Fifteen per cent seems to be the new magic number being bandied about for a U.S. tariff rate after Japan and the Americans announced a trade deal, with the European Union now signed up too and South Korea apparently headed in the same direction.
… If 15 per cent is the “new normal” as Stretch wondered, what does that mean for Canada?
In supporting the concept of a pipeline corridor across Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney shifted from his predecessor’s approach to oil and gas exports. Carney so far has shown signs of recognizing that if Canada could expand oil and gas exports into overseas markets, the nation wouldn’t be as vulnerable to tariffs and other trade clashes with the United States.
In 2023, 97 percent of Canada’s crude oil exports went to the United States, as did nearly 100 percent of the natural gas exports. Meanwhile, Canada purchased nearly $20 billion worth of foreign crude oil, most of which came from the United States.
Maybe not so much Carney enthusiasm …
Requiring First Nations approval of nation-building projects will allow Mark Carney to talk like he supports building pipelines but blame treaties for not starting them. Liberals are gonna liberal, no matter who the PM is. pic.twitter.com/ER5xxYZaAQ
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks29) July 26, 2025
Canada’s Soviet-style supply management system on dairy, poultry and eggs has been screwing citizens for decades with higher food prices, obliterated family farms and disrupted international trade deals. The dairy cartels are deeply entrenched in Canada and have effectively cowed every federal political party (so to speak,) including the Conservatives. No major federal leader will dare question supply management for fear of upsetting Quebec which benefits from the program. The standoff on this terrible policy robs Canadians of billions.
Mark Carney has been prime minister of Canada since March. He’s been called many things by many people in this short time period. It never came to mind that he would be described as a “progressive conservative” along the lines of Brian Mulroney.
This, in a nutshell, is the nonsense that the Globe and Mail’s editorial board is currently peddling.
I’m not a fan of either.
Federal officials pushed to approve Islamic-compliant home loans despite repeated internal warnings that the proposal was unworkable, according to newly released Access To Information records.
Blacklock’s Reporter says emails reveal the Department of Finance wanted to move “extremely fast” on Sharia-compliant mortgages in the months leading up to the April 28 election, despite concerns from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) that the financial structure conflicted with tax laws, liability rules, and existing mortgage insurance policies.
The country is a NATO ally and G7 member. While the U.S.-U.K. relationship is often touted as Washington’s most “special,” the Canadian relationship is arguably the most critical to the future of the U.S. economy and soft power. The projection of U.S. hard power abroad depends in part on positive global public perception of Washington’s leadership. This stems from the United States being a beacon of freedom and arsenal of democracy in World War I, World War II, crises across the Taiwan Strait, the Korean war, and others. If after all of that, we now treat Canada with a lack of foresight for short-term trade interests, we lose at least some of our moral high ground, which negatively affects our soft power, and as well our long-term national interests.
Donald J. Savoie has spent decades studying the inner workings of Canada’s federal bureaucracy. He’s watched Ottawa grow more centralized and more crowded with what he calls “poets,” policy thinkers and advisers, while the “plumbers,” the front-line workers delivering services to Canadians, have not been prioritized. In an interview with National Post about the concept, as discussed in his recent book Speaking Truth to Canadians About Their Public Service, Savoie explains why that imbalance matters. Savoie is Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at Université de Moncton.
The civil service convinced themselves they were the ruling class.
The Canadian government released a statement Saturday condemning Hong Kong authorities who issued worldwide arrest warrants for pro-democracy activists — including some Canadians.
Hong Kong police announced rewards on Friday for information leading to the arrest of 19 overseas-based activists for their roles in what they called a subversive organization abroad, accusing them of violating a national security law imposed by Beijing.
We should send an angry note!
TORONTO — In 2024, the grand prize at the Canadian Whisky Awards went to Paradigm Spirits. Its entrant, made with Canadian corn, aged for 19 years in American oak barrels and blended with a splash of Spanish sherry, beat some 200 competitors to be crowned Whisky of the Year. A judge called it “remarkable.”
It was a break for Paradigm, which had opened in an old Kellogg’s factory in London, Ontario, just a few years earlier. The women-owned-and-operated distillery was soon inundated with messages from Canadians across the country eager to buy the award-winning spirit, co-founder Irma Joeveer said.
But there was a problem: Canada’s internal trade barriers. With few exceptions, alcohol producers in one Canadian province are prohibited from selling directly to consumers in another. Vintners in British Columbia, for instance, can often more easily sell their merlots to oenophiles in other countries than within their own.
One thing about Trump – you can never call him all bad.
OTTAWA—One candidate is a 22-year-old university student living four hours north of Toronto.
Another is a Montreal-area teacher and tour guide with a fondness for dinosaurs.
A third lives in Nebraska, working in IT.
China is now importing record amounts of Canadian oil after slashing U.S. oil purchases by roughly 90 per cent.
As a result, imports of Canadian crude have surged, reaching a record 7.3 million barrels in March. This massive boon comes as Canadian negotiators are racing against the clock to make a trade deal with the White House.
The expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline has enabled China and other East Asian importers to access Canada’s vast crude reserves, which are relatively cheap and suitable for China’s advanced refineries that process dense, high-sulfur crude.
U.S. dairy producers insist they’re not looking for Canada to dismantle its supply management system, but they do want Canada to follow the letter and spirit of the existing deal that governs the dairy trade between the two countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly blasted Canada as “unfair” and “ripping us off” with massive dairy tariffs, in a way that isn’t fully accurate.
However, senior figures in the U.S. dairy industry are concerned there’s also some misrepresentation happening north of the border, creating a false perception of what U.S. producers are actually seeking in terms of access to the Canadian market.
While the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives warned last week that over 57,000 federal public service jobs could be cut between now and 2028 due to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s restraint measures – assuming they occur – the reality is that a downsizing of the federal civil service is long overdue.
During Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government from 2015 to 2024, the federal bureaucracy grew in size by 43%, from 257,034 employees to 367,772, an increase of 110,738.
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s recently retired envoy for combating antisemitism, this week lamented that the effort to shine a light on increasing antisemitism in Canada had left her “despondent and despairing about the fact that it was hard to get people to speak up, to speak with clarity, to speak with conviction about what we were seeing happening here on Canadian soil.”
Jewish communities have long known silence. At its worst, it has manifested in some communities as synagogue floors covered in sand to mask the sound of feet shuffling during silent prayers or by those hidden during the Holocaust to escape capture by the Nazis. In today’s Canada, silence comes in different ways. Some Jews quietly conceal their identity by refraining from displaying a Star of David or kippah, families remove mezzuzahs from their front doors to avoid telegraphing that it is a Jewish home, and the community avoids widespread promotion of events hosted in community centres due to security concerns.
“In fact, even political views on the founding of the State of Israel or expressions of support for Zionism, which as former prime minister Justin Trudeau noted “is the belief, at its simplest, that Jewish people, like all peoples, have the right to determine their own future” runs the risk of being labelled as “racist” in today’s educational environment, thereby silencing the perspectives.”
What about Canada? I am called a racist colonizer with no right to exist here and am labeled the APEX predator within the DEI/CRT hierarchy of evil solely because I have white skin.
How is it a prof has never heard of Islam or thought about the impact of Muslim immigration on current events?
Remember the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” of truckers? Canada isn’t done overreacting. In early 2022 the disruptive protest of vaccine mandates sent the Trudeau government into a panic, unconstitutionally invoking emergency powers and freezing protesters’ bank accounts. Now Crown prosecutors want protest leaders in prison for the better part of a decade.
In April Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief for their roles in the protests that police inexcusably allowed to block downtown Ottawa streets for three weeks. Prosecutors are seeking seven-year prison terms, plus an eighth year for Mr. Barber, who was also found guilty of counseling others to disobey a court order regarding the honking of horns. Both were found not guilty of intimidation and several other charges thrown at them over the peaceful but noisy protest.
