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Trump again threatens tariffs over smoke after sitting with Mark Carney

After sitting together with Prime Minister Mark Carney during Sunday’s World Cup final in New Jersey, U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t letting up on his threat to tariff Canada over wildfire smoke.

Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night, Trump said he has a good relationship with Carney, but the fires need to stop.

He said the fires are poisoning U.S. air, and that maybe Canada should pay damages, or the U.S. should impose tariffs.

CBC guest Lori Daniels — UBC forestry professor and vocal climate change believer — just dropped some rare inconvenient common sense on CBC:
"I'd really love to see us diversify our forest management for resilience… and use fire to fight fire in good ways."

She went on:… pic.twitter.com/lhPBi27JCe

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 19, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2026July 20, 2026•0•Canada, USA

CHARLEBOIS: Permanent daylight time could change how we eat

The United States is once again trying to put an end to the ritual of changing the clocks twice a year.

The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent, leaving the Senate to decide whether Americans should remain on summer time throughout the year.

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2026July 20, 2026•0•Canada, USA

Poilievre names Conservatives’ point person on the Alberta referendum

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has tapped Alberta MP Dane Lloyd to serve as the party’s referendum lead for Alberta, as the province prepares to vote on a question related to separation this fall.

Poilievre made the announcement Sunday morning, releasing a letter penned to Lloyd detailing the position.

Can it help?

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2026July 19, 2026•0•Canada

How things stand in Ontario with U.S. planning to ditch daylight time

A permanent year-round standard time may soon be the norm in some parts of the United States, but that will mean little to Ontario if a couple of its neighbours stick with the status quo on twice-yearly time changes.

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2026July 19, 2026•0•Canada, USA

Canada Post spent $194 million on climate initiatives as losses topped $6 billion

Canada Post spent nearly $194 million on climate-related initiatives over the past eight years while posting billions in losses, raising stamp prices and seeking billions in federal financial assistance, according to documents tabled in Parliament.

Blacklock’s Reporter says records submitted to the House of Commons government operations committee show the Crown corporation has spent $193.7 million on what it describes as “net zero initiatives” since 2017 — the last year it reported a profit.

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2026July 19, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?

Rick Ekstein: Naheed Nenshi told me he was a friend of the Jews. Then came that apology

Most Canadians think of the Calgary Stampede as 10 days of rodeo, cowboy hats, pancake breakfasts and country music.

They’re right. But they’re only seeing half the picture.

He’s a muslim what else could you expect?

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2026July 19, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada

Husband of ‘Maple Leaf Menace’ threatened local politicians, mocked Charlie Kirk’s death

The husband of the illegal immigrant from Canada arrested by ICE after allegedly slapping a patriotic teen on a Jersey Shore boardwalk mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination and threatened local pols, his twisted online posts show.

Matthew Geroni railed against local politicians to his over 142,000 followers in vile rants about gentrification in Ocean Grove, data centers and parking tickets in the June 17 video first reported by Shorenewsnetwork.

Canadian national Kaitlyn Tracey, who overstayed her U.S. visa, was arrested for allegedly slapping a minor wearing pro-Trump clothing on a New Jersey boardwalk. She is now in ICE detention. Her American husband Matthew Geroni is publicly pleading for help with her legal case. pic.twitter.com/e5cWcg5boy

— RPN Entertainment (@rpnenter) July 19, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2026July 19, 2026•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower’

Faced with a moribund economy and a more uncertain future, the federal government says Canada will exploit its abundant resource endowment to become a global energy superpower. Ottawa paved the path this week for oil producers to double production with a big pipeline announcement. Billions in government money is on the table.

If that’s the plan to revive the economy, it won’t work. We know this because that’s the strategy which the country has used over the last generation, and it has failed to deliver growth.

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2026July 18, 2026•0•Canada

Rubio urged to Fight Canada’s Bill C-22 Surveillance Law

Ron Wyden wants the Trump administration to treat one of America’s allies as a counterintelligence threat.

The Oregon senator wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is doubling as acting national security adviser, on July 16.

His warning centers on an invasive surveillance bill moving through Canada’s Parliament that could turn American technology companies into tools for spying on Americans.

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2026July 18, 2026•0•"Surveillance Society", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Noah Shack: Iran’s terror-crime nexus is a growing threat to Canadians

On July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds in the deadliest terror attack in Argentina’s history.

In the devastating aftermath, Argentina’s Jewish community — the largest in South America — was left questioning its safety and future in their country. Deepening that sense of fear was the fact that those responsible remained unidentified for more than a decade. Prosecutors ultimately identified the suicide bomber as a 21-year-old Lebanese member of Hezbollah and concluded that the attack had been directed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2026July 18, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

‘Just stop burning fossil fuels.’ Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix

It’s another smoky summer in southern Ontario, and people breathing poor air in and around Toronto are once again asking what governments can do about wildfire smoke.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has defended the province’s wildfire budget and has asked Ottawa for extra help. Some Republican lawmakers in the U.S. have also demanded Canada do more to stop smoke from drifting across the border.

I say we start burning EV’s instead!

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2026July 18, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?

Hoekstra says Trump serious about tariff threat over wildfire smoke

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump‘s threat to impose new tariffs over smoke from Canadian wildfires should be taken seriously, arguing the ongoing haze is causing economic damage in the United States.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed several major American cities, including Detroit, Washington and Chicago, prompting Trump to lash out at Canada on social media Friday.

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2026July 18, 2026•0•Canada, USA

GOLDSTEIN: Canada still reeling from lost decade of economic opportunity under Trudeau

It’s no accident Prime Minister Mark Carney presided over the worst record of economic growth during his first year in office of any Canadian PM in more than half a century.

Actually, it was negative growth of 0.05% as reported by Bloomberg News.

Despite that, a Nanos-Bloomberg poll showed most Canadians are satisfied with Carney’s performance on the economy.

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2026July 17, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WTF? ‘We can just be together’: Queer couple from U.S. finds refuge after moving to Nova Scotia

It’s never easy to uproot your life, but after a year of watching U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration crack down on 2SLGBTQ+ rights, especially for transgender Americans, Grace Mahoney and her partner, Kayden Burns, decided it was time to leave the United States.

“I’m queer, my spouse is also queer and non-binary, and it started becoming a very unsafe place for us, as it is for a lot of queer humans existing in the U.S.,” she said in an interview from her new home in Dartmouth, N.S., earlier this month.

The CBC never tires of these Drama Queens.

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2026July 17, 2026•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Blame Canada: Trump threatens increased tariffs for wildfire smoke that has ‘unnecessarily invaded’ U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump is adding his voice to the chorus of Republican politicians who are blaming Canada for wildfire smoke drifting across the border.

Hundreds of active wildfires, most in northwestern Ontario, have triggered air quality warnings for states close to the Great Lakes, stretching from Minnesota to Maryland.

Trump threatened to top up the import tariffs he’s already levied on Canadian goods in response to the smoke that has drifted south of the border.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2026July 17, 2026•0•Canada, USA