At this hour, talks go on with Iran. I don’t know whether all these talks will do any good. Arabs are nice people, but you don’t want to get on their bad side.  

The media is growing more bold in their criticism of Donald Trump. I wouldn’t be too quick to jump. So far, I think he’s ahead of the media. He tells them after the fact. He never gives them a chance to ambush him. Those idiots never give up! They just make up a new story you hadn’t thought of. The media, excepting those that attend press conferences, is against him. They never miss a chance to poke fun. So far, at least, he’s having the last laugh.

Trump signed the agreement to agree. Good luck. I doubt it’s final. Gas prices are supposed to come down, otherwise we’d never know we’d been in a war. I don’t know what kind of leverage we have, we’ve already destroyed everything. We’d hoped another faction would come to power, maybe friendly?  But it doesn’t look like that will happen. I guess we’d better get used to the idea of Iran being an enemy.  

Canada is cratering, and you can read all about it. They’ve never had the strength or resolve of the United States. They’ve let every Tom, Dick and Harry come in and at this point I don’t think we’d want it. How Canadians are putting up with the insults coming from the Oval, I don’t know.  The media is largely against Trump, you don’t need me to tell you that. They are criticizing everything he does and thinks. He doesn’t care.  

They’re chasing us around about AI. They say that pollsters are asking AI instead of the people.  That’s a good way to get steered wrong.  

Markets are about 7 moves ahead of the investor, they claim. Oil is coming down, now that we’ve paid penance. Maybe we won’t feel so guilty every time we fill up the car.  

You hardly hear anything about the Ukraine war. First we were on Zelensky’s side, then Trump kicked him out of the White House. I don’t know what to make of it, but I don’t like Zelensky. He had the misfortune of Donald Trump’s presidency, and doesn’t know how to handle it. Ukraine has hit Russia with missiles and the other shoe has yet to drop.

Mark

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Darian Quist, a 12th-grader, was in his mechanics class Tuesday afternoon when Tumbler Ridge Secondary School students in remote northeastern British Columbia were plunged into lockdown.

“For a while, I didn’t think anything was going on,” he told CBC. “I thought it was just like maybe a ‘Secure and hold’ but once everything starts circulating, we kind of realized something was wrong.”

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China’s state media is calling on the Canadian government to set a foreign policy path independent of the United States — what it calls “strategic autonomy.”

Canada has long been one of America’s closest allies, geographically and otherwise. But Beijing is hoping that President Donald Trump’s economic aggression — and, now, military action — against other countries will erode that longstanding relationship.

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LONDON — The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia officially recognized Palestine as a state Sunday, a significant shift in foreign policy and a step away from their alignment with the United States, with several other European nations and U.S. allies set to follow suit this week.

“Today, to revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis, and a two state solution, the United Kingdom formally recognizes the State of Palestine,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement.

Canada had, moments before, become the first Group of 7 nation to recognize the state of Palestine, as Prime Minister Mark Carney promised a “peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”

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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/uk-canada-australia-formally-recognize-palestine-state-rcna232588

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney caved just hours before the new levy was slated to go into effect on Monday, as the country scrambles to revive stalled trade negotiations ahead of a looming July 21 deadline.

A fuming Trump had nixed the talks Friday after Canada said it was sticking with its plan to slap companies — including Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb — with a 3% levy on revenue from Canadian users.

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Source: https://nypost.com/2025/06/30/us-news/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-targeting-us-technology-firms-to-advance-stalled-trade-talks/

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The move plunges U.S. relations with its second-largest trading partner back into chaos after a period of relative calm.

It also came just hours after Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, struck an upbeat tone on trade, touting progress had been made with China on reviving the flow of critical minerals for the U.S. manufacturing sector and in other key tariff negotiations.

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Source: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/tariff-deals-could-wrapped-labor-172757235.html

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Manitoba has declared a provincewide state of emergency as wildfires continue to threaten communities across the province.

An emergency alert issued at around 5:25 p.m. CT Wednesday said the measure was due to rapidly spreading wildfires and extreme fire conditions in northern and eastern Manitoba.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said the “significant step” will involve the evacuation of about 17,000 people as fires continued to intensify throughout Wednesday.

“This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people’s living memory,” Kinew said during a Wednesday evening news conference.

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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/state-of-emergency-flin-flon-evacuation-1.7546326

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The address in Ottawa laid out priorities for new Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose Liberals won the country’s general election in April – a campaign that was dominated by US President Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s independence.

Charles said relationships with partners, including the US, were changing, and he stressed the sovereignty of both nations.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93lx42r42do

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Carney cut the number of ministers to 29 from the 39 under predecessor Justin Trudeau, but kept some key players in their positions, such as Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Dominic LeBlanc, who is in charge of U.S. trade.

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Carney took over as Canada’s leader in March when he replaced deeply unpopular former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who had announced his resignation after almost a decade in office. Despite the Liberal victory — which came following the party trailing in the polls by as many as 25 points before Trudeau’s exit — voters denied them a majority government as returns project the rival Conservatives to score seat gains in the double digits.

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Source: https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/29/canada-election-results-2025/

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