Assuming that @IvisonJ’s reporting is right, the implications are pretty big.
Prime Minister Carney was prepared to accept the deal with the administration and only leaned into the explanation about “sovereignty” and French language protections after Premier Ford refused to restore U.S. alcohol to the shelves because of the auto tariffs.
If true, it means that we walked away from what the prime minister himself believed was a good deal because the premier insisted on zero tariffs for autos.
It probably reinforces the Conservatives’ call to recall Parliament to get to the bottom of this. Canadians should know whether a deal was lost because one province refused to accept its consequences for one industry.
🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸Israel’s original plan for Iran relied on Kurdish forces entering the country after Israeli airstrikes opened a route through the Kurdish region.
Thousands of Kurdish fighters were reportedly trained in Israel for the operation, which was intended to trigger wider anti-regime protests.
Days after the campaign began, however, the White House reportedly ordered Israel to halt the Kurdish advance, partly due to Turkish opposition.
I love the Greek-Israeli alliance and I love Greek mythology, but naming a defense system that's supposed to protect vulnerable spots "Achilles shield" seems like a poor choice of words...
@IDF ROFL... read this sentence again!
Israel is occupying another nation and calling the people of that nation resisting them "terrorists"
Thank G-d you aren't actually the Biblical Israel.
Hezbollah is getting absolutely destroyed in South of Lebanon and Islamic Republic cannot do anything about it.
Once Islamic Republic wanted Hezbollah to be part of the ceasefire, but now it's powerless and has to watch Hezbollah get annihilated.
Hezbollah is getting absolutely destroyed in South of Lebanon and Islamic Republic cannot do anything about it.
Once Islamic Republic wanted Hezbollah to be part of the ceasefire, but now it's powerless and has to watch Hezbollah get annihilated.
The Islamic Republic is trapped in a strategic corner of its own making and every escalation should be read as a bid, not a battle plan. The regime is bidding for the one commodity it cannot produce domestically: sanctions relief packaged as American eagerness.
Economically, it can only "resist," substituting an inflation tax for outright payroll default while its revenue base collapses.
Diplomatically, its only remaining play is escalation designed to drag the United States back to the table and manufacture pressure inside Washington for talks.
Politically, it needs a deal, but a deal it can sell to the only constituency it has left: a support base that has shrunk to its most radicalized core. That base, the narrowest in the regime's history, is precisely the audience least willing to accept the concessions any real deal requires.
The corner is therefore self-tightening: the more isolated the regime becomes at home, the more it must escalate abroad; the more it escalates, the harder the deal it needs becomes to sell.
The Islamic Republic is trapped in a strategic corner of its own making and every escalation should be read as a bid, not a battle plan. The regime is bidding for the one commodity it cannot produce domestically: sanctions relief packaged as American eagerness.
Economically, it can only "resist," substituting an inflation tax for outright payroll default while its revenue base collapses.
Diplomatically, its only remaining play is escalation designed to drag the United States back to the table and manufacture pressure inside Washington for talks.
Politically, it needs a deal, but a deal it can sell to the only constituency it has left: a support base that has shrunk to its most radicalized core. That base, the narrowest in the regime's history, is precisely the audience least willing to accept the concessions any real deal requires.
The corner is therefore self-tightening: the more isolated the regime becomes at home, the more it must escalate abroad; the more it escalates, the harder the deal it needs becomes to sell.
⭕️ The number of threats and posturing from Iran in the past 12 hours is unprecedented. This suggests the IRGC is feeling increased pressure, and the situation is only likely to escalate further. They understand that an uprising is inevitable and will likely intensify their actions from this point forward, as no deal can guarantee their survival. The regime appears to be entering a desperate, even self-destructive, phase.
⭕️ The number of threats and posturing from Iran in the past 12 hours is unprecedented. This suggests the IRGC is feeling increased pressure, and the situation is only likely to escalate further. They understand that an uprising is inevitable and will likely intensify their actions from this point forward, as no deal can guarantee their survival. The regime appears to be entering a desperate, even self-destructive, phase.
The Islamic Republic is trapped in a strategic corner of its own making and every escalation should be read as a bid, not a battle plan. The regime is bidding for the one commodity it cannot produce domestically: sanctions relief packaged as American eagerness.
Economically, it can only "resist," substituting an inflation tax for outright payroll default while its revenue base collapses.
Diplomatically, its only remaining play is escalation designed to drag the United States back to the table and manufacture pressure inside Washington for talks.
Politically, it needs a deal, but a deal it can sell to the only constituency it has left: a support base that has shrunk to its most radicalized core. That base, the narrowest in the regime's history, is precisely the audience least willing to accept the concessions any real deal requires.
The corner is therefore self-tightening: the more isolated the regime becomes at home, the more it must escalate abroad; the more it escalates, the harder the deal it needs becomes to sell.
Argentina should just flood the Falkland Islands with boats full of Argentinian migrants and vote the British out, just like the Muslims did to London and Birmingham. And pretty much the entire UK soon.
La Fierté, c’est une promesse : celle que chaque Canadienne et chaque Canadien peut vivre ouvertement, fièrement et en toute sécurité en étant soi-même.
Joyeuse Fierté à la communauté 2ELGBTQI+ de Nepean et de tout Ottawa!