“Canada – USA Tariff Wars”

A British owned, Canadian-made whisky is at the centre of a spat between two provinces that is testing a unified “Team Canada” approach in the face of US tariffs.

It started after the whisky maker, Diageo, said it will shut down a bottling plant in Ontario to move some of it closer to US consumers.

Soon after, Ontario Premier Doug Ford angrily poured out a bottle of Crown Royal in front of reporters, and now says the product will be removed from provincial liquor stores. This has alarmed neighbouring Manitoba, where a Crown Royal distillery is a key employer in the small town of Gimli.

Rifts grow within the Elbow Kingdom.

OTTAWA – Following the recent U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, a new poll suggests almost a third of Canadians say the United States might attempt “direct action” to take control of Canada.

It suggests one-in-five Americans think the same.

The poll, which was conducted online and can’t be assigned a margin of error, surveyed 1,540 Canadians between Jan. 9 and Jan. 11.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the ​Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement — the trade pact also known as CUSMA — is not relevant for the U.S., but Canada wants it, as he pushed for companies to bring manufacturing back to American soil.

“There’s no real advantage to it — it’s irrelevant,” Trump said. “Canada would love it. Canada wants it. They need it.”

The Detroit Three automakers are ​heavily reliant on supply chains that include significant parts production in Mexico and Canada, and all three produce hundreds of thousands of vehicles annually ⁠in both countries.

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The number of Canadians travelling to and from the United States by car was down for the 12th consecutive month, Statistics Canada data shows.

In December, 1.3 million Canadians returned from the U.S. by automobile, a “steep decline” of 30.7 per cent from the same month in 2024, says Statistics Canada data released on Monday.

The data noted that Dec. 28 was the busiest day for road travel at the border, with 73,800 Canadians returning to the country.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump appears to be trying to change the global order one barrel of oil at a time. With Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro out, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei possibly out next, China must be getting nervous, and Cuba is trying to deny reality.

Most Canadians say tariffs are squeezing household budgets and forcing changes in day-to-day spending, according to federal polling that found rising prices and growing financial stress tied to U.S. trade policy.

Blacklock’s Reporter says survey results show 64% of Canadians have changed how they spend money because of tariffs, while 80% concluded policies under U.S. President Donald Trump have made everyday goods more expensive.

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Doug Ford’s recent comments about pulling Crown Royal off Ontario liquor store shelves because its parent company is closing a bottling plant should concern every Canadian who cares about jobs, trade, and our country’s reputation.

Crown Royal is a Manitoba-made product with a long history in this country. Threatening to punish it over a corporate decision made by its parent company is not strength. It is political theatre. And political theatre has consequences.

Just hours after the United States announced it had attacked oil-rich Venezuela and captured its president Nicolás Maduro, the wife of a top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Canada on social media.

“The U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada,” wrote Katie Miller, whose husband Stephen Miller is Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser. “Free trade is over.”

It’s a familiar refrain from those within Trump’s orbit, and from the president himself. But the argument has taken on new meaning now that the United States could have access to Venezuela’s staggeringly large reserves of heavy crude oil — similar to what’s produced in Western Canada.