Canada
Star Triggered: We have one good reason to thank the infuriating, undiplomatic U.S. ambassador to Canada
When people talk about being “diplomatic” they usually mean something along the lines of being tactful, sensitive, of smoothing over difficult issues.
In that sense Donald Trump’s top diplomat in this country, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, must be the least diplomatic guy around.
If he’d set out deliberately to inflame Canadian opinion, Hoekstra couldn’t be doing a better job of it. He’s been going on about how “disappointed” he is that Canadians have their backs up in the face of Trump’s tariffs and hostile rhetoric and lamenting the “anti-American” tone of the federal election campaign. When it comes to blatant insults like all that “51st state” talk, his advice has been blunt: “Get over it.”
‘Never come to the U.S. again!’ Video shows alleged border officer yelling at Canadian driver
A video showing what looks to be a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer yelling at a Canadian tourist to “never come to the U.S. again” is being investigated by the CBP.
U.S. Border Officer to Canadian tourist stuck camping in the left lane:
“Don’t ever come back.” pic.twitter.com/yFF5WeeT7W— Trending Now ON X (@TrendingNowVidz) September 26, 2025
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Alberta considers new law allowing it to ignore international agreements signed by Canada
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government says it is planning to introduce legislation that would allow it to ignore international agreements signed by Ottawa.
The future legislation is listed in a new mandate letter Smith issued this week to the government’s intergovernmental relations ministry, which the premier heads.
The letter says it’s about protecting “Alberta’s authority,” and Smith’s office added in a statement that it’s also an issue of due process.
Idiot convert to Islam charged with terrorism elects trial by jury
A B.C. woman who used to belong to ISIS and is charged in Canada with terrorism offences has elected to have her trial next year heard by a judge and jury.
Kimberly Polman appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday by video for a half-day hearing to have federal prosecutors and her defence lawyers confirm dates for her trial and for pretrial matters before Justice Catherine Murray.
Weasel Boy Carney quietly dropped more U.S. counter-tariffs than advertised
The federal government quietly removed more counter-tariffs on American goods than initially advertised, according to an order-in-council published online.
The notice published last month indicates that, with the exception of sectoral tariffs for the steel, aluminum and auto industries, all Canadian retaliatory tariffs have been removed — in apparent contradiction to what the prime minister had said about the decision.
Canada is failing to count how many overstay their visas
Douglas Todd: How can decision-makers plan for housing, jobs, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units and social services when a significant number of people who were supposed to leave the country aren’t being tracked?
It’s hard to run a city, or country, when you don’t know how many people actually live in them.
How can public officials and businesses plan for housing, workers, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units or social services when they don’t know how many individuals need them?
Yet, according to experts, that is the problem in Canada, especially in the Toronto and Vancouver regions. The federal government isn’t being transparent about how many people in Canada remain in the country after their visas expire.
My God but we need a Trump. (Incognito)
Doug Ford blasts Carney government for proposal to limit use of the notwithstanding clause
Ottawa’s bid to curb the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause is “way overreach,” warns Premier Doug Ford.
Ford, the first Ontario premier to ever employ the Constitution’s nuclear option to override the courts, railed against federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser’s request to the Supreme Court of Canada to limit its use to protect Charter rights.
“It’s way overreach with the courts. Again, Parliament — federal Parliament, provincial Parliament — they’re supreme because the people are supreme, not judges ruling on stuff that shouldn’t even be in front of the courts,” he said Thursday in Vaughan.
I think they have Dougie on a “Say something vaguely conservative” once a month regime.
Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will allow Canada Post to stabilize its finances and ensure its survival.
“The bottom line is this: Canada Post is effectively insolvent,” Government Transformation Minister Joël Lightbound said in a statement on Thursday.
Canada is seeing its largest retirement wave as fertility rate plummets
A silver tsunami is headed for Canada with all baby boomers set to hit retirement age by 2030, with far-reaching implications for Canada’s economy and labour market, a new RBC report says.
The RBC report comes as Statistics Canada said in a separate report Wednesday that Canada’s fertility rate reached record lows in 2024.
Canada signs ‘game-changing’ trade deal with Indonesia allowing you to have your wife whipped in Aceh under sharia law!
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has signed new agreements on trade and defence cooperation with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Parliament Hill.
The trade deal is comprehensive, meaning it opens up trade in multiple industries with the world’s fourth most populous country.
Carney said the “game-changing” agreement is the first-ever bilateral trade pact signed with a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Mark Carney put Canada on a clear path away from Trump’s America at the UN
Mark Carney is no doubt aware that when he uses the word “rupture” about Canada-U.S. relations, it grates on the nerves of some in Donald Trump’s circle.
So it was interesting to see the prime minister doubling down on the rupture language in his numerous appearances at the United Nations this week. Now Carney is even using it to say how Canada will use the disruption with the U.S. to its advantage.
“In every moment where there’s a crack, where there’s a rupture, there is possibility,” Carney said at a news conference in New York on Tuesday evening.
I guess we’ll all have to get used to being poorer now. Not Carney of course.
Lithium Americas soars nearly 80% as Trump administration seeks equity stake in Canadian miner
Lithium Americas stock soared Wednesday as the Trump administration is seeking an equity stake in the mining company, which is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The White House proposed the equity stake as Lithium Americas renegotiates the terms of a $2.2 billion loan from the Department of Energy for its Thacker Pass mine, a Trump administration official told CNBC. Reuters first reported the equity stake proposal.
h/t DS
The comments of the U.S. Ambassador to Canada reveal a shocking ignorance and disdain
Most Canadians say they’ll never trust the United States the way they once did, according to a new poll.
Conducted by Ipsos for Global News, the poll found that 60 per cent of those surveyed believe Canada won’t ever be able to rely on their southern neighbour the same way, while 71 per cent feel the trade dispute that upended the countries’ long-standing friendship will continue for years.
These results have no doubt perplexed and angered some Americans, including the current U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra.
Given that we have the best tariff deal anywhere and have spent years freeloading under the USA’s protective wing I suggest the Elbow People tone it down.
Canadian travel to U.S. declines for 7th consecutive month amid trade war
For the seventh consecutive month, Canadians took their tourism dollars elsewhere in July 2025 and said no to heading south of the border.
In July, the number of Canadian residents returning from the United States was down to 2.6 million, marking a 32.4 per cent decrease compared with July 2024, Statistics Canada said in a new report Tuesday.