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Northwestern Ontario’s Ring of Fire central in U.S.-Canada trade war: experts

The Ring of Fire in northwestern Ontario has become a key figure in the battle to control critical minerals, which experts say is the heart of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada.

While a remote Ontario peat bog may not be the stage that first comes to mind when picturing the geopolitical conflict, the critical minerals beneath it are essential to renewable energy and digital technology.

Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire is a crescent-shaped mineral deposit that has been eyed as a critical source for Ontario’s burgeoning electric vehicle battery industry.

What “burgeoning electric vehicle battery industry”???

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Mark Carney’s leadership win mirrors past Liberal failures

The Liberal Party of Canada has selected a non-MP to become prime minister, but precedent suggests he won’t last long. Mark Carney represents the worst aspects of both John Turner’s and Michael Ignatieff’s political rises and appears destined for the same electoral futility.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 17, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Chairman Chow complains Trump’s Tariffs are nonsense like Sankofa Square … wait

Toronto details plan to fight Donald Trump’s tariffs, as mayor appears on CNN: ‘Stop this nonsense’

Mayor Olivia Chow’s plan to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs includes deferring property taxes for struggling businesses, partnering with nearby municipalities and banning U.S. companies from bidding on some city contracts.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 17, 2025•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada, USA

Poilievre says he’ll scrap carbon levy on industrial emitters and consumers if elected defeating Carney’s lie

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will scrap the carbon levy on industrial emitters as well as the consumer carbon levy.

In video statement released Monday, Mr. Poilievre says if elected to govern in the upcoming election, his government would repeal the entire carbon price law, including the tax on Canadian businesses and industries.

This means there would not be a levy on Canadian steel, aluminum, food production, concrete and other industries, he said.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 17, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

Why is Trump doing this? There are two harsh realities Canada must face

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs — first threatened, then postponed, now applied to steel and aluminum — are a hostile act against a friend and ally.

They upend the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. They violate basic principles of the World Trade Organization and postwar General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which itself grew out successive U.S. tariff reductions after 1934.

If Washington continues with this obnoxious policy, more Canadian goods will face punitive surcharges at a time when only 30 per cent of U.S. imports are tariffed at all.

Certified TDS.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Canada: A Sign of Things to Come

Canada is not the 51st state. While Trump keeps talking about it, I’m sincerely hoping this is just him trolling, because I sure as heck don’t want Canada to have any say in American politics.

The last thing we need is yet another anti-gun state in the nation, especially when I’m still kind of hoping Denmark buys California.

This is the weirdest timeline ever.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 17, 2025•0•Canada, Gun Control, Gun Rights, USA

Jagmeet Singh says NDP would cancel F-35 contract and build fighters in Canada

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced Sunday his party would cancel Canada’s contract to buy U.S.-built F-35s and look for companies to build fighter jets in Canada — a proposal that some defence experts say comes with steep costs.

“Purchasing from the [United] States at this time is not in our national security interest,” Singh told reporters in Iqaluit just days after Defence Minister Bill Blair said Canada is reconsidering its F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 16, 2025•0•Canada, WTF?

Doug Ford mistook Ontario’s electricity exports for a bazooka. He found they’re more like a squirt gun

Ontario Premier Doug Ford followed up his bellicose threats on energy exports this week by quickly retreating, demonstrating the limits of electron diplomacy.

When he first announced a 25-per-cent surcharge on electricity exported to the United States, Mr. Ford said it would remain in place indefinitely. If the U.S. escalated, he would halt transfers completely. “Until the threat of tariffs is gone for good, Ontario won’t back down,” he declared on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

GREEN: This is lunacy! Canadian energy plan builds in power-price advantage to US

On Monday at an energy conference in Houston, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s “irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens.”

He added that, “Natural gas is responsible for 43 per cent of U.S. electricity production,” and beyond the obvious scale and cost problems, there’s “simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas.”

In other words, as a federal election looms, once again the United States is diverging from Canada when it comes to energy policy.

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 16, 2025•0•"Energy Matters", "Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, USA, WTF?

Canada has ‘nuclear weapon’ in trade war — ban Pornhub in US

Ooh, Canada!

Some Canucks are proposing the most drastic measure yet in the trade war with Uncle Sam – blocking US access to Canadian-owned Pornhub.

h/t PA Cat

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 16, 2025•0•Canada, USA

King Charles plans early bitch session about Trump with fellow Eco-Crank Mark Carney

The King is planning to meet Mark Carney this week, in a sign of the UK’s unwavering support for Canada amid continuing tensions with President Trump.

Sources close to Charles said there was a “determination” from the monarch to see the new Canadian prime minister when he visits the UK in the coming days. The Sunday Times revealed last weekend that the King was concerned about the discord between Canada and the US.

Since his re-election, Trump has repeatedly proposed to make Canada, where Charles is head of state, America’s “51st state” and has imposed crippling tariffs on the country.

When asked about oil and gas investments, Carney responds that companies "must have business plans that are consistent with the transition to net zero."

Does this sound like someone who is going to build pipelines and develop Canada's oil and gas industry?

No. Of course not. pic.twitter.com/QixNDFSTnZ

— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) March 16, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•March 17, 2025March 16, 2025•0•"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

RCMP warns of rising election-year threats against politicians

An internal RCMP report warns of an increase in “stalking and harassment” of politicians during this election year, citing anti-Israel street demonstrations as a major concern.

“Flash protests present a significant challenge to law enforcement’s ability to provide sufficient protection for VIPs,” the report stated.

The “threat” as always will primarily come from the left.

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2025March 16, 2025•0•Canada

Lorne Gunter: Trump to blame if Carney and the Liberals win another election

If Canadians are saddled with yet another Liberal government, they can thank Donald Trump.

Friday, Abacus Data released a poll showing that on every major issue — except Trump and the environment — Canadian voters favour Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, often by a wide margin.

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2025March 16, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

Pierre Poilievre has a bigger problem than Mark Carney. Much bigger

If Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives lose the next federal election, it will not be because the Liberals changed leaders. It will be because the narrative of the election changed, and Poilievre couldn’t find the right role for himself in the new story.

There are really only three roles in any narrative: the hero, the villain and the victim. When advising clients in crisis communications, we emphasize the importance of understanding which of these roles fits best for the purposes of public perception. Depending on the narrative, a person or organization in the middle of a crisis can make any of the three work well for them.

Valid questions raised but I suspect Carney is enjoying his Kamala Bump phase aided by the Left’s own distaste for Soiled-Himself Singh.

Carney stinks of WEF and is a committed globalist profiteer.

I suspect he will reheat his bromance with Xi and that may restore sanity to those currently conned by the ginned-up “Can’t be a Patriot without believing in the Great Annexation Scare”.

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2025March 16, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party, USA

Bob Rae says Donald Trump’s goal in Canada is ‘theft by force’

Rae’s Pin – The Sustainable Development Goals Brooch United Nations SDGs Rainbow Pin Badge

Bob Rae, the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, says U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggression towards isn’t about fentanyl at the border, it’s about stealing Canada’s land and resources.

In a post to X late Saturday, when all was relatively quiet on the Canada-U.S. trade war front, the politician turned diplomat posted a map of upper North America and the Arctic Circle abutting Russia and parts of northern Europe.

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2025March 16, 2025•0•Canada, USA