Speaking to reporters at the White House Tuesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt repeatedly explained the Trump administration will not tolerate visa or Green Card holders terrorizing Americans on college campuses.
“This administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans,” Leavitt said. “We have a zero tolerance policy for siding with terrorists. Period.”
How many weeks, or months, will the prime minister-designate, Mark Carney, be facing off with U.S. President Donald Trump in our current trade war? And how much damage could Carney do to Canada during this time? Does he know how to handle the whims of Trump’s ego-driven relationships with world leaders?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is suspending its 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports to three U.S. states after securing a meeting in Washington with the commerce secretary.
In a day filled with escalation between Ford and U.S. President Donald Trump, the premier announced the meeting with Howard Lutnick in the afternoon — hours after Trump said he would impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel imports.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has been jolted by Ontario’s 25 per cent surcharge on electricity sold stateside in retaliation his tariffs.
Twelve hours after Premier Doug Ford imposed what he dubbed “tariff response charge” to be paid by utilities in New York, Michigan and Minnesota that import Ontario power, Trump took to social media to complain.
Trump raises Canadian steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% in retaliation for Ontario energy duties
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%.
The new policy will go into effect Wednesday morning, Trump said in a Truth Social post that also repeated his calls for Canada to be absorbed into the U.S. as the “Fifty First State.”
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America’s decision to cut weapons deliveries and aid to Ukraine, as well as the dressing down of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, has triggered understandable outrage amongst Western allies.
But perhaps they shouldn’t be surprised.
Mr Trump’s tactic to bring Ukraine to heel and force the country to negotiate on peace follows a careful plan written and published in black and white last summer by none other than the president’s Kyiv envoy.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser is accusing Canada’s law enforcement agencies of not taking enough action on fentanyl labs, while reiterating previous comments from the U.S. administration that the tariffs put on Canada are part of a “drug war, not a trade war.”
“I can tell you that in the Situation Room, I’ve seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada’s got a big drug problem, even in their own cities,” U.S. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said during an interview on ABC News on March 9.
Premier Doug Ford has made good on his threat to slap a 25 per cent surcharge on electricity sold to the U.S. in retaliation for President Donald Trump‘s tariffs.
Raising an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 per day, the “tariff response charge” will be paid by utilities in New York, Michigan and Minnesota importing power from generators of electricity in Ontario.
Line 5? Bueller? Anyone?
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk have clashed with Poland’s foreign minister over the use of the tech billionaire’s Starlink satellite internet system in Ukraine.
Musk said on X that Ukraine’s “entire front line” would collapse if he turned the system off. Radoslaw Sikorski responded, saying his country paid for its use in Ukraine and a threat to shut it down would result in a search for another network.
Rubio dismissed Sikorski’s claims and told him to be grateful, while Musk called him a “small man”.
Elon Musk has his supporters and critics, but there is little debate that he is a genius when it comes to technology and space travel.
It turns out he’s pretty smart about illegal immigration as well.
Musk, President’s Trump’s point man for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), one of the richest men on the planet and the driving force behind Tesla, X (formerly Twitter), SpaceX and other ventures, was a recent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, the world’s most popular podcast.
Elon Musk:
"Entitlements fraud (social security, disability, Medicaid) for illegal aliens is what is serving as a gigantic magnetic force to pull people in from all around the world and keep them here.""If you end the illegal alien fraud, then you turn off that magnet and… pic.twitter.com/IJnCU2jUYR
— DOGE NEWS- Department of Government Efficiency (@realdogeusa) March 1, 2025
Full podcast.
Just when it was time for Democrats, in the wake of their November 2024 shellacking, to reorient themselves from radical Bernie Sanders policies to a Clintonian brand of moderation, they decided to double down on crazy. James Carville led the charge when he put on a pseudo-medical hat and recently declared President Trump to be suffering from syphilis on the basis of his hand’s complexion.
Anybody clinging to the hope that the United States will continue its post-Second World War role as the world’s policeman without major changes was likely disabused of that notion during the tumultuous Feb. 28 White House meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Perhaps the most astonishing part of that clash was that Trump was — for him — relatively restrained. Vice-President J.D. Vance seemed determined to derail the meeting and Zelenskyy apparently came looking for a fight. In the end, it was clear that, going forward, the United States government will assist other countries on its own terms, and only if there’s something to be gained.
Tariffs aren’t about hiding behind walls; they’re about wielding a sword, carving out space for self-reliance in a ruthless arena.
In the grand theater of 2025, where America’s economic stage is lit by the flickering glow of a manufacturing revival, tariffs have emerged as the unsung hero — or the villain du jour, depending on who’s clutching the pearls. President Trump’s latest salvo — 25 percent on Canada and Mexico, 10-20 percent on China — has reignited a debate that’s less about spreadsheets than sovereignty. For too long, we’ve played the globalist game, trading our industrial soul for cheap trinkets and hollow promises.
Canada likes to portray itself as a nation of free trade. But there’s at least one major relic of the past holding Canada back: our system of supply management.
It’s also a major irritant in Canada’s now-rocky trading relationship with the United States.
“The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming!” The true North, strong and free, we stand on guard for thee. And don’t forget to vote for the Liberal Party.
The “Red Scare” of the 1950s wasn’t so much a “scare” as it was an excuse to politically punish liberals. During the Great Depression, a couple of million lefties “flirted” with communism as an answer to the vagaries of capitalism’s economic cycles. Misguided and hopelessly naive, they believed that the American experiment could be married to the Soviet experiment.
“The US has reversed its alliances to side with Russia against Europe!” This is the idea that many commentators in Britain, France and Germany have been hammering in for the past week.
The Washington Post went even further: “For Europe, this is a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency moment. The United States, which has guaranteed European security against Russia for 80 years, appears to have switched sides under President Donald Trump.”
Apparently sharing that analysis, the European Union organized two summits that included Great Britain as an ad hoc member.
