U.S. President Donald Trump is no friend to Canada, and his tariff threats are a menacing shadow as we approach his Feb. 1 deadline. Yet, while the president seems intent on shattering the foundations of the world’s most symbiotic trade relationship, causing both economic and political turmoil in Canada, some of his policies are worth looking at, particularly his departure from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Officials believe that all passengers and crew onboard American Eagle Flight 5342, which collided midair Wednesday evening with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport, were killed, and are pivoting search-and-rescue teams to recovery operations. “At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from this accident,” D.C. Fire Chief John Donnelly said Thursday at a news conference, adding that rescue teams have recovered 27 bodies from the plane and one body from the helicopter. The PSA Airlines-operated American Airlines aircraft was flying from Wichita to National Airport with 60 passengers and four crew members, and the helicopter was on a training flight with three service members on board.
Three important questions: Who was on the plane, who was in the helicopter and who was in the tower. This doesn't look like an accident. #planecrash pic.twitter.com/E151epl6rm
— Hell on Wheels (@PattonDivision) January 30, 2025
The looming tariffs against Canadian and Mexican exports to the United States are not just another round of trade skirmishes. They may well signify the beginning of the end for Bretton Woods-era multilateralism, the rules-based global trade order that has underpinned international commerce since 1944.
The race-obsessives denounce Trump’s deportations.
The progressive response to President Trump’s deportations is just getting under way, and it’s already dumb and hysterical.
Tom Homan wants to be Bull Connor, don’t you know? (So opined Princeton University’s Eddie Glaude.) According to Nicole Wallace and Joy Reid, we are potentially headed down the path of another Holocaust. “Similarities to what happened in Germany, and what’s happening now in America are just undeniable,” Reid said the other day.
Disgusted by Donald Trump’s first presidential victory in 2016, Arkansas native Heather Fitz moved to pursue a new life in Canada.
Less than a week after arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her then-husband, she was questioning her choice.
Fitz had expected Canada to be cold, but nothing had prepared her for the freezing, 68 mile-an-hour winds that rocked their seven-story apartment building one night during a nor’easter.
“I was like, did we make the right decision?” said Fitz. “I was googling ‘building swaying is this safe.’ ”
Days before tariffs that have the potential to cripple Canada’s economy are expected to come into effect, Canadian politicians are pushing the message that the country is cracking down on one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s main concerns.
Since his re-election in November, Trump has repeatedly said he would hit Canada and others with tariffs of up to 25 per cent. On his first day back in the Oval Office, Trump suggested tariffs on Canadian goods could be coming on Saturday.
While he’s shifted back and forth on his irritants, one concern Trump has cited is drugs — such as fentanyl — entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.
Trump’s tariff threats have provoked an existential crisis along with a cacophony of reactions from coast-to-coast on how best to deal with it. Aside from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (and now Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe), the assumption that retaliatory action is required is going unchallenged among politicians. This consensus view draws from the successes of Canada’s approach last time around – but the problem is that the approach that worked the last time likely won’t work today.
This is no time for complacency. Communist China’s DeepSeek, a breakthrough in inexpensive AI computing that rocked US tech markets this week (tech investor Marc Andreesen called it a “Sputnik moment“) is really a wake-up to the Trump administration. Call to form a Manhattan Project as soon as possible – this week! – to ensure that America stays competitive in what is sure to be the next breakthrough – which China is already developing: unlimited amounts of totally clean energy produced by nuclear fusion in donut-shaped reactors called tokamaks.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Commerce Department, Howard Lutnick, said on Wednesday that Canada and Mexico can avoid Trump’s threatened 25-per-cent import tariffs if they swiftly act to stop allowing fentanyl and illegal immigrants into the U.S.
Lutnick told a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the tariffs were separate from a broad effort by the Commerce Department, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office and the U.S. Treasury to review trading relationships and tariffs by April 1.
The U.S. is threatening a two-stage tariff plan in which Canada and Mexico could get hit with initial trade penalties within days then face broader penalties this spring.
In summary it’s: Maybe tariffs now, and maybe more tariffs later.
The details emerged Wednesday at the U.S. Senate confirmation hearing for the person chosen to lead President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, Howard Lutnick.
Evan Hafer, a popular veteran and founder of Black Rifle Coffee, was on Joe Rogan’s podcast after the November election. As with any Maga acolyte, the US-Mexico border figured prominently in his mind.
“If we declare war on the cartel, these dudes are not going to understand what the fuck is going on. They are in for a world of ultra-violence,” said Hafer, who served in the Green Berets and the CIA.
“JD [Vance] or Trump had said something with the new guy from Ice, like: ‘We’re going to mobilize tier one units against the cartel.’”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is not backing down.
She will defend Alberta.
She is asked again and again and again.
Smith’s latest answer?
No way. No how. You can call her traitor, often and louder each time you accuse her of treason.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley’s personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to “undermine the chain of command” during President Donald Trump’s first term, officials say.
SINGAPORE—Take a team of young Chinese engineers, hired by a boss with disdain for experience. Add some clever programming shortcuts, and a loophole in American rules that allowed them to get advanced chips.
That is the formula China’s DeepSeek used to shock the world with its artificial-intelligence programs.
Conventional thinking held that developing leading AI required loads of expensive, cutting-edge computer chips—and that Chinese companies would have trouble competing because they couldn’t get those chips. DeepSeek defied those predictions with a resourcefulness that led to a $1 trillion bloodbath on Wall Street and is spurring Silicon Valley to rethink its approach.
Selena Gomez just tried pulling off what she could not deliver in her latest box office flop: a convincing performance. In a now-deleted Instagram video, the entertainer sobbed over deportations under the new Trump administration. “I wish I could do something,” she whimpered, tears streaming down her face.
The problem with these theatrics is their glaring inconsistency. Americans can respect principled celebrity activism, even when they disagree with it, but not when it only surfaces to serve hyper-partisan narratives.
I didn't have Selena Gomez on my bingo card getting canceled in January of 2025.
Where were you when 350k children went missing from the border? Where were you when Americans were being killed by illegals? Where were you when cartels were bringing fentanyl across our border?… pic.twitter.com/0RtY4FuDWL
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) January 27, 2025
