OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he supports keeping one of the biggest trade irritants identified by President Donald Trump, specifically the Liberal government’s three per cent digital services tax on tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
Speaking on a French language election show hosted by three Radio-Canada journalists, Poilievre said the imposition of the tax on global digital giants is “fair.”
Toronto police spent nearly $20 million to secure protests related to the Israel-Hamas war and to conduct community outreach within the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities last year, a new report shows.
“Maintaining public order is integral to core service delivery and adheres to provincial standards of adequate and effective policing,” the report, which will go before the Toronto Police Services Board next week, states.
The report says that in 2024, the service responded to over 2,000 “unplanned events” and that more than half of those were associated with Project Resolute, which was launched after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and saw police ramp up their presence throughout the city via command posts and community engagement.
It’s not as if the city rolled out the welcome mat for Hamas.
h/t Patti Jo
The September backdrop was drought and the 2024 California wildfires. The location was Donald Trump’s expensive Los Angeles golf course. The words uttered by the Republican presidential candidate were that the Columbia River Basin was “essentially a very large faucet” and if all that water was diverted from the Pacific Ocean, “all of that water would come … right into Los Angeles.”
Much like every other major story, the dying news media have managed to take a really interesting topic and thoroughly dumb it down to a limited set of monotonous slogans. In this case, variations of “tariffs hurt working people the most” and “the cost is passed onto consumers.”
Internationally recognized podcaster Joe Rogan, who has more viewers than most American mainstream media outlets combined — says he won’t return to Canada even though he thinks Canadians are “f—ing lovely.”
Rogan called-out the communist-like seizure of Canadians’ bank accounts without due process during the COVID-19 Freedom Convoy — later ruled illegal by the Federal Court of Canada, during an episode of the The Joe Rogan Experience.
Every political leader in Canada has declared U.S. President Donald Trump an unreliable partner who is reneging on the USMCA trade deal that he signed, so you have to question why the leading election contenders would rush to negotiate a new deal with him.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre both now say they would launch negotiations immediately after the coming election, not just on trade but on the broad defence and security relationship, too.
Yet those two leaders have very different ideas of what a new deal would be.
… At the eye of the storm is the Liberal Party of Canada and its new leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney. Many would argue that in the past decade, the Liberal government under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau increasingly empowered antisemitic elements. In the name of “diversity”, “equity” and “inclusion”, it has encouraged extreme radical ideologies and runaway antisemitism. It has failed to act decisively against imams who call for the shedding of Jewish blood. It has ignored incitement on university campuses, tolerated the spread of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish libels and defamation through public broadcasters that it funds. In the process, it has encouraged antisemitic opinions to intensify and be legitimized.
Bell: Smith slams those whipping up Canadians for a brawl with the U.S.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is not shutting up because people who call her a traitor want her to shut up.
On Thursday, Smith has something more to say to Albertans and the rest of Canada.
“Rhetoric that amps up Canadians to encourage a brawl with our biggest trading partner is irresponsible and will hurt Canadians and their businesses.”
Stellantis—the carmaker behind brands like Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep—is pausing production at two major North American assembly plants in Canada and Mexico, resulting in temporary layoffs at five U.S. facilities that supply them, the automaker confirmed in an internal email obtained by The Epoch Times.
The company will halt production at its Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, for two weeks starting April 7. In addition, the Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico will be offline for the entire month of April, according to a message sent Thursday morning by Stellantis North America COO Antonio Filosa to all North American employees.
Famed entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary eviscerated Canada’s leadership for its defiant stance against U.S. trade policies, calling the rhetoric from Interim Prime Minister Mark Carney “sheer stupidity” and warning that the country is in no position to win a trade war with President Trump.
Elite Capture, Foreign Interference, and Crime: Canada Must Confront the Threat Within
Canada’s political landscape has long been characterized by a balance between geopolitical alliances and domestic priorities. But in recent years, this balance has been upended by our country’s failure to respond decisively to China’s expanding political interference, the rise of foreign-influenced elites, and the unchecked growth of transnational organized crime. What’s at stake is nothing less than our national sovereignty—and a growing perception that, through complacency, Canada is not only eroding its own democratic foundations but playing directly into the hands of U.S. strategic interests.
Canada may still be reeling from a bout of political and diplomatic shock—call it Post-Disruption Stress Disorder (PDSD)—following the April 2 announcement in the Rose Garden by President Trump.
But for both Canada and Mexico, the news was less damaging than feared. Despite the sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs unveiled that day, our two nations were spared. So were American grocery shoppers.
OTTAWA — Canada is hitting back against U.S. auto tariffs, slapping a 25 per cent retaliatory border levy on all American-made vehicles not covered by free trade deals but exempting auto parts.
In Ottawa Thursday morning, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would retaliate to part of the new 25 per cent U.S. border levy on foreign-made autos and parts as he warned that more American border levies may be coming on lumber, agriculture, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.
Yes, poor gullible, fearful Canada. You were played.
Not by U.S. President Donald Trump. You were played by power-seeking politicians in this country. You were played by many in the press in this country.
Reality came to call one day after the date set aside for playing jokes on people.
Chicken Little was wrong. The sky isn’t falling. Canada’s end times are not upon us.
It’s not quite a presidential pardon, but we could call it a reprieve. Canada didn’t get any additional tariffs as U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated what he called “Liberation Day.”
Trump has been talking about new tariffs on Canada for months; he even went on a rant during his Rose Garden ceremony about how he sees Canada’s dairy industry as ripping off American farmers.
.@MarkJCarney only weeks before seeking @liberal_party leadership lobbied Beijing’s mayor to “deepen co-operation.” According to @EpochTimes, Carney lobbied as chair of Brookfield though cabinet had censured China for unfair trade practices.https://t.co/TBxYAcm0BX #cdnpolitics pic.twitter.com/Z76lKM994E
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) April 3, 2025
