Canada is seeing a sharp increase in asylum-seekers entering through a border crossing between New York and the province of Quebec, as President Donald Trump’s policies drive away migrants and even some U.S. citizens.
Canadian officials have received more than 5,500 asylum claims since the beginning of July at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing, south of Montreal. That’s a 263% increase from the same period last year, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency.
A federal judge ordered Wednesday that immigrant Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist behind some of the radical protests at Columbia University, be deported — either to Algeria, or to his native Syria.
The leaders of Canada and Mexico, the United States’ two largest trading partners, will meet on Thursday — without their U.S. counterpart — after eight months of chaotic trade talks and threats of tariffs.
The talks, between Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, are expected to focus on trade, as well as investments in areas like mining, agriculture and natural gas.
Both leaders will also discuss preserving their free trade partnership with the United States, which has so far limited the effect of President Trump’s tariffs on their economies. On Tuesday, the three countries opened public consultations on the trade pact, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement, or the U.S.M.C.A., the first step in a review of the agreement.
Defence Minister David McGuinty is clearly getting tired of being asked about the soon-to-be-completed review of Canada’s purchase of F-35 fighters from the United States.
“You’ve heard me on this before,” he told journalists on Tuesday, with uncharacteristic frankness. “The F-35 review is continuing. It’s — I have nothing else to say at this stage.”
The poor man hasn’t been able to poke his head out in public over the last few months without facing questions about the politically charged review in one form or another.
My suspicion remains that other states have steered clear of doing business with the Carney government.
His Big International Success has been to promise Zelensky’s forever war more of our money while Canadians can’t afford homes and Carney’s Corporate Welfare pals swamp the nation with 3rd World cheap labour.
Fear of Trump? Canada’s unreliability? Carney’s Climate Craziness? Lots of reasons why.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When it comes to Canada-U.S. trade negotiations, things have been eerily quiet in Washington, D.C. recently.
Much of the focus in Washington has been on trade with the United Kingdom and U.S. President Donald Trump’s historic second state visit there this week. The trip promises plenty of royal pageantry that British leaders hope will persuade the American leader to lower tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
The release of the Canadian military’s review of the F-35 fighter jet is expected shortly but the U.S. has already signalled this country could face serious consequences if the Liberal government decides not to proceed with the arms deal.
Defence Minister David McGuinty has committed to the public release of the review which will come by the end of the summer.
LONDON — It was June 2019, and the president of the United States was taking tea with the future British king.
The meeting between Donald Trump and then Prince Charles was scheduled to last 15 minutes. It stretched to an hour and a half.
Trump could barely get a word in edgeways. Charles did “most of the talking,” the president told a TV interviewer the day after they met.
Who wants to make time for a climate nag?
It is time to talk about the Democratic nominee for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Not because he may well be the next mayor of one of the most important cities in America, and perhaps the world.
But because of what he represents: the core principles of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) of which he is a staunch and unapologetic member.
OTTAWA — On the same day the prime minister is set to meet Saskatchewan’s premier after his trade mission to China, Canada’s industry minister said opening the Canadian market to Chinese-made EVs isn’t off the table.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning outside of the Liberal cabinet meeting, Melanie Joly said loosening Canada’s restrictions to China’s electric vehicles has not been ruled out to ease punishing tariffs on Canadian canola.
Flooding the market with cheap Chinese EV’s to keep a Canola market open? What could go wrong?
I mean besides Trump eviscerating what’s left of Canada’s auto industry.
Who wins?
WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Monday that the US military had carried out a second strike against purported drug traffickers from Venezuela in international waters.
Three “male terrorists” were killed, Trump announced on Truth Social.
BREAKING: On President Trump’s orders, the U.S. military just conducted a SECOND kinetic strike on a drug boat with narcoterrorists headed to the U.S.
Trump is RAINING HELL on the cartels
TRUMP WROTE: “This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND… pic.twitter.com/PRwwpGwZyH
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 15, 2025
Trump says SOUTHCOM struck another boat this morning carrying drugs and "narcoterrorists from Venezuela"
"BE WARNED — IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU!" pic.twitter.com/iN6Fg5QMbj
— Matt Rice (@matt____rice) September 15, 2025
The so-called buy Canadian movement gained momentum when Donald Trump suggested, half in jest but with a tone of menace, that Canada could one day become America’s “51st state.”
The remark struck a nerve. Canadians reacted with indignation and pride, choosing to affirm their sovereignty not only through political rhetoric but also through their wallets. Many began rejecting U.S. products and looking more deliberately at what it meant to support Canadian ones.
In an astounding coincidence, as the news arrived that Charlie Kirk, founder and head of the enlightened traditionalist movement Turning Point USA, had been assassinated, I was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House across the Resolute Desk from the President of the United States. Although I have known him for more than 25 years and have generally been in touch with him throughout that period, I had not seen him in person for some years. I have written approximately two million words about him, almost all of it reasonably or unambiguously favourable, though not uncritically so, mainly on U.S. Internet sites, as well as a book that was appreciative of him though no hagiography, (A President Like no Other).
No shortage of the demon possessed …
This TikToker is openly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Initially, I might have overlooked it, but people pointed out that she appears to be wearing scrubs in other videos, suggesting she works in the medical field. Someone who celebrates the death of another… pic.twitter.com/fnKR7EXtoq
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) September 15, 2025
I just spoke with my friend Allan Wall, a Mexico analyst, and we discussed the fact that dollars are not going south, i.e., remittances or “remesas” in Spanish.
People who live on Vancouver Island and some smaller neighbouring islands have been hotly debating an application made by an American non-profit to use B.C. Crown land for campsites while on kayak trips.
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), which runs outdoor expeditions around the world, is applying to renew — and expand — a licence the province says it has held since 2006.
The application is to permit NOLS to camp at 77 locations while leading an eight- to 10-person kayak trip from Washington to Alaska next summer. Most of the locations, which range from 0.3-4.6 hectares, are on and around Vancouver Island.
The Elbow People are the Covid Karen Mask People.
