President Trump Caught on Hot Mic Teasing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with a Jab at Trudeau
Epic hot mic moment
President Trump teases Canadian PM Carney after accidentally calling him “President,” with a savage dig at Trudeau:
CARNEY: “I’m glad you upgraded me to President.”
TRUMP: “At least I didn’t say Governor.” pic.twitter.com/k4n2TwKcW5
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 13, 2025
h/t patthedog
When it comes to improving their standard of living, young Canadians are facing an uphill battle. A new report, published by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), highlights the difficulties younger Canadians in many provinces are facing in achieving higher earnings and a better standard of living than their parents. The report highlights the range of factors contributing to these barriers to social and income mobility, pointing to housing and high youth unemployment.
Canada’s top science advisor says years of mockery and skepticism around UFOs have made Canadians reluctant to report unusual aerial sightings.
Dr. Mona Nemer, the federal government’s $393,000-a-year science advisor, said in an internal memo that using the term “unidentified aerial phenomenon” instead of “UFO” could help reduce stigma and encourage credible research.
(Incognito)
TORONTO—For many decades, Canada attempted to escape restrictive American trade and other economic initiatives designed to advantage the United States by claiming a “special relationship” which, we argued, should mean an exemption for Canada. Reaction to the Donald Trump shock shows the idea isn’t dead.
One can’t help feeling, after watching Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump exchange pleasantries at the White House last week, that Canada is still relying on “special relationship” arguments to win exemptions from American protectionism, even if this means bowing too readily to their demands and offering “rewards” in exchange for special treatment. But when we argue “special relationship,” we are reduced to pleading.
I get the impression that Carney wants the distance between Canada and the US increased as it will create lucrative opportunities for his pals.
China rarely telegraphs its diplomatic intentions so openly. Yet in recent days, Beijing has done just that — signalling that if Canada were to lift its tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles China would, in turn, remove the punitive tariffs it has placed on Canadian agricultural exports such as canola.
In the often-opaque world of trade diplomacy, such clarity is unusual. And in this case, it’s an unmistakable invitation to de-escalate. So far, Ottawa seems unwilling to take it.
Not an enviable position for Canada. Will the Elbow people purchase China’s EV’s?
Trump is bringing auto-assembly back to the US so Ontario’s auto industry is going to be significantly diminished regardless of which path Carney chooses.
I’m sure Canada’s China class and Carney’s own web of interests will result in a decision favouring Communist China.
It will be interesting to see Trump’s reaction. Ontario will suck even more.
For the sake of our democracy it’s time for Canada to lower the voting age.
I can already hear some of you objecting, “16-year-olds aren’t old enough to vote, they won’t take it seriously.” But, give me a minute.
When I was 16 I couldn’t wait to have my driver’s license. I was at the motor vehicle branch on my birthday. I’ve been driving ever since. Driving a car is serious business. I also had a part-time job at 16 and paid taxes. Lots of 16- and 17-year-olds today have their driver’s license and pay taxes on the income from their part time job.
A Green Party loon no less.
Reviving Keystone XL is, in the eyes of former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, a brilliant “judo” move.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s suggestion that the Keystone XL pipeline project could be revived could end up tying Canada more closely to the United States, rather than diversifying trade.
No. Carney is an Eco-Supremacist, Jet travel for him but not for you.
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan says the Canadian military is moving ahead with its preparations for F-35 fighter jets despite an ongoing government review of the purchase.
“We’re not currently in the position where we are waiting,” Carignan told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an exclusive interview airing Sunday. “We are working towards this acquisition.”
“Our pilots are off to the U.S. in the next few months to start training,” she added. “The infrastructure is going up. We have airfields being extended to get ready, so we are definitely not in a position where we are waiting.”
The head of Canada’s automotive parts industry is warning against dropping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, saying the move would jeopardize the country’s EV sector and send the wrong message during an ongoing trade dispute with Beijing.
“I am reminding (the premiers) publicly, that if Canada is in a trade war with a country, then the response has to be a Canadian response,” Flavio Volpe said in an interview with CTV News Channel on Sunday, referring to premiers Wab Kinew of Manitoba and Scott Moe of Saskatchewan, who have both called for lowering tariffs to protect prairie canola exports.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling the release of hostages under a ceasefire deal in Gaza “a moment of profound relief” and is urging all parties to uphold the ceasefire agreement.
Carney travelled to Egypt Sunday to take part in the signing of a Middle East peace plan with other world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump. Media were not notified of Carney’s trip before it had been confirmed through an update to his Sunday itinerary, about three hours before his plane was set to depart.
Have you no decency? You had nothing to do with the peace beyond setting a new low for kowtowing to the Islamists.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) October 13, 2025
OTTAWA – The Liberal government’s efforts to revise Canada’s national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear earlier this year that many of the assumptions underlying the work were “no longer valid,” a newly released memo reveals.
John Hannaford, the Privy Council clerk at the time, told Prime Minister Mark Carney in the memo that “changes to Canada’s strategic environment” meant work on a draft of the document was based on outdated premises.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is unlikely to approve of the sight of a Canadian soldier’s authorized long hair and purple goatee.
Hegseth made it abundantly clear during a speech this week given in front of essentially all of the U.S. military’s top brass assembled in Quantico, Virginia that grooming standards in America’s military would be strict.
“No more beardos,” the former Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran told an auditorium packed with officers wearing dress uniforms with stacked decoration ribbons.
LONDON — As new details surface from MI5’s counter-intelligence probe into two men accused of gathering information on Conservative China-sceptic MPs, The Sunday Times reports that the White House has privately warned Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government that Britain’s failure to prosecute the alleged Chinese spies could jeopardize U.S.–UK intelligence sharing within the Five Eyes alliance. U.S. officials told the paper that the abrupt collapse of the high-profile espionage case — involving parliamentary researcher Chris Cash and China-based academic Christopher Berry, who was reportedly intercepted returning to Britain with encrypted communications apps used exclusively by Chinese intelligence operatives — has shaken Washington’s confidence in London’s reliability on counter-espionage cooperation.
Canada’s problems resemble those of countries such as Australia or Germany, and appear insoluble without major upheaval.
Canada should be one of the world’s best countries to live in, and for many people it once was. Possessing vast natural resources and reserves of energy (exceeding those of the U.S. on a per capita basis), endless natural space (as the world’s second-largest country), adequate infrastructure, no enemies, a parliamentary democracy, and an educated population, it should face no problems beyond the winters.
But a decade under the former Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has reduced a first-world country to the level of a failing, although not yet a failed, state. The strains of O Canada are giving way to cries of Woe Canada, while the recent book by the journalist Tristin Hopper (Don’t be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All at Once) documents the national malaise with many examples of stagnation, incompetence, and folly. Epithets such as “a woke dystopia” and “the sick man of North America” are now heard. Where did it all go so wrong?
This is so damning.
Americans are far more likely than Canadians to believe “religion has a positive influence on societal values,” according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies, found just over a third (34 per cent) of Canadians agreed with the statement, compared to 53 per cent of Americans.
It has long been acceptable to discriminate against Christians in Canada so I am not surprised.
