Many Elbow Cranks have avoided the U.S. for over a year. Have we reached the point of no return?

Many Elbow Cranks have avoided the U.S. for over a year. Have we reached the point of no return?

Many Canadians have avoided the U.S. for over a year. Have we reached the point of no return?

Fredericton landscape painter Bruce Newman used to be a frequent visitor to the United States. Up to a dozen times a year, he’d travel to the country to vacation with his wife, meet up with fellow artists or capture picturesque landscapes on canvas.

But those visits abruptly ended early last year, when U.S. President Donald Trump started a trade war with Canada and suggested the country should become the 51st state.

Newman says recent events in Minnesota, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers clashed with protesters, further reinforced his resolve.


Elbow Cranks supporting illegal alien criminals in Canada on CBC!

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Falklanders should go back to England, says Argentina’s vice-president

Falklanders should go back to England, says Argentina’s vice-president

Falkland islanders should go back to England, Argentina’s vice-president said after Buenos Aires renewed its claim to the British overseas territory.

Argentina’s claim to what it calls the Malvinas was boosted when Donald Trump threatened to review the official US position on the islands after the UK did not join his war on Iran.

Javier Milei, Argentina’s president and a close ally of Mr Trump, said last week that the “the Malvinas were, are and will always be Argentine”.

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Canada’s Mark Carney, world leaders decry ‘political violence’ following D.C. press gala shooting

World leaders expressed shock after a shooter charged a glitzy media gala in Washington on Saturday night attended by U.S. President Donald Trump — and relief that there were no casualties.

U.S. law enforcement said the sole suspect, armed with “a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives,” has been detained and will face charges Monday in federal court.

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The assassin who murdered my friend said I would be next… the SPLC gave them a ‘hit list’ to make their hunt easier. Now, I’m finally getting my revenge: AYAAN HIRSI ALI

The assassin who murdered my friend said I would be next… the SPLC gave them a ‘hit list’ to make their hunt easier. Now, I’m finally getting my revenge: AYAAN HIRSI ALI

In October 2016, at the height of the Islamist terror wave that had already claimed my friend Theo van Gogh, the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, the Bataclan concertgoers in Paris and the patrons of a Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the Southern Poverty Law Center sat down in its offices in Montgomery, Alabama, and published a document called ‘A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.’

My name was on it.

So were activists Maajid Nawaz, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz and a dozen others whose only alleged sin was insisting that Islam, like every other tradition of ideas, should be subject to criticism, reform and public debate.

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Liberals must show results in spring economic update: former PBO

Liberals must show results in spring economic update: former PBO

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney will be under pressure to show results from his economic agenda when his government tables an update to its fiscal outlook on Tuesday.

The spring economic statement comes one year to the day after the party secured a minority mandate in the federal election, a fourth win for the Liberals in a row, but the first under Carney.

It also comes the same week three new Liberal MPs are expected to be sworn into office, officially giving Carney’s government majority status.

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Syrian Migrant Held in France Over Torture, Killings Allegations

Syrian Migrant Held in France Over Torture, Killings Allegations

A Syrian man has been placed in pre-trial detention in Paris on suspicion of complicity in crimes against humanity linked to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, French prosecutors said.

The 34-year-old, who had been living in France for several years, is accused of involvement in abuses committed between March 2011 and December 2015 during the early phase of the Syrian civil war. Allegations include unlawful killings, arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, and other inhumane acts.

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Carney to announce sovereign wealth fund … for Brookfield and his family

Carney to announce sovereign wealth fund … for Brookfield and his family

Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce plans to create a sovereign wealth fund Monday, a day ahead of the spring economic statement, according to a senior government official.

The fund will be used to invest alongside the private sector in major projects that the Carney government has committed to building over the coming years, and the government also plans to create a way for individual Canadians to contribute, the official said.

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Germany’s military expansion won’t convince young people to enlist

Germany’s military expansion won’t convince young people to enlist

Germany has unveiled its first military strategy since the Second World War, and it’s certainly ambitious. By 2039, Berlin wants to command the strongest army in Europe, with a total of 460,000 combat-ready troops. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius argues that this is a historic turning point, and he’s right. But the national effort he’s asking for requires a change in the national attitude toward war, which may be much harder to achieve.

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Conrad Black: How Trump can defang Iran

Conrad Black: How Trump can defang Iran

The Iran war is now in an artificial stasis, in which practically all of the vast international coalition of people who are repelled and horrified by U.S. President Donald Trump, in the United States and elsewhere, have reflexively bought into the Iranian claim that since that ghastly regime has ostensibly survived, Iran is winning the war.

This is a false conception. This has been the most one-sided war between serious combatants in modern history. Iran has been deprived of much of its military capacity, including related defence production, and is now being tightly blockaded by sea. American casualties have been minimal.

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Auto industry warns China EV tariff concession risks Canadian jobs and investment

Auto industry warns China EV tariff concession risks Canadian jobs and investment

Canada’s auto sector is warning that a federal decision to ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles could undermine domestic manufacturing and weaken North American supply chains, as executives say the policy puts Canadian jobs at risk.

The concerns were raised at a Commons science committee hearing after cabinet approved a quota allowing up to 49,000 Chinese-made battery electric vehicles into the Canadian market this year at reduced tariff levels, with the cap set to increase by 6.5% annually.

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Trump-haters wonder why he would be an assassination target

Trump-haters wonder why he would be an assassination target

A TEACHER from California has been arrested after shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where President Trump was guest of honour early today. The President and his wife were unhurt; one Secret Service agent was shot at close range but was saved by his bullet-proof vest. You can read about developments here. Meanwhile . . .

MAINSTREAM media and politicians throughout the Western world who insist on calling Trump a fascist, a dictator, a threat to democracy, and literally Hitler, declared a three-hour moratorium on insulting him before they raced to try to escape any responsibility.

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Parliament’s Ethics Committee Calls on Carney to Sell Brookfield Stakes, Citing Reporting From The Bureau on His China Business Ties and CCP Official Meetings

Parliament’s Ethics Committee Calls on Carney to Sell Brookfield Stakes, Citing Reporting From The Bureau on His China Business Ties and CCP Official Meetings

OTTAWA — A landmark parliamentary ethics report recommends that Prime Minister Mark Carney — and all future prime ministers — be required to sell their investments within 60 days of taking office, while citing this reporter’s testimony on The Bureau‘s reporting into Carney’s China-linked business exposure and high-level Chinese Communist Party official visits.

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