President Donald Trump is continually criticized for just about every policy his government undertakes. Among the strongest criticisms is his foreign policy, including his negative stance towards the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He has even raised the possibility of the United States (US) pulling out of the organization altogether.
This sort of talk causes considerable anxiety among the media and politicians in other NATO member countries, including Canada.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Unless Washington and Ottawa change course, Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on more than 700 U.S. products entering Canada — covering CA$27.6 billion in annual imports — are scheduled to take effect Tuesday.
The duties, ranging from 15 to 50 per cent, come as U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said this week that “there are no negotiations happening on trade right now.” A source close to the Canadian side said on Friday that no talks were underway.
The ongoing tariff and counter-tariff war between the U.S. and Canada is better described as a taxation war, in which each country imposes regressive taxes on its own citizens that raises their cost of living.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney will impose Canada’s latest round of counter-tariffs of between 15% and 50% on $28 billion worth of U.S. imports.
At first glance, the current American-Canadian trade “war” is absurd. We are neighbors with a long history of close friendship, speak the same language (for the most part), and spring from the same British civilization.
Nearly one million Canadians reside in the United States.
Given the two countries’ natural affinities, Canadians are nearly indistinguishable from Americans.
The Canadian intern charged with espionage at NATO headquarters in Belgium was found in April near the office of the alliance’s supreme commander after a fire alarm was pulled by a suspected accomplice, a Belgian source familiar with the case told The Globe and Mail.
The intern’s unexpected appearance there triggered an investigation into her activities by the counterintelligence service of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, known as SHAPE.
Before trial she’ll be released and perhaps allowed to return to Canada.
Either way she will manage to flee to China.
Canada and Europe are having a moment. The timing could not be better.
With the Canada-U.S. trading relationship moving from aggression to open hostility, Foreign Minister Anita Anand was huddling in Ireland this week with her European counterparts.
While U.S. President Donald Trump drafts angry social media posts, Prime Minister Mark Carney is drafting a speech he’ll deliver this month to the European Parliament
Conservatism in Canada is currently on a remarkable run, and a depressing one.
The best lines and policies it has pitched to voters are being appropriated and stolen by the Liberals, altered, and presented to the public as if Prime Minister Mark Carney himself had thought of them.
There’s a reason why observers call the ten years this country was led by former prime minister Justin Trudeau the “lost decade.” His tenure as PM is littered with failed experiments that haunt us today.
The man who couldn’t get slow-moving light rail to work properly in Ontario is now advising the Carney government on their Alto high-speed rail project.
If ever there was a sign that the Alto project is destined for disaster, it’s the decision to hire former Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster.
CALGARY — The feds, which employ more than 350,000 Canadians, are explicitly telling applicants if they do not meet the feds’ “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies,” they might not be considered for federal jobs.
This is based on a report done by the Aristotle Foundation, which found that, certain federal departments 100% of the job applications “prioritiz[e] or potentially prioritiz[e] applicants based on race ethnicity, or other inherent or group identities.”
Canadian politicians wallow in multiculturalism; they want to be all things to all people. The leftist idiot Justin Trudeau, for example, said it was a “good thing” that Canada has no core national identity.
Their current Prime Minister, the effete wussy Mark Carney, could also use a thorough regimen of testosterone replacement therapy. Then, maybe he could grow a pair and effect some “muscular liberalism” as expounded by ex-U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was right to walk away from the latest Canada–US trade talks. But he should not confuse resisting Washington with balancing Washington.
The collapse of negotiations, followed by Washington’s new 50% tariffs on roughly $28 billion of Canadian goods, marks a new rift in a relationship that will not simply return to pre-Trump normality. Carney says the United States (US) demanded too much and offered too little, including terms affecting Canadian culture, the auto sector, and Canada’s ability to negotiate future trade agreements.
OTTAWA – In April 2012, a salesman in Vancouver wrote to his partners in China with a proposition.
As The Bureau reported this week, the Iranian immigrant was describing the outlines of a trade-based money laundering architecture that enables Tehran to mount its missile and drone war machine using American technology, evading United States sanctions through clandestine Chinese trade networks operated through third parties worldwide, and prominently, set up in Canadian business networks.
China, Iran, Russia? Those are Carney’s Allies.
Canada lost 42,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada said Friday, contrary to economists’ expectations, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.4 per cent.
Statistics Canada said the number of public sector workers fell by 20,000, declining for a third consecutive month. Jobs were little-changed in the private sector.
By region, Quebec was hardest hit, losing 19,000 jobs. Ontario followed with a loss of 18,000.
Statcan’s reporting is suspect as told only weeks ago…
Canada’s Job Market Is Booming If You Ignore Population Revisions
Canada’s economy is booming, as long as you ignore the actual data and upcoming revisions. Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows seasonally adjusted employment climbed by 75,000 jobs in July. The unseasoned reality was a little less savoury, showing a 6-digit decline in the same month, along with rising unemployment. The picture may be even worse than presented, with a Big Six bank projecting substantial upward revisions to population estimates in just a few weeks.
When Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King reacted by immediately recalling Parliament, which was not due to sit for another month, and ask for its blessing before declaring war on Germany. On the first day of the special session, King tabled copies of documents relative to the outbreak of the war, so that the House of Commons would know the basis on which war was being declared.
THE CARNEY EFFECT
Coined by Donald Best, September 4, 2026, 2:45 a.m. ET.
Carney Effect – when a public figure complains about being mocked and triggers a flood of new mockery by admitting the memes hit home.
On September 1, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in front of… pic.twitter.com/Fywp7PCTt2
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) September 4, 2026
With luck he’ll stay there.
