TORONTO – Ontario will charge 25 per cent more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans starting Monday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday.
Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. Earlier this week, Ford warned the governors of those states about the coming changes.
According to their own bizarre logic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney should be overjoyed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff jihad against Canada may cause a massive recession here.
Wonder what brought this on …
Excuse us? The @JustinTrudeau government is now in favour of oil and gas production after advocating policies for the past decade designed to keep them in the ground?
Joint Statement From Canada's Energy and Mines Ministers https://t.co/tGt5RrJJGx via @BOEReport— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) March 6, 2025
Justin Trudeau said today – in what was one of, if not his final press conference as prime minister – that he won’t try to stay on in a caretaker capacity once his successor is named.
Appearing to get emotional at times when talking about his decade in power, Trudeau said he is looking forward “to a transition to my duly elected successor in the coming days or week.”
Justin Trudeau is crying. pic.twitter.com/jhCCSvqluD
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) March 6, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will temporarily waive tariffs on products from Mexico that fall under the North American free trade agreement, two days after launching a continental trade war.
The announcement did not mention Canada, which is also facing sweeping tariffs, despite Trump’s commerce secretary saying earlier that both countries would “likely” see a reprieve. It came shortly after Trump levelled new attacks against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a heated exchange Wednesday.
Update: Trump pausing tariffs on some Canadian goods until April 2
h/t Shasta
The King should stand up to Donald Trump over his threat to annex Canada because it is a “direct confrontation” to British sovereignty, the head of the Commonwealth nation’s richest province has said.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Alberta premier Danielle Smith said that the King had a duty to confront the US president in his role as head of state.
“We sing ‘God save the King’ every week when we’re in the legislature,” Ms Smith said. “I swear an oath to the King, our cabinet secrecy is affirmed by our oath to the King, and we’ve got him on our bank notes.”
Canadian provinces pulling US alcohol off store shelves in response to Trump trade policy is “worse than tariffs”, the boss of Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman has said.
Several Canadian provinces, including Ontario, which is by far the most populated, took action this week in retaliation for US tariffs on Canadian goods.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), one of the largest buyers of alcohol in the world, removed US-made alcoholic drinks from its shelves on Tuesday.
Canada could take part in Ukraine peacekeeping with ‘security guarantees’ from U.S., defence minister says
OTTAWA — Canada is willing to participate in an as-yet undefined peacekeeping operation in Ukraine if a deal to stop the fighting with Russia is reached, Defence Minister Bill Blair said Wednesday.
Blair stressed that he would want “security guarantees” from the United States, but that Canada is ready to play a role in what United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently dubbed a “coalition of the willing” to defend Ukraine and preserve peace if the ongoing war with Russia stops.
OTTAWA — Despite Canada facing a devastating trade war with the potential to wreak billions in economic losses, taking April’s carbon tax increase off the table doesn’t seem to be on the Trudeau Liberals’ radar.
Canadians overwhelmingly support retaliatory measures against Donald Trump’s tariffs and most think “negatively” about the U.S. president, a new poll suggests.
The Pollara Strategic Insights survey, conducted before Trump’s levies took effect Tuesday, found only 14 per cent feel positively about him while 76 per cent have negative feelings with the rest undecided.
There is an air of desperation to these Star pieces.
NDP MP Niki Ashton is raising questions about Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s trickery and conflicts of interest, the first of her party to do so.
Leftists party members and media alike have widely favoured the un-elected Carney as the frontrunner of Sunday’s leadership contest — the winner of which will become Canada’s next prime minister.
Donald Trump has temporarily spared carmakers from sweeping US tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, one day after an economic strike on the US’s two biggest trading partners sparked warnings of widespread price increases and disruption.
The US president extended his aggressive trade strategy at midnight on Tuesday by targeting the country’s two closest neighbors with duties of 25%.
US retail giants predicted that prices were “highly likely” to start rising on store shelves almost immediately, raising questions about Trump’s promises to “make America affordable again” after years of heightened inflation.
“We are going to give a one month exemption on any autos coming through USMCA,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, referring to the trade deal Trump negotiated with Canada and Mexico in his first term https://t.co/F2HuWeUQsN pic.twitter.com/qwaL8FfGnF
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) March 5, 2025
Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China are now in effect after these countries failed to adequately stem the flow of illegal immigrants and deadly fentanyl in the United States despite President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to give them time to act. Never mind that Trump is the first president in decades to care about American safety and sovereignty because the same voices who stayed silent when the Biden administration’s inflation devastated Americans are now claiming tariffs will drive up costs and therefore Trump shouldn’t implement them.
But Americans should not be gaslit into having to choose between our sovereignty or low prices.
Every day, the madcap president of the United States does things to remind us that he’s an unhinged tornado of malice. In that maelstrom of abusive behaviour, it’s difficult to be outraged about any one thing for very long, because a new atrocity pops up to grab our attention (say, tariffs).
He’s like a wildfire tearing through a forest and we find it impossible to worry about each individual tree he destroys. But I hope you keep your eye on one particular fight MAGA-man has picked because it strikes at the heart of what his government is doing to democracy.
The TDS enraged Star is calling up ex-CBC staff as reinforcements.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy should be a cause for celebration in Ottawa. After all, Trump is only finishing the job the Trudeau government started: systematically crippling the energy sector in pursuit of their net-zero dream.
It’s hard to imagine Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault or his Liberal predecessors, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson, shedding a tear over this development. These are the same people who have spent years declaring oil and gas the great evil of our time. Now, the tariffs are here to speed up the decline of an industry they have worked tirelessly to strangle with regulations.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s imbecilic and unnecessary suggestion that Canada should become the 51st state has led some of my own family members — on my wife’s side, who are Canadian — not to travel to the United States, even in the midst of winter. Now this is personal.
The dislike that some Canadians feel toward Trump, and America in general, is something I experienced at a wedding of one of my wife’s cousins, shortly after Trump’s first term. At what should have been a non-political event, one of the speakers attacked the United States with such vehemence, it made me want to leave the room — and I’m no Trump supporter.
