The Canada-China trade deal announced early Friday puts the future of Canada’s entire automotive industry at risk and concedes ground to “hostile” players in the market, say Canadian automotive industry leaders.
“This is a self-inflicted wound to an already injured Canadian auto industry,” said Unifor national president Lana Payne in a press release reacting to news of the deal, which allows 49,000 Chinese EVs a year into Canada, at the “most-favoured nation” tariff rate of 6.1 per cent.
The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence, to rid it of “woke distractions” and refocus coverage on “warfighting.”
Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesperson, announced the plan in a Thursday morning post on X.
“The Department of War is returning Stars & Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters,” Parnell wrote, using the Trump administration’s preferred name for the Defense Department. He wrote that the Pentagon will “modernize” the publication and “refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.”
Convicted sex offender Michael L’Enfant offered his teen target a cute addendum to his twisted missives.
It was a SHHHH emoji, meaning, let’s keep this quiet. Our little secret. That emoji is a perfect stand-in for a justice system that cares not a whit for victims of sexual assault, be they young or old. The privacy rights of pedophiles and rapists trumps everything.
Global warming has gone cold as an issue. Despite decades of panicked predictions of doom, it’s never been a high priority for voters, and Trump’s bold expressions of “climate denial” went unpunished by voters.
The media still sound allied with the Green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone. Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS, and NBC for barely touching the “COP30” global climate summit in Brazil. (PBS gave it nearly 16 minutes, and ten of it was a John Kerry softball interview.)
Trump, speaking to reporters outside the White House, was asked about the Canada-China deal. The U.S. president didn’t sound too fussed.
“It’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. It’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that,” Trump said, referring to Carney.
Reporter: PM Carney is in China. How do you see the deals that Canada and China have signed?
Trump: That’s ok. That’s what he should be doing. pic.twitter.com/YjDbhbb66j
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 16, 2026
Mixed Signals: Trump backs Canada-China trade deal, contradicting own administration
… “I think it’s problematic for Canada,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC Friday morning. “There’s a reason why we don’t sell a lot of Chinese cars in the United States. It’s because we have tariffs to protect American auto workers and Americans from those vehicles.”
Naomi Watts and Elliot Page (formerly Ellen) are just two of several star names coming out in support of transgender children in a new American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) awareness campaign.
The ACLU just put out this ad of celebrities and athletes including Megan Rapinoe, promoting that men should be able to play in women's sports pic.twitter.com/QPanL0a7Wk
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2026
I can’t wait to see what they’re saying about this 100 years from now.
NEW: Premier Doug Ford says PM Carney didn’t inform the Ontario government about the EV tariff reversal before striking the deal with China.
Ford says this is going to be a “big problem.”#onpoli pic.twitter.com/8B6hF1bifp
— Colin D'Mello | Global News (@ColinDMello) January 16, 2026
Ontario premier slams Canada’s ‘lopsided’ new EV deal with China
Ontario Premier Doug Ford isn’t mincing words about Canada’s new electric vehicle deal with China, saying Friday that Chinese manufacturers are gaining a foothold in the country’s auto market at the expense of workers in this country.
“The federal government is inviting a flood of cheap made-in-China electric vehicles without any real guarantee of equal or immediate investments in Canada’s economy, auto sector or supply chain,” Ford said in a statement issued shortly after news of the deal broke.
On average, the cartoons published on the Instagram account of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo get a few hundred reactions, but a recent drawing by cartoonist Eric Salch has prompted more than 15,000 social media users to express their dismay.
CBC is expanding once again, but that’s not shocking given the amount of government money, or government-directed money that they get.
While every other media outlet struggles and tries to find ways to keep the lights on, CBC is handed money by a government that sees them as vital to the national – read party – interests.
Donald Trump is considering placing tariffs on countries that do not support his plan to annex Greenland.
The US president has been vocal about his aspiration to acquire the Danish territory, repeatedly saying that he would buy it, and failing to rule out military action to take the island by force.
“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” Mr Trump said during a roundtable at the White House on Friday.
Canada admitted 393,500 permanent residents last year
Canada admitted approximately 393,500 permanent residents in 2025.
That’s according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, which said the number is in line with its admissions targets.
It’s actually slightly lower than projections announced in the fall of 2024. At the time, Ottawa released its permanent resident targets for 2025-27 as part of its Levels Plan – the government’s roadmap to pausing short-term population growth.
Thursday’s numbers are about 2,000 people shy of the 395,000-person target set for 2025.
Robina Aminian was passionate about fashion, posting images of herself on Instagram wearing the dresses she hand-embroidered.
She was also passionate about politics. On Jan. 8 the fashion student finished her class at Tehran’s women-only Shariati College at around 7 p.m. and joined a group of antigovernment protesters not far from campus.
Iranians had been demonstrating for over a week, but Aminian knew that day was going to be different. The protests had been growing in size and expanding to more cities, with calls for regime change becoming louder. President Trump had threatened to intervene if security forces started shooting. Adding to the growing momentum, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the deposed shah, had urged Iranians to pour onto the streets at 8 p.m., the start of the Iranian weekend.
It was an ordinary Saturday night in my hometown of Calgary. Nothing about the evening announced itself as historic. No banners. No blaring slogans. Just a community hall, a few speakers, and a petition on a table.
I had invited my wife, of decidedly unpolitical temperament, to join me at the Queensland Community Hall to hear speakers on Alberta independence and to add our names to the referendum petition. Full disclosure: I had already signed on as a canvasser. My wife, who had never attended anything remotely like this before, agreed simply to come along and sign.
(Incognito)
A bipartisan group of members of the US Congress has been visiting Denmark to show support in the face of increasing pressure from President Donald Trump for the US to annex Greenland – a semi-autonomous region of Denmark in the Arctic.
The 11-member delegation met MPs as well as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
Group leader Senator Chris Coons said their trip was to listen to the locals and take their views back to Washington “to lower the temperature”.
Premier Doug Ford is panning Prime Minister Mark Carney’s slashing of Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.
“Make no mistake: China now has a foothold in the Canadian market and will use it to their full advantage at the expense of Canadian workers,” Ford warned Friday after Carney reached a deal with Beijing in exchange for China cutting retaliatory levies on Canadian canola and seafood.
“The federal government is inviting a flood of cheap made-in-China electric vehicles without any real guarantee of equal or immediate investments in Canada’s economy, auto sector or supply chain,” the premier said in a statement.
The loss of Canada’s automotive industry is inevitable assuming Trump holds true to course and reshores manufacturing.
And EV’s are not the future but that won’t stop Carney and his plans to turn bad policy into profit for the China class.
This may be a tacit admission by Ford that the Great EV Gamble came up snake eyes.
“To fix this mess, Prime Minister Carney and the federal government need to urgently step up and support Ontario’s auto sector,” he added.
“That means making the sector more competitive by ending the electric vehicle mandate, harmonizing regulations with key trading partners and scrapping federal fees that do nothing but add thousands to the cost of making vehicles and chase away investments,” stressed Ford”
