🇨🇦 Bank of Canada Cuts Rates Again — A Lifeline, Not a Victory
The Bank of Canada just cut its key rate for the second straight time, down to 2.25%, signaling what policymakers won’t say outright: Canada’s economy is stalling.
Exports are cratering under Trump’s tariffs. Manufacturing is shrinking. Real GDP fell 0.4% last quarter — the sharpest drop outside the pandemic years. Inflation may look tame on paper, but that’s because the economy is losing altitude, not gaining control.
Governor Tiff Macklem framed the move as “measured,” but let’s be honest — this is triage. Canada’s industrial heartland is bleeding jobs, the housing market is wobbling under debt, and trade with our largest partner has turned weaponized. The cut isn’t to spur growth. It’s to keep the engine from stalling completely.
Behind the polite language of “monetary easing” lies a deeper truth: we’re in the hangover phase of a deindustrialized, over-financialized economy — one that relies on cheap credit and imported everything while calling it prosperity. You don’t fix that with a quarter-point cut; you fix it by rebuilding real production, securing energy, and freeing trade from political blackmail.
The rate cuts will buy time — but not much. Ottawa can’t print productivity.
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The Bank of Canada just cut its key rate for the second straight time, down to 2.25%, signaling what policymakers won’t say outright: Canada’s economy is stalling.
Exports are cratering under Trump’s tariffs. Manufacturing is shrinking. Real GDP fell 0.4% last quarter — the sharpest drop outside the pandemic years. Inflation may look tame on paper, but that’s because the economy is losing altitude, not gaining control.
Governor Tiff Macklem framed the move as “measured,” but let’s be honest — this is triage. Canada’s industrial heartland is bleeding jobs, the housing market is wobbling under debt, and trade with our largest partner has turned weaponized. The cut isn’t to spur growth. It’s to keep the engine from stalling completely.
Behind the polite language of “monetary easing” lies a deeper truth: we’re in the hangover phase of a deindustrialized, over-financialized economy — one that relies on cheap credit and imported everything while calling it prosperity. You don’t fix that with a quarter-point cut; you fix it by rebuilding real production, securing energy, and freeing trade from political blackmail.
The rate cuts will buy time — but not much. Ottawa can’t print productivity.
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Diplomacy or Drama? Ford Tells U.S. Ambassador to “Bury the Hatchet” After Profane Tirade
Ontario Premier Doug Ford just did what Ottawa wouldn’t — called out Washington’s man in Canada. After U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra reportedly unleashed an expletive-laced tirade against Ontario’s trade envoy over the province’s now-famous anti-tariff ad, Ford said what every grown-up in the room was thinking: “Pick up the phone, apologize, and move on.”
The irony? Hoekstra, a career diplomat, lost his cool over a Ronald Reagan quote reminding Americans that tariffs are taxes on their own people. That’s not fake, that’s economic fact. But in Trump’s Washington, truth apparently hurts more than tariffs.
Ford’s ad reached 11.4 billion impressions, forcing a conversation the establishment wanted buried: Who really pays when the U.S. taxes its largest trading partner? Ford stood his ground — “I’m not rolling over for anyone” — while also extending an olive branch. “Play nice in the sandbox,” he said. “We’re your biggest customer.”
The bigger picture: this episode lays bare the emotional volatility at the heart of U.S. trade politics. Tariffs aren’t policy anymore — they’re theater. And when Ontario quotes Reagan and Washington erupts, it says less about Canada’s offense and more about America’s insecurity.
It's ironic that we are told Trump uses art of the deal tactics to put opponents on the back foot, fine, then take it like a man when the same tactics are used in reverse. Reminds me of hockey players that chirp on the ice and cry when it's done back to them.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford just did what Ottawa wouldn’t — called out Washington’s man in Canada. After U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra reportedly unleashed an expletive-laced tirade against Ontario’s trade envoy over the province’s now-famous anti-tariff ad, Ford said what every grown-up in the room was thinking: “Pick up the phone, apologize, and move on.”
The irony? Hoekstra, a career diplomat, lost his cool over a Ronald Reagan quote reminding Americans that tariffs are taxes on their own people. That’s not fake, that’s economic fact. But in Trump’s Washington, truth apparently hurts more than tariffs.
Ford’s ad reached 11.4 billion impressions, forcing a conversation the establishment wanted buried: Who really pays when the U.S. taxes its largest trading partner? Ford stood his ground — “I’m not rolling over for anyone” — while also extending an olive branch. “Play nice in the sandbox,” he said. “We’re your biggest customer.”
The bigger picture: this episode lays bare the emotional volatility at the heart of U.S. trade politics. Tariffs aren’t policy anymore — they’re theater. And when Ontario quotes Reagan and Washington erupts, it says less about Canada’s offense and more about America’s insecurity.
It's ironic that we are told Trump uses art of the deal tactics to put opponents on the back foot, fine, then take it like a man when the same tactics are used in reverse. Reminds me of hockey players that chirp on the ice and cry when it's done back to them.
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Trump is often angry but rarely hurt – yet Canada has managed to pull it off
Emma Brockes
On the surface it didn’t seem like a particularly big deal: a TV ad airing on US television, paid for by the Canadian province of Ontario, in which an audio clip of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs ran over inspiring footage of the American west and industry. In a folksy voice Reagan explains: “When someone says: ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports’, it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works – but only for a short time.” He then demolishes the premise of tariffs as anything but an instrument that “hurts every American worker”.
Reagan’s words were taken from a 1987 radio address, and both Trump and the Reagan foundation instantly attacked the ad – in which some of the former president’s remarks were run out of chronological order – with Trump declaring it “FAKE”. (The sentiment of what Reagan said wasn’t altered.) Clearly, however, it’s not the edit that bent Trump so out of shape that, after the ad aired, he called off tariff talks with Canada – the only G7 country that has yet to reach a trade deal with the US – then doubled down by announcing he was “increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now”. This was temper, pure and simple – an expression of pique far outweighing the apparent scale of the insult that had clearly struck some very particular nerve.
When it comes to analysing Trump’s overreactions, I always return to the delicious and staggering freakout he had at the New York Times columnist Gail Collins in 1992 when she referred to him as the “financially embattled thousandaire”. In the wasteland of Trump’s interior life, “rich” is probably the single most crucial pillar of his identity, and by suggesting that he had exaggerated his wealth, Collins cut as close to the marrow as it gets. Sure enough, Trump’s response was, for bizarreness, up there with Elon Musk calling the Thai cave rescuer a “pedo guy” for criticising his dumb submarine: he sent a copy of the column back to Collins with the words “The Face of a Dog!” scrawled over the picture.
Trump wasn’t president then and had only harmless theatrics at his disposal. Obviously things are different now, and by threatening to raise tariffs to 60% on some Canadian goods, Trump will probably hurt US consumers and workers for years to come, not least as Canada seeks to find alternative trade partners. What remains curious is what exactly in the ad so aggressively triggered him – and it has to do, I suspect, with the status of Ronald Reagan relative to the status of Donald Trump.
To those of us who grew up outside the US and witnessed Reagan’s presidency from afar, he often seemed at best a fairly preposterous leader. But in the years since his death, in the US Reagan has come to stand for unimpeachable political authority – and not just on the right – an American icon on a par with John Wayne and a symbol of the soul of the Republican party. At the end of the Ontario ad, a clip of Reagan recording the address shows him wearing a plaid cowboy shirt, and looking rugged and authentic.
There is almost no point of comparison for Trump as far as this image is concerned. Burnished by exactly the nostalgia Trump has leveraged for his own political gain, Reagan’s words and image in that ad pitch the current president’s emptied-out, shiny-suited, barely Republican MAGA movement against Reagan’s “Morning in America again” original – or at least against the modern spin on the original that has so much power today. Con artists are always aware, at some level, of their own fundamental fraudulence, which is why it can be so dangerous to confront them with the truth. I don’t think Trump’s excessive response at the weekend was down to a political disagreement about tariffs. Instead it was about a man suffering a brief, piercing and clearly quite painful collapse in his self-delusion.
— Emma Brockes, The Guardian
#Canada #USA
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Emma Brockes
On the surface it didn’t seem like a particularly big deal: a TV ad airing on US television, paid for by the Canadian province of Ontario, in which an audio clip of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs ran over inspiring footage of the American west and industry. In a folksy voice Reagan explains: “When someone says: ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports’, it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works – but only for a short time.” He then demolishes the premise of tariffs as anything but an instrument that “hurts every American worker”.
Reagan’s words were taken from a 1987 radio address, and both Trump and the Reagan foundation instantly attacked the ad – in which some of the former president’s remarks were run out of chronological order – with Trump declaring it “FAKE”. (The sentiment of what Reagan said wasn’t altered.) Clearly, however, it’s not the edit that bent Trump so out of shape that, after the ad aired, he called off tariff talks with Canada – the only G7 country that has yet to reach a trade deal with the US – then doubled down by announcing he was “increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now”. This was temper, pure and simple – an expression of pique far outweighing the apparent scale of the insult that had clearly struck some very particular nerve.
When it comes to analysing Trump’s overreactions, I always return to the delicious and staggering freakout he had at the New York Times columnist Gail Collins in 1992 when she referred to him as the “financially embattled thousandaire”. In the wasteland of Trump’s interior life, “rich” is probably the single most crucial pillar of his identity, and by suggesting that he had exaggerated his wealth, Collins cut as close to the marrow as it gets. Sure enough, Trump’s response was, for bizarreness, up there with Elon Musk calling the Thai cave rescuer a “pedo guy” for criticising his dumb submarine: he sent a copy of the column back to Collins with the words “The Face of a Dog!” scrawled over the picture.
Trump wasn’t president then and had only harmless theatrics at his disposal. Obviously things are different now, and by threatening to raise tariffs to 60% on some Canadian goods, Trump will probably hurt US consumers and workers for years to come, not least as Canada seeks to find alternative trade partners. What remains curious is what exactly in the ad so aggressively triggered him – and it has to do, I suspect, with the status of Ronald Reagan relative to the status of Donald Trump.
To those of us who grew up outside the US and witnessed Reagan’s presidency from afar, he often seemed at best a fairly preposterous leader. But in the years since his death, in the US Reagan has come to stand for unimpeachable political authority – and not just on the right – an American icon on a par with John Wayne and a symbol of the soul of the Republican party. At the end of the Ontario ad, a clip of Reagan recording the address shows him wearing a plaid cowboy shirt, and looking rugged and authentic.
There is almost no point of comparison for Trump as far as this image is concerned. Burnished by exactly the nostalgia Trump has leveraged for his own political gain, Reagan’s words and image in that ad pitch the current president’s emptied-out, shiny-suited, barely Republican MAGA movement against Reagan’s “Morning in America again” original – or at least against the modern spin on the original that has so much power today. Con artists are always aware, at some level, of their own fundamental fraudulence, which is why it can be so dangerous to confront them with the truth. I don’t think Trump’s excessive response at the weekend was down to a political disagreement about tariffs. Instead it was about a man suffering a brief, piercing and clearly quite painful collapse in his self-delusion.
— Emma Brockes, The Guardian
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🇨🇦💸 Ottawa’s Green Gamble: billions out the door, accountability redacted.
An investigation lid off 70+ pages of secret contracts between Ottawa and Stellantis/NextStar, exposing how Canada’s much-hyped “clean energy industrial strategy” is really being built on blank cheques and blacked-out clauses.
Here’s the reality: the federal and Ontario governments pledged up to $15 billion in production subsidies and another $500 million from the Strategic Innovation Fund to build an EV battery plant in Windsor. The promise? Jobs, security, and a made-in-Canada energy future. The truth? No guarantees.
The fine print gives Ottawa the right to claw money back if Stellantis defaults — but the key sections about Brampton’s plant and job protections are redacted. And even the job requirement — to hire 2,500 people — was watered down. The final contract only asks Stellantis to make “commercially reasonable efforts.” In other words: no binding commitment.
To make it worse, what officials sold as “tax credits” are actually direct cash payments — funneled straight to a foreign auto giant that’s now shifting production from Ontario to Illinois while Canada foots the bill.
Minister Mélanie Joly says the government may take “legal action” if Stellantis fails to keep its promises. But once billions are out the door, Ottawa’s leverage is gone. It’s another case of corporate capture disguised as climate policy — a green shell game where Canadian taxpayers take the risk, and multinationals take the reward.
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An investigation lid off 70+ pages of secret contracts between Ottawa and Stellantis/NextStar, exposing how Canada’s much-hyped “clean energy industrial strategy” is really being built on blank cheques and blacked-out clauses.
Here’s the reality: the federal and Ontario governments pledged up to $15 billion in production subsidies and another $500 million from the Strategic Innovation Fund to build an EV battery plant in Windsor. The promise? Jobs, security, and a made-in-Canada energy future. The truth? No guarantees.
The fine print gives Ottawa the right to claw money back if Stellantis defaults — but the key sections about Brampton’s plant and job protections are redacted. And even the job requirement — to hire 2,500 people — was watered down. The final contract only asks Stellantis to make “commercially reasonable efforts.” In other words: no binding commitment.
To make it worse, what officials sold as “tax credits” are actually direct cash payments — funneled straight to a foreign auto giant that’s now shifting production from Ontario to Illinois while Canada foots the bill.
Minister Mélanie Joly says the government may take “legal action” if Stellantis fails to keep its promises. But once billions are out the door, Ottawa’s leverage is gone. It’s another case of corporate capture disguised as climate policy — a green shell game where Canadian taxpayers take the risk, and multinationals take the reward.
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🇨🇦 Quebec’s Doctor Exodus Begins — Ontario and New Brunswick Say “Welcome.”
Within five days of Quebec’s government ramming through Bill 2 — a law forcing new performance-linked pay and silencing dissent — over 100 doctors have already started filing to practise elsewhere. Ontario alone has received 70 licence applications since Oct 23, while New Brunswick’s medical college says it’s seen ten times its normal monthly volume.
Premier Doug Ford wasted no time: “Call 1-800-Doug-Ford,” he joked, inviting Quebec doctors to cross the border. New Brunswick’s Vitalité Health Network reports a “wave” of interest from Francophone physicians seeking fairer workloads and more autonomy.
Meanwhile, Quebec’s Health Minister Christian Dubé insists doctors should “take a step back.” But they’ve already had enough. The FMOQ warns every departing GP leaves roughly 1,000 patients behind — in a province already short 2,000 family doctors. The federation of specialists has launched a lawsuit, calling the law a violation of professional and individual liberties.
What Quebec calls reform, the rest of Canada sees as opportunity — and what starts as a “policy correction” may soon turn into a full-scale brain drain.
#Quebec #Ontario #NewBrunswick
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Within five days of Quebec’s government ramming through Bill 2 — a law forcing new performance-linked pay and silencing dissent — over 100 doctors have already started filing to practise elsewhere. Ontario alone has received 70 licence applications since Oct 23, while New Brunswick’s medical college says it’s seen ten times its normal monthly volume.
Premier Doug Ford wasted no time: “Call 1-800-Doug-Ford,” he joked, inviting Quebec doctors to cross the border. New Brunswick’s Vitalité Health Network reports a “wave” of interest from Francophone physicians seeking fairer workloads and more autonomy.
Meanwhile, Quebec’s Health Minister Christian Dubé insists doctors should “take a step back.” But they’ve already had enough. The FMOQ warns every departing GP leaves roughly 1,000 patients behind — in a province already short 2,000 family doctors. The federation of specialists has launched a lawsuit, calling the law a violation of professional and individual liberties.
What Quebec calls reform, the rest of Canada sees as opportunity — and what starts as a “policy correction” may soon turn into a full-scale brain drain.
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Trump and Carney Break the Ice After Tariff Meltdown
After a week of tariff drama and sharp words, President Donald Trump told reporters he had a “very nice conversation” with Prime Minister Mark Carney during the APEC summit in South Korea — a surprising thaw following his vow to freeze talks “for a while.”
Just days ago, Trump had accused Canada of trying to influence the U.S. Supreme Court over his tariff policy, fuming over Ontario’s ad that quoted Ronald Reagan’s 1987 warning about tariffs hurting American workers. The backlash escalated into a full-blown diplomatic rift, with Trump declaring, “We didn’t come to South Korea to see Canada!”
Yet by Thursday, tensions appeared to cool. Carney’s office confirmed a “constructive conversation” touching on shared economic and security issues. The Prime Minister had already signaled earlier in the week that Canada was “ready when appropriate” to resume trade negotiations.
Whether this marks a genuine reset or just a pause in hostilities remains to be seen, but for now, Ottawa and Washington are talking again, and that’s something.
#Canada #US
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After a week of tariff drama and sharp words, President Donald Trump told reporters he had a “very nice conversation” with Prime Minister Mark Carney during the APEC summit in South Korea — a surprising thaw following his vow to freeze talks “for a while.”
Just days ago, Trump had accused Canada of trying to influence the U.S. Supreme Court over his tariff policy, fuming over Ontario’s ad that quoted Ronald Reagan’s 1987 warning about tariffs hurting American workers. The backlash escalated into a full-blown diplomatic rift, with Trump declaring, “We didn’t come to South Korea to see Canada!”
Yet by Thursday, tensions appeared to cool. Carney’s office confirmed a “constructive conversation” touching on shared economic and security issues. The Prime Minister had already signaled earlier in the week that Canada was “ready when appropriate” to resume trade negotiations.
Whether this marks a genuine reset or just a pause in hostilities remains to be seen, but for now, Ottawa and Washington are talking again, and that’s something.
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🇨🇦🥫 Hunger in the Heartland: Alberta’s Food Bank Crisis Deepens
A new Food Banks Canada report paints a stark picture, food bank visits in Alberta have surged 21.8% this year alone, the second-highest increase in the country. On average, 210,541 visits were recorded each month in 2025. Shockingly, more than one-third, nearly 76,000 — were children.
Nationally, the numbers are just as grim. 2.16 million visits were made to food banks in Marc, a 5% increase over last year and double the 2019 total. More than half of visitors were women over 18, a sign that the cost-of-living crisis is biting into the country’s middle class.
The report warns that poverty and hunger are being “normalized” in Canada. The culprits: soaring rents, inflated grocery prices, and stagnant wages. It calls for urgent measures — expanded Canada Disability Benefits, affordable housing investments, and a groceries-and-essentials credit for struggling families.
Canada once prided itself on abundance. Now, it’s fighting a quiet emergency — not of scarcity, but of policy failure.
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A new Food Banks Canada report paints a stark picture, food bank visits in Alberta have surged 21.8% this year alone, the second-highest increase in the country. On average, 210,541 visits were recorded each month in 2025. Shockingly, more than one-third, nearly 76,000 — were children.
Nationally, the numbers are just as grim. 2.16 million visits were made to food banks in Marc, a 5% increase over last year and double the 2019 total. More than half of visitors were women over 18, a sign that the cost-of-living crisis is biting into the country’s middle class.
The report warns that poverty and hunger are being “normalized” in Canada. The culprits: soaring rents, inflated grocery prices, and stagnant wages. It calls for urgent measures — expanded Canada Disability Benefits, affordable housing investments, and a groceries-and-essentials credit for struggling families.
Canada once prided itself on abundance. Now, it’s fighting a quiet emergency — not of scarcity, but of policy failure.
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🇨🇦 O Canada? The Summer Boom Heard Around the World.
Canada’s tourism sector just shattered records — $59 billion spent between May and August, up 6% year over year, marking the biggest tourism season in Canadian history.
The secret? Canadians rediscovered their own backyard. Domestic travel jumped 7%, while overseas visitors surged 10%, driven by global events like the G7 Summit in Alberta’s Kananaskis and renewed wanderlust for the Great North. Even with a 1.7% dip in U.S. visitors, hotels from Banff to the Maritimes ran near capacity — national occupancy hit 80.7%, the highest since 2014.
In Canmore, Alberta, the Malcolm Hotel’s Andrew Shepherd called it “awe every minute they’re here.” Adventure operator Brent Koinberg said business quadrupled, with bookings already rolling in for 2026. And from coast to coast, 89% of regions posted growth, with Atlantic Canada leading the charge.
After years of uncertainty, Canada’s open skies, wild landscapes, and welcoming spirit have made it the world’s must-see destination once again.
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Canada’s tourism sector just shattered records — $59 billion spent between May and August, up 6% year over year, marking the biggest tourism season in Canadian history.
The secret? Canadians rediscovered their own backyard. Domestic travel jumped 7%, while overseas visitors surged 10%, driven by global events like the G7 Summit in Alberta’s Kananaskis and renewed wanderlust for the Great North. Even with a 1.7% dip in U.S. visitors, hotels from Banff to the Maritimes ran near capacity — national occupancy hit 80.7%, the highest since 2014.
In Canmore, Alberta, the Malcolm Hotel’s Andrew Shepherd called it “awe every minute they’re here.” Adventure operator Brent Koinberg said business quadrupled, with bookings already rolling in for 2026. And from coast to coast, 89% of regions posted growth, with Atlantic Canada leading the charge.
After years of uncertainty, Canada’s open skies, wild landscapes, and welcoming spirit have made it the world’s must-see destination once again.
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🇨🇦 Canada’s Job Vacancies Fall to Lowest Level Since 2017
The labour market is tightening fast — and not in a good way. According to Statistics Canada, job vacancies across the country fell to 457,400 in August, the lowest since 2017. The national job vacancy rate now sits at just 2.6%, while unemployment has climbed to 7.1%, up from 6.7% a year earlier.
The trend signals increased competition for fewer available jobs, with the steepest employment strain hitting transportation and warehousing, retail, and cultural industries. Only one sector — agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting — saw any rise in openings.
Provincially, the squeeze is sharpest in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, while the Atlantic provinces remain mostly stable. Average weekly earnings rose 3% to $1,312, offering little comfort against rising inflation and stagnant job growth.
Canada’s economy may be cooling faster than policymakers admit — vacancies are drying up while costs keep climbing. A dangerous mix for working Canadians.
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The labour market is tightening fast — and not in a good way. According to Statistics Canada, job vacancies across the country fell to 457,400 in August, the lowest since 2017. The national job vacancy rate now sits at just 2.6%, while unemployment has climbed to 7.1%, up from 6.7% a year earlier.
The trend signals increased competition for fewer available jobs, with the steepest employment strain hitting transportation and warehousing, retail, and cultural industries. Only one sector — agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting — saw any rise in openings.
Provincially, the squeeze is sharpest in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, while the Atlantic provinces remain mostly stable. Average weekly earnings rose 3% to $1,312, offering little comfort against rising inflation and stagnant job growth.
Canada’s economy may be cooling faster than policymakers admit — vacancies are drying up while costs keep climbing. A dangerous mix for working Canadians.
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🇨🇦 Canada Accused of Fueling Sudan’s Genocide Through UAE Arms Exports
A bombshell release from Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is calling on Ottawa to immediately halt all arms exports to the UAE, after Canadian-made armoured vehicles were discovered in the hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — a paramilitary group accused of committing genocide in El Fasher, where more than 2,000 civilians were massacred.
The UAE — one of the largest buyers of Canadian weapons — is alleged to be illicitly supplying arms to the RSF, including drones and armoured vehicles. UN experts have deemed these accusations “credible.” Among the most shocking discoveries: armoured vehicles produced by Canada’s Streit Group, based in the UAE, were found deployed by RSF fighters during the siege of El Fasher.
CJPME argues Canada’s $7 million in weapons exports to the UAE last year may have been diverted in violation of the Export and Import Permits Act, demanding that Ottawa investigate and suspend all military sales pending review.
The group also warns that Canadian-made weapons could be reaching Sudan through the so-called “U.S. Loophole,” where arms exported to the U.S. can be re-shipped abroad without Canadian oversight. CJPME is urging Parliament to adopt Bill C-233 (“No More Loopholes Act”) to end this practice and ensure all exports via the U.S. are properly tracked.
Canada once claimed a moral high ground on human rights. Today, it risks complicity in one of the world’s worst atrocities.
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A bombshell release from Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is calling on Ottawa to immediately halt all arms exports to the UAE, after Canadian-made armoured vehicles were discovered in the hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — a paramilitary group accused of committing genocide in El Fasher, where more than 2,000 civilians were massacred.
The UAE — one of the largest buyers of Canadian weapons — is alleged to be illicitly supplying arms to the RSF, including drones and armoured vehicles. UN experts have deemed these accusations “credible.” Among the most shocking discoveries: armoured vehicles produced by Canada’s Streit Group, based in the UAE, were found deployed by RSF fighters during the siege of El Fasher.
CJPME argues Canada’s $7 million in weapons exports to the UAE last year may have been diverted in violation of the Export and Import Permits Act, demanding that Ottawa investigate and suspend all military sales pending review.
The group also warns that Canadian-made weapons could be reaching Sudan through the so-called “U.S. Loophole,” where arms exported to the U.S. can be re-shipped abroad without Canadian oversight. CJPME is urging Parliament to adopt Bill C-233 (“No More Loopholes Act”) to end this practice and ensure all exports via the U.S. are properly tracked.
Canada once claimed a moral high ground on human rights. Today, it risks complicity in one of the world’s worst atrocities.
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Trump Claims Carney Apologized for Ontario’s Reagan Ad — Ottawa Stays Silent
In the latest twist of the Canada–U.S. trade rift, President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Prime Minister Mark Carney personally apologized for Ontario’s anti-tariff ad featuring Ronald Reagan’s 1987 radio address.
“I have a very good relationship with Carney — I like him a lot,” Trump said. “But what they did was wrong. He was very nice. He apologized for what they did with the commercial.” Trump again called the ad “false,” insisting, “Ronald Reagan loved tariffs.”
The Prime Minister’s Office has not confirmed whether an apology was made. The ad — approved by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government — used Reagan’s own words condemning tariffs, a move that infuriated Trump and the Reagan Presidential Foundation, prompting him to terminate trade talks with Canada earlier this month.
Ford said Carney and his chief of staff, Marc-André Blanchard, were aware of the ad before it aired in the U.S., and only paused the campaign after it aired again during the World Series.
At this week’s APEC summit, Trump and Carney reportedly shared a “great dinner” and a “very good personal relationship,” but beneath the polite smiles, the tension over tariffs and trade politics clearly lingers.
#Canada #USA
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In the latest twist of the Canada–U.S. trade rift, President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Prime Minister Mark Carney personally apologized for Ontario’s anti-tariff ad featuring Ronald Reagan’s 1987 radio address.
“I have a very good relationship with Carney — I like him a lot,” Trump said. “But what they did was wrong. He was very nice. He apologized for what they did with the commercial.” Trump again called the ad “false,” insisting, “Ronald Reagan loved tariffs.”
The Prime Minister’s Office has not confirmed whether an apology was made. The ad — approved by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government — used Reagan’s own words condemning tariffs, a move that infuriated Trump and the Reagan Presidential Foundation, prompting him to terminate trade talks with Canada earlier this month.
Ford said Carney and his chief of staff, Marc-André Blanchard, were aware of the ad before it aired in the U.S., and only paused the campaign after it aired again during the World Series.
At this week’s APEC summit, Trump and Carney reportedly shared a “great dinner” and a “very good personal relationship,” but beneath the polite smiles, the tension over tariffs and trade politics clearly lingers.
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⛏️🇨🇦 Canada Declares Critical Minerals a National Security Priority — Finally Playing the Long Game
In a landmark shift, Canada has officially classified critical minerals as a national security priority under the Defence Production Act, empowering Ottawa to guarantee price floors and long-term purchasing agreements for domestic producers — a direct bid to counter China’s near-total dominance of global mineral supply chains.
The move, unveiled at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers’ meeting in Toronto, commits $6.4 billion toward 26 mining projects across the country — from Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Matawinie mine near Montreal to Rio Tinto’s scandium facility and Torngat Metals’ Strange Lake rare earths project. The initiative will establish a “buyers club” among G7 nations to lock in stable prices and secure strategic supply lines.
Energy Minister Tim Hodgson framed it as a matter of economic survival:
“We need certainty of demand and certainty of pricing so that these mines and processing facilities can get built.”
For decades, Beijing cornered the market, controlling over 70% of refining capacity for 19 of 20 critical minerals used in everything from EV batteries to fighter jets. With this step, Canada is finally acknowledging what realists have long known — resource security is national security.
Industry voices say this could ignite a new mining renaissance if backed by real follow-through. But the stakes are geopolitical: whoever controls graphite, lithium, nickel, and rare earths controls the next century’s industrial base.
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In a landmark shift, Canada has officially classified critical minerals as a national security priority under the Defence Production Act, empowering Ottawa to guarantee price floors and long-term purchasing agreements for domestic producers — a direct bid to counter China’s near-total dominance of global mineral supply chains.
The move, unveiled at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers’ meeting in Toronto, commits $6.4 billion toward 26 mining projects across the country — from Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Matawinie mine near Montreal to Rio Tinto’s scandium facility and Torngat Metals’ Strange Lake rare earths project. The initiative will establish a “buyers club” among G7 nations to lock in stable prices and secure strategic supply lines.
Energy Minister Tim Hodgson framed it as a matter of economic survival:
“We need certainty of demand and certainty of pricing so that these mines and processing facilities can get built.”
For decades, Beijing cornered the market, controlling over 70% of refining capacity for 19 of 20 critical minerals used in everything from EV batteries to fighter jets. With this step, Canada is finally acknowledging what realists have long known — resource security is national security.
Industry voices say this could ignite a new mining renaissance if backed by real follow-through. But the stakes are geopolitical: whoever controls graphite, lithium, nickel, and rare earths controls the next century’s industrial base.
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🇨🇦🇨🇳 China Proposes Tripling Trade with Canada as Carney–Xi Meeting Marks a “Turning Point”
Beijing is signaling a thaw. After Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping since 2017, Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told CTV that Canada and China should aim not just to double, but “triple” bilateral trade if market conditions allow.
“If both sides have enough compatibilities and competitive products, why not make this trade triple?” Wang said.
The timing is notable. Carney has vowed to double Canada’s non-U.S. exports within a decade as Washington flirts with new tariffs, and Ottawa seeks fresh markets for agriculture, minerals, and tech. Total trade with China reached $118.7 billion in 2024, with only $30 billion of that in Canadian exports.
The leaders’ 39-minute meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea tackled outstanding disputes—from canola and seafood tariffs to EV import restrictions—and Carney called it “a turning point… long overdue.” Both sides agreed to accelerate talks to “resolve outstanding trade issues,” with Carney accepting Xi’s invitation to visit China.
Still, caution runs deep. China has hinted it will lift its 100 per cent tariff on Canadian canola only if Ottawa scraps its EV tariffs, a move opposed by Ontario’s Doug Ford and federal Conservatives. Saskatchewan and Manitoba, meanwhile, are urging relief for farmers.
Wang insists tariffs “don’t represent the whole relationship,” framing the broader picture as one of strategic re-engagement. Whether this “turning point” leads to meaningful results—or another diplomatic false dawn—will depend on how far Ottawa is willing to lean east as Washington grows more unpredictable.
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Beijing is signaling a thaw. After Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping since 2017, Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told CTV that Canada and China should aim not just to double, but “triple” bilateral trade if market conditions allow.
“If both sides have enough compatibilities and competitive products, why not make this trade triple?” Wang said.
The timing is notable. Carney has vowed to double Canada’s non-U.S. exports within a decade as Washington flirts with new tariffs, and Ottawa seeks fresh markets for agriculture, minerals, and tech. Total trade with China reached $118.7 billion in 2024, with only $30 billion of that in Canadian exports.
The leaders’ 39-minute meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea tackled outstanding disputes—from canola and seafood tariffs to EV import restrictions—and Carney called it “a turning point… long overdue.” Both sides agreed to accelerate talks to “resolve outstanding trade issues,” with Carney accepting Xi’s invitation to visit China.
Still, caution runs deep. China has hinted it will lift its 100 per cent tariff on Canadian canola only if Ottawa scraps its EV tariffs, a move opposed by Ontario’s Doug Ford and federal Conservatives. Saskatchewan and Manitoba, meanwhile, are urging relief for farmers.
Wang insists tariffs “don’t represent the whole relationship,” framing the broader picture as one of strategic re-engagement. Whether this “turning point” leads to meaningful results—or another diplomatic false dawn—will depend on how far Ottawa is willing to lean east as Washington grows more unpredictable.
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🇨🇦 Ottawa Quietly Prepares for Mass Mobilization — Canadian Military Eyes 400,000 Reserve Force
A leaked Defence Mobilization Plan (DMP) directive signed by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and Deputy Minister Stefanie Beck reveals a staggering ambition: expanding Canada’s reserve forces from 28,000 to 400,000.
A new “tiger team” housed at DND’s Carling Campus has been tasked with drafting the legal, logistical, and societal framework for what officials call a “Whole of Society” mobilization — meaning all Canadians could be called upon to contribute in a national emergency, from natural disasters to large-scale war.
“In order to assure the defence of Canada against domestic threats ranging from low-intensity disaster response to high-intensity combat operations, the DMP will empower a timely and scalable response,” the directive states.
The plan’s scale dwarfs anything seen since WWII. Officials are studying Finland’s connoscription-based model, which maintains a large citizen reserve. Ottawa is consulting allies and weighing legislative changes to enable a wartime-style surge of volunteers and supplementary reservists — including retirees who could be recalled.
The timing raises eyebrows. Auditor General Karen Hogan just reported that the Canadian Forces can’t even meet current recruitment needs, struggling to fill skilled positions due to backlogs and limited training capacity. Yet behind the scenes, the military is sketching out a mobilization blueprint that assumes a dramatically altered global threat environment.
Some officers have warned openly that the West could face war with China or Russia by 2030, suggesting the mobilization plan is less about hypothetical readiness — and more about quietly preparing for that scenario.
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A leaked Defence Mobilization Plan (DMP) directive signed by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and Deputy Minister Stefanie Beck reveals a staggering ambition: expanding Canada’s reserve forces from 28,000 to 400,000.
A new “tiger team” housed at DND’s Carling Campus has been tasked with drafting the legal, logistical, and societal framework for what officials call a “Whole of Society” mobilization — meaning all Canadians could be called upon to contribute in a national emergency, from natural disasters to large-scale war.
“In order to assure the defence of Canada against domestic threats ranging from low-intensity disaster response to high-intensity combat operations, the DMP will empower a timely and scalable response,” the directive states.
The plan’s scale dwarfs anything seen since WWII. Officials are studying Finland’s connoscription-based model, which maintains a large citizen reserve. Ottawa is consulting allies and weighing legislative changes to enable a wartime-style surge of volunteers and supplementary reservists — including retirees who could be recalled.
The timing raises eyebrows. Auditor General Karen Hogan just reported that the Canadian Forces can’t even meet current recruitment needs, struggling to fill skilled positions due to backlogs and limited training capacity. Yet behind the scenes, the military is sketching out a mobilization blueprint that assumes a dramatically altered global threat environment.
Some officers have warned openly that the West could face war with China or Russia by 2030, suggesting the mobilization plan is less about hypothetical readiness — and more about quietly preparing for that scenario.
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🇨🇦⚛️ Canada’s Nuclear Crossroads: Sovereignty or Subordination?
With global electricity demand set to surge 25% by 2030, Ottawa now faces a defining question: will Canada assert nuclear sovereignty—or quietly become a junior partner in America’s atomic supply chain?
This week’s $80B Cameco–Brookfield–Westinghouse deal with the U.S. cements Canada’s uranium in American-built reactors under Washington’s energy umbrella. Pair that with Ottawa’s adoption of U.S.-origin Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)—which require enriched uranium that Canada doesn’t produce—and the pattern is clear: Canada mines the fuel, but others control the flame.
“Do we want to spend those billions within Canada’s economy, or run with U.S. technology and abandon national benefit?” asks Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy.
While Energy Minister Tim Hodgson and industry allies celebrate a “nuclear renaissance,” critics warn that Ottawa is trading long-term energy independence for short-term political optics. CANDU reactors, Canada’s homegrown technology, run on unenriched uranium—free from foreign supply chains. But instead of revitalizing it, the government is burying a proven sovereign design in favor of imported systems tied to U.S. enrichment and policy swings.
As uranium prices soar nearly 30% this year, driven by the AI-driven power boom and the West’s effort to decouple from Russian supply, Canada’s leverage has never been stronger. Yet decisions in Ottawa suggest a drift toward vassal status in the emerging nuclear order, where Japan provides financing, Washington controls the tech, and Canada provides the raw material.
Without a domestic enrichment industry, and with mounting red tape throttling new reactor approvals, Canada risks being left with the mines—but not the mastery.
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With global electricity demand set to surge 25% by 2030, Ottawa now faces a defining question: will Canada assert nuclear sovereignty—or quietly become a junior partner in America’s atomic supply chain?
This week’s $80B Cameco–Brookfield–Westinghouse deal with the U.S. cements Canada’s uranium in American-built reactors under Washington’s energy umbrella. Pair that with Ottawa’s adoption of U.S.-origin Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)—which require enriched uranium that Canada doesn’t produce—and the pattern is clear: Canada mines the fuel, but others control the flame.
“Do we want to spend those billions within Canada’s economy, or run with U.S. technology and abandon national benefit?” asks Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy.
While Energy Minister Tim Hodgson and industry allies celebrate a “nuclear renaissance,” critics warn that Ottawa is trading long-term energy independence for short-term political optics. CANDU reactors, Canada’s homegrown technology, run on unenriched uranium—free from foreign supply chains. But instead of revitalizing it, the government is burying a proven sovereign design in favor of imported systems tied to U.S. enrichment and policy swings.
As uranium prices soar nearly 30% this year, driven by the AI-driven power boom and the West’s effort to decouple from Russian supply, Canada’s leverage has never been stronger. Yet decisions in Ottawa suggest a drift toward vassal status in the emerging nuclear order, where Japan provides financing, Washington controls the tech, and Canada provides the raw material.
Without a domestic enrichment industry, and with mounting red tape throttling new reactor approvals, Canada risks being left with the mines—but not the mastery.
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🇨🇦 Carney Draws Battle Lines: “This Is Not a Game” — Budget Vote Could Trigger Snap Election
At the close of the APEC summit in South Korea, Prime Minister Mark Carney sent an unmistakable signal: if opposition parties sink his first federal budget next week, he’s ready to face voters.
“I am 100% confident this is the right budget for the country — at this moment,” Carney said. “This is not a game. It’s a critical moment for our country.”
The fiscal plan — pitched as a “generational investment” in infrastructure, clean energy, and national renewal — would also restructure federal finances and, according to Carney, bring Canada’s operating account back into balance within three years.
But that optimism masks a political knife fight waiting to happen. The Conservatives demand scrapping the carbon tax and capping deficits below $42 billion. The NDP, meanwhile, balks at Carney’s proposed 7.5% program cuts next year, rising to 15% by 2028, even as defence spending climbs.
If either opposition party votes down the budget, the result is automatic — a new national election barely six months after the last one.
Adding intrigue, Carney also confirmed he personally apologized to Donald Trump for Ontario’s anti-tariff ad that derailed trade talks — a tacit admission that foreign policy turbulence could shadow his economic agenda.
As the budget lands Tuesday, Carney is betting his credibility — and perhaps his premiership — on one gamble: that Canadians are ready for tough medicine, long-term investment, and a leader who dares to call the moment what it is.
“This is not a game,” he said. “This is history in motion.”
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At the close of the APEC summit in South Korea, Prime Minister Mark Carney sent an unmistakable signal: if opposition parties sink his first federal budget next week, he’s ready to face voters.
“I am 100% confident this is the right budget for the country — at this moment,” Carney said. “This is not a game. It’s a critical moment for our country.”
The fiscal plan — pitched as a “generational investment” in infrastructure, clean energy, and national renewal — would also restructure federal finances and, according to Carney, bring Canada’s operating account back into balance within three years.
But that optimism masks a political knife fight waiting to happen. The Conservatives demand scrapping the carbon tax and capping deficits below $42 billion. The NDP, meanwhile, balks at Carney’s proposed 7.5% program cuts next year, rising to 15% by 2028, even as defence spending climbs.
If either opposition party votes down the budget, the result is automatic — a new national election barely six months after the last one.
Adding intrigue, Carney also confirmed he personally apologized to Donald Trump for Ontario’s anti-tariff ad that derailed trade talks — a tacit admission that foreign policy turbulence could shadow his economic agenda.
As the budget lands Tuesday, Carney is betting his credibility — and perhaps his premiership — on one gamble: that Canadians are ready for tough medicine, long-term investment, and a leader who dares to call the moment what it is.
“This is not a game,” he said. “This is history in motion.”
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🇨🇦✈️ Bombardier–Saab Alliance Could Bring Fighter Jet Production Back Home
In a move that could redefine Canada’s aerospace industry — and shake up its defence alignment — Bombardier has confirmed it’s in active talks with Sweden’s Saab AB to co-produce the Gripen multirole fighter jet in Canada.
The discussions, first reported by The Globe and Mail, come as Ottawa reviews its $19B F-35 deal with the U.S., a review ordered by Prime Minister Mark Carney amid his broader push to diversify defence procurement and reduce dependence on American suppliers.
“We confirm discussions with Saab about the Gripen,” said Bombardier’s Mark Masluch. “We’re open to providing local expertise if the government decides to go this route.”
A senior federal source confirmed that a joint venture (JV) between the two aerospace giants is being worked out — one that could see thousands of high-skill jobs created at Bombardier’s facilities in Toronto (Pearson) or Dorval, Quebec, or even at a new dedicated site.
For Saab, production capacity is becoming critical: with Ukraine signing a letter of intent to buy up to 150 Gripen-E jets and multiple nations eyeing the model as an F-35 alternative, Sweden wants to license manufacturing abroad. Brazil’s Embraer already produces some Gripens under its 36-jet contract — and Canada could be next.
The geopolitical backdrop is unmistakable. As tensions with Washington mount over trade and procurement, a Bombardier-Saab deal would anchor Canada’s defence industry in a more multipolar framework, deepening ties with Europe’s high-tech manufacturing base while showcasing Canada’s own aerospace muscle.
The Gripen partnership could also dovetail with Saab’s existing collaboration with Bombardier on the GlobalEye surveillance aircraft — built on Bombardier’s Global 6000/6500 platform and capable of detecting threats hundreds of kilometres away.
If approved, this would mark a historic pivot: Canada moving from an F-35 client to a Gripen co-builder — from dependency to quasi industrial autonomy. If approved...don't hold your breath.
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In a move that could redefine Canada’s aerospace industry — and shake up its defence alignment — Bombardier has confirmed it’s in active talks with Sweden’s Saab AB to co-produce the Gripen multirole fighter jet in Canada.
The discussions, first reported by The Globe and Mail, come as Ottawa reviews its $19B F-35 deal with the U.S., a review ordered by Prime Minister Mark Carney amid his broader push to diversify defence procurement and reduce dependence on American suppliers.
“We confirm discussions with Saab about the Gripen,” said Bombardier’s Mark Masluch. “We’re open to providing local expertise if the government decides to go this route.”
A senior federal source confirmed that a joint venture (JV) between the two aerospace giants is being worked out — one that could see thousands of high-skill jobs created at Bombardier’s facilities in Toronto (Pearson) or Dorval, Quebec, or even at a new dedicated site.
For Saab, production capacity is becoming critical: with Ukraine signing a letter of intent to buy up to 150 Gripen-E jets and multiple nations eyeing the model as an F-35 alternative, Sweden wants to license manufacturing abroad. Brazil’s Embraer already produces some Gripens under its 36-jet contract — and Canada could be next.
The geopolitical backdrop is unmistakable. As tensions with Washington mount over trade and procurement, a Bombardier-Saab deal would anchor Canada’s defence industry in a more multipolar framework, deepening ties with Europe’s high-tech manufacturing base while showcasing Canada’s own aerospace muscle.
The Gripen partnership could also dovetail with Saab’s existing collaboration with Bombardier on the GlobalEye surveillance aircraft — built on Bombardier’s Global 6000/6500 platform and capable of detecting threats hundreds of kilometres away.
If approved, this would mark a historic pivot: Canada moving from an F-35 client to a Gripen co-builder — from dependency to quasi industrial autonomy. If approved...don't hold your breath.
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