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Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are set to meet Thursday in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford to put an end to an escalation of the trade war between Canada and the United States.

Ford said he hoped it would be a cordial meeting, but it will come after both Lutnick and U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed the premier and Canada in statements made to the press.

About one million Canadian “snowbirds,” who contribute billions to the U.S. tourism industry each year, will soon be required to register and be fingerprinted before heading south, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curbing illegal immigration.

While most travellers are automatically registered with an electronic I-94 admission record upon entering the U.S., Trump’s “Protecting the American People Against Invasion” order now mandates that all visitors staying 30 days or longer must register with the U.S. government and obtain an admission record, if an I-94 wasn’t automatically issued.

h/t XC

President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the “honeymoon” a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He’s fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year’s campaign.

He’s even started what critics call a trade war.

U.S. President Donald Trump fired new shots in the tariff war on Tuesday, vowing on social media to put an end to Canada’s auto industry amid a chaotic volley of trade threats that sent stock markets lower.

Mr. Trump has said a key goal of his protectionist trade policy is to persuade foreign manufacturers, especially automakers, to shift production to the United States. The President’s language has become increasingly menacing in recent weeks, turning outright hostile to the Canadian auto industry on Tuesday, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford briefly imposed a surcharge on electricity exports to the United States.

Wouldn’t it be great to have an all Canadian ICE 4WD that was robust and easy to maintain unhindered by chips or ludicrous government net-zero limitations etc …

The federal government announced a plan on Wednesday to slap tariffs on $29.8 billion worth of American goods to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump after he imposed punishing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum early this morning.

Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, the government’s point person on Canada-U.S. relations, said Trump’s attack on Canadian industry is “unjustified and unjustifiable” and the government must hit back as the U.S. inserts “disruption and disorder” into what was once one of the most successful trading relationships in the world.

President says charges on Canadian steel and aluminium will go ahead on Wednesday, and that Canada should consider becoming ‘our cherished 51st state’

President Trump dismissed the chaos his tariffs have unleashed on stock markets as a price worth paying to “rebuild our country” after another turbulent day fuelled by his on-off trade war with Canada.

The Canadian province of Ontario suspended its reprisal duties on electricity bound for several US states after Trump announced he would double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium from midnight.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the “removal” of a convicted Canadian drug trafficker, who was caught transporting more than 125 lbs of cocaine across the country in 2022.

The government agency said Tuesday that Christopher Anthony Frater, 32, was returned to Canadian authorities last week after he was convicted of a drug-related charge in 2023.

Dawn O’Leary misses Diet Coke the most. Her favourite pop is among the list of American goods and services she gave up even before U.S. President Donald Trump flip-flopped on his tariff threat last week. The 71-year-old has sold her U.S. stocks and dumped Netflix. She doesn’t only buy Canadian – she also refuses to purchase any product that’s made in Canada for a U.S. company.

“Unfortunately, I have to do the research for that on Google,” says Ms. O’Leary, the owner of Dragonluck Kennels in Stittsville, Ont., on feeling forced to use the American search engine. “I am not happy about that.”

How many weeks, or months, will the prime minister-designate, Mark Carney, be facing off with U.S. President Donald Trump in our current trade war? And how much damage could Carney do to Canada during this time? Does he know how to handle the whims of Trump’s ego-driven relationships with world leaders?