Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to China next week to discuss trade with President Xi Jinping, just as American power is moving hard and fast to curtail or eliminate Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere. Canada has nothing to gain from isolating itself from the United States or the West in the short term, just to stick it to Donald Trump. Read More

Minnesota is all over the news this week, but for all of the wrong reasons. Yesterday, 37 year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agents during a round-up of illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the North Star State is at the centre of a massive billion-dollar social services fraud centered around its large Somali immigrant community. And this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he is ending his bid for a third term as the fallout from the fraud scandal reaches to the highest levels of state politics. Read More

Did the Liberal government lie about the effects of mass immigration, or simply get it wrong? It is almost certainly a heady mix of both. Canadians were told not to notice what was happening right in front of them, and they have every reason to be angry about the impact it had on their lives, most notably on affordability or the sudden emergence of shady “career” colleges in strip malls. Read More

Although Latin Americans are widely celebrating the United States’ abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, some voices, predominantly western progressives, have condemned the operation as destabilizing, illegal and immoral. Don’t listen to them: their arguments are specious and rife with contradictions.   Read More

Leave aside the question of whether President Donald Trump has the unilateral authority to depose foreign heads of state — U.S. presidents have a lot of leeway, but not that much — the removal of socialist thug Nicolás Maduro from power is a boon for long-suffering Venezuelans. Under Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela went from being a relatively free and increasingly prosperous country — albeit one with a corruption problem — to becoming an unfree pseudo-democracy ruled by collectivist dictators. When you see Venezuelans emigres around the world taking to the streets to celebrate the snatching of Maduro by U.S. troops, it’s because they have good reason. Read More

With his removal of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, Donald Trump has opened another front in his economic assault on Canada by indirectly targeting our oil industry. Canada must respond decisively with diversification to the world market via the rapid construction of at least another pipeline to the coast, and ideally more. Read More

The capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicholás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores by U.S. forces is cause for global celebration, though caution is warranted so long as the Maduro regime’s remaining leadership clings to power. Read More