Some of you will lose your job, your business, your home.
We’re at war.
These are the necessary sacrifices Canadians must be prepared to endure in order to stop Donald Trump.
Elbows up! 🇨🇦
— Brantford Boomer (@BrantfordBoomer) August 23, 2026
Note: It’s not clear whether this particular account is a rage farming parody. Regardless, I do believe this mentality perfectly encapsulates the mentality of the older Liberal Party supporters.
I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that Canadians need to be less concerned about Trump and more concerned that voters essentially opted for a continuation of the Trudeau years with a few tweaks.
“Businesses aren’t panicking, but they aren’t betting big either,” Patrick Gill, vice-president of the business data lab at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said.
“Pessimism about the next 12 months is now at its highest point in several years,” he said. “In that environment, firms are holding back on major expansion and taking a clear wait-and-see approach as they look for more clarity on U.S. trade policy and demand conditions.”
If you imagine an event will happen, is that a guarantee that it will? That certainly seems to encapsulate Doug Ford’s view of our current trade negotiations with the US.
I’ll take “bloviating sanctimonious blowhard” for $100, Alex….
“We have to negotiate through strength,” Ford responds, “and we really have to flex our muscles and make sure President Trump hears us.”
“(Americans) are going to feel the pressure,” Ford says. “They’re going to feel the pressure when Americans start losing their jobs because we’re going to start on-shoring everything, and once that happens, I told Lutnick, it’s hard to turn that tap off.”
Despite all the promises to increase defense spending to not only replace what was shipped off to the Ukraine but to meet the new GDP targets, expect one of two outcomes: either the targets will be perpetually postponed or the definition of “defense spending” will be stretched to include funding for sewage treatment plants and community centers and anything else you might imagine.
In a new analysis released Thursday, the think tank said it expects Canada’s deficit to top $92 billion this fiscal year, given Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to meet NATO’s defence spending target of two per cent of GDP.
C.D. Howe expects deficit growth to slow after this year but predicts deficits will still average around $78 billion annually over four years — more than double the level forecast by the parliamentary budget officer before the spring federal election.
Didn’t Carney say we were going to make up for declining trade with the US by achieving closer ties with Europe? I guess our manufacturers didn’t get that memo.
The downturn in Canada’s manufacturing sector deepened in June as U.S. tariffs undercut demand, spurring the sharpest cut to output in five years, data on Wednesday showed.
The S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) edged down to 45.6 in June from 46.1 in May, registering the fifth straight sub-50 reading. A level below 50 indicates contraction in the sector.
Canadian trade policy is now so contradictory that I’ll admit to not being able to keep things straight anymore. I thought the whole purpose of the “Elbows Up” campaign was to demonstrate that we could replace declining trade with the US by increasing trade with other nations. Now we appear to be doing our level best to shut the trade door with everyone else. Go figure.
The federal department of finance says it will limit the amount of foreign steel coming into the country by placing a tariff on imports that exceed a certain threshold from countries that do not have a free trade agreement with Canada.
The policy, known as a “tariff rate quota,” announced on Friday allows non-free trade countries to send the same volume of steel to Canada that they sent in recent years, but applies a 50 per cent tariff if they exceed a designated threshold in any single quarter.
More evidence that Canadians got played in the last election.
Canada’s economy shrank 0.1 per cent on a monthly basis in April, Statistics Canada said on Friday, a slower pace than analysts had expected. The contraction was largely the result of broad-based weakness in the manufacturing sector during a month characterized by heightened trade tensions with the U.S.
Penticton Herald- 18-year-old from Ivujivik takes action against Elections Canada
Tiivi Tullaugak says he wants to hold the government agency accountable for failing to arrive in his community on April 28, federal election day, to set up polling stations.
Elections Canada is investigating why people were denied the chance to vote in seven Nunavik communities on election day. Polling stations in Akulivik and Tullaugak’s community of Ivujivik never opened, and in five other communities they operated for only part of their scheduled eight-hour window.
I have no doubt that Carney is running a much tighter ship than Justin ever did. But I can’t help but contrast how the mainstream media seems blissfully content about this, considering that Stephen Harper, who also ran a similarly tight ship, was routinely denounced as having a dictatorial approach precisely because of it.
He is fiercely punctual, runs a tight ship during meetings and is decisive — all marked differences from his predecessor.
“Decision-making is not a problem,” said one senior government official, describing Carney as “task focused” and for whom results matter.
“He does not suffer fools,” the official added, a common refrain among all sources.
Carney, 60, also cares deeply about professionalism in his office. Staff are expected to dress in formal business attire and documents are to be written using British spelling, for example.
The Bloc Québécois is calling on the Superior Court of Quebec to order a byelection in the riding of Terrebonne, where the party lost by one vote, as Elections Canada revealed issues with five more mail-in ballots.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet announced at a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday that the party is challenging the result of the riding. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné — the party’s candidate in the riding — and Bloc MP Christine Normandin were present.
“Since Elections Canada cannot by themselves ask for the election to be repeated, we have to bring this situation in front of a judge, in a court, in order to do the election all over again,” Blanchet said.
Bell Canada’s cancellation of a $32-million dollar contract to expand high-speed internet and cell service on Labrador’s north coast comes as the telecommunications giant has confirmed plans to expand southward in the United States.
After receiving millions in government subsidies for the Labrador North Wireless Broadband Project, Canada’s largest communications company says it’s no longer feasible to complete the expansion due to rising costs and competition.
Bronwyn Eyre: “Elbows Up” for the Provinces Against the Ottawa Hegemons!
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Danielle Smith implies not necessarily separation, but separation if necessary. Smith throws down a citizen-led separation gauntlet in her demands Ottawa meet Alberta’s demands. Here’s her speech, verbatim. The video is embedded.
It took a while for me to get this video edited, but here was Scott Moe’s first public appearance after last week’s federal election. He was speaking at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference.
Also, on Sunday:
Toronto Star- Inside the 905 — the ridings that helped deny Mark Carney a majority
Canada’s political polarization is acutely visible in the Greater Toronto Area’s suburban and rural ring — a diverse and fast-growing area of roughly 4 million people that spans Durham to Halton and has long been seen as a crucial, vote-rich battleground and bellwether for which way the country is politically moving.
Dan Knight- Carney Rejects NDP Deal While Poilievre Readies Comeback in Alberta Stronghold
But let’s cut through the nice-sounding verbiage. The reason Carney doesn’t want a deal with the NDP isn’t because he’s confident in his numbers. It’s because a formal pact would make his minority government look weak and dependent from day one. It would validate what everyone already suspects—that he can’t govern without cutting deals behind closed doors with a party that just got decimated at the polls.
Former Liberal MP Dan McTeague offers his thoughts on the future of Canada under a Carney government. In a nutshell, it’s not good.
National Post- Mark Carney’s election win already has economists worried
Canada was already headed into a recession. Then, on Tuesday, Fitch Ratings warned that Carney’s deficit plan could harm our credit rating
Fitch had already priced in federal government deficits for 2025 and 2026, amounting to 2.6 per cent and 2.4 per cent of Canada’s GDP, respectively. Factoring in the Carney platform, though, resulted in even worse figures: the 2025 deficit is now slated to be 3.1 per cent of GDP, growing to 3.2 per cent in 2026.