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Canada running aground with friendshoring

The problem with electing a clown is that everyone thinks their actions are a joke. While that statement may allow partisans of all stripes to project its meaning on their political opponent of choice, in this case, it applies specifically to United States President Donald Trump. Canada has been a popular target since Trump’s return […]

Electrify everything!

We must combine our newly energized national pride in reforming our economy to be more self-reliant and self-sufficient with massively increasing our climate ambition.

Trump’s tariff barrage roils Canadian energy world

Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, speaks with Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly after a press conference after the First Ministers Meeting in Ottawa on Jan. 15, 2025. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Donald Trump represents a poisonous addition to this country’s often-rancorous, decades-old debate over pipelines and the oil and gas industry’s environmental impacts. Any appeal for unified Canadian resistance to his trade attacks will have to overcome the history of regional conflict and current cleavages.