Carney says Trump’s 10% forced labour tariffs ‘not a surprise’ to him

Carney says Trump’s 10% forced labour tariffs ‘not a surprise’ to him

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he isn’t surprised by the Trump administration’s plan to slap import levies on goods allegedly made with forced labour.

A report released from U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s office on Tuesday listed dozens of countries, including Canada, as having varying degrees of ineffective enforcement rules around goods made with forced labour.

The report accused Canada and a handful of other countries of failing to “effectively enforce” import bans on such items. As a result, the U.S. government will hit goods not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement with a 10 per cent levy.

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CHARLEBOIS: The Canada Royal Milk story Ottawa doesn’t want to explain

CHARLEBOIS: The Canada Royal Milk story Ottawa doesn’t want to explain

Canadians pay a premium for dairy products because they have been told that supply management protects Canadian farmers, strengthens domestic production, and safeguards our food sovereignty. Whether one supports the system or not, that has always been the bargain: Consumers pay more in exchange for stability, predictability, and a secure domestic food supply.

That is why newly released government records related to Canada Royal Milk in Kingston, Ont. deserve far more attention than they have received.

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US plans extra 10% tariffs for 60 countries over forced labor Canada among them

US plans extra 10% tariffs for 60 countries over forced labor Canada among them

US President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing additional tariffs of 10% or more to be imposed on its trading partners following a probe into countries importing goods allegedly made with forced labor.

In a report released Wednesday, the US Trade Representative (USTR) said it had found that 60 economies had failed to “impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor,” calling it a “burden” to US commerce.

… An additional 10% tariff will be imposed on imports from Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Pakistan, the UK and EU nations. These are countries which, according to Washington’s investigation, impose a forced labor import prohibition, that have undertaken commitments on forced labor or have partially prevented the import of forced labor goods.

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A Chinese Intelligence Organ Finds Its Hero in Ottawa, and the Words It Uses Are Carney’s Own

A Chinese Intelligence Organ Finds Its Hero in Ottawa, and the Words It Uses Are Carney’s Own

OTTAWA — On May 6, Guangming Daily — not just an official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, but allegedly the favored mouthpiece of the world’s largest intelligence agency — published an admiring essay under a headline that reads “From dependence to autonomy: how the Carney government is reimagining Canada–U.S. relations.” The piece, which approvingly amplified Carney’s odd choice to flourish a figurine of the British general Isaac Brock, famed for repelling an American invasion in 1812, does not report on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rupture with Washington so much as celebrate it.

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THE PROSECUTOR WHO STAYED: On a Remote American Island, a Texas Lawyer Watched China Buy What It Could Not Conquer

THE PROSECUTOR WHO STAYED: On a Remote American Island, a Texas Lawyer Watched China Buy What It Could Not Conquer

SAIPAN – The irony was almost too neat, and Jim Kingman felt it land as he sat in the gleaming, barely used federal courthouse on Saipan in the summer of 2024 and watched the United States government close the book on Julian Assange.

They had come a very long way to do it. The head of the Justice Department’s national security division flew in that morning; by early afternoon the WikiLeaks founder had pleaded guilty to a single Espionage Act count over the disclosure of Bradley Manning’s classified files, been sentenced to time served, and was gone — three hours, beginning to end, the federal lawyers not bothering to feign curiosity about the island they had chosen as the stage.

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Hegseth: ‘Freeloading’ allies must spend more to counter China

Hegseth: ‘Freeloading’ allies must spend more to counter China

Pete Hegseth has told America’s allies in Asia they cannot “freeload” on defence and must increase spending to counter China’s military build-up.

The US defence secretary said the United States would no longer subsidise their allies, echoing Donald Trump’s message to Nato leaders to shoulder more of the military burden and reduce reliance on Washington.

The Pentagon chief told a security conference in Singapore: “The ‌era of the United States subsidising the defence of wealthy nations is over.”

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Made in China, Stolen From America

Made in China, Stolen From America

The eyes of the world were on President Donald J. Trump and Chairman of Everything Xi Jinping at their high-profile summit in Beijing earlier this month. But behind the sunny scenes of cheering children and marching soldiers, China’s economic mischief continued in the shadows.

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios has accused China of “industrial scale” theft of U.S. artificial-intelligence technology. In an April 23 memorandum, he added: “There is nothing innovative about systematically extracting and copying the innovations of American industry, and there is nothing open about supposedly open models that are derived from acts of malicious exploitation.”

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A Reagan Republican’s Son, Xi Jinping’s Speechwriter, and a New Map of China’s Espionage and Information Wars

A Reagan Republican’s Son, Xi Jinping’s Speechwriter, and a New Map of China’s Espionage and Information Wars

WASHINGTON — In 2017, as Donald Trump launched a campaign to decouple the United States from a system of economic entanglement with China that a generation of American officials had come to see as quietly corroding the nation’s security and wealth, the son of a Texas Republican was living in Beijing under a borrowed name — and, that year, was introduced to a man who, he came to understand, communicated frequently with Xi Jinping himself.

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Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada

Canadian researchers are calling for a more coordinated response by G7 countries to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.

Wednesday’s report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security comes a day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa for the first time in a decade.


Hmmmmm someone make Xi angry!

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Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

What’s happening in Canada is no longer simply odd, sad, or irrelevant.

It is deeply concerning.

Canada has morphed into a crazed killing factory, one that performs Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) procedures on its own citizens, even those who aren’t facing a terminal illness.

Seriously depressed? Canada will off you. And why wouldn’t Canadians be depressed, as the radicals that have been running — and ruining — the country for decades now have destroyed their economy, made many things unaffordable, and made some large cities almost uninhabitable due to crime from the massive hordes that they have let in from Third World nations.

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While Xi and Putin Argue Over Pipeline, U.S. Keeps Chokehold on China’s Energy

While Xi and Putin Argue Over Pipeline, U.S. Keeps Chokehold on China’s Energy

Vladimir Putin wrapped up his summit in Beijing with Xi Jinping on May 20, the Russian leader’s 25th visit to China.

Putin walked away with more than 40 agreements, but he did not leave with the prize he has long sought.

As an initial matter, forget about the pacts that were inked. “When you look at all the ‘agreements,’ they are only memoranda of understanding,” Dmitri Alperovitch, chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, said to Gatestone. “In other words, they are merely invitations to talk more.”

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Joe Varner: China doesn’t even have to pressure Canada to keep Liberals in line

Joe Varner: China doesn’t even have to pressure Canada to keep Liberals in line

Remarks from Conservative MP Michael Chong on his recent Taiwan visit should not have required saying.

“Canada is an independent, sovereign country. We do not take direction from foreign governments on where MPs can travel internationally,” stated Chong on May 17, a day prior to his departure.

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She Exposed Beijing’s Secret Police. Now Its AI Porn Deepfakes Smear Her — as Ottawa Signs a Pact With the Same Chinese Ministry

She Exposed Beijing’s Secret Police. Now Its AI Porn Deepfakes Smear Her — as Ottawa Signs a Pact With the Same Chinese Ministry

OTTAWA — Laura Harth helped expose Beijing’s “overseas police service centers” as a global architecture of transnational repression — clandestine outposts that Harth and Safeguard Defenders linked to China’s Ministry of Public Security, triggering investigations from Europe to North America.

Now, Harth says, the machinery she helped reveal has turned on her with an AI-generated sexualized deepfake smear campaign that her organization identifies as part of the same Chinese police-linked repression ecosystem documented by the U.S. Justice Department and other security researchers.

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Do All Roads Lead to Beijing?

Do All Roads Lead to Beijing?

Imagine you are a nation’s leader facing problems or seeking to underline your legitimacy on the global stage. Where will you go in pursuit of those goals?

In ancient times, all roads led to Rome or Susa, where two great empires set the tune in large chunks of the three continents known at the time. In the age of European imperialism, the obvious destinations were London, Paris and Petrograd. During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow were the obvious destinations. After the USSR collapsed, Washington was seen as the first source of authority, with the United Nations as a distant second.

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