Film director Spike Lee wore a jacket to the NBA All-Star Game with a message demanding slavery reparations.
Cameras caught the message as Lee stood on the sidelines during Sunday’s game while he enjoyed his courtside seat, which reportedly ran for up to $57,000 per ticket.
The constitutional problems preventing Canada from becoming the 51st state are so intractable that the idea is less practical than building a Mediterranean Riviera in Gaza.
For Canada to dissolve itself would require a constitutional amendment that would need the agreement of the House of Commons, the Senate and every province, not to mention First Nations.
On the U.S. side, President Donald Trump could present Congress with a treaty similar to the one that ended the Mexican-American War in 1847 that added nine states, including California.
USAID funded the vast majority of ‘independent’ media in Ukraine. What American taxpayers don’t realize is that their money went to suppressing the truth.
The camera was rolling when chaos erupted. It was January 21, 2024, and an independent Ukrainian journalist named Ostap Stakhiv was livestreaming a call with Vasyl Pleskach, a man claiming he was being illegally detained by Ukraine’s infamous military conscription unit, the TCC. The agency has been accused of kidnapping men from the street and forcing them to the front lines. Those who resist have sometimes been tortured—and in several well-documented cases—killed.
In the middle of the interview, Stakhiv called the police to see if they would free Pleskach from the clutches of the TCC. Just then, with the police still on the line, a burly figure entered Vasyl’s frame, walked over to Pleskach, and struck him hard in the face. His phone tumbled to the ground, landing sideways, but still recording. “They’re beating him right now,” Stakhiv told the police, as Vasyl’s picture went haywire. “People are watching it live. They’re beating him as we speak. Go to my YouTube channel and see it for yourself.” Off-screen, Pleskach’s screams were audible for another minute before the line was disconnected.
Canada is broken.
That was true before U.S. President Donald Trump started threatening Canada with tariffs and annexation, and it’s true now.
We can’t build things in this country. We can’t defend ourselves. We’ve lost control of our immigration system. Our violent crime rates are getting worse. Our courts are overburdened. Our productivity is poor. Child poverty rates are creeping up. Food bank usage has reached record highs. Housing costs are exorbitant. Canadians can’t get timely health care, or health care at all. And yet our spending is out of control. We can argue about the semantics, but that sounds pretty broken to me.
Millions of taxpayer dollars were spent on transgender surgeries and treatments on animals, House Oversight Committee Chairman Eli Crane (R-AZ) confirmed yet again this week.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday revealed his government’s $3.9 billion, six-year plan to connect Quebec City and Toronto with a high-speed rail line.
“Today I’m announcing the launch of Alto, the largest infrastructure project in Canadian history,” Trudeau said in Montréal. “A reliable, efficient, high-speed rail network will be a game-changer for Canadians.”
Trudeau said the new rail network will run all-electric trains along 1,000 kilometres of track, reaching speeds of up to 300 km/hour, with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montréal, Laval, Trois-Rivières and Quebec City.
The general manager of the US men’s ice hockey team said he would welcome a visit from Donald Trump to the 4 Nations Face-Off final between the United States and Canada on Thursday night.
Bill Guerin, who played 18 years in the NHL, said on Fox News that Trump’s presence would give a boost to the rivalry between the North American hockey powers. He credited Trump’s tariff threats and talk of making Canada the 51st US state for raising the intensity in their fight-filled matchup in the preliminary round.
Campaigning party leaders have talked about a lot of things during Ontario’s snap election, but somehow, even as they focus on the American tariff threat, they’ve come up short on the province’s longer-term economic problem, the most important issue of all.
All three parties are fixated on government spending plans, not the broader economy. Even PC leader Doug Ford, who is running to protect Ontario from tariffs, has little to offer but a weak and temporary economic fix.
The Trump administration has directed defense agencies to turn over a list of their probationary employees by the end of Tuesday, with the expectation that many could be laid off as soon as this week, according to five people familiar with the matter.
The directive coincides with the arrival at the Pentagon of personnel from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, which has overseen the firing of thousands of probationary employees in other federal agencies and coordinated the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
OTTAWA – A Liberal MP who has long advocated for closer ties with Africa fears her government is on the verge of releasing an Africa strategy with no significant spending attached, years after the government promised a plan.
Ontario MP Arielle Kayabaga has helped the government craft its Africa strategy since it announced a plan was in the works in early 2022.
4 Billion wasn’t enough???
Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly says Canada sent $4 billion to dictators in Africa and uses it as an opportunity to take a shot at America.
“Contrary to certain countries, we believe that international aid is important”
She certainly doesn’t speak for me, I don’t want… pic.twitter.com/7Ssgk4JAAD
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) February 18, 2025
The plane that crashed in Toronto was a Delta flight operated by Endeavor Air, a small airline obsessed with all-female "unmanned" flights pic.twitter.com/pYMS3kdpQy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 19, 2025
Update – Delta upside-down plane crash allegedly involved all-female crew
Won’t post her name and info but
The Delta plane crash was piloted by a woman who just got certified, by an operator airline that makes a big deal of having female pilots pic.twitter.com/uwC1DjvgDI
— ib (@Indian_Bronson) February 19, 2025
h/t Mauser & BobSmith101
Volodymyr Zelensky will be forced to hold elections which could oust him from office as the price of peace, under a provisional agreement reached by the US and Russia.
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, met in Saudi Arabia for the first time on Tuesday to discuss terms to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
After more than four hours of talks, it emerged that both sides had agreed elections should be held in Ukraine before a final peace settlement is reached.
Singh Says Pipelines Would Not Be First Priority for NDP Energy Policy
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he sees an east-west clean electricity corridor as his first priority for expanding the Canadian energy market—not new pipelines.
While Singh isn’t shutting the door entirely to pipelines, he says pipeline projects must be accepted by the communities through which they’re routed, must not hurt the environment, must provide good jobs and must meet indigenous consultation requirements.
Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds.
Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in people—largely dairy workers—public-health officials think bird flu is likely more widespread. Last week, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report documented three asymptomatic cases in veterinarians who took care of cattle they didn’t know had H5N1.
What’s clear is that people working on farms are sporadically contracting the virus. What hasn’t yet happened—and scientists believe has yet to happen in the history of the virus—is sustained human-to-human transmission.
