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A report that Canada could be ousted from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance was publicly denied by a senior adviser to Donald Trump Tuesday, but experts say the risk remains that Canadian assumptions about security co-operation with the United States will be tested in the months ahead.

The U.S. President’s installations of loyalists – including director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who is accused of repeating Russian propaganda, and FBI director Kash Patel, who has spoken positively of the QAnon conspiracy-theory movement and supported the Jan. 6 Capitol attack – have thrown his country’s intelligence community into upheaval, and spread uncertainty among its allies.

Canada should be tossed out for this TDS laden article alone.

Reports that Canada and Mexico are set to be slapped with U.S. tariffs next week may be premature. That’s the latest word from the Trump administration.

The White House has clarified that North America-wide tariffs are not a done deal, as many news headlines suggested following remarks Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is musing about making Americans pay more for the electricity Ontario sends to the United States, in response to any levies President Donald Trump imposes on Canadian goods and services.

“We’re reviewing the cost of electricity we’re sending down there. And if he puts tariffs on anything in Canada or Ontario, they’re getting a tariff on their electricity,” Ford said at a campaign stop in Ottawa on Tuesday.

Should be fun when the US shuts down the Line 5 oil pipeline.

A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state.

Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand — according to people familiar with his efforts inside the administration.

The Five Eyes is a legendary group of deep intelligence-gathering countries. There are apparently discussions within Five Eyes whether to remove Canada from information sharing. Investigative Journalist @scoopercooper says China is using Canada as a proxy, pic.twitter.com/29rvvU674y

— Josh Ryan (@joshryanjames) February 25, 2025

The study imagines North America the way an engineer might, assuming that engineer was equipped with divine powers. First published in 1964, the concept of a North American Water and Power Alliance was an attempt to solve the design deficiencies of a continent that delivers great quantities of water to northern regions where few people live, while parching the sunny latitudes that provide an ideal home for suburbs and lettuce farms.

To fix it, some replumbing would be required, with the power of human technology – including, perhaps, nuclear-powered excavation – substituting for the tectonic forces that so badly misdirected natural water flows.

President Trump offered Canadians the deal of a lifetime — to join the U.S. and be welcomed as equals, as full citizens with all the rights that status entails. Canadian business would have tariff-free access to the world’s largest market. Individual Canadians would instantly be better off by replacing the weak Canadian dollar with the greenback, by getting lower taxes, lower gas costs, lower housing costs, better health care, better everything.

President Trump hasn’t made so generous an offer to anyone else. Yet instead of feeling honored, and responding in a spirit of generosity, most Canadians reacted peevishly and belligerently.