Ontario Premier Doug Ford followed up his bellicose threats on energy exports this week by quickly retreating, demonstrating the limits of electron diplomacy.
When he first announced a 25-per-cent surcharge on electricity exported to the United States, Mr. Ford said it would remain in place indefinitely. If the U.S. escalated, he would halt transfers completely. “Until the threat of tariffs is gone for good, Ontario won’t back down,” he declared on Monday.
Top fashion models face being hauled into court over a risqué fashion show in the mountains of Muslim Kashmir.
Scantily dressed male and female models in bikinis, pants and fitted ski-wear strutted on a snow-covered catwalk for a fashion show involving the Indian arm of Elle magazine.
The show by Shivan & Narresh, the well-known fashion brand, was held last Friday at Gulmarg, one of India’s top ski resorts.
HE’S DOING IT: Trump declares Biden’s pardons of J6 committee members “VOID, VACANT,” and no longer in effect because they used Autopen.
“Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them.”
This is MAJOR. If and when this gets taken up in… pic.twitter.com/IgILRFnOZS
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 17, 2025
h/t XC
Two European politicians, dressed symbolically in red and white, sent a message last week to Canada on social media declaring “we’ve got your back”.
Also signalling support was King Charles, who planted a red maple tree on the grounds of Buckingham Palace and wore his Canadian medals during a high-profile visit to a naval warship.
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Paris before heading to London on Monday – a day after his 60th birthday – for his first foreign visit hoping to achieve more than symbolic encouragement. He wants solid support from allies.
This article makes you think the BBC is a Katie Telford Shitstrainer.
St. Patrick was a Christian and is a Christian Saint and traditional day – so of course the Antifa-Muslim coalition is attacking everything associated with St Patrick’s Day. https://t.co/YgRKCXMTwT
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) March 17, 2025
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will speak in coming days, as talks continue over a possible ceasefire in the three-year war in Ukraine.
US envoy Steve Witkoff, who met with Putin on Thursday in Moscow, told CNN that he expected that “there will be a call with both presidents this week”.
“We’re also continuing to engage and have conversation with the Ukrainians,” he added. “We’re advising them on everything we’re thinking about.”
Mark Carney’s first act as a prime minister of Canada was to lie to the Canadian people. That may seem like a bold allegation, but there are no two ways about it.
Carney held a cabinet meeting, invited the TV cameras in and held a Trump-style executive order signing that was nothing but a charade.
The Duke of Sussex’s immigration files must be made public by Tuesday, a court has ruled.
Judge Nichols ordered the release of documents relating to the Duke of Sussex’s US visa application as part of an ongoing freedom of information (FOI) request brought by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank based in Washington DC.
On Monday at an energy conference in Houston, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s “irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens.”
He added that, “Natural gas is responsible for 43 per cent of U.S. electricity production,” and beyond the obvious scale and cost problems, there’s “simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas.”
In other words, as a federal election looms, once again the United States is diverging from Canada when it comes to energy policy.
Ooh, Canada!
Some Canucks are proposing the most drastic measure yet in the trade war with Uncle Sam – blocking US access to Canadian-owned Pornhub.
h/t PA Cat
News this week emerged about the collapse of Swedish battery startup Northvolt. “Like many companies in the battery sector,” the failed company’s website explained, “Northvolt has experienced a series of compounding challenges in recent months that eroded its financial position.” European Governments, including those of Britain and the EU, have long claimed that as pioneers of green policy and the ‘transition to a low carbon economy’, their policies will cause domestic industries and the green economy to boom. But instead of the green dream turning into reality, across the continent there is only a bleak economic outlook and deindustrialisation. Given that so much of this was predicted, yet those predictions met with policymakers’ intransigence, isn’t it time to ask if this nightmare is a feature of green policy, not merely a bug?
GRAVELINES, France — By the time the French police arrived, the migrants were already in waist-deep, numbing waters, clambering onto an overcrowded dinghy that arrived by sea. But the boat was too full and the engine wouldn’t start. A handful of police officers watched the migrants for an hour as they struggled to get it going.
As the sun rose, a few migrants reluctantly climbed off and waded back to shore. They stood beside the officers as the engine finally roared to life, and the boat pushed off toward England.
The scene on the beach in northern France offered a glimpse of how thousands of migrants are able to make it across the world’s busiest waterway without being stopped.
As France’s President Emmanuel Macron casts himself as Europe’s new leader in a joust against US President Donald Trump, he might do well to have a look at two great Frenchmen who advised against haste and hubris.
The first is that paragon of diplomacy, Talleyrand, who managed to survive four regimes, including one created by a bloody revolution and another that set Europe on fire before drowning it in blood.
Trump should reopen the 1947 agreement locating its headquarters. It was a terrible real-estate deal.
President Trump has bemoaned the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty, which gave away strategic American territory. But what may be the federal government’s worst real estate deal of all time involved land in Mr. Trump’s front yard. The United Nations Headquarters Agreement of 1947 gave the U.N. a tax-free, quasi-extraterritorial 18-acre domain overlooking the East River in Midtown Manhattan. The Trump World Tower is right across First Avenue.
The U.S. offered to host the newly created U.N. after World War II amid a wave of optimism about the organization’s ability to prevent future wars. John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated the land, and the headquarters was built with an interest-free loan from Washington that would be worth $861 million in today’s dollars.
The King is planning to meet Mark Carney this week, in a sign of the UK’s unwavering support for Canada amid continuing tensions with President Trump.
Sources close to Charles said there was a “determination” from the monarch to see the new Canadian prime minister when he visits the UK in the coming days. The Sunday Times revealed last weekend that the King was concerned about the discord between Canada and the US.
Since his re-election, Trump has repeatedly proposed to make Canada, where Charles is head of state, America’s “51st state” and has imposed crippling tariffs on the country.
When asked about oil and gas investments, Carney responds that companies "must have business plans that are consistent with the transition to net zero."
Does this sound like someone who is going to build pipelines and develop Canada's oil and gas industry?
No. Of course not. pic.twitter.com/QixNDFSTnZ
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) March 16, 2025
