Canada’s false new nationalism: Mark Carney is the quintessential Davos Man

During his 1969 visit to the United States, Canada’s then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau held a news conference at which he described his American hosts in a memorable analogy. “Living next to you”, he said, “is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt”.

The phrase “sleeping with an elephant” has come to define US-Canadian relations in the minds of many Canadians. But since President Trump launched his second term in the Oval Office, the elephant has been neither friendly nor even-tempered. In fact, its twitches and grunts have recently become more like angry kicks and menacing roars, especially with Trump’s imposition of a 25% tariff on most goods from Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Is China Weaponizing Christianity to Divide America?

By flooding TikTok with religious messages, China could be baiting a backlash. Progressives react with hostility, attacking Christianity as a dangerous ideology.

Christianity may be fading in America, but in 2024, it helped put Donald Trump back in the White House. Evangelicals, Catholics, and other Christian voters backed him in even greater numbers than before.

While Christianity is repressed at home, the CCP has weaponized religion for its own purposes abroad.

This fact, I suggest, is not lost on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Not being the United States is why Canada exists

The King should go to Ottawa and open parliament as a reminder to Trump who the head of state is

The news that the prime minister of Canada saw the King yesterday would not normally set the pulse racing, but we live in new times.

Let me go back a bit. As a young journalist in 1982, I remember being faintly perturbed by the Canada Act of that year. This “patriated” the Canadian Constitution, getting rid of the last vestiges of British power over Canadian affairs. It came into effect just after Argentina had invaded the Falkland Islands. I sensed it might be a bad idea.

The Act was perfectly logical, however. It was the final step in the emergence of Canada as an entirely independent country.

I think Charles would receive a warm reception but not overwhelming adulation. The Firm ain’t what it used to be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Adam Pankratz: Of course the Liberals would brag about cancelling their own carbon tax

“Mark Carney got it done.” Let those four words wash over you and savour them. Linger on their delicious cynicism. What, you might ask is so momentous the Liberal Party would tweet out these five words as though the Messiah once again walked the earth? Was it his crushing Liberal leadership win? No. Was it his swearing in to official become Canada’s 24th Prime Minister? Try again. No, it was his signing of an order to “cancel” the Carbon Tax, a move of self-absorbed political narcissism the likes of which we may never see again.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Christopher Caldwell: Trump Has a Point on Trade. But He Is Losing the Argument.

Journalists have always had a tendency to treat Donald Trump as a gold medalist in some kind of Olympics of Stupidity. But even for them, the trade war he has fitfully waged over the last two weeks has been dazzling in its illogic and arbitrariness. He has imposed tariffs, both on China and on his country’s nearest neighbors and closest allies. Then called them off. Then reimposed them.

Sowing ill will, repelling investors, decimating the 401(k) plans of those who once thought it was a good idea to vote for him, Trump appears to most newspapers readers as a mad king, or as the crazed naval captain Humphrey Bogart plays in The Caine Mutiny—someone from whom control ought to be wrested, and soon.

Interesting info  on the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency pro and con among other things.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

A banker like Mark Carney? Don’t the Liberals hate his type?

Remember when the Liberal Party of Canada loathed bankers? And bankers like Mark Carney thought politicians were “circus clowns”? Liberals don’t. They just elected Canada’s most famous banker, Mr. Carney, as their party’s Leader and now Prime Minister.

Mr. Carney did not just head two central banks. Before that he had proved himself as an investment banker toiling for 13 years at the golden temple of global investment banking, Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs, a bank known for its “extreme profitability and market prowess.” He parleyed that into success at the Bank of Canada and later, at the Bank of England, cutting the most unique path to Prime Minister in Canada’s history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Do Not Count on the Arabs to Rebuild Gaza or Help Palestinians

The Arab countries have finally come up with a plan for the Gaza Strip that aims to address the humanitarian crisis, restore essential services and rebuild. The $53 billion plan, announced in early March after an extraordinary meeting of the Arab League in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, did not come out of a genuine desire to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but as a counterproposal to US President Donald Trump’s vision of relocating the residents of Gaza and turning it into the Rivera of the Middle East.

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

Canada’s Carney says Trump must stop saying mean stuff before talks can begin

OTTAWA, March 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump must stop making “disrespectful” comments about Canada before the two countries can start serious talks about future ties, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday.

Trump, who is promising potentially crippling tariffs against imports from Canada, frequently muses about making the country the 51st U.S. state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Northwestern Ontario’s Ring of Fire central in U.S.-Canada trade war: experts

The Ring of Fire in northwestern Ontario has become a key figure in the battle to control critical minerals, which experts say is the heart of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada.

While a remote Ontario peat bog may not be the stage that first comes to mind when picturing the geopolitical conflict, the critical minerals beneath it are essential to renewable energy and digital technology.

Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire is a crescent-shaped mineral deposit that has been eyed as a critical source for Ontario’s burgeoning electric vehicle battery industry.

What “burgeoning electric vehicle battery industry”???

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA