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German ambassador to Canada says the term "associate membership" may have taken some EU countries by surprise, but adds that all member states want to deepen ties with Canada "as much as possible and make it as closely as possible."
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 BUDANOV SAYS PUTIN HAS DRIVEN RUSSIA INTO A STRATEGIC DEAD END
“Russia has driven itself into a dead end. It has no strategic solution left. What they are doing now only delays their defeat.”
Kyrylo Budanov’s assessment goes beyond the question of how much territory Russia can capture or how many soldiers it can send into battle. He is arguing that Moscow’s fundamental problem is strategic: continuing the war does not necessarily bring it closer to achieving the political objectives for which it launched the invasion.
Russia can still mobilize manpower, manufacture weapons and inflict enormous destruction. Its ability to sustain military operations should not be confused with an inability to fight. But sustaining a war and finding a way to achieve its objectives are two different things.
Moscow began its full-scale invasion expecting to impose its will on Ukraine. Instead, it has faced years of resistance, heavy military losses, international sanctions and a Ukrainian state that continues to fight for its independence.
Budanov’s argument is that prolonging the conflict cannot resolve those underlying failures. Even further battlefield gains would not automatically translate into the political outcome the Kremlin originally sought.
Whether Russia ultimately suffers the defeat he predicts remains uncertain. But his warning raises a question that military statistics alone cannot answer: how does Moscow turn the enormous cost of this war into a sustainable strategic success?
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Today, we launched a more ambitious partnership between Canada and the UAE.
A new free trade agreement that will unlock new access for Canadian businesses. A new energy partnership that will lead to greater investment in renewables. A new agreement on defence cooperation that will make Canadians safer.
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🔥 The $1.9 trillion trap just snapped shut on Russia. With pipeline cash cut off, the Kremlin’s financial lifeline is seizing up fast.
One in four Russian companies cannot service obligations. Major banks now choke on a brutal 10% bad-loan rate that regulators cannot hide.
👉 Moscow is heading into a full system stall with nowhere left to turn.
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This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 IF STORM SHADOW CAN REACH RUSSIA, IMAGINE WHAT AN UNRESTRICTED UKRAINIAN ARSENAL COULD DO 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪
British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles have been demonstrating their value to Ukraine, with recent strikes drawing renewed attention to the vulnerability of Russian military and defence-industrial infrastructure.
Now imagine Ukraine operating with a much broader selection of Western long-range weapons, without political restrictions on their employment against legitimate military targets.
American ATACMS ballistic missiles. German Taurus cruise missiles. American JASSM-ER air-launched missiles. Tomahawk cruise missiles.
These are different weapons, with different ranges, flight profiles, launch requirements and operational advantages. They are not interchangeable, and Ukraine would need compatible launch platforms, sufficient ammunition and the necessary targeting capabilities to employ them effectively.
But the strategic implications of combining such systems would be considerable.
Russia would face a more complicated defensive problem, having to protect military airfields, ammunition depots, logistics hubs, command facilities and defence-industrial sites against several types of long-range threats.
That would force Moscow to make difficult choices about where to concentrate its air defences and which military assets to prioritize.
Long-range weapons cannot win a war by themselves, and even sophisticated missiles can be intercepted. But they can make it significantly harder for an invading army to sustain operations while treating infrastructure deep behind the front as relatively secure.
Storm Shadow has already shown why long-range precision strike capabilities matter.
The bigger question is how much Ukraine’s operational options would expand if it had access to the full range of Western systems, in meaningful quantities and without the restrictions that have repeatedly shaped their use.
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Mélanie Joly: "What was interesting in his interview is that [Cleveland-Cliffs CEO] mentioned that Stelco was a competitor that he wanted to get rid of... he's proving our case."
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Brazil's new President @LulaOficial eager to conclude to the MERCOSUR-Canada Agreement.
A pro-Trump Bolsonaro victory might have seriously complicated the free trade accord...
And Canada needs this for diversification !
The MERCOSUR market ( Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia) represents :
▶️ A GDP of approximately US$3.0 trillion
▶️ Trade Expansion: Total two-way trade is expected to expand by $5.2 billion (a 30% increase), by 20240.
source : Global Affairs Canada
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Agradeço muito pelas palavras, primeiro-ministro @MarkJCarney. Esta foi uma vitória da democracia, do multilateralismo e da paz. Seguiremos defendendo o diálogo entre as nações, a justiça social e a preservação ambiental.
Vamos aproveitar essa oportunidade histórica de aproximação entre nossos países. Estamos esperançosos com a conclusão do Acordo MERCOSUL-Canadá.
Sigamos juntos.
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Agradeço muito pelas palavras, primeiro-ministro @MarkJCarney. Esta foi uma vitória da democracia, do multilateralismo e da paz. Seguiremos defendendo o diálogo entre as nações, a justiça social e a preservação ambiental.
Vamos aproveitar essa oportunidade histórica de aproximação entre nossos países. Estamos esperançosos com a conclusão do Acordo MERCOSUL-Canadá.
Sigamos juntos.
Congratulations, President @LulaOficial, on your re-election in Brazil.
The relationship between Canada and Brazil has flourished under our partnership. Let’s seize this opportunity to make it even stronger, together — to create major new trade opportunities, protect the environment, and build greater prosperity for both our peoples.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Fox News just revealed that new polling shows that 64% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump. If even Fox is admitting this, Trump's got big problems ahead of next Tuesday's midterms.
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PM Mark Carney "Il (Paul St-Pierre Plamondon) a été invité au dîner, il a refusé."
Au sujet du sommet UE-Canada:
"Nous avons eu trois consultations avec la délégation du Québec, déjà, en ce qui concerne l'accord avec l'UE.
C'est sa décision de laisser une chaise vide, encore."
@PaulPlamondon , allez-vous nous priver, pour créer des chicanes inutiles avec Ottawa, de représentation diplomatique?
Vous auriez pu rencontrer tous les gens importants de l'UE dans les coulisses du dîner, faire des contacts importants pour le Québec, et vous nous en privez?
Le Québec a un besoin criant de diversifier son économie, pas d'un PM qui adopte des positions absolutistes pour mousser l'indépendance du Québec- dont les Québécois ne veulent pas!
Cessez de faire la diva, et gouvernez!
#cdnpoli #polqc
🚨🚨 « C'est sa décision de laisser une chaise vide », dit Mark Carney au sujet de @PaulPlamondon.
tvanouvelles.ca/2026/10/27/s…
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How is this possible?
During last night's World Series Game 3 on October 26, 2026, the Milwaukee Brewers saw 175 pitches and only swung and missed 13 times.
The odds of this occurring in a modern Major League Baseball game are incredibly slim, reflecting an elite contact rate of roughly 92.6% on swings. In today's high-velocity, high-spin environment, a typical MLB team averages a whiff rate of about 24% to 26% per game.
Holding a Major League pitching staff to just 13 total swinging strikes over 175 pitches is a statistical anomaly, demonstrating a hyper-disciplined approach at the plate that propelled them to a dominant 10-1 victory over the Rays.
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Brewers look to join the 1976 Reds as the only teams in history to sweep the LCS & #WorldSeries in the same postseason
#ThisIsMyCrew
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I’d rather have been a #Brewers fan and paid the 2k to see my team win 😁at home
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Canada-EU summit seeks deepened alliance as U.S. ties fray ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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#BREAKING: PM Carney says U.S. is ‘coming closer to our position’ in trade war as talks gain momentum cp24.com/news/canada/2026/10…
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Canadian stock market outperforming U.S. for second consecutive year cultmtl.com/2026/10/canadian…
