Minnesota citizens and local officials outside Minneapolis say they don’t want the crime and chaos taking place in Minneapolis and that they do support the law enforcement work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis made a man take off his American flag hoodie that said “Freedom”:
“Take it off and you won’t get hurt!” pic.twitter.com/YmueZRICnO
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) January 17, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says that U.S. President Donald Trump “remains relentless in his campaign to create a more unstable, unsafe and uncertain world.”
Ford made the comment during a news conference alongside auto sector leaders at Queen’s Park on Wednesday morning.
The comment comes after Trump delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he reiterated his desire to take control of Greenland and warned Canada only “lives” because of the United States.
Ghislaine Maxwell is set to testify before Congress over her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring.
Maxwell, who is in a Texas prison camp serving a 20-year sentence, is expected to appear virtually before the House oversight committee on February 9.
Whatever you think of the wisdom of Mark Carney’s trade deal with China, it’s not a big vote of confidence for the future of Canada’s auto industry. At least, not the auto industry we have known.
It was a move to jump-start trade with the world’s second-largest economy, opening the big Chinese market to Canadian canola, peas and seafood.
Yet, the concession that Mr. Carney made – accepting imports of 49,000 Chinese vehicles a year with very low tariffs – is a far bigger signal than he admitted.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he won’t waste his time going to a Macron-led emergency Greenland meeting because he doubts the French President will be in power much longer.
The United Kingdom and France may be pulling out the stops to prevent Greenland becoming the 51st state, but U.S. President Donald Trump has again dismissed their involvement, advising the European powers to focus on saving their own countries from mass migration and economic stagnation.
Greenland is not about Greenland. It is about China.
Venezuela is not about Venezuela. It is about China.
The Panama Canal was not about the Panama Canel. It was about China.
Iran is not about Iran. It is about China.
Canada is not about Canada. It is about China.
Do you… pic.twitter.com/T5JuKl5xiL
— Tom Quiggin (@TomTSEC) January 21, 2026
DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had reached the “framework” of a deal on Greenland with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and that he would not impose the tariffs against Europe that he had threatened as part of an effort to acquire the Arctic territory for the United States.
The announcement, made on Trump’s social media account, was the latest head-spinning twist in his effort to seize Greenland from Denmark despite Danish and Greenlandic objections that the island is not for sale. Trump’s announcement was short on details, but the deal was likely to fall far short of the full sovereign possession that he indicated as recently as earlier Wednesday that he was seeking, given that Rutte is not empowered to negotiate the transfer of territory from one NATO member to another.
BREAKING: President Trump says a "framework of a future deal" has been reached on Greenland after a meeting with NATO's secretary general and the planned tariffs on a group of European nations will no longer take effect.
Writing on Truth social: “Based upon a very productive… pic.twitter.com/IiQ5POb7ht
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) January 21, 2026
Reports that U.S. troops based in Alaska are being readied for deployment to the streets of Minneapolis amid a turbulent immigration crackdown there could put a Canadian officer in a sticky situation. Brig. Gen. Robert McBride is those soldiers’ deputy commanding officer.
McBride was seconded to the U.S. 11th Airborne Division in 2023, replacing another Canadian, Brig. Gen. Louis Lapointe, as deputy commanding general of operations.
Look at that! CAF’s Matriarchy banished him to Alaska!
Trump is simply on fire. Telling it like it is right to the rotten globalist’s faces. https://t.co/IH2CDooHKx
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) January 21, 2026
In a tense confrontation at Scarborough Shoal, Filipino captain Joely Saligan said the Chinese coast guard ordered him to dump his catch. He shouted back, according to the Associated Press, “this is Philippine territory. Go away.” The crew left, shaken but unhurt. It was January 12, 2024, inside waters an international tribunal says China has no right to control.
Fast-forward to this week. As President Donald Trump revives his push to take control of Greenland, China is wagging its finger. Beijing’s Foreign Ministry told Washington it “shouldn’t use other countries as a ‘pretext’ to pursue its interests in Greenland,” casting China’s own Arctic activity as lawful and benign. Elsewhere, it is not so benign. From reefs in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone to a map that colored in a slice of Russian borderlands, and even on the moon, Beijing is no stranger to the kind of behavior it now deplores.
This last December, says Autocar magazine, one in five new cars registered in the United Kingdom was from a Chinese brand. Oh, officially Chinese automakers’ share of the 2025 British market was 9.7%, but the real eye-opener, says Nick Gibbs, the magazine’s business correspondent, was the 18.2% of the market they captured in December. And, just so we’re on the same page, that’s one-in-five of all cars sold, not just the battery-powered segment. In fact, they own 29% of Britain’s EV market, up 5% from last year. Yes, rather Tesla-like numbers.
Hundreds of photos revealing the faces of those killed during Iran’s violent crackdown on anti-government protests have been leaked to BBC Verify.
The pictures, which are too graphic to show without blurring, reveal the bloodied, swollen and bruised faces of at least 326 victims – including 18 women. The images, displayed in a south Tehran mortuary, are one of the only ways families have been able to identify their dead loved ones.
Homicides fell by about half last year in Toronto and Winnipeg, police data show, part of a remarkable downturn in lethal violence across Canada that experts say politicians must consider as they push stiffer sentences for violent offenders.
In 2025, several shocking killings prompted promises by politicians to deter violence by amending the Criminal Code. In April, a mass vehicle attack killed 11 people in Vancouver. In August, an eight-year-old Toronto boy was killed in his bed by a stray bullet.
Relatives of Islamic State members set fire to buildings and escaped from a sprawling prison camp in Syria on Tuesday as Kurdish troops abandoned the site under attack by the army.
The head of al-Hol camp said that its residents, most of whom are female and many of whom are married to jailed or killed extremists, were rioting after fighting between Kurdish and Syrian army troops.
BREAKING:
The Kurdish-led SDF forces have withdrawn from the al-Hol camp where 22 000 ISIS kids & 20 000 ISIS wives are imprisoned
Many of the kids were born there to parents with EU citizenships. Presumably, many of them will now try to return to Europe pic.twitter.com/Gp4ukzftI5
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 20, 2026
ISIS families & members are reportedly fleeing Al-Hol camp in thousands. pic.twitter.com/ZdNTdTLKB9
— Murad Ismael (@murad_ismael) January 20, 2026
OMG it's like a KKK Meeting! The CBC will be all over these white supremacists with an expose! https://t.co/YNXROw2wc6
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) January 21, 2026
It feels a bit Taylor Swiftian.
Hurt feelings.
Unsent texts.
Exotic trips with someone else.
Yearning for what was last summer.
Premier Doug Ford sounded like a spurned paramour from a Swift song as he bleated about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
I hope Ford goes Ape.
The White House’s top ranks are filled with Catholics, and President Donald Trump has courted the Catholic vote. But repeated, pointed criticisms from the first American to lead the Catholic Church have done little to move the administration on policy.
In recent months, Pope Leo XIV has criticized the administration’s treatment of migrants, its antipathy toward Europe and global institutions like the United Nations and the use of what he characterized as “diplomacy based on force” in the wake of the U.S.’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
