Against a backdrop of official failure and inaction, last weekend one private citizen showed what leadership looked like. When it became clear that a franchisee of the Second Cup chain had issued a loaded antisemitic threat of a “final solution,” CEO Peter Mammas acted unflinchingly and cancelled their franchise contract.
Direct, immediate legal consequences for illegal and threatening behaviour. Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and her police chief, Fady Dagher, should be taking notes.
QUEBEC — The best way to take away U.S. president-elect Donald’s Trump’s complaints about the Canadian border is to beef up controls, Premier François Legault said Wednesday.
Arriving for question period at the legislature a few hours before a meeting of Canada’s premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Legault said he expects a concrete plan from Ottawa.
President-elect Donald Trump’s ire toward Mexico for the flow of migrants into the U.S. is nothing new. Now, he has added Canada as a target over the issue.
“As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before,” he asserted on the social media platform Truth Social on Monday. The post also laid out his planned course of action: a 25 percent tariff on all imports from both countries.
Here’s a look at what’s happening at the northern U.S. border.
No question that the Canadian numbers do not approach those of the US-Mexican border but the numbers are increasing and Canada has done very little to secure immigration & refugee” screening while becoming an easy mark for human traffickers.
Blinkered partisanship often blinds people to the fact that two things can be true at once.
You can be critical of the Liberal government’s drug and immigration policies and still believe that Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on America’s closest ally and second-largest trading partner is shameful.
The stakes for Canada couldn’t be higher. Trump could be bluffing, but the currency markets were spooked enough to send the Canadian dollar to a four and a half year low. Economist Trevor Tombe estimated that 25-per-cent across-the-board tariffs would send the country into recession.
30%? 40%? Mark my words Trudeau will deliberately make things worse in the hope he see’s a poll bump.
Canada’s least wanted man: A family’s long and lonely fight to bring their son home from Syria
Jack Letts has spent seven-and-a-half years in a legal black hole. Detained without charge in a secret prison in northeast Syria, he is accused of being a member of ISIS, but has never been tried or convicted. His parents, John Letts and Sally Lane, have fought tirelessly to bring him home.
Born in the U.K., Letts holds Canadian citizenship through his father. Each day, John Letts struggles with guilt over his son’s plight.
Well this is inconvenient … I volunteered for a suicide bombing, Jihadi Jack admits
President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods entering the U.S. as of his first day in office has to be taken seriously. Seventy-eight percent of our exports (and about 42% of our economy) are based on trade with the U.S.
Vladimir Putin made it clear that NATO’s bases in Eastern Europe are on his radar, when he said last week that Russia reserves the right to strike the alliance’s military installations .
The words must have chilled the 1,600 or so Canadians based in Latvia supporting Operation Reassurance, the biggest reinforcement of NATO’s collective defence in a generation.
According to people familiar with the mission, morale is flat, with many of the troops feeling exposed, under-equipped and forgotten by the Canadian public. The black humour in Camp Adazi has it that the Canadians would be a “speedbump” if the Russians attacked.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government on Tuesday defended Canada’s border integrity.
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said he would impose 25% tariffs on his first day in office due to excessive drug trafficking and illegal immigrants coming across America’s northern and southern borders.
Canada’s border is secure? That’s a delusional statement.
TORONTO – Consumer debt rose to a record $2.5 trillion in the third quarter as many Canadians continue to struggle with high living costs and rising unemployment, new surveys from two credit bureaus say.
Newcomers and consumers who borrowed money for the first time in the past 12 to 36 months saw the biggest rise in missed payments, compared with the same consumer group last year, Equifax’s report published Tuesday, showed.
The fallout from a riot in Montreal on Friday afternoon has reverberated across the Canadian news landscape in the days since, with citizens and politicians reacting to the chaos and disturbing signs of overt antisemitism from the event. Though the violence was speedily quelled and widely condemned, questions remain about the state of Canada’s multicultural society and whether it can withstand the mounting internal and external pressures on its integrity and cohesion.
I wish.
While paying for one of the developed world’s most expensive universal health-care systems, Canadians endure chronic shortages of doctors, medical equipment and some of the longest wait times for treatment anywhere, according to a new report.
… A diagnosis of anxiety fits his own government, too. Mr Trudeau and his party have traversed an arc from heroic to hapless during nine years in office, and today are despised by many in Canada. … A letter has been circulating among Liberal MPs calling upon Mr Trudeau to resign.
h/t PA Cat
President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to impose tariffs of 25 per cent on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico on his first day back in the White House, until the U.S.’s two neighbouring countries stop all migrants and fentanyl from entering the nation.
Mr. Trump made the announcement at 6.35 p.m. Monday on his Truth Social platform, firing an opening salvo in the global trade war that he has long promised in his second term as U.S. president.
Is Donald Trump serious about tariffs? This has been the question hanging over not just world markets but the whole world of economics.
The popular wisdom had become that he wasn’t really that serious, and the key bit of evidence for that was his nomination of hedge fund investor Scott Bessent as his Treasury Secretary, someone seen as a moderate when it came to tariffs compared with others whose names were floated for the role.
The answer overnight, though, was pretty brutal. Yes, he is serious, and in the most unexpected way. By choosing to target Mexico and Canada as well as China, he is confirming threats made on the campaign trail that appeared the most fanciful.
1. Canadians are growing more divided
Darrell Bricker observes that while Canadian politics is becoming more polarized, it remains less extreme compared to the United States. Historically, Canadians’ focus on national unity, particularly the Quebec question, has suppressed ideological divisions. However, the 2011 and 2015 federal elections marked a shift toward ideological contests, with Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau exemplifying opposite ends of the political spectrum.
