“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

The latest arbitrary deadline to a gratuitous threat made by an untrustworthy president falls this week when Aug. 19 arrives and the U.S. does or does not introduce 50 per cent tariffs on a package of Canadian goods.

The degree to which this seizes Mark Carney might be indicated by the fact the prime minister chose to spend a week vacationing in Italy rather than nibbling his nails as the minutes ticked down. Sure, his aides say he stayed in close contact with Ottawa, but anyone who’s spent any time in Italy knows that distant crises always seem somewhat less desperate when considered over a cappuccino while pondering a statue or two in a pleasant piazza.

Trade talks between Canada and the United States entered the home stretch with just two days to go before a fresh round of tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump hit on Wednesday.

As Canadian officials try to hash out a trade deal with their American counterparts, Canadians are divided on how to respond to U.S. trade aggression, new polling from Abacus Data said on Monday.

Ontario has no choice but to welcome massive data centres in order to protect Canada from U.S. President Donald Trump, warns Premier Doug Ford.

In a speech Monday to delegates to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario convention in Ottawa, Ford touted his government’s plan to attract the facilities while addressing environmental and electricity concerns.

“Ontario has a choice: we can build the economy of the future and ensure Canadians’ data remains in Canada or we can get left behind and risk Canadians’ data being sent to the U.S. and into the hands of President Trump,” the premier said.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said last-minute negotiations with the U.S. to avoid a fresh batch of tariffs due to take effect this week are “delicate” and “intense,” and he plans to speak to his American counterpart in the next 48 hours to broker a mutually agreeable deal.

Speaking to reporters in St. John’s on Monday, where he announced a landmark hydroelectric deal with Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, Carney said he was reluctant to publicly discuss how talks are going to avoid U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened Section 338 tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of Canadian goods.

Some Canadian negotiators fear there may be no way to avert new U.S. tariffs from taking effect Wednesday, as Ottawa struggles to win relief from Washington on existing sectoral tariffs while also trying to persuade provinces to lift restrictions on American alcohol, sources tell CBC News.

Multiple sources — in both Canada and the U.S. — have been briefed directly on the negotiations and were granted confidentiality to speak frankly about the talks.

Negotiations continue to intensify, with Radio-Canada reporting that Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is expected to meet again Sunday with his counterpart, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. It would be their third meeting in a week.

Casualties incoming.

The lead Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals hold over the Conservatives is in part attributable to whom Canadians most trust to address looming tariff threats from the United States, although pollsters and strategists have mixed views on how significantly that lead could diminish if Ottawa doesn’t land a favourable trade deal when the dust settles.

Right now, “the primary lens” used to judge the party leaders is connected to how U.S. President Donald Trump and the American relationship are managed, said Nik Nanos, chief data scientist at Nanos Research, adding that Canadians believe Carney (Nepean, Ont.) can do a better job on this front.

Lawson Whiting, the Brown-Forman CEO and the man behind Jack Daniel’s, called Canada pulling American liquor off our shelves “worse than a tariff … because it’s literally taking your sales away.”

Whiting was quoted in March 2025 when eight provinces cleared their shelves of U.S. booze. Only Alberta and Saskatchewan blinked. A year and a half on, U.S. alcohol exports to Canada have fallen off dramatically — down 81 per cent. The ban has become, improbably, something that gets under Donald Trump’s skin, from a country the U.S. supposedly needs nothing from.

This weekend, hundreds of thousands of people are attending the Iowa State Fair — a major attraction featuring several days of entertainment, a rodeo and even a life-size butter cow that’s been carved every year since 1911.

Much like the Calgary Stampede in Canada, the Iowa State Fair is a crucial stop for politicians to meet voters, making it a hotbed for political debates — especially when U.S. midterms are coming up.

And this year, one of the topics on Iowans’ minds is U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.

Pork chops on a stick, that’s all anyone should care about.

As U.S. President Donald Trump’s Wednesday tariff deadline looms, there are worrying signs that Canadian manufacturers are going to pack up and move south of the border. This is unsurprising for a country that imposes high costs on businesses and seems to have resigned itself to being Trump’s whipping boy.

Last month, KPMG Canada released the results of a survey of 275 Canadian manufacturers conducted in May, which found that 42 per cent of them have considered, or are currently considering, moving production south of the border. Eleven per cent said they’re thinking of moving their head offices to the United States.

In his trade negotiations with the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney should seize the opportunity that comes with a strong hand. Because however much pain U.S. President Donald Trump can cause Canadian exporters with his tariffs, his domestic hand is very weak.

Not sure I buy into this analysis.

One of the more intriguing aspects of Canadian society is the observation that Americans constitute the sole nationality toward which citizens may express bias openly. This perception is especially pronounced in Eastern Canada compared to the West, yet a reciprocal sentiment is absent in the US. Such hostility bears an analogy to sibling rivalry and underscores a form of tribalism. Regardless of the motivations behind the recent petition to have the US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra named persona non grata, some Canadians have identified themselves far too closely with the “elbows-up” campaign associated with Prime Minister Mark Carney. To do so, they risk conflating the Prime Minister’s propaganda with their own personal identity. A detailed explanation of this identity fusion was provided by Jasmin Laine recently.

There is no need for urgency in Canada’s efforts to persuade the U.S. to refrain from imposing its latest planned tariffs on Canadian goods that are to take effect on Aug. 19.

No trade deal is better than a bad one that Canada would be stuck with for many years, long after U.S. President Donald Trump has left office.

A tariff regime is difficult to unwind once it is enacted. Former U.S. president Joe Biden left in place many of the tariffs that Trump imposed in his first presidential term.

Appease? Is that what Carney has been doing?

Suddenly, everyone – and their grandmother – seems to be an expert on supply management.

That newfound interest is healthy. Canadians are finally examining the benefits, costs and contradictions of a complicated system affecting roughly one-quarter of the country’s agricultural economy.