Federal lawyers attempted to settle for a fraction of the taxpayer money owed by Laith Marouf, an antisemitic activist who had received public funds as a Department of Canadian Heritage consultant, according to an internal memo.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Marouf, a Montréal-based figure known for inflammatory remarks against Jews, left for Beirut after securing $122,661 to lead a national lecture series on tolerance.
Nations targeted by President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum decried the measures as unfair Tuesday and threatened to retaliate in a growing trade dispute that threatens to further roil economic markets and strain the United States’ relations with major allies.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, the United States’ biggest supplier of both metals, described Mr. Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports as “unjustified” and “unacceptable.”
Mr. Trudeau said he hoped to avert the imposition of the tariffs — which will not go into effect until March 12 — by highlighting their “negative impacts on Americans and Canadians.”
As Canada braces for 25 per cent U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, U.S. President Donald Trump says he is considering an additional tariff on Canadian-made cars, which could be as high as 50 to 100 per cent.
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump said Canada “stole” the automobile industry from the United States.
The federal government appointed former Mountie Kevin Brosseau as Canada’s new “fentanyl czar” on Tuesday — a role created in part to soothe U.S. President Donald Trump’s concerns about the northern border and pause a developing trade war.
As the government’s point-person on the file, Brosseau is being asked to work closely with U.S. counterparts and law enforcement agencies to “accelerate Canada’s ongoing work to detect, disrupt and dismantle the fentanyl trade,” said a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.
“The scourge of fentanyl must be wiped from the face of the Earth, its production must be shut down and its profiteers must be punished,” said the statement.
Justin Trudeau met with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance on the sidelines of an international summit in Paris and raised his concerns about the 25-per-cent tariffs on steel and aluminium announced by the Trump administration this week.
So that should do it. Perhaps Vance will report back that Trudeau is a bit miffed and the chastened Trump will cancel the tariffs.
More likely, Vance will share a good laugh with the president at the prime minister’s expense.
Then again maybe not …
NEW: Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., Premier Doug Ford stated that Ontario could cut off electricity as far south as Florida at a moment’s notice.pic.twitter.com/HqjYQaczgo
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) February 11, 2025
h/t XC & Mauser
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back efforts by his predecessor to phase out single-use plastics and tackle waste.
“We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump told reporters at the White House as he signed the order, saying that paper straws “don’t work.”
“I don’t think plastic is going to affect a shark very much, as they’re munching their way through the ocean,” Trump said.
The price of eggs in the United States is soaring. In some states, a dozen eggs now retail for over $11, among the highest prices ever recorded. The ongoing avian flu outbreak is wreaking havoc, with the U.S. having culled more than 10% of its laying hen flock in recent months.
Pierre Poilievre’s announcement in Iqaluit that under a Conservative government Canada will build a permanent military base in the Arctic, and order two more heavy icebreakers, had very deliberate echoes with the defence policy of his predecessor as Conservative leader, Stephen Harper.
Nearly 20 years ago, Harper grafted onto an issue that was considered a curiosity by his opponents: militarizing the Canadian Arctic.
Canada had a choice when it came to defending its sovereignty in the North: “either we use it or lose it,” he said on one of his annual trips to the region in 2007.
In a video last week, Jordan Peterson again sounded off on the Trudeau government, accusing it of ‘pandering’ to global elites at the expense of ordinary citizens and in particular, the economically productive province of Alberta.
What does the Canada Border Safety Agency do? Really.
Not much, if recent headlines are any indication.
Daily, some accused criminal or another is reported to have slipped over the border to commit some crime or another in this country. CBSA does not appear remotely ashamed of dropping the ball on the safety of Canadians.
The NDP made new election commitments on Monday: imposing tariffs on Tesla electric vehicles, bringing back the federal EV rebate and doubling it if consumers buy a Canadian-made plug-in car.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is on a campaign-style swing in Canada’s automotive capital and border town: Windsor, Ont.
Singh told reporters that if Trump follows through with his threat to apply a tariff to all Canadian goods, a New Democrat federal government would slap a 100 per cent trade tax on all Tesla products.
Canadians are increasingly backing the Energy East and Northern Gateway pipeline initiatives as well as the expansion of domestic energy infrastructure in response to a looming threat of a trade war with the United States, a new survey suggests.
Two-thirds of Canadians are now in favour of the Energy East pipeline, a poll released Feb. 10 by the Angus Reid Institute found. Sixty-five percent of respondents currently support the oil pipeline project compared to 58 percent in 2019. Nineteen percent of respondents oppose the initiative and 16 percent are unsure.
President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Monday, re-upping a policy from his first term that pleased domestic metal makers, but hurt other American industries and ignited trade wars with allies on multiple fronts.
The president signed two official proclamations Monday evening that would impose a 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum from all countries globally. A White House official said in a call with reporters that there would be no exclusions offered, and that the president was directing customs officials to dramatically increase their oversight over such imports.
The measures will be welcomed by domestic steelmakers, who argue they are struggling to compete against cheap foreign metals. As they did during Mr. Trump’s first term, U.S. metal makers have been lobbying the administration for protection, and Trump officials agree that a strong domestic metal sector is essential for U.S. national security.
OTTAWA — The deal that was supposed to delay a Canada-U.S. trade war appeared to be cracking on Monday, as officials watched to see whether President Donald Trump would be making good on his threat of imposing 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
While aboard Air Force One on his way to Sunday’s Super Bowl, Trump announced he would be unveiling the trade levies Monday and they would include steel and aluminum imports coming from Canada and Mexico.
” TDS is just a giant excuse not to look in the mirror. This is the only way for Canadians to keep their sanctimonious moral superiority intact.”
Suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) may not be a requirement to appear among the pseudo-patriots on the Laurentian media, but it surely helps. Led by the premier of Ontario, our new Captain Canada, the amount of defamatory rubbish hurled in the direction of Donald J. Trump and his administration was exceeded only by the venomous criticism of anyone, especially if Canadian, who tried to understand (and not necessarily to defend) the Americans’ perspective on Canada.
