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King’s big moment in Canada after Trump row

“This is a big deal for the King to do this,” says Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian high commissioner to the UK, as King Charles prepares for a historic visit showing support for Canada, which is facing pressure from US President Donald Trump.

“I hope that Trump understands,” says Mr Kinsman, ahead of the King becoming the first monarch to open Canada’s Parliament in almost 70 years.

So what can we expect from his speech as Canada’s head of state, to be delivered in French and English in Ottawa on Tuesday?

I don’t think Woke King Charlie is the flex they imagine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

Terry Newman: Where’s the ‘crisis,’ Carney?

The Trump annexation scare sure evaporated quickly

It was not that long ago, merely March, when Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh off his Liberal party leadership win, began telling Canadians his party needed a “strong mandate” because Canadians were “facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Donald Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty.” He insisted a snap election was essential, as was electing him, the self-proclaimed “crisis manager,” to address it.

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

Who Controls Rare Earth Minerals Can Control the World

Mongolian Rare Earth Refinery

President Donald Trump’s ‘rare earths deal’ with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky officially comes into force on Friday May 23rd. While much has been said about what this deal might mean for the prospects of peace between Ukraine and Russia, there has been far less discussion about how the struggle to control rare earth elements (REEs) fits into the wider geopolitical contest involving China and the West.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% on iPhones

US President Donald Trump has said he is recommending a 50% tariff on all goods from the European Union being imported to the United States.

“Our discussions with them are going nowhere!” he wrote in a post on social media on Friday. He said the new tariffs would kick in on 1 June.

The announcement marks an escalation of Trump’s trade war with the EU. He initially proposed a 20% tariff on most EU goods, but halved it to 10% until 8 July to allow time for talks.

The president also threatened to impose a 25% import tax “at least” on iPhones not manufactured in America.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, USA

Travel to and from Canada takes a nosedive: StatCan

Canada’s tourism sector is taking a hit in the wake of world-wide economic uncertainties and political tensions, according to new data released by Statistics Canada.

Visits to Canada from overseas took a nose dive in March compared to the same month last year with a 17.4 per cent drop, a trend that has continued for six straight months, according to the data.

And fewer U.S. residents are crossing the border into Canada, with trips down 6.6 per cent in March on a year-over-year basis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ raises major questions: Can it be built? Should it? What’s Canada’s role?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence system, which Canada has expressed interest in joining, is raising questions about the project’s cost and feasibility as well as concerns about a space-based arms race.

Trump’s plan is modelled after the Iron Dome that protects Israel — a land mass smaller than Vancouver Island — and aims to be more robust and hundreds of times bigger.

The Iron Dome is mainly built to defend against lower-flying threats like short-range rockets, mortars and shells, while Trump and other top U.S. officials say the proposed Golden Dome would block missiles fired from other countries and from space, weaving together existing technologies with future tech that still needs to be developed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘Easier ways to send messages’ to Trump than bringing in the King: U.S. ambassador

The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says he knows the implication of King Charles III’s upcoming trip to Ottawa is to push back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s 51st state threats — and he says there are “easier ways to send messages” to the American government.

“We’re thrilled that the king will be here,” said U.S. ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, in an interview with CBC’s The House that will air Saturday. “If there’s a message in there, there’s easier ways to send messages. Just give me a call. [Mark] Carney can call the president at any time.”

Hoekstra added that the annexation saga is “over.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Another Nihilistic Murder

Two Israeli embassy aides were killed in an anti-Semitic attack, the latest in a string of left-wing violence.

Israeli embassy aides Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were murdered Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., gunned down by an anti-Israel radical as they were leaving an American Jewish Committee Young Diplomats reception.

D.C. police charged 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, for the crime. Rodriguez reportedly said that he “did it for Gaza,” and chanted “free, free Palestine” as he was taken into custody.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, USA

Mark Carney is ignoring the cartels – and Donald Trump

The cartels have switched from the Mexican border to the Canadian border

Donald Trump has declared war on the cartels. The southern border is now patrolled by the military, the wall is rapidly expanding and US intelligence is helping to target crime bosses on Mexican soil. Illegal crossings and drug seizures at key points have dropped by more than 70 percent in the last year.

But, contrary to appearances, the cartels have not surrendered – instead, they have pivoted, applying Sun Tzu’s principle: attack your enemy’s weaknesses, not his strengths.

Led by the blood-soaked and ultra violent Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartel they are exploiting the soft 5,525-mile long northern border with Canada and its sparse surveillance, dense forests, inadequately staffed crossings and neglected checkpoints.

The usual suspects will be making profit from policy no doubt.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, USA

Canada wants to join Golden Dome missile-defence program, Trump says

Donald Trump says Canada has asked to join the missile-defence program his administration is building, adding a new chapter to a long-running cross-border saga.

The U.S. president dropped that news in the Oval Office on Tuesday as he unveiled the initial plans for a three-year, $175 billion US project to build a multi-purpose missile shield he’s calling the Golden Dome.

“Canada has called us and they want to be a part of it,” Trump said. “They want to hook in and they want to be a part of it.”

Canada should rid itself of all weaponry and disband its armed forces to protest Israel’s Gaza incursion!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA