The History of Canada

Canada's history spans millennia, beginning with Indigenous peoples who have inhabited the land for at least 15,000–20,000 years. Diverse First Nations, Métis, and Inuit developed rich cultures, trade networks, spiritual traditions, and societies adapted to environments from the Arctic to the Great Plains and eastern woodlands.

European contact started around 1000 CE when Norse explorers, led by Leif Eriksson, established a short-lived settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. Sustained exploration began in the late 15th century. In 1497, John Cabot reached the Atlantic coast for England. French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1534, claiming the territory for France and using the Iroquoian word "kanata" (village) for the region around present-day Quebec.
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City, establishing New France. The colony grew through the fur trade, alliances with Indigenous nations like the Huron-Wendat, and missionary efforts, but faced conflicts with the Iroquois and British rivals. By the mid-18th century, Anglo-French rivalry escalated into the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). British forces captured Quebec in 1759 at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. The 1763 Treaty of Paris transferred New France to Britain.
British rule brought the Quebec Act of 1774, which guaranteed French civil law and Catholic rights, helping secure loyalty during the American Revolution. Loyalist refugees from the U.S. bolstered English-speaking populations. The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the colony into Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec). Rebellions in 1837–38 led to unification as the Province of Canada in 1840 and the push for responsible government.
Confederation on July 1, 1867, via the British North America Act, united Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into the Dominion of Canada. John A. Macdonald became the first prime minister. Canada expanded rapidly: Manitoba (1870), British Columbia (1871), Prince Edward Island (1873), and later Alberta and Saskatchewan (1905). The Canadian Pacific Railway (completed 1885) linked the nation, though it sparked tensions, including the Red River and North-West Resistances led by Louis Riel.
Canada contributed significantly to both World Wars, gaining international recognition. In 1931, the Statute of Westminster granted legislative independence; full patriation of the Constitution came in 1982 with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Postwar immigration transformed Canada into a multicultural society. Quebec's Quiet Revolution and sovereignty referendums (1980, 1995) highlighted ongoing federal tensions.
Today, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy with 10 provinces and 3 territories. Its history reflects Indigenous roots, French and British colonial legacies, resilience through conflicts, and a commitment to diversity, peacekeeping, and reconciliation.

After SCOTUS Citizenship Ruling, National Security Requires A Travel Ban On CCP Nationals

The Supreme Court narrowly ruled Tuesday that Chinese nationals partaking in birth tourism schemes may continue to do so and receive citizenship for their babies, making it imperative that President Donald Trump implement a complete ban on travel from China.

The high court held that “children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.”

But as Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his dissent, “The Court’s interpretation also has national-security implications.”

“Suppose that a person’s only connection to this country is that he was born here to a mother who was present just long enough to give birth and then quickly returned to her native country. Suppose that country is a strategic adversary or enemy of the United States. Suppose the child never visited the United States while growing up and was inculcated with hatred of this country. According to the Court, that person is a citizen of the United States. He can enter and leave the country as he pleases. He can travel the world on a United States passport. Even if he plots to harm this country, he cannot be deprived of his status as a citizen, at least under current precedent.”

Alito’s warning isn’t some far-fetched concern, either.

There are active Chinese birth tourism scams going on in the United States. For example, the Have My Baby in Miami clinic (whose website has now been taken down) is a business that allows foreign nationals using temporary visitor visas to travel to the country to give birth and make a paperwork American. Republicans in Congress are investigating the birth tourism schemes. But even if these clinics are shut down, it doesn’t mean Chinese nationals can’t just conspire on their own and time their trip to the United States around their due date.

And the risk of allowing foreign nationals from a hostile country to have a paperwork American baby is far too great.

In recent years we’ve seen how the Chinese Communist Party has utilized our lax immigration rules to send spies and nationals determined to undermine our national security. Chinese nationals have been charged for conspiring to smuggle biological materials into the U.S. and voting illegally in our elections, while other Chinese nationals have been buying land near sensitive military sites.

There is also the case of Eileen Gu. Gu was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents who were government officials. She was raised in America, but when the chance came, she competed for China in the Olympics.

While these persons may not have all benefited from birthplace citizenship, they highlight the real risk of giving birthright citizenship to persons from a country openly hostile to the United States with active campaigns to sabotage our national security.

At a time when the Chinese Communist Party is engaging in aggressive espionage campaigns, billions in intellectual property theft, and other operations intended to undermine the United States, the president now has no choice but to close off any avenues for exploitation of our Constitution, especially when these concerns are justified.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/30/after-scotus-citizenship-ruling-national-security-requires-a-travel-ban-on-ccp-nationals/

Wave of attacks on Iran's IRGC raises questions about renewed Kurdish insurgency

Kurdish separatists attempted Iran crossing from Iraq amid protests. 

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is facing a new round of violence in the country’s Kurdish-majority west, raising questions about whether a long-simmering Kurdish insurgency is entering a more active phase as fragile talks between Iran and Washington continue, experts say.

The flare-up matters beyond Iran’s borderlands because Kurdish opposition groups were recently viewed as a potential pressure point against Iran during the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran — and now some Kurdish voices fear they could be left exposed as Washington and Tehran return to fragile diplomacy.

In recent days, Iranian security forces have been killed in several reported attacks and clashes across western and northwestern Iran.

Four Iranian security personnel reportedly were killed and several others injured in two separate armed attacks Tuesday, reported The Jerusalem Post, in an analysis by Seth J. Frantzman, citing Iraq’s Shafaq News.

Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were reportedly killed and two others wounded in what it called an "armed terrorist attack" in Paveh, Iran, a border city in Kermanshah Province, reported Tasnim News, an Iranian outlet close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

In Baneh, Iran, gunmen attacked a police checkpoint, killing two police officers and injuring three other people, including a 3-year-old girl, The Jerusalem Post reported.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/us-iran-doha-qatar-war-peace-talks-hormuz-strait-june-30

Insanity: Palestinians Now Complaining That They Can't Cross Into Israel for Jobs

From what little contact I have had with Palestinians in the United States, they can be entrepreneurial, hard-working, and decent enough people to be around. 

Of course, these are generally Palestinians with the wit to leave the hellholes that the Palestinian leadership has created, and are also in jobs where a middle- to upper-middle-class guy like me is likely to meet them. So they are probably not representative.

But still, I can think of no inherent reason why, other than culture, that Palestinians in the Middle East are such a poisonously dangerous population, but there is not one Arab country that wants anything to do with them, and for good reasons. They destroy every place where they congregate. 

Ask the Jordanians. The Lebanese. The Egyptians. The Palestinian "refugees" from the war have all wound up in European countries too stupid to defend themselves against any threat. They are stupid enough to take in Syrians, Pakistanis, and Afghans as well, and have lived to regret it.

Since the West Bank and Gaza are terrible places to do any business, largely because the "governing" bodies are horrifically corrupt and only interested in graft and jihad, Palestinians get work in Israel. Or did, until October 7th, when many of the people welcomed into Israel to work turned out to have been spies who helped develop the intelligence necessary to commit the atrocities of that day.

Israel has always had this problem. On the one hand, they want the Palestinians in the formerly occupied territories to become more prosperous and less inclined to genocidal fantasies, and on the other hand, Palestinians as a group want to have their cake and eat it too. 

They want to live well, and thus need to work outside the crapholes created by their leaders, but on the other hand, they are bloodthirsty and want to kill Jews. 

After October 7th, Israel cut off access to the country for Palestinians, and now we are supposed to cry for the Palestinians who lost their jobs and blame Israel for not being interested in seeing its citizens raped, murdered, or blown up. 

From the perspective of Western elites, the role of Jews is to provide aid and succor to their sworn enemies, and have the decency to die when they are told. 

Western Europeans are the worst of the lot, and transnationalists in America are about as bad. And after the massive propaganda campaign that has successfully labeled the Gaza war as a "genocide," many ordinary Americans sympathize with the bloodthirsty Palestinians as well. 

When The New Yorker leads with a phrase like "justified in the name of security," they are trying to say that the real cause is racism or prejudice, as if the fear of Palestinian terror is irrational. 

That is absurd, of course. As many people have noted, proportionally the October 7th massacre was far more deadly than 9/11, so of course it has scarred the Israeli psyche. And, unlike the United States, Israel has lived with Palestinian terror for its entire existence as a country. To this day, its citizens contend with rocket attacks essentially daily. 

The transnational elite-types are indifferent to that, of course. As we have seen over the past year or two, even New Yorkers have embraced Islamists in the name of "diversity," and elected as Mayor a man who campaigned with an unindicted co-conspirator with the World Trade Center bombers, and speaks at mosques where they pray for "Death to America." 

Gad Saad calls the impulse to defend people who declare themselves enemies of our civilization "suicidal empathy," and surely there is much truth in that diagnosis. But I think that only captures one variable; many supporters of Palestinians quite consciously want our civilization to fall. They approve of the violence as it is a necessary component to their larger agenda. 

The AWFLs may be besotted with "empathy," but the Bolsheviks just want to destroy what they hate. 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/06/30/insanity-palestinians-now-complaining-that-they-cant-cross-into-israel-for-jobs-n3816455

Katz Says Israel Could Be Back At War With Iran 'Tomorrow'

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that the Israeli military was ready to restart the war against Iran and that it could happen as soon as "tomorrow".

Katz vowed that Israel would bomb Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh if Hezbollah rockets were fired into northern Israel and that the IDF was prepared to respond if that prompted Iranian attacks on northern Israel.

Katz visiting Israeli troops in southern Lebanon on February 2, 2025. Israeli Defense Ministry photo

"There is no reality in which Israel will not respond to an Iranian attack," Katz said, according to Israel Hayom. "The equation stands – rocket fire on Israeli communities means an immediate assault on the Dahiyeh. The possibility exists that Iran will attack Israel not only in response to strikes in the Dahieh. We could find ourselves at war with Iran tomorrow."

The Israeli minister said that a second potential scenario that would lead to a renewed war with Iran would be if President Trump decides to restart the bombing campaign.

"There are two scenarios that would resume full-scale fighting – a decision by President Donald Trump or Iranian missile fire. This could happen in two days," he said.

Katz also insisted that Israel was ready to fight Iran on its own, which he called a "blue and white operation," despite the fact that Israel is extremely reliant on US air defenses.

"The IDF is just waiting for it. We have selected targets to strike in Iran, and the IDF is prepared and alert, but we will not interfere with the US President’s current moves vis-a-vis the Iranians," he said.

Katz also boasted about the destruction of Shia Muslim villages in southern Lebanon. "It was clear during Operation Silver Plow that the Shia villages along the contact line had to disappear," he said, using the codename for Israel’s recent operations in southern Lebanon.

"We are currently in a situation where there is nearly 100% destruction in the contact-line villages of the western and central sectors. In the eastern sector, we are at 73% of villages destroyed," Katz added.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/katz-says-israel-could-be-back-war-iran-tomorrow

Sen. Rand Paul Slams Supreme Court’s Ruling Upholding Birthright Citizenship, Introduces Constitutional Amendment to End It for Children of Illegal Aliens

Senator Rand Paul expressed his strong disappointment Tuesday after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold birthright citizenship and strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are illegal aliens or temporarily in the country.

Instead of sitting on his hands, the Kentucky senator said that he has already filed an amendment to fully end birthright citizenship for those in the country illegally.

In a post on X, Paul stated, “The Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship is disappointing. That’s why I’ve already filed an amendment to end birthright citizenship for those here illegally. I’ll keep fighting to protect the integrity of American citizenship.”

The ruling addressed Executive Order 14160, which President Trump signed on his first day back in office.

The order directed that beginning 30 days later, children born in the United States to mothers who were either unlawfully present or lawfully present on a temporary basis, and to fathers who were not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents at the time of the child’s birth, would not be recognized as U.S. citizens and would not receive federal documentation such as passports or Social Security numbers.

The executive order never took effect because lower courts had blocked it with nationwide injunctions, and the Supreme Court’s decision invalidated it entirely.

Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion, which was joined in the core holding by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment but dissented in part on statutory grounds.

Justices Clarence Thomas, who was joined by Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Gorsuch in separate writings, dissented.

The Court held that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and are therefore citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.

Senator Paul has been a longtime advocate for reforming birthright citizenship policies that reward illegal immigration and create anchor babies.

Paul previously cosponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 alongside Senator David Vitter.

In late April, Paul announced that he was introducing a constitutional amendment to clarify the meaning of the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the Fourteenth Amendment.

The proposed amendment would limit automatic citizenship at birth to cases where at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident residing in the United States, or an alien with lawful immigration status who is performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Paul stated at the time, “Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on American soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the parent was here legally or not. This is wrong and not at all the intent of those who wrote the 14th Amendment. We are a country filled with immigrants, and legal immigration is valuable and should be protected.”

The senator noted that he was offering the amendment in case the Supreme Court failed to address the issue correctly, a prediction that proved accurate with Tuesday’s ruling.

The debate over birthright citizenship centers on the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War.

Paul argues that the clause was primarily intended to secure citizenship for freed slaves and to overturn the Dred Scott decision, and that the “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” language was understood at the time to exclude children of foreign diplomats, invading armies, and others who did not owe full and complete allegiance to the United States.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/sen-rand-paul-slams-supreme-courts-ruling-upholding/