LILLEY: Mark Carney heads to New York while continuing to avoid Donald Trump

LILLEY: Mark Carney heads to New York while continuing to avoid Donald Trump

While Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to New York to pitch Canada as a place to invest, he’s doing everything he can to avoid landing a deal with the Donald Trump administration. Carney and his government in Ottawa are avoiding any serious talks with the Americans, while also taking steps to ensure the Trump administration, and even many Democrats, are annoyed with Canada’s trading positions.


Brookfield is counting on Carney.

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UK: Share of babies born to migrant parents hits record 40%

UK: Share of babies born to migrant parents hits record 40%

The share of babies born to migrant parents reached 40pc for the first time last year, new figures show.

Latest Office for National Statistics figures showed the number of newborns with at least one parent born abroad had risen from 39.5pc in 2024 to a record high of 40.2pc last year. It was 30.1pc in 2008.

That equates to more than 235,000 of the 585,396 births last year.

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Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying Program Is An Express Train To Hell

Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying Program Is An Express Train To Hell

We were warned.

There’s been a great deal of media attention this week on the professional discipline meted out to a Canadian physician who dispensed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) with what appears to have been an extraordinarily casual approach to the job. As the Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail first reported, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario found that Dr. James MacLean medically assessed a Crohn’s Disease patient for euthanasia at a Tim Horton’s coffee shop, then later gave him a ride to the euthanasia facility. As the Globe and Mail also reported, “Dr. MacLean administered the lethal medications in a room at a holding facility in an industrial unit where cadavers are prepared for transport to funeral homes.”

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Australia charges woman who returned from Syria with joining Islamic State

Australia charges woman who returned from Syria with joining Islamic State

A woman with links to the Islamic State group who returned to Australia from Syria last year has been charged with being a member of a terrorist organisation and entering a declared conflict zone, police have said.

The 34-year-old arrived in Australia in September along with another woman, police said, and was to appear in a Melbourne court on Thursday.

The announcement comes after two groups of women and children arrived in Australia this month after spending years in the al-Roj camp in north-east Syria where families of IS fighters have been held since 2019.

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Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

What’s happening in Canada is no longer simply odd, sad, or irrelevant.

It is deeply concerning.

Canada has morphed into a crazed killing factory, one that performs Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) procedures on its own citizens, even those who aren’t facing a terminal illness.

Seriously depressed? Canada will off you. And why wouldn’t Canadians be depressed, as the radicals that have been running — and ruining — the country for decades now have destroyed their economy, made many things unaffordable, and made some large cities almost uninhabitable due to crime from the massive hordes that they have let in from Third World nations.

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Bank of Canada links immigration surge to rising youth unemployment crisis

Bank of Canada links immigration surge to rising youth unemployment crisis

A senior Bank of Canada official is warning that young Canadians are facing one of the toughest job markets in decades, with immigration levels contributing to growing competition for entry-level work.

Nicolas Vincent, the Bank of Canada’s external deputy governor, said youth unemployment has climbed sharply in recent years and warned the long-term consequences could leave a generation struggling to gain experience and financial stability.

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Reform UK Calls for English-Only Council Meetings After Arabic Prayer

Reform UK Calls for English-Only Council Meetings After Arabic Prayer

Reform UK councillors in Birmingham have called for council meetings to be conducted only in English after an Islamic prayer was read aloud in Arabic during a mayoral ceremony in the city.

Newly-appointed Lord Mayor Zaker Choudhry invited imam Muhammad Abdali to recite a verse from the Koran in Arabic as he was sworn in. The verse was later repeated in English.

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Germany pledges four submarines by 2036 in high-stakes pitch to Canada

Germany pledges four submarines by 2036 in high-stakes pitch to Canada

Should the Liberal government decide to go with the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) bid, the German shipbuilder has now pledged to deliver four Type 212-CD submarines to the Canadian Navy by 2036, the country’s defence minister tells CBC News.

Boris Pistorius said Wednesday that he has every confidence that the company will meet the delivery goal, which emerged early on as one of the major competitive differences between TKMS and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean shipyard.

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Trump says US ‘not satisfied’ with Iran deal yet

Trump says US ‘not satisfied’ with Iran deal yet

US President Donald Trump has said he is “not satisfied” yet with the terms of the deal being negotiated with Iran.

He said Tehran was “very much intent” on reaching an agreement to end the conflict, but added “so far they haven’t gotten there”, repeating Washington’s willingness to resume strikes if one is not reached.

His remarks came after Iranian state TV reported what it said were details of a draft agreement, which included reopening the Strait of Hormuz and the withdrawal of US forces from the region.

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Removal of Religious Exemption to Hate Speech Laws Would Lead to ‘Open Season on Christians,’ Professor Tells Senators

Removal of Religious Exemption to Hate Speech Laws Would Lead to ‘Open Season on Christians,’ Professor Tells Senators

Wilfrid Laurier University professor David Haskell says proposed legislation that removes religious exemption to hate speech laws would be detrimental to the rights of Christians in Canada, which he argues are already under sustained attack.

Haskell’s comments came during a recent hearing on Bill C-9 before the Senate committee on human rights, and were joined by criticisms from several other expert witnesses who said the bill is too vague to effectively counter hateful incidents or so open to interpretation that it risks infringing on basic civil liberties.

“If this Criminal Code protection is removed, it will be open season on Christians, as ideological opponents increasingly claim [Christians’] beliefs harm society,” Haskell told senators, adding that “it will lead to even more discrimination against Christians in Canada and negatively affect the social good they contribute.”

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Four stabbed ‘by man shouting Allahu Akbar’ at Swiss station

Four stabbed ‘by man shouting Allahu Akbar’ at Swiss station

Several people have been stabbed by a man wielding a knife at a Swiss train station.

Police cordoned off the area of the attack at the Winterthur station, 12 miles outside of Zurich.

At least four people were stabbed by the man wielding a knife who witnesses said was shouting Allahu Akbar, according to local reports.

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Records show Carney spent more than Trudeau on luxury in-flight meals

Records show Carney spent more than Trudeau on luxury in-flight meals

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his entourage billed taxpayers $195,400 for gourmet in-flight meals during three international trips in 2025, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

The documents show Carney’s flights to London, Rome and Brussels featured luxury meals including veal escalope, beef tenderloin with bordelaise sauce, Scottish salmon fillet and “slow simmered beef with red wine reduction sauce.”

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