The president’s policies on energy and DEI could drain Canada of its wealth and talent
The tariffs are coming. Not today, but perhaps on Feb. 1. That’s what U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, after his inaugural address.
Trump’s speech made scant mention of tariffs, only that he would be establishing an “external revenue service” that would “tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.”
EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is staying the course on her diplomatic approach to try to avert punishing tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump as a new deadline looms.
Trump said late Monday he is thinking of instituting 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods starting Feb. 1, rather than on his first day in office.
Smith is doubling down on her efforts to address Trump’s main irritants, including beefing up border security and boosting military spending.
We’re better off following her lead than idiot Trudeau’s path.
He’ll be back.
Like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator character, there’s a relentless determination to U.S. President Donald Trump. His inauguration day decision to hold off on potentially devastating 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian imports came as a pleasant surprise, at least for a few hours. The loonie’s value popped on the news. So did energy, pipeline and railway stocks – sectors that had already priced in a profit-killing trade war.
President Donald Trump pulled the security clearances of more than 50 national security officials who said Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
A total of 51 former national security officials released a public letter in 2020 claiming that even though the laptop did not have “any evidence of Russian involvement,” it looked like a “Russian information operation.”
The letter came after the New York Post reported they had emails showing Hunter Biden coordinated for Joe Biden to meet with a top executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma months before pressuring Ukrainian officials to oust a prosecutor investigating the company.
MUST-Read Thread Explains How Trump PULLING 51 Security Clearances Will ABSOLUTELY Nuke the Deep State
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop Monday in Coventry, Vermont, near the U.S. border with Canada, the agency said in a statement.
The incident was the first time since the 2010 slaying of Agent Brian Terry in Arizona that a Border Patrol agent was slain by an assailant, according to a memorial list of fallen officers compiled by support groups.
One suspect, a German national, is dead, and a second suspect, a U.S. citizen who sustained injuries, is in custody, according to a Department of Homeland Security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide preliminary details. There was no additional information available about the shooting nor the traffic stop.
Donald Trump has loaded the trade gun. He’s pointed the gun. He hasn’t pulled the trigger one day into his latest presidential term.
But he insists it’s coming next week.
Sitting in the Oval Office for the first time in four years, Trump said he’s planning to imminently follow through with the massive tariffs he’s threatened against Canada and Mexico.
Canada’s drug dealers seem well connected politically with China, Khalistan and ME terrorist groups all having influence. I doubt much will be done at the border.
ICYM: I launched The Bureau to build on the method of journalism and success of Wilful Blindness, one of the most successful and consequential works ever in Canadian reporting. This story is another chapter.
https://t.co/4LzTYeG0lX— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) January 17, 2025
President Donald J. Trump, in one of his first official acts, issued a sweeping grant of clemency on Monday to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, issuing pardons to most of the defendants and commuting the sentences of 14 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers militia, most of whom were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Mr. Trump’s moves amounted to an extraordinary reversal for rioters accused of both low-level, nonviolent offenses and for those who had assaulted police officers.
And they effectively erased years of efforts by federal investigators to seek accountability for the mob assault on the peaceful transfer of presidential power after Mr. Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. As part of his pardon order, Mr. Trump also directed the Justice Department to dismiss “all pending indictments” that remained against people facing charges for Jan. 6.
Watch this touching reunion between a mother and her 16 son.
President Trump is great! God is much greater!
Every single J6 hostage/political prisoner should be paid millions in restitution for all the hardship and heartache it has caused them and their families. pic.twitter.com/ZkREW3AA1A
— M-Û-R-Č-H (@TheEXECUTlONER_) January 21, 2025
The head of one of Canada’s largest energy advocacy groups is urging the federal government to follow US president Donald Trump’s lead and scrap EV mandates in this country.
Minutes after Trump announced the end of EV mandates south of the border, former Liberal MP and current president of Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE), Dan McTeague, urged Liberal leadership candidates, including Mark Carney, to take decisive action by repealing the federal government’s mandate for all new vehicles sold in Canada to be electric by 2035.
A stunned migrant woman wailed in anguish at the southern border after President Trump shuttered an app that made it easier for migrants to cross into the US.
Margelis Tinoco, a Colombian woman awaiting entry to the US, was overcome with emotion after the president axed the CBP One app moments after he was sworn-in.
She had been hoping to cross into El Paso from the neighboring Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez when the app suddenly went dark, leaving her stuck.
BREAKING: Trump Administration SHUTS DOWN CBP One border App that let illigal immigrants enter the U.S.
No more loopholes. No more excuses. America FIRST.
Homeland Security previously claimed the app helped manage crossings when in reality it was a backdoor for mass… pic.twitter.com/QT5zQwlPrc
— Hank ™ (@HANKonX) January 20, 2025
h/t DS
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is getting support from an unlikely ally for refusing to sign on to a communique that would have curbed US oil exports — Ontario’s manufacturing sector.
That’s because the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada (CCMBC) has expressed strong support for Smith in her firm stance against Ottawa’s energy policies and potential US tariffs despite pressure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and fellow premiers including Ontario’s Doug Ford.
BREAKING. Donald Trump says 25% tariffs coming February 1st if Canada cannot get the border secured.
Can Trudeau get out of the way so Canada can implement a substantial border security plan and avoid tariffs? pic.twitter.com/9YzmQDGmbO
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) January 21, 2025
WE WILL BRING PRICES DOWN.
WE WILL EXPORT AMERICAN ENERGY.
WE WILL END THE GREEN NEW SCAM.
WE WILL REVOKE THE EV MANDATE. pic.twitter.com/YfAHk1OsLY
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 20, 2025
This can’t be good for Trudeau’s EV Battery scam.
America is free from the electric car nightmare. In Europe, it’s just beginning
With one flourish of a presidential pen, they will be free. Amid the blizzard of executive orders that President Trump has said he will sign in the next few hours, one of the most significant, for the economy at least, will be his decision to end the rules forcing American auto manufacturers to focus their energies on electric vehicles.
President Trump is determined to go back to something that until recently would have been considered completely normal: a free market in cars. Under President Biden, a tax credit – in effect a subsidy – of up to $7,500 was awarded for every EV sold. And environmental rules were blamed for effectively forcing auto makers to make a larger proportion of their new vehicles electric.
“Canada to USA. Safe Reach,” the Facebook post says. “No police. Low price. Payment after reach.”
“Canada to USA. Safe Game. Cheapest in Market. 100-per-cent guarantee,” reads a post on Instagram.
Smugglers offering to help people cross the border illegally into the United States are openly advertising their services on social media. The Globe and Mail has found multiple posts from people smugglers who are promoting “safe” routes to the United States, including from Montreal and British Columbia, with some claiming there will be no police involvement or checkpoints.
Trump Set To Deploy Troops at the Southern Border, Among Other Day-One Actions
President Trump plans to swiftly deploy elements of the American military to the southern border, beginning the crackdown that he had promised from the first day he launched his campaign more than two years ago. The president-elect will also end some Biden-era programs that allowed millions of migrants to be paroled and settled into the country.
Mr. Trump’s promise of the largest deportation operation in American history was one of the major pillars of his campaign, and unlike 2017 when his administration was staffed by political neophytes, he and his team have had four years during this interregnum to begin drafting executive orders.
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is planning to issue a broad memorandum Monday that directs federal agencies to study trade policies and evaluate U.S. trade relationships with China and America’s continental neighbors—but stops short of imposing new tariffs on his first day in office, as many trading partners feared.
The presidential memo directs federal agencies to investigate and remedy persistent trade deficits and address unfair trade and currency policies by other nations, two longstanding Trump irritants. And it singles out China, Canada and Mexico for scrutiny, directing agencies to assess Beijing’s compliance with its 2020 trade deal with the U.S., as well as the status of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, Trump’s updated North American Free Trade Agreement, which is set for review in 2026.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new sphere of American hegemony, with Canada as the 51st state. That sounds fantastic to the man in the purple-hemmed toga and the gold laurel wreath that’s perched around his “Make America Great Again” ballcap.
He’s going for irony, donning the garb of a Caesar for laughs when so many have warned that Donald Trump could imperil democracy in the American republic. Like a centurion, he holds a long staff with a banner that portrays a silhouette of Trump after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear last summer. A flag with the stars and stripes streams down Trump’s face, instead of blood.
“I think it would be fantastic… for global, political and economic power,” says the man, 27, whose name is Logan Howard.
