UPDATED: Trump Sparks Health Speculation as White House Calls Lid Amid Iran Conflict
President Donald Trump’s absence from the public eye has ignited widespread speculation about his health and location, with social media abuzz over claims he may be at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The White House called a ‘lid’ at 11:08 a.m. on Saturday, signaling no further public appearances for the day, intensifying rumors amid […]
Ottawa Adds $51M More To Ukraine Aid As Total Racks Up $26B So Far
Canada added another $51 million in aid and reconstruction funding for Ukraine on Friday, extending a support commitment that has now reached nearly $26 billion since Russia’s 2022 invasion. The largest disclosed portion of the package is $32 million for humanitarian assistance, with funds flowing through outside organizations including the Red Cross, the UN Refugee […]
Zoltan Pozsar Called It in 2022: The world did not run out of money. It ran out of trust, protection, and cheap certainty.
Back in 2022, when most of the financial class was still pretending the world could be understood through CPI prints, Fed dot plots, and whatever nonsense was coming out of Jackson Hole, Zoltan Pozsar was talking about something far more important.
Germany’s New Peacetime Registry is Raising Eyebrows
For the last 48 hours, social media has been buzzing with headlines suggesting that Germany has effectively “locked down” its borders for men aged 17 to 45. While the word “ban” is being thrown around in viral threads, the reality is more subtle—but in many ways, more significant. We aren’t looking at a travel restriction […]
Alberta Exempts Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Valley Data Centre from Environmental Review
Alberta’s government has exempted Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie from a provincial environmental impact assessment, a decision that clears a major regulatory hurdle for the project billed as the world’s largest AI data centre industrial park. The exemption, outlined in a letter from the province’s environment ministry dated this week, raises […]
Emirates Global Aluminium Faces Year-Long Recovery After Iranian Attack on Abu Dhabi Smelter
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the Middle East’s largest aluminum producer, warned it could take up to 12 months to fully restore production at its Al Taweelah smelter in Abu Dhabi after a devastating Iranian missile and drone attack last week. The facility, one of the world’s biggest with an annual output of 1.6 million tons […]
French General Mocks Trump’s Iran War Pitch: Cheap Titanic Ticket After Hitting The Iceberg
Retired French three-star general Michel Yakovleff emerged as one of the clearest public faces of allied skepticism toward President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy after ridiculing the idea of Europe joining a US-led operation that he argued lacked a coherent structure, clear political purpose, and credible military design. Yakovleff, a former senior NATO officer and former […]
Leaked Transcripts Show Indigenous Leaders Torch Eby Over DRIPA Suspension
BC Premier David Eby’s proposed suspension of key parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) has detonated into a political and legal crisis after a leaked transcript showed Indigenous leaders accusing him of “absolute betrayal,” colonialism, and deliberately fracturing the province’s relationship with First Nations. The nearly 17,000-word transcript covers […]
Canada and China Ink Financial Cooperation Pact to Deepen Market Ties in Beijing
Canada and China have signed a landmark joint statement to deepen financial-sector ties, marking a significant step in rebuilding economic relations. The agreement, finalized during Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s visit to Beijing on Friday, aims to foster closer engagement between regulators and financial institutions of both nations. Champagne, leading a delegation of top Canadian business […]
Trump Launches New Tariffs On Drugs And Metals
President Donald Trump on Thursday launched a new tariff offensive centered on pharmaceuticals and industrial metals, replacing the broad import duties struck down by the Supreme Court in February. The pharmaceutical piece is the most aggressive. Under the White House proclamation, patented pharmaceuticals and associated ingredients are subject to a 100% ad valorem duty unless […]