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This is some disrespectful shyt to Canada 
Trump is basically saying I could take your shyt
Trump is basically saying I could take your shyt
Trump wants Canada as the 51st state?
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newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
This is some disrespectful shyt to Canada
Trump is basically saying I could take your shyt
Deebonald
Give me that Alberta Tar Sands around your neck Craig!
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Trump says Canada should become part of US to lower its taxes
President-elect repeats his joke for neighbour to become 51st state if it is not willing to accept tariffs on exports
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Ezekiel 25:17
Veteran
I hate to say this, but fukk Canada. Cheapest house is $1 Million and they got a shytload of Indians.
America is bad already. I want nothing to do with them and their voting habits.
America is bad already. I want nothing to do with them and their voting habits.
Bushmaster69
Superstar
Fair enough. Canadians are goofies.I hate to say this, but fukk Canada. Cheapest house is $1 Million and they got a shytload of Indians.
America is bad already. I want nothing to do with them and their voting habits.
The new Canadian dream is to leave Canada.
JulesMusic719
All Star
"You have china ships...you have Chinese ships"
Canada, Gaza, Greenland, Panama Canal 
Trump has zero shame so doesn't feel humiliation..he won't feel the humiliation of these defeats but Americans will.
The only victory will be the fake renaming of the Gulf of Mexico
Trump has zero shame so doesn't feel humiliation..he won't feel the humiliation of these defeats but Americans will.
The only victory will be the fake renaming of the Gulf of Mexico
Elon deletes the "Canada is not a real country" post after huge backlash
Probably realized his Canadian citizenship will actually come in handy once he’s done destroying the US.
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Good trouble!
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Tim Doyle @lanc3goodthrust.bsky.social
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John Mohr @jmohrbsky.bsky.social
I am from TN since '71. There must be some way to stiff america and bring her to her senses.
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No country is for sale - thank you!!!!
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But he is.
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The Tennessee Holler
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taormint.bsky.social @taormint.bsky.social
Good trouble!
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Tim Doyle @lanc3goodthrust.bsky.social
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John Mohr @jmohrbsky.bsky.social
I am from TN since '71. There must be some way to stiff america and bring her to her senses.
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L. G.Anderson @writer-8815.bsky.social
No country is for sale - thank you!!!!
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dougcollinsusa.bsky.social @dougcollinsusa.bsky.social
But he is.
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Dayle Ohlau @communitycafe.bsky.social
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Jen Halliday Total Landscaping @jenhallidayma.bsky.social
Badass.
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America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them
Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
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America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them
Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
A worker removes bottles of American-made wine from a shelf at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Queen's Quay store in Toronto on March 4.Christopher Katsarov Luna / Bloomberg via Getty Images file
April 17, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Curtis Bunn
Canada’s break from American-made wine and the Trump administration’s global tariffs have compounded the struggles of the United States’ already-stressed wine industry to the point that it may be difficult for much of it “to come back from,” an American wine organization leader told NBC News.
“Canada is the single most important export market for U.S. wines with retail sales in excess of $1.1 billion annually,” Robert Koch, the California Wine Institute’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
Last month Canada united to boycott American wines — taking all U.S.-made vino and alcohol off its liquor and wine store shelves and out of restaurants across the country — as an aggressive retaliatory response to Trump’s tariffs on its political ally north of the border.
The boycott started in Ontario, and every other province responded in kind. When Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced his territory would ban American wine and alcohol, he mocked Trump’s signing an executive order in a social media video.
“This order, it’s a wonderful order, it’s a beautiful order,” Kinew said sarcastically. “This order is pulling American booze off the liquor market shelves.” His staff, lined up behind him, applauded as he held up the order for all to see.
It has become a point of national pride not to buy American. “Their people are now motivated” because of the tariffs, said Mike Kaiser, the executive vice president and director of government affairs for Wine America, a group that advocates for wine industry policies in Washington, D.C.
The results have the potential to be catastrophic for the wine world in the United States.
“We understand the reasoning behind some of these tariffs,” Kaiser said.
His industry has been “caught in the crossfire” of a trade war, and even if the tariffs were reversed tomorrow, he said, “I think the psychological damage with the consumer might be really hard to come back from, even if these disputes are ironed out.”
He added that some exporting winemakers “may be able to absorb this tariff.” But losing $1 billion a year to “unsold wine that was already in Canada, it really disrupts the domestic wine market here from top to bottom.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the tariffs’ effects on the wine industry. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, which controls the sale and distribution of alcohol in Canada’s second-largest province, also did not respond.
Before Trump issued tariffs on other countries, America’s wine business had already been facing headwinds. “We are struggling,” said Christi Coors Ficeli, CEO of Goosecross Cellars in the Napa Valley of California.
After the Covid-19 pandemic, wine consumption went down in the United States, sales dipped and visits to wineries became inconsistent.
Alcohol-based drinks like White Claw and High Noon have become popular alternatives to wine, Ficeli said.
In addition, in January, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggested wine could be harmful, even in small quantities, which Ficeli believes turned away drinkers. Last, the cost of wine — to buy it and to visit wineries — increased because of inflation and, in some cases, wineries’ trying to make up for the slowdown.
“It has gotten fairly expensive for tourists to come here,” Ficeli said.
Wanda Newman Johnson, a frequent Napa Valley visitor, said the tariffs have put her in a “wait-and-see mode” about whether she will continue to have wine shipped to her home in Atlanta.
“I feel really bad, because many of these wineries are small businesses, which are the heart of the country,” said Newman Johnson, who has memberships at Brown Estate and Turnbull Wine Cellars in Napa. “They’re getting impacted and hurt, and I don’t know how some of them are going to be able to survive the tariffs.”
Ficeli also said Napa has become less affordable to visit in recent years. “A lot of us had to raise prices, because after Covid, pricing was insane, for especially getting glass,” she said.
Most wineries import bottles from China, she said, because U.S.-made bottles are substandard. The price of shipping them out of China also increased by “double or triple” the amount pre-Covid. “So most of us made price increases just to cover our cost increases,” she said.
But with Trump’s 145% tariffs on China having initiated a 125% tariff on products made in China coming into the United States, getting bottles from Asia has become cost-prohibitive. Throw in the 10% tariffs on European imports — under which American wineries buy French oak barrels to cultivate wine and bottle corks from Spain — and a financial quagmire has emerged.
“Some of the barrel suppliers are telling us that they’ll eat the tariffs and they’ll just give us similar pricing to last year, with a slight increase,” Ficeli said. “And some are telling us that it could be a 15, 20% increase in barrel prices, which for a small winery like us is a lot to handle, especially when you’re spending $1,200 a barrel.”
Ficeli said she is concerned about the prospect of having to pass along the increases to her customers, whom “we don’t want to rip off.”
But the tariffs will affect the cost of bottles, barrels and even corks. “It’s going to be a struggle,” she said.
And the struggle is not just in California, the largest wine-growing area in the country. In New York’s idyllic Finger Lake region, for example, where there are more than 100 wineries near Canada, the impact of the tariffs is punishing.
Scott Osborn, owner of Fox Run Vineyards in Penn Yan, on Seneca Lake, said Canada accounts for 10% of his sales. But his winery experienced a 20% drop in Canadian business in March.
“The tariffs will have a huge negative impact on wine in New York,” Osborn said. “The Canadians come here and drink the wine at our café and buy bottles to have with dinner. They don’t take wine across back to Canada, but when they’re here, they enjoy it until it’s time to go back. Not having that business is a big deal.”
The tariffs have angered Europeans who “are canceling their trips here,” Osborn said. “It’s going to have a huge impact this summer when they don’t come here. And we’re concerned. The damage is already done. It’s going to be at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
Osborn said a friend in Antwerp, Belgium, who owns a wine bar that specializes in American wine is in a dire position because of the Trump-generated trade war.
“The Europeans will not buy American wine,” he said. “She has a pallet of Finger Lakes wines that she cannot sell. That’s going to ruin her business.”
Kaiser said that Wine America is not in favor of tariffs and that it has pleaded its case to Congress. “But the way things stand right now, Congress doesn’t really have much ability to curb the administration from doing these things,” he said.
“We would like — if there are going to be tariffs — for them to be targeted at certain things,” Kaiser said. “We’d like the administration to work with other countries to make sure we’re not targeted, not caught in the middle. That’s the biggest thing. Leave us out of it, if you will.”
Kaiser said he and his organization are seeking face-to-face meetings with the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office “and others in the administration just to let them know how this really does impact us. It’s really bad right now, but we hope cooler heads will prevail, although the damage done will be hard to overcome.”
America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them
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America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them
Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
www.nbcnews.com
Carney urges Canadian doctors in the U.S. to come home - NOW Toronto
Liberal Leader Mark Liberal Leader Mark Carney is making a direct appeal to Canadian doctors and nurses living in the U.S. to “come home.”
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Carney urges Canadian doctors in the U.S. to come home
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney meets supporters as he arrives at the Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island airport on Sunday, April 20, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is making a direct appeal to Canadian doctors and nurses living in the U.S. to “come home.”
Carney made the comments Monday while talking up his health-care plan, which looks to add thousands of new physicians to the system.
He said his government would streamline credential recognition and look to poach global talent, including doctors working in the U.S.
“To the Canadian health-care professionals practising in the U.S., let me say this. If you’ve been thinking about coming back to Canada, there’s never been a better time,” Carney told a morning press conference at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown.
“It’s time to come home.”
Carney rolled out a health-care plan that includes $4 billion for building and renovating hospitals and long-term care homes.
“Hospitals and clinics have been closing, while the needs in the health-care system are growing. We must reverse this trend and increase access to team-based care,” he said.
Carney, who started the last week of the election campaign on the East Coast, was introduced at an event Monday by incumbent MP Sean Casey, who called Carney the “adult in the room” in Canadian politics.
The Liberal leader also took a moment to react to the death of Pope Francis. Carney called him a “voice of moral clarity” with “boundless compassion.”
Carney arrived in Prince Edward Island on Sunday and greeted supporters and local MPs at the Charlottetown airport.
Liberal MPs currently hold all four seats in P. E. I, with three of those incumbents running for re-election.
Former agriculture minister Lawrence MacAulay, who was first elected as MP for the riding of Cardigan in 1997, is not running again.
The Liberal party currently holds 23 of 32 seats in Atlantic Canada.
While the Liberals swept the region entirely in 2015, they have since lost some of those seats to the Conservatives.
Article by Anja Karadeglija.
— With files from Kyle Duggan in Ottawa
