‘Cultural break.’ U.S. senators say relations with Canadian neighbours are suffering

HALIFAX – The tariffs imposed on Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump have clearly caused economic pain for Canada, but a U.S. senator from Maine says he’s more worried about how Canadians are reacting on a personal level.

“Like any neighbours, there’s always going to be issues back and forth, and we’ve been fighting about softwood lumber for as long as I could remember,” Angus King told an international security conference in Halifax on Saturday.

“But the deeper problem is the cultural break; the idea that Canadians don’t think of Americans as their friends and neighbours, but as adversaries.”

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FBI missed multiple opportunities to stop Thomas Crooks before he tried to assassinate Trump, ex-assistant director fumes

The FBI had multiple “missed opportunities” to stop Thomas Crooks before he tried to assassinate President Trump, a former assistant director at the Bureau has told The Post.

Last week, The Post reported on multiple extremist social media posts believed to be tied to Crooks, including numerous threats of political violence and a dramatic shift against Trump, after previously expressing his admiration for the Republican.

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Vivian Bercovici: The Toronto Jews caught in a real life nightmare on Elm Street

Within moments of entering a nondescript building on Elm Street in downtown Toronto, Jonathan Karten understood that he was in a very dangerous place.

On the afternoon of Nov. 5, Karten arrived at the address with a friend, Shoshanah OFlaherty. They were met on the street by a young representative from Students Supporting Israel (SSI), a campus group at nearby Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). SSI had booked a room at the university for the meeting, but the administration cancelled at the last minute, leaving them scrambling to find an alternate space.

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Carney Says World Can Move on Without US, Stresses New Ties

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the US, and that consensus reached at a Group of 20 leaders’ meeting in Johannesburg this weekend carries weight despite a boycott by President Donald Trump’s administration.

South Africa, the G-20 host this year, defied the US by releasing a declaration from the meeting. Trump ordered the stayaway after repeating a debunked claim that White Afrikaner farmers in South Africa are being subjected to a genocide, and Washington said only a chairman’s summary could be released from the gathering in the absence of the US.


That sounds desperate, stupid and self-destructive.

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Rubio hails ‘tremendous progress’ at Ukraine peace talks

A “tremendous amount of progress” has been achieved in talks to finalise a US-proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.

But “there’s still some work to be done”, Rubio said after meeting Ukrainian and European negotiators in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were “signals that President [Donald] Trump’s team is hearing us”.

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Conservative MP warns against mandatory digital ID for Canadians

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis is urging cabinet to ensure any digital identification program remains strictly voluntary, warning that mandatory systems could turn taxpayer-funded services into tools of surveillance.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Department of Employment is moving forward with legislative changes that would allow Canadians to use digital ID when applying for Employment Insurance and Old Age Security benefits.

(Incognito)

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The Global Warming Panic Is Subsiding

Poll after poll shows the issue falling in status as a political priority, in America and abroad

The world’s treatment of global warming as a top-tier political priority may be subsiding, if recent polls are any indication.

A recent Swedish survey highlights how “environment/climate concerns” declined from a top issue for 51 percent of young women and 34 percent of young men in 2019 to just 15 and 13 percent, respectively, in 2025. Swedish kids’ interest in climate also cratered — once considered a top issue, it’s now only in the bottom half of the 23 concerns listed, well behind health, education, and safety. That’s a massive change for the famously progressive country — the same nation which spawned climate activist Greta Thunberg, who herself has since moved onto other issues.

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