#BREAKING: Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, Israel's chief hostage negotiator, says that hostages held by Hamas could have "come back alive" but the Netanyahu government repeatedly turned down truce deals on the altar of "the lie" of "total victory."
@UnxeptableD
Uh oh..lol
The Trump administration thought they threw a punch by demanding a yearly review of the CUSMA trade deal, but they might have just actually walked right into a Canadian trap.
By forcing a constant renegotiation cycle, Washington didn't flex its muscles; it just gave Canada and Mexico a permanent, predictable mechanism to out-manoeuvre American interests.
Economically, this is a massive win for Canada.
Instead of waiting sixteen years to fix trade imbalances, Canada’s negotiating team can now use the annual review to dynamically tweak supply chains, adjustments, and tariffs.
For example, if the U.S. tries to restrict Canadian steel, Ottawa can immediately counter-balance it in the next annual cycle by leveraging critical minerals that American tech sectors desperately need.
I'm pretty sure that our Prime Minister and his trade negotiators knew EXACTLY what they were doing here lol.
They accepted the "yearly review" demand with a smile because they realized a secret technical truth: a rolling contract gives the smaller, faster partner CONSTANT leverage.
While the U.S. administration celebrates a hollow political victory, Canada can now form stronger secondary trade alliances around the world, using the constant fluidity of CUSMA to offer global markets a highly adaptive backdoor into North America.
Ultimately, Washington's attempt to keep its neighbors on a short leash seems to have backfired completely, proving that when you constantly demand to look at the contract, you give the smarter guys 365 days a year to rewrite the rules.
There might be some temper tantrums in Washington because of this.
I mean, you've GOT to give Carney some serious cred here...
Even you 'con-bros' who don't like the guy, come on..this is gold!
😀 🇨🇦
#canpoli
#CUSMA
#MAGA
By David Abbruzzes:
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Very well stated.
Canada’s GDP grew 0.5% in April, beating the 0.4% forecast and marking the fastest monthly growth since July 2025. That’s on top of a 0.1% gain in May. Second quarter is now tracking toward roughly 2.3% to 2.5% annualized growth, well above the Bank of Canada’s own 1.5% projection.
Growth was broad based too. 14 of 20 industrial sectors expanded. Oil and gas led the charge with a 2.9% jump, the sector’s best month since February 2024. Manufacturing, construction and transportation all posted gains.
Remember the recession headlines a few weeks ago? Two quarters of contraction had people ready to write the obituary. Economists are now calling that a false alarm. BMO’s chief economist said it outright.
I told you so. The Canadian economy is not as fragile as the doom posting suggested. Still sluggish, still facing real headwinds from U.S. trade policy, but grinding along!
110 years ago today, more than 800 Newfoundlanders went into battle at Beaumont-Hamel. More than 700 were killed, wounded, or went missing in a single day. Despite their horrific losses, the Newfoundland Regiment fought in World War I until 1918.
Today, as we celebrate the greatest country on Earth, we remember all those who served and sacrificed so that we could live in freedom and peace.
Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸
🟥 This is the weirdest recession I've ever seen. 👀🙂
It defies the science of all known economics.
How can an economy that is in recession be GROWING. 😌
Unless ... it was a misleading lie being spread by conservatives?
Again.
Perhaps Professor Poilievre can explain this phenomenon to us, since he and Scheer were the ones gleefully spreading word about a recession, despite financial experts LOUDLY disputing that we are in said recession. 🤷🏻♂️
Pierre Poilievre should leave the economics to Carney and focus on what he does best. 👌🏼
That is, live lavishly off Canadian taxpayers, while contributing nothing positive... 🫴🏼0⃣
The 21-YEAR grift.
🚨 TRUMP’S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE JUST DROPPED…AND IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT.
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump’s 927-page financial disclosure today. Here’s what a sitting U.S. President made in 2025:
💰 $635 MILLION from the TRUMP memecoin, while retail investors watched it crash from $74 to $1.68
💰 $594 MILLION from World Liberty Financial token and stablecoin sales, a crypto venture co-founded with his own sons
💰 $65 MILLION from selling equity in that same company
💰 $80+ MILLION in media settlements from ABC, CBS, Meta, and YouTube, paid to his own presidential library
Total crypto haul: over $1.4 BILLION. In one year. While serving as President of the United States.
His net worth has nearly TRIPLED, from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion, since taking office.
And while Trump pocketed $1.4 billion from crypto, the everyday Americans who bought his memecoin? They lost. 764,000 wallets ended up in the red.
This is the most corrupt presidency in American history. Period.
Este es el yate de la multimillonario Nancy Walton, la heredera del imperio de Walmart, ademas del yate de 300 millones utiliza un barco de servicio donde tiene a un catering para llevarle la comida en helicóptero y así no mezclarse con la plebe.
Mientras esta rica usa 2 barcos y un helicóptero solo para una tarde de playa, a ti te dicen que te duches en 2 minutos y que no pongas el aire acondicionado asfixiándote con 40° porque hay que salvar el planeta.
Esto es el capitalismo, donde los ricos pueden desayunar petroleo mientras tú bebes con pajita de cartón para no contaminar.
We are NOT talking enough about the fact that Donald trump is a child-raping pedophile. We simply are NOT. It is just INSANE to me that we are expected to just go about our business when everyone knows that the president* of the United States raped children.
@wealthmoose You outside your f*cking mind if you thought anyone was going to get a deal with the current US administration. Not a real deal.
He’s already reneged on the deals he made with other countries since the tarrif fiasco started.
Not to mention USMCA was his deal in the first place.
@BrownMelan70244@_wej01 More people = more taxes = more money to cover these things.
When you’re not just bailing out billionaires for their 15th failed business.