Canada Catch-All | Trump 51st State “plan”

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Americans love the freedom to die in fiery auto crashes more.


Until around a decade ago, virtually all of the gap between the US and Canadian rates of crash deaths were explained by Americans simply driving more. Rebecca Weast, a coauthor of the study who works at IIHS, said that collisions in both countries dropped in 2007 as the global economy tanked. “Historically, crashes go down during recessions,” she told me. “But the US bounced back, and Canada just kind of kept going.”

From 2010 to 2020, Weast and her coauthors found, total road deaths rose 18% in the US but declined 22% in Canada. That finding is even more jarring when considering that Canada’s population grew faster during the decade. This “crash gap” also widened when calculated as deaths per mile driven, a measure that, unlike deaths per capita, excludes changes in car use.


After crunching data from both countries, the researchers identified several factors that help explain the deepening statistical separation. Pedestrian and cyclist deaths have surged in the US, reaching their highest levels in decades, but they have fallen in Canada. At the same time, speed-, alcohol-, and semi-truck-related crashes have increased in the US but dropped to the north.
 
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The majority of Canadians that own property in the U.S. plan to sell, survey finds

Trade tensions between Canada and the United States have many Canadians that own U.S. property weighing a sale of their home south of the border due to the economic policies of U.S. President Donald Trump‘s administration.
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The majority of Canadians that own property in the U.S. plan to sell, survey finds

Trade tensions between Canada and the United States have many Canadians that own U.S. property weighing a sale of their home south of the border due to the economic policies of U.S. President Donald Trump‘s administration.

More than half of Canadians with U.S. real estate holdings (54 per cent) say they are planning to sell their American homes within the next year, according to a recent Royal LePage survey conducted by Brunson.

“Those are big numbers, particularly when you consider that we have about 1 million snowbird Canadians travel the United States each year, particularly during the six months of fall through spring, so the wintertime, and about over 60 per cent of those own property,” Phil Soper, president and CEO of Royal LePage, told BNNBloomberg.ca in a Wednesday interview.

Nearly two-thirds (62 per cent) of respondents surveyed, who are considering a sale, point to concerns with Trump and the White House. Meanwhile, 33 per cent are motivated by personal and financial reasons and five per cent are worried about extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes, floods and forest fires.
 

And maybe it wouldn't be so bad, if Prime Minister Mark Carney had not made diversifying where the Canadian military gets its kit a campaign issue that the Canadian public has embraced as much as boycotting American goods.

Regardless of when we see the results of the F-35 review and whatever it says, the Liberal government has likely strapped a "kick me" sign on its behind as each new U.S.-manufactured equipment project emerges and passes important milestones.

A sample of what's already in the pipeline:

  • The sole-sourced deal for the U.S.-manufactured High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) for the army (roughly $714 million based on an export price of $27 million per unit).
  • The combat management system for the new River-class destroyers, developed by the Canadian arm of an American defence contractor but highly dependent on its U.S. parent for upgrades ($2.3 billion for the first four Aegis ship sets).
  • The sole-sourced purchase of 17 Boeing P-8A Poseidon surveillance planes ($10.4 billion).
  • Joint light tactical vehicles for the special forces that the U.S. recently gave Canada the green light to buy (approximately $220 million).
That is not a complete list, but it represents coming deliveries.

McGuinty was recently warned by senior members of the military that the HIMARS purchase, while required to equip the troops deployed in Latvia, presents a political headache.

News of the U.S. approval of the purchase of special forces vehicles was greeted by the Department of National Defence this summer with a swift, curt reminder that no decision had been made to proceed with the actual purchase.

The marketing machinery of government, ever attuned to trumpeting new hardware delivery, may have to be adjusted to avoid repeated self-inflicted political wounds.
 
If some foreign power was seeking greater influence in the world, figured out that gaining such greater influence was a zero-sum game, and decided that diminishing America's standing in the world was the best way to free up influence that could be snapped-up on the cheap, then could this foreign power have done a better job than St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago is doing now?
 
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Canadian travel to U.S. declines for 7th consecutive month amid trade war - National | Globalnews.ca

In July, the number of Canadian residents returning from the United States was down to 2.6 million, marking a 32.4 per cent decrease compared with July 2024
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For the seventh consecutive month, Canadians took their tourism dollars elsewhere in July 2025 and said no to heading south of the border.

In July, the number of Canadian residents returning from the United States was down to 2.6 million, marking a 32.4 per cent decrease compared with July 2024, Statistics Canada said in a new report Tuesday.

Meanwhile, 3.3 million U.S. residents made the trip to Canada in July, a drop of three per cent compared with July last year.

This marked only the second month since June 2006, excluding August and September 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, that more Americans visited Canada than the other way around.
 
WaynetheDrain said:
The literal exact opposite is happening. Because of the tariffs, Canadians ARE NOT coming to our country.

He lives in an entirely different reality than the rest of us.
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IMO, Trump has been living in a different reality from everyone else since he was born. He's been so wealthy and screwed-up all of his life that he's been able to create his own little world in which he is the center and most important person for pretty much all of his life. The guy has always had a tenuous connection at best with the reality the rest of us live in.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
IMO, Trump has been living in a different reality from everyone else since he was born. He's been so wealthy and screwed-up all of his life that he's been able to create his own little world in which he is the center and most important person for pretty much all of his life. The guy has always had a tenuous connection at best with the reality the rest of us live in.
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but less endearing
 
WaynetheDrain said:
He lives in an entirely different reality than the rest of us.
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He knows the truth. He is simply lying because he knows his base will believe him. He has so thoroughly undermined confidence in government, media, expertise, academia, medical establishment, etc. that his cult believes he is the only source of truth. He lies because he can, and the cult of Trump hangs on every word.
 
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