Donald Trump mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his top minister’s surprise resignation — after the pair clashed on how to handle the president-elect’s looming tariffs.
Trump jumped on Trudeau’s waning popularity and troubles after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quit Monday night, with the president-elect labeling his Canadian counterpart “Governor,” referencing a previous joke about the US annexing its northern neighbor.
Justin Trudeau has had many bad days as prime minister. But Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 will likely come to be seen as his worst. Recovery, to be blunt, seems impossible.
It is not only the surprise resignation of his deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, but the blazing way in which she departed, with a damning letter and a not-so-veiled warning that Trudeau’s time is running out. “Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end,” Freeland wrote.
Drones have revolutionized modern warfare in the sky. Now defense companies and navies are betting they can do the same underwater.
The new underwater drones, with names such as Ghost Shark, Herne and Manta Ray, can typically dive thousands of feet below the surface and operate largely without human interaction for days on end. That ability makes them ideally suited to gather intelligence, protect undersea infrastructure and counter potential threats in the Pacific, advocates say.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life. Behind closed doors.
At an emergency meeting Monday evening — called after Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s now former top deputy and one-time “minister of everything” quit as finance minister — the prime minister came to face to face with Freeland along with an angry and bewildered caucus before he planned to go explain the crisis to the Liberal party’s top donors.
This will make you vomit.
Justin Trudeau – Full speech at his first public appearance since the resignation of both Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Housing Minister Sean Fraser.
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Gatineau, Que. Dec 16, 2024What do you think – is he staying or is this his… pic.twitter.com/SKPS7yzD0E
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) December 17, 2024
Woman waits 6 years for knee replacement. Gets surgery but has complication. Has to wait 8 days for follow-up procedure because there are no beds. Because of delay, she now needs amputation.
Can we stop defending Canada's atrocious healthcare system?https://t.co/fgbbpzumei
— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) December 17, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Britain’s pubs have not had an easy few years. First there was the pandemic, then staff shortages, followed by the cost of living crisis.
Now, though, there is a new problem — they are running out of Guinness.
With Christmas days away, many pubs are completely out of the black stuff — even after rationing supplies. Others say they will run out this week.
I thought this was a joke.
A Toronto man accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass murder in the city with his son is now facing war crimes charges, CBC News has learned.
Ahmed Eldidi, 62, and Mostafa Eldidi, 27, were both scheduled to appear Monday in a Newmarket, Ont., court. Court heard earlier that the elder Eldidi would be re-arrested by the RCMP later in the day.
A spokesperson for the federal police force said they would be issuing a statement about the case shortly.
Antisemitism is woven into elite culture in Canada. It arose from the successful demonization of white people as racist oppressors by our elites. Now this same elite is engaged in civil war cynically demanding ordinary Cdn's protect Jews from the depraved Muslims they imported.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) December 17, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
An alleged Chinese spy was unmasked on Monday as the founder of the Duke of York’s money-making venture in China.
Yang Tengbo was named as the suspected foreign agent at the heart of the spy scandal after a court order giving him anonymity was lifted.
The Chinese businessman, who has mixed with figures from across the British establishment, was a founding member of Prince Andrew’s venture Pitch@Palace China.
If you squint and use a little imagination, you can see the pile of brains sitting outside the cabinet room on Parliament Hill. That pile has been sitting there for nearly a decade, heavy with the organs of the men and women who hold some of the most powerful positions in Canada’s government. These ministers have been expected to remove them from their skulls before they enter the room, so that the vacant space in their heads can be filled with nonsense directly from the Prime Minister’s Office.
A loyal asshole is still an asshole.
Noor stands trembling in the chill afternoon light of the courtyard, not from the cold, but from fear.
Dressed in her thick winter coat, she has come to make a complaint to the men of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Syria’s new de-facto rulers, and the new law in town.
She begins to cry as she explains that three days earlier, just before nine in the evening, armed men had arrived in a black van at her apartment in an upscale neighbourhood of the city of Latakia. Along with her children and her husband, an army officer, she was forced out onto the street in her pyjamas. The leader of the armed men then moved his own family into her home.
A Commons heritage committee report has urged Parliament to increase funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which currently receives $1.4 billion annually.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the CBC is requesting an additional $400 to $500 million per year, according to CEO Catherine Tait’s testimony at a November 25 hearing.
Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister who led Canada’s response to the first Trump administration, resigned abruptly on Monday from the cabinet in a stinging rebuke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, marking the first open dissent from any cabinet member and raising questions about his hold on power.
The revelation, in a letter of resignation, came hours before Ms. Freeland, who had been the finance minister, was scheduled to outline the government’s commitments to improve border security with the United States as part of an interim budget.
In the wake of the Daniel Penny verdict, the soon to be departing, progressive member of Congress Jamaal Bowman addressed a thread on X to “Dear White People.”
What followed was typical dreck. “I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you,” Bowman opened his missive. “I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us.”
What was most notable about this sorry little exercise was that Bowman thought writing a note to “white people” made sense in the first place. It’s a little like beginning a letter, “Dear Earthlings.”
Pete Hegseth, incoming President Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, will revamp military education to be “patriotic,” blares a terrified Dec. 15 Politico article by Juan Perez Jr.
“Pete Hegseth has pushed for years to steep American education in patriotic principles and Christian theology — and he could implement that vision for thousands of military families,” the article opens.
