Élie Cantin-Nantel: Almost half of my generation wants Canada to join the U.S. Here’s why

In recent weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to become America’s 51st state.

The proposition, understandably controversial and borderline farcical, has been overwhelmingly rejected by the vast majority of Canadians—with one exception: younger Canadians. That includes Gen Z Canadians and younger Millennials.

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While Syria waits for a new dawn, Isis trains the next generation

As the masked guard opened a slot in the door and summoned the British prisoner, a foul smell hit the air outside the cell. Hamza Parvez walked over, complaining that he had only a small bar of soap and a worn towel to wash with.

Nicknamed Hungry Hamza, the 31-year-old from west London had been one of the first Britons to join Islamic State in 2014. He gained notoriety for his social media posts which, alongside videos urging other Britons to follow in his footsteps, comprised reviews of fast food restaurants under the so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

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‘Canada First’ Conservatives primed for Trump fight

OTTAWA — Canada’s Conservative leader used a rally in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a message to Donald Trump. “Let me be clear: We will never be the 51st state,” said Pierre Poilievre, warning that he is prepared to defend Canadians against the president at all costs.

“We will bear any burden and pay any price to protect the sovereignty and independence of our country,” he said.

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Charging man over Koran burning risks creating ‘blasphemy law by the back door’

Britain risks creating a new blasphemy law “by the back door” by charging a man over the burning of the Koran outside Turkey’s London consulate, a senior Tory MP has warned.

Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, warned that the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) threatened freedom of speech which he said must be “prized” even if it was “offensive” to many Muslims.


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Canada launches program to support climate disaster layoff victims

Workers who lose their jobs due to climate-related disasters like wildfires will now have access to enhanced unemployment benefits under a new federal pilot program.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the three-year initiative, announced by the Employment Insurance Commission, is set to cost $4.3 million and aims to provide relief to those impacted by extreme weather events.

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B.C.’s free-drugs ‘experiment’ has left many dead. This crusader wants it shut down

Vancouver Junkies – How could this not be considered a successful community integration?

“One dad I met with early on,” says B.C. MLA Elenore Sturko, “talked to me about his young teen daughter. She died of a fentanyl overdose, and when they cleaned out her room afterwards, they found a bunch of diverted safe supplies, still in the capsule bottles with other people’s prescriptions, the name of the prescribing doctor, the name of the pharmacy.”

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Squeezed Between Putin and Trump, Europe Sees a Moment of Truth

Excluded from talks between the U.S. and Russia, European leaders consider dramatic and immediate change

MUNICH—As the U.S. and Russia begin negotiations this coming week about the fate of Ukraine and European security, the shared view in Washington and in Moscow these days is open contempt for the leaders of Europe.

What happens next will determine whether the alliance of European democracies, inside and outside the European Union, will remain a significant player on the increasingly brutal international stage, where the niceties of the post-World War II international order no longer apply.

“Denial is no longer possible. The message is clear: It’s time to take our responsibilities, to safeguard our own security,” said France’s European affairs minister, Benjamin Haddad. “The first test would be to refuse a capitulation in Ukraine.”

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Obama library, begun with lofty DEI goals, now plagued by $40M racially charged suit, ballooning costs

Obama Library Eyesore

The Black-owned firm claims it was accused of underperforming in the project because of race

Construction of former President Barack Obama’s long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost overruns, delays and a $40.75-million, racially charged lawsuit filed by a minority contractor.

From the outset, the endeavor touted DEI as a key part of enshrining Obama’s legacy at the 19.3-acre site, where costs have ballooned from an initial $350 million to $830 million in 2021 based on its previous annual reports, with no publicly available figures available for updated projected costs. The project set out “ambitious goals” for certain construction diversity quotas, with its contracts to be allocated to “diverse suppliers,” 35% of which were required to be minority-based enterprises (MBEs).

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Woke Justice at Its Most Horrifying — the Ahmaud Arbery Case

The McMichaels, accused of murdering Arbery, were unlucky enough to have entered the portal of woke justice when BLM was in its ascendancy.

“Ahmaud Arbery was murdered,” said Judge Timothy Walmsley with the solemnity befitting the Chatham County Superior Court in Brunswick, Georgia.

“A resident of Glynn County, a graduate of Brunswick High, a son, a brother, a young man with dreams was gunned down in this community,” Walmsley continued. “As we understand it, he left his home apparently to go for a run and he ended up running for his life.”

So saying, Walmsley summed up what the jury was allowed to know about Arbery, 25, at the time of his February 2020 death in the coastal community of Satilla Shores, Georgia. Either out of fear or ambition or some combination of the two, Walmsley had grossly misrepresented the reality of Arbery’s troubled life and death to justify the draconian sentences he was about to hand down to the men who “murdered” him — Greg McMichael, then 64, his son Travis, 34, and their neighbor Roddie Bryan, 50 .

Unknown to the jurors, America was entering its 10th year in the era of woke justice, an all but unremarked break from the leftist past. Historically, to highlight racial injustice, real or imagined, leftists had made a practice of romanticizing the guilty — Sacco and Vanzetti, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal etc. — and proclaiming their innocence.

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JD Vance has spooked Germany’s political establishment

It’s Friday night at a small AfD campaign rally in Blankenburg, on the outskirts of Berlin, and local party bigwig Beatrix von Storch is jubilant. After warming up by bashing Germany’s “woke public broadcasters” she switches to the subject she really wants to talk about: “JD Vance’s speech today was fantastic!” She is met by unbridled applause.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference earlier that day, the American Vice President had declared: “What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values […] More and more all over Europe, they are voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration. Now, I happen to agree with a lot of these concerns, but you don’t have to agree with me.” He added: “There’s no room for firewalls.”

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Oscar-nominated documentary on residential-school horrors runs thin on facts

“Sugarcane,” an award-winning Canadian documentary billed as an investigation into “ a pattern of infanticide” in a B.C. residential school, has been short-listed for a 2025 Academy Award. Unfortunately, the film fails to deliver on its premise, revealing no evidence for even a single infanticide at a residential school, let alone a “pattern.”

In media interviews, Sugarcane’s director and producer Emily Kassie recalls being “gut-pulled” to her project by the 2021 “discovery of unmarked graves” at the Kamloops residential school. Having seen a news story about a search for missing children by the Williams Lake First Nation at the nearby St. Joseph’s Mission residential school , which had been established in 1891 by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Kassie approached them. They were amenable to collaboration.

The film’s title refers to the “Sugar Cane” community near Williams Lake, B.C., home to the Williams Lake First Nation.

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