Canadian government to announce supports in response to Trump tariffs
Federal ministers are expected to announce details of the government’s plan to support workers and businesses as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threat continues to loom over the Canadian economy.
Steven MacKinnon, Mary Ng and Rechie Valdez — the ministers of labour, international trade and small business — are announcing the details at a news conference in Ottawa on Friday afternoon.
After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an extraordinary statement that was largely lost in the fray of the moment.
“The excuse that he’s giving for these tariffs today of fentanyl is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,” Mr. Trudeau told the news media in Ottawa.
“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us,” he added.
This is the story of how Mr. Trudeau went from thinking Mr. Trump was joking when he referred to him as “governor” and Canada as “the 51st state” in early December to publicly stating that Canada’s closest ally and neighbor was implementing a strategy of crushing the country in order to take it over.
As dictated by Katie Telford to the NYTimes. I suggest No Trudeau. No problem. And believe nothing the Liberal party says.
Here is vid evidence @realDonaldTrump that Trudeau – Carney Liberals are campaigning on the Tariffs and I am skeptical if Justin Trudeau is really going anywhere. This was AFTER Trudeau claimed to "resign," when he actually ONLY promised to someday resign in the future and… https://t.co/awMefUhUrN pic.twitter.com/mWH4AIoI5u
— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) March 5, 2025
The State Department has yanked the first visa of a foreign student linked to “Hamas-supporting disruptions” after President Trump vowed to crack down on those involved in anti-Israel protests on college campuses.
“We revoked the first visa of an alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions,” a State Department spokesperson said in a Thursday statement first obtained by Fox News.
“This individual was a university student. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] will proceed with removing this person from the country.”
Can you imagine that happening in Canada? No I can’t either.
Canada’s frightening new reality: our next door neighbour has upended the world order
The spectacle of U.S. President Donald Trump and his toady acolyte, Vice-President JD Vance, berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office last week was many things: embarrassing, shameful, shocking, reckless. But to Canadians watching their performance, the astonishing scene should have evoked another reaction: fear.
It appears that by denying Europe access to Canadian oil and gas that Trudeau was really helping Russia as Europe still buys Russian fuel. Boy was I shocked. https://t.co/4pjQpSQMHS
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) March 7, 2025
“Security guarantee” means the US picks up the defense tab while Europe continues to buy Russian Oil and Gas. She’s been ratio’d and deservedly so.
Within a single week in February, several attacks against enlistment offices and personnel in Ukraine took place, resulting in injuries among both military and civilians. The most striking was the murder of an enlistment officer at a gas station in Poltava Oblast.
A man killed the officer during an attempt to kidnap his acquaintance who had recently been mobilized into the army. The soldier died immediately from the gunshot wounds. Two accomplices were detained later the same day.
“Killing military personnel in the rear is a red line that cannot be crossed,” Mykhailo Drapatyi, commander of Ukraine’s Ground Forces, wrote on Facebook, reacting to the recent attacks.
Authorities in the United States have offered a $10m reward for information that leads to the arrest of a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder-turned-international drug kingpin.
Police in Los Angeles said on Thursday that Ryan Wedding – also known as “El Jefe”, “Giant” and “Public Enemy” – is wanted for his role in a billion-dollar cross-border drug trafficking operation and for several homicides linked to his drug sprawling network.
Wedding, who the FBI said is one of the US’s top 10 most-wanted fugitives, is probably hiding in Mexico under the protection of the Sinaloa drug cartel, officials said.
NHS staff have been ordered to treat trans colleagues with beards as women if they self-identify as female.
Training materials for NHS Scotland workers ask them to consider the fictional case of “Lucy”, a 29-year-old trans nurse who had yet to formally change their name from Lee.
The cultural humility training module states that Lucy “is still producing facial hair which is exposed” and that some other staff are unhappy correcting patients when they use male terms to describe the nurse.
From pants to pasta, even your cross-border shopping trip is now subject to 25 per cent tariffs.
Canadian border officers have started slapping a 25 per cent surtax — in addition to applicable duties — on most items from the U.S. that Windsorites and other border residents have crossed with for decades.
Canadians await the verdict in the unprecedented trial of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus, which ended in mid-January 2025.
The longest, most expensive internal prosecution in Ottawa Police history – perhaps in Canadian police history – concluded on Jan. 14th. Police… pic.twitter.com/C9lTjq7K3G
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) March 7, 2025
President Donald Trump warned NATO allies on Thursday that if they don’t pay up, the U.S. won’t come to their defense if they’re attacked.
The president, since his first term, has pushed for other members of the alliance to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense.
Now he’s threatening to change U.S. policy when it comes to NATO’s Article Five – which states if one member is attacked, all countries in the alliance must respond – if they don’t pony up.
VERY INTERESTING
Trump says he will NOT protect NATO members if they are not paying their fair share.
He then points out that the US do NOT benefit from NATO!
“Do you think they’re gonna come and protect us? Hmmmm. They’re supposed to. I’m not so sure.”
Trump is setting… pic.twitter.com/nTjF0PnjjH
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) March 6, 2025
Canada’s cybersecurity protection agency is warning that China, Russia and Iran will “very likely” use artificial intelligence in an attempt to interfere with the 2025 federal election expected this spring.
The Communications Security Establishment released a report Thursday, the Cyber Threats to Canada’s Democratic Process: 2025 Update, that details the impact increasingly powerful and accessible artificial intelligence tools have had on efforts by foreign actors to spread disinformation, harass politicians and conduct espionage or interference.
Ukraine’s opposition leaders have confirmed they have held discussions with members of Donald Trump’s entourage, but denied on Thursday they were part of a reported White House plot to remove Volodymyr Zelenskyy from power.
The former president Petro Poroshenko said he had held talks with US representatives but added that he opposed Trump’s demands for wartime elections. Poroshenko, who lost to Zelenskyy in the 2019 presidential vote, said a poll should only be held once martial law ends.
Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister, said she also opposes elections while fighting continues. She said her team was “talking with all our allies who can help in securing a just peace as soon as possible”.
‘Government data collected since 2018 by SecondStreet.org, shows there have been nearly 75,000 waiting lists deaths.’
Since 2019, SecondStreet.org has been collecting data on patients dying while waiting for services in Canada’s health care system.
One of the stories that inspired this research was Laura Hillier, an 18-year-old girl from Ontario who was battling leukemia.
The federal government is putting an additional $10 million into a program aimed at helping community groups counter violent extremism and antisemitism.
Official Languages Minister Rachel Bendayan tells the National Forum on Combatting Antisemitism that this money will go toward the Community Resilience Fund.
She says this money will help fund security services at grassroots organizations and help their staff better understand the early warning signs of extremism.
Unless that money is used for mass deportations it will be wasted.
Far too many times in recent history, the European Union has pledged to get serious, only to defer the process to some future date. When announcements come out, as with the Juncker investment fund a decade ago or the EU’s post-Covid recovery plan, there tends to be a flashy headline figure. But a closer look usually reveals that the numbers are underwhelming.
So it will likely prove for the defence package announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this week. There are two key elements to the plan. One involves using Commission powers to issue €150 billion in new loans for defence spending via joint procurement, using the “exceptional circumstances justification” to bypass both the European Parliament and unanimous approval from the EU Council.
