We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

EVs Are Out, Gasoline Power Is In At GM’s Orion Plant

Don’t look now, but General Motors is pulling the plug on building EVs at its Orion facility in Michigan. Confirming the news yesterday, it will instead assemble an array of light-duty pickup trucks and the Cadillac Escalade, said to be all part of a $4 billion push to meet demand for gasoline-powered vehicles in this country.Local media, specifically The Freep (Detroit Free Press) were among the first to report on the story.

Related: EV pickup truck sales in the U.S. in Q2 2025, according to new Cox Auto data

Cognitive Chaos

I’m having trouble following Carney’s logic here. I thought Orange Man was bad for hiking tariffs, and here we are doing exactly the same thing. As far as I can tell, these tariffs don’t apply to the US but to a host of countries that presumably we were supposed to establish new relationships with in order to offset the trouble we have with the US. Can someone tell me what in blazes is going on?

A 50% tariff will apply to imports from these countries that surpass the 2024 volumes, though Canada will honor existing arrangements with its United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade partners, Carney said.

Canada will implement additional tariffs of 25% on steel imports from all countries containing steel melted and poured in China before the end of July.

Related, from Kate: I’m old enough to remember Carney asking when was the last time you bought steel. Boy genius eh.

Things You See On CBC

Peter Stockland- CBC and Suzuki team up to prove that neither is interested in, nor capable of change

The great hunkering mass of progressive hot air that CBC breeds into Canada’s stultifying political ecosystem seems somehow impervious to change. Its perpetual BIPOC fixations. Its quaintly Victorian upper middle class pity for the suffering masses. Above all, Mother Corp. looms lugubriously in its unwavering devotion to the debunked and defrocked doomsday cult of climate alarmists.

“Not an Isolated Incident”

Garry Clement- Official Silence on Medical Waste From PRC-Linked Monasteries Must Be Broken

It’s time to ask some uncomfortable questions: Why have our local and provincial leaders remained largely silent? Why are there no public inquiries into the legality of private medical practices, the source of biomedical waste, or the tax status of such institutions? And why has the community — despite mounting evidence — allowed itself to be sidelined?

Rainbow Flags And Unicorns

Dan Knight- OP-ED: Fleeing Facts, Canada Now Protects Americans from Trump and Science

You used to need to flee war, famine, or tyranny to qualify for refugee status. Now, you just need to feel uncomfortable in a red state. Apparently, Mississippi is now equivalent to Mogadishu if you don’t like being called “he.”

Globe and Mail- Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts

Angel Jenkel, a 24-year-old multimedia artist from Minnesota who is engaged to a Canadian, can now remain in Canada while their case is judicially reviewed, in a judgment that their lawyers hailed as precedent-setting.

Mx. Jenkel told The Globe and Mail that the current climate in the U.S. is “scary,” and that being non-binary, they are afraid of persecution if they return.

Ethics, Transparency, Blind Trust

None of these things seem to mean what you think they mean.

Sam Cooper- Democracy Watchdog Says PM Carney’s “Ethics Screen” Actually “Hides His Participation” In Conflicted Investments

“It was very unethical for Mark Carney to hide his investments in more than 560 companies for the past four months,” Conacher said. “Unfortunately, many media outlets failed to cover the conflicts of interest, especially regarding Brookfield, and failed to point out that his so-called blind trust isn’t blind at all.”

How Are Those Elbows Holding Up?

Meanwhile: “This landmark Deal opens up Indonesia’s ENTIRE MARKET to the United States for the first time in History.”

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