The United States Department of Energy recently published a report, which essentially summarizes the U.S. government’s rejection of the 30-year-old, United Nations-centric, climate-alarmed consensus worldview.
Carney and his whole family are eco-nuts, especially when there’s profit to be had.
Profit that always translates to your loss without discernible benefit to anything or anyone beyond the connected.
The most vital fact that US President Donald J. Trump needs to take on board is that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no earthly chance of winning his war in Ukraine — unless, that is, Trump gifts the Russian despot a victory.
China will be among a collection of hostile states, which also includes Iran and North Korea, that will be taking a close interest in the outcome of the diplomatic initiative Trump began with Putin following their face-to-face meeting in Alaska earlier this month, to end the Ukraine conflict.
As Mark Carney visited Germany and Latvia on Tuesday, his point man on Canada-U.S. relations was in Washington trying to mend fences.
It’s a tall task even after last week’s decision to put the elbows down and rescind Canada’s counter-tariffs on American goods outside of the steel, aluminum and auto sectors. Carney still needs to change up his team.
Specifically, as I’ve said before, Ambassador Kirsten Hillman has to be replaced because source after source continues to describe her as an impediment.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will maintain his ban on American booze despite Canada dropping some retaliatory tariffs in the ongoing trade war with the United States.
Ford says he will drop the ban on selling U.S. alcohol at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario when U.S. President Donald Trump removes tariffs placed on Canadian goods or when the two countries strike a new free trade deal.
Premier Doug Ford says a new USMCA deal or the full removal of U.S. tariffs would convince him to bring back American alcohol to the LCBO.
Until then, "they aren't getting any booze on our shelves," Ford said. https://t.co/z6hd5IWW4L
— Colin D'Mello | Global News (@ColinDMello) August 27, 2025
On Friday, the United States will close the door on a long-standing trade convenience: The de minimis exemption. For decades, this rule allowed small shipments valued at $800 US or less to cross the border duty-free, bypassing the cumbersome customs procedures that normally apply to imports.
Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen, following a report that American citizens have been conducting covert operations in Greenland.
Denmark’s public broadcaster DR quoted sources as saying the aim was to infiltrate Greenland’s society and promote its secession from Denmark to the US, although it was unable to clarify who the men were working for.
Danish intelligence warned Greenland was being targeted by “various kinds of influence campaigns”.
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to use existing laws to prosecute American flag desecration.
The order instructs agencies to “prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our Nation’s criminal and civil laws against acts of American Flag desecration that violate applicable, content-neutral laws, while causing harm unrelated to expression, consistent with the First Amendment.”
To be clear, the order does not make flag burning itself illegal. It makes no new laws.
What must Thomas Cole have seen when, in 1825, he first gazed upon the Hudson River Valley for the first time, and later as he ventured into the Adirondacks? The natural beauty is stunning, just begging to be put on canvas. Or Albert Bierstadt, upon leaving his native northern Germany and crossing the American continent, to gaze upon the Rockies and all the way to the great Sierras of California? Or Walt Whitman, who in traveling across this great land, found his heart bursting with the beauty of America and so brilliantly put it to verse?
To the first explorers, settlers, farmers, artists who arrived from Europe, America was a blank canvas begging to be put to story and verse, to be painted and built upon a style that was uniquely American. And that they did.
The Ontario government has no plans to put U.S. booze back on LCBO shelves amid calls from a group representing U.S. distillers to return American spirits back to Canadian liquor stores.
In a statement released on Monday, Distilled Spirits Council President and CEO Chris Swonger called Canada’s decision to remove a 25 per cent tariff on American spirits a “very positive sign,” but noted it will not have much of an impact as long as provinces refuse to sell U.S. liquor.
“The unfortunate decision to remove American spirits from Canadian retail shelves is not only harming U.S. distillers, but it’s also needlessly reducing revenues for the provinces, and placing unnecessary burdens on Canadian consumers and hospitality businesses,” the statement read.
Prime Minister Mark Carney loves to reach for hockey metaphors. He doesn’t always catch the right one.
Explaining why he was ditching most of the retaliatory tariffs against the United States, the PM said on Friday that “there is a time in the game when you drop the gloves,” to “send a message,” and a time when you “want to put the puck in the net.”
Elbows Up was just an empty slogan all along.
We’re just four months removed from a federal election and Kevin O’Leary thinks it’s a wonderful time to call another one.
“Now everybody realizes that ‘elbows up’ is stupid,” said the Shark Tank star in an interview. “It’s stupid. We want trade, not ‘elbows up’ with Americans. Americans don’t hate Canadians and Canadians don’t hate Americans. That’s all BS.”
What goes up must come down.
“Elbows up” helped Mark Carney win an election campaign.
Elbows down may help him survive a trade war.
The prime minister can explain everything. If only Doug Ford will hear him out.
Axios co-founder Mike Allen appeared on Monday’s Morning Joe to tout the outlet’s article, “Trump’s identity project,” which begins [emphasis added]:
“Through immigration crackdowns and cultural purges, President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.”
Dearborn has become the model city of America’s double standard: where a non-Muslim can be jailed for a reckless Facebook post, but Muslims can openly chant ‘Death to America’ and glorify terrorists without consequence.
h/t Hermes
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is warning that while the U.S. suspension on new visas for foreign truck drivers won’t have much, if any, impact on Canadian drivers, it should be seen as a warning to industry to clean up its act.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X last week that the U.S. is immediately pausing the issuance of all visas to truck drivers which require them to operate in the U.S.
And to add insult to injury, notice below… the “no u-turn” sign with in a few feet of when this illegal immigrant tried to do exactly that!
Another truck driver in Canada just pulled the same stunt!
CBC goes undercover to show how they are receiving falsified licenses!— SuchasLife (@Dj_YQL) August 19, 2025
On occasion the CBC does good work. I expect those responsible for the trucker expose were executed however.
h/t NL
