I realize plenty of Canadian politicians and pundits have been praising Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ford threatened to cut off Ontario electricity headed to the U.S. upper Midwest and because of that was granted a face-to-face meeting in Washington, D.C., with Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary and tariff guru.
A majority of Canadians support cancelling a $19-billion contract to buy American warplanes and instead opting for European alternatives, according to a new poll, as relations between Canada and the United States continue to sour.
A survey by Nanos Research conducted for The Globe and Mail found 62 per cent of Canadians survey support, or somewhat support, scrapping a federal government deal to buy 88 F-35 Lightning planes from U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin. It also found 18 per cent oppose, and 3 per cent somewhat oppose, such a measure. Another 17 per cent were undecided.
Donald Trump says tariffs are coming. That message from the US president has been consistent.
But what tariffs and when? Import taxes have come so thick and fast since he took office that it can be hard to keep track.
Trump has already raised duties on Chinese imports, steel, aluminium and some goods from Canada and Mexico. Higher levies on cars are due to go into effect this week.
We’re now waiting for Trump to unveil the details of his plan for a wider set of tariffs, which his team has spent the last few weeks developing.
The White House is calling it “Liberation Day”. So what might we learn on Wednesday?
Karoline Leavitt ahead of Liberation Day tomorrow:
“The president’s historic action tomorrow will improve American competitiveness in every area of industry, reduce our massive trade deficits, and ultimately protect our economic & national security.”
pic.twitter.com/8stvMzCZVT— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 1, 2025
‘In the long run, we’re all dead’: Trump allies struggle with trade uncertainty
President Donald Trump is fêting his new tariffs with a Rose Garden “Liberation Day” festival.
Wall Street traders, lawmakers, industry leaders, foreign officials and even some members of the president’s team see only dread.
Trump, at a Wednesday afternoon “Make America Wealthy Again” ceremony, will formally announce a series of new, so-called reciprocal tariffs on U.S.’s global trading partners that he says will restore fairness, free the country from a dependence on foreign goods and stimulate the economy.
MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Monday invited Jason Stanley, Yale University’s so-called “fascism expert” and the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, to mouth off about why he was supposedly moving to Canada. Stanley claimed he was doing so over Columbia University’s “capitulation” to the Trump administration in cracking down on overt anti-Semitism on campus, and cynically used the fact that he’s Jewish and was raising his children as Jews to somehow back up his incoherent position.
This genius is fleeing the USA because he’s Jewish and coming to Canada which is currently enjoying its Liberal-Left Kristallnacht era.
The president of Canada’s largest federal union says it’s not endorsing any party yet in this election but is keeping a close eye on how the parties plan to protect public services.
Sharon DeSousa, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said PSAC will be ranking the party leaders based on their platforms and stated support for the public service and will share those rankings online in the coming weeks.
What a farce, we all know the LPC will promise them all of your money and beyond.
“… Yes, Trump frankly scares me. American hegemony scares me. But so does colonial nationalism — a solution a striking number of Canadians have taken up in response to U.S. aggressions. I can’t recall a time in my life where I have seen such a widespread attempt at elevating Canadian nationalism into policy and public life as we are seeing right now.”
Americans could face shortages of toilet roll and panic buying in supermarkets not seen since the first, nervy days of the pandemic, according to soft but strong warnings from timber and pulp experts.
President Trump’s planned tariffs on Canadian imports, including 27 per cent levies on lumber, would raise the price of a type of wood pulp that is a key ingredient in American toilet paper.
U.S. authorities have arrested a 67-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., accusing him of smuggling banned goods to Pakistan’s military and its nuclear weapons program over more than 15 years.
The U.S. Department of Justice says in a Friday news release that Mohammad Jawaid Aziz was arrested trying to cross into the United States from British Columbia on March 21.
Western Canadian agricultural producers of canola, peas and oil cake are facing crippling retaliatory tariffs from China, because Canada imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, in line with the USA, to protect our ‘homegrown’ non-existent EV industry.
Fact: Canola contributes $43 billion to the Canadian economy, slightly less than the subsidies thrown at EV battery plants, the manufacturers of which are bankrupt or teetering.
For our readers who don’t live in the People’s Republic of Canuckistan, here’s a quick guide to what’s happening in the general election, set for April 28th.
On the left in the photos below — but not so hard left as his loony colleagues Steven Guilbeault and Chrystia Freeland — is Mark Carney, leader of the Gliberal Party of Canada.Unlike the other two, Mr Carnage has never been elected to anything. But was Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. He is a banker, and a member of the WEF liberal elite.
Oh, Canada! With glowing hearts, we see thee rise in the news!
Trump wants to take over the Great White North. They impose high tariffs on our goods, and what do we get in return? The Liberal government refuses to control the nation’s borders, and crime is rampant all over Canada, as bad as we have seen in some of the United States’ major cities. Make them America, and we solve all our problems, right?
The “Buy Canadian” movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves.
California-based diaper maker Parasol Co had been working since January with a distributor to expand the sale of its diapers and baby wipes to new retailers in Canada, including convenience stores, CEO Jessica Hung said.
Even for a presidency that has waged pitched trade battles from its earliest hours, the next few days promise to be like no other.
It is tariff week in the United States, a pivotal moment in Donald Trump’s ambition to bend global trade to American advantage. On April 2, Mr. Trump’s vaunted “Liberation Day,” the White House plans to release a raft of what it terms reciprocal tariffs.
Over the past few weeks, the Dairy Farmers of Canada, with the full backing of the Bloc Quebecois, has launched a well-coordinated charm offensive to extol the virtues of supply management. According to its proponents, this system is the best tool to safeguard Canada’s food sovereignty.
We only made it half a week into the election before President Trump’s trade war made headlines. This time, it was 25 percent tariffs on imports of autos and auto parts for “national security” reasons, which will take effect on Wednesday.
Next week, we’ll also see whether potential “reciprocal” tariffs will also be applied to Canada and others, and if broad tariffs will expire. We’re also expecting a U.S. government study on “unfair trade” that Trump ordered in a day-one executive order.
