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Unfortunately, there may not be a hockey analogy for the challenge Canada faces

Inevitably, but torturously, this unique moment in the history of this country has come to be understood primarily in hockey terms.

“His elbows have mysteriously gone missing,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said of Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday. “He’s not thrown one elbow since he took office.”

A few hours earlier, a reporter had warned the prime minister that his critics might say something like that in the wake of his decision to repeal some of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs against American products — that while Carney had once spoken of Canada putting its elbows “up,” now those elbows might be said to be down.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘I was scared’ — American man seeks asylum in Windsor after kayaking into Canada

After kayaking across the Detroit River earlier this month, an American asylum-seeker stepped into Canada unsure of what to expect, but considers the reaction so far positive – including a stranger giving him $100.

“I hate the fact that I did what I did, but what was my choice? I was scared,” said Dan Livers, 51, of Michigan. “I hope to become a citizen.

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

Ghislaine Maxwell never saw Trump in ‘any inappropriate setting’, interview transcript shows

The US Department of Justice has released the transcript and audio recording of an interview conducted by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, with the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a post on X, Blanche said the materials were being released “in the interest of transparency”, providing links to the transcript and to audio files.

The release includes documentation from a two-day interview conducted on 24 and 25 July. The materials comprise redacted transcripts for both days, along with multiple audio recordings – seven separate parts plus test recordings for day one, and four parts plus test recordings for day two.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Carney says time is up for ‘elbows up’ as Canada drops many retaliatory tariffs on U.S.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said it’s no longer time for “elbows up” as he announced Friday that Canada will remove retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods covered by the existing trade agreement between the countries minus those on steel, aluminum and autos.

Carney said the move was designed to match the U.S. decision not to levy tariffs on goods that are compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), saying the countries had restored free trade on a “vast majority of our goods.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Mark Carney was once ‘concerned’ about Trump. Now things have gotten worse than anyone could have guessed

In April, just days before he was elected prime minister, I asked Mark Carney whether Canadians ought to start worrying about the state of things down south.

“The U.S. system is one of checks and balances, famously,” Carney began. At the core of the American system of democracy, he went on, “is the rule of law.” He gave a small shrug: “I expect that to continue.” Without taking a beat, “yes,” the prime minister acknowledged, “I’m concerned.”

The Star is desperate to keep the Elbows Up fear mongering con alive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Inside the Falkland Superlab: How RCMP Refusals to Cooperate With the DEA Fueled a Cross-Border Tariff Crisis

WASHINGTON — Canada’s federal police refused to investigate or cooperate with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration on a British Columbia fentanyl superlab probe tied to chemical-precursor shipments from China into Vancouver in late 2022, according to senior U.S. officials. More than a year later — only after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Iranian-Canadian businessman Bahman Djebelibak and his Health Canada–licensed company Valerian Labs, naming them as part of a Chinese fentanyl trafficking syndicate that Washington sought to disrupt — did the RCMP finally open a siloed investigation. The force continued to refuse coordination or information sharing with the American agents who had initiated the case. In an exclusive interview, Derek Maltz, DEA Acting Administrator in 2025 with oversight of the matter, called the B.C. superlab case a “major disaster.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Drugs, USA

With “Progressivism First,” the ADL shows its true colors

The recent decision by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), once seen as a vaunted protector of the American Jewish community, to add “America First” to its Glossary of Extremism and Hate is no mere exercise in sanctimony or virtue signaling.

This unbelievably wrong-headed, ill-considered and insensitive decision sends the worst kind of messages, especially to those with who the American Jewish community is in most need of dialog and mutual understanding: American conservatives, particularly, America First MAGA conservatives.

To the extent that the ADL is still viewed as a proxy for American Jewish sensibilities, this decision must be seen as an angry gauntlet thrown down, whereby Jews are challenging the very legitimacy of a movement that is attracting millions of Americans, particularly young Americans.

The ADL is a left wing hate group, no different than the SPLC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves?

The second Trump administration has been worse than Canada’s worst nightmare. The largest military force in the history of the world, across a largely undefended border, is suddenly under the command of a president who has called for our annexation. Canada could not be less prepared. The possibility of American aggression has been so remote, for so long, that the idea has not been seriously considered in living memory. Donald Trump has focused on economic rather than military pressure, but the new tone in Washington is finally forcing Canada to ask itself the most basic question: how do we defend ourselves?

Dream on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, USA

Only 17% Of 25-34-Year-Old Americans Have Attained The 5 Major Milestones Of Adulthood

What I am about to share with you is some of the clearest evidence yet that the middle class in America is being systematically destroyed.  Young adults are forming middle class households at an extremely depressed rate, and that is because the American Dream is simply out of reach for most of them in this very harsh economic environment.  If you can’t get a good job that pays an adequate wage, you aren’t going to be able to live a middle class lifestyle.  Sadly, many older Americans simply do not understand how difficult things have become for our young adults in this day and age.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

MN Dems Claim Vote Fraud In Endorsement of Mayoral Nominee

Socialist ballot-stuffing? Radicals taking control by any means necessary? Minnesota Democrats running an incompetent election? Whoda thunk it?

Update…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, USA

Carney Liberals dropping countertariffs on U.S. goods covered by free trade deal

OTTAWA — Canada is dropping its countertariffs on the American goods that are covered by the free -trade agreement between the two countries, amid the ongoing trade war with the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.

Carney made the announcement during a news conference Friday, following a virtual meeting of his cabinet, and the day after a discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump.

In a statement to CTV News on Friday, a White House official said the U.S. welcomes the move, calling it “long overdue.”

The official added they look forward to “continuing our discussions with Canada on the administration’s trade and national security concerns.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

FBI raids home of John Bolton, Trump’s ex-national security adviser

The FBI raided the home of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic John Bolton on Friday morning.

The federal search of Bolton’s house in the Washington DC area was as part of an investigation involving the handling of classified documents, the Associated Press reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

A government source confirmed the raid to the Guardian, but did not disclose further details.

h/t Mauser and XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Doug Ford slams Stelco owner for supporting Donald Trump: ‘I got a problem with that guy’

As Premier Doug Ford rolled out $70 million to help steelworkers affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, he insisted “we aren’t going to kiss his backside.”

A feisty Ford also fired a salvo Wednesday at the head of Cleveland-Cliffs, the American parent company of Stelco, for endorsing Trump’s trade war against Canada.

“I love the workers, but their owner, I got a problem with that guy,” the premier said of Cleveland-Cliffs president and CEO Lourenco Goncalves.

Ford always knows the right thing to say.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA