Celebrity tag-a-long Justin Trudeau says U.S. economic coercion risks pushing Canada closer to China

Celebrity tag-a-long Justin Trudeau says U.S. economic coercion risks pushing Canada closer to China

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is warning that U.S. tariffs threaten to drive Canada closer to China in the auto sector.

Speaking at a CNBC event in Singapore on Thursday, Trudeau said “economic pressures and coercion” nearly drove Canadian aerospace company Bombardier “into China’s arms” almost a decade ago.

Canada’s Kamala Harris.

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Best-selling Chinese electric car records everywhere you’ve been

Best-selling Chinese electric car records everywhere you’ve been

Electric cars made by a best-selling Chinese brand are recording drivers’ every journey and storing them forever, it has emerged.

Security researchers were able to extract the entire location history of a BYD Seal car sold in the UK, from its production in China to its eventual dismantling.

While the company said it was not transmitting location data overseas, experts said the ease with which location history could be obtained represented a security risk.


BYD is moving into the Canadian market.

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Defense for Chinese National in U.S. Fentanyl Case Proposes Testimony From China-Based Witness

Defense for Chinese National in U.S. Fentanyl Case Proposes Testimony From China-Based Witness

TEXAS – A landmark U.S. fentanyl-trafficking prosecution that investigators say reaches from Texas and Mexico into China’s chemical supply chains has taken a new turn, with defense lawyers for accused broker Minsu “Fernando” Fang asking a federal judge to authorize the deposition of a witness in Shenzhen, China, whom they claim can provide exculpatory evidence.

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Expect Trump to try to punish Canada for not bending the knee

Expect Trump to try to punish Canada for not bending the knee

We’ve been warned for months that Canada faces exceedingly tough talks on renewing the CUSMA/USMCA trade deal. With Donald Trump blowing off the importance of Canada (“we don’t need anything they have”), it was shaping up as a cage match at the negotiating table.

As of this week, though, we face the very real possibility of an even more ominous prospect as the July 1 date for agreement or not-agreement on re-upping CUSMA approaches: no talks at all.

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Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

OTTAWA — Parliament’s official record shows Liberal MP Michael Ma was referring to Xinjiang — a region in China where reports of forced labour have been documented — in a committee meeting last month, contradicting the MP’s claims that he was misheard during a contentious exchange with a witness.

Ma was also given the opportunity to correct the official transcript and didn’t do so, the office of the Speaker of the House of Commons told the Star.


Carney is Beijing’s stooge.

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Canadian Senator’s Anti-‘Foreign Interference Hysteria’ Group Invites Elected Officials to Fundraiser After Parliament Clash Over United Front Findings

Canadian Senator’s Anti-‘Foreign Interference Hysteria’ Group Invites Elected Officials to Fundraiser After Parliament Clash Over United Front Findings

TORONTO — Days after a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst testified in Parliament about a sitting Canadian senator’s group’s alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party, that group, led by Liberal-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo and former Conservative senator Victor Oh, reached out to elected officials in the Toronto area and invited them to a fundraising gala.

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Arrests Made in Project Lighthouse, First-of-its-Kind SMS Blaster Investigation in Canada

Arrests Made in Project Lighthouse, First-of-its-Kind SMS Blaster Investigation in Canada

The Toronto Police Service has made arrests in a first-of-its-kind investigation, dubbed Project Lighthouse, into the use of a mobile “SMS blaster” — a sophisticated cybercrime tool not previously detected in Canada.

This investigation marks the first known instance of this technology being deployed in Canada and highlights an emerging threat to both public safety and financial security.

“This is a new and emerging threat in Canada — one that uses advanced technology to reach thousands of people at once and exploit their trust,” said Deputy Chief Robert Johnson. “As the first investigation of its kind in this country, it reflects how the Toronto Police Service is adapting quickly to detect and disrupt complex cyber-enabled crime. I’m proud of the work done by our Coordinated Cyber Centre and grateful to our policing and industry partners who helped bring this investigation forward.”

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Joe Varner: Canada needs to pay attention to China’s military purges before betting on Beijing

Joe Varner: Canada needs to pay attention to China’s military purges before betting on Beijing

On Sunday morning, when Mark Carney declared that Canada’s historic closeness with the United States now represents “weaknesses,” he opened the door to a fundamental rethinking of Canadian foreign policy. But if diversification means turning toward China, Canadians deserve a clear-eyed assessment of the risks, not just the opportunities. That assessment becomes far more complicated when viewed against what is now unfolding inside China’s military leadership.

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Canada, U.S. trade systems ‘don’t fit together very well,’ Greer says

Canada, U.S. trade systems ‘don’t fit together very well,’ Greer says

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says there is a gap between the Canada and U.S. administrations’ trade philosophies.

Greer made the comments at a U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade agenda on Wednesday.

“They’ve done this, but overall they’ve indicated that they want to be trading more, they want to have more trade agreements with more countries,” Greer said, when asked whether Canada is taking the same steps as Mexico to better align with U.S. trade policy, specifically when it comes to rules of origin.

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Made In Xinjiang: How Forced Labour Will Dictate Ottawa & Beijing’s Relationship

Made In Xinjiang: How Forced Labour Will Dictate Ottawa & Beijing’s Relationship

The vocabulary of diplomacy has always struggled to keep pace with the realities of power. Today, as technoauthoritarianism reshapes global influence, Canada faces a stark test: whether its economic and diplomatic engagement with Beijing can be reconciled with mounting evidence of systemic human rights abuses, most notably the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people. Recent public statements and testimonies have only sharpened that dilemma, exposing not just policy tensions, but a deeper moral fault line.

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RCMP calls China police a ‘partner’ as lawmakers question secrecy of cooperation deal

RCMP calls China police a ‘partner’ as lawmakers question secrecy of cooperation deal

The RCMP is describing Chinese law enforcement as a policing “partner” on par with agencies like the FBI, while refusing to disclose details of a cooperation agreement with Beijing, saying the terms cannot be shared without Chinese permission.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Senior Deputy Commissioner Bryan Larkin made the comments during testimony before the Senate national finance committee, where he defended the arrangement as a standard tool for international policing collaboration despite growing political scrutiny.

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Former CIA Analyst Rebukes Senator Woo’s Attempt to Discredit the Study That Has Now Captured Woo’s Own Group as Its 576th United Front-Linked Organization in Canada

Former CIA Analyst Rebukes Senator Woo’s Attempt to Discredit the Study That Has Now Captured Woo’s Own Group as Its 576th United Front-Linked Organization in Canada

OTTAWA — A former Central Intelligence Agency analyst whose Washington think tank documented a swarm of Chinese Communist Party-linked community organizations across Western democracies — and identified Canada as the most heavily penetrated per capita — told Parliament that a sitting Canadian senator’s effort to discredit the research amounted to “a kind of laziness,” after that senator’s own newly founded advocacy group was identified by the same researchers as the 576th United Front-linked organization in Canada.

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John Ivison: Carney’s feel-good video is weak medicine for our grave economic reality

John Ivison: Carney’s feel-good video is weak medicine for our grave economic reality

Was the timing of Mark Carney’s feel-good “fireside chat” video released Sunday mere coincidence, landing as it did the day before concerning inflation numbers?

Or was it a deliberate calculation to point out that Canadian fur traders were all over the northern plains before the Americans had left St. Louis, a day ahead of confirmation that consumers are now paying $2.50 for a single bloody cucumber?

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Mark Carney gets mixed reviews for response to ‘Donald Trump’s war on Canada’

Mark Carney gets mixed reviews for response to ‘Donald Trump’s war on Canada’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s view that Canada’s “weakness” stems from its longtime close trade ties with the U.S. was mocked by the Conservatives Monday, and met skepticism by an Eastern premier who warned it will likely further anger the U.S.

In a video message posted Sunday on YouTube, Carney said the U.S. “has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses, weaknesses that we must correct.”

Carney’s choice of words was no error.

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China allies paid $2,000 to attend Carney fundraiser

Several Toronto-area business people aligned in various ways with the Chinese government were among guests who paid close to $2,000 to attend a Liberal party fundraiser with Prime Minister Mark Carney last month.

The attendees included individuals and groups that have won praise from Chinese diplomats and agencies, echoed Beijing’s talking points on contentious issues and worked with Chinese Communist Party (CPP) organizations.

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