We now have a written copy of the Donroe Doctrine, and it makes for some unnerving reading.
The National Security Strategy serves as America’s written foreign policy, laying out priorities and concerns and revealing how the United States intends to both co-operate with its allies and compete with its adversaries. The first such document of Donald Trump’s second presidency dropped in early December, and it’s a salmagundi of a thing, inscrutable and contradictory.
Canada must act to stop a future referendum, but it’s not the one in Alberta or Quebec. A referendum campaign organized by Sikhs for Justice, a pro-Khalistani group, has been taking place with little notice from most Canadians. Recently, over 53,000 Canadian Sikhs from Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec voted in Ottawa during the latest phase of the Khalistan Referendum, forming lines stretching nearly two kilometres.
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The pollsters are trying to tell us something.
For much of the past year, the dominant strain of Canadian political coverage has focused on the struggles of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, especially as contrasted with the brilliant successes of his opponent, Mark Carney.
How could it not? Mr. Poilievre saw a 25-point lead evaporate in the space of two months. Much of this could be attributed to the rapid-fire sequence of events with which the year began: Donald Trump’s return to office, Justin Trudeau’s resignation, and Mr. Carney’s election as Liberal Leader.
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OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to France next week to meet with Ukraine’s allies as talks aimed at ending Russia’s war intensify.
The Prime Minister’s Office says Carney will be in Paris on Monday and Tuesday to meet with the “coalition of the willing” in an effort to push forward a peace deal for Ukraine.
In a media statement issued Friday, Carney said his focus remains on fortifying Ukraine and deterring future Russian aggression as Ukraine seeks security guarantees from the United States and other nations.
A lesser known feature of the planet Earth’s magnetic field has recently gained a special Canadian connection that is often overlooked in the better known science story about the magnetic north pole drifting away from Canada toward Russia.
The wandering north pole typically gets a round of media attention every five years when there is a new update to the World Magnetic Model, basically a map of the local variations in the planet’s magnetic field that is used for precise calculation in navigation systems. The 2025 version, released a year ago by British and American national scientific organizations, showed that the magnetic north pole is still drifting across the Arctic Ocean toward Russian territory, though at a slower rate than in recent years.
Although Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the consumer carbon tax in 2025, he is on a mission to make Canadians’ lives more expensive by jacking up industrial carbon taxes in 2026.
Carney wants Canadians to believe businesses can somehow be taxed without those costs being passed on to consumers.
The dire warnings about AI keep coming.
Eric Schmidt, former chief executive of Google, says that within a few years, millions of independent AI agents working together “will develop their own language.” And “we won’t understand what they’re doing.” They will have escaped human control.
The University of Montreal computer scientist and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio told The Guardian this week that AI models were showing signs of self-preservation, the capacity to evade guardrails and to inflict harm on humans. Without controls, he said, AI systems will be free to operate like hostile extraterrestrials.
Not everything needs to make sense in life, but when a situation seems inexplicable, it may well be that we simply don’t want to admit the truth. The answer to what bedevils us is usually staring us in the face.
A Biologist or Chemist would try different tests and computations before proving out their theory, and that would be that; for the Political Scientist, there comes a point where so much evidence has piled up that only unconscious bias — or the dangerously naive hope that good faith motives are omnipresent — will prevent you from admitting the truth.
Canada’s economy faced significant shocks in 2025 due to a trade conflict with the United States, and the ripple effects are expected to carry into 2026.
Several factors are still in play, including Ottawa’s increased spending to stimulate growth and its efforts to diversify trade beyond the United States. At the same time, the outcome of ongoing trade negotiations with Washington—and any relief they might bring—remains unpredictable.
It also remains to be seen whether Ottawa’s Budget 2025 plan to create corporate incentives will attract investment, and whether this is enough to offset concerns about Canada’s lagging productivity and regulatory and tax burden.
While Ottawa debates affordability, defence spending and investment incentives, millions of Canadians are struggling with stagnant wages, weak unemployment benefits and growing economic insecurity, which is a disconnect economist Lars Osberg says is having serious social consequences.
“The big missing link is that we don’t have much of a social safety net in Canada,” the Dalhousie University economics professor said. “We haven’t had it for quite a while and we’re facing an enormous amount of economic insecurity and a long period of stagnant real wages.”
Canada’s greatest thinker foretold its failure — and ours
A classic work of political philosophy celebrated its 60th anniversary this year. Published in 1965, George Grant’s Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism is exactly what the title suggests: an essay, sometimes angry, often elegiac, at times lyrical, mourning the wreck of the hope that once animated the Canadian experiment. Grant thought the possibility of building, alongside the United States — a more restrained and ordered society that ranked the common good above individual autonomy — had faded. But the book is also much more.
Grant wrote Lament for a Nation in anger at the fall of Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who was defeated in his re-election bid due to backlash over his refusal to accept US nuclear warheads on Canadian soil. According to Grant, Diefenbaker’s “actions turned the ruling class into a pack howling for his blood.” It was no ordinary political defeat, in Grant’s view. He believed that it signaled the end of Canada as a distinct political and moral project.
If you have a spare 10 hours …
A federal cabinet advisor personally approved a taxpayer-funded research assignment on pro-Palestine reports by a York University scholar who has publicly described Canada as a “racist settler colonial state,” according to Access To Information records.
Emails show Amira Elghawaby, now the government’s Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia, thanked researcher Salmaan Khan for his work, calling it “critical.”
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Recent arrests in the Greater Toronto Area of Waleed Khan, Osman Azizov, and Fahad Sadaat lay bare a disturbing truth that Canadians can no longer ignore: violent jihadist extremism is being cultivated and operationalized here.
What began as two armed attempts to abduct women from public streets in Toronto and Mississauga escalated into one of the most serious terrorism and hate-crime cases in recent memory. The three men now face dozens of charges involving firearms offences, hostage-taking conspiracies and sexual assault with weapons. Police said that the alleged criminals targeted women and members of the Jewish community and that the alleged crimes were motivated by antisemitism.
No country that appoints the likes of Amira Elghawaby as its Islamophobia Tsar can ever be considered “serious about jihad”.
In fact the Liberal Party is a Jihad enabler.
Remigration of all Islamists is the best choice.
If 2025 taught us anything about politics, it’s that you shouldn’t be too sure about yourself – things can change.
That’s something that Liberals who feel like they are riding high right now and Conservatives who are feeling in the doldrums should remember.
President Trump didn’t let New Year’s festivities stop him from taking aim at Minnesota’s daycare fraud scandal, telling Mar-a-Lago partygoers the problem extends far beyond one state.
“Can you imagine they stole $18 billion,” the president said during remarks made at his annual New Year’s Eve celebration. “That’s just what we’re learning about. That’s peanuts. And California is worse, Illinois is worse and sadly New York is worse.”
“We’re going to get to the bottom of all those. It was a giant scam.”
This is a big red pill https://t.co/F7LhD4ClEK
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2025
“MN mom” panics after seeing “fraud is bad” in her script pic.twitter.com/EaV2Ptjssh
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 31, 2025
Report from 7 years ago of Somali fraudsters caught sending over $100 MILLION through airports to foreign groups, including TERRORIST groups.
Somali daycare scams, one of the sources of this fraud, were reported back in 2015!
This fraud has been going on for YEARS. Democrat… pic.twitter.com/wTCNaAAOfC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 31, 2025
Stop giving Tax Dollars to Somalia and stop importing them. I mean "Scaling Up Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Somalia" Seriously? https://t.co/SVsKqLvNjV
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) January 1, 2026
