Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are set to meet Thursday in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford to put an end to an escalation of the trade war between Canada and the United States.
Ford said he hoped it would be a cordial meeting, but it will come after both Lutnick and U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed the premier and Canada in statements made to the press.
OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly plans to welcome her G7 counterparts to Charlevoix, Quebec, with a warning: “If the U.S. can do this to us, their closest friend, then nobody is safe.”
On the official agenda this week as Canada hosts the G7 foreign ministers: Ukraine, the Middle East, Haiti and Venezuela, but nothing about President Donald Trump’s trade war or sovereignty threats. Yet Joly told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday that she plans to raise the issue with the European and British members, while advising them that “Canada is the canary in the coal mine.”
About one million Canadian “snowbirds,” who contribute billions to the U.S. tourism industry each year, will soon be required to register and be fingerprinted before heading south, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curbing illegal immigration.
While most travellers are automatically registered with an electronic I-94 admission record upon entering the U.S., Trump’s “Protecting the American People Against Invasion” order now mandates that all visitors staying 30 days or longer must register with the U.S. government and obtain an admission record, if an I-94 wasn’t automatically issued.
h/t XC
Anti-Israel activists pose threat to candidates: RCMP
OTTAWA — As a federal election in Canada looms closer, the RCMP are growing concerned over the threat anti-Israel activists may pose to politicians out on the hustings.
As reported this week by Blacklock’s Reporter, an internal RCMP report warns of “stalking and harassment” against politicians, with “flash protests” presenting what police describe as a “significant challenge” for protection details.
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau’s last day as prime minister will be Thursday as Mark Carney and a new cabinet will be sworn in by Governor General Mary Simon on Friday morning.
Rideau Hall confirmed Wednesday evening that Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister at 11 a.m. on Friday, simultaneously marking the end of Trudeau’s nine year run in the job.
A smile at the memory of K’s favourite line “She’s gone where the goblins go below below below Yoho!”. A great way to avoid saying HELL.
Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating 51st state threats.
And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of annexation would likely not be the intelligence agencies directed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
“I would regard Mr. Musk as a problem,” said Ward Elcock, who headed CSIS for a decade including during the 9/11 attacks and also served as national security adviser. “I think that’s on a number of fronts.”
The federal government has dropped a new guide that, according to critics, deems it “racist” to criticize Palestinian advocacy or extremism.
The guide also defines both “sharia” and “jihad” as benign terms that are misrepresented by Westerners, with sharia defined as a means “to establish justice and peace in society.”
It’s contained in “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia,” a document published last week by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
As Canadians’ concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump rise, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative polling advantage appears to have evaporated, with the Liberals now just one point behind according to the latest Nanos numbers.
In new weekly tracking released Tuesday, the Conservatives are at 36 per cent support, the Liberals – now under the leadership of Mark Carney – have risen to 35 per cent support, and the NDP are at 15 per cent.
I literally just got out of the field in Ontario with 3000 completed surveys.
THREE THOUSAND, 25 MINUTE SURVEYS…
I have the CPC ahead of the LPC, not, *** Checks Frank’s post again***, NOT 22-points behind.
(my stomach hurts… https://t.co/ofYvmyTOiC
— realNickKouvalis (@NickKouvalis) March 11, 2025
Prime Minister Blood Diamond pic.twitter.com/eVUq7WqN9P
— Nya Pfannerstill (@NyaPfanner) March 12, 2025
PolyMarket says Poilievre.
President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the “honeymoon” a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He’s fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year’s campaign.
He’s even started what critics call a trade war.
U.S. President Donald Trump fired new shots in the tariff war on Tuesday, vowing on social media to put an end to Canada’s auto industry amid a chaotic volley of trade threats that sent stock markets lower.
Mr. Trump has said a key goal of his protectionist trade policy is to persuade foreign manufacturers, especially automakers, to shift production to the United States. The President’s language has become increasingly menacing in recent weeks, turning outright hostile to the Canadian auto industry on Tuesday, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford briefly imposed a surcharge on electricity exports to the United States.
Wouldn’t it be great to have an all Canadian ICE 4WD that was robust and easy to maintain unhindered by chips or ludicrous government net-zero limitations etc …
‘Why don’t I become a circus clown?” That was Mark Carney’s sensible reply when asked in 2012 about ambitions to enter Canadian politics. On Sunday he was elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, soon to be sworn in as Prime Minister. Welcome to the circus.
Mr. Carney, a central banker who became a global face of “net-zero” and “ESG” environmental schemes, won 86% of the Liberal leadership vote. His big advantage: He was off in England, or globe-trotting as a United Nations climate envoy, or working for large U.S. firms rather than serving as a minister in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government (2015-25).
The federal government announced a plan on Wednesday to slap tariffs on $29.8 billion worth of American goods to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump after he imposed punishing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum early this morning.
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, the government’s point person on Canada-U.S. relations, said Trump’s attack on Canadian industry is “unjustified and unjustifiable” and the government must hit back as the U.S. inserts “disruption and disorder” into what was once one of the most successful trading relationships in the world.
President says charges on Canadian steel and aluminium will go ahead on Wednesday, and that Canada should consider becoming ‘our cherished 51st state’
President Trump dismissed the chaos his tariffs have unleashed on stock markets as a price worth paying to “rebuild our country” after another turbulent day fuelled by his on-off trade war with Canada.
The Canadian province of Ontario suspended its reprisal duties on electricity bound for several US states after Trump announced he would double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium from midnight.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Canadian man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for shootings at an oil pipeline in South Dakota and an electrical substation in North Dakota that caused $1.7 million in damages after a judge found that his crimes met the definition of terrorism.
Cameron Smith, 50, was also ordered Monday to pay more than $2.1 million in restitution, the Bismarck Tribune reported, as well as fines totaling $250,000. He faces deportation after his release.
Environmentalist.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the “removal” of a convicted Canadian drug trafficker, who was caught transporting more than 125 lbs of cocaine across the country in 2022.
The government agency said Tuesday that Christopher Anthony Frater, 32, was returned to Canadian authorities last week after he was convicted of a drug-related charge in 2023.
