NO FAIR HITTING BACK
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...The Trump administration is discussing additional trade penalties against Canada after Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled dollar-for-dollar retaliation to new tariffs imposed by the US on Saturday.
"diplomacy"
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...e_iOSApp_OtherFor the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice.
Mervyn Sequeira, an Ontario photographer, was out with his family on a recent morning when they spotted a bald eagle descending towards a frozen lake.
Sensing a looming attack on unsuspecting prey, Sequeira scanned the landscape and saw a Canada goose, alone and vulnerable.
For the next 20 minutes, lens trained on the battle, Sequeira watched what he expected would be a lopsided fight with a grim coda.
Through bursts of his shutter, however, he captured a defiant goose fending off death.
“I’ve seen bald eagles take a lot of things, from ducks to muskrats. But this is the first time I’ve seen a bald eagle go in for something as big as a goose,” he said.
Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off.
“Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira said. “But, it wasn’t.”
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-d...220010000.htmlTrump demands Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America
Donald Trump sought to escalate his trade war with Canada on Sunday afternoon and issued a demand on Truth Social that Canadian companies wanting to do business with the U.S. reshore their headquarters within its borders.
His latest remarks come as Canadian officials warned that the country was prepared for an extended dispute with the U.S. after trade talks collapsed and Trump announced tariffs as high as 50 percent on some Canadian goods including dairy products and lumber. Canada has levied reciprocal tariffs against U.S. steel, aluminum and other exports.
On Sunday afternoon, the president said Canadian companies should move their headquarters and production facilities to avoid newly imposed tariffs. The duties are set to begin in 2027.
“Let all Canadian Companies that are doing business with America move to the United States, immediately. Many of them are Companies that moved out years ago due to stupid U.S. Leadership. When you move back, there are no TARIFFS!” Trump wrote.
In a separate post, he argued that Canada was one of America’s worst trading partners, despite being its second-largest. Canada and the U.S. conduct close to $900 billion in cross-border economic activity each year, according to the U.S. trade representative.
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^^^Roomba with cerebrovascular disease characteristics
11% independent support, barely 40% of Republicans
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...on-2026-08-28/Canada's budget deficit over first three months of 2026/27 shrinks to C$370 million
OTTAWA, August 28 (Reuters) - Canada recorded a sharply lower C$370 million ($266.57 million) budget deficit for the first three months #of the 2026/27 fiscal year as government expenditures grew slightly faster than revenues, the finance ministry said on Friday.
By comparison, the deficit in the same period a year earlier had been C$6.28 billion, it said in a statement.
Program expenses rose 4.3% on increases across most categories of spending. Public debt increased by 6.1% reflecting reflecting higher average effective interest rates on an increased stock of marketable bonds and higher #inflation adjustments on some other bonds, offset in part by lower short-term interest rates on treasury bills, the ministry said.
Year-to-date revenues grew by 9.8%, largely reflecting higher income from personal and corporate income tax revenues and GST revenues.
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lol
Alberta Separation Referendum:
Leger (Aug 23):
��Remain In Canada: 74%
��Start A Referendum Process: 26%
Research Co (Aug 26):
��Remain In Canada: 74%
��Start A Referendum Process: 22%
Alberta - Support For Joining The United States:
Oppose: 79%
Support: 16%
Research Co. / Aug 26, 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...litical-unrestDutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’
The Dutch central bank says it has moved 86 tonnes of its gold reserves out of the US and Canada to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”.
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) said gold reserves held in London could be traded more easily than those held in New York and Ottawa.
“This makes it the quickest for DNB to deploy in a crisis situation,” the bank said in a statement on Wednesday.
“With this step, we have improved the deployability of the gold reserves. We assume that we will never need to deploy the gold, but it is nevertheless necessary to strengthen our resilience and preparedness,” said DNB’s president, Olaf Sleijpen.
The total Dutch gold stock amounted to 612.4 tonnes and was valued at €72.2bn ($83.7bn) at the end of 2025, said the DNB.
Before the deployment, the Dutch bank held 31.3% of its gold in New York and 19.7% in Ottawa.
After the move, each country accounted for 18.5% of the Dutch gold reserve.
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/northern-onta...assenger-cars/Ottawa spending $4.7B on new made-in-Canada Via Rail passenger cars
THUNDER BAY — THUNDER BAY -- Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a $4.7 billion contract to build 313 new passenger cars for Via Rail on Thursday.
Carney made the announcement at the Alstom plant in Thunder Bay, Ont., where the cars will be built.
“Our rail cars on our long-distance and remote routes are more than 70 years old. They were built when the NHL had six teams. Goalies wouldn’t wear masks. The Leafs would win the (Stanley) Cup,” Carney said.
“Those old cars have served our country well, but they’re long overdue for retirement. It’s time to build new ones, to build them here at home.”
Carney emphasized the fact that the new cars are being built in Canada.
“For the first time in four decades, those cars will be produced and assembled and maintained in our country. Cars that used to be built in the United States will be built right here in Thunder Bay at Alstom, by the best workers in the world,” Carney said.
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon called the investment the single largest in Via Rail’s history and said the project will lead to 700 new jobs.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...et-production/Saab intensifies pitch to sell Gripen jets to Canada, promising assortment of benefits
In the final-assembly hall for the Saab Gripen fighter jet in the Swedish city of Linkoping, the flags of Saab’s eight customer countries hang above the production line. A ninth spot holds a white banner reading, in red capital letters, RESERVED.
Asked whether it was for Canada, a Saab official smiled, shrugged and said nothing.
Behind the scenes, though, Saab is pulling out all the stops in order to put Canada’s name on the banner.
At a recent briefing at Saab’s Linkoping headquarters that included The Globe and Mail, company officials laid out a range of benefits that Canada can expect should it go ahead with a major order for Gripen jets.
Saab had already promised a Canadian assembly line for the Gripen but had yet to detail the scope of that promise. The company is proposing to build the fighter jets in Canada from parts to finished aircraft, across a network of roughly 10 prime partners and some 250 suppliers in several provinces.
Canada would be the first start-to-finish Gripen production line outside Sweden, provided the order is large enough to justify it, Saab officials say. Canada has also been invited by Saab and the Swedish government to join Sweden’s next combat-aircraft program in the future, if the Gripen is selected.
It’s not clear at what stage and how detailed talks are between Saab and the federal government. The company’s promises come amid a growing trade rift between Canada and the U.S., traditionally this country’s largest military supplier. And Ottawa is still determining whether to forge ahead with a deal to buy additional U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets.
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Alignment with the EU will tend to accelerate US enmity during the next 2 years
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...trump-01065104
After walking away from trade negotiations last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney signaled he was losing interest and patience in cooperating with the U.S. on critical minerals. He said he would continue finding deals and keep pursuing them elsewhere, suggesting Washington had squandered an opportunity to cooperate with Canada.
“That is something that is a missed opportunity as a consequence of what’s happened, but we didn’t cause it to them,” Carney said when POLITICO asked about the role of critical minerals at his Aug. 22 press conference, the morning after he called his negotiators back to Ottawa.
“Kind of thing you do as part of a trade deal,” Carney quipped. “One of the reasons to do a trade deal with Canada.”
Ottawa has been courting alternatives. Carney boasted of 50 deals in the past 12 months, “on the order of C$50 billion worth of transactions” including stockpiling.
Asked by POLITICO whether that included the demand for exclusive access to Canada’s minerals, Carney shot back: “We would never give exclusive access.”
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“Nothing would make me happier than when the United States asks us for more electricity to say, ‘You know what, we’ve got a lot of mines we need to develop in northern British Columbia,’” Hodgson said.
“Nothing would make me happier than just saying, ‘You know what, we’re going to use all our electricity here. We’re going to build new mines, new processing facilities.’”
Although Trump keeps insisting otherwise, the U.S. relies heavily on Canadian resources. Canada supplied more than 80 percent of U.S. electricity imports in 2025, according to the Canada Energy Regulator. U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra has singled out potash as something America needs. Shortly after arriving in Ottawa in April 2025, Hoekstra told POLITICO that Trump was “very interested” in Canada’s energy and critical minerals.
Washington views Canada’s stockpiles as a bulwark against Chinese dominance of the global market in critical minerals essential to defense, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and virtually every piece of tech.
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Trump making Canada (#1 US trade partner) and Mexico (#2 US trade partner) hate us does not make us safer or more prosperous, period
I love that there are zero replies to Cato murking all of Trump's pretexts for mass deportation
The study below compiled public records from the last 40 years for its analysis
https://www.cato.org/white-paper/imm...gets-1994-2023Highlights:
Illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits, every single year;
Illegal immigrants are more likely to be working than US natives;
Illegal immigrants consume fewer government services than US natives;
Illegal immigrants cost less per capita than the US average;
Illegal immigrants are much more likely to be in poverty but not more likely to be receiving welfare;
Illegal immigrants are less likely to commit or be incarcerated for crimes than US natives
Immigrants to the USA make us safer and richer, regardless of the manner of entry
Kicking them out higgedly-piggledy is an own goal, it harms the public
blacklisting companies by proclamation, is that a thing now?
there's gotta be a little more to it than that
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