How to lose Trump’s trade war: test Canada’s resolve with threats to hockey sticks

26 août 2026 à 14:15

The US president expected Ottawa to bow to tariff demands, but Canada is striking back – and it could cost Americans

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Earlier this year, a survey found that Canada, along with Switzerland, was the best-liked country in the world. We all know this kind of polling is about as scientific as a high school popularity contest, but at least anecdotally, Canadians have a reputation for being friendly and welcoming, respectful and polite. Many people would find it difficult to dislike Canadians.

But not Donald Trump, who in a “hold my beer” moment this week demonstrated that he, at least, finds it easy to resent Canadians. The US president called the country “difficult and unreasonable”, and in a particularly hysterical moment, threatened to rename a lake, after trade talks collapsed.

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The Kremlin says the CIA director held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts

Par : The Associated Press

26 août 2026 à 08:44

The Kremlin says CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time when relations with Washington remain strained over Russia’s war in Ukraine

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How Mark Carney’s speeches have become political earthquakes | Ted Widmer

Par : Ted Widmer

26 août 2026 à 06:00

The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths

Is it perhaps a sign of the times that Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, has become a thrilling orator? A sober banker, he speaks calmly, without many vocal inflections. We expect Canadians to be somewhat flat; even a little boring, and yet Carney has already delivered two remarkable speeches in 2026, and the year is far from over.

The first, at Davos, described a “rupture in the world order”, and “the end of a pleasant fiction”. By that, he meant that the world could no longer depend on the United States to lead the Pax Americana that has largely kept the peace since the end of the second world war.

US news | The Guardian

Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada

Par : Lauren Aratani in New York

26 août 2026 à 06:00

Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated

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Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.

After trade negotiations broke down between the two countries last weekend, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, vowed to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and unveiled a list of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September.

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