Trump temporarily spares carmakers from US tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico

Donald Trump has temporarily spared carmakers from sweeping US tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, one day after an economic strike on the US’s two biggest trading partners sparked warnings of widespread price increases and disruption.

The US president extended his aggressive trade strategy at midnight on Tuesday by targeting the country’s two closest neighbors with duties of 25%.

US retail giants predicted that prices were “highly likely” to start rising on store shelves almost immediately, raising questions about Trump’s promises to “make America affordable again” after years of heightened inflation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump’s Tariffs Are About Securing America’s Future — And No Price Is Too High To Pay For It

Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China are now in effect after these countries failed to adequately stem the flow of illegal immigrants and deadly fentanyl in the United States despite President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to give them time to act. Never mind that Trump is the first president in decades to care about American safety and sovereignty because the same voices who stayed silent when the Biden administration’s inflation devastated Americans are now claiming tariffs will drive up costs and therefore Trump shouldn’t implement them.

But Americans should not be gaslit into having to choose between our sovereignty or low prices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

New York’s Pot Boom Is Nothing to Celebrate

State officials trumpet $1 billion in marijuana sales while downplaying health risks, surging youth use, and meager tax revenues.

Albany’s celebration of $1 billion in commercial marijuana sales earlier this year must have been music to Big Pot’s ears. “Let us celebrate the individuals, businesses, and communities in cannabis who drive our state’s economic engine,” exulted Felicia A. B. Reid, acting executive director of the state Office of Cannabis Management.

No one would expect state health commissioner James McDonald to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with, say, Altria or Philip Morris USA to celebrate the sale of tobacco products. But here was Reid, backing drugs known to cause addiction, IQ loss, psychosis, and schizophrenia, especially in young people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana

Trump Is On The Verge Of Ending The EPA’s Tyranny

Trump’s EPA has started the process to rescind the EPA’s authority to regulate CO2 and other alleged greenhouse gasses. It would remake our nation and shake a Western civilization already being pummeled by green madness. These regulations, both here and abroad, have been stalking horses for socialism and vehicles for fraud. graft, and funding left-wing actors on a scale unseen in human history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

The death rattle of ‘the Resistance’

The Democratic ‘revolt’ against Trump’s Congress speech was next-level cringe.

Remember when the phrase ‘the Resistance’ would conjure up visions of sexy French youths in berets battling actual Nazis? Now all it brings to mind is ageing dullards in pink suits holding up signs saying ‘This is not normal’ while sporting the most turbo-smug look on their faces. As US president Donald Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress last night, ‘across the aisle the Resistance was stirring’, gushed the Guardian’s DC reporter. His piece was illustrated with a pic of some congresswoman in pearls and a balding Democrat looking aghast as Trump talked. Seriously, if this is ‘the Resistance’, the world’s tyrants can rest easy

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Why we should fear the ‘Gulf of America’

Every day, the madcap president of the United States does things to remind us that he’s an unhinged tornado of malice. In that maelstrom of abusive behaviour, it’s difficult to be outraged about any one thing for very long, because a new atrocity pops up to grab our attention (say, tariffs).

He’s like a wildfire tearing through a forest and we find it impossible to worry about each individual tree he destroys. But I hope you keep your eye on one particular fight MAGA-man has picked because it strikes at the heart of what his government is doing to democracy.

The TDS enraged Star is calling up ex-CBC staff as reinforcements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Who Tops the List? Annual Asylum Report Reveals Changing Migration Patterns

While fewer migrants entered the EU illegally last year, the migration crisis continues, with only a slight downturn in the number of asylum applications.

The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) published its figures for 2024, showing a slight overall decrease in asylum applications to the EU as well as emerging global migration patterns. Middle Eastern countries are still the primary countries of origin for applicants, but South American states could take their place in the future—if the current trends continue.

Compared to 2023, the annual report detailing last year records an 11% decrease in asylum applications submitted to EU+ countries (meaning EU member states, plus Switzerland and Norway), with the final problematic total still slightly above one million.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

Lucy Gay: Trump tariffs forced Liberals to face the true cost of net zero virtue signalling

U.S. President Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy should be a cause for celebration in Ottawa. After all, Trump is only finishing the job the Trudeau government started: systematically crippling the energy sector in pursuit of their net-zero dream.

It’s hard to imagine Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault or his Liberal predecessors, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson, shedding a tear over this development. These are the same people who have spent years declaring oil and gas the great evil of our time. Now, the tariffs are here to speed up the decline of an industry they have worked tirelessly to strangle with regulations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Could Trump Exit the North Atlantic Treaty — or Just Declare That Article V Isn’t a Suicide Pact?

Fear is growing in Western capitals that President Trump will yank America out of the North Atlantic Treaty. An untested law, enacted in 2022, requires an act of Congress or approval by the Senate before such a move, but the 1949 treaty includes a loophole to abandon the alliance regardless.

“Get us out of NATO,” the Utah Republican, Senator Lee, wrote Saturday on X. In a December post, he called the alliance “a great deal — for Europe,” responding to a graph showing that America pays 70.5 percent of the alliance’s total.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO, USA

Joel Kotkin: Liberals riding anti-Americanism to re-election would be tragic

U.S. President Donald Trump’s imbecilic and unnecessary suggestion that Canada should become the 51st state has led some of my own family members — on my wife’s side, who are Canadian — not to travel to the United States, even in the midst of winter. Now this is personal.

The dislike that some Canadians feel toward Trump, and America in general, is something I experienced at a wedding of one of my wife’s cousins, shortly after Trump’s first term. At what should have been a non-political event, one of the speakers attacked the United States with such vehemence, it made me want to leave the room — and I’m no Trump supporter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA