On paper, Donald Trump’s latest tariffs only apply to about five per cent of Canada’s goods exports.
But they set a precedent of ignoring the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade (CUSMA) that economists, trade experts and business leaders warn could inflict much wider damage. They also use a legal mechanism that gives the U.S. president a lot more flexibility.
A $25,000 electric vehicle sounds like exactly what Canadian consumers have been waiting for. But when that bargain comes from China, the real cost may have little to do with the sticker price.
Earlier this year, as part of the strategic partnership with China, Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to allow up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) into the Canadian market at a favourable tariff rate. These EVs have just begun to arrive with prices between $25,000 to $35,000 – approximately half the current average cost for an EV in Canada. But before Canadian consumers get too excited or seek to jump behind the wheel of a freshly imported BYD or Dongfeng, they should understand why Canada had a prohibitive tariff rate on Chinese EVs prior to this year and what security risks the high-tech automobiles pose to both drivers and the country as a whole.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney did not rule out retaliation in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat on a number of Canadian goods, part of the latest escalation of the U.S.-Canada trade conflict.
“We have a situation where the American tariffs, the 338 tariffs, will come into effect in 29 days, and we will look at all options in terms of how we would respond if they do come into effect,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday.
We are receiving reports that some Canadians are being contacted at their homes by government officials about social media posts made months or even years ago.
These reports come after the passage of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, which expands Canada's hate speech laws by… pic.twitter.com/qm8ndLWz0h— Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (@JCCFCanada) July 21, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Toronto’s middle class is packing up and moving out at such a rapid pace that the city’s population is dropping. Montreal and Vancouver are also in the midst of a similar outmigration.
It’s not only bad news for those cities; it also harms the country as a whole by slowing economic growth, straining our health care system, and increasing political polarization.
This migration out of cities is not just a Toronto story. While the City of Toronto saw 40,000 more people move out to other parts of the country last year than moved in from elsewhere in Canada, Peel Region lost even more, at 45,000.
But Toronto has so much to offer!
501 Streetcar, TTC @TTCnotices Toronto @cityoftoronto. Canada @Canada seems to have fallen. #itbetterhere pic.twitter.com/lK3jfVb1EL
— Jim Fannon Dominican Real Estate 🇨🇦 🇩🇴 (@jimfannon) July 20, 2026
OTTAWA — China’s new Ethnic Unity Law should not be viewed in isolation, nor should it be dismissed as inapplicable to foreign nationals or Canadians. It is the latest addition to an increasingly sophisticated legal architecture through which Beijing seeks to extend its political authority beyond its borders. Officially titled the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, the legislation was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March 2026 and entered into force on July 1, 2026.
In April, almost a year after last spring’s federal election delivered a minority government, Mark Carney’s Liberal Party inched its way to a majority by poaching a string of floor crossers from opposition parties. The new-found majority further strengthens the hold of a party that has been in power for 60 percent of Canadian electoral history. This makes them among the most successful political parties in the Western democratic world.
A Walrus piece.
OTTAWA — Veteran political journalist Robert Fife has acknowledged that Conservatives face an unfair media bias in Ottawa, describing the problem as longstanding.
Fife made the admission during an interview with independent podcast host Aaron Pete on Nuanced.
“You may be right in the sense that there is an unfair bias against the Conservatives in Ottawa,” Fife said. “I think that’s probably true, and it’s always been the case, generally speaking.”
May be right?
A federal department officially has closed its accounts on the X social media platform, citing concerns that comments from users were causing mental distress among employees.
Women and Gender Equality Canada had kept its accounts dormant since March 2025, following an International Women’s Day post that drew a wave of responses, before formally closing them in late May 2026.
In this episode with Jason James, we revisit the Vancouver Model — the Chinese transnational money-laundering system that helped make Vancouver infamous around the world — and we connect that history to a live political question in Canada today.
Because this is not just a story about casinos, luxury homes, or offshore capital. It is a story about how dirty money, political weakness, and a captured real estate economy can combine to distort an entire country.
The country’s top spy agency says Natural Resources Canada approached it with concerns about former federal scientist Dennis Lu more than two decades ago, not the other way around — and has made a rare disclosure of one of its documents in court to set the record straight, CBC News has learned.
There are also new details about part of the reason for a 23-month delay between the last Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) briefing about Lu to his employer in February 2021 and the start of Natural Resources’ internal investigation into Lu in January 2023.
Much of whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to fast-track economic growth through his Major Projects Office will bear fruit or remain forever aspirational will depend on how he manages negotiations with indigenous groups. The tone from and resolutions released by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) at its recent annual gathering in Ottawa don’t bode well for the federal government.
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CALGARY, AB: Think tank SecondStreet.org released data from each of the Atlantic province’s health authorities today showing people from outside Canada are coming to the East Coast, receiving health services, and then not paying their bills. This problem has cost the health system (taxpayers) $41.69M since 2020/21.
Whatever the ultimate truth of President Donald Trump’s allegations of Chinese meddling in American elections, Canadians have no excuse for the kind of reflexive dismissal in which the CBC indulged Friday. Despite their ruling class’s attempts to hush up and smooth over what they had allowed to happen, Canadians nevertheless know from what limited government admissions were made exactly what Beijing is capable of. Whether what Trump said is the exact or entire truth, or timed to influence the midterms, is not the point.
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During the first 10 years of Liberal government — the Trudeau years — business investment per worker in Canada fell 18.8 per cent from $20,310 in 2014 to $16,493 in 2024 (inflation adjusted), according to the Fraser Institute.
Over the same period, U.S. business investment per worker rose 31.3 per cent from $23,263 to $30,555, which means U.S. investment levels are now nearly double ours.
