TULSA, OKLAHOMA — Over the past few weeks, my inbox has been flooded with frightened and heartbreaking messages from Canadian Jews. Many are scared and looking for ways out of Canada, telling deeply personal stories of fear, marginalization, and hopelessness.
I had shared in these pages my family’s reasons for choosing to leave Canada — Vancouver, specifically — to pursue opportunities in the U.S., and obviously hit a nerve with National Post readers
A Crack Beneath the Rug
Canada’s reputation for unfailing politeness is like that neighbor you trust completely, the one you’d invite over to watch the game and have a beer, and you’d feel confident they wouldn’t take off with your favorite beer stein.
That same neighbor might harbor a secret, even him, that he might have a crack beneath his basement. Unseen, that is, until it opens up. That crack doesn’t disrespect your hospitality; it simply IS.
OTTAWA – Ottawa’s Indo-Pacific strategy has yet to give Canada adequate visibility or distinguish it from the U.S. in the region, experts have told researchers commissioned by the federal government.
The Liberals launched the strategy in late 2022 to make Canada a partner of choice for some of the fastest-growing economies on the planet. In releasing the strategy, Ottawa acknowledged that it is perceived locally as having engaged only intermittently in the region over the decades.
More than two years later, a report commissioned by Global Affairs Canada says regional experts see Canada as “a strategic but secondary player aligned with U.S. geopolitical priorities” that is “often perceived as an extension of U.S. foreign policy rather than an independent global actor.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Between the Edmonton Oilers making their second consecutive Stanley Cup appearance, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s well-publicized links to the region, and Premier Danielle Smith’s regular appearances on Fox News, Alberta has been on America’s mind a lot this year.
This ought to go over well.
The Smithsonian Institution is one of America’s greatest assets.
When Americans visit the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., they are able to witness their country’s vast array of art, culture, history, and research acumen all in one place, and for free, because of the museums and zoo the institution operates there.
Like the national parks, the Smithsonian is part of America’s cultural inheritance.
There is a new reality emerging in the parking lots of one of America’s biggest home improvement stores, highlighted by incidents big and small across Los Angeles.
Construction workers are still hauling lumber and nails, and DIY homeowners pushing carts of paint and soil. But all of a sudden, federal immigration agents may appear.
On Thursday, they moved on a Home Depot parking lot in Monrovia, sending laborers running, including a man who jumped a wall and onto the 210 Freeway, where he was fatally struck. A day prior, fear of a possible raid at a Ladera Ranch location sparked warnings across social media.
The State Department took issue with a stream of that initiative that prioritizes the hiring of diverse journalists, including those who are Indigenous, Black, have disabilities or are part of the LGBTQ community. The report claimed that discriminated “against journalists who fell outside of these favoured categories.”
OTTAWA – The U.S. State Department is taking aim at Canada’s Online News Act in a human rights report that criticizes press freedom in Canada — which experts characterized Thursday as Orwellian.
The Online News Act, which requires Meta and Google to compensate news publishers for the use of their content, is cited in a section of the report covering freedom of the press.
“The U.S. is determined to crush two important pieces of Canadian legislation, the Online News Act and the Online Streaming Act. Their end game is clear,” said Fen Hampson, an international affairs professor at Carleton University.
The only Newspeak spoken is by the racists attempting to mask their blatant support for DEI and their hatred of White males.
And what “historical harms”? Correct spelling? Good Grammar? Coloring within the lines?
Oh look Hermida was with the bullshit BBC.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is once again floating the idea of introducing legislation that would force companies to place a flag of origin on their products as he takes aim at Campbell’s for ‘misleading people’ with some of its soup labels.
Ford brought up the matter during an unrelated news conference in Pickering on Thursday, where he mused about legislation that would make it easier for shoppers to identify which products are made outside of Canada amid the ongoing trade war with the U.S.
ELBOWS UP LABELS OFF: Premier Doug Ford unravels, has meltdown & starts screaming about Campbells Soup who ceased this labelling practice in 2024
“I still have to get a can of Campbells Soup…I’m gonna rip that label off, encourage people to buy made in Ontario made in soup!” pic.twitter.com/gNLtUg5lmM
— Rowan (@canmericanized) August 14, 2025
As the Carney government tries to sort out Canada’s relationship with the Trump administration, almost nothing’s been disclosed about the scope, content, timing or ultimate objectives of these talks, even though their outcome – whether success or failure – will be hugely significant for the country.
What we got from Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. relations, as he left Washington last week was that Canada had “a better understanding of the American concerns in the trading relationship…. So we’re prepared to stick around and do the work needed.”
Lots of poverty ahead, just what Carney and his cronies want.
OTTAWA — Canadians are split on whether Canada should go into trade negotiations with the U.S. with elbows up or down when it comes to retaliatory tariffs, according to a new poll.
The Leger/Postmedia poll suggests that 45 per cent of Canadians still believe Canada’s position vis-à-vis U.S. President Donald Trump should be “elbows up.” That means that Canada should impose counter-tariffs on all new U.S. border levies, even if it risks further retaliation from the Trump administration.
WATCH:
President Trump just made a BOLD statement:
"Canada does what we tell them to do." pic.twitter.com/jrNgWClmKF
— TrendingPolitics.ca (@TrendPolCa) August 14, 2025
I’m not sure faith in Carney is justifiable.
WASHINGTON — His career is toast.
A DC man who hurled a Subway sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of the capital earlier this week has been identified as a now-former Justice Department trial attorney.
UPDATE: 12" Footlong SUB ASSAULT — FULL VIDEO DROPS
New video released shows the full lead up to the viral confrontation.
Turns out the guy in the pink shirt didn’t just randomly throw a giant sandwich at an FBI agent in federalized DC…This NEW footage shows him… https://t.co/DFTDKPeGzb pic.twitter.com/T9QxXkHY9l
— Project Constitution (@ProjectConstitu) August 13, 2025
After doing gangbuster business in the post-COVID era, Las Vegas is in the midst of a slump, with the number of tourists down sharply as Canadians in particular avoid Sin City amid bilateral bad blood over trade.
The total number of visitors is off more than 11 per cent year-over-year, according to data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, one of the most dramatic declines in recent memory outside of the pandemic.
Airline figures reveal there’s been an even steeper decline among Canadians going to the desert gambling mecca.
No doubt the decline in Canadian visitors has played a part in Vegas’ slide but it’s far from the main reason.
But there are other factors not least of which are price gouging and fees upon fees. No value? No tourists. Easy.
Oh and most of us in the Great White Taxed To Death are watching our pennies.
K loved Vegas. We were married there. Someday I may go back, just to visit the places we missed and promised ourselves we’d see our next trip out.
Late last month, a coalition of pro–North Korean activists gathered in New York City. Ostensibly there to defend “Korean independence,” their real purpose was to spread anti-American propaganda and justify the crimes of Pyongyang and other totalitarian regimes.
Nodutdol, an effectively pro-North Korean group, co-hosted the People’s Summit for Korea from July 25 through 27. The event featured professional activists, academics, government officials, and longtime radicals with decades of involvement in left-wing politics. Also present were a stable of revolutionary leftist groups, including the People’s Forum, ANSWER Coalition, the United National Antiwar Coalition, and more.
Once again Canada was ahead of the curve! From way back in 2012.
Poor UBC Is So Ronery! They’re Under Attack From Evil Right Wing Blogger Blazingcatfur!
Last year I wrote about UBC’s dalliance with the prison nation North Korea. It’s an unseemly effort spearheaded by Professor Kyung-Ae Park & Professor Paul Evans both of whom contribute to the North Korean propaganda site CanKor, which in OJ like fashion, promises to find the real truth about their beloved socialist paradise. Others have also questioned UBC’s association with the murderous North Korean regime, so I don’t think it’s just me.
Canada’s prohibition on U.S. alcohol is creating a headache for American liquor and winemakers.
On the shelves of many Canadian liquor stores, bottles of Jack Daniel’s, Maker’s Mark and Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum are nowhere to be found. Thousands of bottles of U.S. wine and spirits sit in storage across the country. At tastings, Canadian drinkers are turning their noses up at American alcohol.
After President Trump initiated a series of trade battles with Canada earlier this year, Canadian provinces, which largely handle alcohol imports and distribution in the country, stopped placing orders for American-made spirits, beer and wine. In liquor stores, clerks pulled U.S. brands off shelves, replacing them with Canadian products.
Major European nations come off terribly in the U.S. Department of State’s latest reports on human rights practices, which point to “serious restrictions” on free speech, inconsistent policing and antisemitic violence.
Naturally then, the leftist establishment press, such as Britain’s BBC, has effectively dismissed the annual document as “downscaled.” That’s much easier, after all, than admitting to our failures.
