Canadian counter-tariffs against the United States went into effect Tuesday.
The countermeasures will make it more expensive for businesses in Ontario and across Canada to import certain goods from the United States, with repercussions for the economy.
Mark Carney says trade talks with the U.S. will restart when the Americans get serious. In his latest video, Carney shows us what serious looks like.
Seated at a makeshift desk on the factory floor of an Ottawa housing company, the prime minister settled in for a 15-minute chat on where Canada is at in this escalating feud with Donald Trump’s America.
It was one part history lesson, one part a rallying cry and one part warning about the “tough times” ahead. If Justin Trudeau hadn’t already patented the slogan a decade ago, you could call it the hope-and-hard-work video.
Carney is not the hero type. He makes a good Uriah Heep impersonator though.
President Donald Trump said he would direct the General Services Administration and USTR to remove Canadian-origin products from federal government contracts, hitting back at Ottawa over retaliatory tariffs and escalating the trade war between the two neighbors.
The moves will take place “unless Canada restores full and fair reciprocity for American Farmers and Companies,” Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Tuesday. Trump said the so-called Multiple Award Schedules are worth more than $50 billion each year.
Nuke us now.
This is the scene at BC Premier David Eby’s pro-Canada rally.
This is not a parody.
The lives of hundreds of thousands of Canadians are at stake.
These people are not serious.
pic.twitter.com/599G345eID— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) September 8, 2026
As Canada imposes retaliatory tariffs on the United States, Americans near the border say the trade war is deepening divisions between the two countries and hope the split does not turn into a more lasting breakup.
Costs for American businesses are up. Border crossings are down as Canadians choose to spend their money at home. And many Canadians are downright outraged over the actions of President Trump.
The trade war has threatened not only business but, sometimes, the very personal bonds that define America’s northern border.
Shares of Canadian jet maker Bombardier Inc. fell as much as 7% before paring some of those losses, after President Donald Trump sent a social media post suggesting the company should be blocked from US sales.
“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!” Trump wrote on Monday. “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank.’”
Over the past two weeks, Jim Coudal has been rushing orders to Canadian retailers from his Chicago warehouse ahead of new retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products.
Starting Sept. 8, Coudal’s company, Field Notes, which makes small pocket notebooks and memo books, will face a 50 per cent tariff when its products enter Canada, where they are sold by retailers including Toronto Pen Shoppe and Take Note Pens & Stationery Store.
The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security, as the transatlantic partners seek to build a new alliance to offset the global power politics dominated by the US and China.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the top executive of the EU, is expected to announce the plans at her state of the union address in Strasbourg, France, Sept. 16, according to people familiar with the preparations. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend the speech then address European lawmakers the following day.
h/t SB
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on a range of US goods came into effect on Tuesday, with no sign of a trade deal on the horizon.
The counter-tariffs will apply to nearly C$28bn ($20bn; £15bn) worth of American products, from steel to furniture to cotton T-shirts, and will be as high as 50%.
Fresh fish and lobster were also on the list, but Canada later omitted them after pushback from its seafood industry – a sign of the tricky balance it has to strike as it retaliates against its largest trading partner.
Both US and Canadian officials have said they would like to strike a deal, but no movement has been made to resume talks after they collapsed in late August.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning Canadians that the country’s pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse.
In a national video address set to be released Tuesday — hours after Canada’s retaliatory tariffs kicked in — Carney reiterated Canada’s plan to respond to the U.S. trade war by striking new trade deals with other countries to become less reliant on the U.S
Carney feels your pain. And he wishes more for you.
Carney: “This is about who we are as Canadians. It’s about our livelihoods and the country we leave to our kids. Adversity only makes us stronger. It always has. We are maîtres chez nous.” pic.twitter.com/L2u0vII0hz
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson_) September 8, 2026
OTTAWA — Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are set to take effect on Tuesday and with an American response almost inevitable, trade watchers are warning Canada should prepare itself for economic pain.
“We may be in an escalating war, and the question is who’s going to have the greater threshold for pain in this, and are Canadians ready for it because it’s going to be painful,” said Fen Osler Hampson, professor of International Affairs at Carleton University.
I was in my fourth year at Western University and very involved in the student newspaper, the Western Gazette, when the Trudeau government passed the Online News Act in 2023. This was the Canadian law requiring tech giants to pay outlets for hosting their news.
It was a well-intentioned attempt to save Canadian journalism. And indeed, Google agreed to a $100-million annual payout to help sustain media outlets across the country. But in response, Meta decided to simply block news content altogether from Instagram and Facebook for Canadians.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for more transparency from the prime minister as Ottawa is set to impose counter tariffs on American goods on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump last month launched tariffs on goods ranging from hockey sticks and cement to honey, after trade talks between the two nations broke down.
Countervailing Canadian tariffs are set to affect American goods such as dairy products, plywood and sunscreen.
Canada’s latest counter-tariffs take effect Sept. 8, and Canadians should understand where the economic pressure will first be felt. Unlike last year, the initial shock will not necessarily appear on grocery shelves. This time, it will begin farther up the food chain, with importers, processors and manufacturers.
WASHINGTON — As the United States braces for pivotal midterm elections this November, there’s a new and unexpected issue on voters’ minds in many states: President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada.
“Canada is our friend, our closest ally and our biggest trading partner,” Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins told Politico in an interview published last week.
“This is not China that we are talking about. This is not an adversarial country. And … our economies are so linked, if you try to hurt one you end up hurting Maine.”
Oh but it is China you’re talking about.
OTTAWA — Canada’s military reopened a formal channel to China’s People’s Liberation Army last Friday for the first time in eight years, and Canadians have learned of it only from Beijing.
China’s defence ministry says Canada and China revived their formal Defence Coordination Dialogue on September 4.
Canadians have learned of the meeting not from their own government, but from a terse statement issued by Beijing.
h/t handy n handsome
