Should Canadians be prepared for the United States to use military coercion to achieve its goals?
Economic coercion is the more viable choice for President Donald Trump if he presses his objectives in Canada, since he has the means to apply that pressure without the unpopular move of sending in troops, said University of Windsor political science Prof. Jamey Essex
In the year since US President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term, he has brought with him significant global shifts.
Like many countries, Canada – America’s closest neighbour to the north – has felt the impact and seen a change in the long-standing relationship with its close security ally and trading partner.
Trump has imposed tariffs on several key Canadian sectors and has warned of more to come. He has also referred to Canada as “the 51st state” — a jab that has been met with a mix of anxiety and an uncharactaristically fierce display of patriotism.
🤯 “China quietly mobilized thousands of fishing boats twice in recent weeks to form massive floating barriers of at least 200 miles long, showing a new level of coordination that could give Beijing more ways to impose control in contested seas. The two recent operations unfolded… pic.twitter.com/jTvEQmsDJV
— Michael Kovrig (@MichaelKovrig) January 17, 2026
The president has intensified his criticism of Canada in private conversations with aides in recent weeks over what he sees as the country’s vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is privately ramping up his focus on another target in the Western Hemisphere, increasingly complaining to aides in recent weeks about Canada’s vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic, according to two U.S. officials, a senior administration official and three former senior U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.
As Trump’s advisers work toward his goal of acquiring Greenland, the president has privately grown more exercised about what he sees as Canada’s similar inability to defend its borders against any encroachment from Russia or China, specifically arguing Canada needs to spend more on defense, the officials said. They said his push has accelerated internal discussions about a broader Arctic strategy and potentially reaching an agreement with Canada this year to fortify its northern border.
The violent cavalcade of events in Iran is starting to reveal the new range of aggressive-responsive policy options that U.S. President Donald Trump has developed to replace the obsolete concept of most of his recent predecessors. For 80 years from 1941 the basic framework was defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt in two addresses he gave at the beginning and end of that year in the Congress. In the State of the Union message in January, he warned against those who, “With sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal would preach the ‘ism’ of appeasement.”
OMG! Brilliant! 🤣
pic.twitter.com/K4gvWJFsXo— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) January 17, 2026
The White House was conducting back-channel communications with Venezuela’s hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the US operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and has been in communication with him since then, according to Reuters, citing multiple government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
h/t handy n handsome
President Trump’s overtures to Greenland might have shocked Denmark, but they certainly haven’t shocked historians of American territorial ambition. Talking about the rendition of President Maduro, Trump called it an example of the “Donroe Doctrine”: a repurposing of the 1823 “Monroe Doctrine” which had declared the Western Hemisphere closed to European interference. It meant that the United States of America, independent for less than a generation, would be the boss of its own backyard. Trump’s interest in Greenland is merely an extension of this.
Benjamin Netanyahu has objected to Donald Trump’s appointments to a board which will oversee the rebuilding of Gaza.
The White House has started to unveil administrators who will supervise the Strip as part of the second phase of his peace deal, including Sir Tony Blair, White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The “executive board” will oversee the postwar management of the enclave with the “board of peace”, which will be chaired by Mr Trump and other world leaders who are expected to be announced at Davos next week.
How far did Minneapolis and Minnesota go in urging Americans to abandon their values and accept Somali Muslim ‘cultural values’?
A report from the Hennepin County Medical Center that was posted on the Minneapolis Minnesota Department of Health site was titled “caring for women affected by female genital cutting” or FGM, a Muslim practice common among Somalis of mutilating the genital areas of young girls, “Striving for Health Equity’
Once again, protests fill the headlines all over the country. People sometimes claim that protestors are people without jobs, without values, and without direction. But protesting is much more complex than just those factors. And much more difficult to suppress than some people might think.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is selling out to China, and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is loving it.
Over the past few days, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been in China in an open attempt to pivot to China and spurn Canada’s relationship with the United States. In a jubilant press release on Friday, the prime minister’s office declared that Carney is “forg[ing] [a] new strategic partnership with the People’s Republic of China.” The government went on to repeatedly tout this “new strategic partnership,” framing the relationship as entirely overhauled.
Further, Carney announced that Canada is dropping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles from 100 percent to 6.1 percent, opening the door to importing cheap Chinese cars (heavily subsidized by the communist government) that promise to sink the Canadian car industry. That decision signals a major break from Canada’s previously united stance with the U.S. against such vehicles.
The Jan. 7 shooting death of Renee Good has become a political Rorschach test. A Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday finds that a majority of American voters, 53%, believe ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot Good on a Minneapolis street last Wednesday, was not justified in doing so. Thirty-five percent believe the shooting was justified, while 12% have no opinion. But the poll results vary widely when the respondents’ political affiliations are examined. Seventy-seven percent of Republicans believe the shooting was justified, while 28% of independents and only four percent of Democrats hold the same opinion.
🚨 BREAKING: ICE agents are making early-morning ARRESTS in Minneapolis, working unobstructed because the Left was still asleep
BOOM! That’s how it’s done!
Show up at the crack of dawn, they didn’t expect that! 🔥🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/DqfVUx3IMK
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 17, 2026
More than one million Chinese with U.S. citizenship who grew up in communist China will soon start voting in American elections, #1 New York Times bestselling investigative journalist and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.
In his explosive new book, Schweizer details how Chinese elites have exploited America’s birthright citizenship policies by engaging in a practice known as birth tourism, whereby Chinese mothers intentionally travel to the United States give birth on American soil so that their newborn children will automatically be granted U.S. citizenship.
Canada’s latest defence policy warns of Chinese and Russian ambitions in the Arctic and says China’s interests “increasingly diverge from our own on matters of defence and security.”
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he found “much alignment” between his views on Greenland’s sovereignty and those of Chinese President Xi Jinping in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats against the territory.
“I had discussions with President Xi about the situation in Greenland, about our sovereignty in the Arctic, about the sovereignty of the people of Greenland and people of Denmark, and I found much alignment of views in that regard,” Carney said at a press conference in Beijing.
It’d be over so fast people would go to sleep Canadians and wake up Americans pic.twitter.com/u5OFnDboSP
— Creet.sol (@ConcreteXCrypto) January 17, 2026
The Monroe Doctrine doesn't just apply to Central and South America, it also includes Canada.
The Trump admin must expel Chinese influence from our hemisphere. https://t.co/cXJv8w7Ivz pic.twitter.com/vc9KdK5s11
— 🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 (@MericaCulture) January 16, 2026
Donald Trump has announced tariffs on the UK and other European countries for their opposition to a US takeover of Greenland.
The US president posted on Truth Social on Saturday that a 10 per cent tariff on all goods sent to the US would be imposed from Feb 1 on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, before being increased to 25 per cent on June 1.
He accused the countries of creating a “very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet” after they sent a small contingent of troops to Greenland to help Denmark prepare military exercises.
