Canada

Canada-Trump tensions grow after Carney ‘rupture’ speech

Tensions between the United States and Canada have rapidly escalated this week after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a rousing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, declaring a “rupture” in the old world order and calling on “middle powers” to unite.

The once jovial public relationship between Carney and President Trump has descended into a barbed back-and-forth, with Trump on Friday disinviting Canada from his Board of Peace, which Ottawa was already hesitant to join.

Aaron Ettinger, a political science associate professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, said the relationship was “on a precipice.”

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Stuck between the US and Russia, Canada must prove it can defend its Arctic territory

Canada’s Arctic is a massive, treacherous, and largely inhospitable place, stretched out over nearly 4 million square kilometres of territory – but with a small population roughly equal to Blackburn in England or Syracuse, New York.

“You can take a map of continental Europe, put it on the Canadian Arctic, and there’s room to spare,” Pierre Leblanc, the former commander of the Canadian Forces Northern Area told the BBC. “And that environment is extremely dangerous.”

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, USA

China no longer Pentagon’s top security priority

China is no longer the top security priority for the US, according to the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy.

The document, published once every four years, instead says that the security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere is the department’s chief concern, adding that Washington has long neglected the “concrete interests” of Americans.

The Pentagon also says it will offer “more limited” support to US allies.

It follows the publication last year of the US National Security Strategy, which said that Europe faced “civilizational collapse” and did not cast Russia as a threat to the US. At the time, Moscow said the document was “largely consistent” with its vision.

Not great news for Europe. For that matter it looks like the free ride is over for everyone.

Given Canada is a virtual ChiCom colony maybe we can expect an invasion.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

As Trump Seeks to Curb Large Investors in US Housing, What’s the Situation in Canada?

The United States is experiencing a housing crunch, and one of President Donald Trump’s latest moves to address it involves banning large investment firms from purchasing single-family homes.

Canada has also been gripped by a housing affordability crisis in recent years, with soaring rents and home prices. But to what extent are institutional investors driving this trend, and how close is Canada to potentially restricting their ability to purchase homes?

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, USA

Canadians are split over whether government should support protesters in Iran: poll

Dead of the Iran Riots

Canadians are divided over whether government support should be offered to protesters in Iran, according to a new poll.

Just 26 per cent of Canadians said the federal government should publicly declare support for the protesters, while 30 per cent said it should not, according to a national poll conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies. Forty per cent of respondents said they didn’t know and four per cent did not respond.

26%. Those support numbers seem awfully low. Have we hit some sort of Islamization tipping point?

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran, WTF?

SLOBODIAN: Watching the homeless from a five-star hotel — Ottawa’s housing advocate embarrasses Canada abroad

It’s sure a good thing her staff avoided booking rooms in “opulent” hotels when Canada’s self-described “watchdog for the homeless” jetted off on an extended junket to Egypt.

Marie-Josée Houle, a former punk rock musician who is now Cabinet’s $213,000-a-year Housing Advocate, and whoever accompanied her settled for rooms at the Marriott and Triumph hotels in Cairo.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Guess Who Booed Howard Lutnick at the World Economic Forum—and Why Lutnick Called It the ‘Greatest Honor’

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime Thursday who the sole booer of his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos was, and why he considered it the “greatest honor.”

Lutnick described the panel he was on at the Summit as “basically a very left set of talks where someone said we need a new form of capitalism, which I think is another way to say communism. And then they let me speak at the end. Then I gave a three-minute talk. And I just talked about my op-ed.”

Link to Lutnick’s FP article – Howard Lutnick: Why the Trump administration is going to Davos

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

Bessent pans Carney, cheers on Albertan separatism amid growing US-Canada rift

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent needled Canada over the prospect of an independence referendum in Alberta this week, as President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are locked in a clash over Ottawa’s role in the hemisphere.

“Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S.,” he told conservative podcaster Jack Posobiec in an interview Thursday. “They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people. Rumor that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada, USA

Trump says Canada is against Golden Dome in Greenland

“Canada is against The Golden Dome being built over Greenland, even though The Golden Dome would protect Canada. Instead, they voted in favor of doing business with China, who will ‘eat them up’ within the first year!” the U.S. president wrote on Truth Social.

Carney travelled to Beijing last week to reignite economic ties with China – Canada’s second largest trading partner after the U.S. He left with a deal reducing tariffs on some Canadian agricultural goods and a quota allowing Chinese EVs to enter the domestic market.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, USA

WARMINGTON: Trump’s vile lie that NATO troops stayed behind front in Afghanistan pure fiction

There is an unchangeable “truth” that goes with a Canadian flag draped over a Canadian soldier’s casket and hundreds of patriots standing on a bridge saluting that can’t be erased no matter how powerful the person doing the erasing may be.

Trump was definitely out of line, Canada’s troops were exemplary.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, Canada, USA

Surrey Mayor Presses Carney to Appoint an “Extortion Czar” as Canada’s Mafia Shooting Wave Spreads

OTTAWA — Following The Bureau’s investigation into Canada’s Indian mafia-linked extortion crisis, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke is urging Mark Carney’s government to appoint an “Extortion Czar” to coordinate a national response to what she calls a rapidly escalating wave of violence that has spread beyond British Columbia and is now “approaching 1,500” cases across Canada since 2023.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", Canada, WTF?

Trump a rapist says Globe

America the predator: Trump wants to show the world he can take what he wants

For the past year, the world has been in a state of chaos. The United States, in the grips of its mad pirate king, has installed tariffs, removed tariffs, made deals, overturned deals, made threats, backed off threats, and all with the randomness of an infant that has not quite achieved object permanence. Nonetheless, a logic is starting to emerge, a logic that explains America’s actions: the logic of the rapist.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

OUCH!

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?