The U.S. wants Venezuelan oil. Does that undercut Canada’s leverage in trade talks?

Just hours after the United States announced it had attacked oil-rich Venezuela and captured its president Nicolás Maduro, the wife of a top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Canada on social media.

“The U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada,” wrote Katie Miller, whose husband Stephen Miller is Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser. “Free trade is over.”

It’s a familiar refrain from those within Trump’s orbit, and from the president himself. But the argument has taken on new meaning now that the United States could have access to Venezuela’s staggeringly large reserves of heavy crude oil — similar to what’s produced in Western Canada.

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Meet the Group Behind the Pro-Maduro Protests

The People’s Forum is an “incubator” for leftist radicals—and eerily reminiscent of a cult.

Within hours of Delta Force’s extraction of Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro, far-left activists flooded the streets with premade signs and polished talking points. The protests’ speedy appearance and apparent organization should have been no surprise. For years, groups like The People’s Forum (TPF) have cultivated a cultish following, capable of activating scores of organizations at a moment’s notice—always in service of the interests of America’s adversaries.

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Geoff Russ: Carney cozying up to China aligns us with those who would destroy us

Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to China next week to discuss trade with President Xi Jinping, just as American power is moving hard and fast to curtail or eliminate Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere. Canada has nothing to gain from isolating itself from the United States or the West in the short term, just to stick it to Donald Trump.

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Portland police chief cries while confirming pair shot by CBP were tied to Tren de Aragua

Portland’s police chief broke down in tears Friday while confirming that two illegal immigrants shot by a federal agent had suspected ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, KGW News reported.

Police Chief Bob Day said the two suspects wounded in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounter had a “nexus” to the gang, backing up a Department of Homeland Security statement released earlier in the day.

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Riders say the Finch West LRT is ‘horrible’ and a ‘failed start.’ What’s gone wrong — and can it be fixed?

It took six years and $3.5 billion to build the Finch West LRT.

Ilyas Mohamed just wants the bus back.

“It’s horrible,” the 18-year-old York University student said, stepping off a train about to leave the Finch West station to share his thoughts on the new line.

Standing on a quiet platform just past 5 p.m. on a recent workday, Mohamed acknowledged the new line is “beautiful and everything,” but said it simply takes too long to get where he’s going.


Finch is very diverse from Dufferin going west. I wonder how long till these shiny new trains need a makeover.

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550-pound NY lawyer accused of stalking mistress clashes with country club guests in poolside Florida fight

This was one heavyweight fight.

A morbidly-obese, married Long Island lawyer once accused of tormenting his much younger lover made waves at his Florida country club on New Year’s Eve — grabbing a man’s phone and tossing it in a pool in an ugly confrontation over poolside lounge chairs.

Poolside lounge chairs are dangerous.

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Here’s the damning email that confirms the CIA overthrew the US govt. in 2020…

In the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, bumbling Joe Biden was struggling. He was unpopular, uninspiring, and clearly not firing on all cylinders. Then the Hunter Biden laptop from hell made an appearance, and suddenly the election was at real risk of slipping out of his shaky hands. The laptop wasn’t rumor or speculation. It was real and verifiable, and it contained information that any sane voter would want to know before casting a ballot for president.

h/t patthedog

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Canada Post carrier fired for hoarding 6,000 pieces of mail gets his job back

An arbitrator has ordered the reinstatement of an Ontario postman fired for hoarding at least 6,000 pieces of mail during the summer of 2022 because Canada Post wasn’t aware of his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hyun Min Jang was terminated from his job as a rural and suburban mail carrier in King City, Ont., “for misdirection and delay of mail, as a result of the discovery of thousands of pieces of undelivered mail in his personal vehicle,” according to a recent decision from Kathleen G. O’Neil, the arbitrator.

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Lawsuit dismissed in case of Alberta boy injured in toy dinosaur ‘swatting match’

An Alberta judge has dismissed a lawsuit involving one child suing another after a disagreement over a toy dinosaur led to a finger injury.

In a decision released earlier this month, Justice Brian Hougestol said the lawsuit involving the boys in Grande Prairie, Alta., was “quite rare” and raised “numerous legal issues related to capacity.”

The boys were enrolled in a summer daycare program operated by a non-governmental organization in 2022, when they got into a fight over the toy the judge described as being “the size of a 500-ml bottle of water.”

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismisses new ICE shooting video, says agent ‘walked away with a hop in his step’

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed a newly released video showing the moments before anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot, saying the federal agent “walked away with a hop in his step.”

The 44-year-old Democrat was shown the video — which was filmed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross and first shared by Alpha News — in a report that aired during “ABC World News Tonight” on Friday.


Interesting take …

h/t Patti Jo

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Ontario man’s murder case is tossed for delay — his second first-degree murder charge to collapse over prosecution issues

Two accused killers, one of them from Toronto, beat murder charges Friday after a judge in Ottawa found it took too long for them to go on trial. For the Ottawa defendant, it was the second time a murder case against him has collapsed over issues with the prosecution.

“It is most unfortunate that this double homicide and attempt murder case will not be tried on its merits,” Superior Court Justice Ian Carter said, reading his reasons for halting the prosecution. “The law is clear, however. The court has no choice. A stay of proceedings is the only remedy that can be granted.”

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