Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Does Canada have any alternatives to retaliatory tariffs?

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As Canada invokes dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on the USA , one can't help but lament how Canada is getting dragged into Trump...

Canada nonplussed by Trump's threat to change Lake Ontario name

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Family overseas are asking us how Canadians feel about Donald Trump threatening to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America . Well, the word that...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Doug Ford tries to out-Trump Trump

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It's pretty instructive to see Ontario Premier Doug Ford's contribution to the ongoing debate on American tariffs and their perpetra...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Canada-US trade talks fall through

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Well, the Canada-USA trade talks fell apart at the eleventh-plus hour. Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed the Americans for "last-minut...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Solar energy bails out a baking Europe

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It's common sense, but still worth remarking on: Europe only got through this summer's successive heat waves and droughts due to its...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Canada probably needs to retaliate against US tariffs, even if it's self-defeating

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Just hours before the next batch of Trump tariffs almost certainly comes into force, affecting a long list of Canada-produced items , there ...

Even if USMCA falls through.completely, the Canadian sky will not fall

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It's been a while since I posted about US tariffs and the USMCA negotiations. It doesn't seem much like news any more. But as the US...

AI slop has broken the internet

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"Slop" was Mirriam-Webster's Word of the Year last year. "Slop" or "AI slop" is defined as "digital ...