Oh yeah, I guess we have ben and jerry’s and hagan daaz stuff but my spouse does the shopping and I’ve never seen that stuff darken our doorway. We have lots of regional choices at the grocery store - Kwartha dairies is my spouse’s choice. Shaw’s is popular but I don’t think they’re at the grocery store. THis place (it’s near where we go fishing, so I take students for ice cream there after a tough day on the water) https://whatsthescoopinnisfil.com/ serves https://www.centralsmith.ca/ . All three of those brands are as good as anything put out by the national brands.
So I guess that’s an oddity, that we have a wide selection of regional brands of ice cream all over the place that are all outstanding. I’d be taken aback if I went to an ice cream store and it wasnt’ a regional brand. I mean, other than a national chain.
We follow different US media. What i saw was wife reporting of:
And some other last minute requests that were nearly as crazy. I didn’t see reporting of the language issue, which maybe isn’t immediately obvious to Americans. But i certainly saw that we’d imposed last-minute requirements that no country would possibly accept.
(Or… Hmm, i have been subscribing to CBC. Is it possible i only read that there? I doubt it.)
Obviously the US was not negotiating in good faith given these unreasonable demands. There are several on their own that should be red lines. No country could accept these demands.
Seems as if Trump basically wants Canada to be a vassal of the US.
I’ve heard discussion previously that Trump was wanting to divvy the world up with China and Russia.
If the oil deal with Venezuela succeeds I believe it is a real threat to Alberta. Alberta crude oil is similar to Venezuela’s so they would be competitors. it will be a few years before Venezuela oil production can be ramped up to high levels but new pipelines from Alberta to the US would take even longer.
Alberta separatists might want to keep this in mind. Their pipelines to Asian markets run through BC.
They seem to think being an independent country would make it easier for them to be able to force pipelines to tidewater.
Oh, this is a perfect opportunity for Canada to put the knife into Trump for his tariff antics.
As of the week ending August 21, US refinery utilisation had been at or above 95 per cent for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest streak since 2000, according to US Energy Information Administration data. Some analysts warned the stretched system left the market vulnerable to more disruption. Refineries near the Gulf of Mexico, for instance, could suffer an outage due to a hurricane, driving prices higher, analysts said. “Seasonal stocks of diesel and home heating oil are at historic lows, while planned maintenance at several major refineries — including the sprawling St John refinery in north-east Canada — are likely to pull prices up even higher, absent de-escalation in the Middle East,” said political risk consultants Eurasia Group in a recent note.
Carney likely won’t do anything. I think he’s trying to navigate things to minimize damage. And retaliation or goading won’t help that cause.
I know we all want to retaliate, but it’s really best if we don’t.
Carney’s waiting for the midterms imo.
I interpret this as Americans don’t buy Trump’s harangues on how nasty Canada and Canadians are when it comes to trade. Maybe because every American knows that Canadians are not bad people?
Trump’s approval ratings are terrible. No one really likes him here other than Republicans, which is unfortunately enough for him to still have substantial power.
The President going to gitmo for citing fake polls.
The polling would be even more in Canada’s favour in the trade war if Republicans didn’t believe Trump’s lies about Canada’s trade policies. Canada has one of the most open economies in the world: our tariffs were and continue to be lower than the US ones. Right wing media won’t report that though
An example of typical Trump misinformation that has been pedalled before. US banks operate in Canada but they have to satisfy the same solid reserving requirements as Canadian banks. They balk at this so just operate here in other areas.
Donald Trump mistakes Bank of Canada for retail bank
U.S. president spoke about Crown corporation when asked about Canadian tourism
CBC News · Posted: Sep 02, 2026 1:27 PM PDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday implied the Bank of Canada was a commercial bank with locations south of the border, not a Crown corporation that exists solely up north.
The president made the claim at an Oval Office event with travel executives, repeating his longstanding justification for imposing tariffs on Canada: that the country takes economic advantage of the U.S.
“They basically don’t allow banks of America to be in Canada. That’s sort of emblematic of the way they treat us,” Trump told reporters in response to a question about the decline in Canadian tourism.
"They have their banks here, Bank of Canada, all of their big banks, big beautiful banks. I think they have six or seven major banks here. We don’t have our banks there. You know why? They don’t allow it
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that U.S. banks are barred from operating in Canada, despite 16 American banks currently providing services in Canada.
Several U.S. financial institutions have operations in Canada. They fall under the Schedule 2 category (foreign-owned banks with Canadian subsidiaries), and they include JPMorganChase, which has about 600 employees on this side of the border, and Citibank, which has operated in Canada for more than a century.
Canadian banks have a good pedigree. They famously survived the GFC -
Some Western Canada provinces are looking at restructuring food distribution systems to reduce reliance on US.
“Food industry associations in British Columbia and Manitoba are seeking close-to $1-billion from government and private business to build regional food terminals as trade tensions with the U.S. continue to expose the risks of relying on north-south trade.”
“In 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump foolishly withdrew the United States from a mega-trade pact involving numerous Pacific Rim countries, including Canada.
The U.S. exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership – a signature initiative of former president Barack Obama….
At the time, that seemed so crazy. Pull out of a basically anti-China trade pact before starting a trade war with China. Ah, the days when that was nuts