“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

Only weeks after Premier Doug Ford threatened to cut off electricity exports to the United States as retaliation in the ongoing trade war, Ontario has signed a contract to import electricity from New York state through the winter.

The 600-megawatt contract starting Nov. 1 will provide power to compensate for “facility maintenance,” the Independent Electricity System Operator said in its announcement of the deal, without being more specific.

The Pickering nuclear plant was shut down in September for a multi-year refurbishment and this contract will partially replace its emissions-free electricity with carbon-intensive power from oil- and gas-fired plants.

h/t Mauser

What would the Canadian economy look like without free trade with the U.S.?

That’s a question a lot of Canadians have been asking as U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a raft of tariffs on the Canadian economy, only to see the Liberal governments of former prime minister Justin Trudeau and later Prime Minister Mark Carney respond in kind.

U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that Canada will “end up being the 51st state” as he expressed a series of longstanding grievances the United States has with its northern neighbour.

“Canada treats us very badly. They always have. Not anymore. It’s a whole different ball game now that Trump is in town,” he said during a campaign rally in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Wednesday.

Trump says Canada will “end up being the 51st state” — Video https://t.co/uLjrFSLWKQ https://t.co/qfOFtMvohT

— Cedar News (@cedar_news) October 14, 2026

“Trump’s hatred for Canada has permanently damaged world’s best trade relationship.”

So reads a Saturday headline in the Edmonton Journal. It isn’t surprising, given the president’s penchant for belittling Canada by referring to Prime Minister Mark Carney as the “governor” and the country as our “51st state.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington is gearing up for next year’s review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, but signs of negotiating progress have come mainly from the U.S.-Mexico trade teams in recent weeks, while formal talks between the U.S. and Canada remain stalled.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says he speaks frequently with Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, but there have been no formal meetings between the U.S. and Canadian sides since talks collapsed in August.

Stelco Holdings Inc. has started handing out layoff notices to some of their employees at their Hamilton, Ont.-based steel plant.

Cleveland-Cliffs, Stelco’s U.S.-based parent company, has said it intends to lay off up to 500 workers, due to tariffs and market pressures beyond its control.

Stelco employee Mike Watts told CTV News Channel on Friday that he received his notice in the morning and was informed it would be his last day. Watts said that after working two decades at the company, he received an envelope with his layoff papers and was wished good luck.

The CEO of the American company that owns Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco says he’s prepared to fight the Canadian government in court to preserve Stelco’s plan to lay off hundreds of workers.

Speaking Sunday on CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves disputed the government’s characterization that the company is violating binding employment commitments under the Investment Canada Act.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said last week that Cleveland-Cliffs’ 2024 purchase of Stelco included “undertakings to continue to employ at least the same number of unionized employees and the vast majority of non-unionized employees as were employed when the transaction was announced” through 2029.

More than half of Canadians are actively avoiding American products as ongoing trade disputes and import bans continue to reshape cross-border shopping habits, according to new national survey data from Abacus Data.

The September poll found that 51 percent of Canadian shoppers avoid U.S. goods when possible. That figure is up from 38 percent recorded in February 2025, when initial U.S. tariff threats first emerged.

Not sure I trust the self-reporting.

A representative for the Canadian steel industry says he worries that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are here to stay for the “long term” as he urged the federal government to strengthen Buy Canadian rules to support the industry.

Speaking at the Senate’s foreign affairs committee Thursday, John Cuddihy, a vice president with the Canadian Steel Producers Association, said the American steel industry has profited greatly from Trump’s trade war with Canada.