Canada

Canadian governor (excuse me, Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau clearly had no one looking out for him before he sent out a post on X.

Last night, Trudeau was in attendance at the Bell Centre in Montreal for the Four Nations Faceoff matchup between the United States and Canada. The game that many players on both sides called “the biggest game of their careers” lived up to the billing, as it was chock-full of emotion from the start. Three Americans – Matthew and Brady Tkachuck and J.T. Miller – each fought a Canadian in separate fights before the game was 10 seconds old.

Greatest 9 seconds in hockey history pic.twitter.com/isy3o4MKVH

— World Hockey Report (@worldhockeyrpt) February 16, 2025

H/T DS

Canadian business owners have been increasingly eyeing relocation or expansion to the US, with the recent trade war being just one of many factors.

President Donald Trump has put Canada on notice for a 25% tariff imposed on all goods coming into the US from its northern neighbour, citing a weak and “porous” border that has allowed a continuous stream of drug trafficking and illegal immigration for far too long.

Canadians have been booing the US anthem for weeks over Trump’s proposed tariffs. But it’s no wonder that tensions boiled over when the US finally met Canada on the ice

As usual, Canadians approached the latest international hockey tournament, the 4 Nations Face-Off, with worry. Despite top-tier talent and historic winning pedigree, the feeling that Canada could be off its game is a perennial concern. But in 2025, it is particularly profound – mostly because of the Americans.

Since the last time Canada played the US at an elite tournament in 2016, Canadians have watched the American program grow stronger and deeper, while Canada’s own has lost focus. Among the most pressing going concerns has been goaltending. Canada – or Québec more accurately – produced dominant goalies in excess for decades. No longer. They’re all Americans now.

NEW: Team USA demolishes Team Canada 3-1 and records 3 fights in the first 9 seconds after Canada booed the American National Anthem before the game. pic.twitter.com/tRisE5RzYS

— DAILY INFO (@Robinsonjean0) February 16, 2025

The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador says he found it “incredibly concerning” to hear senior staff from U.S. President Donald Trump’s office convey that the commander-in-chief is “very serious” when he talks about annexing Canada.

“As Canadians, we need to realize that he is not joking, that he is definitively looking towards the 51st state being Canada,” Andrew Furey told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday. “He’s had a chance to change that narrative, and not only has he doubled down, I think he’s quadrupled down now on saying that.”

An internal government report warned a year ago that allowing “the trend of negative rhetoric” about the security of the Canada-U.S. border could lead to a thickening of the 49th parallel, adversely affecting trade and travel.

The report, written by a diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Washington, said that failing to refute U.S. claims about a “crisis at the northern border” would lead to the erosion of Canada’s image as a secure neighbour.

The Trudeau gov’t lies about everything.

I do not believe they are telling the truth about the border and a report written by a lone Washington diplomat is hardly the last word on the matter.

The controversy over American tariffs has quickly escalated from a corrective action supposedly prompted by complaints about the porosity of both the southern and northern borders of the United States, to a comprehensive attempt to reset America’s commercial relations with the world, to restore the strength of American manufacturing and to discontinue trade and foreign aid practices from the Cold War, which were effectively bribes to persuade a variety of foreign governments to remain in the western, rather than the Soviet, sphere of influence. Following the Second World War, there was a great wave of decolonization, most of it — such as in the old British Raj, which included present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan — voluntarily, but some of it — such as Algeria, Indochina and up to a point, Kenya and Cyprus — violently and painfully. As the Cold War developed, the foreign aid practices of the U.S. and other western countries (including Canada) had a humanitarian component topped up by the political understanding that recipient countries would remain passably co-operative with the West.

We don’t like it but it was inevitable.

Whenever we talk about NATO it’s usually in the context of money — or the famous all-for-one, one-for-all treaty clause known as Article 5.

The provision is the bedrock of the Western military alliance, allowing leaders from Latvia to London to Ottawa to sleep better at night knowing more than two dozen other like-minded nations have their backs.

What often doesn’t get much attention is the preceding paragraph: Article 4.

No one really likes Trudeau so I am not surprised. Possession of Greenland paints Denmark as a colonial power a major no no in Euro-Land.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre warned U.S. President Donald Trump to not turn a “loyal friend into a resentful neighbour” with his incessant threats of tariffs on key sectors to the Canadian economy and of making Canada into the 51st state.