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Great Spirit bless 🙏

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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PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2026, 5:00 AM ET

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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

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

 

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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

🔹AI Overview

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.

🔹AI Overview

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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.

TODAYS DISCUSSION:

QUESTION ABOUT LIFE

Question: Science describing life by chance or planned?

🔹AI Overview

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.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) | (.gov)

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?:

Related article

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

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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.

VIDEO | INcluded:

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

VIDEO | INcluded:

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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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good mornin' all! Well, it's a sunny, comfortable morning 🌅. The forecast is calling for five consecutive days of sun ☀️ and ⛅️, with temps between 76°F and 81°F and mid-teens at night; lots of crickets 🦗 and katydids ;𓆦; at night with these mild temperatures. I'm going to miss these pleasant days and the music of nature's symphony through the night. It's been cut way too short, considering real summer didn't start until... I think it's the beginning of July. The heavy rain and flooding came after that.

Before then, it was grey clouds every day, rain, and cool temps, ya know! You expect that in late March and April, in the Vancouver area, but not in July in southern Ontario. The cool, wet air was so pervasive that I began to wonder if I would be wearing woolen socks all summer! Our climate is hospitable, usually temperate under normal circumstances; that is why the Niagara Peninsula is the best farmland in Ontario for orchard fruits, grapes, and vegetables, and a major contributor to feeding Canada.

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AI Overview

While the Niagara Peninsula features some of Canada’s most productive and irreplaceable agricultural land...

The last couple of years were a little dry but not overly warm summers, then suddenly a very hot, humid heat wave set in, and we got floods. This summer has excessive water, which is also harmful to farmland. Plants drown, too.

"SO, BOYS AND GIRLS, HEADS UP! IT'S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE!

"It's in the air! It's in the air ༄🪁༄ it's everywhere," shouts the town crier 🗣️📢 "maybe even in your underwear!" A thunderstorm ⛈️ maybe even in my underwear? (‿ˠ‿)💨🩲 he tells Mrs Vladimir, who then whispered in Mr. Eclair's ear, then to Mrs. Blair's ear, the queen of Bel Air 💃👑that she just pee-peed 💦 her underwear 🩲 while Mrs Vladimiri rides off 🏇🏼 into the sunset 🌅 in 💩🩲

The Tree House specialty of the day 🍔🍟 will you have coffee ☕️ with that?

So, what is the insanity du jour up for discussion today?

Didn't have to look far.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary under pressure to use his powers to block voting machines

Sept. 10, 2026

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DO YOU STILL BELIEVE YOU ARE A FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN? I SEE NAZISM CLOSING IN ALL AROUND AND CLOSING IN ALARMINGLY FAST ON TAKING OVER THE LEGAL PROFESSION INTO A 16TH CENTURY DUNCE CADET SYSTEM. THAT'S THE TRUTH AS I SEE IT, I DO NOT WEAR A BLINDFOLD 🥽

That's what the rest of the world is also seeing 👁️

And it's not just Trump, the defective psycho—the typo; it's everyone working to keep Project 25 going, and to be sure there are brains behind this NAZI (‿ˠ‿)🕳️ERY clever brains, but evil and dangerous, because they think like the NAZIS of the past during World War II. The REPUBLICAN PARTY is mostly, if not all, NASTY NAZIS; they don't care about anything except their wallets. THERE IS NOT A HEART ❤️ AMONG THEM, ONLY A LEATHERY BAG 💰 FILLED WITH LEAD NICKELS 🔘 IN THEIR CHEST FOR A ❤️ And that about sums it up. If you can't see that, then you're blind, stupid, demented, and a Dunce Cadet, in other words, DUMB AS A RED BRICK 🧱

SO, THE QUESTION FOR THE DAY IS: WHERE THE H**L HAS EMPATHY GONE, TOO?

I could go on about empathy for several pages, at least until the cows 🐄🐂 come home; Empathy? It comes in different forms, from the inventor, the salesman, the farmer, making sure you have food on the table, the store owner, the health care worker, the firefighter, the factory worker assembling the new products for the consumers, the average person doing their work diligently and with care because this new product could save someone's life, or imagine all the pleasure some children and adults have with all the wonderful things for us to enjoy today. I used to get giddy as a child when I went Christmas shopping with the kids; any shopping with kids was fun.

Many things are available for us to partake in. Their sole reason is not to please people, but to give them a measure of happiness to improve their morale, help them stay safe, and let them know they are members of an empathetic society. There is nothing wrong with a good comedy show, the theater, or a night on the town; it's all pleasures we should be free to enjoy. All the wonderful things people use to do to please other people, not to like today, with gratuitous violence, abuse of women and children, apocalyptic movies, dystopian survival, mortals saving the universe, and so on, make it impossible for anyone to be happy. Now, it's not just Scranton where happiness goes to die; it's all of Pennsylvania and the rest of Trumpland. Happiness goes to America to die 😢

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE:

The AI boom and tariff uncertainty are pushing copper prices to record highs:

CHART | Included: Copper prices hit green light

• Supply-demand mismatch:

Related Video

Videos reveal the bold tactics copper thieves use to hit telecom networks

• The tariff factor:
• Impact on businesses and consumers:

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PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2026, 10:25 AM ET - 1 hr 52 min ago

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Trump wanted a midterm convention. He got a funeral for MAGA’s majority.

The first night of the made-for-TV event turned out to be a rerun of GOP talking points.

Wednesday night brought exciting new programming to the fall television schedule. I am, of course, referring to the NFL’s season opener, a Super Bowl rematch between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.

The first night of the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Texas, on the other hand, lacked memorable moments. There were some surprises, to be sure. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, for instance, chose not to attend the convention — a decision more understandable after the mention of his name drew boos from the crowd. And Sen. John Fetterman’s video introduction for his fellow Pennsylvania Sen...

• When Trump finally came out in the 9 p.m. hour, he spoke for more than 90 minutes. Like a tired old lounge singer, he tried to belt out the old hits:
• While the aim of the convention was to charge up the base, most Americans care more about their lives, their family, their friends and futures than the fate of a politician:

And Trump’s super PAC is finally beginning to spend its hundreds of millions of dollars, while Elon Musk has reportedly committed at least $100 million toward Republican victories. Money cannot stop a wave election, but it can mitigate one.

OH, DEAR LORD, I DO PRAY 🙏🧎 THEY LOSE THEIR MONEY 💶 💵 🪙 💳 💸 💴

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Trade war, Alberta referendum loom large as Carney charts cabinet's year forward

New parliamentary sitting presents plenty of challenges to PM with no end in sight to escalating trade war

When Prime Minister Mark Carney gathered leaders of the world's foremost economies in Kananaskis Country's picturesque mountainside last spring for the G7, it was fresh off his election win, a wind seemingly at his back as he met with U.S. President Donald Trump to talk trade, and the threat of the province's separation from Canada was a remote hypothetical.

"Our primary focus will be on trade and trade with Canada," said Trump at the time, standing side by side with Carney in his first visit to this country since 2018. "I'm sure we can work something out."

A little more than a year later, Carney is once again holding high-level meetings in the Rocky Mountains of the province where he grew up, this time to plan the upcoming parliamentary sitting with his cabinet, fresh off three byelections where his governing Liberals cleaned up.

But there is little else in common with the optimistic outlook of 2025...

WATCH | Carney releases video saying U.S. wanted 'dependency' in too many areas:

• Pivot away from U.S., national unity on the agenda:

WATCH | Ottawa considers next moves in U.S. trade war:

WATCH | Canada faces more U.S. trade war escalation:

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Posted: Sep 10, 2026 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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‘Not An Option’: Mark Carney’s Chilling Warning To Donald Trump Amid Trade War | US-Canada Trade War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgsp8dLbSQI

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Mornin' all! 🌧️ Well, it's not that cheery outside this morning. it's still grey, gloomy skies 🌧️ but warm and inviting out on my balcony Green Space 🌱🌿 🍃 though. I had my coffee ☕️ as usual at the patio table 𓊳 as I contemplated the nature of whatever conception one has of this ... what we call reality. If this reality 🖼️ were as thin as one thread 🪡 woven with many other threads = what? The entire ball of yarn 🧶 the universe 💥✨○˚:*•o . What does the universe consist of? Consciousness 🌌?

BREAKING! 🔊

Trump lays out next moves after Canada’s retaliatory tariffs take effect

New York —

The trade war between the United States and Canada has entered a new chapter — and it’s getting uglier by the hour. Early Tuesday morning, Canada made good on its promise to impose tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods in retaliation for the Canadian goods President Donald Trump began taxing last month.

Less than 24 hours after those levies took effect, Trump unveiled his next move to exert further pressure on Ottawa.

Now, tariffs are no longer the only weapon of choice: Trump is prepared to enact outright bans on a slew of Canadian goods. He also threatened to block the US government from purchasing Canadian-made products through a major federal procurement program unless Canada granted American companies and farmers greater access to its markets.

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously vowed “dollar-for-dollar” retaliation...

• Why talks broke down:
• Who has the upper hand?

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Updated Sep 8, 2026, 9:10 PM ET - 10 hr ago

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U.S. to block import of Canadian motorcycles, most alcohol in retaliation against counter-tariffs

New bans set to take effect on Sept. 29 as tit-for-tat trade war escalates

The Latest

• The White House says the United States will ban certain Canadian imports, including most alcoholic drinks, some dairy products, and motorcycles, as the trade war deepens between the two countries.

• The Trump administration is also adding more Canadian products to the list of those subject to tariffs of 50 percent, including mattresses and motorboats.

• The new bans, which will take effect by the end of the month, were announced after Canadian tariffs on billions of dollars worth of imported American goods took effect earlier today.

• Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Canadians in a new video that Canada's pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse.

• What questions do you have about the latest tariffs? Email ask@cbc.ca.

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Trump hits Canada with new trade measures, including alcohol ban

Updated September 9, 2026 - 9 hours ago

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I feel like the sportscaster for THNews Interplanetary Broadcasting, Gordie Howe, puts the puck in the left corner of the New-American team's net. That puts the Canuck team 2 to 1 ahead of the Dunce Cadets.

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So, you say, what is the topic for the day? I believe we have already covered today's topic. INSANITY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! As soon as everyone who is sane is on board with that fact, and allowing a screaming madman to run a country as a president, there will be chaos and confusion, and without any order, all ends in disaster.

I'll be keeping it short today. I have an appointment this afternoon, and I would like some time to myself beforehand. Actually, I believe I just delivered the BLOCKBUSTER OF THE DAY. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Trump’s Truth Social crash out shows how ill-prepared he is for the midterms

The president’s social media meltdown exposed just how weak he feels politically.

President Donald Trump marked Labor Day, the unofficial start of the fall election season, as only he could: with a spree of bonkers social media posts that suggested, among other things, that New Mexico should be renamed “New America.” He also posted a series of artificial intelligence slop images depicting him as presiding over a hellish hi-tech autocracy with armies of robots.

His midterms strategy, if you can call what he’s doing “strategy,” is ignoring the polls that show his approval rating cratering and delving ever further into megalomaniacal fantasies of absolute power.

Between Saturday evening and Monday evening, Trump published more than 100 posts on Truth Social that included jabs at allies, egoistical boasting and a couple of posts depicting him conferring with President George Washington...

• Trump’s thirst for power seems completely irrepressible.:
• More articles: Already in a ditch, Trump digs deeper in defending image depicting him as Jesus

Trump’s thirst for power seems completely irrepressible.

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Sept. 9, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Renewed U.S.-Iran exchanges send oil price back over $100 US for first time in several weeks

In addition to attacks on the war, Iran fired missiles at base used by U.S. in Jordan

Iran said Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had responded with a ballistic missile attack on a base used by U.S. forces near Al Azraq, in eastern Jordan, and had fired on two U.S. vessels and eight oil tankers attempting ⁠to cross an area of the Strait of Hormuz that it has declared off limits.

The attacks ‌in and around the vital waterway sent the price of oil surging, with the international Brent crude benchmark breaching $100 US a barrel for the first time since July. Since the war began, oil prices have been as low as $70, reflecting since-scuppered hopes that the U.S. and Iran would agree on a plan that would allow stranded tankers to move oil out of the Persian Gulf safely...

• Iran reveals area of restricted maritime zone:

U.S. Central Command says it carried out fresh strikes on Iran, claiming it was retaliation for Iran preparing to launch sea mines from rockets into the Strait of Hormuz. Andrew Chang digs deeper into what may be Iran's novel ability to deploy underwater mines with missiles. (Photo credits: The Canadian Press, CAT-UXO, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)

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PM Carney releases video after Canada imposes counter-tariffs on the U.S.

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Canada’s counter-tariffs kick in on hundreds of U.S. goods

Canada’s counter-tariffs are now in effect on billions of dollars' worth of U.S. goods in response to the recent trade war escalation by U.S. President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to match Trump’s recently imposed 50 percent tariffs “dollar-for-dollar,” and trade negotiations fell apart last month.

Carney is warning Canadians that the country’s pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse.

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Trump’s tariffs of 50 percent targeted a massive new list of Canadian goods ...

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For the prayer of the day 🙏, myself personally, I pray to the Great Spirit 🌌 to guide our entrusted leader 👨‍🦳 Mark Carney to make the right decisions and continue to guide us on the right path through this maze of catastrophic falueres and chaos that is destroying our governmental systems, like rats chewing on the wires of modern society, short circuiting and scrambling the data of our computer age system so that even our own personal devices 💻📱🖥️ can be used as psycological weapons of destruction, BEWARE! The web is like a cow pasture ෴⚘ Watch where you step! Or you may find out where the last cow 🐄 had a 💩

So, don't trust anyone on the internet unless you personally know who "THEY" are. Money scams are everywhere; they even call you personally on your home phone. Verify Verify Verify!

As for other scams, like the political stuff, it ain't difficult to answer if you're honest with yourself and listen to your inner self, your intuition, you know, unless you have no ethics, feelings, or caring. Dead inside, all that matters is self-pleasure or self-satisfaction. I know what it feels like, because I'm an EMPATH! I feel people. I don't just feel for them; I feel them from the inside out.

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FEELING DEAD INSIDE CAN BE EITHER:

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Question: Feeling dead inside except for feeling only self-satisfaction

Emotional Numbness:

🔹AI Overview

Feeling dead inside while only feeling self-satisfaction is often a defense mechanism where your nervous system shuts down vulnerable emotions and relies on pride or control to feel safe.

Why This Happens

• Emotional Numbness as Armor: When life gets too stressful or painful, your brain may turn off normal feelings like sadness, grief, or excitement to protect you from being hurt.
• The Ego's Safe Zone:

Self-satisfaction requires no vulnerability. Feeling superior, accomplished, or self-reliant lets you experience a positive emotion without risking rejection or disappointment from the outside world.

• Living on Autopilot:

You might be treating your life like a checklist, measuring success to feel a small spike of validation while remaining completely detached from real human connection.

What You Can Do

• Notice Without Judgment:
• Depersonalization: "Treat your numbness like a quiet observer. Do not force yourself to feel happy or sad."
• Look Beneath the Pride: Ask yourself if your self-satisfaction is hiding loneliness, exhaustion, or a fear of failure.
• Talk to a Professional:

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PSYCHOPATHIC SYMPTOMS

Question: Psychopathic Symptoms

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The primary signs of psychopathy include a lack of empathy, shallow emotional responses, and manipulative behavior.

Psychology Today

"Most users on Reddit agree that individuals with psychopathic traits often blend into society unnoticed and do not have physical markers like specific "eyes"."

Core Emotional Signs

LACK OF EMPATHY: Inability to care about the pain or feelings of others.

Question: Psychopathic Symptoms

🔹AI Overview

The primary signs of psychopathy include a lack of empathy, shallow emotional responses, and manipulative behavior.

Psychology Today

"Most users on Reddit agree that individuals with psychopathic traits often blend into society unnoticed and do not have physical markers like specific "eyes"."

Core Emotional Signs

• LACK OF EMPATHY: Inability to care about the pain or feelings of others.
• No remorse: Refusing to feel guilt after hurting someone else.
• Shallow emotions: Showing very weak or fake emotional responses.
• Grandiose self-worth: Having an inflated, oversized view of self-importance.

Behavioral Signs

• Superficial charm:
• Manipulation:
• Impulsivity:
• Irresponsibility:

And that ends this 💩 edition of the News for the day.

Now you have learned the difference between a mischievous child and a brat bully. I truly believe Trump and his accomplices are jealous of normal peeps having feelings; they really want to destroy empathy. That is Elon Musk's stated goal.

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Canada’s retaliatory tariffs take effect as Trump threatens to ban Bombardier jet sales in US

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New York — The trade war between the United States and Canada has entered a new chapter — and it could quickly get even uglier.

At 12:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Canada imposed 15% to 50% duties on roughly $20 billion worth of American goods, matching the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on Canadian goods last month.

Paper products, construction materials, home appliances and agricultural products are also facing fresh duties.

When the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions — we can have those discussions,” Carney said last week.

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U.S., Canada trade reps expected to speak today, sources say, as Ottawa's counter-tariffs take effect

Trump trade rep says U.S. may escalate today; Carney says pivot away from U.S. will be painful but necessary

The Latest

• Canadian tariffs on billions of dollars worth of imported American goods took effect just after midnight, escalating the ongoing trade dispute with the United States.

• The U.S. will consider imposing retaliatory tariffs on Canadian goods as early as today, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said this morning. Greer and U.S.-Canada Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will speak today, Radio-Canada reports.

• Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Canadians in a new video that Canada's pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse.

• The $27.6-billion, dollar-for-dollar tariffs, which range from 15 to 50 per cent, match the latest slate of U.S. tariffs on Canadian products imposed by the White House after trade talks fell apart last month.

• What questions do you have about the latest tariffs? Send an email to ask@cbc.ca.

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Carney releases video saying U.S. wanted 'dependency' in too many areas

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In an excerpt from a 15-minute explanatory video released by Prime Minister Mark Carney's office on Tuesday, Carney says U.S. trade negotiators wanted Canada 'to become even more reliant on them, not less.'

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Former GOP lawmakers join Democrats to challenge Trump’s mail-in voting crackdown

Current Democratic members of Congress and former Republican lawmakers are joining forces to call for the courts to stop Trump's mail-in voting executive order

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A group of Democratic lawmakers — and some former GOP members of Congress — is asking the Supreme Court to block President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail-in voting, arguing that the president has unlawfully seized federal election powers that belong to Congress and the states.

In a new amicus brief, details of which were shared first with MS NOW, more than 250 sitting and former lawmakers argue the president’s March 2026 executive order and a subsequent regulation announced by the U.S. Postal Service are both unconstitutional. The changes, the lawmakers argue in the 30-page brief, “unlawfully usurp for the Executive Branch the authority over federal elections...

On Friday, a federal judge in Boston blocked U.S. Postal Service from implementing its new rules

A coalition of two dozen states plus the District of Columbia sued to block the rule from going forward

U.S. Postal Service to comply with the president’s executive order likely violate the Postal Clause of the Constitution

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Trump administration makes 3rd Supreme Court appeal to allow mail ballot restrictions

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