Despite cordial exchanges in Washington this week, most Canadians remain unconvinced that progress is coming in the U.S.–Canada trade dispute, according to new data from the Angus Reid Institute.
Two-thirds (67%) of Canadians say the friendly tone between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney is merely optics and will not lead to a meaningful deal.
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An asylum seeker stabbed a woman who worked at the hotel he was staying at 23 times with a screwdriver, a murder trial was told.
Deng Chol Majek, who is from Sudan and claims to be 19, followed Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, from the Park Inn hotel, which was being used to house asylum seekers, to Bescot Stadium station, where he attacked her on October 20 last year, Wolverhampton crown court was told.
Majek stabbed Whyte “over and over again” with a screwdriver, mainly to the head, left her “bleeding to death and then casually went back to his hotel”, Michelle Heeley KC, for the prosecution, told the court.
For the last two years, when Israelis or diaspora Jews would talk about bringing the last living hostages home, there was a belief their spoken words would never betray: the hostages would not come home. Not all of them. Not all at once.
The hostages were too valuable to Hamas, serving as their only real bargaining chip in a war that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will win on strength, military intelligence and strategy every time. In 2011, Israel exchanged 1,027 prisoners for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas and held in captivity for five years. So what concessions could Hamas extract holding onto a handful now?
But he’s still a despot!
I absolutely, positively understand why liberals dislike Donald Trump’s policies. He is, after all, reversing so many of the policies they love, and they have every right to object to them.
You can’t park there! Boeing 737 Max dramatically collides with two other jets as hapless airport ground staff misjudge space on the tarmac
At Toronto Pearson Airport, an Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX collided with an Air Canada A321 while being pushed back into its parking position. The incident caused damage to the wing sections of both aircraft.
No injuries were reported, and repair work on the planes has begun. pic.twitter.com/Us2ruJA7HY
— AirwayBuzz (@AirwayBuzz) October 15, 2025
Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said President Donald Trump wanted to be “king of the world.”
The federal industry minister is putting pressure on U.S.-based Lockheed Martin to provide more economic benefits in Canada if the government is to proceed with its planned purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.
Otherwise, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in a French-language interview on Radio-Canada’s Les coulisses du pouvoir, Ottawa could move forward with a smaller fleet of F-35s and the acquisition of a second fleet of Gripen-E fighter jets manufactured by Sweden’s Saab. That company has offered to assemble Gripens in Canada.
Joly made the comments as Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is still mulling the fate of the $27.7-billion fighter jet contract.
Yes you read that right. Melanie Joly.
Moses, smell the roses: Did you see the joyous, adoring throngs of Israelis and Arabs, all cheering and praising the American president? Millions of people chanting his name!
Y’know, for a guy with Donald Trump’s ego, people worshiping him as a god in the Holy Land must’ve been pretty trippy.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Stellantis to “live up to their promise” to Brampton workers after the automaker was reported to be moving production slated for an assembly plant to Illinois.
In a statement, Ford says he has spoken with Stellantis to stress his “disappointment with their decision to prioritize investment into the U.S.”
If I were Ford I would be calling Trump bad names and stuff.
A woman arrested and charged after unfurling a Union flag from a council building during an anti-migrant protest has been told she faces no further action.
Sarah White, 40, was due to appear in court on Wednesday over a protest against migrants being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.
The Bell Hotel has been the scene of protests this summer after an Ethiopian migrant staying there sexually assaulted a girl.
Ukraine has yet to receive the more than two dozen refurbished light armoured vehicles Canada promised to the war-torn country in September 2023, CBC News has learned.
The vehicles remain stuck in bureaucratic and corporate limbo — even though the Department of National Defence delivered the decommissioned vehicles to an Ontario-based company for reconstruction almost two years ago.
The fate of the restoration contract, publicly acknowledged around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s high-profile visit to Ottawa and believed to be worth between $150 million and $250 million, yet is now shrouded in secrecy.
Greta Thunberg has claimed she was “hit, kicked, starved and tortured” during her time in Israeli custody.
The Swedish activist accused Israeli guards of defacing her suitcase with the words “whore Greta”, drawings of a penis and images of the Star of David.
The 22-year-old was detained by Israel earlier this month after taking part in an attempt by the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
“One of the remarkable things about life,” said the great sage Calvin — co-star, along with Hobbes, the tiger, of “the last great newspaper comic strip” — is that “it’s never so bad it can’t get worse.” So did the Canadian auto industry find out last Sunday, when the Chinese ambassador to our country, Wang Di, told CTV News reporter Vassy Kapelos that “China [would] remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada” if we, in turn, eliminated the tariffs we’ve imposed on Chinese electric vehicles.
Tough call for the Elbow people ahead.
Carney luvs China as does our China class but his Liberal Party also hates the West.
Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to re-shore auto assembly and as we have seen with Stellantis auto manufacturers are heeding his call.
It may be that Canada’s auto-industry or what’s left of it is part supply only.
The US State Department on Tuesday revoked six visas over social media comments on the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Kirk was shot dead when speaking at a rally at a Utah university in September. The suspect in the assassination faces the death penalty if convicted.
The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
— Department of State (@StateDept) October 14, 2025
Kelowna International Airport says some flights have been delayed after a third party hacked its terminal display screens and public address system with pro-Hamas messaging on Tuesday evening.
The incident happened at about 5:15 p.m.
“We are experiencing some delayed flights,” the airport said in a news release.
h/t Auntie Polly
