Trump pressured NATO, armed Ukraine, and imposed tough policies on Russia, while Europe postures without action—leaving real deterrence to the U.S.
Trudeau aided Putin against Ukraine by denying Europe access to Canada’s LNG! https://t.co/8UxSzmQIr4
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) March 5, 2025
European leaders are in Brussels today for an emergency summit on defence, and the future of both Ukraine and the continent. In a further attempt to hash out a peace plan for Ukraine, the 27 EU heads of state are joined by Volodymyr Zelensky. Arriving this morning, Zelensky declared, ‘It’s great we are not alone’.
As part of today’s agenda, members of the bloc are expected to endorse Ursula von der Leyen’s ReArm Europe plan – which will make €150 billion (£125 billion) available in loans for members to boost defence spending. The summit will also likely discuss French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to extend his country’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ to its continental neighbours.
Donald Trump has rattled all Canadians with his threat of large tariffs on Canadian exports to the U.S. So much so, that on Dec. 16, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned in part out of concern around the Trudeau government’s response to that threat. On that same day of the Freeland news tsunami, Canada’s premiers met to discuss the looming tariff threat. Coming out of that meeting Doug Ford promised the premiers will provide “steady and stable leadership” and advocated for a larger role for premiers in the tariff discussions.
h/t Mauser
As Arab and Western leaders continue to discuss plans to rebuild the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has again rejected laying down its weapons.
For Hamas, preserving its weapons and military wing, Izz a-Din al-Qassam, is apparently more important than the reconstruction of thousands of homes and buildings destroyed during the Hamas-Israel war, which erupted after the terrorist group’s October 7, 2023, bloodthirsty attack on Israel.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is unsure about a 30-day tariff reprieve for automakers, which he believes could be used to try and tempt companies to move their operations south of the border.
Speaking at Queen’s Park on the second day of Canada’s tariff battle with the United States, Ford said he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were aligned in their demand that tariffs be scrapped, not reduced or delayed.
President Trump’s address to the Joint Session of Congress apparently went so well that the set of ABC News’s The View became a copium den during Wednesday’s episode. So desperate were they to find fault with Trump’s speech that Joy Behar stoked fear of Trump shaking hands with members of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, moderator Whoopi Goldberg shouted down the one ounce of criticism lobbed at Democrats for their antics.
TORONTO – Ontario will charge 25 per cent more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans starting Monday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday.
Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. Earlier this week, Ford warned the governors of those states about the coming changes.
A border wall upgrade construction project canceled by President Joe Biden is back underway in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that the Trump administration ordered the restart of a Biden-era-canceled border wall upgrade project along the Texas border with Mexico.
According to their own bizarre logic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney should be overjoyed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff jihad against Canada may cause a massive recession here.
Wonder what brought this on …
Excuse us? The @JustinTrudeau government is now in favour of oil and gas production after advocating policies for the past decade designed to keep them in the ground?
Joint Statement From Canada's Energy and Mines Ministers https://t.co/tGt5RrJJGx via @BOEReport— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) March 6, 2025
Hunter Biden is asking to withdraw his lawsuit against a former White House aide, Garrett Ziegler, whom he accused of “illegally” accessing and sharing the contents of his infamous laptop because he “does not have the resources to continue to litigate this matter.”
In a court filing on Wednesday, attorneys for President Biden’s surviving son asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed. Mr. Ziegler, who worked at the White House during Mr. Trump’s first term, maintained a comprehensive, searchable database where the public could access the contents of the laptop, including obscene photos and videos of Hunter Biden using crack cocaine and consorting with women believed to be prostitutes.
Smartest man in the room according to his demented Pappy.
Justin Trudeau said today – in what was one of, if not his final press conference as prime minister – that he won’t try to stay on in a caretaker capacity once his successor is named.
Appearing to get emotional at times when talking about his decade in power, Trudeau said he is looking forward “to a transition to my duly elected successor in the coming days or week.”
Justin Trudeau is crying. pic.twitter.com/jhCCSvqluD
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) March 6, 2025
South Korean F-16 fighter jets accidentally dropped Mk82 bombs on a town near the North Korean border during a live-fire drill, injuring 15 people and damaging multiple buildings, local media reported.
South Korean Fighter Jet Accidentally Drops Bombs on Residential Village During US-ROK Drill
During a joint US-ROK military training exercise, a South Korean fighter jet mistakenly dropped eight bombs on the residential village of Pocheon, injuring four severely and leaving… pic.twitter.com/Ul95PwvqYO
— Matt Kim (@FreeMattKim) March 6, 2025
h/t DS
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will temporarily waive tariffs on products from Mexico that fall under the North American free trade agreement, two days after launching a continental trade war.
The announcement did not mention Canada, which is also facing sweeping tariffs, despite Trump’s commerce secretary saying earlier that both countries would “likely” see a reprieve. It came shortly after Trump levelled new attacks against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a heated exchange Wednesday.
Update: Trump pausing tariffs on some Canadian goods until April 2
h/t Shasta
Donald Trump’s administration held secret talks with some of Volodymyr Zelensky’s top political opponents, it has emerged.
Four senior members of the Trump entourage spoke with Yulia Tymoshenko, the opposition leader, as well as senior members of former president Petro Poroshenko’s party, Politico reported.
Discussions centred around whether Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections, according to the report.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump’s tariffs days ahead of Sunday’s leadership vote this week.
… According to multiple Liberal sources with knowledge of what happened at Wednesday’s virtual national caucus meeting — including an MP who was there — Joly suggested that she has not yet briefed the other Liberal leadership candidates.
