthusiastically with Canada, the most European of non European countries.” pic.twitter.com/GOePF0NEAF
— Juno News (@junonewscom) March 17, 2025
h/t Mauser
During his 1969 visit to the United States, Canada’s then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau held a news conference at which he described his American hosts in a memorable analogy. “Living next to you”, he said, “is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt”.
The phrase “sleeping with an elephant” has come to define US-Canadian relations in the minds of many Canadians. But since President Trump launched his second term in the Oval Office, the elephant has been neither friendly nor even-tempered. In fact, its twitches and grunts have recently become more like angry kicks and menacing roars, especially with Trump’s imposition of a 25% tariff on most goods from Canada.
BREAKING:
This morning, President Trump learned that Hunter Biden had 18 Secret Service Agents assigned to him while in South Africa.NOW: Trump just announced both Hunter & Ashley Biden’s Secret Service protection, totaling 31 Agents, have been pulled. pic.twitter.com/PLA5bxdqoO
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) March 17, 2025
h/t DS & Hermes
By flooding TikTok with religious messages, China could be baiting a backlash. Progressives react with hostility, attacking Christianity as a dangerous ideology.
Christianity may be fading in America, but in 2024, it helped put Donald Trump back in the White House. Evangelicals, Catholics, and other Christian voters backed him in even greater numbers than before.
While Christianity is repressed at home, the CCP has weaponized religion for its own purposes abroad.
This fact, I suggest, is not lost on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The King should go to Ottawa and open parliament as a reminder to Trump who the head of state is
The news that the prime minister of Canada saw the King yesterday would not normally set the pulse racing, but we live in new times.
Let me go back a bit. As a young journalist in 1982, I remember being faintly perturbed by the Canada Act of that year. This “patriated” the Canadian Constitution, getting rid of the last vestiges of British power over Canadian affairs. It came into effect just after Argentina had invaded the Falkland Islands. I sensed it might be a bad idea.
The Act was perfectly logical, however. It was the final step in the emergence of Canada as an entirely independent country.
I think Charles would receive a warm reception but not overwhelming adulation. The Firm ain’t what it used to be.
I am so taken aback by all the beauty and the hot pink that I need a moment to recalibrate.
In the meantime, please do not refer to this woman as a dude. pic.twitter.com/v6REQu11Hr
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 16, 2025
“Mark Carney got it done.” Let those four words wash over you and savour them. Linger on their delicious cynicism. What, you might ask is so momentous the Liberal Party would tweet out these five words as though the Messiah once again walked the earth? Was it his crushing Liberal leadership win? No. Was it his swearing in to official become Canada’s 24th Prime Minister? Try again. No, it was his signing of an order to “cancel” the Carbon Tax, a move of self-absorbed political narcissism the likes of which we may never see again.
Fellow females, when was the last time you stabbed yourself with lady juice? pic.twitter.com/6MrYWQQ3N0
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 17, 2025
On January 11, 2025, Amir Arvahi Azar, 32, of Toronto, was arrested. He has been charged with 29 criminal offences:
Journalists have always had a tendency to treat Donald Trump as a gold medalist in some kind of Olympics of Stupidity. But even for them, the trade war he has fitfully waged over the last two weeks has been dazzling in its illogic and arbitrariness. He has imposed tariffs, both on China and on his country’s nearest neighbors and closest allies. Then called them off. Then reimposed them.
Sowing ill will, repelling investors, decimating the 401(k) plans of those who once thought it was a good idea to vote for him, Trump appears to most newspapers readers as a mad king, or as the crazed naval captain Humphrey Bogart plays in The Caine Mutiny—someone from whom control ought to be wrested, and soon.
Interesting info on the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency pro and con among other things.
Remember when the Liberal Party of Canada loathed bankers? And bankers like Mark Carney thought politicians were “circus clowns”? Liberals don’t. They just elected Canada’s most famous banker, Mr. Carney, as their party’s Leader and now Prime Minister.
Mr. Carney did not just head two central banks. Before that he had proved himself as an investment banker toiling for 13 years at the golden temple of global investment banking, Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs, a bank known for its “extreme profitability and market prowess.” He parleyed that into success at the Bank of Canada and later, at the Bank of England, cutting the most unique path to Prime Minister in Canada’s history.
The Arab countries have finally come up with a plan for the Gaza Strip that aims to address the humanitarian crisis, restore essential services and rebuild. The $53 billion plan, announced in early March after an extraordinary meeting of the Arab League in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, did not come out of a genuine desire to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but as a counterproposal to US President Donald Trump’s vision of relocating the residents of Gaza and turning it into the Rivera of the Middle East.
