I’m saddened to learn of the passing of former Nova Scotia Premier, Dr. John Hamm.
Before entering public life, Dr. Hamm served his community as a family physician for over 30 years. He brought that same sense of service and dedication to his work as the MLA for Pictou Centre and as Premier of Nova Scotia. He believed in outcomes over politics and fought relentlessly to secure a stronger, more prosperous future for his province.
I offer my sincere condolences to Dr. Hamm’s family, friends, and all those who admired him.
President Trump’s address to the nation Thursday is expected to focus on newly declassified intelligence reports. According to a source familiar with the matter, the reports provide additional details about foreign nations’ plans to influence the 2020 election.
First from @jake__traylor
Trump says Graham called him at around 6:30pm or 7pm last night; if EMS was called at 8:30pm then Trump was one of the last people Graham spoke to before his death.
I feel qualified to chime in here.
Being middle class is a relatively new thing for most of the developing world. A table full of food feels luxurious to the Thai, the Turk, the Arab, the Indian, in a way westerners don’t quite grasp. Hunger is too far distant from our psyche.
I look at a table like this and I see gluttony and waste. The Turk feels content with the feast laid out before him. The table laden with food represents success to him in the same way westerners view a well manicured lawn or a decent wine collection. They are still at the safety stage of industrialization. Westerners want self-actualization.
Turkish President Erdogan gifted personalized revolvers—complete with live ammo—to NATO leaders at Ankara Summit.
Keir Starmer couldn’t bring his home because it’d be illegal in the UK.
Source: FT
The deal makes the most sense when you look at it through the lens of Carney taking Canada into the EU at all accelerated rate.
I feel like We could be a leader there.
Carney just handed Canada’s $100B submarine fleet to Germany’s TKMS over South Korea’s Hanwha. Announced in Halifax, hours before he flies to the NATO summit in Turkey.
This isn’t really about which sub is better. It’s about NATO math. Germany argued Hanwha doesn’t have the same NATO connectivity, and Pistorius has already floated pooling German, Norwegian, and Canadian subs into a combined fleet of up to 24.
Translation: Canada is buying into Europe’s orbit at the exact moment the US is stepping back from NATO.
South Korea offered more money. $70B+ in trade and investment, tens of thousands of jobs a year, a $200M lifeline for Algoma Steel. Germany won anyway.
I think Carney got this one wrong. Hanwha’s package was bigger and would have actually diversified us into the Indo-Pacific instead of doubling down on Europe. We keep talking about reducing reliance on the US and building new partnerships, then pick the safe NATO choice when a real alternative was on the table.
Canada is designating German manufacturer TKMS as the preferred supplier for our next fleet of submarines.
This will be the largest defence procurement in our nation’s history and it will have enormous, lasting benefits for Canadian industries and workers. Together with our German and Norwegian Allies, we will build at speed and scale to expand our strategic capabilities and defend our sovereignty.
We will build this fleet to build Canada strong.
If Sikorsky is paying for it, you can be sure the US government overpaid by at least 5x that number on the contract for purchase of the actual helicopters.
NEW: POTUS announces he is building a White House helipad: “For 50 years we’ve been landing helicopters on grass.”
New helicopters are two and half times more powerful than the old ones. The grass gets “ripped out.”
“Now we’re building a helipad, a beautiful helipad.”
Sikorsky are paying the full cost of $5 million to $6 million. “It’s got the seal of the White House, an eagle, and it’s carved out of granite.”
- Per White House pool
@muvatalli29 Is low quality fuel still regularly a problem in Europe? I'm in Canada, we used to have stations with bad reputations years ago but at this point the fuel is so regulated that all stations have decent quality.
US presidential limousines (The Beast) were spotted refueling at a gas station in Ankara ahead of Trump's arrival for the NATO Summit on July 7-8, 2026 — the first US presidential visit to Türkiye since 2015.
Trump is expected with a delegation of 1,000-1,400 personnel for bilateral meetings with Turkish President Erdogan, a visit to Anıtkabir, and summit sessions, with F-35 sales among the expected topics.
I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No President in History has ended the same war so many times.
Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.
No President has ever done this before.
And he is nowhere near finished ending it.
It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!