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There’s an old cliché that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Alliances here shift with the political winds. The good news for Canada is there’s fresh evidence that, right now, it has allies on tariffs. People are voicing horror at the threat to slap them across …
Read More »Trump’s takeover proposal condemned in Gaza, celebrated in Israel
Gaza may be buffeted by winter winds today, leaving Palestinians huddling. But it’s the unexpected blast from U.S. President Donald Trump that has them really shaken. “I feel a lot of sadness and despair,” Hala Abu Dabaa, 26, told CBC’s freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife. “He should know that we …
Read More »Genius dealmaker, or gullible rube? Washington weighs Trump’s deal with Canada
Donald Trump: Brilliant dealmaker who wrung Canada dry? Or a gullible chump who got duped by old promises repackaged in fresh paint? Trying to follow the Washington reaction to the tariff-pausing deal between Canada and the U.S. might give you whiplash. The reaction here is as polarized as the politics. To …
Read More »Trans families consider leaving U.S. after Trump’s re-election
Barbara Fowler has a go bag in the trunk of her car. In it are her family’s documents, burner phones, clothes, medications and an address of a house in Canada — ready, should her family need to flee their country. Fowler lives in the United States. Her daughter is one …
Read More »China hits back with tariffs on U.S. goods after Trump’s levies take effect
China on Tuesday slapped tariffs on U.S. imports in a swift response to new U.S. duties on Chinese goods, renewing a trade war between the world’s top two economies even as President Donald Trump offered reprieves to Canada and Mexico. Additional 10 per cent tariff across all Chinese imports into the U.S. came into effect …
Read More »Why Canada’s spies worry about Trump’s national intelligence nominee
Hillary Clinton once called her a “Russian asset” — and that was while Tulsi Gabbard was still a Democrat. Of all of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, none have caused so many reservations from within the Republican Party — and that’s in a field that includes a health secretary nominee who …
Read More »It’s barely 2025 and Trump’s project to overhaul federal civil service is well underway
Donald Trump’s administration in its first two weeks has offered up a dizzying series of moves in an apparent bid to remake the federal workforce. On the first day of his second, non-consecutive term as U.S. president, Trump signed an executive order that would allow his administration to fire at …
Read More »Trump’s threat of mass deportations opens up old wounds for a Mississippi community
Bernarda Rodriguez remembers the chaos when U.S. immigration officials raided the Mississippi chicken factory where she worked in 2019 as they looked for undocumented migrants. “Everybody started running and screaming … they wanted to get out … but the doors were closed,” said Rodriguez, who came to the U.S. illegally …
Read More »Trump’s comment to ‘clean out’ Gaza has thrilled Israel’s far right and infuriated Palestinians
With Israel facing multiple and potentially escalating crises on its borders, Donald Trump ignited a new one Saturday with comments about permanently relocating the Palestinian population of Gaza to other countries. Calling Gaza a “demolition site,” the U.S. president said he raised the issue with the King of Jordan by suggesting …
Read More »‘Canada Is Not for Sale’ hats flying off the shelves in response to Trump’s threats
U.S. President Donald Trump’s verbal threats toward Canada are paying off for one entrepreneur, after the new U.S. president’s approach gave him an idea. Liam Mooney, founder of an Ottawa-based design firm, made a hat emblazoned with “Canada Is Not for Sale” in response to Trump’s tariff threats and suggestions that Canada …
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