‘Trump isn’t interested in making a deal’: Carney’s fraught path towards U.S. trade talks

After his first visit to the White House for a meeting with United States President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s path towards the start of Canada-U.S. negotiations to end the mounting trade war is murky with uncertainty.

Carney (Nepean, Ont.) and a small team of his cabinet ministers—International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, N.B.), Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Que.), and Public Safety Minister David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Ont.)—travelled to Washington, D.C., on May 5 where they held a much-anticipated meeting with Trump at the Oval Office on May 6.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Biden’s confused BBC interview was devastating for himself and Kamala Harris

The ex-president apparently believes he was just too successful to realise he should step back. He couldn’t even mention his VP’s name

Does Joe Biden blame his vice-president for losing the 2024 election to Donald Trump? He certainly doesn’t take any responsibility himself. And when it comes to Kamala Harris, he can’t even bring himself to say her name.

Biden sat down with the BBC’s Nick Robinson for his first full interview since leaving office. The 82-year-old ex-president was still able to speak pointedly about America’s foreign policy, warning of the dangers of appeasing Russia and abandoning Nato. But when Robinson asked Biden about dropping out of his re-election bid in mid-2024, he got tongue-tied.

Biden interview

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Senior Trump Official Credits President for ‘New Relationship’ With Canada

White House official Stephen Miller says U.S. President Donald Trump has helped to secure a new trade and defence relationship with Canada, following the first meeting between Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“President Trump has opened up a completely new relationship with Canada because of his strength and because of his diplomacy,” Miller said during an interview with Fox News on May 7.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers

Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.

Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.

There’s a quick way to spot before reading the text that this isn’t a program that would be run by any level of Canadian government.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cool Stuff"

Hong Kong Police Detain Relatives of Canadian Conservative Candidate Targeted by Liberal Party at behest of Beijing masters

Hong Kong Police Detain Relatives of Canadian Candidate Targeted by Beijing Election Interference

HONG KONG / OTTAWA — In a striking escalation of Beijing’s interference in Canada’s Parliament and its global campaign to silence dissent, Hong Kong police have reportedly detained and questioned relatives of former Conservative election candidate Joe Tay—who was targeted by aggressive Chinese cyber and ground operations during the recent federal campaign, according to The Bureau’s intelligence sources.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Iranian terror suspects ‘targeted Israeli embassy in London’

The Israeli embassy was the target of a terror plot linked to Iran, The Times has learnt.

A group of Iranian men are suspected of planning an atrocity at the embassy in Kensington, west London.

Counterterrorism officers, supported by the military, swooped in to make arrests at the weekend fearing that an attack was imminent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University

New York police have arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters after they occupied part of the main library at Columbia University on Wednesday.

Two university security officers were injured when protesters forced their way into Butler Library on Wednesday, according to a statement from the university president, who called activists’ actions “outrageous”.

… Rubio described the group as “trespassers and vandals”. He added that “pro-Hamas thugs are no longer welcome in our great nation”, echoing Trump’s justification for his recent crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus protests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

How Canada’s new prime minister plans to take down America and impose the Great Reset

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney is not your average political leader. He didn’t rise through the ranks of parliament or build his political clout through years of constituency work. He is an unelected central banker turned international power broker with deep ties to the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset movement and the ESG (Environmental, social and governance) agenda.

Some might say that his lack of political experience is a problem for Carney, but I disagree. While many of his country’s leaders were playing politics, Carney was working to transform the world through influential organizations and financial institutions. He was one of the Great Reset’s masterminds, and now, he’s more powerful than ever.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump announces Trade Deal with UK

Trump claims UK trade deal is ‘full and comprehensive’

Donald Trump said a new trade deal between the US and the UK is “full and comprehensive”.

The US president, who will unveil the deal at a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House at 3pm UK time, also said the agreement will “cement the relationship” between the two countries “for many years to come”.

Mr Trump posted on his Truth Social website: “The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Donald Trump humiliated Mark Carney

Donald Trump’s meeting with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney on Tuesday got off to a positive enough start. They greeted each other in a pleasant manner. Their handshake was cordial. They got down to business.

Before Carney arrived in Washington DC a few hysterical voices in the media had suggested that it was destined to turn into a confrontational shouting match. That was never likely. Yes, many Canadians are furious at Trump due to the ongoing tariff war. Yes, Carney played up this rhetoric during the election campaign. During his victory speech, he said Trump wanted to “break us, so that America can own us” and “that will never, ever happen”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA