A sitting Member of Parliament (MP) should not be serving a foreign government. That principle ought to be uncontroversial in a parliamentary democracy.
Yet it is now being tested by Chrystia Freeland’s decision to accept an advisory role with the Ukrainian government while continuing to hold a seat in Canada’s House of Commons.
It’s so shady but so normal for the Liberal Party.
More … Canada co-signs pledge to secure Ukraine under future peace deal
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The U.S. raid-and-capture operation in Venezuela that ended the rule of Nicolás Maduro and upended power politics in the Western Hemisphere was unusually complicated. The motivations behind it were perhaps even more complex – and so are the lessons that the Delta Force blitz provide for Americans and for governments across the globe.
Here are some of the important political currents running beneath the surface of the astonishing episode, which has provided a template for evaluating the early 21st-century Trump Corollary to the early 19th-century Monroe Doctrine – two policies that have no legal basis but still establish distinct American spheres of influence and behaviour and enforce them …
US President Donald Trump has been discussing “a range of options” to acquire Greenland, including use of the military, the White House said.
In a statement, the White House told the BBC that acquiring Greenland was a “national security priority”.
It comes after Trump repeated over the weekend that the US “needed” Greenland – a semi-autonomous region of fellow Nato member Denmark – for security reasons.
🚨 JUST IN: Denmark is PANICKING after President Trump insisted the US NEEDS Greenland, and Denmark isn’t treating it properly
“We need Greenland! For national security.”
“You know what Denmark did to ‘boost security?!’ Added ONE MORE DOG SLED! It’s true!” 😭
“Greenland is… pic.twitter.com/t7lijNpX4J
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 5, 2026
Update: Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Wants to Buy Greenland
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers that President Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it, while Mr. Trump has asked aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring the territory, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Mr. Rubio made his remarks in a briefing on Monday with lawmakers from the main armed services and foreign policy committees in both chambers of Congress. The same day, Mr. Trump told aides to deliver an updated plan.
Donald Trump said the Venezuelan oil industry could be booming again in 18 months. Here in Canada, we might have finished the first round of consultations on a new pipeline, but we won’t have concluded the court challenges to it.
This is the dilemma Canada is facing: We are still moving at Ottawa speed, meaning slow, while the Americans are talking about a breakneck pace in restoring Venezuela’s oil industry.
Carney has not changed his spots.
Venezuela: Trump announces plan to get up to 50M oil barrels
US President Donald Trump has announced that “interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning over” between 30 to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the US.
“This oil will be sold at its market price, and that money will be controlled by me, as president of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!”
Please enjoy my new short film, titled Libs Gone Wild, Uncensored.
The real title should be Liberal Women Lose Their Minds for Two Minutes, but I had to shorten it. pic.twitter.com/JzTKrg00EE
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 6, 2026
Progress. Success. A “very big milestone”.
For the first time in more than a year, Ukrainians, Americans and Europeans seemed to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
Peace, they say, is closer than ever, because they are on the brink of agreeing to a security deal to deter a new Russian attack on Ukraine after a ceasefire.
No Carney at the signing?
BREAKING:
Macron, Starmer and Zelensky sign the declaration of intent on future multinational force deployment in Ukraine.
Merz and Germany are noticeably missing at that tables. pic.twitter.com/H16X9xHDpj
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 6, 2026
Coalition’s Ukraine security guarantees include deploying troops if ceasefire is reached
Canada has promised a substantial ongoing commitment to the force that would backstop the peace deal. Precisely what kind of forces Canada would deploy is unclear, partly because the military, short of personnel and equipment, is in rebuilding mode.
Trump mocks “trans” athletes who steal women’s titles 🤣🤣🤣 epic 😂
“IT’S CRAZY” pic.twitter.com/F0IeNfFB8y
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 6, 2026
A little while ago, I had a column in this space that challenged the groupthink wisdom that assumes 2026 is going to be a bad year for President Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill. One of the items on which I rested my challenge is worth repeating today.
What I predicted was that the ruling regimes, both Iran and Venezuela, would go by the boards, and the benefits coming to everybody in America not affiliated with the Democrat Party would be manifold.
Within hours of President Trump’s announcement of the dramatic weekend capture of Nicolás Maduro, social media was flooded with AI-generated deepfakes showing the captured Venezuelan dictator in handcuffs and even sitting alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was previously locked up in the same jail where Maduro now is in real life.
You can’t reduce crime simply by redefining what is and isn’t a crime. Many actions that were once crimes are now chalked by city bureaucrats up to “social disorder” and no longer show up in crime stats.
In other cases, crimes are so common and police response to them is so indifferent — like theft of bikes and tools and law furniture from private yards — that many victims no longer bother to report them.
On December 29, protests erupted among shopkeepers in Tehran, Zanjan, and Hamadan — all clustered in Iran’s north and west. Then came Qeshm, isolated on the southern coast.
That location matters. Qeshm Island sits just 60 kilometers across the Strait of Hormuz from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). That is roughly the distance from Manhattan to Philadelphia, and far shorter than most successful Mediterranean crossings from Syria to Europe.
If Iran’s current instability deepens into a full crisis, Iranians may well attempt these crossings by boat. The proximity of Iran to the UAE makes it virtually inevitable.
For months after his father was beaten to near death by a group of armed assailants while visiting his home village in Sri Lanka, Ganesh Subramaniam was left asking himself: who would do such a thing, and why?
It took more than a year for Sri Lankan authorities to offer a shocking theory: the attack on Ganesh’s father — who founded the Sri Ayyappan Hindu Temple in Scarborough more than 40 years ago — was allegedly ordered on Canadian soil, by the man serving as the temple’s president.
The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.
The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.
As of January 1, 2026, milk sold in Canada contains more vitamin D. This is neither a new product nor a marketing innovation, but rather a quiet regulatory adjustment that has largely gone unnoticed by the public.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the United States forcibly annexes Greenland, it would result in the collapse of the American-led NATO military alliance.
That’s what Trump wants.
Greenland’s Foreign Minister says Greenland and Denmark have asked for an early ministerial meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss recent U.S. statements on Greenland.
Earlier requests for a meeting throughout 2025 were not granted. pic.twitter.com/h4hogJUbXJ
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 6, 2026
h/t Mauser
