There goes Team Canada.
The rock-solid group of premiers fighting as one in a trade war are being chipped apart, their united front undone not just by the threats of U.S. President Donald Trump but by the promises of the Chinese ambassador Wang Di.
Now Canada, caught in a trade war with two capricious superpower partners, is negotiating against itself. This country might as well put up a sign inviting bigger players to come to fleece us.
The feds are using the fact health care in Canada is free to try and lure immigrants to come to the country.
The Department of Immigration has launched an international marketing campaign promoting Canada’s public health care.
Has to be the record for most ever views of a tweet by an out of touch government department. Read the comments. They are. @CitImmCanada @LenaMetlegeDiab @GovCanHealth https://t.co/l1L7lXdorQ
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) October 15, 2025
Your government hates you. (Incognito)
As the first stage of the peace plan for Gaza takes shape, a critical question remains: will military forces be used to secure Gaza? According to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada is willing to participate in a multilateral mission to “enforce peace” in the enclave.
Is that a good idea?
China’s decision to slap duties on Canadian canola is meant to send a message: submit to removing the tariff on Chinese EVs, or pay the price. For too long, Beijing has treated Canadian farmers as pawns in a geopolitical chess game. But this time, the message should go the other way. Canada holds the trump card. If we call China’s bluff, absorb the short-term cost, and invest in value-added capacity, we can break the cycle of economic coercion once and for all.
This is a wish dream.
Canada’s Titans of industry are corporate welfare bums unwilling to invest to improve productivity.
Instead they live it up behind a gated community of government supported cartels, tax payer subsidies, interprovincial trade barriers and the import of masses of unskilled labour.
This is what the Elbow people are protecting.
Despite cordial exchanges in Washington this week, most Canadians remain unconvinced that progress is coming in the U.S.–Canada trade dispute, according to new data from the Angus Reid Institute.
Two-thirds (67%) of Canadians say the friendly tone between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney is merely optics and will not lead to a meaningful deal.
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The federal industry minister is putting pressure on U.S.-based Lockheed Martin to provide more economic benefits in Canada if the government is to proceed with its planned purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.
Otherwise, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in a French-language interview on Radio-Canada’s Les coulisses du pouvoir, Ottawa could move forward with a smaller fleet of F-35s and the acquisition of a second fleet of Gripen-E fighter jets manufactured by Sweden’s Saab. That company has offered to assemble Gripens in Canada.
Joly made the comments as Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is still mulling the fate of the $27.7-billion fighter jet contract.
Yes you read that right. Melanie Joly.
Ukraine has yet to receive the more than two dozen refurbished light armoured vehicles Canada promised to the war-torn country in September 2023, CBC News has learned.
The vehicles remain stuck in bureaucratic and corporate limbo — even though the Department of National Defence delivered the decommissioned vehicles to an Ontario-based company for reconstruction almost two years ago.
The fate of the restoration contract, publicly acknowledged around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s high-profile visit to Ottawa and believed to be worth between $150 million and $250 million, yet is now shrouded in secrecy.
“One of the remarkable things about life,” said the great sage Calvin — co-star, along with Hobbes, the tiger, of “the last great newspaper comic strip” — is that “it’s never so bad it can’t get worse.” So did the Canadian auto industry find out last Sunday, when the Chinese ambassador to our country, Wang Di, told CTV News reporter Vassy Kapelos that “China [would] remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada” if we, in turn, eliminated the tariffs we’ve imposed on Chinese electric vehicles.
Tough call for the Elbow people ahead.
Carney luvs China as does our China class but his Liberal Party also hates the West.
Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to re-shore auto assembly and as we have seen with Stellantis auto manufacturers are heeding his call.
It may be that Canada’s auto-industry or what’s left of it is part supply only.
Kelowna International Airport says some flights have been delayed after a third party hacked its terminal display screens and public address system with pro-Hamas messaging on Tuesday evening.
The incident happened at about 5:15 p.m.
“We are experiencing some delayed flights,” the airport said in a news release.
h/t Auntie Polly
B.C. Premier David Eby is calling on the federal government to protect forestry workers as new tariffs imposed by the U.S. president threaten to topple an already struggling industry.
On Tuesday, the U.S. slapped a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian lumber — on top of a 35 per cent duty already in place.
The U.S. also put a 25 per cent tariff on some Canadian wood products, like furniture.
Every country clings to its myths. The Americans have their revolution, the French their republics, the British their island stoicism. Canadians, according to our intellectual class, have something nobler: “peace, order, and good government.” It is repeated as though it were a founding creed, though it reads more like a library policy manual.
Premier Doug Ford insists there isn’t a major split in ‘Team Canada’ approach, as prairie provinces urge the federal government to drop electric vehicle tariffs, which are in place predominantly to shield Ontario jobs.
A letter from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew to Prime Minister Mark Carney last week urged him to drop 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, after China’s ambassador suggested his country would end its crippling canola tariffs in response.
Is Mark Carney finally learning that it’s better to work with Donald Trump on the international stage than undermine him?
Carney took a hastily arranged flight to Egypt on Sunday to take part in the signing of the peace deal for Gaza. It was the first instance of Carney working with, rather than against, the American leader.
On Thursday, the Toronto District School Board had planned to put more than 2,600 students in an Arabic calligraphy workshop run by a niqab-wearing woman who uses her art to call for the obliteration of Israel. It was cancelled just in time, but questions remain: Why was such an event approved in the first place? And why isn’t the school board reviewing its vendor screening procedures?
A Canadian woman was harassed by an immigrant Muslim couple while walking her dog, which is ‘haram’ in Islam.
But she was not having it! pic.twitter.com/PRZ4wmz9D0
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) October 14, 2025
