Asylum claims doubled at a Quebec border crossing in April as the Trump administration seeks to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States.
There were 2,733 asylum claims last month at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle port of entry, south of Montreal. That’s up from 1,356 claims in March and 755 in February, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency.
Become the 51st State. Start the deportations. Problem solved.
After his first visit to the White House for a meeting with United States President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s path towards the start of Canada-U.S. negotiations to end the mounting trade war is murky with uncertainty.
Carney (Nepean, Ont.) and a small team of his cabinet ministers—International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, N.B.), Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Que.), and Public Safety Minister David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Ont.)—travelled to Washington, D.C., on May 5 where they held a much-anticipated meeting with Trump at the Oval Office on May 6.
White House official Stephen Miller says U.S. President Donald Trump has helped to secure a new trade and defence relationship with Canada, following the first meeting between Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“President Trump has opened up a completely new relationship with Canada because of his strength and because of his diplomacy,” Miller said during an interview with Fox News on May 7.
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney is not your average political leader. He didn’t rise through the ranks of parliament or build his political clout through years of constituency work. He is an unelected central banker turned international power broker with deep ties to the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset movement and the ESG (Environmental, social and governance) agenda.
Some might say that his lack of political experience is a problem for Carney, but I disagree. While many of his country’s leaders were playing politics, Carney was working to transform the world through influential organizations and financial institutions. He was one of the Great Reset’s masterminds, and now, he’s more powerful than ever.
Trump claims UK trade deal is ‘full and comprehensive’
Donald Trump said a new trade deal between the US and the UK is “full and comprehensive”.
The US president, who will unveil the deal at a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House at 3pm UK time, also said the agreement will “cement the relationship” between the two countries “for many years to come”.
Mr Trump posted on his Truth Social website: “The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come.
BUt tARriFFs DoN't woRK. pic.twitter.com/Zm8sOmMAxZ
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 8, 2025
Donald Trump’s meeting with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney on Tuesday got off to a positive enough start. They greeted each other in a pleasant manner. Their handshake was cordial. They got down to business.
Before Carney arrived in Washington DC a few hysterical voices in the media had suggested that it was destined to turn into a confrontational shouting match. That was never likely. Yes, many Canadians are furious at Trump due to the ongoing tariff war. Yes, Carney played up this rhetoric during the election campaign. During his victory speech, he said Trump wanted to “break us, so that America can own us” and “that will never, ever happen”.
More than half of Canadians no longer feel welcome or safe travelling to the United States, according to a new poll.
America is being invaded from the outside, but the greatest assault is coming from within.
When the term “fifth column” was coined, it referred to four columns attacking from the outside and one, a fifth column, attacking from the inside. These days the numbers have switched and we have one column coming from the outside, and four columns striking at us from the inside.
Joe Rogan is stupefied by the Liberals’ return to power last month after the party had fallen to historic lows under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Hunting podcaster Cameron Hanes brought up the government’s handling of the trucker protest in the nation’s capital back in 2022. The “Freedom Convoy” descended on the city on Jan. 22 to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Big rigs blocked off major streets and drew thousands of supporters, both in real life and virtually.
NEW: Joe Rogan calls out Canada for voting back into power the same party that tried to silence them and take their banking away: “Good job, Canada!” pic.twitter.com/foeUZ81yKO
— Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) May 6, 2025
Smart people who dislike President Trump are capable of saying the stupidest things. Take, for example, Hal Brands, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, whose latest column in Bloomberg is titled “Canada Made America Great.” Even if Brands didn’t pick the title, his article expresses concern that President Trump’s hostility to our northern neighbor will in “military, geostrategic and moral terms … bring a heavy price” to U.S. national security policy. “Trump,” he writes, “is tempting America’s neighbor to seek security by aligning with outside powers,” namely the U.K. and Europe. Brands knows, of course, that Canada is already aligned with the U.K. and much of Europe in NATO. But he implies that a hostile Canada would be a threat to U.S. security.
Canada is walking down a dangerous path. In a recent episode of “The Winston Marshall Show,” Steve Bannon has warned that “Canada could become ‘the next Ukraine’ if Russia or China presses territorial claims in the Arctic. “There’s no money there to defend anybody,” Bannon said, arguing that the United Kingdom, Canada’s historic security partner, “can’t defend itself.” Bannon suggested that Ottawa has only “two, maybe three years to act before external pressures harden.”
h/t PA Cat
Howard Lutnick made headlines this week, ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, by calling Canada “a socialist regime” that feeds off of America.
He has said, as a result, that he is skeptical a trade deal can be made with America’s northern neighbour.
The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island, according to two people familiar with the effort.
Several high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads last week. They were directed to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island.
Gone, it seems, are the days when the phrase “going nuclear” was meant figuratively.
Since the beginning of the year and the inauguration of the second Trump administration, an increasing number of Washington’s closest allies have begun to throw quiet — and sometimes not so quiet — fits about whether they can still count on the decades-old nuclear deterrent capability of the United States.
Few places feel that uncertainty more keenly than South Korea.
It’s bad to have nuclear weapons. The US has nuclear weapons so the US is bad.
It’s OK if the US promises to defend us with them but we’re just too pure to ever acquire them in Canada’s defense.
After 80 years we can no longer expect America to protect us, and paying for our defence will require brutal honesty
VE Day feels like a good moment to quit wasting breath on abuse of Donald Trump. Let me explain my meaning: of course he and JD Vance are brutes whose tenancy of the White House is a global tragedy. But the rest of us must get down to thinking constructively about what we do next. Which does not include taking a shameful Open to Turnberry.
War commemorations are traditionally occasions at which we reprise twaddle about the special relationship, such as Churchill expounded publicly but never privately. Behind closed doors, he raged at the ruthlessness of American treatment of Britain, especially about money.
TDS and a touch entitled.
