NEW - This Hamilton Steel mill layoff in Canada is a HUGE story --
The owner, Cleveland-Cliffs REFUSED emergency cash (undisclosed amount) from Mark Carney and violated an agreement they signed to not lay any workers off.
Think of how BADLY you want to leave a country to REFUSE EMERGENCY cash!
Cleveland-Cliffs (American) bought Stelco for $3.4 billion in 2024.... Ottawa approved it with conditions attached under the Investment Canada Act.
Those undertakings run until late 2029.
- Maintain at least the same number of unionized employees as when the deal was announced
- Keep the vast majority of non-union employees
- Honour existing collective agreements, pensions, and benefits - Keep the head office in Hamilton
- Keep operating as “Stelco, a Cleveland-Cliffs Company”
- Make significant capital and R&D investments - Don’t let emissions intensity rise
Less than two years later they are indefinitely idling the cold-rolled and coated lines at Hamilton Works.
Up to 500 workers affected. The union says about 350 in Hamilton.
They blame Trump tariffs but their own CEO cheered those tariffs.
Carney is now talking about pursuing them “to the full extent of the law.”
We are getting our butt kicked here - companies are refusing cash to stay in Canada now..... and they're openly violating agreements and just leaving.
Someone just pointed out that—almost unbelievably—this is real footage from a fight in which the Canada goose ultimately prevailed over the eagle: https://t.co/wLQ6O7ccqf
If this isn't a metaphor for US trade policy, I don't know what is.
Chapman's Ice Cream has just done something EVERY Canadian should know.
The largest ice cream company in Canada used to source fruit and nuts from American suppliers — for some, for over 30 years. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products.
So, what did Chapman's do?
📷 They called Italy.
📷 They called Spain.
📷 They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.
And the vice president said it perfectly:
"Even if Trump wakes up smarter than yesterday, we're about to sign long-term deals with other countries — and the American companies that supply them will have nothing but their eyes to cry for."
Oh, and on top of ALL that? They're COLDing their prices so that the average Canadian doesn't have to spend a single cent more.
It's a family business. No shareholders. Just the Chapman family saying: "The least we can do is make sure Canadians still have the means to buy ice cream."
That's what Canadian pride looks like.
Next time you're at the grocery store — grab some Chapman's.
Every scoop of ice cream is a vote for Canada.
Trump wanted Canada to remember who the big boy next door was. Instead, Canada looked across the Atlantic and discovered Europe.
And not for a weekend fling. Canada is now the first non-European country inside the EU’s €150 billion defence procurement programme, while the two sides are knitting together trade, defence, energy, technology and critical minerals. That is an increasingly integrated economic and security relationship covering nearly half a billion people.
And here is the bit Trump’s legacy will never escape. Carney has said the old relationship is not coming back.
Imagine explaining this in twenty years.
“You had one of the richest, friendliest countries on Earth sitting literally next door. It bought your products, shared your continent, fought beside you and trusted you. What happened?”
“Well, we threatened it with tariffs.”
And Canada went to Europe. For fuck’s sake.
What an absolutely monumental idiot.
The more detailed list of each of the extraordinary demands that the US inserted, apparently at the last minute. This is subjugation if not outright annexation. The US wants a veto on any Canadian infrastructure from ports to telecom/power grids.
PlayStation is deleting over 500 purchased movies from its customers' accounts 🎞️
• Includes films like 'Terminator 2', 'Rambo', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Hot Fuzz', and 'Moonlight'
• Comes after a licensing deal ended
Current philosophy of discipline in schools:
"Well, he had a rough background so he gets to do whatever he wants and thereby ruin the learning of every other kid in the school without consequence."
And somehow that's the enlightened, "compassionate" approach
98% of parents would be better putting their kids in school sports & YMCA Rec leagues instead of wasting $10,000 a year on traveling sports teams from age 8-18.
Invest that $100,000 for your kid instead & gift them a big down payment on their first home.
Let them play multiple sports & don't specialize.
Let them be a kid & enjoy life instead of everything being CAN WE SECURE A SCHOLARSHIP.
A dad told me he spent around $160k in traveling baseball, coaches, equipment, etc. & his kid got a D2 scholarship worth around 5k a year.......
A lot of youth sports is a scam & money grab.
*If your kid is super gifted & super INTERNALLY MOTIVATED & loves it, this isn't for you...... but that's 2%.
I talked a dad who told me he spent $10k a year on travel baseball between tourneys, travel, and gear for his son. He got a partial scholarship to D-2 school. If he had put the $10k in a mutual fund each year, he would have had about $190,000. The scholarship was $5k a year.
People who work retail barely get any days off & are now losing their statutory holidays because Doug the Dummy didn’t know Home Depot was closed on Family Day
For 3 years Gavin McKenna was considered a consensus #1 pick
Then the leafs win the draft lottery and we have all these clowns saying “well maybe they should take someone else”
Unreal