“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

New Ipsos research suggests that support for Canada’s position on trade is more conditional than the government’s current defiant stance may suggest.

For older Canadians and for those who can afford it, sovereignty is something they have the means to fight for. For younger Canadians and those with lower incomes, their finances take precedence. It isn’t necessarily that these Canadians do not want Canada to take a strong stand; they just don’t think they can take the hit.

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announces America is SIPHONING businesses away from Canada

This is what FAFO looks like! Trump always wins.

"Canadian businesses are pouring into the United States. We want to make our own cars, etc. That’s what’s going to happen. Canada has been… pic.twitter.com/dOaUBofW94

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 30, 2026

President Donald Trump on Saturday posted an apparently AI-generated video depicting an army of buff, bequiffed and heavily-armed “Donald Ducks” patrolling the shores of “Lake America.”

Hours later, while he was at his Virginia golf course, the president posted another AI-generated video, this time showing himself knocking over a “Welcome to Lake Ontario” sign and installing a “Welcome to Lake America” one in its place. He then dances to the Village People’s “YMCA.”

President Trump posted "Donald Ducks" guarding the new Lake America 🤣☠️ pic.twitter.com/LjBSXBc31h

— J (@JayTC53) August 29, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump wasn’t wrong when he said that Canadians got to enjoy all the benefits of U.S. statehood without being one.

Free trade enabled Canada to shelve concerns with innovation or industrial modernization, ship primary materials to the American industrial economy, and live an easy life. Furthermore, knowing that the U.S. would never allow a hostile country to invade Canada, we were also able to slash our defence budget to the bone, offloading our security to the Americans.

As Canada’s trade war with the United States continues, more voices within and outside Alberta are proposing using Western Canada’s resources as leverage in trade negotiations. The federal government can impose export tariffs or even curtail oil and gas exports to pressure the USA. But using Alberta’s oil as a bargaining chip in a trade war would be economically risky and politically explosive.

The problem is that Canada has limited pricing power. The costs would land first on Canadian producers and consumers, and the political memory of the National Energy Program (NEP)—the last time Ottawa tried to conscript Alberta’s energy wealth—is still raw.

OTTAWA — A frightening scene played out on Tuesday morning, when a parked semi-truck rolled into an excavation site and hit an exposed section of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline near the Wisconsin-Michigan border.

Drone footage that was widely circulated online showed a thick, white cloud of natural gas spreading from the accident site to a meadow on the other side of a dirt road.

For William McDonald, 38, a diesel mechanic from Thunder Bay, Ontario, “Canadian is always the first choice,” even if it means his weekly bills are higher.

“As soon as Trump started putting those tariffs on in February [last year], I started boycotting US goods,” he said. “Avoiding American products has driven my costs up, and I’m still happy to do it.

“I used to drink US beer, but now I drink Canadian beer, and that costs me an extra C$1,000 (£531/US$720) a year. Likewise, groceries cost about C$50 more a week, but you work that extra hour to pay for it.”

CAPE VINCENT, N.Y.—It’s just after 7:40 p.m. when news of the executive order reaches the squat white cottage underneath the lighthouse.

Pat Schamerhorn is locking up the gift shop. She lives just down the road, in the house with the picket fence, with views of the end of Lake Ontario and the start of the St. Lawrence River out her front door.

She decided to head home early, catching the last wisps of an achingly beautiful sunset dipping below the horizon, when news arrives — in person, in the form of a Toronto Star reporter and photographer.

Oh come on Star, Elbows Up is driven by the inbred Anti-Americanism afflicting the Liberal-Left in Canada.

It is easy to forget it was only last year, during an Ontario election campaign focused on the threat of U.S. tariffs, that Premier Doug Ford let slip he wanted Donald Trump to win the presidency.

“On election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was,” said Ford, caught on a hot mic at his Etobicoke campaign office.

“Then the guy pulled out the knife and f—-ing yanked it in me,” he said, motioning his arm as if stabbing someone.

HAHA 🇨🇦 nothing says “we’re not triggered”like an emergency BILLBOARD to remind people of Lake Ontario 😅 what a waste of money pic.twitter.com/VC9U6zbogT

— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) August 29, 2026

“Reindustrialization is a real thing, and no one would argue that’s not a good thing for our countries,” said Glenn Stevens, the chief automotive and innovation officer at the Detroit Regional Chamber. “The issue really for us has been here in Michigan is we want that, and we’ve seen some of that, but we really don’t want that at the expense of a trading partner that we’ve been with for, in the auto industry, almost 125 years together.”