Canada
Canadians overwhelmingly support retaliation to Trump tariffs: poll
New polling provided exclusively to Global News says 82 per cent of Canadians believe Trump's tariffs should be met with Canadian tariffs on American goods.
‘Safe haven’: Iranian Canadians urge Ottawa to weed out regime officials
Documents released by the foreign interference commission summarize public consultations with the Iranian diaspora.
Guilbeault admits carbon tax could be 'replaced'
The federal environment minister admits there are alternatives to the 'very unpopular' tax, and blames the Conservatives for making it so.
The Provinces
Ford tells LCBO to clear U.S. booze from shelves if Trump imposes tariffs
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he’s told the LCBO to clear U.S. booze from its shelves if Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs as he’s threatened to do.
Doug Ford signals early election may be top of mind: 'We need a clear mandate'
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has offered one of his clearest signals yet that an early provincial election is top of mind, arguing Monday that he will need a new mandate in order to deal with four years of a Donald Trump presidency in the United States.
B.C.'s finance minister says retaliatory tariffs could target Republican 'red states'
Minister Brenda Bailey told reporters Monday that targeting "red states" for possible retaliatory tariffs could be one of the "strategic ways" to influence people in Trump's own party. "The impact that making these decisions will have directly on Americans is going to be part of that analysis as well, and has been," she said.
Elsewhere
Donald Trump threatens Canada, Mexico with 25% tariffs by Feb. 1
President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Monday, has pledged tariffs of 25 per cent import surcharge on Canadian and Mexican products.
America, don’t doubt Canada’s resolve
Chrystia Freeland: The threats won’t work. We will not escalate, but we will not back down. If you hit us, we will hit back — and our blows will be precisely targeted. We are smaller than you, to be sure, but the stakes for us are immeasurably higher. Do not doubt our resolve.
Trump declares ‘liberation,’ claims mandate for emergency powers
Donald Trump took office as the 47th president claiming an electoral and divine mandate to immediately invoke emergency powers on immigration and energy, pursue territorial expansion, and reverse Joe Biden’s policies on car emissions and trans rights. (🎁 link)
Science and tech
University of Waterloo researchers engineer bacteria to eat microplastics. But is it a pipe dream?
Project lead researcher Marc Aucoin, a professor in the Ontario school's department of chemical engineering, said bacteria already exist in water systems to clean up microplastics, adding they are "biorobots that can be programmed to get the job done."
The Calendar
- 0900 ET: Montebello, QC - PM Trudeau speaks to reporters.
- Montebello, QC - PM Trudeau meets with this cabinet.
- Montebello, QC - PM Trudeau speaks with European Council President António Costa.
- Montebello, QC - PM Trudeau speaks with Ontario Premier Doug Ford
- 1000 ET: Toronto - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to reporters.
