theguardian.com
Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on wide range of US goods
Ottawa’s ‘focused response’ to levies imposed by Donald Trump on Canadian products comes after trade talks collapsed last week
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Canada has announced it will impose tariffs on a wide range of key American industries including cosmetics, dairy, wood products and outdoor equipment in the coming weeks, as it retaliates roughly “dollar for dollar” against levies imposed by the US.
On Tuesday, Canada’s finance and industry ministers announced the government’s “focused response” to what it sees as unfair tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on Canadian products, which took effect on Saturday after trade talks collapsed late on Friday. Continue reading...
![“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: The Trump administration [regime] is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts, and murders — all while cloaked in the awesome authority of the state. It is on a crime spree that puts Al Capone to shame.”
James Speyer, New York Daily News
“The Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In History”
Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/18/the-most-powerful-crime-syndicate-in-history/
Archive: https://archive.is/T1sGw
Read on air by Lawrence O’Donnell
February 18, 2026
Watch on MSNOW YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMHA4YGFZs4
Trump crime syndicate meme found here: https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3mnbjvvm5n22h
And here: https://bsky.app/profile/savannahpeace.bsky.social/post/3mpp4fwn4ak26
“[It’s not a] brilliant attack on Western democracy. The story, it appears, is that the Russian Mafia state is cultivating profit-yielding relationships with the aspiring Mafia boss of the U.S. and his band of crooks, subverting democratic institutions in the process.” @mashagessen.bsky.social 2019: https://bsky.app/profile/ifindkarma.bsky.social/post/3lqkud337jk26
The Trump-Russia Investigation and the Mafia State, by M. Gessen in 2019
Archive: https://archive.is/nngan
2.18.26 “Conspiracy of wealthy predators is real [and] documented publicly since Epstein was first indicted in 2006… I believe in redemption, but not for this. Not for the predators, not for the enablers. This has always been a clearcut case. This has always been a spiritual war.”
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