Trust in Canada, badly broken by prolonged Laurentian Elite intransigence, may now be very difficult to reestablish.’
During a presentation in Dallas almost a year ago, George W. Bush made a comment that has stayed with me. Referencing the 2008 credit crisis that threatened the world’s financial system, Bush said the US survived because “our institutions held.”
This leads to a question — are Canada’s institutions failing?
European leaders rallied around Volodymyr Zelensky after the exchange with Donald Trump and JD Vance. But arming Ukraine without U.S. help would be a struggle.
BRUSSELS — For Kyiv’s European allies, the shouting match in the Oval Office has intensified the pressure to fill the gaps in U.S. aid with their own weapons and to face up to whether they can go it alone in arming Ukraine.
The public breakdown has derailed days of European attempts to mend Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ties with President Donald Trump and jeopardized the future of U.S. military aid for Ukraine.
If you watch the full Trump-Zelensky press conference, it is very clear that Zelensky, not Trump or Vance, became the antagonist. Both POTUS and VP were very respectful and cordial until Zelensky very publicly ignited a firestorm.
It all starts at 40:30
1) Zelensky essentially… pic.twitter.com/xrM4cWSPny
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) February 28, 2025
Canada appeared last week to be undergoing a paroxysm over U.S. President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau incited public fears three weeks ago by declaring before a microphone he knew to be open that Trump was serious about taking over Canada. A knowledgeable and worldly friend who always has perceptive opinions on world affairs wrote me last weekend expressing his concern that Trump was making a spheres of influence agreement with Russia that would permit President Vladimir Putin to absorb Ukraine while the U.S. took over Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone. None of this is happening. When he was first elected president eight years ago, many otherwise or apparently serious people made outrageous allegations, such as the national intelligence director, James Clapper, who declared that Trump was a Russian intelligence asset who had been elected by Russian manipulation of the 2016 election. All of this was demonstrated to be utter fiction. And we have now, after Trump has surmounted corrupt political impeachments and prosecutions and assassination attempts, and won an uncontestedly fair election (and complete acquittal) from the majority of his countrymen, graduated to the point where his legitimacy as president is accepted, but fantastic schemes of collusion with America’s rivals and aggression against its allies are being imputed to him by people who know better.
Another pastor who preaches from the book of Drageronomy.
Most religious leaders solicit for Drag names during their sermons, correct? pic.twitter.com/XxwREW5hLU
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 1, 2025
OTTAWA — “I hope there are some Canadians here,” said Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland as she joined comedian Bill Maher for a one-on-one interview Friday on the set of HBO’s Real Time in Los Angeles.
Freeland, a semi-regular panelist on the irreverent political talk show, was in “full campaign mode” as she made her pitch to Maher that she was the right person to defend Canada against the whims of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Chrystia Freeland warns that liberals lose elections when they focus on virtue signaling and identity politics:
Bill Maher: "Justin Trudeau, who's on his way out. Used to be very popular, he still has his fans: 3.
Why did you turn on him? What would you do differently? If you… pic.twitter.com/2nHrhEKVNo— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) March 1, 2025
I have been MARKED SAFE from crying in my car this morning. Can you say the same? pic.twitter.com/m9gVPJek5n
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 1, 2025
Five years ago in March 2020, schools fell silent as Covid-19 swept across the world. At first, there was a tinge of excitement among some students and staff; it was as if, perhaps, we had been told that the whole country was going to be snowed in for six weeks.
Had the restrictions thawed within a couple of months, the impact on at least some children’s education might even have been positive. New experiences stretch the mind, after all. But it didn’t work out like that. While pubs, restaurants and hairdressers re-opened on 4 July, schools stayed on remote teaching until September.
‘Why don’t you wear a suit?’ jibe aimed at Ukrainian president came from the boyfriend of Right-wing firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene
It was a low blow designed to humiliate the president of Ukraine in front of a global television audience and provide a viral clip for social media.
To the delight of a laughing crowd inside the Oval Office, Brian Glenn, a leading member of a new cadre of Maga-enthusiast reporters reshaping White House coverage, ridiculed Volodymyr Zelensky over his dress sense.
No one declared a geopolitical crisis when Ukraine NGO’s supported by USAID began making Kill Lists of troublesome US citizens.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) March 1, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
For more than four decades, some policymakers in the United States and the West have clung to the belief that Iran’s regime can be persuaded into cooperation through diplomatic engagement, economic incentives or strategic deals. This persistent delusion has driven various US administrations to pursue negotiations, lift sanctions, shower Iran with cash, and offer it reintegration into the global financial system — all in the hope that such gestures would encourage moderation.
The regime’s record, however, has repeatedly proven the opposite. Regardless of the strategies employed to engage it, Iran’s regime remains intractably hostile to the United States, Israel and the broader Western world.
If the definition of integrity is the courage to face reality, then the Liberals have a big integrity gap.
For a decade, Canada – and much of the Western world – has operated in a comfortable cocoon of insanity. Those days are over, displaced by a stark, harsh reality.
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid went “on a vile antisemitic rant,” in which she blamed Orthodox Jews for the spread of COVID-19 in New York City, a former production assistant at the network claims.
In the summer of 2020, the lefty former “TheReidOut” host allegedly ripped Orthodox Jews, saying they “only care about themselves” and are “in their own bubble,” and accused the group of reckless behavior during the opandemic, according to the PA.
The ex-PA, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she is speaking out now that Reid’s been axed because “people should know what her character is.”
Violent offenders are not only carrying many more illegal guns in Mississauga and Brampton, but they’re quicker to use them and are firing hundreds more bullets indiscriminately at people and homes, police say.
The scandal surrounding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its abuse of taxpayer dollars to support causes backed by leftist billionaire George Soros continues to get worse.
MRC Business has revealed that USAID gave a $1 million grant to Central European University, a grossly anti-American indoctrination giant founded and financed by none other than Soros himself. The grant’s period began in September of FY 2021 and is set to end in September FY 2025, with $238,609 of the total obligated grant being outlayed so far.
James Cameron leaving Trump’s U.S., calls it ‘horrifying’
Academy Award-winning film director James Cameron says his New Zealand citizenship is “imminent” and is hinting at plans to relocate to the country permanently to escape Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.
Cameron, a Canadian born in Kapuskasing, Ont., and well-known for his slate of blockbuster movies including Titanic and Avatar, told New Zealand news outlet Stuff that he intends to make his farm in South Wairarapa his family’s primary residence.
We’ve seen this movie before. A foreign leader comes to Washington, demands American blood and treasure, and our media elites swoon like teenage girls at a Taylor Swift concert. But yesterday’s Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn’t follow the script, and predictably, the left is melting down.
Think Trump was aggressive to Zelenskyy for no reason?
Watch the whole talk.
Timestamps below.
Zelenskyy was emotional.
Interrupted Trump.
Called Putin names.
Raised his eyebrows.
All before Trump checked him.
And he called Vance a bitch.
He wasn’t ready for peace.
2:00… pic.twitter.com/ETQMz8tlVc
— Kaizen D. Asiedu (@thatsKAIZEN) February 28, 2025
Scott Jennings sums it up perfectly on CNN with Laura Coates Live.
"I mean, all Zelenskyy had to do today was put on a tie, show up, smile, say 'thank you,' sign the papers, and have lunch. That‘s it. And he couldn‘t do that." pic.twitter.com/LjZrQ6DfnL
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) March 1, 2025
