Ontario Premier Doug Ford is vowing to “onshore every single widget we can” after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would double tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Ford made the comment during a media availability in Saskatoon on Monday, where he was scheduled to participate in a first minister’s meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney and his provincial and territorial counterparts.
h/t Mauser
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that involves whether possessing AR-15s is protected by the Second Amendment, but the court’s conservatives are signaling they soon will.
Only three justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — voted to hear a challenge to Maryland’s ban on possessing AR-15s, barely falling short of the four votes required to take up a case.
But Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent a strong signal that he will provide that crucial fourth vote in a future case once the issue percolates more in the lower courts.
Maybe Schitt’s Creek, which aired on CBC but also streamed on Netflix, comes to mind. Perhaps some iteration of Anne of Green Gables. Or maybe a classic David Cronenberg flick like Dead Ringers? These are all considered to be CanCon — shorthand for Canadian content, it refers to film and television productions made in Canada by Canadians.
But maybe you have a favourite show like CBS’s Tracker, which airs on Global TV in Canada. It’s one of the most watched shows on broadcast and streaming according to the Nielsen ratings, a U.S.-based audience measurement system. It’s filmed in British Columbia and employs Canadians, but it’s not considered CanCon.
Russia offered Ukraine a limited ceasefire to collect the bodies of soldiers from the battlefield, Moscow’s lead negotiator said after today’s peace talks in Istanbul.
Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to Vladimir Putin, said the truce would be for “two to three days in certain areas of the front line…so that commanders can collect the bodies”.
It is not yet clear if Ukraine has agreed to the proposal. Russia has previously announced limited ceasefires, but Kyiv is pushing for a full and unconditional truce.
Toronto man on release order accused of removing GPS ankle bracelet
Toronto Police officers are hunting an alleged thief who’s accused of removing his GPS ankle bracelet and violating terms of a custody release order.
Ontario would give a bracelet to Charles Manson, well maybe not he was white.
A Republican senator has been criticised for mocking the climate activist Greta Thunberg after she and others set sail with aid to Gaza.
“Hope Greta and her friends can swim!” Lindsey Graham wrote in a message on X. The post, which accompanied a news report on the flotilla departing from the port of Catania, Sicily, with “symbolic aid” for Gaza, was condemned by social media users and activists. Liam Cunningham, who played Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones, is also on board.
SASKATOON, Sask. — Pushing for an oil pipeline to be on the first list of major projects to be fast-tracked by the federal government is about more than mounting “just an ideological argument,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said at the opening of a meeting between premiers and the prime minister on Monday.
Speaking to reporters on her way into the First Ministers’ Meeting in Saskatoon, Smith expressed hope other premiers would rally around her desire to see a pipeline built carrying Alberta bitumen to the coast of British Columbia.
Amid a rise in militant Muslim fundamentalism, French facilities for vulnerable children appear to be deliberately targeted by Islamist recruiters, who see them as perfect candidates for radicalisation.
This concern comes after reports highlighting other numerous shortcomings of the child welfare services: children are abused, addicted to drugs, or involved in prostitution rings.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant shift in parental views on vaccination, with approximately half of parents surveyed citing concerns about vaccine side effects, a government report suggests.
The report from the Public Health Agency of Canada on vaccine uptake said the pandemic “yielded a large shift in Canadians’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards vaccinations.”
Westerners saw it coming but Canada was shocked when support for provincial independence exploded, after Eastern Canada chose to reward the Liberals with a larger government in the general election.
At first, federalists dismissed the provincial sovereignty movement as a fringe minority of loud cranks. They were confident it was little more than a collection of vocal malcontents on social media and there was little of substance to the movement.
On Sunday, a suspected radical illegal alien from Egypt allegedly burned several peaceful demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, while shouting, “Free Palestine.”
The suspect, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, entered the United States under the Biden administration but overstayed his visa, Fox News reported. Soliman was supposed to leave the country on Feb. 2, 2023, but the Biden administration granted him a work permit that lasted until March 2025, according to the report.
I ordinarily ignore the historical anniversary, so often a peg for lazy journalistic filler. But the events of five years ago have been so consequential that a spot of reflection is in order.
One of the stated goals of the Carney government is to rejigger Canada’s various military relationships. After decades of reflexively going along with the United States on defence issues, the Liberals are signalling a plan to make nice with Europe.
This week’s speech from the throne stated that Canada will be joining “ReArm Europe,” a massive planned buildup of the continent’s military strength, largely as a check against Russia.
But as Canada strikes out to make new friends, these new allies may encounter a Canadian military that is slightly different than what they remember. Even for Western militaries that have embraced nostrums of equity and inclusion, in many ways Canada has gone further than all of them.
Sorry, but in MAGA America we don’t negotiate with subversives and terrorists.
Remember when The Wall Street Journal generally held respectably conservative opinions? Good times. But a recent opinion piece – “The Alienated ‘Knowledge Class’ Could Turn Violent” – betrays a curiously Left-wing argument that smells suspiciously of blackmail.
The article’s fear-mongering teaser line reads, “Societies that exile their intellectuals risk turning them into revolutionaries. It happened in the 1970s.” Jukka Savolainen, a professor of sociology at Wayne State University, begins his piece by noting that violent Left-wing radicals of the ‘70s such as the Weather Underground in the U.S., West Germany’s Red Army Faction, and Italy’s Red Brigades were composed largely not of “the oppressed proletariat of Marxist theory, but the disillusioned children of privilege and university lecture halls.” He writes that the radicalization of such academic domestic terrorists (my label, not his) as Barack Obama mentor Bill Ayers and his literal partner-in-crime Bernardine Dohrn “stemmed not from poverty but from moral outrage and estrangement from institutional power.”
It’s baaaaaaccccckkkkk! What am I talking about? Woke Subliminal advertising keeps trying to socially engineer the land of the free and the home of the unsuspecting (brave). What is subliminal advertising?
According to Google’s AI, subliminal advertising is a technique where marketers use visual or auditory stimuli that are below the conscious threshold of perception to influence consumer behavior. It’s designed to subtly affect attitudes and desires without the consumer being aware they’re being manipulated.
