President Donald J. Trump issued a new directive to federal workers, which shows the man is serious about reducing the federal workforce by that 10 percent figure. He ordered federal workers to nix their pronoun games from their emails. No more of this he/she/ze/they nonsense. Trump already caused an uproar among this coddled workforce when he ordered them back to office work. He offered them a lofty severance package of 7-9 months pay if they wished to quit, though they must decide next week.
Canada and the United States share one of the world’s most extensive and intertwined trading relationships. In 2022, bilateral trade in goods and services exceeded $900 billion annually. Canada exported 75 percent of its goods to the United States. Beyond trade, bilateral investment is immense, with over $1 trillion in two-way direct investment (All amounts in Canadian dollars).
OTTAWA, Canada – As President Donald Trump readies sweeping tariffs against Canada on Saturday—citing Ottawa’s failure to secure its shared North American borders from fentanyl originating in China—The Bureau has obtained a remarkable December 1999 document from a senior law enforcement official, revealing Ottawa’s longstanding negligence in securing Vancouver’s port against drug trafficking linked to Chinese shipping entities.
Canada’s China Class at work.
h/t XC
Canada is on the other end of the Atlantic — but that still might not stop it from becoming the 28th member state of the European Union, some experts believe.
As U.S. President Donald Trump‘s talk of tariffs and annexation continues to sour U.S.-Canada relations, some — including, reportedly, Germany’s former foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel — have floated the idea of Canada joining the EU.
Canada has been weighing its options in response to a threat of tariffs from US President Donald Trump.
Trump has said he could levy a 25% tariff on Canadian imports as soon as Saturday.
Tariffs are a central part of the economic vision of the returning US president. He sees them as a way of growing the US economy, protecting jobs and raising tax revenue.
Economists suggest that such a move could have devastating immediate impacts on Canada’s economy – while also leading to higher prices for Americans.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says reporting indicating U.S. President Donald Trump intends to delay imposing tariffs on Canada until March 1 is “false.”
“I was just with the president in the Oval Office, and I can confirm that tomorrow, the Feb. 1 deadline that President Trump put into place… continues,” she said.
“The president will be implementing tomorrow a 25 per cent tariff on Mexico, 25 per cent tariffs on Canada, and a 10 per cent tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country which has killed tens of millions of Americans. These are promises made and promises kept by the president.”
“Neither & are saying what the drug-border conflict is about out loud, so I guess I’ll do it.
This is about ’s trucking industry & Ontario’s truck driving schools that popped up overnight.”
You have to wonder how many palms are being greased.
h/t XC
President Trump’s advisers are considering several offramps to avoid enacting the universal tariffs on Mexico and Canada that he had pledged, according to people familiar with the matter, even as he reiterated Thursday that the tariffs are coming.
The situation is fluid and Trump still may go through with his vow to slap 25%, across-the-board levies on imports from America’s two largest trading partners. The president has consistently said he would do so by Saturday.
But amid ongoing negotiations with Canada and Mexico, the administration appears undecided on whether to impose tariffs on all imports from those countries, the people familiar with the matter said, adding that administration officials are preparing to opt for more targeted measures instead.
Trump announces he is going ahead with placing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
In response, Canada plans pandemic-scale relief program to plunge the country further into debt and push it to the brink of default.
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— Pasquale Sasso (@PasqualeSasso) January 30, 2025
There’s long been an assumption, for about a century anyway, that as a nice neighbour, ally and friend, Canada has had a special relationship with the United States.
You can go through the speeches of almost every American president and find testimony to that. We’ve had lots of quarrels but we’ve remained America’s closest companion. The two countries, as Pierre Trudeau once put it, set the standard for enlightened international relations.
Canada’s public safety minister just said less than 1% of ’s fentanyl is from , and ditto for illegal immigrants.
Here’s why that’s a whopper of a lie. Warning: Your opinion of Canada will irreversibly change.
h/t XC
Trudeau, Carney, Freeland, and Karina Gould, based on their past actions and statements, are all globalists. They are the promoters of multinational trade agreements called “Free Trade” but actually–managed trade, wherein a small elite group makes massive profits from knowing the right people, having insider information, and influence markets to their advantage at the cost of the middle class.
If you have been keeping up with the news cycle, Justin Trudeau and Team Canada, Mark Carney, and Chrystia Freeland are all in agreement on a dollar-for-dollar retaliation if President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods in February.
Canada’s GDP for 2023 was $2.3 trillion USD, around 70+% of our trade goes to the USA, and the US GDP was about $26 trillion. Signaling to Trump “You’re not so big; we have tariffs too” is not diplomacy but idiocy. Some in the Liberal Party should have sufficient intelligence to know that.
Canadian officials hope diplomacy can stave off the tariffs, while also planning retaliation.
TORONTO — Roughly $900 billion in annual trade between Canada and the United States — and with it, traditionally chummy bilateral ties — is on the brink of upheaval, with President Donald Trump threatening to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada as early as this weekend.
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday she is “cautiously optimistic” that a year-long diplomatic effort to stave off the levies could still yield results. But the U.S. president is “the ultimate decision-maker,” she added, and can be unpredictable.
The fallout for Canada could be profound. Here’s what to know.
An unguarded, black chain-link fence erected in B.C. along the U.S.-Canada border is now the subject of an international investigation and could be in violation of a more than 200-year-old treaty, according to one immigration lawyer.
The fence, roughly 30 metres long, was put up at the end of English Bluff Road in Tsawwassen, a community within the Metro Vancouver suburb of Delta, B.C., on Jan. 16. That side of the border adjoins a park in the Washington state community of Point Roberts.
The International Boundary Commission, a bi-national organization responsible for regulating construction close to the Canada-U.S. border, confirmed to CBC News Wednesday that it did not authorize the fence and is now investigating the matter.
Someone you know used to smuggle cigarettes and tobacco here in another life.
From the moment Donald Trump lowered the boom on Canada after he won the U.S. presidential election, Canada has stood alone.
Weeks after his victory, he announced that goods from both Canada and Mexico would be subject to 25-per-cent tariffs, which he framed as punishment for allowing drugs and people to flow across the northern and southern U.S. borders. It was a spurious claim in Canada’s case (at least in terms of a problem flowing north to south at the border), but Canada’s fact-check fell on deaf ears. It was a lonely protest.
My bet is they hate Trudeau and won’t lend a hand.
Reverberations are being felt around the world after it emerged that US President Donald Trump was pausing American foreign aid. Among the countries in an uncertain position is Syria, where authorities face an uphill struggle to secure camps and prisons after conflict.
From a distance, al-Hol camp looks like a tent city.
In 2019, after the defeat of Islamic State (IS) militants, about 40,000 IS family members were housed in this camp in the Kurdish-controlled region of north-eastern Syria.
They say this like it’s a bad thing.
