A reader in the trucking industry, via email;
my phone is ringing because everyone wants to get their loads to the US by Jan 17th before Trump tariffs. Our parliament is prorogued for another 2 and a half months. This is a crisis. We won’t be shipping anything south after the 17th and our industries can’t wait for Trudeau.
That people don't recognize that Trump is putting pressure on Trudeau's leisurely resignation timeline is kind of funny.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 8, 2025
Robert Graboyes sees that and more;
In several social media posts, President-elect Trump referred to “the Great State of Canada” (or “the 51st state”) and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau. It’s a nonsensical idea, and I suspect Trump knows it’s a nonsensical idea. The president-elect likely raised the idea for four reasons:
• To give the nettlesome prime minister a diplomatic swirly. If doing so contributed to Trudeau’s downfall, then Trump’s trolling constituted a Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.
• To distract the legacy media, for whom the absurdity of annexing Canada is an irresistible shiny, rotating object. If they’re focused on Canada, journalists lack sufficient bandwidth and attention span to focus, as well, on Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, or Tulsi Gabbard.
•To intimidate and disorient Canadian authorities prior to tariff negotiations. These functionaries haven’t sufficient bandwidth or attention span to deal with tariff minutiae while journalists badger them about Trump’s irredentist impulses.
•Because he can.
Related: Justin Trudeau abruptly leaves the Liberals’ caucus meeting after 30 minutes, saying he has “work to do as prime minister.” The meeting, which included all Liberal MPs, lasted for six hours.
Also related: Canada is a proud, sovereign nation that recently tore down all the statues of the man who made Canada a proud, sovereign nation.
Greenland certainly has been making news recently.
President/President-elect Donald Trump’s tasked his pick for Ambassador to Denmark with persuading the Danes to sell us the resource-rich Arctic land.
Shortly afterward, a major power outage struck Greenland due to a downed transmission line.The outage left the region dark during a period of with temperatures dropping below -27 degrees Fahrenheit (-33°C).
Now, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for independence from Denmark in his New Year’s speech, marking a significant shift in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island’s future.
National Post- Kevin O’Leary is on a mission to revive Canada and he’s starting in Alberta
Mr. Wonderful — as he likes to call himself — gets a lot of air-time, cast as the heartless a–hole on “Shark Tank.” But it’s Kevin O’Leary, the clear-eyed dealmaker who I need to meet, to explain why he’s backing a $70-billion AI data centre industrial park near Grande Prairie in northwest Alberta.
Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump posted this:
As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before … On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem.
Prediction of Trudeau’s ego: “Not on my watch!” In fact, he’ll likely intentionally do nothing, stating that he won’t be bullied by any American.
For those with their heads stuck firmly in the sand, his failure to change the course of Canadian policies is why we have this.
Starting soon: Pierre Poilievre speaks with reporters
Within hours of President Trump announcing that he will implement 25% tariffs on Canada & Mexico,
Canadian PM Trudeau called him to talk border security
& the Mexican president announced illegal alien caravans will be stopped.
Here’s an idea: Refuse to engage in any serious negotiations with the Canadian government until they’ve instituted a policy of free expression and no government interference similar to this.
Qatar has a sudden change of heart.
Qatar has reportedly clarified to the terrorist group Hamas, “You are not welcome here,” KAN reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
This development has reportedly been underway in recent days, three sources told KAN. One source told KAN that this is due to pressure from the US.
Come back Joe Biden all is forgiven. “CNN’s Jake Tapper is left speechless after John King shows the places where Kamala Harris over-performed Joe Biden”
Francisco- Looks like he’s also got the senate, the house and the popular vote.
Three hours with Donald Trump, it dropped a few minutes ago.
I think this is real.
Back at it again?
Joe Biden knows the MESSAGE this is sending to the country. pic.twitter.com/3quMmvti0J
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) September 13, 2024
Health Moms: Is RFK Jr. the secret to suburban women?
RFK Jr endorses Trump: “RFK Jr. Endorses Donald Trump and Drops Out of the Presidential Race, Leaving a Scathing Attack on the Democrat Party.”
Great moments in “Where were you when?”… CNN cuts away
Unburdened by political savvy, Harris refused to meet with him.
Update: Trump rally, live from Arizona, and the Youtube feed is extremely low resolution… weird.
So here it is on Rumble.
Highly recommended: Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn reaction to the endorsement.
As only Trump would:
$175M straight cash. Iconic.
Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates Donald Trump’s social-media platform Truth Social, was rising 43% to $71.54 in its first day of trading. Trump Media closed its merger with blank-check company Digital World Acquisition on Monday.
Give the stable genius his due.
An NFT collection featuring the former president dressed as a superhero, cowboy, and astronaut that could be purchased for $99 was subsequently discovered to be the “big news” that Trump teased.
Despite this, according to some reports, the whole 45,000 NFTs of Trump have been sold out in less than 12 hours, with almost 14,000 customers buying one or more of the digital tokens.
The entire value of the Trump NFT collection as of early Friday morning is around 460 Ethereum, or $570,000.
Globe and Mail- First-ever ruling by USMCA panel finds Canada’s dairy trade conduct violates the treaty
In a decision made public Tuesday, the USMCA panel said Canada can no longer reserve preferential access, or tariff-rate quotas, for Canadian processors, which ends up denying U.S. farmers market opportunity to sell into this country’s market.
The Abraham Accords have brought peace and cooperation between Israel and some Arab countries, thanks to Trump. But Kerry is trying to take credit for it.
Meanwhile the Biden family is conducting its own international diplomacy.