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News Desk, The Cradle. Ontario says ready to cut energy, critical minerals to US. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Trump is trying to destroy Canada’s auto industry and move it south to the US. US President Donald Trump threatened on 24 August to impose 50 percent tariffs on additional Canadian products after Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford warned Canada could cut exports of electricity and critical minerals to the US. Trump said in an online post on Monday that tariffs on Canadian automobiles, car parts, and steel will increase to 50 percent on 1 January. Fifty percent tariffs already took effect on Saturday…
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The American murder rate – which peaked in 1980 at 10.2 per 100,000 – fell to an estimated 4.1 per 100,000 people in 2025, matching the rates recorded in 1955 and 1956 for the lowest ever measured in the country. Source link
The long-term Treasury yield is the most important price in the world. It is also the only fiscal disciplinarian the U.S. has left. Source link
On the eleventh and twelfth of August, a Boeing business jet registered A6-RJA left Abu Dhabi, crossed the Gulf, and set down briefly in Iran. Flight trackers logged it at Tehran’s Mehrabad and at Payam airfield near Karaj. It stayed roughly an hour each time, then flew home. The aircraft belongs to Royal Jet, a charter line owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates. That much is a matter of record. What the plane carried is not. Iranian sources told a single account that the flights moved bullion and cash—some two tons of gold, said to be worth…
Henry Kissinger famously (if apocryphally) said, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” This may be the year the world finally got the message. President Donald Trump said he wanted his legacy to be “the wars that we end—and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” It won’t be. Instead, he will be remembered by history as the president who squandered trust in and respect for Washington and brought the post–Cold War era of American hegemony to an end. Trump’s America leads by threats, punishments, and broken promises. It leads…
Canada is not alone in believing that to resist the Trump regime’s aggressions, lawful or otherwise, on the field of battle or at the mahogany table, is what must be done. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meeting President Donald Trump in May 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News The thing I loved first and most about those evidently vicious trade talks the Canadians recently attempted with the Americans is how they blew up in the Trump regime’s faces at five minutes to 12 (almost literally) last Friday night. The…
L.A. city councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez comes up with a fantastical euphemism for the drug-addicted homeless. Source link