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opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Canadians Feel Real Pain in Stage 4 of Trade War
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I’d like to offer an update on the Canadian-American trade spat. Earlier, I had staged it. I… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The US Has Entered Stage 3 in the Trade War With Canada
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. The philosopher Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, once said that you don’t step into the same river… -
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Trump Posts Map Depicting Canada, Mexico as Part of US
President Donald Trump posted a map on Monday showing Canada, Mexico, Central America, Greenland, Iceland, and parts of the Caribbean as territories of the United States of America. The president shared the image depicting several foreign countries covered by the American flag on his social media platform Truth Social. Trump has previously expressed interest in… -
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Canada’s Retaliatory Tariffs Take Effect as US Trade Talks Stall
OTTAWA, Sept. 8 (REUTERS)—Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods took effect just after midnight on Tuesday as Prime Minister Mark Carney increased economic pressure on his country’s biggest trading partner after negotiations collapsed last month, intensifying an 18-month-old trade war. The counter-tariffs cover $20 billion of U.S. goods, with duties ranging from 15% to 50% across products… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Changed Names. Trump Does It, and Suddenly It’s Tyranny.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re in another psychodrama, melodrama controversy, and that is that [President] Donald Trump has just renamed… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Carney Picked a Trade War With Trump—But Why?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Victor Davis Hanson: Canada, everybody likes Canada. Come on. We all have—I have a brother-in-law who’s Canadian… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Canada Is Picking the Wrong Fight With Trump
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We’re in another spat with our northern neighbor, Canada, kind of a psychodrama again. We were… -
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Trump Responds to Concerns About Canada Trade War Raising US Prices
President Donald Trump brushed off affordability concerns related to his trade war with Canada in response to a question from the Daily Signal on Thursday. Earlier this week, Trump announced he will impose tariffs on Canadian cars amid his trade war with our neighbor to the north. He has called Canada “one of the worst… -
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Canada Announces Retaliatory Tariffs; Trump Proposes ‘Lake America’
Canada is retaliating against the United States with new tariffs and President Donald Trump is floating changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” in the latest salvos in the weekslong trade dispute between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake… -
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Canadian Wildfires Prove That Proper Forest Management Beats ‘Green’ Plans
It’s the same every fire season: Armchair experts and green campaigners confuse poor forest management with climate change, and then they use that confusion to justify their plans to remake the economy and control your energy use. Just as they did in 2023, true believers are claiming that the Canadian wildfires that last week darkened the… -
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Canadian Premier Calls Trump’s Wildfire Criticism ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said U.S. criticism of Canadian efforts to stop the “terrible scenario” of spreading forest fires in his province and choking smoke across a broad swath of the United States was “absolutely unacceptable.” “We’re trying to get through this,” Ford said on Saturday, adding that if the situation were reversed and the… -
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Americans Are Tired of Canada’s Forest Fire Smoke. It’s Time to Do Something About It.
Summer after summer is being marred by noxious fumes descending from Canada, and I have had enough. Sorry, I’m a little grumpy, but I can’t help it. The sky is yellow, my headache won’t go away, I haven’t been outside in days, and the reason is that our snooty, supposedly climate-conscious neighbor up north can’t… -
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Canada, Terrorist Group Welcome Alleged Terror-Tied FIFA Referee
Progressive politicians in Canada and the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab have condemned the United States for denying entry to Omar Artan, a Somali-born FIFA World Cup 2026 referee with alleged ties to the terrorist group. “Denying entry to Omar Artan, who has earned his place on the world stage through hard work and perseverance, is… -
opinion
A Nightmare MAID in Canada
A Canadian man went to a Tim Hortons coffee shop with a minor medical problem, spoke to a doctor, and was promptly taken to a medical facility and euthanized under state-sanctioned MAID policies. Sadly, this is the most modern Canada story of all time. A recent report highlights how Canada’s medical assistance in dying program has created… -
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Oil-Rich Alberta Could Hold Independence Vote This October
Alberta separatists said Monday they have collected more than enough signatures to force a referendum on whether the oil-rich province should split away from Canada. Stay Free Alberta needed 178,000 signatures to put the referendum on the ballot. It claims to have garnered 302,000. Mitch Sylvestre, the group’s head, led a convoy of seven trucks… -
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‘We’ll Be Your Canada’: Brutal Reality Check for NATO Free Riders
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Once again, NATO is in crisis. It seems like this is happening every three or four years. It predates and… -
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Shots Fired at US Consulate in Toronto, Ottawa Says Incident Unacceptable
REUTERS—Shots were fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto early on Tuesday, but no one was injured, police said, in what Canada’s public safety minister described as an unacceptable incident. Toronto police said on X that they responded to reports of shots at 5:29 a.m. EDT and found evidence of a discharged firearm. In another post, police… -
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‘Tonight Was All for the Country’: USA Defeats Rival Canada for Olympic Hockey Gold
MILAN, Feb 22 (Reuters) — The United States ended a nearly half-century wait for Olympic men’s ice hockey gold with a 2-1 overtime victory against Canada in a thrilling final on Sunday, with Jack Hughes delivering their third title and first since 1980 with the winning shot. Hughes left it all—including at least one of… -
opinion
How Canada’s Only Leverage Over America Disappeared in an Instant
Trump’s operation to capture Nicolás Maduro in the early hours of Jan. 3 was a title wave that changed global politics drastically. Not only was a dictator de-throned and will soon be brought to justice, but Cuba, China, Iran, and Russia all stand to lose the most economically and politically—a win for all Americans. E.J…. -
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Blocking Canada’s Silent Suicide From Creeping Into America
Canada has embraced a culture of death. America’s neighbor to the north legalized euthanasia in 2016, and since then, more than 75,000 Canadians have participated in Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program. Canada also has no restrictions on abortion and only considers a baby a human after it passes through the birth canal. In 2021, Canada took…