Liberal government misspending has left us ill-equipped to fight a tariff war with the U.S. – and one of the only alternatives the government has will be to increase taxes to do so.
But don’t take my word for it.
Those warnings came from Chrystia Freeland when she was finance minister and from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum authorizing a “military mission for sealing the southern border of the United States and repelling invasions,” giving the U.S. military the ability to occupy public land along the border in order to secure it.
The directive, released late Friday, allows the military to use federal lands for military activities, including constructing border barriers and using “detection and monitoring equipment” to deter would-be migrant invaders.
The globalists put us here. Nationalism and well protected borders are the way out and path forward. It just took a president with the balls to actually do it. pic.twitter.com/BlNIFPh1Kq
— Jason D. Meister (@jason_meister) April 7, 2025
Only Canada and China have chosen to impose counter levies in response to American tariffs.
Canada’s past chief negotiator for the new NAFTA says the country finds itself alone as one of the few globally to have used countermeasures against American tariffs.
Retaliatory tariffs on some American auto exports went into force on April 9. Canada has imposed a series of counter-tariffs to respond to U.S. levies on autos and steel and aluminum exports, as well as goods that aren’t compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which U.S. President Donald Trump imposed under the guise of addressing fentanyl.
If you were in need of a slightly cracked purple iPhone, a Cuban sandwich grill or a green camo PS4 controller that “works great,” there was a time when Hamilton’s buy-and-sell Facebook group was the place to be — to be specific, any time before the evening of Jan. 10, 2023.
That’s the moment when the group made an abrupt — and decisive — break with used blenders and baby clothes. In the last gasp of normalcy, someone posted pictures of a life jacket for a small dog for sale that was swiftly overshadowed, two minutes later, by a post with a photo featuring Donald Trump in a garish yellow outfit.
The Food and Drug Administration has become a “sock puppet” of the industries it regulates, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday, telling workers at the beleaguered agency that those industries have exerted too much influence on regulatory decisions for too long.
In a roughly 27-minute speech, Kennedy — the nation’s top health official — also said the “deep state is real,” according to transcripts of his speech and a recording obtained by The Washington Post. He urged employees to blow the whistle on their bosses if they believe superiors are approving “something that shouldn’t be approved.” And he urged employees to “break away from the bureaucracy.”
BREAKING: HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr declares that by September, the United States will uncover the cause of the autism epidemic and eliminate exposures:@POTUS: "Think of that, so it was 1 in 10,000 children had autism, and now it’s 1 in 31." pic.twitter.com/Y81wxzOfF1
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 10, 2025
The White House will no longer reply to reporters who list their preferred gender pronouns in their email signatures.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she does not respond to journalists who use pronouns, “as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts.”
Sean Hannity and Tomi Lahren praise Karoline Leavitt for standing up to the woke mob by responding to a New York Times reporter with the following:
“Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio, clearly does not care about biological reality or truth,… pic.twitter.com/KitX0uqvMl
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) April 10, 2025
The General Motors CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ont., will shut down next month with plans to re-open in the fall at half capacity.
The company said in a statement Friday that production is coming to halt as a direct result of the market, and available inventory to build the BrightDrop electric delivery vehicles manufactured at the plant.
“CAMI is making operational and employment adjustments to balance inventory and align production schedules with current demand,” GM said in a statement.
A mix of electric vehicle viability and tariffs are responsible I suspect.
h/t DS
When political science professor Arash Abizadeh heard last month about foreign travellers being detained at the U.S. border, he cancelled plans to speak at an upcoming academic conference in Durham, N.C.
He believes heightened scrutiny at the U.S. border makes travel to the country too uncertain.
“Why would we subject ourselves to this?” asked Abizadeh, who teaches at McGill University in Montreal.
Leave it to the CBC to gin up the fear by featuring a Muslim as victim.
Crude oil prices have started to decline again today, after initially rising thanks to news that most of America’s trading partners will receive a 90-day tariff suspension. Donald Trump’s escalated tariff strategy against Beijing, which increased the overall rate on Chinese imports to 125% effective immediately, has further contributed to the negative market outlook. There are now strong indicators that long-term crude oil prices will continue to trend downwards.
A Pakistan-born Canadian citizen wanted for his alleged role in the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege has landed in New Delhi after his extradition from the United States.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, arrived at a military airbase outside the Indian capital under heavily armed guard late on Thursday, and will be held in detention to face trial.
India accuses Rana of being a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organisation, and of helping to plot the attacks.
After the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI launched a massive manhunt for a mystery accomplice to Timothy McVeigh known as “John Doe 2”—only to later claim that he never existed, and that McVeigh acted largely alone.
Nearly 30 years later, an attorney in Utah named Jesse Trentadue is still working to unearth the truth through his ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for surveillance footage of the blast. According to FBI and Secret Service records, the footage shows McVeigh with another unidentified subject.
It’s easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s haphazard tariff barrage as silly and self-defeating, especially after so many days of global market turmoil. But critics among liberal Democrats and Republican free traders still need to address the overriding goal behind the seeming madness. The key strategic objective of Trump’s approach is simple: restoring American industrial power. Opponents of the US president ignore this at their peril.
Trump is organizing a global embargo of China. To get the elites to comply, he did the equivalent of saying, "Nice stock market you got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it." That's what Americans will remember: Unlike in 2008, Trump put us ahead of Wall Street. pic.twitter.com/aUkIkooghL
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 10, 2025
Move over, “Big Balls.” That nickname rightfully belongs to President Donald J. Trump. He’s putting into practice the dictum of one of every real man’s favorite generals, George S. Patton: “Audacity, Audacity, Always Audacity” (to be fair, the pearl-handled butt-kicker may have lifted that bon mot from either Kaiser Wilhelm I or some Frenchman). Trump hasn’t panicked even as his bold plan to remake the economy using tariffs vapor-locked the Dow Jones. In fact, he savagely mocked the Panicans for their drawers-soiling sissiness as the stock market tumbled. And this is a guy with cause to panic – the worst-case scenario for you and me is that our 401(k)s shrink to the size of Robert Reich. If Trump loses, he ends up dead.
h/t DS
US President Donald J. Trump’s current trade stand-off with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has already induced some Chinese companies, such as Shein, BYD, TikTok and Temu’s parent company PDD Holdings to move away from China and have induced some Western companies – including Apple, Dell, Hasbro, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Stanley Black and Decker, Foxconn, Nintendo, BYD Auto, TSMC, Intel, Mazda, Google and Samsung also to move away or diversify.
Canadian PM quickly pledges to negotiate ‘new economic and security relationship’ with US after Trump pauses tariffs on other nations
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged Wednesday to negotiate a “new economic and security relationship” with the US – an announcement that comes on the same day President Trump paused tariffs for dozens of nations, but not Canada.
“The pause on reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump is a welcome reprieve for the global economy,” Carney wrote on X, referring to the commander in chief’s 90-day pause on sweeping trade fees.
h/t PA Cat
