Military pilots go so long without flying they are forgetting how to do it, whistleblowers claim.
Pilots have warned more people will die unless the US armed forces fix chronic equipment shortages and reverse “dangerous” cuts to the amount of required flying hours.
Some recruits can spend up to a year without a single flight because of aircraft and instructor shortages, current and former US military pilots told The Telegraph.
It’s unclear whether Northvolt North America’s electric vehicle battery plant project in Quebec will proceed after its parent company filed for bankruptcy in Sweden on Wednesday.
The manufacturer’s Canadian subsidiary says Northvolt AB underwent an “exhaustive effort … to secure a viable financial and operational future” but was ultimately unsuccessful.
The hitman who says he was hired to assassinate the journalist and Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad in New York City, testified in federal court, how he surveilled her home in Brooklyn for several days, waiting in vain for her to come outside so he could kill her. As he testified, Ms. Alinejad’s husband was sitting inside the courtroom.
“It’s an out of body experience that someone is describing how they’re going to do harm in such a cold way. It gets worse as more disturbing details are coming out,” Ms. Alinejad’s husband, Kambiz Foroohar, told the Sun on Wednesday during the lunch break.
US immigration enforcement officials arrested more people in the first 22 days of February 2025 than in any month over the last seven years, according to a Guardian review of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data.
The Guardian review, which analyzed DHS data from the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency, in addition to interviews with immigration lawyers, advocates and former Ice officials, show how the administration has transformed immigration enforcement in the US within just a few weeks.
In a rush to meet Trump’s goal of “mass deportations”, the administration has moved to quickly close the US southern border – suspending the asylum program and other Biden-era programs that offered humanitarian relief. Simultaneously, it has amped up immigration enforcement in the interior of the country.
The Guardian doesn’t understand the difference between “immigrant” and “illegal alien invader”
There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and the US is starting to look like a prime example.
On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a 25 percent surcharge on electricity exports to the US, affecting an estimated 1.5 million households and businesses in New York, Michigan, and Minnesota.
Trump responded with all-caps outrage, raising the March 12 tariff on steel and aluminum imports from Canada from 25 to 50 percent — a move that would be devastating for Ontario’s auto sector. How, the President asked, could Canada stoop so low as to use electricity — a resource that impacts the daily lives of innocent people — as a bargaining chip and a threat?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are set to meet Thursday in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford to put an end to an escalation of the trade war between Canada and the United States.
Ford said he hoped it would be a cordial meeting, but it will come after both Lutnick and U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed the premier and Canada in statements made to the press.
OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly plans to welcome her G7 counterparts to Charlevoix, Quebec, with a warning: “If the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.”
On the official agenda this week as Canada hosts the G7 foreign ministers: Ukraine, the Middle East, Haiti and Venezuela, but nothing about President Donald Trump’s trade war or sovereignty threats. Yet Joly told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday that she plans to raise the issue with the European and British members, while advising them that “Canada is the canary in the coal mine.”
About one million Canadian “snowbirds,” who contribute billions to the U.S. tourism industry each year, will soon be required to register and be fingerprinted before heading south, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curbing illegal immigration.
While most travellers are automatically registered with an electronic I-94 admission record upon entering the U.S., Trump’s “Protecting the American People Against Invasion” order now mandates that all visitors staying 30 days or longer must register with the U.S. government and obtain an admission record, if an I-94 wasn’t automatically issued.
h/t XC
President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the “honeymoon” a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He’s fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year’s campaign.
He’s even started what critics call a trade war.
U.S. President Donald Trump fired new shots in the tariff war on Tuesday, vowing on social media to put an end to Canada’s auto industry amid a chaotic volley of trade threats that sent stock markets lower.
Mr. Trump has said a key goal of his protectionist trade policy is to persuade foreign manufacturers, especially automakers, to shift production to the United States. The President’s language has become increasingly menacing in recent weeks, turning outright hostile to the Canadian auto industry on Tuesday, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford briefly imposed a surcharge on electricity exports to the United States.
Wouldn’t it be great to have an all Canadian ICE 4WD that was robust and easy to maintain unhindered by chips or ludicrous government net-zero limitations etc …
The federal government announced a plan on Wednesday to slap tariffs on $29.8 billion worth of American goods to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump after he imposed punishing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum early this morning.
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, the government’s point person on Canada-U.S. relations, said Trump’s attack on Canadian industry is “unjustified and unjustifiable” and the government must hit back as the U.S. inserts “disruption and disorder” into what was once one of the most successful trading relationships in the world.
President says charges on Canadian steel and aluminium will go ahead on Wednesday, and that Canada should consider becoming ‘our cherished 51st state’
President Trump dismissed the chaos his tariffs have unleashed on stock markets as a price worth paying to “rebuild our country” after another turbulent day fuelled by his on-off trade war with Canada.
The Canadian province of Ontario suspended its reprisal duties on electricity bound for several US states after Trump announced he would double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium from midnight.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Canadian man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for shootings at an oil pipeline in South Dakota and an electrical substation in North Dakota that caused $1.7 million in damages after a judge found that his crimes met the definition of terrorism.
Cameron Smith, 50, was also ordered Monday to pay more than $2.1 million in restitution, the Bismarck Tribune reported, as well as fines totaling $250,000. He faces deportation after his release.
Environmentalist.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the “removal” of a convicted Canadian drug trafficker, who was caught transporting more than 125 lbs of cocaine across the country in 2022.
The government agency said Tuesday that Christopher Anthony Frater, 32, was returned to Canadian authorities last week after he was convicted of a drug-related charge in 2023.
Dawn O’Leary misses Diet Coke the most. Her favourite pop is among the list of American goods and services she gave up even before U.S. President Donald Trump flip-flopped on his tariff threat last week. The 71-year-old has sold her U.S. stocks and dumped Netflix. She doesn’t only buy Canadian – she also refuses to purchase any product that’s made in Canada for a U.S. company.
“Unfortunately, I have to do the research for that on Google,” says Ms. O’Leary, the owner of Dragonluck Kennels in Stittsville, Ont., on feeling forced to use the American search engine. “I am not happy about that.”
