If past performance indicates future results, then Canadians need to be worried about the Trudeau government handling the Trump tariff threat properly.
Many Canadians will remember that we went through the tariff issue with Trump in his first term and it didn’t go well.
Trudeau is less popular than Trump in Canada so don’t be surprised if Junior goes scorched earth on us.
ABOARD A RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL JET—The spy at the front of the cabin drew open the curtain.
Wearing a sand-colored jacket and brown shoes, with a salt-and-pepper goatee, the man had spent the past few hours organizing the final preparations for the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. Now, as the pilots started the engines to take off for an airport in Turkey’s capital, he came out to look at the 16 prisoners he was escorting to freedom, a haul of Americans, Russians and Germans in their first hours fresh from jails and penal colonies.
Scanning the passengers, he locked his eyes squarely on one of those prisoners—me. He said nothing, staring in silence for nearly a minute. Then he turned and walked back to his curtained-off section of the presidential jet. I was left to wonder about this man at the helm of the exchange, who appeared to hold my fate in his hands.
ZOMBIE SUMMIT! Volume up!
Backstory:
This is PSAC’s anti-harassment event in Kingston . PSAC 901 represents TAs and Research assistants at Queen’s University.Jihadists just “liberated” the campus registrars office and renamed it Gaza Hall.
Parents, divest from @queensu. pic.twitter.com/ubRxXBjpNM
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) December 15, 2024
h/t Mauser
Shoppers and businesses across Canada are expressing mixed feelings and showing little enthusiasm as a two-month break from the federal GST took effect on Saturday.
Lori Parker, the owner of an independent toy store in Toronto, said the sales tax holiday could be good for business because it makes shopping cheaper for customers, but the measure means more work for her staff over the holiday season.
“It does give them a break on costs,” she said. “But we knew from the get-go that it would be a lot of work.”
✈️ Trudeau’s latest European TRIP
“Airplane” food: veal picatta, beef stroganoff, Swiss chocolate cheesecake & 4 wines
FOOD BILL for Trudeau & entourage: +$70,000!!
That food bill could pay for a year’s worth of groceries for 4 families
Whole trip cost nearly $1 million pic.twitter.com/dsgan12QHL
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) December 13, 2024
CEO of Drone manufacturing company that has government contracts, gives interesting take on what’s happening in NJ. pic.twitter.com/tAbMdMETQC
— Kory Yeshua (@KoryYeshua) December 15, 2024
h/t XC
CHATHAM, N.J. (AP) — That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It’s unclear if it’s drones or something else, but for sure the nighttime sightings are producing tons of talk, a raft of conspiracy theories and craned necks looking skyward.
Cropping up on local news and social media sites around Thanksgiving, the saga of the drones reported over New Jersey has reached incredible heights.
This week seems to have begun a new, higher-profile chapter: Lawmakers are demanding (but so far not getting) explanations from federal and state authorities about what’s behind them. Gov. Phil Murphy wrote to President Joe Biden asking for answers. New Jersey’s new senator, Andy Kim, spent Thursday night on a drone hunt in rural northern New Jersey, and posted about it on X.
NJ Drone ‘Invasion’ Just In Time For Congress To Reauthorize Orwellian Law
Lots of specualtion and drama for what may be a deliberate test of citizen response to disclosure.
This is the source of the activity. The truth isn't as exciting but it's all right here.
They've been testing UAS since June of 2023 pic.twitter.com/AHt9ENkbiI
— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) December 14, 2024
h/t DS and Mauser
Hour one of Trumps presidency pic.twitter.com/ErIZgme2Z4
— Washingtons ghost (@hartgoat) December 14, 2024
On Monday, Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister and deputy prime minister, will present her much-delayed fall economic statement just in time for the holidays. And the government has promised that it will address the issue that preoccupied politicians this week: how to respond to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threat to impose potentially devastating 25 percent tariffs on exports to the United States from Canada and Mexico unless the two nations tighten their borders.
Thankful I don’t live in Australia pic.twitter.com/FT7CoFfklG
— Washingtons ghost (@hartgoat) December 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.
Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.
Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations.
An idea whose time has come?
Canada’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism was finally unveiled in Ottawa on Thursday, but the controversy that has followed the project over the past decade continues.
Etobicoke Centre MP Yvan Baker was expected to speak at the memorial’s public unveiling at the Garden of the Provinces and Territories on Wellington Street, but no one from the Liberal government attended the ceremony.
“We are very disappointed that the prime minister cannot be here, or chose not to be here,” said Robert Tmej, a member of the board of directors of Tribute to Liberty, the registered charity behind the project.
The most important question surrounding cousin marriage isn’t whether it should be banned. It’s why it’s still legal in Britain, years after the risks to children’s health — and women’s welfare — became known. Last week, the Government responded to a Conservative MP who wants to outlaw the practice with yet more stalling. Ministers don’t deny the impact on children, but Downing Street says it has no plans to change the law.
Canada had a huge surge of Pakistani immigration in the decade following 911, I wonder what the stats are like here.
Canada isn’t officially in a recession, but its largest city is already experiencing one. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows seasonally adjusted unemployment in Toronto CMA surged in November. Nearly 1 in 10 of the region’s workers are struggling to find work despite actively looking. The unemployment rate is now at levels not seen outside of the deepest recessions, with the jobless population hitting pandemic levels.
The libertarian in me insists that a private business should be able to refuse business to anyone. Back in the days before all the pettifoggery about “places of public accommodation” became accepted, it wasn’t uncommon to see signs in bars, restaurants, and the like stating, “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
Yes, longtime Conservative voters joined Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Montreal on Friday. But worryingly for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, so did a growing number of disenchanted former Liberal supporters.
Held at the Mega Centre des Sources in Pointe-Claire, a suburban strip mall, the event of around a couple hundred drew voters looking for change, with cost of living and identity politics firmly on people’s minds.
