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OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has “apologized” for the Ontario government’s anti-tariff television ad featuring Ronald Reagan that reportedly derailed trade talks between both countries.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Friday as he was heading back to the U.S., Trump was asked if he was going to resume negotiations with Canada and said “no.” The president however sung Carney’s praises, saying that they have a “very good relationship.”
“I like him a lot but what they did was wrong,” said Trump of Ontario’s commercial.
“(Carney) was...
October 31, 2025 - 15:40 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
There are a million reasons why this Blue Jays World Series run is so special to Canadians coast to coast to coast.Let’s start with the obvious on-field ones: We’re watching a team powered by the lightning bat of a generational superstar, and a come-from-nowhere minor league pitcher shattering records in the bright lights of the World Series. Add in 49 league-leading, heart-stopping comeback wins in the regular season, and top it off with the now iconic “Springer Dinger” in Game 7 of the ALCS.
October 31, 2025 - 15:31 | Adrian Cheung | The Globe and Mail
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump halted Canada-U.S. trade talks last week in an angry response to a TV ad run by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government featuring Ronald Reagan’s 1987 comments criticizing tariffs. “Ronald Reagan loved tariffs,” Trump said, labelling the ad “fraudulent.”
For insights into Reagan’s trade views and Trump’s response, National Post turned to Doug Irwin, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and former staffer on Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. Irwin has written extensively about trade and recently published a New York Times op-ed about...
October 31, 2025 - 15:24 | Tracy Moran | National Post
A former Saskatoon police officer, fired in September with two other officers after an off-duty hot tub party in his backyard, is now charged with assault. Dylan Kemp is appealing his firing.
October 31, 2025 - 15:17 | | CBC News - Canada
It’s been barely a week since Ontario Premier Doug Ford angered U.S. President Donald Trump with a television ad that played up former Republican president Ronald Reagan’s dislike and distrust of tariffs between nations. Trump called the ad “fake” and said all trade talks were “hereby terminated.”
Now Ford has returned to the public sphere with yet another impassioned plea for better trade relations. This time, however, rather than invoking football’s the Gipper, Ford is playing the baseball card.
The medium this time is an op-ed in Friday’s Washington Post. And the message: “Canada and...
October 31, 2025 - 15:15 | Chris Knight | National Post
TORONTO — Russian attacks on Ukraine’s natural-gas system are a deliberate bid to create a “humanitarian crisis,” Ukraine’s energy minister charged Friday as Canada pledged to speed up support for the nation’s battered heating and lighting grid.
Moscow has consistently attacked civilian energy infrastructure since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, noted Svitlana Grynchuk, the energy minister. But earlier this year it started hitting natural-gas production and other parts of the gas system, crucial to civilian homes.
“It’s not about military targets,” Grynchuk said at a...
October 31, 2025 - 15:12 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
