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FBI Director Kash Patel warned the U.S. needs to be ‘more vigilant’ about what is coming in across the Canadian border as adversaries have ‘adapted.’

The top law enforcement officer made the claim while testifying before lawmakers in the House Intelligence Committee about global threats on Wednesday.

‘Known and suspected terrorists are flowing in through our northern border more than they are our southern border,’ Patel warned.

He attributed it to the ‘successes we’ve had at closing our southern border.’

A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.

Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.

Lucky Us.

Economic strength can translate into geopolitical advantage.

President Donald Trump is approaching world politics with geoeconomic means for a geopolitical purpose. His reinvigoration of the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere, military pivot to the Indo-Pacific, and rapprochement with Russia in Europe is the geographic part. His tariffs, encouragement of foreign investment in the United States, promotion of domestic energy production unhampered by climate regulations, and domestic cuts in government programs is the economic part. Back in 1990, the strategic thinker Edward Luttwak wrote that the world was moving from geopolitics to geoeconomics. But, as Luttwak certainly knew, economics has always been an important component of geopolitics. Trump the businessman understands that.

China understands it, too. Its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is geoeconomics on steroids, extending China’s economic influence throughout Europe, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. The BRI uses economic power to advance China’s geopolitical interests. Trump is merely doing the same thing with his America First policies.

Ontario expects the U.S. administration to significantly ease the impact of auto tariffs on Canada, following a phone call from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday, according to a source.

Mr. Lutnick called Mr. Ford on Wednesday evening, according to a senior Ontario government source, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced auto tariffs during a news conference. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source as they are not authorized to speak publicly about internal discussions.

Sounds a bit like Good Cop Bad Cop.

I suspect that many of the same companies that manufacture here now will be forced to relocate to the States or shut down.

The Canadian market it is said is not large enough to sustain a domestic auto industry. 

The EV Fantasy has crashed and burned so what’s next? Unending bailouts?

This will help.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to “inflict as much pain as possible” on the American people pic.twitter.com/rKZTj3Xpwe

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 27, 2025

OTTAWA – U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening large tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they work together to do economic harm to the U.S.

In a post on social media, Trump says the tariffs would be “far larger than currently planned.”

The comments follow Trump’s move to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all automobile imports to the U.S. starting next week.

Trump declared his intention to impose even steeper tariffs on the European Union and Canada should they choose to align their tariff policies against the United States. pic.twitter.com/H29YAt6DDW

— The Tradesman (@The_Tradesman1) March 27, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responded on Wednesday to the barrage of criticism she’s faced from across Canada for her recent diplomatic efforts and media appearances in the U.S.

During Wednesday’s afternoon session in the Alberta Legislature, Smith said she’s been unjustly criticized for her attempts to persuade officials that a trade war between the U.S. and Canada would be a bad idea. She defended her strategy, characterizing her actions as entering the “lion’s den” to change the hearts and minds of Americans that Canada needs on its side

President Donald Trump has announced new import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts coming into the US.

Trump said the latest tariffs would come into effect on 2 April, with charges on businesses importing vehicles starting the next day. Taxes on parts are set to start in May or later.

The president said the measure would lead to “tremendous growth” for the industry, promising it would spur jobs and investment in the US.

#BREAKING: Donald Trump will now impose 25% tariffs on all cars and light trucks not made in the U.S.

This will significantly impact places dependent on auto manufacturing, like Ontario.

Canada can not win this trade war and retaliatory tariffs will only make things worse. pic.twitter.com/pSaULLzSUL

— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) March 26, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that he said imposes 25 per cent tariffs on the auto industry, saying the duty would go on all vehicles made outside the U.S. starting April 2.

The announcement is the latest in a set of tariffs that Trump has vowed against various countries since taking office, but the auto-specific duties have been floated by the president for weeks.

“This is the beginning of Liberation Day in America,” Trump said. “Before I was elected, we were losing all of our plants that were being built in Mexico and Canada and other places. Now, those plants largely have stopped and they’re moving them to our country.

Carney and his pals will profit from our misery.

h/t David_Martin

WINDSOR, Ontario — These are complicated times along Canada’s border.

Whenever President Donald Trump talks about obliterating Canada’s auto industry, he takes direct aim at the people who live over the river from Detroit in Windsor. Windsorites recoil from his threats, but few see Detroiters as adversaries.

But as they gear up to head to the polls on April 28 in a snap federal election, the focus for Canadians in border towns and elsewhere is increasingly their complicated relationship with their neighbors. As long as there’s a trade war, Trump will be the ballot question.