Carney says there’s been a ‘rupture.’ What’s he going to do about it this fall?

Even while Mark Carney has been accused of lowering his elbows in regards to American tariffs, he continues to frame the larger challenge facing this country in stark terms.

“What’s going on is not a transition,” Carney said last week in Mississauga, Ont., while announcing an array of measures for industries impacted by the American administration’s actions. “It’s a rupture. And its effect will be profound.”

He saw the arrival of a “new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism” and described the current moment as an “age of adversity.” He invoked major nation-building infrastructure projects of the past and the national mobilization that took place in Canada during and after the Second World War.

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Trump ‘ready’ to impose sanctions on Russia if Nato nations stop buying its oil

Donald Trump has said he is ready to impose sanctions on Moscow, but on the condition that all Nato allies agree to completely halt purchases of Russian oil and implement their own sanctions.

He also suggested members of the transatlantic alliance consider imposing tariffs of 50% to 100% on China for its purchases of Russian petroleum as a way to help end the war.

In a post on his Truth Social site on Saturday, the US president wrote: “I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA.”

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J.D. Tuccille: Charlie Kirk was a private citizen. His assassination puts us all in peril

Recent years have seen then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and members of Congress targeted for assassination, Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson murdered, and destructive attacks on Tesla dealerships and owners, among other politically motivated violence in the United States. But the killing of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk somehow seems more dangerous, because it is.


Good watch

h/t Patti Jo

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Charlie Kirk Assassin Lived With Transgender Partner

In a disturbing development following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, sources now reveal that alleged shooter Tyler Robinson was living with a transgender partner at the time of the attack. According to individuals familiar with the investigation, the partner — a biological male transitioning to female — has been cooperating fully with federal authorities.

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Poilievre says he worries for his family as political violence concerns grow in Canada, U.S.

Pierre Poilievre says he worries for his family as political violence concerns grow in the U.S. and Canada following the fatal shooting of an American right-wing activist — and the Conservative leader believes all of Canada’s top politicians should have protection.

“We have had very serious threats to the point where the RCMP decided that it merited protection for my family and I for a prolonged period of time,” Poilievre said in a sit-down interview with CBC’s The House.

“I think all the political leaders and ministers who face real threats, according to the RCMP’s assessment, they should have protection so that something like this does not happen on our turf.”

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Tyler Robinson’s Descent From Promising Student to Murder Suspect

Charlie Kirk Killer?

WASHINGTON, Utah—Tyler Robinson was the pride of his Utah family. He was a 4.0 high-school student who won a prestigious college scholarship, according to social-media posts.

“His options are endless,” his mother wrote on Facebook.

Four years later, authorities say the 22-year-old Robinson used an old bolt-action rifle to fire a single shot that killed Charlie Kirk while the conservative activist spoke Wednesday at Utah Valley University. He allegedly had ammunition etched with phrases borrowed from internet and gaming culture like “Hey, fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this, you are gay, lmao.”

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Liberals spend $500,000 to boost diversity in trucking industry

The federal government is spending $500,000 on a project aimed at making Canada’s trucking industry more diverse and inclusive.

The funding, announced Friday during National Trucking Week by Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu, will go to Trucking HR Canada through Ottawa’s Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity (WORBE) program.


Same old Liberal faces peddling the same old bad ideas.

h/t Auntie Polly (Incognito)

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Western Germany: AfD set for success in local elections

Translation: Time for secure borders

With a roaring noise, the yellow excavator razes the last remains of another derelict property in the Bismarck district of Gelsenkirchen to the ground. An entire street with seven houses is being flattened to make way for new houses and a kindergarten.

The dilapidated properties and piles of rubbish in the street were not only a huge nuisance for local residents, but also a big campaign issue for the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD)which linked it to labor migration from Southeast Europe.

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Ivison: Canada’s multi-billion dollar bet on EV battery plants is ‘disastrous’ policy, Balsillie says

The man credited with remaking the smartphone industry with Blackberry in the early 2000s says Ottawa’s decision to give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to foreign companies like Volkswagen to build battery cell manufacturing plants in Canada was a “catastrophically disastrous move.”

Jim Balsillie, the former chair of Research in Motion and more recently the co-founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators, told National Post’s John Ivison that he thinks Canada’s approach to trade and competitiveness is outdated and ignores the fact that in the knowledge economy, prosperity flows from ownership of intellectual property.

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‘Out of depth’ Kamala Harris knows nothing, say angry Joe Biden aides

Joe Biden’s former aides have attacked Kamala Harris saying she “knows nothing” and was “out of her depth” after she laid into the former president.

The row was triggered by the publication of an excerpt from Ms Harris’s memoir 107 Days, in which she branded Mr Biden’s second presidential run “recklessness”.

In the book, Ms Harris said she made a “colossal mistake” in not telling the then 81-year-old to abandon his re-election campaign, and that it was a choice that should not have been left to an “individual’s ego”.

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Cabinet minister Fontaine apologizes for sharing Kirk post

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine has apologized for sharing an Instagram post that Manitoba’s premier called “awful” in the wake of the assassination of U.S. right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

“I apologize for sharing a post yesterday on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Violence has no place in our democracy. Political debate is achieved with words and discussion. In a world too often divided, we should strive to show empathy to everyone, even those we don’t agree with,” Fontaine said in a written statement sent to the Free Press by a spokesman for the NDP government Friday morning.

Wow the Families Minister is an evil witch!

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Thousands taking part in ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally and counter protest

Tens of thousands are gathering in central London for a march organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, with a counter protest by anti-racism campaigners also taking place.

Protesters who are forming the “Unite the Kingdom” march are heading towards Whitehall where they will hear a series of speeches from people including Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon.

Meanwhile thousands more gathered in another part of London for the counter-protest, dubbed March Against Fascism, organised by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR).

Meanwhile in Toronto … I get the feeling this is a false flag given the history associated with the rally’s location of Christie Pits

Police to ‘ensure public safety’ at Christie Pits Park anti-immigration rally and counter-demonstrations Saturday

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Foreign workers drove forklifts, did trade tasks at Windsor EV battery plant, say union, construction leaders

Canadian construction and union leaders say they’re frustrated over the continued use of foreign workers for non-specialized tasks at the massive NextStar electric vehicle battery plant project in Windsor, Ont., that’s receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer support.

They also say they’ve been disappointed in the response they’ve received from all levels of government when they’ve raised concerns.

“I personally have sat with many ministers federally, provincially, right to the top. And it’s not a secret,” says Jason Roe, the business manager for Local 700 of the Ironworkers union. “People know that it’s been going on.”

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Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson threatened to kill himself rather than surrender after dad confronted him

Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson threatened to kill himself rather than surrender to authorities after his father confronted him about the sickening murder, according to law enforcement sources.

The father, Matt Robinson, recognized his 22-year-old son from photos of the suspected shooter that were released by authorities Thursday, leading the parent to confront his son when he returned home, sources said.

h/t PA Cat

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