Asked about how he went bankrupt, one of the characters in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises replies, “gradually, then suddenly.” That’s what’s in store for Canada’s supply management system, an outdated, regressive policy from the 1970s that protects the dairy and poultry sectors by artificially raising consumer prices and drastically restricting imports. It will disappear, gradually then suddenly, for many reasons.
Andrew Carandang and Jonathan Pan have been coming to Markham’s Pacific Mall for as long as they can remember — but there are still surprises to be had.
“They sell tools here?” Pan said, walking through the mall’s glass-box maze of more than 350 stores and stalls.
Three years ago the lifelong friends brought their online vintage clothing business Legacy Toronto into a physical store here, in what a sign inside brags is the largest indoor Asian mall in North America: “You must see it.”
The Star celebrates counterfeit goods.
Many Canadians have avoided the U.S. for over a year. Have we reached the point of no return?
Fredericton landscape painter Bruce Newman used to be a frequent visitor to the United States. Up to a dozen times a year, he’d travel to the country to vacation with his wife, meet up with fellow artists or capture picturesque landscapes on canvas.
But those visits abruptly ended early last year, when U.S. President Donald Trump started a trade war with Canada and suggested the country should become the 51st state.
Newman says recent events in Minnesota, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers clashed with protesters, further reinforced his resolve.
Elbow Cranks supporting illegal alien criminals in Canada on CBC!
We sometimes forget that the bad economic policy choices of U.S. politicians often pale in comparison to those of their counterparts in other countries. The result is that, despite the government’s best efforts, Americans are growing more prosperous at a faster rate than their peers elsewhere. The divergence is happening so rapidly, the U.K.’s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) recently pointed out, that Britons (among others) lose track of how quickly they’re falling behind Americans’ wealth and living standards. A return to free-market principles could help to once again even the score.
You have to wonder what the Elbow people were voting for.
Electric cars made by a best-selling Chinese brand are recording drivers’ every journey and storing them forever, it has emerged.
Security researchers were able to extract the entire location history of a BYD Seal car sold in the UK, from its production in China to its eventual dismantling.
While the company said it was not transmitting location data overseas, experts said the ease with which location history could be obtained represented a security risk.
BYD is moving into the Canadian market.
If U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration hoped to strengthen Canada’s hand in trade talks, it could hardly have done a better job.
This week, the U.S. deputy trade representative Rick Switzer told the Council of Foreign Relations that Prime Minister Mark Carney is guilty of “political malpractice” for pitting himself politically against the president, that he’s driven by his “ego,” and is an unserious leader who’s failed to acknowledge the United States’ force over Canada.
I don’t speak Elbow, maybe this nonsense sounds better in the original.
The Trump administration is now offering Canadian and Mexican aluminum and steel companies immediate tariff relief if they commit to moving production to the United States in the future.
The U.S published the notice on Thursday during a tense week that saw both American and Canadian officials publicly air their grievances.
“It’s a very aggressive tactic by the United States,” said international trade lawyer William Pellerin. “This really reinforces the approach that we’ve seen from the United States for a while now, which is simply: We win if you lose.”
We’ve been warned for months that Canada faces exceedingly tough talks on renewing the CUSMA/USMCA trade deal. With Donald Trump blowing off the importance of Canada (“we don’t need anything they have”), it was shaping up as a cage match at the negotiating table.
As of this week, though, we face the very real possibility of an even more ominous prospect as the July 1 date for agreement or not-agreement on re-upping CUSMA approaches: no talks at all.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Drivers are tiring of sticker shock at the pump.
Before U.S. President Donald Trump began waging war with Iran in late February, Canadians were paying roughly $1.32 a litre, while Americans were paying around US$2.98 per gallon. Today’s prices, on average, are about $1.75 per litre and US$4.03 per gallon, respectively.
The warning came quietly, but it was unmistakable. According to a Reuters report this week, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer made it clear: Canada’s dairy dispute will be resolved one of two ways, through negotiation or through enforcement.
That is not diplomatic nuance. That is a choice.
Canada and the United States have yet to start negotiations over their free trade deal, but they are already publicly squabbling over various issues, reflecting the depth of their ruptured relations.
As their talks to renew the North American trade pact that also includes Mexico have failed to get underway, Ottawa and Washington over the past week exchanged threats and insults, with the United States particularly perturbed over the decision by eight Canadian provinces last year to remove American wine and spirits from the shelves of government-owned liquor stores.
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Ambassador Wiseman blames Donald Trump for strained U.S. relations amid reports that PM Carney obstructed talks as a negotiating tactic.
Wiseman reiterates Canada is "ready, willing and able" to engage in negotiations under the CUSMA review. pic.twitter.com/0bEqLlIvpr
— Juno News (@junonewscom) April 23, 2026
Canada’s trade negotiator, Janice Charette, told a business audience this week that our trade agreement with the U.S. is “the envy of the world.”
The consensus in Ottawa seems to be that if Canada can emerge from the renegotiation process with much of the current trade deal intact, it will be a win.
But there is a minority view that looks at the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement through the lens of digital sovereignty and prosperity. From that perspective, Canada is not the most privileged of America’s trading partners: rather, it is the most captive.
Down Mexico Way …
Mark Carney’s YouTube video is being praised in the usual circles as sober, statesmanlike realism. It is nothing of the sort. It is the same old Ottawa delusion in a better suit.
Carney says Canada’s close economic ties to the United States (US) have become a weakness that must be corrected. That may sound sophisticated in Toronto and Liberal campaign war rooms, but from Alberta, it sounds ridiculous. Alberta’s relationship with the US is not a policy mistake. It is the basis of our prosperity.
Sad cuz it’s true.
Canada is not a democracy. It’s not even a free nation anymore.
How could it be when Parliament is sidelined for eight months, allowing the executive branch to reign unchecked?
Or when foreign interference is ignored and elections are gamed?
Or when courts rule that the… pic.twitter.com/668Bpkw72S
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) April 23, 2026
If you’re confused about where Canada stands heading into negotiations with the U.S. on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, it’s likely because Prime Minister Mark Carney keeps moving the goalposts.
Here’s a brief history of how we got to where we are today …
New Democrat MP Leah Gazan probably thought she was communicating only with a small and like-minded group of Canadian NDP supporters when she rolled out a lengthy acronym during a news conference in Ottawa earlier this month.
In fact, she had wandered into the wood chipper of U.S. culture war politics.
Her use of the phrase “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” — which many Canadians would probably also struggle to decipher — became fodder for hilarity on Fox News and was mocked across the MAGAsphere. Everyone from Elon Musk to Ted Cruz chimed in with their thoughts on the matter.
