When Prime Minister Mark Carney quietly lifted most food-related countervailing tariffs on May 7, few Canadians noticed.
There was no press release, no public statement – just a discreet policy shift mid-campaign. Yet several symbolic tariffs remain, notably on orange juice, coffee, alcohol, and tea.
The rationale? Canadians can supposedly “find substitutes.”
During the 12 months leading up to March, more than 6,000 US citizens have applied to either become British subjects or to live and work in the country indefinitely – the highest number since comparable records began in 2004, according to data released on Thursday by the UK’s Home Office.
Over the period, 6,618 Americans applied for British citizenship – with more than 1,900 of the applications received between January and March, most of which has been during the beginning of Donald Trump’s second US presidency.
The surge in applications at the start of 2025 made that the highest number for any quarter on record.
As soon as Magnus Mæland became mayor of a small town on Norway’s northern tip in late 2023, three delegations from China came knocking on his door.
“It’s because they want to be a polar superpower,” he tells me.
China might not instinctively spring to mind when you think about the Arctic – but it’s determined to be a big Arctic player. It’s been vying to buy real estate, get involved in infrastructure projects and hopes to establish a permanent regional presence.
China already describes itself as a “near-Arctic state”, even though its northernmost regional capital Harbin is on roughly the same latitude as Venice, Italy.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney ahead of the April 28 election may reflect a dynamic where ideological rivals are able to engage more openly, one of America’s best-known historians and conservative commentators says.
Trump’s preference for another Liberal prime minister in Canada, along with his public praise for Carney on multiple occasions, could stem from a common dynamic among ideological opponents where interactions can be more blunt and direct, said Victor Davis Hanson in a recent interview with Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times’ program “American Thought Leaders.”
Very interesting interview.
A U.S. judge has provided Harvard University a temporary reprieve from the Trump administration’s move to block enrolment of foreign students, including Canadians.
In a lawsuit filed early Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment, the Associated Press reports, and will have an “immediate and devastating effect” on its more than 7,000 international visa holders.
Why do I doubt she’ll be shown the door.
“This is a big deal for the King to do this,” says Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian high commissioner to the UK, as King Charles prepares for a historic visit showing support for Canada, which is facing pressure from US President Donald Trump.
“I hope that Trump understands,” says Mr Kinsman, ahead of the King becoming the first monarch to open Canada’s Parliament in almost 70 years.
So what can we expect from his speech as Canada’s head of state, to be delivered in French and English in Ottawa on Tuesday?
I don’t think Woke King Charlie is the flex they imagine.
The Trump annexation scare sure evaporated quickly
It was not that long ago, merely March, when Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh off his Liberal party leadership win, began telling Canadians his party needed a “strong mandate” because Canadians were “facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Donald Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty.” He insisted a snap election was essential, as was electing him, the self-proclaimed “crisis manager,” to address it.
President Donald Trump’s ‘rare earths deal’ with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky officially comes into force on Friday May 23rd. While much has been said about what this deal might mean for the prospects of peace between Ukraine and Russia, there has been far less discussion about how the struggle to control rare earth elements (REEs) fits into the wider geopolitical contest involving China and the West.
US President Donald Trump has said he is recommending a 50% tariff on all goods from the European Union being imported to the United States.
“Our discussions with them are going nowhere!” he wrote in a post on social media on Friday. He said the new tariffs would kick in on 1 June.
The announcement marks an escalation of Trump’s trade war with the EU. He initially proposed a 20% tariff on most EU goods, but halved it to 10% until 8 July to allow time for talks.
The president also threatened to impose a 25% import tax “at least” on iPhones not manufactured in America.
Canada’s tourism sector is taking a hit in the wake of world-wide economic uncertainties and political tensions, according to new data released by Statistics Canada.
Visits to Canada from overseas took a nose dive in March compared to the same month last year with a 17.4 per cent drop, a trend that has continued for six straight months, according to the data.
And fewer U.S. residents are crossing the border into Canada, with trips down 6.6 per cent in March on a year-over-year basis.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence system, which Canada has expressed interest in joining, is raising questions about the project’s cost and feasibility as well as concerns about a space-based arms race.
Trump’s plan is modelled after the Iron Dome that protects Israel — a land mass smaller than Vancouver Island — and aims to be more robust and hundreds of times bigger.
The Iron Dome is mainly built to defend against lower-flying threats like short-range rockets, mortars and shells, while Trump and other top U.S. officials say the proposed Golden Dome would block missiles fired from other countries and from space, weaving together existing technologies with future tech that still needs to be developed.
The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says he knows the implication of King Charles III’s upcoming trip to Ottawa is to push back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s 51st state threats — and he says there are “easier ways to send messages” to the American government.
“We’re thrilled that the king will be here,” said U.S. ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, in an interview with CBC’s The House that will air Saturday. “If there’s a message in there, there’s easier ways to send messages. Just give me a call. [Mark] Carney can call the president at any time.”
Hoekstra added that the annexation saga is “over.”
Canada should firmly reject Trump’s ludicrous Golden Dome plan
You have to be kidding – Canada considering involvement in Donald Trump‘s Golden Dome space defence initiative?
Is this for real? Is Canada seriously contemplating joining Mr. Trump’s latest cockamamie idea?
Two Israeli embassy aides were killed in an anti-Semitic attack, the latest in a string of left-wing violence.
Israeli embassy aides Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were murdered Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., gunned down by an anti-Israel radical as they were leaving an American Jewish Committee Young Diplomats reception.
D.C. police charged 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, for the crime. Rodriguez reportedly said that he “did it for Gaza,” and chanted “free, free Palestine” as he was taken into custody.
It was the best of budgets, it was the worst of budgets, it was the age of restraint, it was the age of profligacy, it was the epoch of the legislature, it was the epoch of the executive, it was the season of open debate, it was the season of closed doors, it was the spring of Canada, it was the winter of America. Or possibly the other way around.
