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New ‘fentanyl czar’ will coordinate campaign in Canada against illegal production and distribution

Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says the new “fentanyl czar” position Canada is creating after a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump will be a commanding role to coordinate a national campaign against illegal production and distribution of the deadly opioid.

“This new fentanyl czar position is one that will transcend any one part of the government will pull together a full Canadian national response between our provinces, our police of local jurisdiction, and work with our American authorities,” Mr. McGuinty told CNN in an interview Tuesday.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

AGAR: A look at trade war from Americans’ viewpoints

While we talk about how a trade war is also harmful to Americans, how do Americans feel about it?

There are 335 million of them, so I didn’t get around to everyone over the weekend, but I did talk to three of my more politically engaged and conservative friends in the U.S., in three different states, and I thought you might find it interesting from their viewpoint.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Robert F. Kennedy Jr‘s Confirmation Clears Committee in 14-13 Vote

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, passed through the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday in a 14-13 vote.

Senators in the committee voted on Tuesday morning. All eyes were on Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who announced right before the vote that he would, in fact, vote yes on Kennedy.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•Trump World, USA

The trade war is off — but for how long?

Canadian sports fans might be persuaded to stop jeering the American national anthem. At least for the next 30 days.

The trade war is off. At least for now. But that is of limited solace. And even if the next deadline somehow comes and goes without the resumption of hostilities, it’s not clear when Canadians will again be able to view the United States as a reliable friend or predictable ally.

The resolution, such as it is, came on Monday after Canadian officials agreed to a handful of additional measures to respond to Donald Trump’s stated concerns about fentanyl moving across his country’s northern border — the appointment of a “fentanyl czar,” listing Mexican drug cartels as terrorist entities, and investing $200 million toward gathering intelligence on organized crime.

So long as Trudeau masquerades as PM we’ll be in trouble.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Trudeau needed two calls to Trump to achieve what Mexico’s Sheinbaum did in one

It took Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum a single phone call to get Donald Trump to back off — at least temporarily — from his threat of tariffs.

Canada’s Justin Trudeau needed two.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Netanyahu and Trump meeting to focus on Gaza ceasefire deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected on Tuesday to become the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Donald Trump’s return to office.

The two leaders are set to discuss the state of the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Islamists in Gaza and explore paths toward ending the conflict altogether.

Prior to his arrival, Netanyahu’s office announced that he would dispatch a delegation to participate in a new round of negotiations in Doha, Qatar, later this week.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•Israel, USA

El Salvador offers to lock up US criminals in its mega-jail

El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its mega-jail.

The deal was announced after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele during his visit to the central American nation.

Bukele – whose iron-fist approach to gangs has won him plaudits from voters but been heavily criticised by human rights groups – said he had offered the US “the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•El Salvador, USA, WTF?

LILLEY: Trudeau gave Trump last-minute concessions to avoid tariffs

Why did it take so long?

Justin Trudeau got a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump on the 25% tariffs that were set to take effect, but only after a lot of drama, a drop in the stock market and the Canadian dollar dropping briefly into 67-cent territory.

Why so long? Because Canada’s China class along with Justin’s Khalistan pals made out like bandits.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 4, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Canada is only at the third stage of Trump tariff grief

Unless nothing changes, President Donald Trump’s threat of imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canada will come to fruition on Tuesday. Barring last-minute negotiations between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the two countries are heading for a trade war.

Canada is now in the early phases of what might be called the Seven Stages of Tariff Grief.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 3, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Early elections are the best solution to tariffs, says Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet

Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet believes that early elections remain the best way to negotiate with the Donald Trump administration, which has just carried out its threat to impose customs tariffs on Canada.

Blanchet said he had not changed his position regarding the possible overthrow of the Liberal government on March 24. According to him, elections “as quickly as possible” will allow for a new Parliament that will be able to negotiate “in a sustainable manner” with the United States.

Someone has to beat this idea into Trudeau’s head.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2025February 3, 2025•0•Canada, USA

All the shocking ways USAID spent your money

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars on some shocking expenditures.

USAID was established in 1961 to provide money made by Americans to help countries develop abroad.

However, the agency has been shuttered because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have found that the aid being doled out overseas often does not accomplish core U.S. missions, like expanding education and improving infrastructure.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 3, 2025•0•"Deep State", USA

The colonial ‘baby test’ fuelling Greenland’s independence fight

After years of discrimination the Inuit, the indigenous people of the Arctic who make up most of the population, could break away from Denmark

On a snowy hilltop overlooking a windswept bay in Nuuk, the tiny capital of Greenland, is a statue of the Christian missionary who led an expedition to colonise this vast island for Denmark in 1721. Three centuries on, after years of discrimination by Copenhagen against the local population, many Greenlanders wish that Hans Egede had never set sail.
Among the most vocal critics of Danish policies is Pele Broberg, the leader of Naleraq, an opposition party that is pushing hard for independence. “We have nothing in common with Denmark.

Nothing. We don’t have the same culture. We don’t have the same language. Nothing. What we have is systemic racism,” Broberg, a former foreign minister, said at his office in Greenland’s parliament, a small, two-storey building near Nuuk’s icy harbour.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 3, 2025•0•Denmark, Greenland, USA

The Trump shock: A trade war that will reshape North America

It didn’t take long for U.S. President Donald Trump to let slip that the 25-per-cent tariffs he imposed on Canada to demand action against fentanyl and migrants weren’t really about that.

On Saturday, he signed an executive order stating tariffs were needed to respond to a border emergency. On Sunday, he posted a blast on social media falsely claiming the U.S. is subsidizing Canada by hundreds of billions of dollars and it should become the 51st state.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 3, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Mexican drug cartels plan attacks on Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives to fight US crackdown

Mexican drug cartels are ordering their members to attack US Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives in a desperate bid to thwart the crackdown at the border, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post.

The alert, which cites social media posts and other sources, cautions federal agents “to remain cognizant of their surroundings at all times” in the face of the new threat.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 3, 2025•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Canada in Perilous Position After Trump Cuts Tariff Deal With Mexico

Some Canadian politicians previously suggested tossing Mexico from a three-nation trade agreement with the United States.

Canada found itself in a precarious position on Monday morning after Mexico cut a deal with President Trump to postpone tariffs in exchange for a major deployment of forces along the border between the two countries.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada spoke to President Trump on Monday morning but no such compromise was reached between the two. A senior Canadian government official with knowledge of the call said the situation was still in flux ahead of a second phone call between the two leaders scheduled for 3 p.m. Eastern, but did not express optimism that a compromise could be reached.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 3, 2025•0•Canada, Mexico, USA