Canadians have a taxing problem.
And so do their hockey teams. No Canadian team has won a Stanley Cup in the past 32 years.
Yet a Florida team has been in the Stanley Cup Finals for six consecutive years.
Florida: The State of Hockey!
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Inside the alleged Indian intelligence plot to kill Sikhs in Canada and the U.S.
Two officers with a U.S. task force, one of them a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the other a detective with the New York City Police Department, had flown to the Czech Republic for the anticipated takedown of a man wanted in an extraordinary, politically sensitive murder-for-hire case.
The U.S. officers knew exactly when their target was to arrive in Prague on a flight from India and had given all the details to Czech authorities. International paperwork requesting the arrest and extradition to New York had already been sent for their wanted suspect: Nikhil Gupta, 53, known as Nick.
Do drugs fuel Khalistan independence?
BREAKING: Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa, the only person publicly charged in connection to “the largest and most sophisticated fentanyl and drug superlab in Canadian history” has been denied bail.
Ordered to remain in custody, his next court appearance is set for July 8. pic.twitter.com/iqZIIfFn7d
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) July 4, 2025
How Trump’s Moves Have Reshaped Canada’s Path
The Trump administration has had a significant global impact, particularly in disrupting the status quo in international trade. But its northern neighbour—with whom the United States shares deep economic and historical ties—has experienced transformative changes on multiple fronts as a result of Trump’s presidency, including shifts in domestic policy.
It is something Prime Minister Mark Carney has recognized, calling Trump “transformational” when the two met at the White House in early May.
How Trump could make Canada better
As obnoxious as he is, Donald Trump may actually be doing Canada some good. His demands are forcing this country to rethink bad ideas, question sacred cows and brace itself for the challenges of the future.
Just this week, the U.S. President gave Prime Minister Mark Carney an excuse to jettison a wrong-headed tax on foreign tech giants. Because just about all of those giants are American, Washington has opposed it from the start, under Joe Biden’s administration as well as Mr. Trump’s. The heaps of money that were to flow to Ottawa from the tax would have come from the pockets of the millions of Canadians who use Amazon, Apple, Google or other digital providers. Higher taxes inevitably mean higher rates for consumers.
Funny how that works but the author still can’t shake the TDS.
What if killing Canada’s digital services tax is just the beginning for Donald Trump?
OTTAWA—Call it a prudent climbdown, a show of weakness, or an unavoidable concession. There are several ways to look at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 11th-hour decision to cancel the federal government’s Digital Services Tax last weekend.
But what if it’s also a tangible example of exactly what Carney warned would happen?
The Dairy Cartel speaks.
Federal deficit projected to soar to $92B this year: ‘Unfair to pass these burdens on,’ C.D. Howe Institute says
OTTAWA — The Carney government is poised to post a massive deficit of more than $92 billion during this fiscal year, a new report from a well-respected financial think tank projects, almost double what was forecast just a few months ago by a non-partisan arm of the government.
BONNER: Canada desperately needs a baby bump
The 21st century is going to be overshadowed by a crisis that human beings have never faced before. I don’t mean war, pestilence, famine or climate change. Those are perennial troubles. Yes, even climate change, despite the hype, is nothing new as anyone who’s heard of the Roman Warm Period, the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age will know. Climate change and the others are certainly problems, but they aren’t new.
But the crisis that’s coming is new.
The need to acknowledge Muslim antisemitism
For much of this week, Britain has been consumed by the appalling spectacle at the Glastonbury festival when the rap duo Bob Vylan led chants by thousands of festival-goers of “Death, death to the IDF,” as well as making vicious remarks about Jews and Zionists.
Even though incitement to murder crossed a red line among politicians and commentators, many still qualified their revulsion by asserting that Israel’s behavior in the war was beyond the pale.
I took the pic above in 2015 in Toronto at the ROM. Our idle police contributed to today’s excesses.
Canada races to build icebreakers amid melting ice and geopolitical tensions
For millennia, a mass of sea ice in the high Arctic has changed with the seasons, casting off its outer layer in summer and expanding in winter as it spins between Russia, Canada and Alaska. Known as the Beaufort Gyre, this fluke of geography and oceanography was once a proving ground for ice to “mature” into thick sheets.
But no more. A rapidly changing climate has reshaped the region, reducing perennial sea ice. As ocean currents spin what is left of the gyre, chunks of ice now clog many of the channels separating the northern islands.
Canada’s coast guard has an expression for this confounding phenomenon: less ice means more ice.
The Great Canadian Ghost Story: ICE Vans and Imaginary Fear
There was a time, not long ago, when Canada handled disagreements with steel in its spine and clarity in its speech, when travel advisories were reserved for unstable regimes, war zones, or viral outbreaks. Now? Canadians are being told that the United States, their neighbor, ally, and trading partner, might detain them for crossing the border with a suitcase and a hotel reservation.
Stephen Marche: Canadians know we need to turn away from America. How might that actually work?
Canadians know that we need less America in our lives. In a recent poll for CNN, ninety one per cent of Canadians agreed that they wanted “to reduce their reliance on the U.S. as a trading partner.” In polling terms, that’s as close as you’ll ever find to unanimity. Later this month, we are promised, insofar as promises mean anything in the second Trump administration, a restored trade and security arrangement with the United States. But any such arrangement will, inevitably, be unstable and temporary. American chaos is deepening, and the questions that face us are bigger than tariffs and trade agreements: What does it mean to reset, not just away from the current American government, but away from America altogether, away from the American system?
Canadian exports to U.S. continue to drop, reach one of lowest proportions on record
Amid a protracted trade war, Canadian exports to the United States are at one of the lowest proportions on record, while exports to other countries have reached a record high, according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada.
Data show Canadian exports to the U.S. have decreased for the fourth consecutive month, seeing a 0.9 per cent drop in May. The average share of total Canadian exports to the U.S. is also down, from 75.9 per cent last year, to 68.3 per cent in May, a near-record low.
Imports from the U.S. have also been on the decrease for the third consecutive month.
Canada-Based Pro-Al-Qaeda Cleric Lashes Out Against Hamas For Refusing Ceasefire Deals, Demands They Exit Gaza
On July 2, 2025, Canada-based pro-Al-Qaeda (AQ) cleric Tariq Abdelhaleem published a post on his Telegram channel attacking Hamas for refusing to accept a ceasefire deal. He called on the organization to exit the strip before the “complete destruction” of the Palestinians.[1]
Abdelhaleem’s post comes following a new American ceasefire proposal, which Hamas is currently considering.
I forgot this guy was still around! Bet he’s a Big LPC supporter.
Alberta and Ontario call for repeal of Trudeau-era climate policies
OTTAWA — The environment ministers of two of Canada’s biggest provinces are calling on the Liberal government to scrap a host of Trudeau-era environmental and climate policies, saying the policies are holding the country back from meeting its economic potential.
Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz and Ontario Environment Minister Todd McCarthy said in a letter to federal counterpart Julie Dabrusin that the new, Mark Carney-led Liberal government will need to ditch Justin Trudeau’s net-zero agenda if it hopes to meet its promise to make Canada an energy superpower.
Canadians feel unwelcome in the U.S. as mistrust remains high: new poll
Now that Canada’s trade war with America has surged back into public consciousness like a blast from the recent past, a new poll suggests Canadian frustration with and mistrust of the U.S. remains high, despite a slight easing.
In March, for example, polling showed a dramatic realignment of Canadian attitudes toward its southern neighbour. Europe and Britain were suddenly the countries Canadians felt best about, and Canadians were starting to feel about America the way they felt about Russia.