Canada
August 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
For the last several years, summers in Minnesota and other northern-tier states have been blighted by smoke drifting across the border from Canada. We have gotten used to hazy, polluted air and rosy sunsets, as smoke has become a summer fixture. The mayor of Lakeville, a Twin Cities suburb near mine, summed it up: The Canadians have completely ruined the Minnesota summer. — Luke Hellier (@lukehellier) July 30, 2025 If
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July 27, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, NYC air quality plummets as Canadian wildfire smoke invades US — and more bad air is on the way. Welcome to my world. Minnesota has been plagued by smoke from Canada all summer long, in what has to be the fourth consecutive year of this unwelcome phenomenon. Friday morning may have been the worst, so far. Driving to downtown Minneapolis, from my undisclosed suburb, to
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June 7, 2025 — John Hinderaker
President Trump’s musings about annexing Canada are rather silly, but as so often happens, even his least practical ideas can contain a kernel of truth. Here, the kernel is Alberta. The Canadian province of Alberta is one of the most desirable pieces of real estate on Earth. It includes some of the world’s most beautiful scenery and internationally known tourist attractions like Banff and Lake Louise. It is home to
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June 4, 2025 — Bill Glahn
That’s not a typo. The New York Times headline, A 355-Year-Old Company That Once Owned One-Third of Canida Is Shutting Down. Founded in 1670, it really did own one-third of Canada (the drainage area for Hudson Bay). For almost 200 years. Until 1818, the company owned parts of what would eventually become North Dakota and Minnesota (Red River Valley). It started out as a fur-trading firm, evolved into a big
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May 28, 2025 — Bill Glahn
An unusual sight north of the border. The BBC asks the question that we all were about yesterday’s events, “Why is King Charles in Canada, and what is the throne speech?” The answer, it turns out, is that Charles is not only King of England. He’s King of Canada, too. In fact, his official title up north reads, Charles the Third, by the Grace of God King of Canada and
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May 3, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Canada held a national election earlier this week. Every bit of analysis I’ve read about the results seems wrong to me. The conventional wisdom goes something like this: Conservatives were cruising to a massive victory until Pres. Trump interfered with the election via tariffs, jokes, etc. handing the Liberals an unlikely re-election. You may have seen this graphic: In Canadian politics, as in the rest of the world besides America,
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April 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
In Montreal, pro-Hamas Muslims demonstrated for mass murder of the Jews. A journalist named Natasha Graham filmed them. That was too much for the mob, and too much for the local police, whose concern is not the would-be mass murderers, but rather the consequences of voters seeing what is going on in the city’s streets: She appears to simply be filming when the officer comes and grabs her and they
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March 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
That probably isn’t news: the fact that Trump has broken the Democrats, including their reporters and editors, has been evident for quite a while. But it is remarkable that even abroad, Trump seems to create a force field that renders otherwise-normal people bonkers. Every utterance by Trump is viewed with fascination and often horror. Every casual comment, every bit of trolling or hyperbole, every jocular remark, is grist for the
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March 20, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Canadian media are reporting that, Mark Carney, the newly-minted, globalist Prime Minister of Canada (America’s hat) will soon be calling for a new general election. Carney has held the office only since Friday and the CBC reports he is looking at election dates of either April 28 or May 5. Both dates are Mondays. The Canadian Parliament was supposed to have resumed sitting, for the first time in months, on
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March 16, 2025 — Bill Glahn
On Friday, Mark Carney was sworn in as His Majesty’s 24th Prime Minister of Canada. He replaces nepo baby Justin Trudeau, who had served in the office for the past decade. I must confess that I am completely baffled by Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. As I understand it, Carney is not a member of the Canadian Parliament, has never been a member of parliament, nor has he ever held elected office.
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February 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Cooler heads have been saying all along that panic over President Trump’s tariffs is premature and wildly exaggerated. Trump loves to use tariffs as bargaining chips, and he loves to make deals. So stay calm. Mexico caved first. Now, Canada: President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to pause the implementation of planned U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada for at least 30 days, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. The
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February 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It was only a day or two ago when pundits and liberal economists (there aren’t many, but there are a few) were assuring us that a trade war with Mexico and Canada was underway, and would lead to higher prices in the U.S. and other significant economic damage. The stock markets opened steeply lower this morning, presumably as a result. But wait! The Telegraph reports: Donald Trump has agreed to
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January 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In his inaugural speech on Monday, President Trump let the word go forth to friend and foe alike: “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.” In the video clip below Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre responds to questions about this controversial statement of policy in an interview with the CP24 news channel.
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January 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Whiffs of empire are in the air! Donald Trump has floated the idea of taking over (in some fashion) Greenland, and even dispatched Donald Jr. there on some sort of mission. Then there is the Panama Canal, which we foolishly gave to Panama some years ago, and over which Trump wants to exert some kind of control so it will operate better. Trump has sounded rather bellicose at times: Reporter:
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December 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Throughout the leading Western democracies there is mounting disarray and political collapse (with one important exception I’ll come to). The German government, already teetering, collapsed officially yesterday. The French government has delegitimized itself by refusing to heed the expressed will of French voters, and is turning to lawfare to disqualify its leading opponent (sound familiar?). The Romanian supreme court has nullified an election because the wrong person won (populism again),
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November 22, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Pierre Trudeau was a certified “world-class wrecker” but as David Frum also noted, there was more to him that people might not know. For example: Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health. He traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities. He wrote in praise of Mao’s murderous regime in China. Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro,
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November 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. For “balance,” the ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. The ICC says the Israeli leaders are guilty of “crimes against humanity” in connection with the war started by Gaza. The ICC is a bad joke, but sadly, there are countries that take it seriously:
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