Who Controls the ‘World Ocean’ Commands the World

US Carrier Group – Strait of Hormuz

In a previous article in The American Spectator, I asked: “Are we at the end of American maritime hegemony?” The article noted the concern expressed by two naval experts that our diminished shipbuilding capacity was endangering our maritime supremacy. I noted that in his much-overlooked book Britain and the British Seas, the great geopolitical thinker Sir Halford Mackinder wrote that “the unity of the ocean is the simple physical fact underlying the dominant value of sea-power in the modern globe-wide world.”

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Standing up for supply management is not standing up for Canadians

What do you call a Canadian political leader, in the age of Trump, who seems to put their own interests “ahead of the country” in the matter of Canada-U.S. relations?

It depends on the province, and it depends on its particular interests. If you’re Premier Danielle Smith in Alberta, and the particular interest is oil and gas, and you really lean into it — “Our province is no longer agreeable to subsidizing other large provinces who are fully capable of funding themselves,” she said last month — you get called a traitor and a quisling.

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Pierre Poilievre says willingness to quickly drop problematic candidates sets him apart from Mark Carney

OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has rebuffed criticisms of his party’s vetting process after he dropped four candidates in less than 48 hours.

Instead, the Conservative leader said he was better than Liberal Leader Mark Carney at handling situations involving controversial candidates because he has responded to concerning allegations more quickly.

“Our vetting process is stronger than all the other parties. That’s why we have a zero tolerance for anyone who acts unacceptably,” Poilievre said at a news conference in Kingston.


Half the LPC caucus could be thrown out for this …

Liberals drop Edmonton candidate who praised Hamas, Hezbollah in video

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Well, Lookie Here: Congresswoman and Harvard Prof Are Caught Planning Massive Anti-Trump Riots?

We now know the names of the people leading the “resistance” against President Donald Trump and the attacks on Elon Musk. They occupy the highest levels of Congress and the pinnacle of the Ivy League. They’ve called for more attacks against Tesla and are leading “resistance” training to get more of it on the streets. Just like they did in 2017, leading to the Summer of Love.

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LILLEY: Carney tells another fib – the man can’t recognize the truth

Mark Carney’s sales pitch to Canadians is that he is an economist and the man who saved two economies in crisis.

But his claims don’t really live up to scrutiny, including a claim that he made on Thursday while responding to Trump’s latest tariffs.


I get a sense that Carney believes his honeymoon is permanent and Canadians will uncritically eat any shit he offers.

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Anti-Israel protesters block access to McGill University buildings, disrupt classes

Professors moved classes online and protesters blocked access to classrooms at McGill University this week as a three-day student strike kicked off.

“Anti-Israel protesters are physically blocking access to lecture halls inside the Bronfman building and disrupting classes, preventing fellow students from accessing their right to education,” wrote the pro-Israel advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada on X on Wednesday.

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Britain is lurching towards civil war, and nobody knows how to stop it

I now fear Britain is heading for open sectarian conflict, possibly war, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Here’s a snapshot of what I’m hearing.

On one night in Westminster, I met someone who argued for voluntary repatriation, two generations back; a Labour activist told me we must “re-educate” Muslims; and Jacob Rees-Mogg, debating me on

GB News, said Britain should take “zero” refugees. I spluttered a reply about the good Samaritan and staggered off to bed, confused and depressed.

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Crisis for Canadian Jewry

… At the eye of the storm is the Liberal Party of Canada and its new leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney. Many would argue that in the past decade, the Liberal government under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau increasingly empowered antisemitic elements. In the name of “diversity”, “equity” and “inclusion”, it has encouraged extreme radical ideologies and runaway antisemitism. It has failed to act decisively against imams who call for the shedding of Jewish blood. It has ignored incitement on university campuses, tolerated the spread of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish libels and defamation through public broadcasters that it funds. In the process, it has encouraged antisemitic opinions to intensify and be legitimized.

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American tourist arrested in India for attempting to contact Sentinelese tribe

An American tourist who attempted to make contact with an isolated tribe while bearing gifts of Diet Coke and coconuts has been arrested in India.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, travelled for nine hours in a small inflatable boat with an outboard motor in order to reach North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean.

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Carney pledges $150M of your money to buy fealty with ‘underfunded’ CBC

Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.

“When we compare ourselves to the U.K., France or Germany, we see that our public broadcaster is underfunded,” Carney said in French during a campaign stop in Montreal. “That has to change.”

That initial funding top-up could rise, Carney said.

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How Trump is planning to woo Greenland with an offer it cannot refuse

It is the offer that Greenland cannot refuse — or will be too scared to say no to.

Donald Trump is reportedly costing up the price of taking over Greenland and planning to offer more cash than Denmark.

White House advisers are said to be working on an estimate of what it would cost to provide government services for the 58,000 residents on the autonomous territory within Denmark’s kingdom.

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Smith slams those exploiting Canadians for electoral gain by ginning up a brawl with the U.S.

Bell: Smith slams those whipping up Canadians for a brawl with the U.S.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is not shutting up because people who call her a traitor want her to shut up.

On Thursday, Smith has something more to say to Albertans and the rest of Canada.

“Rhetoric that amps up Canadians to encourage a brawl with our biggest trading partner is irresponsible and will hurt Canadians and their businesses.”

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Prince Andrew and alleged Chinese spy prepare for more court disclosures

More documents about the relationship between Prince Andrew and an alleged Chinese agent of influence are being released to BBC News on Friday.

The court papers about Yang Tengbo’s alleged activities in the UK are becoming public after a legal battle including other media outlets for more transparency in the semi-secret case.

Mr Yang has been banned from the UK on national security grounds after the home secretary concluded that he may have been trying to exert influence on the Duke of York.

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