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Petraeus: The U.S. has not remotely learned the lessons it should from Ukraine. This is the future of war: Ukraine alone uses 10,000 drones a day, and 90% of Russian casualties are caused by drones. That should force institutional change. 1/

Well said - anyone who blames Premier Smith or any Albertan for the current unity problems in Canada needs to look hard in the mirror and ask themselves how they would feel if for 10 years Ottawa attacked their largest job creator, triggered mid-winter instability in their power grid and topped it off with taking $25 billion in net equalization/transfers while vilifying us at the same time. Let’s cut the “Alberta is just complaining and ungrateful” BS and get to solving the obvious root problems. The energy-deal undoing the 9 destructive Trudeau laws is the first big step in undoing that damage. But there is much more to be done. And a little bit of self reflection and self awareness by Laurentian elites, eastern media and Ottawa/BC politicos would be helpful to the unity cause.

Poilievre criticizes the Liberal CRTC's proposed 15% tax on streaming services like Netflix, calling for its reversal. "Conservatives oppose the Netflix tax," he said. "Everywhere you turn, Mark Carney is in your pocket."

For the record. No More Free Ride for Canada The pause of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence is not just a bureaucratic squabble; it is Washington’s opening move in a larger strategic game is to force Canada out of its free‑rider equilibrium. For 86 years, the board has been the institutional expression of Canada’s privileged status under the American security umbrella, a quiet assurance that Ottawa would always have a seat at the table when North America’s defence was planned. Putting it on ice is how the United States turns that privilege into leverage. The strategic game is simple. The United States wants Canada to undergo a structural adjustment that Canadian politics has spent decades avoiding: higher, sustained defence spending; faster delivery of real capabilities; and a serious industrial base anchored in energy and critical minerals. By pausing the PJBD rather than gutting NORAD or daily operational cooperation, Washington creates a reversible but highly visible penalty. The message is: the shield stays, for now, but the status, influence, and symbolism that Canadian elites prize are conditional on Ottawa finally behaving like a hard power rather than a moralizing stakeholder. Mark Carney has, belatedly, read this room. He knows a world of Iranian missile swarms, Russian attrition wars, and Chinese naval expansion will not indulge a G7 country that treats 2 percent of GDP on defence as heroic while treating its vast resource endowment as something to be constrained rather than exploited. The problem is that most of Canada’s political class, and the majority of its public, have not caught up. They still act as if the post WWII rules based era lives coupled with geography, good intentions, and ESG‑branded virtue restraint on resource development are a strategy that is sustainable. In that context, the PJBD pause is best understood as a forcing mechanism. It is designed to make clear that Canada must choose: either adapt, by rapidly ramping up defence spending, rapidly developing and processing its natural resources as strategic assets, and embedding itself more deeply in U.S. planning and production, or accept a future as a protected but marginal player, lecturing from the sidelines while others set the terms. The strategic game is to end Canada’s era of cost‑free virtue and make hard power, not slogans, the price of continued privilege. No one should be surprised.

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3

Has Canada long neglected defence? 100% true. But it just reached 2% of GDP, with more to come. Strong alliances have always been a key US advantage relative to the USSR and now China; Trump is squandering what has long been a major source of US power.

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3

You’d think a professor who’s focused on FP & who was a defence analyst at DND wouldn’t be trying to BS CDN’s about Carney’s slight of hand claims of spending 2% of the CDN GDP on defence in FY25/26. Carney’s counting on professors like Juno, the subsidized media, the enforced silence of serving CAF officers, the fact that NATO doesn’t audit its members claims & the ignorance of CDN’s that are too busy trying to feed their families & keep their own heads above water to care to check his BS claims. At best, even with the most generous accounting, you can say we only spent 1.6% of GDP on the CAF in FY25/26.

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3

Mark Carney has been Prime Minister for a year. He promised to build at “speeds not seen in generations.” And today? Still no pipeline. Still no projects of "national interest." Get this Liberal government out of the way and green-light projects now.

Pierre Poilievre: "I got into politics and helped the previous Conservative government balance budgets, drop crime by 25%, lower taxes so people could afford their lives. Those were great days."