In Canada’s Frozen North, With Canada’s Frozen Soldiers

Canadian soldiers transported M777 howitzers to the High Arctic to show their ability to fight in an increasingly contested part of the world. It did not go as planned.

Canada’s military ambitions in the Arctic hinged on a frozen door that wouldn’t open.

Hundreds of troops landing on an island in the High Arctic last month were confronted with wind chill temperatures of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit, frigid even by the area’s standards. The cold kept the locals in the Victoria Island hamlet of Cambridge Bay indoors, suffused the air with tiny ice crystals called diamond dust, and sealed a 30-foot-tall door at an airport hangar.

“It’s frozen,” said an air force detachment commander, “frozen shut.”

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No, MAGA Is Not Falling Apart Because a Few Podcasters Did Not Get Their Way

Oh no, the America First/MAGA coalition is completely falling apart because – and I want to make sure I’ve got this correct – Donald Trump has systematically destroyed a bunch of Third World semi-human pagan savages who have been murdering Americans for nearly 50 years before they could top a missile with a hot rock and nuke Philadelphia. Yeah, the coalition is gravely disappointed – but not in Trump. It’s disappointed that a small component of his coalition that, for reasons that remain elusive and probably involve extreme greed, a psychotic break, gross stupidity, and/or libertarianism, which is an amalgamation of all three, has decided to adopt views that are functionally identical to those of the damn communists. This is both inevitable and unsustainable.

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As Arctic Threats Rise, Canada May Need to Lean on the United States

For the past seven decades, Canada has been the junior partner in a military agreement with the United States to protect the Canadian Arctic.

The Canadian and American flags could be seen billowing at a distance in the all-white Arctic landscape — the Maple Leaf visibly lower than the Stars and Stripes.

The asymmetry had a simple explanation. Flags across Canada, including this one in the hamlet of Cambridge Bay in the Canadian High Arctic, were flying at half-staff to mourn the recent mass killing at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.

But its symbolism, however unintended, was a reminder of Canada’s increasingly uncomfortable situation in its Arctic region: Unable to defend it by itself, Canada remains dependent on the United States, whose president has repeatedly threatened to annex it, and who has also set his eyes on Canada’s Arctic neighbor, Greenland.

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The Son of Cuba Takes on the Last Communist Neighbor

Confirmed 99-0 and sworn in as the 72nd Secretary of State on January 21, 2025, the first Latino ever to hold the position, Marco Rubio pledged that every State Department decision would be governed by three questions: Does it make us stronger? Safer? More prosperous? That framework marks a return to the peace-through-strength paradigm that has consistently produced results when American leaders have had the conviction to enforce it. In a world still recovering from four years of Biden-Harris weakness and strategic retreat, Rubio’s Cuban-exile roots, legal training, and Senate-honed discipline position him to execute the most consequential foreign policy reset since the Cold War ended.

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How Well Do Americans Understand the Melting Pot?

Data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century show why certain immigrant groups assimilated—and offer lessons for today.

When Americans hear the term “melting pot,” they often think of New York City: tenement blocks, Ellis Island, the Lower East Side, a montage of pushcart vendors becoming small business owners. Our national mythology about assimilation is rooted in the urban and Northeastern experience, suggesting that large, multicultural cities best assimilated immigrants.

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Progressive Cranks the fastest growing US export to Canada despite tariff conflict

Progressive cranks in natural habitat

Dual citizens weigh Trump, taxes in decision to renounce U.S. citizenship

Ella Heyder is bracing for a breakup, even though she already moved out decades ago.

She’s contemplating cutting ties altogether with her home country, the United States of America, and President Donald Trump.

“I’m quite disturbed by what’s happening in the U.S. under Trump’s regime. It’s a fascist, imperialist regime,” Heyder said as she and others waved signs outside the American Embassy in Ottawa during what has become a twice-weekly protest against the current U.S. administration.

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ICE Agents Are Now Replacing TSA Workers Whom Democrats Defunded. Enjoy the Schadenfreude.

Donald Trump just dipsey-doodled the Democrats.

Only Trump can find leverage in the Democrats’ TSA defunding — turning those broke, unpaid TSA agents and the disastrously long lines at the nation’s airports into a teachable, brilliant, GOTCHA moment to behold. When Democrats figure out what hit them, they’ll be so tattooed with this disaster, even the leftist screechers will lead the effort to restore TSA funding.

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U.S. military aircraft using Canadian airspace to refuel en route to Middle East

American military aircraft have been using Canadian airspace to refuel on their way to the Middle East, backed by a long-standing NORAD agreement that does not require the U.S. to ask permission from Canada to do so.

On March 12, between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. ET, two KC-135T Stratotankers – large American refuelling aircraft – were observed overhead by residents of Moose Factory, Ont., along with several other aircraft, the make and model of which could not be identified from images captured by a resident of the town.

h/t Mauser

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Canadian companies could face big losses as change looms in Cuba

In Havana on Friday, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, argued that Canada should maintain the commercial relationship with Cuba that has made it the country’s largest foreign investor after Spain.

“Since 1972, it has maintained the largest flow of visitors to Cuba. It is an important relationship,” said de Cossío, who once served as Cuba’s ambassador in Ottawa.

“There are important trade relations. There is foreign investment…. Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect.”

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Cuba’s power grid collapses in third nationwide blackout amid US oil blockade

Cuba’s power grid collapsed on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a US-imposed oil blockade.

The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage.

The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.

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Americans Replacing Americans: Fleeing Diversity And Threatening Regional Identities

Mass immigration and internal flight are dissolving America’s historic state identities, replacing rooted communities with transient populations and accelerating cultural and political upheaval.

Prior to the era of post-1965 mass immigration, America was not a “diverse” country by modern standards. White and black Americans averaged 87 percent and 12 percent of the population, respectively, from the founding of Jamestown until the 1970s—more than 300 years of uninterrupted demographic stability. There was some internal diversity in the white American population, though this diversity was largely dealt with by rapid integration that often took less than a generation—two generations at most.

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HEINRICHS: ‘Drill baby drill’ vs. net zero — is Canada becoming America’s poor cousin?

According to the US government, climate change from man-made greenhouse gases is fake news. Lee Zeldin, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, brands it as nothing but “climate change religion,” while President Trump calls it a hoax and “perhaps the biggest scam in history.” The climate-change debate is dead and over — at least under one roof.

On this track, the US government is now shredding a tall stack of greenhouse-gas regulations. It’s being called the “single largest regulatory action in US history.”

(Incognito)

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Should Canada Support Cuba’s Ruthless Regime Asks Star?

As Cuba faces mounting crises, should Canada increase its foreign aid and should Ottawa support U.S. efforts to force a regime change?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Cuba — “friendly” or “not friendly” — have landed like a grenade in a debate Canadians thought they understood. For decades, Ottawa’s approach to Havana has been built on engagement, not confrontation. Now Washington is demanding a harder line, tightening sanctions, threatening tariffs on countries that ship oil to the island and dangling the prospect of regime change.

But within Canada, the choice is not simple. Most Canadians who follow Cuba closely agree the communist government has a dismal human-rights record and that ordinary Cubans are suffering. They disagree sharply on whether pressure and sanctions will liberate those Cubans — or bury them.


I doubt many Canadians are worrying about Cuba other than where to go for their next vacay.

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Sandalista lefties arrive in Cuba, sing ‘Guantamanera’ boarding the tour buses to go look at poor people

Some things I can’t unsee.

Such as the sight of left-wing Sandalista supporters of Cuba’s heinous communist regime, boarding red tour buses in Havana while singing ‘Guantamanera’ together like it’s ‘Day-O’ in Jamaica on a Caribbean Cruise line vacay and driving off to see the poor people.


Not to be outdone …

Marxist-Leninists urge Canadians to travel to Cuba despite fuel crisis

(Incognito)

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