In recent weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to become America’s 51st state.
The proposition, understandably controversial and borderline farcical, has been overwhelmingly rejected by the vast majority of Canadians—with one exception: younger Canadians. That includes Gen Z Canadians and younger Millennials.
Canadian governor (excuse me, Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau clearly had no one looking out for him before he sent out a post on X.
Last night, Trudeau was in attendance at the Bell Centre in Montreal for the Four Nations Faceoff matchup between the United States and Canada. The game that many players on both sides called “the biggest game of their careers” lived up to the billing, as it was chock-full of emotion from the start. Three Americans – Matthew and Brady Tkachuck and J.T. Miller – each fought a Canadian in separate fights before the game was 10 seconds old.
Greatest 9 seconds in hockey history pic.twitter.com/isy3o4MKVH
— World Hockey Report (@worldhockeyrpt) February 16, 2025
H/T DS
Canadian business owners have been increasingly eyeing relocation or expansion to the US, with the recent trade war being just one of many factors.
President Donald Trump has put Canada on notice for a 25% tariff imposed on all goods coming into the US from its northern neighbour, citing a weak and “porous” border that has allowed a continuous stream of drug trafficking and illegal immigration for far too long.
Smugglers are brazenly using TikTok to advertise their human-trafficking services across the Canada-US border — undercutting the Great White North’s position as it tries to hammer out a critical deal with the US on tariffs and security, The Post has learned.
For close to a year, the Canadian “coyotes” — who largely target Indian nationals — promise a hassle-free trip to the States for as much as $5,000, with new border-crossing accounts popping up every time others are removed from the platform.
The posts often feature a US flag waving over a wooded northern border, set to Indian music, urging wannabe border crossers to DM them for more details.
Canadians have been booing the US anthem for weeks over Trump’s proposed tariffs. But it’s no wonder that tensions boiled over when the US finally met Canada on the ice
As usual, Canadians approached the latest international hockey tournament, the 4 Nations Face-Off, with worry. Despite top-tier talent and historic winning pedigree, the feeling that Canada could be off its game is a perennial concern. But in 2025, it is particularly profound – mostly because of the Americans.
Since the last time Canada played the US at an elite tournament in 2016, Canadians have watched the American program grow stronger and deeper, while Canada’s own has lost focus. Among the most pressing going concerns has been goaltending. Canada – or Québec more accurately – produced dominant goalies in excess for decades. No longer. They’re all Americans now.
NEW: Team USA demolishes Team Canada 3-1 and records 3 fights in the first 9 seconds after Canada booed the American National Anthem before the game. pic.twitter.com/tRisE5RzYS
— DAILY INFO (@Robinsonjean0) February 16, 2025
The migrant crime waves sweeping Europe are warnings. We can either heed them now — or prepare to suffer their consequences on our own soil.
It happened again.
Another city, another massacre, another Western government paralyzed by its own self-inflicted crisis.
This week, the streets of Munich ran red as yet another so-called refugee — a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who should have been deported years ago — plowed his car into innocent civilians, injuring 28 people in a horrific act of terror.
The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador says he found it “incredibly concerning” to hear senior staff from U.S. President Donald Trump’s office convey that the commander-in-chief is “very serious” when he talks about annexing Canada.
“As Canadians, we need to realize that he is not joking, that he is definitively looking towards the 51st state being Canada,” Andrew Furey told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday. “He’s had a chance to change that narrative, and not only has he doubled down, I think he’s quadrupled down now on saying that.”
The writing scrawled across bare plaster inside the Cedar Run apartment block would become an epitaph for many who passed through it.
“In loving memory of those lost in drugland,” it read.
Drug Enforcement Agents were struck by the graffiti when they stormed the building with smoke bombs last week as part of a series of raids across Denver and Aurora, two of Colorado’s biggest cities.
An internal government report warned a year ago that allowing “the trend of negative rhetoric” about the security of the Canada-U.S. border could lead to a thickening of the 49th parallel, adversely affecting trade and travel.
The report, written by a diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Washington, said that failing to refute U.S. claims about a “crisis at the northern border” would lead to the erosion of Canada’s image as a secure neighbour.
The Trudeau gov’t lies about everything.
I do not believe they are telling the truth about the border and a report written by a lone Washington diplomat is hardly the last word on the matter.
The Trump administration has reportedly called on European nations to outline the number of troops and weapons they are willing to commit to a peacekeeping force in Ukraine amid growing complaints from the continent of being sidelined from negotiations.
According to German broadcaster NTV, Washington has told Berlin and other European capitals to complete a questionnaire detailing the strength of their potential military commitments to Ukraine.
Canadian LGBTQ2S+ advocacy group won’t visit UN forum over concerns about U.S. border
OTTAWA — Canada’s leading LGBTQ2S+ advocacy organization is boycotting travel to the U.S. — and won’t attend an upcoming United Nations event — in response to concerns about how their members might be treated at the border under the Trump administration.
“I don’t think there’s anything more important than safeguarding my staff and our community members, and also sending a strong message to the U.S.,” said Egale Canada head Helen Kennedy.
“It was a culmination and an accumulation of legislative changes, rhetoric and discriminatory policies specifically targeting gender-diverse folks that made us make this decision.”
Another win for Trump.
The Mike Benz interview on The Joe Rogan Experience (#2237) delivered a masterclass in exposing the tangled web of government censorship, deep state schemes, and a systemic erosion of our First Amendment rights.
An eye opening list of Gov’t abuse of freedoms.
And it just keeps getting worse!
The impossibly rich lifestyle of DC liberals, funded by YOU the taxpayer, without your consent or approval. This is how they live, and the receipts prove it.
USAID, the NEA, and other taxpayer-funded programs issue billions of dollars in grants. John and Jane, or Pete and Pete,… pic.twitter.com/qwq2o2GusA
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 15, 2025
h/t Mauser
Negotiations aimed at freezing the conflict could finally put an end to the fighting – and lay the foundation for a new world order
It is the ending no one in Ukraine wanted, and few believe can last. Kyiv will surrender 20 per cent of its land to Russia as it is partitioned along an 800-mile, heavily militarised border.
The peace will be secured by Vladimir Putin’s word as a gentleman, and a multinational force with no American involvement. Neither America nor Nato at large will be obliged to defend Ukraine should Russia attack again.
The obvious risks of such a settlement are one thing. But what has shocked European governments is that Donald Trump and Putin appear to have hammered it out without talking to anyone else. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky only met vice-president JD Vance as an afterthought, on Friday. But it was clear the real action had taken place between the two presidents – Trump and Putin – elsewhere. “Bastards” one British defence official said of the Americans on hearing of the purported plan.
A Canadian citizen has been charged by U.S. authorities for allegedly using a drone to take photos of a military base in Florida.
Xiao Guang Pan, 71, faces three counts of using an unmanned aircraft to photograph vital defence installations at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, according to a Feb. 13 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. On three separate days in January 2025, Pan allegedly also took aerial pictures of space launch complexes, a submarine wharf, and munitions bunkers.
The 26-year-old suspect accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan street last year, Luigi Mangione, has released his first public statement since his arrest.
“I am overwhelmed by – and grateful for – everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support. Powerfully, this support has transcended political, racial, and even class divisions, as mail has flooded MDC from across the country, and around the globe.” Mr. Mangione wrote, referring to the squalid Metropolitan Detention Center at Brooklyn, where he is currently incarcerated. “While it is impossible for me to reply to most letters, please know that I read every one that I receive. Thank you again to everyone who took the time to write. I look forward to hearing more in the future.”
