Category: Economic Security

Trump again threatens Canada with more tariffs, decertification Bombardier and all Canadian airplanes

Trump said on Thursday January 29, 2026, the US was “decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all aircraft made in Canada” and threatened a 50% import tariffs on all aircraft made in the country until such time as Canada certified a number of airplanes produced by Gulfstream, an American company.

Transport Canada is the agency responsible for Canadian certifications.

There are 150 Bombardier Global Express aircraft in service registered in the US operated by 115 operators and 5,425 total aircraft of various types made in Canada in service registered in the US.

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As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the ‘middle powers’ face new challenges

In any age of economic stagnation and extremes of inequality, popular trust in democratic institutions corrodes. It has been corroding not just in the US but across the Western world for decades now. As such Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of Carney’s “rupture” with the post-World War Two order.

Watching those old men making their way through the Normandy cemeteries was a graphic and poignant reminder that democracy, the rule of law, accountable government are not naturally occurring phenomena. They are not even, historically speaking, normal. They have to be fought for, built, sustained, defended.

And that is the challenge from here facing what Mark Carney called “the middle powers”.

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Allan Little, BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99kkerr93ko

Prime Minister Mark Carney warned “compliance will not buy safety” in a world where the rules-based order has collapsed

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Mark Carney urged middle powers to unite against coercion from aggressive superpowers, warning “compliance will not buy safety” in a world where the rules-based international order has collapsed.

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Trump escalates tensions, posts AI generated image of US flag over Greenland, Canada, Cuba, and Venezuela

Trump posted a doctored image on social media early Tuesday morning showing the president surrounded by European leaders in the Oval Office with a map displaying Canada, Greenland and Venezuela covered in the US flag. The photo was one in a string of posts from the president overnight.

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Donald Trump says ‘no going back’ on Greenland takeover plan | BBC News

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Mark Colley, Toronto Star: Trump posts doctored image of U.S. flag over Canada, Greenland https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/trump-posts-doctored-image-of-u-s-flag-over-canada-greenland/article_61baa2ca-210a-4526-941c-fa2f54026a10.html

2025 was the third hottest year on record

2025 was the third hottest on record and stood on the cusp of surpassing a major climate threshold globally, according to new data from Copernicus, the European climate agency.

The data indicates 2025 was about 1.47 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels, following 2024’s record-setting 1.6 degrees. When 2023 is added to the mix, it’s the first three-year period on record to exceed 1.5 degrees, the data suggests.

2025 was a hot year. What did it mean for Canada?

Chatham House Director warns ‘This does mark the end of the Western alliance’

Bronwen Maddox, Director and Chief Executive of the Chatham House international affairs think-tank, gave her annual lecture at the institution’s London headquarters on January 13, 2026, said, ‘We have had from President Trump what amounts to a revolution. He has given the US a radically new role in the world and – at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence – a role that rejects the principles on which the US was founded: that government should be accountable to the people.’

Maddox added, ‘Most profound, we have had the rejection of principles of international law that the US helped forge – even if it often declined to apply those to itself. Venezuela brandished that rejection to the world, followed by the President’s intention to acquire Greenland.

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Canadian Coast Guard to build a new maintenance facility in Sydney to service icebreakers

Mike Kelloway, the Liberal MP for Sydney-Glace Bay, made the announcement on behalf of Defence Minister David McGuinty on Tuesday at the Canadian Coast Guard Academy.

The new facility will be “a next step towards continued strategic investments in Canada’s security and sovereignty in the Arctic,” Kelloway said before a crowd of about 200 coast guard officials, politicians and business and industry leaders.

“By strengthening our Arctic presence, we are protecting vital national interests and reinforcing Canada’s ability to respond to challenges in one of the most important regions for our future.”

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Tom Ayers, CBC: Coast guard selects Sydney harbour for icebreaker maintenance facility https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coast-guard-selects-sydney-for-icebreaker-maintenance-9.7043609

Europe is entering a new state of alert in the face of US hostility

Europe has entered a new state of alert in the face of US open hostility in areas that go beyond simple economic and technological competition and touch the deepest core of strategic and security issues.

A day after US military and civilian forces staged an illegal incursion into Venezuela, during which President Nicolás Maduro was kidnapped and captured and transported to New York City, Trump asserted that his country needs Greenland — an autonomous territory belonging to Denmark, a member of NATO.

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Trump is reshaping Canada-US relations, the Canadian economy, and Canada’s engagement with the world

Canada enters 2026 at what Prime Minister Mark Carney has rightly called a “hinge moment.” Canada’s long-standing relationship with the US, based on ever-increasing economic integration and a rock-solid security partnership, is history.

Ongoing trade uncertainty will weigh on the Canadian economy, and the US administration will wield unilateral military and economic power in the Western Hemisphere. Canada’s efforts to diversify its trade and strategic relationships will face powerful headwinds.

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