Premier Doug Ford has made good on his threat to slap a 25 per cent surcharge on electricity sold to the U.S. in retaliation for President Donald Trump‘s tariffs.
Raising an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 per day, the “tariff response charge” will be paid by utilities in New York, Michigan and Minnesota importing power from generators of electricity in Ontario.
Line 5? Bueller? Anyone?
It looks like X (FKA Twitter) has some significant issues for a third time in one day, as users are once again reporting problems logging in and viewing the popular social media service.
More than 40,000 Downdetector reports poured in from users during the second outage, stating that they couldn’t even get the X website to load and it’s spiking again for a third one.
h/t XC
Washington — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development, and said he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department.
Rubio made the announcement in a post on X. It marked one of his relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away from U.S. foreign aid and development, executed by Trump political appointees at State and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency teams.
Canada gives $272M in aid to Bangladesh, Indo-Pacific as USAID shuttered
Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, unveiled $272.1 million in new funding on Sunday for foreign aid projects in Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific region.
“Canada continues to fiercely strengthen our long-lasting friendship with Bangladesh and the wider Indo-Pacific region with our long-standing people-to-people ties,” Hussen said in a statement. “By supporting vulnerable communities’ healthcare services, empowering women and addressing climate change, we are creating a brighter tomorrow for the global community.”
Bangladesh is number 24 on the Open Doors World Watch List, which ranks the countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution.
To Liberals stealing your money is their right.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk have clashed with Poland’s foreign minister over the use of the tech billionaire’s Starlink satellite internet system in Ukraine.
Musk said on X that Ukraine’s “entire front line” would collapse if he turned the system off. Radoslaw Sikorski responded, saying his country paid for its use in Ukraine and a threat to shut it down would result in a search for another network.
Rubio dismissed Sikorski’s claims and told him to be grateful, while Musk called him a “small man”.
On Sunday evening in Ottawa, the results of the Liberal leadership race were announced. To no one’s surprise, Mark Carney won, receiving 85.9 per cent of the vote. But Carney didn’t just win the party’s leadership race, he won the highest seat in our government, without ever being elected by Canadians, not even as a member of Parliament.
More from Dan McTeague about Mark Carney
"The very fact that he has Gerald Butts and Katie Telford and the same group of liberals behind Justin Trudeau behind him, that should be an alarm."
"As well as his wife and I don't like to bring in, you know, our backgrounds, but his… https://t.co/GyAoaxGXnW pic.twitter.com/KPckMNZT1G
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) March 9, 2025
On the evening of December 8, 2022, four people met at a guest house in Presteigne, a small Welsh town in Powys, on the border with England.
They were Ruth Hogg, 40, who had a master’s degree in fine art and worked in an art gallery in Wales; Susan Bagshaw, 55, an artist and former social worker also from Commins Coch in Wales; Morwenna Grey, 41, a carer from nearby Machynlleth; and Tristan Dixon, 34, a musician from Huddersfield.
The Liberal Party’s leadership announcement on Sunday night kicked off with a brief video chronicling “157 years of history” for the party. It travelled from grainy long-ago moments rendered in black and white to a sleeves-rolled-up Justin Trudeau reaching out to a surging crowd, which itself feels like a million political years ago.
Already, the Prime Minister belonged to the party’s history books, not to its present.
Syria’s interim leader has appealed for unity, as violence and revenge killings continued in areas loyal to ousted former leader Bashar al-Assad on Sunday.
Hundreds of people have reportedly fled their homes in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus – strongholds of Assad support.
Local residents have described scenes of looting and mass killings, including of children.
This photo shows a village in Syria that was completely massacred.
When Israel defends itself, outrage erupts. But when entire Syrian villages are erased, the world stays silent. pic.twitter.com/kR7uWouakv
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 10, 2025
The tiny hamlet of Caroline, home to just 500 residents northwest of Calgary, is at the centre of a growing debate over how rural communities can balance much-needed tax revenue with the desire to preserve their unique way of life.
At issue is a proposed 57-acre, 14-megawatt solar farm that supporters hail as an economic lifeline, but opponents fear could alter the character of the village forever. The project, which buts up to the northern border, is almost the size of the town itself.
A Palestinian migrant who previously called for all Jews to be killed has said he has arrived in Britain on a small boat.
The young man, who goes by the name of Abu Wadei – with various spellings – shared footage from what appeared to be an inflatable dinghy on social media platform TikTok on Friday.
Wearing a keffiyeh, a head covering, he showed dozens of lifejacket-clad asylum seekers with him on the small boat.
A round up of our MSM …
CBC – Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment
Star – Mark Carney vows to keep ‘Canada strong’ against Donald Trump after Liberal leadership victory
Global – Mark Carney is the new Liberal leader, replacing Justin Trudeau
CTV – Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as the next prime minister of Canada
Globe – Mark Carney elected Liberal Leader in landslide victory
SUN – LILLEY: Carney’s Liberal coronation is just what Trudeau ordered
NatPo – Full text: Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership victory speech
A tour of downtown New Westminster with Coun. Daniel Fontaine is a chilling experience.
This city, with a population of 92,000, has the dubious distinction of being the second-densest city in Canada. It recently surpassed Montreal for the number of people per square kilometre and is now second only to Vancouver.
Elon Musk has his supporters and critics, but there is little debate that he is a genius when it comes to technology and space travel.
It turns out he’s pretty smart about illegal immigration as well.
Musk, President’s Trump’s point man for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), one of the richest men on the planet and the driving force behind Tesla, X (formerly Twitter), SpaceX and other ventures, was a recent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, the world’s most popular podcast.
Elon Musk:
"Entitlements fraud (social security, disability, Medicaid) for illegal aliens is what is serving as a gigantic magnetic force to pull people in from all around the world and keep them here.""If you end the illegal alien fraud, then you turn off that magnet and… pic.twitter.com/IJnCU2jUYR
— DOGE NEWS- Department of Government Efficiency (@realdogeusa) March 1, 2025
Full podcast.
In their zeal to join in the attacks on Israel, women’s and feminist groups ignore the daily brutalization of women by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th, the state of Israel has been relentlessly accused of systematically oppressing and abusing Palestinian women and girls.
In fact, numerous political pundits have used International Women’s Day as the impetus to attack the state of Israel for the abuses that Palestinian women have allegedly been forced to endure since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th.
