The Ukrainian Canadian Congress is urging Canada to establish its own nuclear weapons program, arguing that the country needs to protect itself from both Russian aggression and potential threats from the United States.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the organization released a National Policy Guide this week recommending that Canada develop an independent nuclear deterrent.
If they can be used against Ottawa I’m in.
h/t XC
The US began collecting a 10% “baseline” tariff on all imports on Saturday as President Donald Trump urged Americans to “hang tough” after market turmoil.
The UK and France are among hundreds of countries impacted and its leaders have said nothing is off the table. While China, which has been hit the hardest by President Trump’s tariffs, announced a significant retaliatory response.
All three major stock indexes in the US plunged more than 5% on Friday, with the S&P 500 dropping almost 6%, capping the worst week for the US stock market since 2020.
The prime minister will declare an end to globalisation and admit that it has failed millions of voters as the fallout from President Trump’s tariffs reverberates around the world.
In his first significant intervention since the United States imposed sweeping charges on imports, Sir Keir Starmer will say tomorrow that the seismic global economic effects prove the government must “move further and faster” to boost growth with supply-side reforms.
NEW: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to declare that globalization has failed, plans to show that he understands President Trump’s tariff decision.
The announcement is set for Monday, according to The Times.
“Globalisation doesn’t work for a lot of working people. We don’t… pic.twitter.com/oYhqyG29m3
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 5, 2025
Carney is a globalist profiteer who carries water for the folks that shipped your jobs out of the country and imported cheap labour to depress wages and impoverish your family.
Carney is so despicable that he will keep Canada’s oil in the ground so he and his pals can exploit the “energy transition” for personal gain.
Carney has also invited fellow globalist predator Mark Wiseman of the Century 100 Initiative to assist in Canada’s destruction through mass immigration.
Carney is your enemy not Trump.
As geopolitical friction between Canada and the United States intensifies, particularly on the trade front, the real battleground may not be in boardrooms or policy circles – it may be in grocery aisles across the country.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear in an interview with CNN that the era of trade imbalances is over, and under President Trump, the U.S. will no longer tolerate unfair treatment.
During a discussion with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Bessent confidently explained the administration’s position on tariffs and trade policy, signaling that Trump’s economic strategy is deliberate and well thought out.
h/t DS
Vibrant diversity strikes again.
A week can feel like a lifetime in an election campaign.
Over the past several days, candidates from all parties have traversed the country, delivering carefully honed messages on everything from job creation to national security. But as I’ve said before, amid the headlines and horse-race chatter, there are often subtler signs of where things might be headed. With the second week of the campaign winding down, I see three polling numbers worth paying special attention to.
Canadian unity is always a consideration in federal elections. As a federation, Canada has independence movements in both Quebec and Alberta. Support for those movements has had ebbs and flows but they can’t be dismissed.
In Quebec, the province came within 1% of a positive vote for leaving Canada in a 1995 referendum. In Alberta, support for independence was high enough for Gordon Kesler to win a legislative seat with an independence platform in response to Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program in the 1980s.
In these disorienting days, Canadian leaders are responding in real time to a deeply uncertain world.
On the day the president of the United States launched a global trade war, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith chose to look on the bright side. The United States, she wrote, had decided to “uphold the majority of the free trade agreement … between our two nations.” And while some tariffs remained in place, “it appears the worst of this tariff dispute is behind us.”
More ginned up scare mongering from Carney’s CBC.
Food for thought …
The final days of British Steel.
Chinese owners are preparing for its closure.Britain invented the steel industry. A key part of a powerhouse industrial base. But sadly, Britain’s industries have been hollowed out, sold off & communities left to rot.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) April 5, 2025
h/t Mauser
“One of the messages that I’d like to get out tonight is: everybody, sit back, take a deep breath. Don’t immediately retaliate. Let’s see where this goes. Because if you retaliate, that’s how we get escalation.” So said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday amid the global upheaval caused by Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff rollout. Bessent’s call for serenity is landing on deaf ears, but for panicked allies in North America, his advice may be worth heeding.
On March 24, Canada’s newly appointed Prime Minister Mark Carney called a snap election for April 28. If the economic record of his Liberal Party, which has been in office since Justin Trudeau’s victory in 2015, is a major factor in voters’ decisions, bookies would be giving you pretty long odds on them.
❓HOW MUCH WILL CARNEY COST?
Canadians are broke & fighting to afford basics
How much will it cost for Carney to:
Keep 80% of oil & gas in the ground?
Make Carbon Tariffs?
Choke Alberta oil & gas?
Block pipelines?
Hit Canadians with the Industrial Carbon Tax? pic.twitter.com/ehXIHiFhwB
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) April 4, 2025
“Ottawa, Parliament Hill police on scene for a ‘barricaded man’ in East Block Area”
An emergency lockdown is in effect near Parliament Hill’s East Block in Ottawa, Canada, as of April 5, 2025. The Parliamentary Protective Service declared it at 111 Wellington,housing parliamentary offices. Shelter in place, lock doors,and hide; stay away if nearby. Cause unclear pic.twitter.com/llKtTQo1bA
— Plus Logic (@pluslogicweb3) April 5, 2025
Lockdown declared at East Block on Parliament Hill
MAJOR police operation on Parliament Hill in OTTAWA fully taped off. People told to seek shelter and hide. Great video footage from @chrisdacey pic.twitter.com/JfiEB3c9pr
— Melissa (@MelissaLMRogers) April 5, 2025
General Motors says that it plans to hire an unspecified number of temporary employees at its Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant in the wake of a U.S. tariff on imported vehicles that took effect this week.
The assembly plant in Fort Wayne manufactures the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks.
The Silverado is currently the only vehicle produced at a GM assembly plant in Oshawa that employs more than 3,000 people.
GM also produces the Silverado and Sierra at its Silao Assembly Plant in Mexico.
Pierre Poilievre said under a Conservative government Canada would make its own, sovereign decisions on increasing military spending as U.S. President Donald Trump once again puts pressure on NATO allies to boost defence budgets to 5 per cent of GDP.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a meeting of NATO foreign affairs ministers in Brussels said Washington expects all alliance members to commit to raising defence spending to 5 per cent of gross domestic product.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Ford CEO Jim Farley stated that he’s “very encouraged that we will have a better chance for a fair and square fight,” but there do need to be details ironed out on tariffs to ensure that the parts from its vehicles that are made in other nations don’t increase in cost in a way that harms the price of vehicles.
