While President Donald Trump prepares for G7 and NATO summits this month, political circles and media in Europe are busy trying to cut him down to size before the two events.
“Trump will come empty-handed,” says one commentator. “None of the things he announced with fanfare has been achieved.”
Other commentators use such phrases as “deflated balloon” and “bogged down in the mess he created.”
At first sight, it looks certain that he has not scored big on any of the dramatic goals he announced.
Ottawa’s foreign ministry said it erred when it issued a public statement Friday advising all Canadians in the Middle East to leave if possible as a conflict between Israel and Iran escalates.
Instead, it told Canadians to consult its travel advisories for individual countries in the region.
The Department of Global Affairs in a Saturday statement advised Canadians to keep abreast of its official travel advisories for specific countries and other areas in the region, which currently warn Canadians to “avoid all travel” to Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, as well as Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
The liberal media may thoroughly despise President Donald Trump, but they cannot deny his political clout. “Trump is the heart, soul and undisputed leader of the Republican Party,” Mike Allen wrote in Axios back in 2021.
After Trump’s 2024 election victory, Time magazine admitted the President-elect was “the world’s most powerful man,” selecting him (for the second time) as their Person of the Year. “He has realigned American politics, remaking the GOP and leaving Democrats reckoning with what went awry,” pronounced senior political correspondent Eric Cortellessa.
Former MP Han Dong has settled his defamation lawsuit against Global News, according to a statement posted to the news organization’s website, closing a two-year legal battle that came after the outlet published an article alleging he advised a Chinese diplomat to hold off on freeing two Canadians who were detained in China at the time.
On Sunday morning, Global published a statement on its website that said it and “former MP Han Dong have settled Mr. Dong’s lawsuit concerning Global News stories that reported on allegations about Mr. Dong.”
The delicacy is being sold on the black market in France. Some think the ban is an attempt to ‘keep down’ the country’s Muslim immigrants
Customs agents in Marseilles were jubilant when they pried open a shipping container to find nine tonnes of contraband substance.
The illicit goods were not, however, drugs or cigarettes, but 15,300 jars of sticky hazelnut spread.
The port seizure in May was part of a campaign by the authorities to bar El Mordjene, a sweet Algerian spread that enjoyed explosive success last year thanks to a craze propelled by TikTok and Instagram.
Mona Ghassemi, president of the Iranian Canadian Congress, was at home in Montreal when she first heard about the Israeli strikes in Iran early Friday. She called her mother, learning her aunt and cousin in Iran awakened to the sounds of nearby missile blasts but were unharmed.
“Residential buildings were hit, and there were children among the killed. So this, of course, is very devastating,” Ms. Ghassemi said.
The Israeli military attack is reverberating 10,000 kilometres away as the Iranian diaspora in Canada reels from the sudden escalation of a long-simmering conflict.
No true Iranian … which voices is the Globe with?
Deliver what? A few missiles? Your senior commanders are dead, and Tehran is burning. And we’re only warming up.
Am Israel Chai dipshit https://t.co/yvrWDfBytv pic.twitter.com/N0wYTqApzU
— Cheryl E ️ (@CherylWroteIt) June 15, 2025
The manhunt for Vance Boelter, 57, the suspect in the Minnesota shootings that left two lawmakers shot and two others dead, took a new turn Saturday as law enforcement detained several of his relatives—including his wife—during a traffic stop in Mille Lacs County.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/qpAlE3W3mv
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) June 15, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
I grew up swathed in antisemitism in 1940s Toronto. We Jewish kids on the block knew which stores we shouldn’t enter, which areas of Toronto were dangerous (Beaches!), how to defend ourselves in the schoolyard around Christmas and Easter, when our ears burned at the taunt of “Jews killed Jesus!” We cowered … as a tiny minority in our public school … when the principal threatened us with the strap for not praying to Jesus, and when the music teacher told us that Jewish students were not allowed to sing in his class. We had to mouth the words.
If Israel were to cease to exist would the Mohammedans suddenly become peaceful Jew loving neighbors?
It was little things that made me fall in love with Britain. You didn’t have to count your change in shops. You almost never saw private security guards. You could drink from the tap. You could flick a switch and the light would actually come on.
You could get into a taxi, confident, not only that you wouldn’t be mugged, but that you’d be driven by the shortest route and charged the correct fare. If you stopped at a red light, you would not have every car behind you hooting in fury. You could send valuables by post.
Arriving as a seven-year-old from Peru, I felt a glow of wonder at these things that, even now, has not entirely left me. I thought then, and I still think, that people who have grown up in this country are unconscionably blasé about what made it special.
☪️ Shakeel Afsar, founder of the Islamic Independent Candidates Alliance openly declaring that they "are here to takeover".
When fifth columnists tell you who are they are, believe them! pic.twitter.com/F7wiUeIusR
— Jonathan Wong (@WGthink) June 15, 2025
The beautiful London that we knew and visited many times in past no longer exists. True apocalypse. pic.twitter.com/L0bQeA9mwU
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) June 12, 2025
If you remember anything at all about last year’s Group of Seven summit, chances are it involves neither the location of the annual gathering of the leaders of the world’s advanced industrialized democracies nor the contents of the meeting’s final communiqué.
Coverage of the summit held in Italy’s Apulia region was dominated by viral videos that appeared to show then U.S. president Joe Biden wandering off as other G7 leaders watched a skydiving demonstration. The videos were dismissed at the time by Mr. Biden’s press secretary as “cheap fakes.” But they would end up playing a role in the 46th U.S. president’s downfall. Only days after the summit, Mr. Biden delivered the catastrophic debate performance against Donald Trump that would lead to his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.
Spurred by Donald Trump’s push for industrial reshoring, Chinese robot manufacturers are aiming to enter into the American market.
Produced in large numbers and at relatively low cost by Chinese firms, these industrial robots would first take on menial logistics tasks, potentially paving the way for more advanced humanoid successors.
But this influx of Chinese robots might come with a catch: the harvesting of factories’ sensitive data. So warned a rival American executive, who said this week that high-end industrial robots are able to collect “massive amounts” of data and intellectual property. Daniel Diez, the chief business officer of Agility Robotics, warned that a walking robot equipped with depth-sensitive cameras would pose enough of a privacy risk that American and European buyers might reject them.
Amid the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and Canada, Canadians should bear in mind that U.S. President Donald Trump is “a showman before he’s a statesman,” former prime minister Joe Clark says.
The leaders of the world’s most advanced economies are descending on Kananaskis, Alta. for the G7 summit this week, with Trump expected to attend.
Ahead of the gathering in Alberta, CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos asked Clark what’s been going through his mind in recent months as Trump has levied sweeping tariffs and frequently threatened to annex Canada.
Joe Who? Oh yea I remember that guy.
A pilot who regularly captained the same Air India Boeing 787 that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing all but one of the 242 people on board, has theorized what could have caused the fatal incident.
Speaking to the Indian news service NDTV, Captain Rakesh Rai said that his analysis of the video footage of the plane during takeoff suggests something went wrong as the plane climbed to an altitude of 400 to 500 feet.
“Here, what you see is the undercarriage has not been retracted at all,” Rai said. “That raises a lot of questions.”
This is interesting and based on the original clearer footage.
Why the RAT Changes Everything – Air India 171 Update
Stephen Buffalo is a very constructive guy. He’s a man who seeks solutions, and he’s open to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ambitious nation-building campaign. He also wants Carney and all Canadians to understand, though: Indigenous consent to these projects has a price tag.
“Give us a chance to make our own wealth,” says Stephen, long-time advocate for First Nations’ economic development and member of the Samson Cree Nation from Maskwacis, Alta.
One church is being burned every week in the Muslim world in an “alarming” campaign of Christian persecution, a British charity has warned.
More than 85,000 Christians were targeted in the last year alone, according to Help the Persecuted (HTP), while places of worship are torched “on a weekly basis”.
The charity operates in 15 Islamic countries hostile to Christians, deploying indigenous field teams who understand local political and religious climates to help them find safety.
