Financial News on Canada/Kanata

The third largest trading partner of the USA (after Europe and Mexico). And very friendly to the USA (well, before His Royal Orangeness. Wikipedia: Canada,

• Canada: a socialist paradise lost: a stagnant economy, government and household debt, a weak Canadian dollar
  - American Thinker, 21 October 2025

• Canada has threatened legal action against carmaker Stellantis NV over what Ottawa says is the company's unacceptable plan to shift production of one model to a United States plant [to appease Trump]. On Wednesday, Minister of Industry Melanie Joly sent a letter to Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa noting that the company had agreed to maintain its Canadian presence in exchange for substantial socialist financial support.
  - Al Jazeera, 16 October 2025

• To appease Trump, automaker Stellantis to shift production from Canada to the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 October 2025

• Canada's boycott of products from the USA, because of Trump's trade war with Canada, is hurting innocent bystanders. Fewer people from Canada are visting the USA, hurting tourist businesses in the USA. Bans on alcohol from the USA is hurting alcohol businesses in the USA.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 October 2025

• Air Canada is offering free beer and wine to economy class passengers on all its flights - making it the only North American legacy carrier to do so. This burst of bonhomie is not as altruistic as it might seem; it is a sweetener following passenger pushback about additional fees for extra baggage and legroom, reports Reuters.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 11 October 2025

• Lawrence Bishnoi, an alleged multinational criminal in jail in Bharat, is now accused of organizing terrorist acts in Canada against Sikh dissidents
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 October 2025

• The premier of Alberta, Canada, Danielle Smith, proposes a new pipeline through British Colombia. Opposition, however, has been swift. The Premier of British Columbia said that "The problem that we have is Smith continues to advance a project that is taxpayer-funded, has no private sector proponent [i.e., socialist subsidy for the oil industry], is not a real project and is incredibly alarming to British Columbians, especially First Nations people along the coast." Indeed, a representative of several coastal First Nations said they would not support a new pipeline project "now or ever".
  - OilPrice.com, 02 October 2025

• [KM: Another nationalist socialist industrial policy from the authoritarian Trump:] the government of the USA is taking a 5% stake in Lithium Americas, a company based in Canada, and a 5% stake in the company's Nevada mining project, restructuring a socialist $2.26 billion USA government loan agreement from 2024.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 October 2025

• Hours after Canada announced on Thursday that it had ordered its beleaguered postal service to end door-to-door mail service, shut down some rural post offices and consolidate its operations, postal workers began a walkout.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 September 2025

• Trump imposes a 25% tax/tariff on imports of heavy trucks, starting October 1st. México is the largest supplier of medium- and heavy-duty trucks to the U.S., followed by Canada, Nihon, Deutschland, and Turkey.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 September 2025

• Canada, France and the United Kingdom officially recognize Palestine as a state, upsetting Jewish Israel and the Christian USA, but these three countries continue to send weapons to Jewish Israel to continue its killing of people ... in Palestine
  - The Intercept, 25 September 2025

• Canada needs to chart a new economic course, the Bank of Canada's Tiff Macklem argues. Canada faces a stark choice, according to Canada's chief central banker: either cope with the reduction of income due to Trump's protectionisttrade policy, or implement economic reforms and build infrastructure that can lift living standards.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 September 2025

• The United Kindom, Australia, Canada and Portugal to recognize a state for the Islamic Palestinian people, [justice opposed by Jewish Israel and the Christian USA]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 September 2025

• Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom formally recognize statehood for mostly Islamic Palestine, due to the horror inflicted upon Islamic Gaza by Jewish Israel (which is strongly supported by the Christian USA)
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 September 2025

• Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom formally recognize statehood for mostly Islamic Palestine, due to the horror inflicted upon Islamic Gaza by Jewish Israel (which is strongly supported by the Christian USA)
  - Comcast's CNBC, 21 September 2025

• Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom formally recognize statehood for mostly Islamic Palestine, due to the horror inflicted upon Islamic Gaza by Jewish Israel (which is strongly supported by the Christian USA)
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 21 September 2025

• Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom formally recognize statehood for mostly Islamic Palestine, due to the horror inflicted upon Islamic Gaza by Jewish Israel (which is strongly supported by the Christian USA)
  - Al Jazeera, 21 September 2025

• Not understanding patriotism, Trump puppet and USA ambassador to Canada, Peter Hoekstra, states that he is disappointed that people in Canada are not very passionate about the USA, for not being MAGA.
  - The Daily Beast, 21 September 2025

• The leaders of Canada and México talk trade and security without the presence of the USA. Looming over the discussions was the desire to preserve the countries' free-trade agreement with the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 September 2025

• The leaders of Canada and México talk trade and security without the presence of the USA. Looming over the discussions was the desire to preserve the countries' free-trade agreement with the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 September 2025

• Thanks to the political attacks of the 'good' Christian Trump, some Americans travelling in Canada are pretending to be Canadians so that local people won't hate them, to avoid anti-American sentiment abroad under the Trump administration. Which very upsets people in Canada when the Americans doing this are detected.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 19 September 2025

• The Bank of Canada cuts rates by 0.25% to 2.50%, as expected. This was the 8th consecutive rate cut since the easing cycle started one year ago, and took place after the bank paused following its last rate cut in March, 6 months ago.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 September 2025

• The Bank of Canada cuts rates by 0.25% to 2.50%, as expected. This was the 8th consecutive rate cut since the easing cycle started one year ago, and took place after the bank paused following its last rate cut in March, 6 months ago.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 September 2025

• Feed millers in Vietnam are taking advantage of bargain prices with rare purchases of canola meal from Canada, after Zhōngguó, its traditional buyer, curbed imports by imposing hefty anti-dumping duties earlier this year
  - Zero Hedge, 15 September 2025

• A sharp drop in USA soybean exports to Zhōngguó, due to Trump's trade war with Zhōngguó, could impact more than just farmers - it may soon begin putting pressure on trucking jobs, rail shipments, and port operations across the country
  - FreightWaves, 15 September 2025

• Barrick sells last gold mine in Canada for up to $1.09 billion. Barrick Mining is selling its Hemlo gold mine in Canada to investment firm Carcetti Capital for up to $1.09 billion as the metals giant streamlines its portfolio.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 September 2025

• The mining megadeal shows the world is crazy for copper. The metal is at the nexus of two new megatrends: artificial intelligence and rising military spending.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 September 2025

• Two mining giants, Anglo American of Britain and Teck Resources of Canada, agreed on Tuesday to merge into a $53 billion corporation, creating a powerhouse copper producer in a deal that could reshape the industry. Previously, Teck had sold its coal operations to Glencore.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 September 2025

• Two mining giants, Anglo American of Britain and Teck Resources of Canada, agreed on Tuesday to merge into a $53 billion corporation, creating a powerhouse copper producer in a deal that could reshape the industry. Previously, Teck had sold its coal operations to Glencore.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 September 2025

• Canada's battle with Trump could boost its stocks. Where to invest now. Canada plans to reboot its economy to fortify against Trump's trade war and taxes/tariffs. Its stocks could emerge stronger.
  - Barron's, 06 September 2025

• The unemployment rate in Canada rises to 7.1% as Trump's taxes/tariffs hurt the economy of Canada. Persistent uncertainty around Trump's hostile trade policy has kept businesses in Canada on tenterhooks, discouraging hiring.
  - Al Jazeera, 05 September 2025

• Flight attendants working for Air Canada reject a wage offer from management. Management had offered a 12 percent wage increase for those with five years on the job or less, and 8 percent for those with more than six.
  - Al Jazeera, 05 September 2025

• Canada's main oil-producing province of Alberta is considering a financial investment in the oil refining industry in Nihon, an attempt to reduce its overwhelming dependence on top trade partner the USA for oil exports
  - Thomson's Reuters, 25 August 2025

• The authoritarian Trump "thou shalt not" lies that lumber from Canada pose a national security threat, to impost taxes/tariffs. Competitive threat? Yes. National security? No. Lumber producers in British Columbia are preparing on a new assault on Canada's struggling lumber industry.
  - CBC News, 25 August 2025

• Many Air Canada flight attendants are dissatisfied with wage increases in a tentative agreement that ended a crippling strike earlier this week and union members may not approve the deal
  - Thomson's Reuters, 22 August 2025

• Canada is eliminating retaliatory taxes/tariffs to match USA tax/tariff exemptions for products covered under the USA-Mexico-Canada trade pact
  - Associated Press, 22 August 2025

• Canada is eliminating retaliatory taxes/tariffs to match USA tax/tariff exemptions for products covered under the USA-Mexico-Canada trade pact
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 August 2025

• Canada is eliminating retaliatory taxes/tariffs to match USA tax/tariff exemptions for products covered under the USA-Mexico-Canada trade pact
  - Bloomberg, 22 August 2025

• Some metal dealers in the USA are redirecting shipments of scrap copper travelling to Zhōngguó instead through countries including Canada, México and Vietnam in a risky move to avoid 10% import tariffs
  - Bloomberg, 22 August 2025

• One reason flight attendents went on strike at Air Canada was the issue of boarding pay. Most airlines don't start paying flight attendants until the plane doors are shut. The attendants do not get paid for the work done on the ground before and after flights take off and land. Boarding pay is fairly new in part because flight attendants have not had enough bargaining power in recent decades to get airlines to agree to it.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 August 2025

• Air Canada strike ends after airline and flight attendants reach tentative agreement
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 August 2025

• Air Canada strike ends after airline and flight attendants reach tentative agreement
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 19 August 2025

• Springfield, Ohio, faces a future without immigrant workers from Haiti, because of the racist immigration policies of their racist idol, Trump. Now Trump's racist policies are forcing many of these workers to leave Springfield, hurting businesses. [Next time, don't vote for a racist.]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 August 2025

• Government orders striking Air Canada flight attendants to return to work. Their union criticizes move less than 12 hours after start of action that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 August 2025

• Government orders striking Air Canada flight attendants to return to work. Their union criticizes move less than 12 hours after start of action that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded.
  - The Guardian, 16 August 2025

• The government of Canada issues a directive ordering striking flight attendents to resume working for Air Canada, with flights restarting on the next day
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 16 August 2025

• Flight attendants working for Air Canada begin their strike, crippling the airline. Ahead of the work stoppage, the airline said it had canceled most of the 700 flights that it directly operates, which carry about 130,000 people each day.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 August 2025

• Flight Attendants working for Air Canada begin their strike, crippling the airline. Ahead of the work stoppage, the airline said it had canceled most of the 700 flights that it directly operates, which carry about 130,000 people each day.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 August 2025

• About 10,000 flight Attendants working for Air Canada begin their strike, crippling the airline. Ahead of the work stoppage, the airline said it had canceled most of the 700 flights that it directly operates, which carry about 130,000 people each day.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 August 2025

• The alcohol industry in the USA is suffering greatly from the boycott of their products by consumers in Canada who are outraged at Trump's attacks and trade war against Canada
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 August 2025

• Exports of alcoholic products to Canada plunge more than 60% as fury over Trump taxes/tariffs sparks boycott
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 14 August 2025

• Air Canada, the biggest airline in Canada, is poised to start canceling several dozen flights Thursday ahead of a weekend lockout of flight attendants that threatens to throw travel plans for tens of thousands into chaos during the peak summer season.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 14 August 2025

• Air Canada, the biggest airline in Canada, is poised to start canceling several dozen flights Thursday ahead of a weekend lockout of flight attendants that threatens to throw travel plans for tens of thousands into chaos during the peak summer season.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 August 2025

• Farmers in Canada are suffering financially after Zhōngguó's decision to impose hefty duties on their canola seed, after the surprise move spooked grain buyers into halting purchases and stoked worries there will be little demand for crop deliveries this autumn
  - Thomson's Reuters, 13 August 2025

• "Profound and abiding rage": the response of Canada to abandonment by the USA under the authoritarian Trump
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 August 2025

• Trump's war on Canada: a CEO of a steel company in Canada says that Trump's taxes/tariffs could end steels exports from Canada to the USA. "Once the full effect of (Trump's taxes/tariffs) plays out, it will effectively lock out Algoma and frankly other Canadian steel producers from the USA market."
  - Zero Hedge, 10 August 2025

• Analysts in Canada are expressing cautious optimism after the prime minister announced $1.2 billion in socialist federal support for the struggling softwood lumber industry, one of the largest employers in British Columbia. This includes $700 million in loan guarantees for forestry companies and $500 million, largely in grants and contributions, to spur product development and market diversification for the hard-hit industry and millions for retraining lumber workers.
  - CBC News, 05 August 2025

• Despite Trump imposing high taxes/tariffs on imports from México and Canada, 85% such imports are have no taxes/tariffs because they comply with the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement - negotiated by Trump.
  - Associated Press, 05 August 2025

• Why Canada is not suffering from the authoritarian Trump's mob tactics. Trump's 'The gang that couldn't govern straight": under Trump, Canada's most-favored-nation status endures, suckers!
  - Rolling Stone, 05 August 2025

• The $9 billion a year bourbon industry in Kentucky is in crisis, as younger people drink less hard alcohol, Canada and Europe impose import taxes on bourbon in response to Trump's taxes/tariffs, and as the industry deals with recent years of over-production
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 05 August 2025

• Popular whiskey and bourbon distilleries in Kentucky are filing for bankruptcy
  - Parade, 05 August 2025

• The government of Canada will give the lumber industry up to $870 million in socialist subsidies to help the industry manage their losses from Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Thomson's Reuters, 05 August 2025

• The Canadian team working on a trade deal with the USA could walk away from talks in the wake of a U.S. decision to impose a 35% tariff on some goods from Canada, an adviser to Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 01 August 2025

• Trump TACOs the world on taxes/tariffs, except for one country he hates - Canada
  - The Daily Beast (locked), 01 August 2025

• TACO Trump grants a 90-day extension on the current tax/tariff deal, while imposing a 35% tax/tariff on Canada (one of the USA's biggest economic partner and ally)
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 August 2025

• Trump threatens to end trade talks with Canada, as Canada announces that it will recognize a Palestinian state
  - Zero Hedge, 31 July 2025

• Canada will recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly. Canada joins France and Britain in taking similar steps, after months of increasing criticism of Israel by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 July 2025

• Trump trade deals threaten the vital auto industry of Canada. Recent pacts with Britain, Europe and Nihon mean that autos exported from those countries and regions face lower import taxes/tariffs in the USA than do import of vehicles imported from Canada
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 July 2025

• The Bank of Canada did not change its main interest rate at 2.75%, while signaling another rate reduction might be necessary should conditions weaken further and inflation moderates.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 July 2025

• A company based in Canada finds large oil reserves in Poland
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 July 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada, especially Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports of lumber, by the year 2027 could add $14,000 to the cost of building a home
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 22 July 2025

• Canada acts to block imports of steel from Zhōngguó, steel that is now being blocked out of import into the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 July 2025

• Australia is close to a deal to export canola oil to Zhōngguó, replacing some/much of the canola oil that Zhōngguó imports from Canada
  - Thomson's Reuters, 16 July 2025

• International buyers, led by people from Zhōngguó and Canada, purchased $56 billion worth of homes in 1 year in the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 16 July 2025

• Elon Musk panics: Tesla sales are so abysmal in Canada (which is being attacked by Musk's former buddy Trump) that Elon Musk has made the drastic choice to dramatically lower the price of the new Model Y as it attempts to rebuild sales
  - Futurism, 14 July 2025

• Canada unites against the USA of Trump. "He is nuts, your Trump." The authoritarian Trump's attacks on Canada are unnecessary and undeserved. Canada is (or was, before Trump's attacks) the best ally of the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 July 2025

• The Calgary Stampede is one of the biggest annual rodeos in the world
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 July 2025

• Thanks to Trump, about 60% of people in Canada consider the USA as the biggest threat to Canada
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 11 July 2025

• Trump relies on a lie to threaten new 35% taxes/tariff on some imports from Canada- the lie being that Canada is a big source of supply for fentanyl, a lie repeatedly discredited
  - Comcast's MSNBC, 11 July 2025

• Trump threatens new 35% taxes/tariff on some imports from Canada. The new taxes/tariffs would exempt, for now, goods compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 July 2025

• In an "unhinged letter peppered with random capital letters and catty insults", the authoritarian Trump annoucnes taxes/tariffs of 35% on imports from Canada, starting August 1st, and threatens higher taxes/tariffs if Canada retaliates. Trump lies to justify the 'national security threat' to justify the taxes/tariffs, using the lie that Canada is allowing a lot of fentanyl to be smuggled into the USA - a lie which has been repeatedly disproved.
  - The Daily Beast, 11 July 2025

• The authoritarian Trump annoucnes taxes/tariffs of 35% on imports from Canada, starting August 1st, and threatens higher taxes/tariffs if Canada retaliates. Trump lies to justify the 'national security threat' to justify the taxes/tariffs, using the lie that Canada is allowing a lot of fentanyl to be smuggled into the USA - a lie which has been repeatedly disproved.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 July 2025

• Hims & Hers to offer generic semaglutide (the popular weight loss drug) in Canada as Novo Nordisk patent lapses
  - Comcast's CNBC, 09 July 2025

• Canada begins shipping natural gas to Asia to reduce its dependence on sales to the hostile USA under Trump
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 July 2025

• The manufacturing sector of Canada faces a sharp decline due to Trump's taxes/tariffs and trade war with Canada
  - Zero Hedge, 07 July 2025

• The prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, wants to accelerate the implementation of projects to build up the economy of Canada. Indigenous groups want a role in such government planning, since some of their ancestral lands will be needed for these projects. Pretty much ignored in the past during such government activities, indigenous leaders will no longer accept being ignored.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 July 2025

• Julian Cheng, an expert in optical and RF communications, leaves his professorship at the University of British Colombia to become a profesor at the Great Bay University in the south of Zhōngguó
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 02 July 2025

• As Canada exports less to the USA because of Trump's tax/tariff trade war, can Canada increase the amount of local consumption of its manufactured products (the same problem that Zhōngguó is trying to solve)?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 July 2025

• While Christian Republicans in Florida remove flouride from water supplies, the city of Calgary in Canada is restoring flouride in its water supplies (removed in 2011) because the removal worsened dental health in children (as it willin Florida).
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 July 2025

• Republicans in Oklahona end recommendations to add flouride to state water supplies, for some reason, want to worsen the dental health of children
  - Zero Hedge, 01 July 2025

• Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance stalled trade talks with USA
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 30 June 2025

• Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance stalled trade talks with USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 June 2025

• Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance stalled trade talks with USA
  - Zero Hedge, 30 June 2025

• Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance stalled trade talks with USA
  - Comcast's CNBC, 30 June 2025

• The authoritarian Trump bashes Canada in another mad diary rant: a "very nasty" country
  - The Daily Beast, 30 June 2025

• Europe is recruiting academics disenchanted with the USA and Trump administration. The UK, France and other countries have set up funds to help USA researchers relocate to research institutions in Europe.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 June 2025

• The University of Toronto has attracted several professors from the USA amid turmoil between American higher-education institutions and the authoritarian Trump administration. Other universities and businesses in Canada are attracting scientists and engineers from the USA as well.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 June 2025

• The contraction of the economy in Canada likely continued through May, after a 0.1% decline in GDP in April. The fallout from Trump's trade war is now showing clearly in the economy of Canada.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 June 2025

• The Canadian dollar declines as Trump suddenly "terminates" all trade talks with Canada, and threatens new taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada
  - Zero Hedge, 27 June 2025

• Trump said Friday he was suspending trade talks with Canada and would announce within a week a higher tax/tariff rate on imports from Canada. Trump said he was cutting off negotiations with Canada after its government confirmed it would keep in place a digital services tax on extremely rich Big Tech companies despite a recent G7 agreement on such taxes. Canada is requiring the first payment of its tech tax on Monday, which will charge 3 percent of revenues above $14.57 million.
  - The Hill, 27 June 2025

• Trump said Friday he was suspending trade talks with Canada and would announce within a week a higher tax/tariff rate on imports from Canada. Trump said he was cutting off negotiations with Canada after its government confirmed it would keep in place a digital services tax on extremely rich Big Tech companies despite a recent G7 agreement on such taxes. Canada is requiring the first payment of its tech tax on Monday, which will charge 3 percent of revenues above $14.57 million.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 June 2025

• Trump said Friday he was suspending trade talks with Canada and would announce within a week a higher tax/tariff rate on imports from Canada. Trump said he was cutting off negotiations with Canada after its government confirmed it would keep in place a digital services tax on extremely rich Big Tech companies despite a recent G7 agreement on such taxes. Canada is requiring the first payment of its tech tax on Monday, which will charge 3 percent of revenues above $14.57 million.
  - HuffPost, 27 June 2025

• Canada is trying to solve a huge economic problem due to too many regulations and restrictions that apply to cross-border trade between provinces in Canada. Over the long run, if all barriers on goods and services were dismantled, the economy of Canada could grow between 4.4 and 7.9 percent, one economist has estimated.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 June 2025

• Canada is considering to increase taxes/tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the USA, starting July 21, if trade talks with Trump stall. Currently, USA taxes/tariffs are 50%, while Canada imposes taxes/tariffs of 25%.
  - Bloomberg, 19 June 2025

• Canada is considering to increase taxes/tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the USA, starting July 21, if trade talks with Trump stall. Currently, USA taxes/tariffs are 50%, while Canada imposes taxes/tariffs of 25%.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 June 2025

• Bharat and Canada signaled a reset of relations on Tuesday, agreeing to reestablish high commissions in each other's capitals, after nearly two years of strained ties following Canada's accusations that Bharat was allegedly involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist on the soil of Canada.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 June 2025

• Trump wants to obtain trade deals with Canada. He is unlikely to obtain them. Canada and G7 allies are less interested in the needs of Trump.
  - Politico, 15 June 2025

• The UK, Deutschland and Canada have greatly reduced foreign aid this year, deepening damage done by the USA greatly reducing its foreign aid
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 12 June 2025

• Unemployment rises to 7% in Canada, due in part to Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Zero Hedge, 11 June 2025

• The United Kingdom, Canada and Western allies imposes historic sanctions on hardline ministers in Israel, for their abuse of people in Gaza, an non-Tikun-ish abuse supported by the USA
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 June 2025

• As measles spreads across the Americas, outbreaks in México and Canada have also turned deadly
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 June 2025

• Back in 2012, Gerard Comeau, a power utility lineman, slipped back into his home province of New Brunswick in his Honda Accord with a trunk full of cheap beer bought in Quebec. The police stopped him, confiscated the beer and fined him for bringing too much of it into New Brunswick. His arrest raised many questions. Didn't Canada's founding Constitution Act guarantee free trade across the land? Why were there so many barriers inside Canada, with each province and territory acting like fiefdoms? Why was it easier for a brewery in Quebec to export to France than to neighboring New Brunswick? Was Canada even a real country? Because of his arrest, and fight for justice, trade barriers across Canada are being eliminated.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 June 2025

• Bank of Canada maintains interest rates at 2.75% as expected, as it waits to see impact of Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Zero Hedge, 04 June 2025

• Bank of Canada maintains interest rates at 2.75% as expected, as it waits to see impact of Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 June 2025

• How higher tariffs on steel and aluminum will affect companies
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 June 2025

• Higher taxes/tariffs take effect today on imports of steel and aluminum. The taxes/tariffs, which rose to 50 percent from 25 percent, have already rankled close allies that sell metal to the USA, including Canada and the European Union.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 June 2025

• Trump's 50% tariffs on most imported steel and aluminum went into effect on Wednesday, the same day as his deadline for trading partners to give their "best offers" in bids to avoid import tax rates on other goods from taking effect next month.
  - Murdoch's Fox Business, 04 June 2025

• A fungus devastated bats in North America. A new species of fungus could deliver a killer blow. Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States and Canada. The new fungus might be from Ukraine. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, American spelunkers made contact with their Ukrainian counterparts and started exploring a maze of caves in the Podillia region of Ukraine. Speculations are that spore-riddled mud could have stuck to a expolrer's gear and survived a trip back to the USA. That explorer may have then unwittingly transported the spore to a New York cave on a boot or a rope, setting off a new epidemic.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 June 2025

• A 355-year-old company that once owned one-third of Canada is shutting down. Bargain hunters picked over what was left at the remaining stores of the Hudson Bay Company, part of a vast empire that was the oldest corporation in North America.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 June 2025

• Smoke from wildfires in Canada are creating unhealthy air for several states in the USA
  - Disney's ABC News, 02 June 2025

• Wildfires are raging in the prairies of Canada. Here is what to know. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are already seeing air quality deteriorate because of smoke from the fires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 June 2025

• Wildfires in Alberta force the shutdown of about 7% of the oil production in Canada. The loss of supplies from the world's fourth-largest oil producer comes at a time when heavy crude supplies already are strained.
  - Bloomberg, 02 June 2025

• Wildfires in Alberta force the shutdown of about 7% of the oil production in Canada. The loss of supplies from the world's fourth-largest oil producer comes at a time when heavy crude supplies already are strained.
  - Zero Hedge, 02 June 2025

• Wildfires in Alberta, Canada, threaten the ouput oil from oil sands well sites that produce 459,000 barrels of oil daily. Canada is the largest foreign oil supplier to the U.S., accounting for approximately 60% of total crude imports, with the vast majority of that coming from Alberta's oil sands.
  - Zero Hedge, 31 May 2025

• The European Union is "prepared to impose countermeasures" after Trump doubles the taxes/tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%. The United Steelworkers union also criticized Trump's announcement and said it is a "direct attack on industries and workers in Canada."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 31 May 2025

• A sharp increase in steel/aluminum taxes/tariffs to 50% by Trump could imperil Trump's promise of lower grocery prices, since steel and aluminum are ubiquitous in packaging of consumer products
  - Comcast's CNBC, 31 May 2025

• Massive wildfires burning out of control in western and central Canada are forcing thousands to flee as dire forecasts for the fire season in Canada come to fruition. The intensifying blazes are also beginning to send hazardous smoke toward major cities in the United States.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 29 May 2025

• How Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports of lumber could worsen the affordability of homes in the USA. The USA currently imposes a 14.5% tax on lumber imported from Canada, and Canada accounts for about 85% of all softwood lumber imports into the USA, representing almost a quarter of USA supply. That tax/tariff rate could jump to 34.5% later this year following a regulatory review by the Department of Commerce, further disrupting a sector already reeling from material costs and labor shortages.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 21 May 2025

• People in Canada fear that Trump's taxes/tariffs will create a 'ghost town' in the province of Ontario. Trump's taxes/tariffs on auto parts are already causing job losses in Windsor, Ontario, the heart of an industry that makes components for vehicles bound for the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 May 2025

• Trump's tax/tariff war and attacks on Canada haved stalled negotiations over a 60-year-old treaty between Canada and United States regarding water rights in the Columbia River basin, which could have large implications on flood control and hydroelectricity throughout the Pacific Northwest.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 May 2025

• Robinhood said on Tuesday it will buy Canadian cryptocurrency firm WonderFi for C$250 million ($178.98 million), as the popular commission-free brokerage looks to expand its international footprint.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 13 May 2025

• Delta Airliens and Korean Air agree to buy stakes in Canada's WestJet for $550 million. The investment comes at a shaky moment for travel between Canada and the USA, with people in Canada taking fewer trips to the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 May 2025

• Buyers in Zhōngguó bought between 400,000 and 500,000 metric tons of wheat from Australia and Canada in recent weeks, traders said, as heat threatens to damage crops in the agricultural heartlands of Zhōngguó. Buyer in Zhōngguó have avoided buying wheat from the USA due to Trump's tax/tariff trade war against Zhōngguó.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 09 May 2025

• Ontario to debut the world's first small modular reactor. Officials have granted final approval for the construction of a small modular reactor developed by GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 May 2025

• A group representing General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, blasted Trump's trade deal announced with the United Kingdom, saying it would financially harm the auto sector of the USA. British carmakers will be given a quota of 100,000 cars a year that can be sent to the United States at a 10% tariff rate, almost the total Britain exported last year, compared to 25% for México and Canada and nearly all other countries. "Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little USA content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from México or Canada that is half American parts."
  - Thomson's Reuters, 08 May 2025

• A group representing General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, blasted Trump's trade deal announced with the United Kingdom, saying it would financially harm the auto sector of the USA. British carmakers will be given a quota of 100,000 cars a year that can be sent to the United States at a 10% tariff rate, almost the total Britain exported last year, compared to 25% for México and Canada and nearly all other countries. "Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little USA content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from México or Canada that is half American parts."
  - The Hill, 08 May 2025

• A fact-checker at CNN observes the two enormous "thou shalt not" lies by Trump in his meeting with the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney
  - Huff Post, 07 May 2025

• As the negative impact of Trump's taxes/tariffs starting hurting companies, companies in Canada start switching the sales and marketing from the USA to new markets
  - Thomson's Reuters, 06 May 2025

• Thousands of people in Panama march to protest against an increased USA military presence near the Panama Canal, and a copper mine project owned by a company based in Canada
  - Tico Times, 06 May 2025

• Another "thou shalt not" lie from the Christian Trump: Trump claims that the USA does not do "much business with Canada". A "thou shalt not" lie: Canada is the world's top buyer of products from the USA.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 May 2025

• Trump insults Canada before a meeting with its new prime minister: "We don't need ANYTHING they have."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 06 May 2025

• Trump insults Canada before a meeting with its new prime minister: "We don't need ANYTHING they have."
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 06 May 2025

• Two of the largest players in gasoline distribution are looking to form a marriage, and it could create a ripple effect when consumers head to the pump. Sunoco, which is based in the USA, has announced its intention to purchase Parkland (based in Canada) in a multi-billion-dollar deal that would create a dominating force in the North American petroleum industry. But the deal for Sunoco to acquire its rival in Canada also hinges on regulatory and government approval that could be made harder by the current political rift between the USA and Canada.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 May 2025

• Deep in an abandoned gold mine in Canada, a toxic legacy lurks. Warming permafrost is fanning fears in a town in Canada that tons of lethal arsenic could seep into a nearby river system and spread all the way to the Arctic.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 May 2025

• Many exports from Zhōngguó bound for the USA are being rerouted to Canada to avoid Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports into the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 04 May 2025

• The wait is the price: quiet rationing plagues the health care system of Canada
  - Zero Hedge, 03 May 2025

• After Trump's authoritarianism caused conservatives in Canada (which Trump attacked) an election, conservatives in Australia are worried that they will lose the next election because of Trump's populism and taxes/tariffs on products from Australia making populists/conservatives in Australia ... less popular.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 May 2025

• The newly elected Liberal leader of Canada savages Trump's attacks on Canada after a shocking election victory that the Conservatives were set to win ... before Trump's attacks on Canada
  - The Daily Beast, 29 April 2025

• Mark Carney's Liberals win elections in Canada. The former central banker convinced voters that he was the right candidate to confront Trump's trade war and threats to annex Canada.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 April 2025

• Product label obsession grips Canada as shoppers shun products from the USA. Grocery store trips can take forever when you have to trace the lineage of every can of soup; now, shoppers can use "O SCANada".
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 April 2025

• The million-dollar housing crisis in Canada. Soaring housing costs, with many homes nearing $1 million, have sparked an exodus from cities like Vancouver, and people in Canada want their next prime minister to do address the problem.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 April 2025

• Measles outbreaks in Canada (730+ cases) and México (360+ cases) bring grim prognosis. Surges in Mennonite communities (which prefer natural remedies, not vaccines) near the USA border may complicate containment efforts, experts say.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 April 2025

• People in the USA who live in communities that have long played host to an influx of winter travellers from Canada during the winter months are laying bare the devastating economic impact of the boycott of the USA is having on their local economies, a boycott created Trump's hostile attitudes towards Canada. People from Canada are now seeking out sunshine in places like México -- a move that has dealt a serious economic blow to the American towns and communities they once traveled to.
  - Realtor.com, 17 April 2025

• Trump has signed an executive order on April 15 that directs a wide range of actions to lower the cost of prescription medications, including through the importation of prescription drugs from Canada by the states.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 April 2025

• The Bank of Canada does not reduce interest rates from 2.75%, as expected, and predicts a "significant recession" due to Trump's tax/tariff trade war
  - Zero Hedge, 16 April 2025

• The Bank of Canada does not reduce interest rates from 2.75%, as expected, and predicts a "significant recession" due to Trump's tax/tariff trade war
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 April 2025

• Because of Trump's attacks on Canada, people in Canada are selling their vaction homes in the USA
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 April 2025

• Canada vows to use billions of dollars from tax/trade retaliation to aid its workers and businesses
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 April 2025

• Zhōngguó has bought 52,000 tons of rapeseed meal from Bharat - four times the amount that Zhōngguó imported from Bharat in the whole of 2024, after the government of Zhōngguó imposed a 100% retaliatory tariff on imports from Canada.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 April 2025

• The economy of former-ally Canada is starting to crack under the pressure of Trump's tax/tariff trade war. Expectations of a recession rise along with unemployment as the outlook for consumer demand shrinks.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 April 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs will raise the prices for marijuana buyers in the USA, as importer supplies to grow marijuana and equipment to use marijuana become more expensive
  - Thomson's Reuters, 03 April 2025

• Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada says that his government will impose a tariff on U.S.-made vehicles that are not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, to match what Trump did to the Canadian auto industry on Wednesday. Carney said Trump is dismantling the world trading system and Canada must make a hard pivot to build up its own economy and pursue better relations with "reliable" trading partners, including Commonwealth cousins like Australia and the U.K., but also Mexico, France and other countries in Europe.
  - CBC News, 03 April 2025

• The false claims of Trump about his new taxes/tariffs. This includes lies about dairy exports to Canada, lies about taxes/tariffs already collected from companies in Zhōngguó; and lies about gasoline and inflation.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 03 April 2025

• The Canadian dollar rises to a 4-month high after Trump reveals his new taxes/tariffs
  - Thomson's Reuters, 03 April 2025

• How Wayne Gretsky has become less of a hero in his hometown of Brantford, Ontario, for his support of the authoritarian Trump, who is insulting and financially attacking Canada for no justifiable reason
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 April 2025

• ~$30,000,000 - Company-owned Tesla stores in Canada probably lied to the government of Canada when they said that they sold 8,653 Tesla vehicles in 3 days to claim a socialist subsidy of about $30 million before it expired. Suspicious about any company, especially one hated such as Tesla, selling two cars a minute during a single weekend, the government halted the payments and ordered an investigation.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 March 2025

• Because of Trump's trade war and political threats, people in Canada are cancelling their trips to the USA, which will widen the $50 billion travel deficit that the USA has with foreign countries. The cross-border travel trends and Trump's policies are worrying some in the travel industry in the USA, which draws in more than $1 trillion in direct spending a year. Airlines in Canada and the USA are reducing some routes and flights to the USA.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 29 March 2025

• Stick versus carrot: Trump threatens automakers in the USA, while the prime minister of Canada provides $2 billion in reassurance, a $2 billion fund to boost the Canadian auto manufacturing sector, improve competitiveness and protect local manufacturing jobs. Threats versus charity .
  - Jalopnik, 28 March 2025

• It is hard to keep track of Trump's erratic trade policy, but one firm truth is that, by placing taxes/tariffs on México and Canada, he risks destroying the USMCA, a free-trade deal that he called "the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law". The bitter irony is that by directing tariffs at his North American partners in the USMCA, Trump will only make Zhōngguó, the source of the world's steel crisis, an even bigger winner than it is today. Instead, Trump should team with Canada and México to protect all three countries' steel industries.
  - Real Clear Markets, 28 March 2025

• Trump renders impotent an important law, the Corporate Transparency Act, which targeted drug cartels and other criminals who use shell companies. Why help drug traffickers? Especially when Trump is trying to destroy Canada because of small amounts of fentanyl that pass through Canada to the USA. "Trump is working to weaken legislation passed by Congress that helps law enforcement combat the use of shell companies for financing illicit activities like drug trafficking."
  - CBC News, 27 March 2025

• How the Rossiya-loving Trump destroyed USA relations with Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a blistering speech on Thursday, declaring that the era of deep economic, security and military ties with the USA "is over", after Trump announced steep auto tariffs of 25% on imports into the USA - which could affect an estimated 500,000 jobs in the auto industry in Canada. But Carney will delay retaliation until he sees the exact form of taxes/tariffs imposed by Trump.
  - Zero Hedge, 27 March 2025

• In a late night post, Trump issues more threats to allies: "If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large-scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!"
  - Zero Hedge, 27 March 2025

• Why shares of General Motors are falling the most, after Trump announces new taxes/tariffs on automobile imports. Roughly 30% of GM vehicles sold in the U.S. during the first three quarters of 2024 were assembled in Canada and Mexico. General Motors also relies a lot on imported parts.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 27 March 2025

• Canada has frozen all rebate payments for Tesla and banned the electric-vehicle maker from future EV rebate programs. Canada will also revise eligibility requirements for future EV programs to ensure that Tesla vehicles are not eligible as long as the "illegitimate and illegal taxes/tariffs imposed [by Trump and Musk] against Canada" are in force.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 25 March 2025

• People in Canada rebel against Tesla, and it becomes physical. More than 80 Teslas were damaged in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said, amid other acts of vandalism against the company owned by Elon Musk, who said that "Canada is not a real country".
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 March 2025

• Prime Minister Mark Carney cancels the capital-gains tax increase in Canada. The prime minister fulfilled his promise to cancel a planned increase in Canada's capital-gains tax, just before he is expected to call a snap election for either late April or early May.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 March 2025

• Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, is reinventing himself as one of the staunchest defenders of Canada against the authoritarian Trump's economic and sovereignty threats.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 March 2025

• Can new military spending in Europe help its economies? The political leaders of Europe hope surge of investment, to fill a security void left by Trump's politicies that favor Rossiya, can ignite growth. It will not be easy.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 March 2025

• Menaced by the authoritarian Trump, Canada prepares to join the military industry buildup in the European Union
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 March 2025

• Bullish investors in uranium are getting worried about unknowns from Canada and Rossiya. Amid questions about AI power demand, tariffs and geopolitics, uranium investments have taken a hit.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 March 2025

• The "most European non-European country": Canada turns to allies as Trump threatens with taxes/tariffs. Days after becoming prime minister, Mark Carney visited Paris and London to highlight deep European friendships as his country fights back against Trumps's taxes/tariffs and annexation talk.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 March 2025

• Automobile parts suppliers face more dire economic circumstances than automobile manufacturers amid Trump's taxes/tariffs. Most vehicles produced in North America meet requirements for free trade under the USMCA deal, but far fewer individual supplier parts meet those standards.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 19 March 2025

• Retaliatory taxes/tariffs imposed by Zhōngguó on imports of seafood from Canada, particularly lobsters, have led to a dramatic drop in price, as much as 25%, as exporters in Canada work to keep supply chains moving. Taxes/tariffs imposed by Zhōngguó were in retaliation to taxes/tariffs imposed by Canada in October 2024 on electric vehicles, steel and aluminum imported from Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 19 March 2025

• With consumption of beer declining in the USA, barley farmers with overdue loans and mounting interest payments now have to fear the fallout of Trump's tax/tariff trade war. Canada is the biggest importer of barley from the USA, and México is the third biggest importer. Costs for fertilizer, which is mostly sourced from Canada, will rise with tariffs. Much barley is grown in the states that voted to re-elect Trump.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 18 March 2025

• Companies in the USA won $210 million of contracts with the city of Toronto in the last two years. These companies are now banned from bidding for new contracts, thanks to Trump's idiotic tax/tariff trade war with Canada, as Canada retaliates.
  - CBC News, 17 March 2025

• Toronto excludes Tesla from its electric vehicle incentive due to Trump's trade war with Canada, a trade war supported by Elon Musk, an advisor to Trump
  - Thomson's Reuters, 17 March 2025

• The states that import the most from Canada and México - Montana, North Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Iowa - which will suffer the most from Trump's taxes/tariffs, are the states that helped Trump get re-elected
  - Zero Hedge, 14 March 2025

• The authoritarian Christian Trump, coveting his neighbors properties, intensifies his threats to seize Canada to make it the 51st USA state. Trump reiterated his claims on Canada's territory/property as he increased taxes/tariffs, threatening to cripple the economy of Canada. Such Christian hate and coveting, fully supported by Christian Republicans.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 March 2025

• Trump taxes/tariffs threat are pushing the largest oil producing province in Canada, Alberta, to reduce its dependence on sales to the USA. Most of Canada's oil exported to the USA is from Alberta. Now companies there want to increase their sales to other countries, such as in Asia or Europe
  - Comcast's CNBC, 13 March 2025

• After Trump imposes an import tax/tariff of 25% for aluminum, will hurt the beer industry. When Trump imposed a tax/tariff of 10% in 2018, within one year, it increased costs to beer companies by $250 million. What really irked the Beer Institute was that the import tariff was being passed through even though USA cansheet typically contains around 70% recycled metal sourced domestically.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 12 March 2025

• The Bank of Canada reduces interest rates by 0.25% - as expected - and called the trade battle with Trump a "new crisis", but pushed back on expectations that policymakers were on a predetermined cutting path
  - Zero Hedge, 12 March 2025

• The Bank of Canada reduces interest rates by 0.25% - as expected - and called the trade battle with Trump a "new crisis", but pushed back on expectations that policymakers were on a predetermined cutting path
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 March 2025

• Editorial: how do you like the trade war now, voters for Trump? Trump is furious that Canada is fighting back against his taxes/tariffs, even though he implicitly concedes his trade war with Canada makes no sense.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 March 2025

• Op-Ed: is Trump throwing it all away? His tax/tariff chaos undermines the global standing of the USA just when it would be more useful.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 March 2025

• Trump's own advisors are freaking out about his tax/tariff chaos
  - The Daily Beast, 12 March 2025

• The knives come out: some allies of Trump have become displeased with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to the point where the 63-year-old could end up taking the blame for the decline in the economy. Among the reasons, Politico reported Tuesday, are Lutnick's personality, being a "yes man" and repeatedly getting ahead of - and contradicting - Trump's erratic policies.
  - The Daily Beast, 12 March 2025

• Canada said Wednesday it will impose 25% taxes/tariffs on more than $20 billion worth of products from the USA in retaliation for Trump's steel and aluminum taxes/tariffs that took effect overnight. The new taxes/tariffs cover steel and aluminum, as well as other U.S. goods including computers, sports equipment and cast iron products.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 12 March 2025

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average declines 400 points today after Trump placed additional taxes/tariffs on steel and aluminum coming imported into the USA from Canada
  - Zero Hedge, 11 March 2025

• Futures contract on lumber manufactured in the USA are coming to Wall Street. Southern yellow pine futures will begin trading later this month as prices split from those of Canadian lumber.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 March 2025

• Reciprocal tariffs are a tantrum masquerading as a strategy. Trade wars are not so much a fight but a self-defeating spiral of economic ignorance. Trump does not understand this.
  - Civitas Institute, 10 March 2025

• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on March 9 that Trump is likely to maintain his tariff pressure on Mexico, Canada, and Zhōngguó regarding their role in fentanyl trafficking into the UsA. Which will never happen until the USA addresses its mental health crisis that results in a huge demand for drugs such as fentanyl in the USA.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 March 2025

• Futures prices for canola (rapeseed oil) decline 6% after Zhōngguó imposes 100% tariffs on imports of rapeseed from Canada
  - Zero Hedge, 10 March 2025

• The Liberal Party of Canada chooses Mark Carney to succeed Justin Trudeau. Carney is a former governor of both the Bank of England and Bank of Canada. He vowed to keep retaliatory tariffs on the USA "until [Trump and the Republicans] should us respect. ... With his taxes/tariffs, Trump is attacking families, workers, and businesses in Canada and we cannot let him succeed and we won't.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 March 2025

• The flipflopping Trump threatens a 250% tax/tariff on imports of dairy products from Canada. The newest proposed import tax arrived just a day after the president offered a second one-month reprieve on sweeping tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
  - The Daily Beast, 08 March 2025

• Zhōngguó announces taxes/tariffs on over $2.6 billion worth of agricultural and food products from Canada. Zhōngguó, which imposed taxes/tariffs on imports of canola, peas and pork from Canada, wants Canada and México to resist the pressure of Trump to raise taxes/tariffs on products from Zhōngguó.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 March 2025

• Bourbon from Kentucky is banned, wine from California canceled, as Canada removes from its stores alcohol products from the USA. Provinces in Canada have restricted American alcohol sales as part of retaliatory measures against Trump's taxes/tariffs.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 March 2025

• Hudson's Bay, the oldest retail chain in Canada, nears bankruptcy. Department store operator is planning to file for insolvency after separating from Saks Global.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 March 2025

• $22,700,000,000 - Units of Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco will pay $22.7 billion to settle all smoking-related lawsuits in Canada
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 March 2025

• Zhōngguó announces taxes/tariffs on over $2.6 billion worth of agricultural and food products from Canada, retaliating against taxes/tariffs that Canada introduced in October and opening a new front in a trade war largely driven by Trump's tax/tariff threats
  - Thomson's Reuters, 08 March 2025

• Trump's trade war with the neighbors of the USA is all cost and no benefit. What did we learn from yet another escalation in the North American trade war? Not to do it again, as the stock market crashes. The stock market is as a reflection of what investors believe the economy will look like in the future. It is crashing because investors think the economy will get worse under Trump.
  - Reason, 07 March 2025

• Dan McCrum, a Financial Times reporter who broke open the Wirecard scandal in Europe, is starting to ask critical questions of another company. This time it is Canada's Brookfield, an investment manager with nearly $1 trillion in assets. He notes that the company sells property to itself, potentially inflating earnings, and has recycled $2.8 billion into its real estate arm, obscuring financial health. Its insurers hold $7.7 billion in affiliated assets, including loans to Brookfield's businesses and a stake in a music royalty firm -- which the report indicates is unusual for an insurer. Property valuations remain high despite market declines. Critics, including Veritas Investment Research's Dimitry Khmelnitsky, argue Brookfield is using its insurance businesses to offload assets at inflated prices during a challenging market.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 March 2025

• Canada has blocked imports from the biggest pork processing plant in the USA, a facility run by Smithfield Foods in Tar Heel, North Carolina . The suspension comes as Washington and Ottawa have engaged in a heated dispute over trade taxes/tariffs.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 07 March 2025

• Trump's new taxes/tariffs have thrown the supply chains spanning the USA and Canada into chaos, as businesses grapple with how to disentangle supply chains that have been interconnected for decades.
  - Bloomberg, 07 March 2025

• Consumers in Minnesota, Michigan and New York will have to pay more for electricity, as Canada imposes taxes/tariffs on exports of electricity, in response to Trump imposing taxes/tariffs on imports f;5Drom Canada
  - The Daily Beast, 06 March 2025

• After everyone in industrial America complains about his taxes/tariffs, Trump exempts these taxes/tariffs on USMCA-complaint goods (all the important ones) until April 2nd. "Hopefully México and Canada will have done a good enough job on fentanyl that this part of the conversation will be off the table.", even though Canada is barely used as a route to smuggle fentanyl into the USA.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 March 2025

• After everyone in industrial America complains about his taxes/tariffs, Trump exempts these taxes/tariffs on USMCA-complaint goods (all the important ones) until April 2nd. "Hopefully México and Canada will have done a good enough job on fentanyl that this part of the conversation will be off the table.", even though Canada is barely used as a route to smuggle fentanyl into the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 March 2025

• After everyone in industrial America complains about his taxes/tariffs, Trump exempts these taxes/tariffs on USMCA-complaint goods (all the important ones) until April 2nd. "Hopefully México and Canada will have done a good enough job on fentanyl that this part of the conversation will be off the table.", even though Canada is barely used as a route to smuggle fentanyl into the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 March 2025

• Trump lies that banks based in the USA cannot do business in Canada. That is not true - though it is a tough market to break into - and banks in the USA aren't even that interested in expanding into Canada beyond the financial services they already provide.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 March 2025

• As Trump's taxes/tariffs become reality, businesses in Canada prepare for economic pain. An expert in the automotive industry says factories may shut down in days as costs skyrocket and Trump disrupts decades of economic integration with steep taxes/tariffs.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 March 2025

• The CEO of Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel's whiskey, said that provinces in Canada taking alcohol products in the USA off of store shelves in Canada was "worse than a tax/tariff" and a "disproportionate response" to taxes/tariffs imposed by Trump. The CEO, Lawson Whiting, didn't comment that Trump's taxes/tariffs on Canada are a "disproportionate response".
  - Comcast's CNBC, 05 March 2025

• Trump, after bipartisan attacks on his taxes/tariffs, announces a 1-month delay on taxes/tariffs on imports from México and Canada related to the automobile industry
  - Nextstar Media's The Hill, 05 March 2025

• Trump, after bipartisan attacks on his taxes/tariffs, announces a 1-month delay on taxes/tariffs on imports from México and Canada related to the automobile industry
  - The New York Times, 05 March 2025

• As reality sets in on Trump, the Trump administration announces that it could reduce new taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, as the ecnoomy and stock market tanks due to Trump's mismanagement
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 March 2025

• Trump threatens increased tariffs if Canada retaliates to Trump's taxes/tariffs with taxes/tariffs on imports from the USA.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 March 2025

• Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, reveals the real reason Trump wants to start a "dumb" trade war with Canada. Trudeau called Trump's explicit "thou shalt not" lie -- that the 25 percent import tax is meant to stanch the flow of fentanyl into the USA -- is "completely bogus". "What he wants to see is a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that will make it easier to annex us. That will never happen. We will never be the 51st state." of the USA
  - The Daily Beast, 04 March 2025

• Lindt to supply chocolate to Canada from its factories from Europe, instead of from its factories in the USA, in response to Canada's taxes/tariffs on imports from the USA in response to Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada. Once again, Trump hurts workers in the USA.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 04 March 2025

• Trump's new taxes/tariffs could quickly reduce automobile production in North America by a third, a loss of 20,000 vehicles a day not produced, as automakers attempt to mitigate increased costs and buyers hold off on purchasing new cars and trucks
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 March 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs will wipe out all profits for the Big Three authormakers if they do not raise prices, estimates Barclays
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 March 2025

• The Dow drops 700 points, and Nasdaq drop in correction territory (down 1.9% to a recent 10% decline), as Trump's taxes/tariffs on key trade partners took effect and prompted retaliatory measures, triggering a global trade war and escalating fears of the national economy cracking
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 March 2025

• Editorial: Trump takes the dumbest plunge into a tax/tariff trade war. Trump to be president.]]
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 March 2025

• The trading desk at JPMorgan turns "tactically bearish" on fears of a recession caused by Trump's new taxes/tariffs
  - Zero Hedge, 04 March 2025

• Trump orders higher taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada (25%), México (25%) and Zhōngguó (20%) starting today. Canada and Zhōngguó immediately retaliate with their increased taxes/tariffs on imports from the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada, México and Zhōngguó take effect. Canada responded with plans to impose 25% tariffs on nearly $100 billion of imports from the USA, and Mexico's president said it would also retaliate, with a range of moves to be announced Sunday. Zhōngguó swiftly announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural goods, and other measures against American companies. Beijing also filed a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 March 2025

• Zhōngguó and Canada immediately retaliate against Trump's latest taxes/tariffs. Zhōngguó's retaliatory tariffs followed a "restrained, targeted approach aimed at causing pain to those industries that matter the most to the supporters of the Trump administration", especially taxes/tariffs on agricultural products from states that voted for Trump. Canada immediately imposed tariffs on $30 billion of products from the USA, and by the end of March, will impose tariffs on an additional $125 billion worth of products from the USA.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 04 March 2025

• Zhōngguó and Canada immediately retaliate against Trump's latest taxes/tariffs. Zhōngguó's retaliatory tariffs followed a "restrained, targeted approach aimed at causing pain to those industries that matter the most to the supporters of the Trump administration", especially taxes/tariffs on agricultural products from states that voted for Trump. Canada immediately imposed tariffs on $30 billion of products from the USA, and by the end of March, will impose tariffs on an additional $125 billion worth of products from the USA.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 04 March 2025

• Zhōngguó retaliates against Trump's new taxes/tariffs with reciprocal taxes/tariffs and sanctions on some companies in the USA. Agriculture products and defence-linked technology companies are hit with import duties and export restrictions.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 04 March 2025

• Zhōngguó retaliates against Trump's new taxes/tariffs. The set of measures, including taxes/tariffs on farm products from the USA, have been measured and targeted, suggesting Beijing is leaving room for talks with Trump.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 March 2025

• Zhōngguó retaliates with additional tariffs of up to 15% on some products from the USA, starting March 10. The additional taxes/tariffs for imports into Zhōngguó largely cover agricultural goods exported from the USA, including corn and soybeans, which will be subject to new duties of 15% and 10%, respectively. In 2023, the USA exported $22 billion worth of soybeans to Zhōngguó.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2025

• Trump turns up trade pressure on Zhōngguó after Beijing refuses to kowtow to his demands
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2025

• Global stock markeets declined on Tuesday as Trump's higher taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada, México and Zhōngguó go into effect
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2025

• Trump's new taxes/tariffs on Canada and México could increase average car prices by up to $12,000. The increase would be three times that for an electric vehicle, and the costs will likely be passed on to the consumer.
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 03 March 2025

• How Trump's proposed taxes/tariffs on lumber imports from Canada is the latest headache for homebuilders. In 2024, soaring lumber prices were a poster child of the inflation shock. Shortages of the building material slowed construction and put upward pressure on home prices.
  - Axios, 01 March 2025

• Trump orders a new probe into imports of lumber from Canada and other countries, which could result in more taxes/tariffs on imported lumber, driving up the cost of building homes
  - Thomson's Reuters, 01 March 2025

• Trump orders a new probe into imports of lumber from Canada and other countries, which could result in more taxes/tariffs on imported lumber, driving up the cost of building homes
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2025

• How people in Canada are making their anger towards the USA loud and clear. People are Canada are shunning products imported from the USA and abandoning trips to the USA to protest the insults and economic punishment imposed by Trump and his new taxes/tariffs
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2025

• Trump says that new taxes/tariffs on imports from México and Canada will go into effect the first week of March, harming two of the USA's closest allies and hurting consumers in the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 February 2025

• Jose Mulino, the presiden of Panama, will only take a decision regarding the future of the Cobre Panama mine after he resolves the issue of the social security policy of Panama, a supplier of the Cobre Panama mine said after a meeting with the Panamanian president. But before a decision on the mine is taken, the government has to approve the preservation and safety management plan that would allow First Quantum to export 120,000 tons of copper concentrate that is stuck in the mine.
  - Bloomberg, 26 February 2025

• Trump says his taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada and México "will go forward" in early March. The taxes will 25% on products from México and Canada, and 10% taxes on energy imported from Canada.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 24 February 2025

• GameStop, a bubbled-company, is closing locations in Canada and Europe, citing "wokeness and DEI", supporting attacks of activists.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 February 2025

• Trump favors countries such as Rossiya, while treating Canada as if it were an enemy
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 February 2025

• After Trump's designation of several Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, President Claudia Sheinbaum of México on Thursday warned the White House against military action inside her country.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 February 2025

• Large numbers of people in Canada are cancelling their travel plans to the USA, in response to Trump's attacks on Canada and plans to impose new taxes/tariffs
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 22 February 2025

• Aluminum buyers in the USA scramble for metal as Trump's taxes/tariffs loom. Canada supplies roughly 60% to 70% of the imports that come into the U.S. market. Suppliers in Canada such as Rio Tinto produce high quality aluminum that is typically sold to buyers in the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 February 2025

• How Trump's 10% tax/tariff on oil imports from Canada would hit the heartland of the USA, including the heartland that voted for him. The 10 percent tariff the president said he might impose in March could cause refineries in the USA to cut production and lead to higher prices. No matter how much oil the United States pumps, its refineries were designed to run on a blend of different types of oil. Many cannot function well without the darker, denser, cheaper crude that is hard to find domestically. Canada is flush with that oil, known as heavy crude. Industry is not happy. In a sign that Trump heard the industry, which gave/bribed more than $75 million to his campaign, he lowered the planned tariff on Canadian energy imports to 10 percent, from 25 percent.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 February 2025

• Home-builder confidence plunged to the lowest level in five months as concerns over Trump's taxes/tariffs and how they could raise the cost of housing weighed on the industry. For buyers, the sentiment shift only adds to the likelihood that home prices could go up in an already expensive housing market. Trump's taxes/tariffs on imported goods from Canada, Zhōngguó and México are increasing the cost of building materials, which is spooking home builders.
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 18 February 2025

• Economic retaliation against Canada will not work this time. His taxes/tariffs on steel and aluminum imports should be opposed by exporting countries with dollar-for-dollar retaliation. One hundred percent tariffs on Teslas, imposed by every country in the world, would be a good place to start. If the USA, which controls approximately 25 percent of the global economy, pursues a punishing trade war with Canada and its other allies, all of us will have no choice but to seek other friends, wherever we can find them.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 February 2025

• How Trump's one-for-one tax/tariff plan threatens the global economy. In starting a process to impose reciprocal tariffs on American trading partners, President Trump is sowing uncertainty and risking inflation.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 February 2025

• Refusing to be bullied by Trump, the leader of the Conservative Party in Canada, Pierre Polievre, promises if elected as the next premier, he will hit back hard against any taxes/tariffs imposed by Trump, while revamping the natural-resources sector to fortify Canada's economy against threats from the USA. "We can no longer depend on the Americans alone for our trade. We can no longer think of them as our back-up defense. These threats, my friends, are a wake-up call." "We will make sure Americans know they will be paying the tariffs they impose on us."
  - Bloomberg, 15 February 2025

• Why ranchers and farmers in the USA are alarmed about "superpigs" from Canada, wild boars deliberately bred with domestic pigs. They're big, smart and prolific breeders. And their population is now spreading out of control. They tear up land and reproduce quickly, with devastating consequences to ranchers and farmers.
  - CBS News, 15 February 2025

• A new documentary film exposes horrifying truths about residential Christian schools for Native American children, including the killing of babies born to indigenous girls and fathered/raped by Christian priests. Many of 150,000 children were beaten and verbally abused, denied to speak their native languages, and upto 6,000 died (effectively murdered by the Christian institutions). Nearly three-quarters of the 130 residential schools were run by Roman Catholic missionary Christian congregations. So much for Jesus' "blessed meek", betrayed by his 'Christians'.
  - Associated Press, 14 February 2025

• Trump wants to impose a 25% tariff on imports from México and Canada. The top import partner for all of the Republican states that voted for Trump are -- México and Canada.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 February 2025

• Canada, México and the European Union rightly condemn Trump's new taxes/tariffs on steel and aluminium, and vow to retaliate, even if all of this causes a global trade war
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 February 2025

• Canada and the European Union rightly condemn Trump's new taxes/tariffs on steel and aluminium, and vow to retaliate
  - Zero Hedge, 11 February 2025

• Another "thou shalt not" lie from the Christian Trump: he wants Canada to be the 51st USA state becaused "we lose $200 billion a year to Canada" in terms of trade deficits. Lie. The trade deficit in goods with Canada was $63.3 billion in 2024.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 February 2025

• TD Bank, based in Canada, to sell its stake in Charles Schwab worth $15.4 billion
  - Comcast's CNBC, 10 February 2025

• How Trump's tax/tariff threats tore the bond between the USA and Canada. Patriotic sentiment is bursting in Canada after Trump's threat to apply hefty tariffs and even annex the country. The damage to the two nation's relationship could be lasting.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 February 2025

• Bombardier expects to dodge the brunt of any effects from possible taxes/tariffs imposed by Trump on Canada, yet the threat of a trade war provides enough uncertainty that the company pulled its guidance for the year
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 February 2025

• Homebuilders in California say that there are few alternatives to lumber from Canada, even if Trump's threats of taxes/tariffs at 25% are imposed. California lacks mills, environmental policies and supply chains that would allow a quick switch to local lumber production, and making those changes would likely take years.
  - BNN Bloomberg, 05 February 2025

• The union representing Amazon workers at a warehouse in Quebec that was shut down last month is preparing a legal challenge against the company. The union leader said that Amazon's closures in Quebec were a clear attempt to avoid having to sign a collective agreement for the first time in North America.
  - CBC News, 04 February 2025

• Demands grow in Canada to ban Twitter/X, Tesla and Starlink - all businesses of the Trump's buddy, Elon Musk
  - The Daily Beast, 04 February 2025

• The automobile industry in Canada faces a shutdown amid Trump's taxes/tariffs imposed on imports from Canada. The impact of the taxes on the industry means that "absolutely nobody in our business is profitable by a long shot".
  - Zero Hedge, 03 February 2025

• "It is shit anyways": people in Canada vow to stop buying beer and alcohol from the USA amid a burgeoning trade war
  - Zero Hedge, 03 February 2025

• People in Canada cancel trips to the USA, and ban alcholic products from the USA, in response to Trump's taxes/tariffs
  - Thomson's Reuters, 03 February 2025

• Premier Doug Ford of Ontario: "Starting today and until USA taxes/tariffs are removed, Ontario is banning companies from the USA from provincial contracts. Every year, the Ontario government and its agencies spend $30 billion on procurement, alongside our $200 billion plan to build Ontario. USA-based businesses will now lose out on tens of billions of dollars in new revenues. They only have Trump to blame. We are going one step further. We will be ripping up the province's contract with Elon Musk's Starlink. Ontario will not do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy. Canada didn't start this fight with the USA, but you better believe we are ready to win it.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 February 2025

• A "huge shock" on Wall Street after Trump's trade war: Goldman Sachs hopes that Trump's taxes/tariffs will be "short lived" while Deutsche Banks warns of Doomsday
  - Zero Hedge, 03 February 2025

• One response to Trump's taxes/tariffs: global trade that excludes the products from the USA. As Trump erects a higher fence around the global commerce of the USA, a growing number of countries, including allies of the USA, are striking their own deals that exclude the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 February 2025

• Trump's decision to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and Zhōngguó, justified under emergency economic powers to combat the fentanyl crisis, is legally questionable, economically risky, and geopolitically shortsighted, writes Dewardric McNeal, who worked on a federal commission to stop illegal opioids from entering the USA. The linkage of trade policy to narcotics enforcement sets a dangerous precedent, destabilizing fragile diplomatic efforts, potentially undermining constitutional prerogatives, and threatening global supply chains critical to businesses in the USA.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 February 2025

• Shares of automobile companies fall pre-market as Trump's taxes/tariffs spark trade war concerns. In pre-market trading, shares of General Motors was 6.6% lower at around 6:25 a.m. ET, while Ford was more than 4% lower. In Europe, shares of French car parts supplier Valeo and Milan-listed Chrysler parent Stellantis fell 9% and 6.6%, respectively. Deutschland's Volkswagen also slipped nearly 7%. In Asia, auto giants Toyota and Nissan both fell more than 5% on Monday, while domestic rival Honda tumbled 7.2%. Shares of Japan-listed Mazda Motor Corp traded more than 7.5% lower, while Kia Motor Corp fell nearly 6%.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 February 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs could threatens production of movies and other entertainment in Hollywood. Some fear that a trade war with Canada could cause Canada to retaliate, potentially rescinding sought-after tax credits for film productions or closing stages to USA studios altogether. Trump's taxes/tariffs could put pressure on production budgets, according to industry insiders, particularly for films and television shows that import certain textiles for costuming or unique construction materials such as specialty glass from outside the USA.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 February 2025

• Arsons, shootings and sabotage: inside Canada's civil war over lobster. As Canada wrangles an epic, decades-long saga of who can fish for lobster, and when, emerging threats are heating up the conflict in Nova Scotia.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 February 2025

• As of 9:30 pm Sunday night, Dow futures are down -1.31%, SP500 futures down -1.84%, and Nasdaq futures down -.247%
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 February 2025

• Multiple provinces in Canada to remove all alcohol products from the USA from their shelves in response to Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada. The province of British Colombia is more specific, with its premier ordering state alcohol stores to "immediately stop buying American alcohol from Republican states" and to remove the top-selling "Republican-state" brands from their shelves.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 February 2025

• Zhōngguó to file a lawsuit at the WTO against the USA, in response to Trump's decision Saturday to impose 10 percent tariffs on goods from Zhōngguó. Zhōngguó will impose its own taxes/tariffs on goods from the USA, as a countermeasure.
  - Nextstar Media's The Hill, 02 February 2025

• One reason Trump is imposing taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada is that he believes that a large amount of fentanyl enters the USA from Canada. But data from his own USA government shows that the vast majority of fentanyl enters from Mexico.
  - The Daily Beast, 02 February 2025

• Multiple provinces in Canada to remove all alcohol products from the USA from their shelves in response to Trump's taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada. The province of British Colombia is more specific, with its premier ordering state alcohol stores to "immediately stop buying American alcohol from Republican states" and to remove the top-selling "Republican-state" brands from their shelves.
  - The Daily Beast, 02 February 2025

• Trump orders the end of the "de minimis" exemption, which allows exporters in Canada, México and Zhōngguó to ship packages worth less than $800 into the USA without being taxed. This was key to the success of online retailers such as Temu and Shein, based in Zhōngguó.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 February 2025

• Goldman Sachs predicts the inflation is more likely than growth because of Trump's idiotic tax/tariff war, as the Mexican peso plummets
  - Zero Hedge, 02 February 2025

• Inflation seems stuck, and Trump's idiotic taxes/tariffs might worsen it
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 February 2025

• Canada and México move to retaliate against Trump's imposed taxes/tariffs by imposing their own taxes/tariffs on imports from the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 February 2025

• Canada announce retaliatory taxes/tariffs of 25% on imports of over $100 billion of products from the USA
  - Thomson's Reuters, 02 February 2025

• "It does not have to be this way": Canada, México and Zhōngguó respond to Trump's imposed taxes/tariffs with plans to impose their own taxes/tariffs on imports from the USA
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 February 2025

• México will retaliate against tariffs imposed by Trump with tariffs and other measures of its own, President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced. Sheinbaum said on Saturday that she had ordered her economy minister to implement tariff and non-tariff measures to defend Mexico's interests, after the US slapped across-the-board duties on goods coming from Mexico.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 02 February 2025

• How electric vehicle battery makers are making their batteries in Morocco to avoid taxes/taxes imposed by the USA and Europe. The Africa-Zhōngguó joint venture is latest company to find way past Western trade barriers while leveraging abundant battery materials in Africa.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 02 February 2025

• Farmers in Saskatchewan are facing uncertainty, and the likelihood they will have to accept less money for their crops, after punishing trade tariffs launched on Saturday by Trump. In order to compete with other producers on the global market in light of the tariffs, farmers in Canada may have to sell their crops for less money.
  - CBC News, 01 February 2025

• "Taxes/tariffs are not the answer": industry and corporate leaders react to Trump tariffs on Mexico, Canada and Zhōngguó
  - Comcast's CNBC, 01 February 2025

• Reversing a decades-old free trade policy, Trump imposes taxes/tariffs of 25% on all products imported from México and Canada. And imposes a lesser taxes/tariffs of 10% on products from Zhōngguó. Although Trump administration officials said Saturday the tariffs were designed to stop the flow of fentanyl and undocumented immigrants, they gave no specific benchmark for the new import taxes to be lifted . The tariffs are expected to invite retaliation, perhaps igniting a trade war that could significantly damage the economies of the targeted countries and the United States. In anticipation of that, Trump's authoritative action includes a clause that allows the president to expand the tariffs if a country imposes new tariffs on the United States.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 February 2025

• Reversing a decades-old free trade policy, Trump imposes taxes/tariffs of 25% on all products imported from México and Canada. And imposes a lesser taxes/tariffs of 10% on products from Zhōngguó. Although Trump administration officials said Saturday the tariffs were designed to stop the flow of fentanyl and undocumented immigrants, they gave no specific benchmark for the new import taxes to be lifted . The tariffs are expected to invite retaliation, perhaps igniting a trade war that could significantly damage the economies of the targeted countries and the United States. In anticipation of that, Trump's authoritative action includes a clause that allows the president to expand the tariffs if a country imposes new tariffs on the United States.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 February 2025

• High stakes for global companies in the latest tax/tariff threats from Trump. Manufacturers from Asia, Europe and elsewhere have poured billions into North American supply chains that could be hit by new taxes on Mexico, Canada and Zhōngguó.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 February 2025

• Editorial: the dumbest economic trade war in history, due to the actions of Trump . Trump will impose 25% taxes/tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and 10% taxes/tariffs on Zhōngguó, for no good reason. This economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense. It won't stop the flow of drugs into the highly addicted/depressed USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 February 2025

• Trump threatens widening trade war as first taxe/tariffs loom Saturday. Trump will impose tariffs on computer chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports as soon as mid-February.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 February 2025

• The Christian Trump "thou shalt not" lies about Canada being a big player in the fentanyl trade, a lie not supported by reorts of the government of the USA. But the lying Christian Trump doesn't care if it lets him be a bully.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 January 2025

• Trump's threatened taxes/tariffs on oil imports will not significantly hurt oil companies in Canada. The USA has become reliant on their crude, and Canada has ways to limit any financial hit.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 31 January 2025

• Trump says 25% taxes/tariffs on México and Canada may not include oil
  - Comcast's CNBC, 31 January 2025

• The USA dollar spikes after Trump announces new taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada, México and Zhōngguó. Trump had threatened to levy those taxes if the nations did not do more to help secure US borders from the inflow of undocumented migrants and illegal drugs.
  - Zero Hedge, 30 January 2025

• The Bank of Canada reduces interest rates as expected, ends QT, restarts QE/moneyprinting and issues guidance on the looming tax/tariff trade war with Trump
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2025

• The Bank of Canada reduces interest rates as expected, ends QT, restarts QE/moneyprinting and issues guidance on the looming tax/tariff trade war with Trump
  - Comcast's CNBC, 29 January 2025

• Since 2018, over 75,000 people in Canada have died waiting for health care
  - Zero Hedge, 28 January 2025

• Justin Trudeau promised a better life for the middle class in Canada. Then prices soared. While many issues turned Canadians away from their prime minister, the high cost of groceries and homes has become a chief grievance.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 January 2025

• Trump's new taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada will hurt homebuilders and the real estate industry in California as it rebuilds from recent wildfires.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 January 2025

• Trump says that the USA doesn't need to import cars from Canada, which is why he is so happy to impose a tax of 25% on autos from Canada. But a study from TD Economics argues this would hurt Americans financially . "High integration" of the auto sector, with car parts and finished goods crossing both the Canadian and Mexican borders, means tariffs would exact a high cost and the industry would suffer the "deepest negative impacts" from the taxes. TD also noted that Canada has the second-smallest trade deficit with the US, behind only France, highlighting the flow of products between the countries. Canada is not the cause of American's huge drug addiction.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 5 January 2025

• Canada is becoming a fentanyl exporter, and a target for Trump. The drug is increasingly manufactured in and trafficked from Canada, though the numbers remain small compared with Mexico.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 January 2025

• How Trump plans to destroy the economies of México and Canada by imposing taxes/tariffs of 25% on imports of all goods from Canada and Mexico, which will throw the two countries into economic recession. All because Trump blames these two countries for not doing enough to to stop drugs and migrants from coming into the United States, problems caused by the USA's huge addiction to drugs .
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 24 January 2025

• Canada cannot afford to engage in 'trade chicken' with the authoritarian USA. A trade war instigated by Canada in response to Trump's trade war would jeopardize trade and capital flows.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 January 2025

• Trump said he will impose taxes/tariffs on February 1st on products from Canada, México and Zhōngguó, countries that together account for more than a third of the commercial trade of the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 January 2025

• Amazon is exiting its operations in the Canadian province of Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, the company said on Wednesday, prompting Ottawa to express its unhappiness. The Amazon warehouse targeted was unionized in May, and authoritarian Amazon struck back .
  - Thomson's Reuters, 22 January 2025

• Automakers in the USA prepare for the impact of Trump's new taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. In the short term, taxes/tariffs on vehicles and parts from Canada or México would lead to higher prices at dealerships and lower demand for cars. Rather than protecting U.S. auto workers, as Trump has promised, tariffs would lead to job losses because automakers would cut their work forces to compensate for slumping sales, analysts said.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 January 2025

• Trump pushes for early renegotiation of the trade deal between the USA, México and Canada. Trump is using the threat of higher taxes/tariffs on goods from Canada and México to pressure the two nations to start renegotiating a continental trade deal.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 January 2025

• How a Trump trade war puts at risk cheap oil from Canada. The cheap Canadian oil America craves is becoming a key bargaining chip in Trump's threatened trade war.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 January 2025

• Why Trump's proposed taxes/tariffs on imports from México and Canada could increase core inflation in the USA by 1.4%
  - Zero Hedge, 21 January 2025

• Trump is considering to impose new taxes/tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico, to be levied in February. Trump wants to do so as he whines that México and Canada are not doing enough to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the USA. Such a move against Canada would hit its economy hard considering the two nations do in excess of half a trillion dollars a year in trade.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 21 January 2025

• In Windsor, Ontario, the "suburb of Detroit" in Canada, there are growing fears of threats of new taxes/tariffs by Trump. Trump's vow to impose 25% taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada could ravage the auto industry of Canada and severly damage the economy of Windsor, a city deeply tied to the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 January 2025

• Canada's plans for a trade war with the USA because of threatened new taxes/tariffs by Trump: to cause pain for Republican states and allies of Trump
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 January 2025

• Canada readies billions of dollars in retaliatory moves to Trump's threats of new taxes/tariffs on imports from Canada
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 January 2025

• The new chief economist for Trump, Stephen Miran, copies Don Corleone and the mafia. Miran has high tariffs could be the price allies pay for 'protection', for the defense umbrella of the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 January 2025

• Joe Rogan, the podcasting supporter of Trump, suggests that Trump seize control of México after he seizes control of Canada - a complete contempt for the peoples of both countries
  - Nextstar Media's The Hill, 09 January 2025

• Justin Trudeau, who just resigned as prime minister of Canada, was his own worst enemy
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 January 2025

• Justin Trudeau is trying to save his political party, but is he hurting Canada? By suspending Parliament and promising to resign, the prime minister bought the Liberal party time. But Canada will now face Trump with a lame duck in charge of Canada.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 January 2025

• Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, on Monday said he would step down from the helm of the ruling Liberal Party, but will stay on as prime minister until a new leader is selected ahead of general elections due by late October.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 06 January 2025

• Why Canada should join the European Union. Europe needs space and resource, while Canada needs people. Let's do a deal between the two.
  - Economist, 02 January 2025

• Extreme weather events in British Columbia have made farming in the region challenging. Some crops were reduced by nearly 90% this year after a brutal cold snap in January devastated peach and wine grape crops. The volatile weather is forcing farmers to scramble to make ends meet.
  - The Cool Down, 23 December 2024

• The waning fortunes of Justin Trudeau: from liberal icon to MAGA joke. The prime minister of Canada gained global renown 10 years ago for his unabashedly progressive politics. But at home, voters turned sour on him long ago.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 December 2024

• Jagmeet Singh, a key ally to Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, withdraws his political support from the government. The leader of the party that supported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vowed to bring down the government, saying Mr. Trudeau had failed Canada.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 December 2024

• 50% Of manufacturers in Canada are considering to fire people if Trump enacts his threatened taxes/tariffs
  - Zero Hedge, 20 December 2024

• Canada is the world's best country for free or universal health care, followed by Iceland, South Korea, Singapore, the UK, Germany, Portugal and Norway.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 December 2024

• After Trump threatens ally Canada with new taxes/tariffs, Canada agrees to spend an additional $1.3 billion to improve border security
  - Zero Hedge, 18 December 2024

• The authoritarian Trump is attacking Canada right now, but many other allies of the USA should worry as well. The 'good' Christian Trump cares nothing about forgiveness, only destruction that benefits him.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 December 2024

• Money is flowing out of bitcoin ETFs based in Canada to bitcoin ETFs based in the USA
  - Bloomberg, 17 December 2024

• Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister of Canada, had been helping lead Canada's response to the incoming Trump administration. Her resignation threatens Prime Minister Trudeau's hold on power.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 December 2024

• New natural gas exports to Asia could mean billions of dollars for indigenous people in Canada. Some fear the cost. New export terminals along the rugged Pacific coastline have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 December 2024

• Cattle futures rise to record highs on import snags, and a screwworm infestation. Canada and Mexico are among the leading countries exporting beef to the USA, making Trump's threats of taxes/tariff on these countries particularly important to the cattle industry.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 December 2024

• A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company, Cryptomus, shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges -- none of which are physically located there. At least 56 cryptocurrency exchanges are currently using Cryptomus to process transactions. These platforms are built for Russian speakers, and they each advertise the ability to anonymously swap one form of cryptocurrency for another. They also allow the exchange of cryptocurrency for cash in accounts at some of the largest banks in Rossiya -- nearly all of which are currently sanctioned by the United States and other western nations.
  - Kreb on Security, 11 December 2024

• The Canadian dollar strengthens are the Bank of Canada lowers interest rates by 0.5% again, and blames de-growth on Trump's threats of taxes/tariffs and immigration
  - Zero Hedge, 11 December 2024

• Trudeau vows to retaliate if Trump imposes 25% import tax/tariff on products from Canada. The prime minister said Ottawa would impose its own set of taxes/tariffs should Trump follow through on his pledge.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 December 2024

• Trump targets Canada with threats of taxes/tariffs -- and trolling. The strained relationship between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stands to complicate the ability of Canada to navigate a second Trump term.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 December 2024

• Aupporters of Trump in Canada are struggling to explain their support for Trump, who is threatening Canada with huge taxes/tariffs that will hurt the economy of Canada. Two of the more vocal politicians in Canada supporting Trump were suddenly obliged to hold hastily arranged press conferences to extinguish the fire from their brands while they chastised and "distanced" themselves from an irrational felon they adore and who, if he imposes the threatened tariffs come his return to the Oval Office early next year, would reportedly devastate the Ontario and Canadian economies.
  - Al Jazeera, 01 December 2024

• Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto, between Sikhs and Hindus. The clashes are the latest sign of Canada and Bharat's worsening relations.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 30 November 2024

• Canada sues Google, alleging anticompetitive online-ad practices. The accusations are the latest antitrust headache for the tech giant.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 November 2024

• Let the trade wars begin! Canada is already examining imposing taxes/tariffs on products from the USA, in response to Trump threatening taxes/tariffs on products from Canada
  - Associated Press, 27 November 2024

• Good news (NOT!) for auto workers who voted for Trump. Trump's proposed taxes/tariffs would deal a big blow to the auto industry and auto workers. Automakers and parts suppliers would struggle if Trump followed through on his threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 November 2024

• No surprise in economic wars: after Trump threatens Mexico with new taxes/tariffs, Mexico threats the USA with counter-taxes/tariffs. "If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration.", the president of Mexico rightly argued.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 November 2024

• Trump plans to increase taxes/tariffs on products from Mexico, Canada and Zhōngguó that could cripple global trade. Trump said that he would impose the across-the-board tariffs on Day 1 and that they would stay in place until Canada, Mexico and Zhōngguó halted the flow of drugs and migrants.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 November 2024

• Trump plans to increase taxes/tariffs on products from Mexico, Canada and Zhōngguó that could cripple global trade. Trump said that he would impose the across-the-board tariffs on Day 1 and that they would stay in place until Canada, Mexico and Zhōngguó halted the flow of drugs and migrants.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 November 2024

• Trump said Monday he would sign an executive order on Jan. 20 imposing a 25% tariff on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico, a move that could violate the terms of a regional free trade agreement. The announcements prompted a knee-jerk reaction in currency markets, with the U.S. dollar rising more than 2% against the Mexican peso and notching a four-year high against the Canadian dollar.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 26 November 2024

• Crony capitalism is coming to Trump's USA. His taxes/tariffs will hurt many businesses, except those friendly to his Administration that are granted exemptions.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 November 2024

• The plans of Canada for trade talks with the USA and Mexico - have Mexico be ignored. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has suggested his country could cut a deal with the USA without Mexico.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 November 2024

• Tilray Brands, a leading marijuana company in Canada, is buying lots of craft beer brewers in the USA
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 November 2024

• Afraid of losing its trade pact with the USA and Canada, Mexico alters its laws and removes Chinese parts from Zhōngguó, launching a campaign to get companies to replace parts from Zhōngguó with parts made in Mexico.
  - Associated Press, 23 November 2024

• General Jennie Carignan, the first woman to command the military of Canada, criticized sexist Christian Senator Jim Risch who recently stated that he does thinks that women in combat creates too many problems (a sexist attitude shared with the potential next USA Secretary of Defense). She right stated: "After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations across the world, I cannot believe that in 2024, we still have to justify the contribution of women to their defense and to their service, in their country." She said women have participating in combat for hundreds of years but have never been recognized for fighting for their country.
  - Associated Press, 23 November 2024

• A huge supply of products made in Zhōngguó are being imported into North America from Mexico, earning Mexico the label of being a "backdoor". "If Mexico will not fight transshipment by, at the very least, matching taxes/tariffs imposed by Canada and the USA on imports from Zhōngguó, they ill not have a seat at the table or enjoy access to the largest economy in the world."
  - Zero Hedge, 22 November 2024

• Canada fears that Trump's mass deportations will push migrants northwards into Canada
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 November 2024

• The prices of natural gas at the key regional hubs in the USA Pacific Northwest and Western Canada have hit this year the lowest level on record, amid rising production and high inventory levels in these regions.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 November 2024

• Employers at the Port of Montreal lock out dockworkers after a final offer is rejected. The dispute exacerbates the disruption to trade in Canada as a lockout at ports along the West Coast continues.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 November 2024

• Gold gone AWOL? The curious case of foreign central banks' gold (of Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium) stored in Canada. While most have heard of the Bank of England's fabled gold vault in London and the New York Fed's underground gold vault in Manhattan, did you know that four central banks claim to store a substantial amount of gold, about 270 tons, with the Bank of Canada in Ottawa?
  - Zero Hedge, 08 November 2024

• Labor strikes shut down operations at container ports in Canada from the East (Prince Rupert) to West Coast (Vancouver), with trade with the USA left uncertain. The labor action comes on the heels of a strike at the Port of Montreal. In July 2023, 13-day strikes at these two West Coast ports impacted the delivery of USA-bound goods for months, from apparel to auto parts and key industrial chemicals. Approximately 20% of USA trade arrives in the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 05 November 2024

• Canada acts to limit the carbon emissions of the oil and natural gas industry. The Trudeau government has focused on the oil and natural gas production industries because the large amounts of energy they use make them the largest source in Canada of greenhouse gases that cause global heating.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 November 2024

• Canada accuses a powerful minister in Bharat, and an ally of Modi, of authorizing anti-Sikh attacks. The government of [Canada] has alleged that Amit Shah orchestrated plots targeting Sikh separatists living in Canada, an accusation that could further worsen relations between Canada and Bharat.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 31 October 2024

• Central bank digital currencies are founding in the Western Five-Eye nations. Canada and Australia shelve plans for retail CBDCs while the US could soon become the first country to explicitly ban the central bank from issuing a CBDC.
  - Zero Hedge, 30 October 2024

• Lithium Americas, based in Canada, has obtained a $2.26 billion loan from the USA Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Programs Office under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. This funding is earmarked for the construction of processing facilities at the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Apparently the economics of the deal was so bad that private banks did not want to make the loan.
  - GlobalData, 29 October 2024

• Violence and threats: how a campaign of fear has shaken the Sikh community of Canada. Tightly knit communities in Ontario and British Columbia have been rocked by violent events in the past 18 months. Now the authorities say the government of Bharat was behind them.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 October 2024

• The weathering of rocks in the Canadian Rockies, such as pyrite (fool's gold), is accelerating with rising temperatures, creating a feedback loop that is set to dump even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
  - Live Science, 26 October 2024

• Bank of Canada reduces interest rates by 0.5%, the biggest reduction since the Covid era, the 4th straight month of reductions
  - Zero Hedge, 23 October 2024

• Bank of Canada expected to deliver hefty interest rate reduction of 0.5%. Lackluster growth and sharply slower inflation will likely drive the central bank toward a bigger cut after three straight reductions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 October 2024

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a nauseating hypocrite. The prime minister will not let anyone get away with harming citizens of Canada (other than Israel).
  - Al Jazeera, 18 October 2024

• The prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is being criticized by conservatives over recommendations he seeks to implement from a standing committee on "black justice" in Canada. The recommendations include a 30% reduction in incarceration over 10 years, decriminalizing a 30-day supply of hard drugs like cocaine, heroin, and meth, and cutting 25% of federal grants to police departments.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 October 2024

• Canadian snowboarder Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic athelte, and 15 others are accused of shipping 60 tons of cocaine a year to the USA and Canada
  - Al Jazeera, 17 October 2024

• Who is Lawrence Bishnoi, the gangster at the centre of Bharat-Canada dispute? Officials in Canada this week said Bishnoi's gang was targeting Sikh dissidents at the behest of the government of INdia. It is a PR coup for most notorious crime boss of Bharat.
  - Al Jazeera, 17 October 2024

• Convenience store chain 7-Eleven will close more than 400 stores (out of 13,000) as the company faces declining sales at its stores in the USA and Canada
  - Zero Hedge, 14 October 2024

• Canada has expelled the high commissioner of Bharat and five envoys after national police in Canada revealed they have evidence linking members of the government of Bharat to multiple homicides and other violent acts on Canadian soil against Sikh members of the Khalistan political movement.
  - Politico, 14 October 2024

• Canada expels diploments from Bharat, accusing them of criminal campaign. The police in Canada said the government of Bharat had orchestrated homicides and extortion in Canada to intimidate Sikh separatists. Bharat, in return, kicked out diplomats from Canada.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 October 2024

• Canada, one of the world's most immigrant-friendly countries, is changing course. The government has reversed course on immigration amid growing concerns that immigrants are contributing to Canada's deepening challenges around housing, health care and other issues.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 October 2024

• $3,100,000,000 - TD Bank to pay a fine of $3.1 billion as part of a settlement with USA regulators and prosecutors over charges it failed to properly monitor money laundering by drug cartels
  - Thomson's Reuters, 09 October 2024

• TD Bank to pay a fine of $3.1 billion as part of a settlement with USA regulators and prosecutors over charges it failed to properly monitor money laundering by drug cartels
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 October 2024

• The plans of the Canada division of Chevron to sell its stakes in oil sands and shale assets to Canadian Natural Resources for $6.5 billion as part of efforts to achieve divesting goal by 2028.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 October 2024

• Parts of the boreal forests of Canada, south of the Arctic Circle, are burning faster than they can regrow
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 October 2024

• Canada and Europe dominate the foreign ownership of farmland in the USA, 50 times more land than owned by interests in Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 24 September 2024

• What lies beneath former Christianity-run school sites for the Indigenous in Canada fuels a debate. Despite possible evidence of hundreds of graves of murdered children at former Christian-run schools for Indigenous children, challenges in making a clear conclusion have given rise to skeptics.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 September 2024

• D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai's bold statement at the Emmy awards show - a bloody red handprint smeared across his mouth - highlights missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Indigenous women in Canada are 12 times more likely to go missing or be murdered than non-Indigenous women in the country.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 16 September 2024

• Bank of Canada reduces interest rates for third consecutive month, says "expect further cuts". "Overall weakness in the economy continues to pull inflation down. But price pressures in shelter and some other services are holding inflation up."
  - Zero Hedge, 04 September 2024

• The Bank of Canada reduces interest rates, worries about economy too. The central bank delivers its third consecutive quarter-point reduction, to 4.25%, arguing there is "little evidence" of broad-based inflationary pressure.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 September 2024

• Zhōngguó will conduct an anti-dumping investigation into rapeseed/canoli oil imports from Canada, days after the North American country joined the USA and European Union in imposing new taxes/tariffs on electric vehicles.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 03 September 2024

• Zhōngguó will conduct an anti-dumping investigation into rapeseed/canola oil imports from Canada, days after the North American country joined the USA and European Union in imposing new taxes/tariffs on electric vehicles.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 03 September 2024

• How taxes/tariffs proposed by Trump could raise gasoline prices. Trump has called for imposing tariffs of up to 20 percent on all imported goods should he be elected. That would likely affect at least half, if not all, of the 8 million barrels of crude oil that the USA imports, market analysts said, in what could become an especially politically explosive example of the impact of his taxes/tariffs on wallets of consumers. Such a move could also blow up a trade treaty with the No. 1 supplier of imported oil to the USA: Canada.
  - Politico, 30 August 2024

• Wildfires in Canada produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on the pace of global heating. The wildfires that ravaged the boreal forests in Canada in 2023 produced more planet-warming carbon emissions than the burning of fossil fuels in all but three countries. While the hot and dry weather that fueled the fires in Canada last year was extraordinary when compared with historical records, climate projections suggest it will become common in the 2050s if the world continues on the current trajectory of global heating due to burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 August 2024

• Canada imposes a 100% tax/tariff on imports of electric vehicles manufactured in Zhōngguó. The only such autos are made by Tesla. There will also be a 25% tax/tariff on steel and aluminum imported from Zhōngguó.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 26 August 2024

• Canada imposes a 100% tax/tariff on imports of electric vehicles manufactured in Zhōngguó. The only such autos are made by Tesla. There will also be a 25% tax/tariff on steel and aluminum imported from Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 26 August 2024

• Challenges keep mounting for TD Bank, making a rough year for the Canadian banking giant even rougher. The Toronto lender on Thursday reported a third quarter net loss of $133 million, largely in light of billions the bank set aside to pay for expected fines from an ongoing US investigation into its anti-money laundering practices.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 22 August 2024

• The government of Canada orders arbitration and end to rail freight shutdown
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 August 2024

• Later in the day, the government of Canada forces the rail lockout to end
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 22 August 2024

• Railroads in Canada lock out 9,000 employees as labor talks break down. The government of Canada has declined to intervene in a labor conflict that threatens to stanch cross-border trade and upend supply chains in North America.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 August 2024

• Freight rail in Caanda shuts down as labor talks collapse: strike declared, as "members head to picket lines"
  - Zero Hedge, 22 August 2024

• Industry groups in Canada urge Prime Minister Trudeau to 'take action' as inflation-reigniting rail-strike looms
  - Zero Hedge, 20 August 2024

• KeyCorp deal could be a model for regional banks. The financial market's positive reaction to Scotiabank's purchase of a stake in the Cleveland-based lender is an eyebrow-raising indicator.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 August 2024

• Large parts of Canada are ideal for future hydrogen production, global analysis suggests. Canada has lots of space for wind turbines (to generate electricity to produce hydrogen by electrolysis. Though windmills will requrie more rare earth metals for the magnets.
  - Tech Xplore, 16 August 2024

• The largest telephone companies in Canada, led by BCE and Telus, must provide smaller rivals with wholesale access to their fiber-optic networks in a bid to foster affordable access to high-quality internet services.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 August 2024

• Shares of KeyCorp, a regional lender in the USA, rise 13% after Scotiabank buys 14.9% for $2.8 billion
  - Zero Hedge, 12 August 2024

• Canada will fund an Indigenous-led study into how oil sands development impacts the health of local communities, following a tailings water leak from an Imperial Oil site that heightened pollution concerns. The government will provide about $9 million over 10 years for the Fort Chipewyan Health Study, which may include an assessment of whether there are heightened risks of cancer for communities downstream of the oil sands region. For years those communities have reported higher rates of cancer and other health issues including autoimmune diseases, skin irritations and severe arthritis.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 07 August 2024

• The standard of living in Canada is on track for its worst decline in 40 years. According to the Financial Post, since 2019 Canada has had the worst growth out of 50 developed economies. Inflation-adjusted Canadian wages have been flat since 2016.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 July 2024

• The Canadian Revenue Agency notified the Jewish National Fund on July 25th that it plans to revoke the group's charitable status over its use of donations to build military infrastructure in Israel. "Canadian charities are not allowed to fund foreign militaries." Founded in 1901, by 2007 the Jerusalem-based JNF owned 13 percent of the occupied Islamic Palestinian territories and has been considered the single-largest landowner in Israel. Furthermore, its charter explicitly prohibits the sale or lease of land to people who are not Jewish.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 July 2024

• Bank of Canada reduces interest rates for second consecutive month, says "reasonable" to expect more, officials grow increasingly worried about downside economic risks.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 July 2024

• Bank of Canada reduces interest rates for second consecutive month, says "reasonable" to expect more, as officials grow increasingly worried about downside economic risks.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 July 2024

• The Bank of Canada is widely expected to follow up its June interest-rate cut with another on Wednesday, and embark on a series of reductions to address moribund consumption and a rapidly weakening labor market
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 July 2024

• Is it a critical flaw of democracy in Canada? "Yawn", say politicians in Canada. Zhōngguó and Bharat have been accused of exploiting the opaque nomination contests of Canadian political parties to meddle in elections. Canadian elections have long rested on what many experts say is an undemocratic foundation: opaque nomination races in which political parties select their candidates for general contests in a process mystifying to most Canadians. Party bosses enjoy an unshakable grip. Money flows, often unaccounted for. Rules tend to be lax, with no impartial judge in sight. Easy for foreigners to bribe into.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 July 2024

• Wildfires in Alberta threaten 350,000 barrels/day of oil production
  - Zero Hedge, 21 July 2024

• Wildfires in Canada have returned after $10 billion economic blow from previous fires. Evacuations have started for residents in Western Canada, and one of the biggest oil companies in Canada has curbed production.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 July 2024

• Cleveland-cliffs in $2.5 billion deal to buy Stelco, a manufacturer of steel in Canada
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 July 2024

• Canada has become the "car theft capital of the world" according to Interpol
  - Zero Hedge, 10 July 2024

• For the first time in more than 150 years, electricity generation uses no coal in the province of Alberta, Canada
  - Globe and Mail, 07 July 2024

• On small islands off the coast of Canada, a big shift in power. British Columbia recognized the s aboriginal title to their islands decades after the Indigenous group launched a battle on the ground and in the courts.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2024

• Netflix, Walt Disney, and other U.S. streaming companies have asked a Canadian court to stop plans by authorities to force them to fork over 5% of their sales in the country to finance local broadcast news and other domestic content.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 July 2024

• The Trans Mountain pipeline delivered enough crude oil to load 20 tankers from Canada's Pacific Coast in the first full month of operations of the expanded link, just below the expectations of the company. The expanded Trans Mountain pipeline has tripled the capacity of the original pipeline to 890,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 300,000 bpd to carry crude from oil sands in Alberta to British Columbia on the Pacific Coast.
  - OilPrice.com, 01 July 2024

• The oil output in Canada is booming as producers ramp up projects and extraction amid expanded market access and narrowing discounts of the Canadian heavy crude to the U.S. benchmark.
  - Zero Hedge, 27 June 2024

• Tesla may end up the only victim as Canada mulls punitive tariffs on electric vehicles made in Zhōngguó. The only battery-powered car built in Zhōngguó and exported to Canada is Tesla's Model Y assembled at its Shanghai factory that is currently subject to a 6 per cent import tax/tariff.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 25 June 2024

• Canada will join the USA and Europe with regards to increasing taxes/tariffs on electric vehicles made in Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 22 June 2024

• The uranium mining boom in Canada positions Canada to overtake Kazakhstan as the top producer
  - Zero Hedge, 14 June 2024

• How a police officer's social media posts about sexual harassment at work, by fellow police officers, led to her firing. A Toronto police officer mounted a defiant social media campaign against her employer. The police ruled that she had tried to destroy the reputation of the agency. A reputation soiled by a 2022 consultant's report that found that 28 percent of female police officers surveyed said that they had been victims of sexual harassment.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 June 2024

• Costly USA sugar taxes/tariffs drive candy makers in the USA over the border to Canada. The USA sugar industry is heavily protected, and buyers such as confectioners and processed-food makers can only import certain amounts of raw and refined sugar before incurring hefty tariffs. The decades-old socialist regulations are intended to protect US farmer profits and prevent other countries from flooding the country with sugar. But critics say it also keeps US sugar prices artificially high, burdening American sweets companies and refineries trying to operate at home.
  - Bloomberg, 08 June 2024

• An abnormally dry Canada taps energy from the USA, reversing the usual flow. Lower-than-normal rain and snow have reduced hydropower production in Canada, raising worries in the industry about the effects of climate change.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 June 2024

• The central Bank of Canada reduces interest rates by 0.25%, as predicted, the first G7 central bank to launch an easing cycle
  - Zero Hedge, 05 June 2024

• Economists predict that the Bank of Canada will reduce interest rates this week, the first central bank to do so
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 June 2024

• Canadian investment manager Ninepoint Partners is "temporarily" suspending cash distributions in three of its private credit funds, making it the latest, and certainly largest, lender to put a squeeze on investors to cope with a private credit liquidity crunch.
  - Zero Hedge, 31 May 2024

• The resurgence of the oil industry in Canada is doomed without a supply of younger workers
  - Zero Hedge, 30 May 2024

• The union representing governemnt border agents in Canada said over 90% of its members voted to go on strike as soon as next month, posing a risk to billions of dollars in daily cross-border commercial trade between the USA and Canada.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 May 2024

• Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank fires more than a dozen people for failing to maintain the anti-money laundering standards of the bank
  - Zero Hedge, 23 May 2024

• Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank fires more than a dozen people for failing to maintain the anti-money laundering standards of the bank
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 May 2024

• How the maple-syrup cartel keeps a sticky grip on global market. THe 50 million maple trees in Canada produce 72% of the world's supply, leaving Vermont to pine for the good old days.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 May 2024

• Shell sold millions in carbon credits that it never earned. Under a subsidy initiative by Alberta's provincial government to support the industry, Shell was permitted to register and sell carbon credits double the amount of emissions purportedly avoided by its Quest carbon capture facility from 2015 to 2021.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 May 2024

• A Justice Department investigation into TD Bank's internal controls focuses on how crime groups from Zhōngguó and drug traffickers used the ban in Canada to launder money from sales of fentanyl in the USA.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 May 2024

• Two-thirds of the roughly 150 currencies have weakened against the dollar, whose strength stems from high interest rates because of stubborn inflation.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 May 2024

• Honda Motor on Thursday said it and several suppliers would invest $11 billion to build batteries and electric cars in Ontario, a significant commitment from a company that has been slow to embrace the technology. Honda will benefit from up to $1.8 billion in tax credits available to companies that invest in electric vehicle projects.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 April 2024

• Shut up and wait, your Canadian doctor is busy. If we use waiting times as the key measure of efficient and timely delivery of treatment, Canadian taxpayers have been steadily getting declining healthcare since the 1990s.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 23 April 2024

• The world has an insatiable appetite for maple syrup from Canada
  - Economist, 18 April 2024

• The central Bank of Canada keeps interest rates unchanged, needs more evidence of slowing inflation before reductions
  - Zero Hedge, 10 April 2024

• Prime Minister Trudeau admits that Canada is being overwhelmed by mass immigration
  - Zero Hedge, 03 April 2024

• Canada had designs on being a hydropower superpower. Now its rivers and lakes are drying up. About 70% of the country is suffering from abnormally dry or drought conditions, forcing it to start up power plants fueled by gas or coal to meet mushrooming demand.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 28 March 2024

• PIMCO CIO Andrew Balls told The FT that the giant bond fund is holding a smaller than usual position in US Treasuries, preferring the bonds of countries such as the UK and Canada, as he fears re-igniting inflation will pressure The Fed to act considerably less dovish than even the latest 'dot-plot' suggests.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 March 2024

• Canada Goose, a manufacturer of high-end outerwear, is firing nearly 1000 people, about 17% of its people, mostly corporate jobs.
  - Murdoch's Fox News, 26 March 2024

• The maple sryup reserve of Canada has reached a 16-year low, raising questions about the future of a globally loved sweet staple in the face of climate change and global heating. Maple syrup production, which is typically done between early March and late April, relies heavily on a delicate balance of below freezing overnight temperatures and warmer daytime temperatures above 0C (32F).
  - BBC, 25 March 2024

• Israel is furious after Canada votes to halt arms exports to Israel that will be used to kill more Palestinians
  - Zero Hedge, 20 March 2024

• As 'zombie fires' smolder, Canada prepares for another season of flames. A government forecast suggests that there could be even more wildfires this season than during last year's exceptional fire period.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 March 2024

• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a top pension fund in Canada, just sold its 29% share of a New York City office building ... for $1. The other owners will assume the fund's debt obligations. It did the same in December with another property.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 February 2024

• The Great Lakes bordering the USA and Canada re nearly ice-free this winter. Generally warmer weather and El Niño this year have led to the lowest ice cover over the lakes since records began.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 February 2024

• Cleveland-Cliffs announced Thursday that it is shutting down a northern West Virginia tin production facility indefinitely and plans to 900 people after the International Trade Commission voted against imposing tariffs on tin imports from Canada, Deutschland and Zhōngguó.
  - Associated Press, 15 February 2024

• Monarch butterfly numbers are down sharply at wintering areas in Mexico. Scientists said the decline appeared to be driven by hot, dry conditions in the USA and Canada that reduced food supply.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 February 2024

• The 50-year policy in Canada of tying migrant workers to their employers denounced as modern-day slavery
  - Al Jazeera, 09 February 2024

• Cryptocurrency mining company loses bid to force British Columbia Hydro to provide power. British Columbia says cryptocurrency mining consumes "massive amounts of electricity" by running high-powered computers around the clock.
  - Vancouver Sun, 05 February 2024

• The western provinces of Canada have been hit by the worst drought in years and provincial utilities are getting into losses as their hydropower generating capacities are lower amid low reservoir levels
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2024

• Canada is a new hot spot in a global wave of auto thefts. Light penalties and lax border security are combining with booming overseas demand to create a lucrative market for crime rings, law-enforcement specialists say.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 January 2024

• An international team of chemical and environmental engineers has found that oil sands operations in Canada are emitting significantly more pollutants into the air than previously thought
  - Phys.org, 26 January 2024

• VistaJet, a privately-owned company managing private jets, had a big expansion during the Covid pandemic. But the huge debts it incurred are not only a threat to the company, but to Bombardier, a private jet builder in Canada.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 January 2024

• VistaJet, a privately-owned company managing private jets, had a big expansion during the Covid pandemic. But the huge debts it incurred are not only a threat to the company, but to Bombardier, a private jet builder in Canada.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 January 2024

• Canada dominates the global production of uranium
  - Zero Hedge, 22 January 2024

• Automakers in Zhōngguó are beating Elon Musk at the Tesla game. Zhōngguó's BYD has surpassed Tesla in electric-vehicle sales. Firms such as BYD may not be explicitly state-owned, but they are state dependents, part of a cozy, nasty little circular flow of money and power between the CCP and the notionally private market. But he real costs of Chinese protectionism are born in the main by Chinese consumers, who are forced to accept a lower standard of living to line the pockets of politically connected business interests and party bosses. The same largely holds true in the United States: The USA war on Canadian lumber benefits a small number of influential U.S. businessmen at the cost of consumers who pay more for things made out of wood, such as houses.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 January 2024

• Cities in Canada, and the First Nations of Canada, oppose the Purdue opioid settlement that left them empty-handed. The groups, both left out of the $6 billion agreement, hope a U.S. Supreme Court decision could pave the way for them to seek compensation through litigation.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 January 2024

• The logging industry of Canada devours forests crucial to fighting climate change. A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the main commercial logging regions in Canada.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 January 2024