President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has ordered the U.S. Commerce Department to create a new U.S. census that excludes people who are in the country illegally.
The “new and highly accurate CENSUS” will be “based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
“People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS,” Trump added.
h/t DS
Many food items are significantly more expensive at the grocery store today than they were a year ago in Canada. Leading the pack is rice, with a year-over-year increase of 48.9%, according to Statistics Canada. The spike is largely driven by export restrictions in key producing countries such as India and Thailand. Grapes come second with a 34.1% jump, likely the result of Canadian grocers pivoting away from U.S. suppliers this past winter—many stores carried grapes from South Africa, Peru, and Chile instead.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says U.S. President Donald Trump is likely the most disliked politician Canadians can think of, inside the country or out, as he plows ahead with new tariffs in his trade war.
Ford pulled no punches when asked in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Thursday what the general impression of Trump is in Canada.
“He’s probably the most disliked politician in the world in Canada because he’s attacked his closest family member, and that’s the way we look on it,” Ford said.
"Trump is the most disliked politician in the world in Canada cos he's attacked his closest family member," says @fordnation .
First of all, WTF. This is the worst possible time to be saying something like this on American cable news, just as Canada is trying to lock down a… pic.twitter.com/Tgat0UkbtT
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) August 7, 2025
h/t Mauser
Some heads are about to explode into rainbow dust. Canadians using the Nexus system for travel cards into the United States will only be allowed to choose from the two biological sexes, male and female, thanks to the Trump administration.
After huddling with Prime Minister Mark Carney and the other premiers, Doug Ford is expressing concern President Donald Trump will escalate his trade war against Canada.
Ford warned the potential renegotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) could be even more economically debilitating than the current tariff crisis.
“Fasten our seatbelt. CUSMA, or USMCA, whatever you want to call it, he’s coming at us hard. He is going to come at us with everything he has and we have to make sure that we’re ready,” he told reporters at Queen’s Park on Wednesday.
When Ontario’s unemployment rate is worse than provinces in Atlantic Canada, that is a real issue.
Ontario is well above the national average and not performing well. https://t.co/LlFBue8FmZ— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) August 5, 2025
What do the two words “national defence” really mean in Canada? What are our core values and vital interests today, and how can we invest responsibly in their promotion and protection going forward? These are core questions for all Canadians to debate. They speak to the security we must now strengthen at home, and the sacrifices that will be required to support these efforts. Canada needs a modernized strategic culture that reflects a renewed understanding of and approach to security and defence, and is firmly grounded in active public debate and clear national priorities.
I don’t think the defence of Canada is feasible without the US.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Tuesday he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act to ensure local news is disseminated wider and faster two years after Meta banned access to news on its platforms.
Carney made the unexpected suggestion while announcing over $1 billion in loan guaranteed and long-term supports for the softwood lumber industry at a mill in West Kelowna, B.C.
Mark Carney showed up at Gorman’s Mill in West Kelowna, B.C., on Tuesday promising to change Canada’s trading relationship. If we judged that promise based off his promise to strike a deal with Donald Trump, he’d get an automatic fail.
Still, he wants us to believe that he’s going to turn things around and magically not make us reliant on the United States.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Tuesday that Canadian investment in the United States — already among the highest in the world — could decline if trade relations deteriorate and a new economic and security pact is not secured.
“Canada is the second-largest investor in the United States today in the world. We have 40 million people,” Carney said while speaking to reporters in British Columbia.
It is about to become obvious that Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed an error of historic proportions in unleashing an aggressive war on Ukraine and provocatively ignoring the Trump administration’s genuine efforts to give Russia a way to withdraw from this barbarous misadventure with something to show for it.
Prime Minister Mark Carney showed no signs of retaliating against U.S. President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs — and even suggested he’s open to removing existing tariffs if it would help Canadian industries.
Carney faced questions Tuesday about Canada’s next steps after the two countries failed to reach a trade deal by the Aug. 1 deadline, resulting in a 35 per cent import tax on some Canadian goods. The rate applies to goods not covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, which governs trade between the three countries.
The Great Negotiator at work.
Where do things stand for Canada after the United States imposed a new, higher tariff last Thursday evening?
In the short run, not much has changed. In the long run, a lot may yet change.
Since the signing of the landmark Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the relationship has been about ever-lower trade barriers and ever-easier movement of goods and services across the border. It was part of a global trend. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. is reversing course, hard and fast.
Three alleged smugglers and 44 asylum seekers attempting to enter Canada from the U.S. were intercepted in Stanstead, Que., by the RCMP overnight Sunday.
With the help of provincial police, authorities arrested the asylum seekers, who were travelling in a truck, near Haskell Road. Some of them included children. RCMP brought the asylum seekers to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) office in Stanstead, according to CBSA east border district director Miguel Bégin.
… Bégin said most of the migrants were transferred to the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle regional processing centre, where they are being screened for their eligibility for asylum in Canada.
There is no reason for them to be eligible for asylum in Canada.
Since Aug. 1, many Canadian commentators have downplayed the impact of the 35% tariffs the United States has imposed on select Canadian goods, citing the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and its oft-repeated claim that 90% to 93% of Canadian exports remain exempt.
While technically true, this statistic masks the much more complicated — and far less reassuring —reality for Canada’s agri-food sector.
That the Civil War was fought over slavery has become a central myth of the United States. It is, rather, more accurate to see the War as a profound repudiation of the nation’s founding in the War of Independence.
“We have no more right to meddle with slavery in Georgia than we have to meddle with monarchy in Europe,” proclaimed the Providence Daily Post on February 2, 1861. Abraham Lincoln had no objection to such an observation. In his fourth 1858 debate with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln declaimed: “I will say that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races…I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality.”
