Canada will respond “dollar for dollar” to new U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, Prime Minister Mark Carney said late Friday as Ottawa suspended trade negotiations with Washington and recalled its negotiating team. The move came as President Donald Trump’s new 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Canadian goods took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Saturday after the two countries failed to finalize a comprehensive trade deal ahead of Trump’s deadline. | Globalnews.ca
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters that Canada had walked away from the negotiating table, minutes before a deadline ushering in new 50 percent tariffs by the Trump administration on a broad range of Canadian goods. “Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week, despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market,” Mr. Greer said on a virtual briefing with the press. “New demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days.” | NYT (🎁 link)
PM Carney made no public appearance on Friday and, as of this morning, there are no public events on his itinerary though we expect his itinerary to be updated with, perhaps, a news conference later today. His office did release this statement late last night. In recent weeks, we made important progress toward improving Canada’s position as having the best deal in the world with the U.S. However, that progress has not been enough to meet our objectives for Canadians. As a result, this evening, I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa. They have worked hard, in good faith, to defend the interests of Canadians throughout these negotiations up until the very last minute. However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal. | Prime Minister of Canada
David Eby@Dave_Eby
British Columbians will always stand with Canada. Our politeness should never be mistaken for weakness. We’ll always defend ourselves. We didn’t ask for this, but we’ll keep fighting for as long as it takes.
Mark Carney @MarkJCarney
My statement on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations:
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Doug Ford@fordnation
Team Canada needs to stand together more united than ever before. The prime minister has my full support for a strong response—tariff for tariff, dollar for dollar. As we fight to protect Canadian sovereignty and economic security, everything needs to be on the table. Ontario
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Danielle Smith@ABDanielleSmith
I am deeply disappointed that Canada and the United States have not been able to reach a trade agreement. Alberta has always advocated for a tariff free relationship, and will continue to do so. No one benefits from a trade war. Tariffs and counter-tariffs hurt businesses,
5:00 AM · Aug 22, 2026 · 135K Views
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From July 27: Fewer than one-in-10 Canadians (7%) saying their government should capitulate to U.S. demands in order to avoid tariffs. A strong majority would respond with counter-tariffs, though they’re divided over matching the U.S. charges dollar for dollar (34%) or responding in a more limited fashion (28%). Confidence in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s negotiating team has dropped since spring, and trust that Trump would honour any deal reached remains scarce. | Angus Reid Institute
From Aug 17: Thirty-six percent want Canada to respond with new counter-tariffs, even if that raises prices and risks escalation. Thirty percent prefer continued negotiations without new counter-tariffs. Just 18% favour offering concessions to the United States, such as easing dairy restrictions or ending bans on American alcohol, if doing so gets the tariffs removed. Quebecers are particularly reluctant to concede: only 12% prefer that option, compared with 22% in Ontario and 23% in Alberta.There is also a political difference. Just 16% of Liberal supporters and 14% of NDP supporters favour concessions, compared with 26% of Conservatives and only 6% of Bloc supporters. | Abacus Data
The Kitchener Centre MP insisted that change is needed before others face the struggles she once encountered. “Addiction is not a distant issue. it’s here in our streets, in our homes, and in the lives of the people that we love,” DeRidder said on Friday. “We cannot keep shifting responsibility... we cannot keep building systems that leave people waiting until it’s too late.” Their call comes during a week that saw Region of Waterloo Public Health issue an extended community drug alert, with a reported 25 suspected overdoses and three suspected drug-related deaths from August 14 to August 17. | CTV News
New tough-on-crime laws and statistics showing falling crime rates aren’t likely to change how Canadians currently feel about crime or whether it’s used as a political wedge between parties, some national pollsters say. David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, said it will take time for the statistics and new laws to resonate with Canadians. “That’s because that perception lasts far longer than the reality of the situation. And so people need to feel safer before they actually believe it is,” he said. Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president for Central Canada, said there is “often a real disconnect in terms of what statistics will tell you and what people will tell you in terms how they’re feeling.” | Globalnews.ca
“One of the primary ones is providing health care to the population. People pay taxes with the expectation that they will receive services.” Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said his government would get rid of Santé Québec in a bid to reinvest in direct patient care. Savings, he added, would go toward strengthening frontline care via local health clinics known as CLSCs, and reducing the wait list for surgeries. | CBC News
Nate Glubish was peppered with profanity from audience members at the Thursday event in Redwater, north of Edmonton, in Sturgeon County. People lined up to the microphone to level their concerns and demand specifics on safeguards. Some said trust in the provincial government has already been lost on the file. | Globalnews.ca
Elections Alberta updates the amount of money contributed to advertisers every Friday, and the agency’s Aug. 20 update shows federalists raised $32,115 compared to separatist advertisers who amassed $31,405.74 in contributions over the prior seven days. Separatists had dominated weekly fundraising counts, routinely getting more than 60 per cent of all contributions in a given week. They continue to hold a more than $550,000 contribution advantage with $781,709.44 gathered to date in total compared to $223,376 contributed to federalist advertisers. | Edmonton Journal
History has often shown the incumbent advantage at city council to be insurmountable. But that doesn’t mean the 26 races in the Toronto municipal election are foregone conclusions. Three have no incumbent. Three have recognizable challengers descending from Parliament Hill. One features a tough fight between a councillor and his nemesis, an outspoken web commentator. Another will have a rematch between two candidates who virtually tied in 2022. And a councillor who has faced investigation by the OPP will seek re-election. | TorStar (🎁 link)
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the largest lobbying group representing U.S. ranchers and cattle feeders, said Trump’s plan would hurt farmers and ranchers and could discourage expansion of the U.S. herd. “While America’s cattle producers share the goal of keeping groceries affordable for consumers, flooding the market with government-subsidized, below-market beef is not the way to rebuild the American cattle herd,” the association’s CEO, Colin Woodall, said in a statement. | Globalnews.ca
Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers
The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.
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The Associated Press will lay off 20 video production staff in the U.S. on Friday and move those jobs to a new hub in India, according to the union representing those journalists. An additional 10 photo editors in the U.S. and 10 video production staff in London are being targeted for layoffs, though it is unclear when their jobs would be terminated. The decision to eliminate journalists with decades of experience and move their jobs covering American news to India raises concerns about the quality of future coverage, union leaders said. | Poynter
The new labels come months after Apple Music launched transparency tags back in March, available for record labels and music distributors to disclose when content uploaded was “materially generated using AI.”
In their review of the research, Mar and colleagues point to the lifelong benefits of reading fiction—adults who read more fiction are less prejudiced, more insightful, and more reflective about life. They are also more cognitively flexible: reading fiction increases neuronal connectivity. It actually makes our brains healthier! And this increases our physical well-being. People who read more fiction show less cognitive decline with age and actually live longer. Wow, books are powerful! | Psychology Today
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