Doug Ford says his provincial party will terminate Ontario’s contract with Starlink due to its connection to Elon Musk, saying his government won’t do business with people “hellbent on destroying our economy.”
Ford issued a statement regarding Ontario’s move to ban American companies from provincial contracts, including the $100 million Starlink deal.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump early Monday morning about the forthcoming trade war that has the potential to inflict economic pain on workers and businesses on both sides of the border — and they are expected to speak again later today.
Looks like that went about as well as you’d expect. h/t XC
BREAKING: Trump says the US is cutting aid, launching a probe over land seizures against farmers (white) in South Africa pic.twitter.com/JlImWo3fOh
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 3, 2025
Why are Canadian tax dollars given to a racist “middle income” country?
South Africa is an upper middle income country. In 2022-2023, Canada provided $88.6 million in international assistance to South Africa, with approximately $5.0 million of this amount channelled to Canada’s dedicated bilateral assistance program focused on two Feminist International Assistance Policy action areas: inclusive governance and empowerment of women and girls.
h/t XC
Liberal leadership contender Chrystia Freeland says everything should be on the table when it comes to Canada’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, while insisting she can get provinces united on that response.
“We have to be prepared to use every single tool in the toolbox,” Freeland told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview Sunday, when asked whether she, as prime minister, would block energy exports to the U.S. or add an export tax to them.
WASHINGTON — Staffers of the US Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them, after billionaire Elon Musk announced that President Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.
USAID staffers said they also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership,” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.”
Douglas Todd: The future of housing affordability in Canada lies in providing support to mid-sized centres, such as Kamloops and Kitchener-Waterloo
For a vast country like Canada, the second largest in the world by land mass, we are a strangely urban place.
Our biggest cities continue to grow larger — and more unaffordable — while populations in our rural regions dwindle and many smaller cities struggle.
Canada, oddly, is far more urban than countries like Italy, where more people reside in rural areas, often in elegant towns that are the envy of North Americans.
Atlanta, Georgia: Protest against ICE mass deportations
Again, Mexico Flags as far as the eyes can see. You’d never guess this was in America
They all love Mexico, want to represent Mexico, send our money to Mexico, they just don’t want to live there
Make it make sense pic.twitter.com/PID5ZIzMnY
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 2, 2025
Donald Trump has threatened to widen the scope of his trade tariffs, repeating his warning that the European Union – and potentially the UK – will face levies, even as he conceded that Americans could bear some of the economic brunt of a nascent global trade war.
It comes as Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, announced on Saturday, sparked retaliation from all three countries. Mexico and Canada have vowed levies of their own while China and Canada are seeking legal challenges.
Trump said on Sunday night that new tariffs on the EU will “definitely happen”, repeating previous complaints about the large US trade deficit with the bloc and his desire for Europe to import more American cars and agricultural products.
After Trump slapped tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, economists of Left and Right called him a lunatic: protectionism surely means higher prices, disrupted supply chains, trade war. Super triple bad!
Yet philosophically it makes sense, and the inability of journalists to see the President’s point of view betrays how far free trade has become a religion – a faith, like any other, that’s prone to myth and hypocrisy.
The murder of notorious Quran burner Salwan Momika this week has shaken Sweden to its core. But this incident only tells part of the story of the brutal violence which has become increasingly commonplace in the Scandinavian country.
Just a day before the shooting of Momika, a relative of internationally wanted drug dealer Rawa Majid — also known as “The Kurdish Fox” — was killed in a suburb just outside Stockholm. This swiftly followed a suspected gang murder in the small university town of Lund, where a career criminal was gunned down by a 17-year-old at a train station. Yet the statistic which most shockingly lays bare the extent of Sweden’s descent into criminality is that there were over 30 bombings across the country in January alone — more than one a day.
Manitoba’s new law prohibiting protests and demonstrations outside abortion clinics went into effect on Feb. 1.
The province’s NDP government introduced the bill last year. The Safe Access to Abortion Services Act creates buffer zones of 150 metres around abortion clinics, as well as around the homes of abortion providers.
The Department of Canadian Heritage declined to comment on whether it would fund a proposed national shrine to commemorate 215 children allegedly buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, despite millions in federal funding allocated for excavation efforts.
Blacklock’s Reporter says no remains have been recovered to date, according to public records.
CBS News plans to provide the Federal Communications Commission with the transcript of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris that is at the heart of a lawsuit against the network filed by President Donald Trump — the latest development in a battle that critics say is being used to target press freedom.
When did “press freedom” become 1984 like historical revisionism?
In light of President Trump’s executive order that paves the way for officials to revoke the visas of international students and faculty members who support foreign terrorist organizations, one Zionist advocacy group is working closely with the new administration to make sure the order gets put to use.
Betar U.S., an American Zionist organization that traces its origins to Russian author and Zionist leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky, has been compiling a list of names of pro-terror actors on college campuses, along with evidence of their infractions, for months. Now that Mr. Trump signed an executive order that calls for the deportation of foreigners, including students, who express support for designated terrorist groups, the organization is pouncing at the opportunity to hand the administration a list of names on a silver platter.
Rangoon is a symbol of how far we have fallen
You can’t get a Pegu in Rangoon any more. That may not sound like a disaster for the ages – nothing, say, compared to the ongoing chancellorship of Rachel Reeves, MP for Blankstare-upon-Derr – but it is quite telling, once you know the background. To explain, the Pegu is a cocktail. Here’s the recipe, if you fancy making one…
