Canada, California, and Chinese Electric Cars

Driving down an uncertain road.

On his recent trip to Beijing, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney praised the leadership of Xi Jinping and announced plans to bring 49,000 Chinese electric cars into Canada. In several ways that escaped notice, Carney was following in the footsteps of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

As David Frum notes, Trudeau “traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities,” a reference to the Moscow Economic Conference in April, 1952. Stalin’s USSR came billed as a workers’ state based on the “scientific” principles of Marxism-Leninism, as opposed to the “bourgeois” nations with their market economies. The regime’s admirers assumed that the Communist regime’s products would be superior, but it didn’t turn out that way.

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Unaffordable housing is pushing more young people to give up. Why that’s dangerous

When people decide they’ll never own a home, they start spending more, working less, and taking bigger financial risks.

That is the central finding of a new U.S. working paper on housing affordability, and it helps explain why today’s housing crisis is not just about housing. Once homeownership feels permanently out of reach, the authors argue that people do not simply adjust their housing plans – they change how they live. For the worse.


Dangerous is when they burn the Globe down for penning pieces that never explain how we arrived at this terrible juncture: Exploitive Mass immigration.

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Minnesota DHS Employee on Welfare Fraud: “This Is Real”

A whistleblower speaks out on the department’s incompetence and negligence.

The furor around Minnesota’s fraud scandal shows no sign of dying down. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota says $9 billion or more in taxpayer funds may have been stolen across 14 state welfare programs since 2018.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is the state agency responsible for overseeing the programs at the heart of the scandal. Faye Bernstein has been a DHS employee for two decades, including stints working in contract management and as a compliance officer.

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GOLDSTEIN: New study highlights pay disparity between public, private sectors

Public-sector workers in Ontario are paid higher wages and have better benefits than those doing comparable work in the private sector, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute that was released Tuesday.

The report by the fiscally conservative think-tank found federal, provincial and municipal employees in Ontario were paid 7.9% more on average than their private-sector counterparts in 2024, the most recent year of comparable data available from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey.

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Why Are We Following Qatar’s Foreign Policy on Iran?

From Syria to Gaza to Iran, Qatar is hijacking the Trump administration.

Syria’s Al Qaeda regime is massacring Kurds to free imprisoned ISIS terrorists, state sponsors of Hamas in Turkey and Qatar are being named to boards running Gaza, and thousands of democracy protesters are being massacred in Iran while Al Jazeera defends the regime.

This isn’t American foreign policy, but it is Qatar’s foreign policy.

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This homeless man was put in a taxi to London. Here’s who paid the $241 fare

A Huron County man who often uses shelters to avoid sleeping outside says the Huron Perth Health Care Alliance paid his $241.42 taxi fare to London, Ont., to free up space in a shelter where he’d been staying in Clinton.

The man told CBC News he was sent to London on the promise there would be shelter space for him, which upon arrival turned out to not be the case.

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How Silicon Valley built AI: Buying, scanning and discarding millions of books

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Within about a year, according to the filings, the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of books, before scanning their pages to feed more knowledge into the AI models behind products such as its popular chatbot Claude.

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Eglinton Crosstown LRT line to open on Feb. 8, source confirms

At long last, it seems to be all systems go for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT system.

The beleaguered transit line is opening on Feb. 8, something Premier Doug Ford let slip Monday at an unrelated news conference at Queen’s Park, where he told reporters he was advised of the opening date “goal” by TTC officials.

Another sh&tshow?

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WIRED Writer on CNN: Only Violence in Minnesota Is From ICE and CBP

On Monday’s CNN This Morning, CNN Guest and WIRED contributor Garrett Graff praised Minnesota protestors for supposedly being non-violent and said viral videos only showed federal law enforcement being violent. In reality, many other videos have shown protesters being violent, including a riot outside a hotel where federal law enforcement was staying on Sunday night into Monday morning.

The segment was a part of CNN ‘Breaking News’ coverage pertaining to the shooting of Alex Pretti and the following unrest.

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Nexus applications have plummeted in another sign Canadians are avoiding Trump’s America

The number of Canadian applications for the Nexus trusted-traveller program has fallen off a cliff since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year.

Applications had been steadily increasing following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

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West Virginia librarian busted for allegedly trying to recruit people on TikTok to kill Trump

A West Virginia librarian has been arrested for allegedly trying to recruit people on social media to assassinate President Trump.

Morgan L. Morrow, 39, of Ripley, was busted over a TikTok video saying, “Surely a sn!per with a terminal illness can’t be a big ask out of 343 million,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by WOWK.

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Canada’s icebreaker pact looked great until Trump started threatening the Arctic

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland, and the claims of continental hegemony contained in the new U.S. national security strategy, have awoken Canadians to the threat to their own Arctic sovereignty.

But Canada is still assisting the Americans in developing the very technology that could enable them to one day seize control of all or part of Canada’s Arctic archipelago.

Canadian co-operation and design is central to the construction of a new fleet of ships that the U.S. intends to use to strengthen its presence in the regions surrounding the North Pole.

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