WASHINGTON – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Monday that Canada needs to send the message it will “fight back” after U.S. President Donald Trump said steep tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products are indeed coming next week.
In a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on Monday, Trump was asked directly whether he was moving ahead with levies against America’s closest neighbours.
“The tariffs are going forward on time, on schedule,” Trump said.
A few assumptions to start.
Mark Carney will handily win the federal Liberal party’s nomination, become Prime Minister, and march — more or less straightaway — into Rideau Hall to ask the Governor General to call an election.
During the contest that follows, U.S. President Donald Trump will not suddenly decide to take his foot off the gas. He will continue to bully, intimidate, and harass Canada. He will impose more tariffs, dangle new threats, and heighten economic pressure. He will continue his campaign of extranational humiliation.
In other words, the current crisis will not just persist — it will escalate.
Members of six of Canada’s billionaire families have donated the legal maximum to Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership campaign, according to an Investigative Journalism Foundation analysis of the first interim financial disclosures published by Elections Canada.
Carney raised $1.9 million overall, far more than any other leadership candidate. He is also dominating the polls and has 83 MPs supporting him compared to former finance minister Chrystia Freeland’s 26.
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA—As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders presented a show of unity with Ukraine on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his intent to work with Russia to end the gruelling war and “recoup” U.S. aid funnelled into the war effort by laying claim to Ukraine’s critical mineral wealth.
Trudeau was in Kyiv Monday, where he spoke at the International Summit on the Support of Ukraine and chaired a meeting of G7 leaders.
Cartel activity in Canada ‘very prevalent now,’ former Trudeau advisor says
Organized crime cartel activity is “very prevalent now” compared to at least a decade ago, says a former national security advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and listing those groups as terrorist organizations may help prevent a “national crisis.”
Jody Thomas says the government’s move to list seven transnational criminal organizations, including multiple drug cartels, as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code will give law enforcement more tools to go after cartel-affiliated criminal groups in Canada — particularly their finances — that will be “enormously helpful.”
Recently, Brian Lilley of the Toronto Sun interviewed Steve Bannon about Donald Trump’s repeated comments about Canada becoming the fifty-first state. Bannon has long been associated with Trump, having served as his White House Chief Strategist in 2017, and continues to be a leading spokesman and organizer for the MAGA movement.
Lilley was probably hoping to get assurances that Trump’s comments about Canada were not serious and that he was just trolling Justin Trudeau. But that was not the message he received.
A Vancouver theology school has cancelled a public lecture that was slated for next month by a renowned British historian over his views on Indian Residential Schools and colonialism.
Esteemed ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar — regius professor emeritus of moral and pastoral theology at the University of Oxford — now says he’s “ashamed to be an alumnus” of Regent College, which called off his March 6 lecture.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” —William “Billy Boy” Shakespeare
With all due respect to the Bard, Juliet was absolutely, completely wrong with the aforementioned quote. (But then again, she was a stupid 13-year-old child, which kind of ruins that “romantic” love story.) Turns out, names are incredibly important! Been that way since the Biblical age, when names and titles were Divinely bestowed: Jacob became Israel; Abram became Abraham.
A drop in public opinion polls has spooked Pierre Poilievre. Is his best strategy still Justin Trudeau?
Are the federal Conservatives flailing?
In the span of a week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has gone from his previous description of Canada as a country where “everything is broken” to basking in a sea of red and white, and an election-style speech asking supporters, staff and MPs: “Who’s ready to put Canada First”?
338Canada | CPC 177 (-15), LPC 120 (+19), BQ 33 (-4), NDP 11, GPC 2
On this side of the world’s longest undefended border, U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated comments about Canada becoming the 51st state have led to outright rejections of the idea as a “non-starter,” spontaneous bursts of national pride and dogged determination to “buy Canadian.”
The comments have also prompted a question from some, who wonder about the role of Canada’s head of state as Trump repeatedly casts his eyes and rhetoric northward:
Why hasn’t King Charles said anything about all this?
Charlie can’t even look after his own people, he’s happily insulated and by all indications unconcerned about the Islamist shithole England has become.
The recent Four Nations Face-Off in hockey was, by any standard, an unbelievable success for the game of hockey.
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The exposure it produced for our great game is a credit to all those individuals involved in its creation and implementation. Hats off to all the players who were so committed to their respective homelands and the game of hockey in general.
These were not mere exhibition games – these were games with great meaning. Congratulations one and all.
The people making a show of their patriotism for the most part are the same ones who shit all over Canada for the last ten years by supporting Trudeau and his useful idiot Singh.
No loyalty oaths here, no pseudo-patriots welcome.
OTTAWA — Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threatening Canada’s sovereignty.
…Unveiled in 2022, the memorial listed 67 individuals as having “paid the ultimate sacrifice.” However, it was only on December 4 that Veterans Affairs acknowledged some of those named were still alive, had died of natural causes, or never saw combat.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants to make Canada the 51st state, threatening to use “economic force” to make that dream a reality.
He’s also signed an executive order to place blanket tariffs of 25 per cent on all Canadian imports that could start March 4.
One of the reasons experts believe Trump could be targeting Canada is its resources, including its critical minerals — and its water.
A retired Canadian C-level executive, wishing to remain anonymous, has estimated Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s wealth from his years with Brookfield Asset Management — which has ownership of coal infrastructure.
Carney has branded himself a political outsider despite also being former governor of the Bank of Canada and governor of the Bank of England. He worked extensively as an advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and has questioned aspects of capitalism.
