Ottawa, Washington, and the world are eagerly awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Tariffs have been among the key measures Trump has used to reshape U.S. international relations since his second election, often wielding them, or the threat of them, for trade leverage or broader geopolitical aims.
In the wee small hours of January 3, Canada’s economic future sustained a serious blow.
It was at that time that American law enforcement, supported by the US Army’s Delta Force, apprehended the brutal Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, enforcing a years-old indictment for narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and related offenses.
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“At first, it was an adventure. Now, the cold has arrived, and police are patrolling the area.” That’s how one Berliner described what life has been like without electricity since Saturday; on Monday night, temperatures dipped to -7°C. At the weekend, an arson attack on the grid which supplies some of the wealthiest districts of the German capital cut power to around 45,000 people and over 2,200 businesses. Left-wing militants have claimed responsibility, yet public responses have been remarkably muted. The authorities would do well to shift gear, given that the disruptive effects of such incidents extend far beyond those directly affected. Germany should start taking Left-wing terror as seriously as it does threats from the Right.
🇩🇪 In this video, a cancer patient living through the Berlin blackout says he is sleeping in the hallway of his apartment complex because it’s the warmest part of the building.
His neighbors say the refugee center next door was evacuated days ago. pic.twitter.com/zDUojgnf0Y
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) January 6, 2026
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., declared herself to be “Somalia First.” Soyboy Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey danced before a group of Somalis on stage waving the Somali flag of Minnesota in a parody of pandering. Not to be outdone, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan recently dressed in a hijab and extolled how “the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.” These videos need to be encased in glass and paraded through the country, displayed like Tutankhamen’s treasures were in 1977 as a glorious open window into what the left is.
For years, the Cuban regime has insisted that its presence in Venezuela was benign—limited to doctors, nurses, and sports trainers offering humanitarian solidarity. The deaths of 32 Cuban military and intelligence personnel while defending Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro have now shattered that fiction.
As early as March 2019, Cuba’s ambassador to Canada, Josefina Vidal, appeared on CBC News to denounce Canadian reporting on Cuba’s security intervention in Venezuela. She dismissed the claims outright: “The assertion that thousands of Cubans would allegedly be inserted into the structures of the armed and security forces of Venezuela, supporting the government of (legitimate) President Nicolás Maduro, is a scandalous slander,” she said, demanding proof.
Those who equate democratic action with tyrannical abuse in the name of international law will not be remembered as cautious but as complicit.
The United States’ decision to act decisively against Nicolás Maduro has already triggered a familiar chorus of condemnation. Once again, the language of “international law” is being weaponized not to defend human dignity but to protect tyranny.
This moment is not unprecedented. In 1989, the United States intervened militarily in Panama to remove Manuel Noriega, a narco-dictator who had turned a sovereign state into a criminal enterprise. Then, as now, critics warned of catastrophic precedents. Then, as now, they were wrong.
History judged that intervention not as an act of imperialism, but as the overdue enforcement of accountability when all other mechanisms had failed. President George H. W. Bush understood what many of today’s Western leaders appear to have forgotten: that law divorced from justice degenerates into farce.
Slavery is condoned in Islam. Muhammad himself bought, sold, and owned slaves. And Muhammad was the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil) and Model of Conduct (uswa hasana) so that his own practice made slavery licit for all the Muslims who follow his example. There never was a Muslim William Wilberforce. The Arab trade in black Africans began in the first century of Islam, centuries earlier than the Atlantic slave trade of the Europeans. The Royal Navy stamped out the Arab slave trade in Africa. Slavery in Muslim countries continued after the trade itself was banned, and finally ended, under Western pressure, very late. Slavery was banned in Saudi Arabia 1962; in Yemen it was banned in stages between 1962 and 1967. In Oman, it was banned in 1970.
Islam is a creed of evil filth.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The new year began with a stark demonstration of U.S. power on Jan. 3 when American forces conducted a military raid in Caracas to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
While many were shocked by the aggressive operation, the White House had already signalled its intentions for the Western Hemisphere. Late last year, the Trump administration issued its National Security Strategy (NSS), declaring a will to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly instated radical-left tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, broke down Wednesday as she dodged questions from reporters about her gentrification hypocrisy.
The 37-year-old, who has faced backlash for blasting homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in the past, teared up when she emerged briefly from her apartment building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, at about 9 a.m.
Gutfeld called Mamdani’s housing director Cea Weaver a "racist bitch" 👏🏼 😂
"How many examples do you need to show that these people hate you? She said, 'We are going to target WHITE people.'" @greggutfeld pic.twitter.com/SO6qzVGZf2
— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) January 7, 2026
She’s 37? I thought only stupid university students talked like that.
It was quite the performance at the Élysée on Tuesday afternoon. Nearly 30 European leaders, plus US envoys, were gathered for a suitably wintery summit on the war in Ukraine. This, the 15th meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing since its launch last March, had a different feel to the previous 14. And so it proved. After several hours of talks, the Anglo-French-led coalition backing Ukraine seemed to have actually produced something. A ’declaration of intent’ no less.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran may seem an unlikely pairing in the effort to make sense of the world at the moment, but the dramatic events unfolding in these two decrepit kleptocracies aren’t just coinciding in an inconvenient competition for front-page headlines.
It’s all part of the same story. If you get it wrong you’ll end up badly misreading U.S. President Donald Trump’s theatrically brilliant exfiltration of the Venezuelan caudillo Nicolás Maduro over the weekend. You might even conclude that the United States is truly “locked and loaded and ready to go,” as Trump himself put it last Friday, to defend Iran’s protesters against the Khomeinist regime’s guns.
Occam’s razor is the principle that the most plausible explanation of events is the simplest. Most often this is true. To account for Donald Trump, however, we need a different hermeneutical instrument.
Say hello to Occam’s kazoo: the principle that the most plausible explanation, so far as Mr. Trump is involved, is invariably the stupidest. To understand his motives in any given situation, pick the most aggressively simple-minded, crudely self-serving, absurdly moronic rationale you can think of. You will not be far wrong.
Coyne needs help.
Utter bullshit. Contemptible, criminal, murderous bullshit. https://t.co/3GXyqkByDT
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) January 7, 2026
President Trump says video of an ICE officer fatally shooting a woman — later identified as Renee Nicole Good, 37 — in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning is “a horrible thing to watch” but says the woman “viciously ran over the ICE officer,” a claim disputed by witnesses.
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, used a coarse expression to describe any claim of self-defense. ICE officers have flooded the city in recent days in show of force, and Homeland Security says they were carrying out “targeted operations” on Wednesday when the deadly confrontation played out.
OMG. Tim Walz just said he would use the state national guard against ICE😳 pic.twitter.com/oHiIo2bUWj
— Carl Higbie (@CarlHigbie) January 7, 2026
A major geopolitical fault line shifted Saturday morning, as the United States arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro after a quarter century of socialist tyranny.
This is a good thing. Canada did not recognize Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, and with him out of the way, we hope that Venezuelans will finally be able to enjoy freedom and democracy.
She is driving around with a megaphone, looking for ICE so she can tell them that they aren't welcome.
Normal, sane way to spend your precious time. pic.twitter.com/p6AU5TOka7
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 7, 2026
