He’ll be back.
Like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator character, there’s a relentless determination to U.S. President Donald Trump. His inauguration day decision to hold off on potentially devastating 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian imports came as a pleasant surprise, at least for a few hours. The loonie’s value popped on the news. So did energy, pipeline and railway stocks – sectors that had already priced in a profit-killing trade war.
This month prime ministerial hopeful Mark Carney appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where for a few minutes it looked like the spirit of the Liberal party might rise from the dead.
After all, this was a man we were told was boring and irrelevant (a Trudeau facsimile in sensible socks, according to Pierre Poilievre). And yet there he was, up way past his bedtime, making cheeky jokes and landing them on late night TV.
Not so far fetched at all. And when I say that it’s with a straight face.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop Monday in Coventry, Vermont, near the U.S. border with Canada, the agency said in a statement.
The incident was the first time since the 2010 slaying of Agent Brian Terry in Arizona that a Border Patrol agent was slain by an assailant, according to a memorial list of fallen officers compiled by support groups.
One suspect, a German national, is dead, and a second suspect, a U.S. citizen who sustained injuries, is in custody, according to a Department of Homeland Security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide preliminary details. There was no additional information available about the shooting nor the traffic stop.
Donald Trump has loaded the trade gun. He’s pointed the gun. He hasn’t pulled the trigger one day into his latest presidential term.
But he insists it’s coming next week.
Sitting in the Oval Office for the first time in four years, Trump said he’s planning to imminently follow through with the massive tariffs he’s threatened against Canada and Mexico.
Canada’s drug dealers seem well connected politically with China, Khalistan and ME terrorist groups all having influence. I doubt much will be done at the border.
ICYM: I launched The Bureau to build on the method of journalism and success of Wilful Blindness, one of the most successful and consequential works ever in Canadian reporting. This story is another chapter.
https://t.co/4LzTYeG0lX— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) January 17, 2025
The head of one of Canada’s largest energy advocacy groups is urging the federal government to follow US president Donald Trump’s lead and scrap EV mandates in this country.
Minutes after Trump announced the end of EV mandates south of the border, former Liberal MP and current president of Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE), Dan McTeague, urged Liberal leadership candidates, including Mark Carney, to take decisive action by repealing the federal government’s mandate for all new vehicles sold in Canada to be electric by 2035.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is getting support from an unlikely ally for refusing to sign on to a communique that would have curbed US oil exports — Ontario’s manufacturing sector.
That’s because the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada (CCMBC) has expressed strong support for Smith in her firm stance against Ottawa’s energy policies and potential US tariffs despite pressure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and fellow premiers including Ontario’s Doug Ford.
BREAKING. Donald Trump says 25% tariffs coming February 1st if Canada cannot get the border secured.
Can Trudeau get out of the way so Canada can implement a substantial border security plan and avoid tariffs? pic.twitter.com/9YzmQDGmbO
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) January 21, 2025
For all the bravado about retaliation, Canadians were like prisoners on death row on Monday morning, waiting for the door handle to turn to find out if they’d been granted a reprieve or were about to have their final breakfast.
The Wall Street Journal story that Donald Trump won’t impose broad tariffs on Day One of his presidency , instead ordering a review of trade and currency imbalances, was like a stay of execution.
For Kingston, Ont., city councillor Greg Ridge, the pain of food insecurity is personal.
When Ridge was eight years old, his dad was hurt on the job and had to go on disability. Ridge said he recalls wondering why his grandparents were suddenly dropping off groceries and his parents were talking in hushed tones about money.
“I remember once in the kitchen my mom was crying, and I went over and I gave her a hug and I said, ‘Mom, it’s going to be OK,'” the King’s Town councillor said, fighting tears of his own.
In early January, an insidious international radical Islamist movement outlawed in at least a dozen countries was forced to cancel its conference in Canada on how to establish a global Islamic caliphate by toppling governments. It was the second year in a row that organizers shut the event down.
Banning an organization is a pointless act. This is especially true of Canada where Mosques are not monitored and Islamist predation is handled with Kid gloves.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an expression of Islamic doctrine. It is Islam and it means you harm. The mass deportation of Muslims is the only solution.
WE WILL BRING PRICES DOWN.
WE WILL EXPORT AMERICAN ENERGY.
WE WILL END THE GREEN NEW SCAM.
WE WILL REVOKE THE EV MANDATE. pic.twitter.com/YfAHk1OsLY
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 20, 2025
This can’t be good for Trudeau’s EV Battery scam.
America is free from the electric car nightmare. In Europe, it’s just beginning
With one flourish of a presidential pen, they will be free. Amid the blizzard of executive orders that President Trump has said he will sign in the next few hours, one of the most significant, for the economy at least, will be his decision to end the rules forcing American auto manufacturers to focus their energies on electric vehicles.
President Trump is determined to go back to something that until recently would have been considered completely normal: a free market in cars. Under President Biden, a tax credit – in effect a subsidy – of up to $7,500 was awarded for every EV sold. And environmental rules were blamed for effectively forcing auto makers to make a larger proportion of their new vehicles electric.
“Canada to USA. Safe Reach,” the Facebook post says. “No police. Low price. Payment after reach.”
“Canada to USA. Safe Game. Cheapest in Market. 100-per-cent guarantee,” reads a post on Instagram.
Smugglers offering to help people cross the border illegally into the United States are openly advertising their services on social media. The Globe and Mail has found multiple posts from people smugglers who are promoting “safe” routes to the United States, including from Montreal and British Columbia, with some claiming there will be no police involvement or checkpoints.
Trump Set To Deploy Troops at the Southern Border, Among Other Day-One Actions
President Trump plans to swiftly deploy elements of the American military to the southern border, beginning the crackdown that he had promised from the first day he launched his campaign more than two years ago. The president-elect will also end some Biden-era programs that allowed millions of migrants to be paroled and settled into the country.
Mr. Trump’s promise of the largest deportation operation in American history was one of the major pillars of his campaign, and unlike 2017 when his administration was staffed by political neophytes, he and his team have had four years during this interregnum to begin drafting executive orders.
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is planning to issue a broad memorandum Monday that directs federal agencies to study trade policies and evaluate U.S. trade relationships with China and America’s continental neighbors—but stops short of imposing new tariffs on his first day in office, as many trading partners feared.
The presidential memo directs federal agencies to investigate and remedy persistent trade deficits and address unfair trade and currency policies by other nations, two longstanding Trump irritants. And it singles out China, Canada and Mexico for scrutiny, directing agencies to assess Beijing’s compliance with its 2020 trade deal with the U.S., as well as the status of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, Trump’s updated North American Free Trade Agreement, which is set for review in 2026.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new sphere of American hegemony, with Canada as the 51st state. That sounds fantastic to the man in the purple-hemmed toga and the gold laurel wreath that’s perched around his “Make America Great Again” ballcap.
He’s going for irony, donning the garb of a Caesar for laughs when so many have warned that Donald Trump could imperil democracy in the American republic. Like a centurion, he holds a long staff with a banner that portrays a silhouette of Trump after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear last summer. A flag with the stars and stripes streams down Trump’s face, instead of blood.
“I think it would be fantastic… for global, political and economic power,” says the man, 27, whose name is Logan Howard.
Donald Trump has stated his intent to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on all imports from Canada on his first day in office. Let’s consider what we did the last time Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian exports.
In 2018, Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian exports of steel and aluminum under the national security provision (Section 232) of the U.S. Trade Expansion Act. Canada retaliated tit-for-tat, and the American tariffs were withdrawn under a deal that put a ceiling on increases in Canadian exports.
