On Friday, Justin Trudeau will host the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit to “galvanize business and investment across Canada.” The summit will not include any Americans, despite the name, and will instead see Canadian business and labour representatives discuss matters with Trudeau and long-defeated politicians.
The parents of Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe want the world to know what they were like — their joy, jokes and dreams — as they relive that awful July day
Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King never knew one another, but their parents believe they were alike and could have been friends. They use the same words to describe their daughters: confident, happy, emotionally intelligent, enthusiastic, affectionate. Both girls cared deeply about others.
OTTAWA — As conflicts continue to erupt around the globe, a new survey suggests that Canadians are anxious about relationships between groups here at home — particularly between Muslim and Jewish Canadians.
The survey of 1,578 Canadians, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies between Jan. 17 and 19, 2025, asked respondents for their perceptions of relations between Muslim, Jewish, Indigenous, white and other Canadians.
Across Canada, 43 per cent of respondents said the relationship between Muslim and Jewish Canadians was “bad.”
As expected the Islamist apologists are out in force …
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on combating antisemitism, said in a media statement that public perceptions of the relationship between Canadian Muslims and Jews don’t always reflect real life. “In truth, these communities share far more in common than many assume, including resilience and perseverance in combating hate and discrimination,” Lyons said.
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“This may indeed be what Canadians think, but it reflects a false and widespread misconception that Israel-Palestine is fundamentally a religious conflict between Jews and Muslims, rather than a political issue about human rights and international law,” Bueckert said.
Tr*ns Congressman Sarah McBride was recognized on the House floor as "The Gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride."
Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller said she 'refused to deny biological reality' by addressing Sarah McBride as 'the gentleman from Delaware' on the floor of the… pic.twitter.com/hPYuVIOLvP
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) February 8, 2025
h/t Hermes
Democratic Senator John Fetterman has claimed that it may not “possible” for the party to win back white men.
In a new interview with Puck’s Tara Palmieri, Fetterman offered a stark assessment of the Democrats’ ability to regain support among white male voters. Asked about how the party could win white men “like himself” back, Fetterman responded: “I’m not sure if that’s possible, to be honest.” He then warned that support among that demographic had been “seriously eroding for a while”. What’s more, “In some cases, people don’t even want to say it publicly […] but they just feel like the other side seems to be saying, ‘Men are the problem.’”
New video shows the moment the small plane crashed west of São Paulo, Brazil, this morning pic.twitter.com/cjKSSlhuNb
— Volcaholic (@volcaholic1) February 7, 2025
h/t Hermes
As Canada and the U.S. careened toward a trade war this past weekend, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, found himself in the crosshairs.
First, Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland proposed slapping 100 per cent tariffs on cars made by Tesla Inc., Musk’s electric vehicle company. “We need to be very targeted, very surgical and precise. We need to look through and say who is supporting Trump and … make them pay,” she said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Defence Secretary ‘speechless’ at MoD splashing out £5m on electric racers as he strives to cut out waste
Cash from the stretched military budget was splurged on sponsoring a “Formula Woke” racing team, an audit of defence spending has revealed.
Taxpayers’ money meant for front-line troops was instead used to emblazon the Ministry of Defence’s logo on the mudflaps of an electric rally car.
John Healey, the Defence Secretary, has now cancelled the £5 million contract with McLaren after being left “speechless” by the “waste”.
OTTAWA – Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland’s pitch to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to allies is drawing skeptical reactions from those who say her government neglected the sector over the past decade.
The former finance minister’s policy statement on jobs and growth, released on Feb. 5, includes a pledge to “seize the opportunity to make Canada an energy superpower, from powering our grids with hydro to exporting liquefied natural gas to our allies.”
Justin Trudeau’s time as Prime Minister is marked by strategic alliances and policy shifts with a single goal: to keep him in power.
His political maneuverings are finally running out of steam and, with disastrous approval ratings, deepening economic hardship, and a string of scandals, even the party he brought back from the dead is preparing for life after Trudeau.
… Undocumented immigrants in some communities are skipping work and keeping their children home from school on concerns about Trump’s efforts to ramp up deportations. In Dallas, teachers are reporting to their labor union that some students have stopped attending classes, particularly at high schools, said Rena Honea, president of Alliance/AFT, the largest teachers’ union in Dallas. At one area high school, just under half of students were absent on Monday, for a total of roughly 900 who stayed home, one teacher said.
President Donald Trump’s legal team added new claims to its lawsuit against CBS News on Friday after 60 Minutes released the unedited transcript of former Vice President Kamala Harris’s interview that aired a month before the election.
Trump sued CBS in October for engaging in “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion,” arguing the interview’s deceptive editing made Harris look more favorable. The $10 billion lawsuit was filed five days before the election. Two days after the transcript’s release, Trump doubled the damages incurred to $20 billion.
America’s foreign aid agency, USAID, has given nearly $800 million to a group that has pushed censorship and suppressed “heteronormativity” across the globe, according to documents reviewed by The Federalist.
It keeps getting worse – the US Treasury issues ONE BILLION a week in suspect payments and that’s a conservative estimate.
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
– Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025
H/T DS
If you found a worm in your sliced bread you would be horrified. You would probably share photos and outrage on social media and return the loaf to the shop you bought it from.
Consider then that mealworm powder has just been approved by the European Union as a novel food ingredient and is now legally allowed to constitute up to 4% of food products like bread, biscuits, cakes, cheese, pasta and potato-based snacks.
But why mealworms? Why bread? And why now?
Yesterday, I watched an X video of a maybe 20-something woman berating me as a Trump voter for ignorance (vincible or invincible, she couldn’t decide). I was told that future history books would tell us how “evil” these years were in the United States. It would not “be about Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, but quite literally of right versus wrong. It is about having morals or not.” That I had, as a moral theologian, apparently not noticed that was a wake-up call. I was grateful but scared to learn I live in such apocalyptic times.
