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Good morning 🌅from the Tree House 🌳🏡🌲. I wish it were as spectacular, picture-perfect, and sunny as it is this morning for all of my followers on my Tree House News Blog or in my News Blurb on social networks.

OK, for now my laptop seems to be behaving itself, I've been having problems with sticking and the page jumping up and down like a dumb leap toad 𓆏 . Yesterday, it took me until 3:00 PM to finish the news. No wonder it took my partner Paula at least almost 3 hours to clean all the crap out of that laptop I didn't know I had! I don't know much about that apps stuff so I don't go in there except to restart or finish an update and restart. I have been depending on the Crap Cleaner to do that job.*_

Thanks to my partner 👱‍♀️ and editor, now this thing is moving like when it was new again 👩. Thank you, Paula, for fixing this thing, or I would have to do the news by remote viewing 👁️ today. Hey, that may not be so far off an idea either! By using AI as the information gatherer to store the knowledge of the entire population of 'humons' on planet Oith, the Third Rock From The Star Soul 🥾They would need a data center the size of the Moon, for what? To watch what? I wouldn't want to be the monitor 💻 attendant on a Moon base monitoring an old spacefarers' home 😴💤🤕👵🧓👴👩‍🦼🧑‍🦯🚀🏣

_*Anyway, that's enough nonsense; it's time to begin publishing the news for the day. WELCOME to The*_ Tree House News 🏡*

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TODAY's DISCUSSION

In case you're not up to date, I'm recapping some news from the last couple of days because these government and industry actions can affect our daily lives. I didn't see many Views. I believe this is due to being accustomed to a benevolent relationship with our friend-turned-backstabber to our south.

READ RECAPS:

Recap: Question: What are Carney's plans other than pausing the fuel tax for now? What's the plan for when the prices of fuel go out of reach for the average Canadian who can't afford to drive to work or keep a business going?

.1 Prime Minister Mark Carney's government launched this targeted grocery benefit to help families cope with rising inflation and the cost of basic living expenses. What does CANADA plan to do once gas prices begin shutting down the entire nation because we can't afford to run the machinery of industry? It's simple and reasonable question with a complex answer for the Carney government and petroleum producers to answer. Further complicating matters is our southern neighbor, who's driving the Big Yellow Bus that's taking us there:

It's Trumpo the Orange Clown 🟠🤡 himself! Driving the bus right off the PRECIPICE🧗 YIKES !...

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.2 _*Read about Good News Canada. Prime Minister Carney is seeking to strengthen Canada’s ties with the European Union by proposing an "associate membership" for Canada in the EU. This membership would give Canada all the trade, commercial, military, and other privileges as negotiated, while allowing Canada to retain its sovereignty. This is another step toward making Canada the Western Hemisphere manufacturing and distribution hub for the world.*_

Our European allies are natural partners in this effort. We are bound by shared history, values, and increasingly shared interests and ambitions. Canada and our European partners are working together.

I am quite aware that some of our existing Internet networks will be handling data at reduced speeds until improvements are made. CANADA NEEDS A HIGH-SPEED INTERNET SYSTEM CAPABLE OF MEETING TODAY'S NEEDS AND EASILY SCALABLE TO HANDLE FUTURE DATA TRANSMISSION NEEDS AND 21st CENTURY RULES AND REGULATIONS

BREAKING NEWS:

A fateful turning point for humanity and AI could redefine American politics

If a terrorist threat led subject experts to warn of a near-term existential menace to humanity, the weight of the US government would mobilize in an immediate and limitless effort to save the day. Yet a remarkable sequence of warnings by leaders of artificial intelligence firms that their creation may soon outpace humans’ capacity to control it has so far been met with a shrug by Republicans who run Washington.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that “negative forces” were conjuring up “things that won’t happen.” House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a call to pass emergency legislation, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that AI executives “pushing the frontier” could slow down if they wanted, but Congress shouldn’t rush to act.

Both men also warned that slowing the US AI industry would hand the advantage in the superintelligence race to China — casting the debate less as one of safety and more as a national security question...

• A political turning point:
• Why AI is such a divisive political issue:
• There’s another problem:
• Trump’s nonchalance may understate the problem:

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Updated Sep 14, 2026, 11:02 AM ET - 50 min ago

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What National Security? Trumppo the Orange Clown 🟠 🤡has replaced them with his Dunce Cadets 🙃𓉴

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Trump’s easiest path to saving the GOP’s midterms just disappeared

The August inflation report had a few bright spots, but in political terms, the president and the Republicans are out of time.

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

At 8:30 a.m. Friday morning, President Donald Trump’s best chance at good economic news before the midterm elections went poof. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index rose in August by 0.4% and 3.4% over the past year. The “core CPI” (the less volatile measure that removes food and energy prices) rose 0.3% for the month and 2.4% annually. For the fifth month in a row, inflation-adjusted wages fell on a yearly basis.

Were this September 2025, the BLS’ report would be disappointing for the White House but hardly catastrophic. Inflation isn’t accelerating, and it remains well below its peak back in 2022 .There were even bright spots in some areas: Grocery prices were flat for the second straight month, for instance.

• Trump and his party are stuck with the same argument that failed Democrats in 2024: a plea for patience:
• For over a year and a half, the White House and its GOP allies have blamed the Biden administration for economic troubles and assured voters that things are getting better.:

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Sept. 14, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

With millions of dead oysters and mounting debt, P.E.I. farmers fear they'll lose everything

Small farmers worry about big corporations taking over, as disease blights industry

When Kaila Richard is out on the water of her oyster farm in western P.E.I., she often thinks of her late father, who ran the farm until his sudden death in an accident in 2021. “Being out here, I feel my father close,” said Kaila, who took over the farm in the Dock River, near Alberton, with her husband Bruce Richard.

“[When] we make mistakes, I can hear my dad saying, 'What are yous doing?!' … and when things go right I'm like, ‘Oh he'd be so proud,’” she told CBC Radio’s The Current.

WATCH | $100K of dead oysters dumped in a single day:

• Calls for income support:
• Government is ‘giving up’:

WATCH | Could disease-resistant seed offer a way out of the crisis?:

‘A better day’:

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Posted: Sep 13, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 13

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Carney hosts investment summit amid trade war

Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting a two day investment summit in Toronto in an attempt to attract foreign capital to the country amid an escalating trade war with the United States.

September 13, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Pyo2FLG34

 

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BREAKING NEWS:

Prime Minister of Canada

Prime Minister Carney to strengthen Canada’s ties with European partners in visit to Strasbourg and Liverpool

In a rapidly changing world, Canada’s new government is focused on what we can control. We are building our strength at home and diversifying our partnerships abroad.

Our European allies are natural partners in this effort. We are bound by shared history, values, and increasingly shared interests and ambitions. Canada and our European partners are working together to create greater certainty, security, and prosperity for our peoples.

To that end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, will travel to Strasbourg, France, and Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK), from September 15 to September 17, 2026.

In Strasbourg, the Prime Minister will address the European Parliament at the invitation of the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. He will also attend President von der Leyen’s State of the European Union (EU) address and meet with members of the European Parliament to strengthen Canada’s ties with the EU in trade, investment, and security.

In Liverpool, the Prime Minister will meet with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham, for the first time. Together, the leaders will discuss priorities for the Canada-UK relationship, specifically related to defence and security, energy, artificial intelligence, and critical minerals.

Since forming government, Prime Minister Carney has strengthened and expanded Canada’s relationship with our European partners. Last year, we launched the ambitious New EU-Canada Strategic Partnership of the Future and the Security and Defence Partnership to deepen cooperation across trade, technology, energy, and security.

In February, Canada became the first non-European country to join the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative – unlocking hundreds of millions of dollars in opportunities and market access for Canadian defence industries, businesses, and workers.

In May, the Prime Minister became the first non-European leader to participate in the European Political Community Summit, in Armenia – another example of Canada’s growing role as a trusted partner to Europe. Canada will build on this momentum when we host the upcoming Canada-EU Summit from October 29 to 30, 2026.

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“In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada and our European partners are moving ever closer. Our shared values, complementary strengths, and common interests serve as the strong foundation on which we can build a stronger future. Together, Canada and our European partners have the ambition and strength to create a more just, stable, and universally prosperous world.”

The Rt. Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada

Quick facts

• The EU is Canada’s second‑largest global trading partner for goods and services, with a total value of approximately $178 billion in 2025.
• The EU is Canada’s second‑largest global source of foreign direct investment (FDI), after the United States. EU FDI stock in Canada was estimated at $217 billion in 2025, while Canadian direct investment in the EU totalled $315 billion.
• In June 2025, at the 20th Canada-EU Summit, Canada and the EU launched the New EU-Canada Strategic Partnership of the Future, a framework that promotes collaboration in key areas such as digital transformation, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure.
• At the 2025 Canada-EU Summit, Canada and the EU also signed the EU-Canada Security and Defence Partnership (SDP). The SDP is a non-legally binding partnership that reaffirms and regroups our security and defence activities with EU Member States under a single political framework.
• Canada officially joined the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative on the margins of the Munich Security Conference in February 2026. SAFE is a key pillar of the EU’s Readiness 2030 plan, and Canada’s participation in SAFE will enhance defence readiness on both sides of the Atlantic.

Associated link

• Canada and the European Union

September 12, 2026

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The Super El Niño seems to extend our summertime by another day. It began as a beautiful, sunny, warm day, one that should have been more typical of June and July. The high humidity lends a tropical air to our Green Space, with the sun shining and all the artificial tropical plants I decked out our balcony 𓈈 with. On cold days, I like looking at our Green Space. All that green gives me a bit of inner warmth and the hope of an early spring 🌱🌿🍃 Have a safe and reasonably happy day. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

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Question: What are Carney's plans other than the tax when the prices of fuel go out of reach for the average Canadian?

🔹AI Overview

Prime Minister Mark Carney's broader affordability plan includes launching the Canada

The government launched this targeted benefit to help families handle rising inflation and basic living costs.

• Income Tax Reductions: Federal income tax rates were cut to 14% to help middle-class Canadians keep more of their earnings.

• Carbon Tax Elimination: The federal consumer carbon tax was canceled to remove an ongoing source of price pressure on daily goods.

• Housing Tax Relief: First-time homebuyers do not have to pay the GST on new or resale homes priced up to $1 million.

Long-Term Economic Strategies

As outlined by the Liberal Party of Canada, the government's broader economic strategy focuses on structural supports rather than just temporary tax pauses:

Housing Construction: A large-scale housing plan aims to double residential construction to 500,000 homes per year.

Skilled Trades: The federal government covers the training costs for workers entering apprenticeship and skilled trades programs.Sector Protections: Measures are in place to support agrifood workers and defend domestic industries against external tariffs.

CRITICS, including the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, continue to argue that these measures do not go far enough when global conflicts drive fuel and energy prices to extreme heights

WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO GET FUEL ⛽ TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THESE WONDERFUL PROJECTS? WITHOUT FUEL, THEY'LL BE DEAD IN THE SWAMP WITH THE VULTURES PECKING AT THEM, LITERALLY 𓅐𓅐𓅐

Do you believe in flying pigs and thirty-titted swamp goats? Wanna walk in the swamp 🌾🐊 with me and find out?*_

Lots of vultures 🦅 everywhere, King Orange Pus Bag 😡🫟🎒should know, but then he thinks he's buddy-buddy's with them 🥷𖠣🗡️ 🥷𖠣🗡️🥷𖠣🗡️Can a conman trust another conman?

As far as I can see, this is where the buck stops, maybe permanently, unless we continue listening to a pedophile, psychopathic, demented old fart who is in a diaper and throws his food around like a three-year-old.

*YOU ALLOW AN OLD PEDOPHILE DEMENTED OLD COCKROACH TO RULE A COUNTRY, LIKE HE WAS THE BELOVED KINK OF SHMUCKARICA ✨ *•. .I//__ stars and stripes rolling under the bed 🛏️ into the chamber pot 🍯

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT, PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY? YOU CAN'T BUILD ANYTHING WITHOUT FUEL?

How about*_ NATIONALISING THE OIL INDUSTRY? Just DO IT, no ifs, ands, or buts, (‿ˠ‿) them too, or maybes.

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Question: CANADA NATIONALIZE THE OIL INDUSTRY?

🔹AI Overview

Canada does not currently nationalize its oil industry, though past federal efforts like the 1980 National Energy Program attempted partial state control and "Canadianization".

History and Past

• AttemptsPetro-Canada: The federal government created this national oil company in 1975 during the global energy crisis. It was later privatized.

• National Energy Program (NEP): Introduced in 1980 by Pierre Trudeau to secure energy independence, the NEP faced fierce opposition from Alberta and was scrapped in 1985.

• Public Polls: As reported by CBC News, past public opinion polls showed that nearly half of Canadians supported nationalizing petroleum resources during times of high gas prices.

Arguments For and Against

For Nationalization: Proponents in The Guardian argue that public ownership—similar to Norway's model—keeps profits at home, helps fund green energy transitions, and reduces reliance on foreign imports.

Critics say that, under the constitution, natural resources belong to the provinces, and state control can scare away foreign investors and hurt the economy.

Current Direction

Federal policies focus on supporting production and streamlining regulations rather than taking over companies. As noted by EnergyNow, Ottawa recently moved to remove certain federal environmental barriers to help boost oil sands output and expand export capacity.

WHAT? WEASEL 🦡 TALK AGAIN, JUST LIKE THE INTERPROVINCIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS, WHICH I HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT SINCE LAST YEAR. WHAT GOOD IS NEWS 📰 IF YOU DON'T HEAR THE RESULTS ABOUT IT AGAIN? EH! Well

IT'S AN AFFORDABILITY PROBLEM, SEE!

This is one pi--ed 💦 off Fairy Lady 𓂃 ࣪🌪️˖⚡️ ִֶָ🧚‍♀️*˖🌩️˚ֶָ֢ 💥‧࿔ for the day ☀️ That will be about it for today's discussion. If you people don't see a real disaster in the making here, then may Great Spirit 🌌bless your soul 👼

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Trump tells Ukraine to stop targeting Russia’s diesel fuel

U.S. President Donald Trump has urged his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to stop targeting Russia’s diesel fuel in aerial attacks, claiming that it is “hurting the world.”

A series of long-distance Ukrainian drone strikes has targeted Russia’s fuel infrastructure, hitting major processing plants and significantly reducing its refining capacity. “Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel,” Trump said during an official visit to Ireland on Sunday.

“This isn’t done by the Middle East. This is done by what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine,” he claimed. His comments come as the ongoing war with Iran, which predominantly involves the United States...

• Attack near Polish border:

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Updated Sep 13, 2026, 12:27 PM ET

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Fn. LOW LIFE 💩 EATIN' COCKROACH 🪳

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Trump’s new trade war weapon should unnerve Americans

The president is embracing import bans, which are likely harder for courts to undo.

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

In 1961, John F. Kennedy chose Canada for his first trip abroad as president and brought with him a message of kinship. “What unites us is far greater than what divides us,” he told the Canadian Parliament. “This is a partnership, not an empire.”

Now, thanks to Donald Trump, a full-fledged trade war has broken out between the U.S. and Canada following the collapse of trade talks last month. And the president is settling on import bans as his latest trade-war weapon. That should unnerve not just Canadian leaders but also European officials and Americans worn out by higher prices...

• When the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s sweeping tariffs in February, it said the White House did have authority to enact import restrictions and outright:

“I can destroy the trade. I’m even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo,” Trump said in February. “I can do anything I want...

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Sept. 11, 2026, 5:05 PM EDT

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Fn Tin Can Dictator, or should I say a PIRATE!

I'm beginning to believe both Ford and him are from the same mold, except Ford has a fully functioning brain, but it short-circuits when it comes to being honest. He would have jumped in Trump's pocket if Trump had let him.

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Why isn't Canada blocking the Welland Canal? Other trade war questions answered

CBC News answers your questions about export taxes, sales bans and toilet paper

Reading through the emails that readers send to CBC News, one gets the impression they don't just want "elbows up" in the Canada-U.S. trade war, but also sticks, knees, skates, and whatever else might be lying around.

One of the most common questions is some variation of "Why isn't Canada doing X?" — where X is a tactic or tariff the reader supposes will hit the U.S. where it hurts. Here's a look at some of those suggestions and what key players or observers have had to say about them.

• Why doesn't Canada put export duties on energy as the cost is borne by Americans, not Canadians?":
• Why not ban sales of certain goods in Canada?:

WATCH | CBC's Linda Ward answers a reader question about toilet paper:

• Can Canada stop U.S. ships using the Welland Canal?:

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Posted: Sep 11, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 11

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What Trump has wrought on a Dallas convention floor

The president had faithful supporters in the crowd, while a prominent Jan. 6 participant roamed the arena halls.

DALLAS — Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is near total, and for two days this week, it filled an arena. A decade in politics has let him redefine what it means to be a Republican and escape responsibility for an attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his own supporters, mounted after he tried to overturn an election he lost. What his party offers voters this fall is him.

Republicans regrouped here for a midterm convention brought to life by Trump and for Trump, and that faithfulness was the point. They called him the greatest president in the nation’s history, thanked God for him winning again and even had the chance to buy a hat in his familiar shade of red saying he “was right about everything.”

“Looking back in the history books, I hope that Trump is seen as one of the most divisive presidents our nation has ever seen, and that he should have never been re-elected in 2024,”

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Sept. 12, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Ontario expands eligibility for tariff support funding to protect businesses, workers: Ford

Province, Ford did not expand on what changes are being made to program eligibility

Ontario is expanding eligibility for financing programs to protect jobs and businesses in sectors impacted by the U.S.-Canada trade war, Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday.

The news comes just days after Canada issued retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. and U.S. President Donald Trump banned the import of Canadian dairy, motorcycles and some alcohol products, as well as additional 50 per cent tariffs. Those changes are expected to kick in later this month.

Businesses in sectors now facing tariff impacts from those upcoming export changes are now also eligible to apply for relief through the $1-billion Protect Ontario Financing Program (POFP) and Ontario Together Trade Fund (OTTF), according to the province's news release...

WATCH | Who is eligible for the loans?:

WATCH | Here's how Greater Toronto Area businesses are being impacted by U.S. tariffs:

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Posted: Sep 10, 2026 11:05 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 10

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Ontario expands eligibility for business tariff relief

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePLg5lbjI0

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I started some research last night, began documenting the information I collected, and decided to finish publishing in the morning. 

Good morning! Well, here I am again. I pray it is a good morning to all my followers, and may you be guided, blessed, and protected by the Great Spirit. I got to wondering this morning about what would happen if fuel prices skyrocketed to the point where they were out of reach for the working class, e.g., costing more to get to work than the rent, power bill, and groceries for the month? This is a serious question all of us Canadians should be very concerned about.

"HEY! AI GOOGLE SEARCH", you're so smart, answer these two questions with an honest answer.

Question 1: What happens when the fuel prices become so high that the working class is unable to get to work, and the wheels of industry grind to a halt? We're running down that road right now, right to the precipice of disaster, and Trump is driving the big yellow bus taking us there, and that's the honest truth!**_

🔹AI Overview

When fuel prices rise drastically, the economic consequences cascade rapidly through the workforce, supply chains, and industrial operations. This specific phenomenon—where soaring energy costs cause a severe economic contraction—is closely studied by economists through historical precedents and structural supply-chain mechanics.

📊 The Economic Ripple Effect of Extreme Fuel Prices

When the cost of gasoline and diesel reaches a threshold that exceeds the discretionary income of the working class, a predictable sequence of economic disruptions is triggered:

[Skyrocketing Fuel Prices]
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[Commuting Deficit for Workers] ──► Labor Shortages in Essential Roles
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[Surging Diesel Transport Costs] ──► Freight Surcharges & Distribution Delays
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[Industrial Supply Chain Stall] ──► Factory Slowdowns & Retail Shortages
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[Stagflation Risk] ──► High Inflation + Low Economic Growth

✅ Impact on the Working Class and Labor Availability

For lower- and middle-income workers, commuting expenses represent a fixed and non-negotiable cost. When fuel prices spike significantly:

• The Commuting Deficit: If the cost to drive to a workplace approaches or exceeds a worker's daily take-home pay, working becomes financially unviable.
• Labor Shortages: Industries that require in-person attendance—such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and hospitality—experience severe labor shortages. [1]
• Shift to Remote/Local Work: Labor pools shift dramatically toward remote work or local opportunities that eliminate a commute, leaving centralized industrial hubs understaffed.

💡 Supply Chain Disruptions and Industrial Slowdowns

The "wheels of industry" rely fundamentally on diesel, which powers commercial transportation, agricultural machinery, and freight networks.

• Freight Surcharges: Trucking companies and owner-operators face unsustainable overhead. To survive, they impose steep fuel surcharges, which drastically increases the cost of moving raw materials and finished goods.
• Production Rationing: Factories facing high delivery costs and expensive energy inputs often reduce operating hours or ration production, focusing exclusively on high-margin products. 
• Retail Shortages: Delivery slowdowns lead to empty retail shelves and delayed shipments, compounding broader economic frustration. 

🔎 Historical Parallels: The 1970s Energy Crises

The scenario you described closely mirrors the 1973 and 1979 oil crises. During those periods, geopolitical supply disruptions led to widespread fuel shortages and skyrocketing prices. 

• The Result: The global economy entered a period of stagflation—a rare and damaging combination of stagnant economic growth, high unemployment, and severe inflation.
• Adaptation: Governments implemented extreme measures, including gas rationing and odd-even license plate days to control demand, while the automotive industry pivoted sharply toward fuel-efficient vehicles.

📈 The Current Macroeconomic Context (2026)

Public debate surrounding current energy prices highlights contrasting viewpoints on the role of government administration:

• Critiques of Current Policies: Critics point to heightened geopolitical tensions, military conflicts affecting key shipping channels like the Strait of Hormuz, and international tariff strategies as primary drivers of inflation and fuel cost instability. They argue these disruptions place an undue, crushing burden on working-class household budgets. 
• Defenders of the Administration: Proponents and administration officials argue that price volatility stems from temporary international conflicts rather than systemic structural failure. They emphasize that despite energy price pressures, real wages remain steady and unemployment is near historic lows, suggesting underlying economic resilience. Additionally, the administration has urged major energy corporations to lower pump prices to align with drops in crude oil costs.  Costs Are Back on the Rise, and Trumpflation Is Spreading ...
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I'll be a horney toads sister! If that doesn't beat all, guess what?

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Question 2: Is Canadian oil 60% American-owned?

🔹AI Overview

Canada's Oil sands, companies are 60% American owned oil sands companies are about 60% American owned. though this specific percentage applies to the dominant industry giants rather than every single operator across the entire country. 

Ownership Breakdown

• The "Big Four": Canada's four largest oil sands producers—Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL), Cenovus Energy, Imperial Oil, and Suncor Energy—are roughly 73% foreign-owned, with American investors holding about 60%. 
• Broader Sector: U.S. equity controls close to 59% of Canadian fossil fuel companies overall, according to industry analyses highlighted by DeSmog. 
• Profits and Dividends: Because of this high foreign stake, a majority of dividend payouts and share buybacks from these major producers flow to U.S. shareholders rather than staying entirely within Canada

Where the "60%" Number Comes From

People often confuse ownership statistics with trade data. Canada is the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the United States, accounting for roughly 60% of total U.S.crude oil imports

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Second part of Question 2: 

Who controls the Profits and Dividends of big oil in Canada: the US or Canada

🔹AI Overview

U.S. Investors and foreigners ultimately control and receive the majority of profits and dividends from Canada's big oil sector. 

Ownership and Profit Flow

• Foreign and U.S. Dominance: Approximately 73% of Canada's four largest oil sands producers are foreign-owned, with roughly 60% under direct U.S. equity control.
• Dividend Destination: Between 2021 and 2024, the "Big Four" producers (Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus Energy, Imperial Oil, and Suncor Energy) generated $131.6 billion in profits, directing nearly $80 billion toward buybacks and dividends—with over 60% of that financial return flowing directly to U.S. shareholders. 
• Institutional Investors: Even companies headquartered in Canada (like CNRL or Suncor) have large blocks of shares held by U.S.-based global institutional giants like Vanguard and BlackRock, meaning dividends regularly exit the country. 
• Direct U.S. Majors: American giants like ExxonMobil own a majority stake (around 70%) in Canadian companies like Imperial oil, siphoning a large percentage of profits straight back to the U.S.
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I believe we're going to be left high and dry for fuel because the Americans own the rights to it, so we may as well have no oil if we won't be able to afford to buy it anyway. That Orange creep will devour Danielle Smith in ALBERTA for breakfast, as he did to Delcy Rodriques in Venezuela. Your fuel will go to the orange psycho creep's pockets, because you greedy creeps in Alberta sold out your oil rights years ago to line your own greedy pockets

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BREAKING NEWS:

JD Vance embraces tricky role as Trump’s midterm messenger — and potential successor

Dallas —  Behind closed doors on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance urged a room full of Republicans to sell voters on the administration’s more popular achievements that he worried weren’t always breaking through.

One person, however, has proved particularly difficult to keep on message: President Donald Trump.

Since joining Trump’s ticket in 2024, Vance has taken on the role of disciplined translator for a president whose instinct-driven improvisational style enthralls his admirers but often pulls attention from the message his advisers want voters to hear. Now, with control of Congress at stake in November, that role has taken new urgency.

Vance is expected to aggressively campaign for Republican candidates — “divide and conquer” with Trump, as one source close to him put it — as the two carve up the midterm map...

• Persistent Vance-Rubio questions:

• Carving his own path:

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What Trump has wrought on a Dallas convention floor

The president had faithful supporters in the crowd, while a prominent Jan. 6 participant roamed the arena halls.

DALLAS — Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is near total, and for two days this week, it filled an arena. A decade in politics has let him redefine what it means to be a Republican and escape responsibility for an attack on the U.S. 

Capitol by a mob of his own supporters, mounted after he tried to overturn an election he lost. What his party offers voters this fall is him...

Yet hours before Trump spoke in Dallas, there Rhodes was — a reminder of how the president has wielded his power

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Sept. 12, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Ontario expands eligibility for tariff support funding to protect businesses, workers: Ford

Province, Ford did not expand on what changes are being made to program eligibility

Ontario is expanding eligibility for financing programs to protect jobs and businesses in sectors impacted by the U.S.-Canada trade war, Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday. 

The news comes just days after Canada issued retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. and U.S. President Donald Trump banned the import of Canadian dairy, motorcycles and some alcohol products, as well as additional 50 per cent tariffs. Those changes are expected to kick in later this month.

Businesses in sectors now facing tariff impacts from those upcoming export changes are now also eligible to apply for relief through the $1-billion Protect Ontario Financing Program (POFP) and Ontario Together Trade Fund (OTTF), according to the province's news release...

WATCH | Who is eligible for the loans?

WATCH | Here's how Greater Toronto Area businesses are being impacted by U.S. tariffs:

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Posted: Sep 10, 2026 11:05 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 10

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Ontario expands eligibility for business tariff relief

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Hi! It was a spectacular sunrise 🌄 here at the Tree House 🏡this morning, with the first light streaming in through the living room window to my left, then behind me through the sliding glass doors ⬅️🖼️➡️ at the kitchen table 𓊳 as I sip on my morning coffee☕️

I don't belong to any club, church meeting hall, or secret society. I'm a spiritual being having a human experience. If there were such a thing as secret societies, how come they're not so secret, like Area 51 and under the Pentagon, which even the president is not privy to? How about other research labs no one knows about? A change of regime ain't gonna change the fact we know what we know; that's an earthly problem that needs sortin' out. Part of the evolutionary process, and I mean a little more evolutionary in the grey matter and heart part of dem dere humons 👽🛸

G-d = Consciousness: Or as some say, the G-d Consciousness, I believe that's a good one too, and I will come back on that topic another time. There had to be consciousness. An awareness of its own existence is necessary for anything to even be conceived before its creation. Like science, I agree that life didn't happen by chance. Life is too complex to be a matter of chance. God doesn't play dice with the universe, as Einstein said. Before Creation? There was infinity; 'define infinity.'

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Question: Infinity

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Infinity is a mathematical and philosophical concept that describes something endless, limitless, or without any bounds.

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In the beginning, there was chaos; then awareness said, "Let there be light," and order emerged from the chaos. No matter how far one digs into this field of study, as Einstein called it, the SPIOZA.

Putting science, spirituality, and nature as one.

Academically, this is my personal way to describe G-d. I see G-d as a hologram, and everything that makes up G-d or the Universe. Life on this one planet is like a tiny dust mote in a beam of a multitude of suns' rays in space, or just a pixel in the picture that makes up the entire universe.

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The main philosophy of Baruch Spinoza is a radical form of pantheism and monism, which asserts that God and Nature are one single, infinite substance.

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QUESTION ABOUT LIFE

Question: Science describing life by chance or planned?

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Modern science describes life as arising and evolving neither purely by blind chance nor by a predetermined plan, but rather through a combination of natural laws and randomness.

Can nature evolve? It would have to follow natural laws already set for the evolutionary process, wouldn't it? Nature's first law is self-preservation, 'Ins. which goes all the way down to the genetic level, meaning that every living thing has a basic, natural instinct to protect its own life and survive above all else.'

Nature's first law of self-preservation, to me, is that of adapting and evolving is the natural law for all living things, no matter where in the universe.

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Because science relies entirely on measurable, empirical evidence, it cannot test for or prove a supernatural "plan" or an intentional creator. Instead, the scientific consensus explains the complexity of life using a third category: self-organizing mechanisms driven by physical laws...

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I can see that someday science, spirituality, and nature will come closer together. The light will fuse into a more detailed image of a larger section of what makes up true reality🌌

BREAKING NEWS:

Iran-backed Houthis capture key island in vital waterway

Iran-backed rebels in Yemen captured the strategic Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on Friday, two Yemeni government sources told CNN, potentially expanding Tehran’s influence over another key global shipping route.

A day earlier, the Houthi group captured the port town of Mocha as it sought to take control of the country’s Red Sea coast. The news sent shockwaves worldwide over the possible impact on global shipping and oil prices, as well as the risk of opening a new front in the US-Iran war.

Bab al-Mandeb is a chokepoint linking Asia and Europe via the Red Sea and Suez Canal...

• How did we get here?:
• Why has this happened now?:
• What now?:

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• This small island off Yemen is now a strategic prize in the widening Iran war: ...

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Updated Sep 11, 2026, 9:20 AM ET - 1 hr 39 min ago

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The 4 lessons America has unlearned from 9/11

The U.S. launched wars and major reforms in the wake of the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Twenty-five years later, the country has already walked away from many of those painful lessons.

A quarter century after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks killed 2,977 people on American soil, the United States is quietly scaling back and redirecting parts of the system it developed in response — unlearning key lessons from the assault and the costly response that followed.

The counterterrorism apparatus has been thinned. Alliances like NATO that proved their worth in Afghanistan have been weakened at a moment when the U.S. faces the toughest security picture since World War II. Ill-defined Middle East entanglements persist. And the intelligence architecture designed to stop the next attack is — by the assessment of people who helped build it — once again struggling to connect the dots in an evolving threat picture.

None of that was inevitable

The 9/11 attacks drove the largest reorganization of the federal government since the 1947 National Security Act, a two-decade global war on terror...

• Don’t count out counterterrorism:
• America’s alliances are not optional:

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Sept. 11, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Why isn't Canada blocking the Welland Canal? Other trade war questions answered

CBC News answers your questions about export taxes, sales bans and toilet paper

Reading through the emails that readers send to CBC News, one gets the impression they don't want just "elbows up" in the Canada-U.S. trade war, but also sticks, knees, skates and whatever else might be lying around.

One of the most common questions is some variation of, "Why isn't Canada doing X?" — where X is a tactic or tariff the reader supposes will hit the U.S. where it hurts. Here's a look at some of those suggestions and what key players or observers have had to say about them.

• Why doesn't Canada put export duties on energy as the cost is borne by Americans not Canadians?:
• Why not ban sales of certain goods in Canada?:

WATCH | CBC's* Linda Ward answers a reader question about toilet paper:

• Can Canada stop U.S. ships using the Welland Canal?:

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How big and small grocery stores are preparing for tariffs to hit shelves

Grocery aisles will change in the coming weeks as the impacts of tariffs on some American goods take effect

Canadian grocery aisles will change in the coming weeks as the impacts of tariffs on some American goods take effect. Stores across Canada will manage tariff price increases differently, with factors like supplier contracts, wholesale capacity and consumer preferences impacting what will be stocked.

Some major retailers, like Loblaw, will denote tariffed products with a "T" sign. Others, like the Salmon Arm, B.C.-based Askews, are choosing to offer even more Canadian-made or internationally-imported alternatives to American goods.

"We're not, limited to dealing with one large wholesaler," she said.

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Can buying Canadian really make a difference amid the trade war?

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How Canadian counter-tariffs could kill some small businesses

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Posted: Sep 11, 2026 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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Canadian businesses brace for American product tariffs

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