Trump implements sweeping reciprocal tariffs, PM Carney meeting with cabinet as Canada impact unclear

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to implement reciprocal tariffs on several countries, and confirmed 25 per cent tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles are coming into effect as of midnight.

CTV News is awaiting confirmation about an exemption for Canada, however there are multiple reports that Canada is exempt from the 10 per cent baseline tariff on other countries that Trump also announced Wednesday.

“Reciprocal. That means they do it to us and we do it to them,” Trump said. “Very simple. Can’t get any simpler than that.”

“It’s our declaration of economic independence,” the president also said, before continuing to address the crowd while holding a chart listing the tariffs other countries have in place on American products.

Canada was not listed on the board.

Trump is for his nation and fellow citizens. Carney is a carpetbagging globalist shill.

More Brookfield business entities registered to Bermuda building that houses bike shop

Several entities of global investment giant Brookfield Asset Management’s core business are registered to an address in Bermuda that also houses a local bike shop, CTV News has learned.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney previously served as chair of Brookfield’s board, from August of 2022 until mid-January of this year, when he resigned to run for the party leadership.

Last week, Radio Canada reported that two Brookfield pension funds, worth a combined $25 billion, were registered in Bermuda.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights

It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.

The White House is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal government to control Greenland as a territory, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable policy.

While Trump’s demands elicited international outrage and a rebuke from Denmark, White House officials have in recent weeks taken steps to determine the financial ramifications of Greenland becoming a U.S. territory, including the cost of providing government services for its 58,000 residents, the people said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Chiang affair proves Carney will put himself ahead of Canada: Poilievre

OTTAWA — Former Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s decision to take himself off the ballot only proves the Liberal leader instinctually puts his own interests ahead of the country’s, Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters from St. John’s, the Conservative leader commented on the news overnight that Chiang, seeking re-election in his riding of Markham-Unionville, announced he would be stepping aside — just hours after Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he saw no issue with the former York Region cop staying on as a candidate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

McConnell breaks with party to reject Trump’s Canada tariffs

Sen. Mitch McConnell privately indicated to Sen. Tim Kaine he would back the Virginia Democrat’s resolution to undo President Donald Trump’s Canada tariffs.

Kaine told reporters Wednesday that the former GOP leader told him the day before that he would back Kaine’s resolution, which will get a vote on the Senate floor Wednesday evening. A spokesperson confirmed Kaine’s remarks.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Jamie Sarkonak: Liberals offended by Poilievre’s compassion for ‘biological clock’ problem

We have officially reached the point in the election campaign where expressing compassion for those struggling to find the funds to comfortably start a family lands you the charge of … misogyny.

It all sprung from Monday’s Conservative press conference in Saint John, N.B., where leader Pierre Poilievre was asked about his plan to “turn things around,” and whether a change in campaign leadership was on the table. It was a valid question — it’s no secret that the polls, at this point, favour the Liberals, and that some provincial Conservatives have been backseat campaigning to the press.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, WTF?

Liberation Day and the End of the World‘s Trade War Against America

President Trump is set to step into the Rose Garden tomorrow for what may be the most consequential economic announcement of his second term. Markets are bracing. Diplomats are dialing. Pundits are speculating wildly. But no one—not Wall Street, not foreign governments, not even some inside the West Wing—seems to know exactly what will be announced.

This, as it turns out, is part of the design.

Trump has dubbed it Liberation Day—a piece of branding with more substance than cynicism. For weeks, he’s signaled that a sweeping new tariff regime is coming. Twenty percent across the board? A reciprocal system that mirrors foreign rates? Something hybrid and more complex? The ambiguity is not a bug. It’s leverage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘There’s a disconnect’: Conservative candidate in GTA battleground thinks Liberal-led polls are missing something

Costas Menegakis’s message to party HQ has been that the Conservatives’ spotlight on the cost of living is resonating in his suburban GTA riding

RICHMOND HILL, ONT. — Not helpful. That’s how one Conservative candidate and former MP describes calls from a prominent Ontario strategist for the federal Tory campaign to shift its messaging.

“I don’t dance around things,” said Costas Menegakis from his second-floor campaign office in Richmond Hill, Ont., a city of nearly 212,000 outside of Toronto.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025