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The government of British Columbia joined three U.S. states and a Mexican state in a partnership to develop a zero-emissions trucking corridor down the west coast of North America, Electric Autonomy reports.
The project, called the British Columbia to Baja California ZEV Corridor (BC2BC), was announced on Wednesday in Long Beach, Calif. Baja California in Mexico, along with the U.S. states of California, Oregon and Washington are also part of the commitment.
Canada, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, sends about 90% of its oil exports to the U.S., but tensions between the countries are escalating, reports Reuters.
Trump imposed a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods last week, and repeatedly angers Canadians with lies, insults, and expressed threats to the country’s economy and sovereignty.
Canada recorded a sharply lower $370 million (us$266.57 million) budget deficit for the first three months of the 2026/27 fiscal year as government expenditures grew slightly faster than revenues, the finance ministry said on Friday.
By comparison, the deficit in the same period a year earlier had been C$6.28 billion, it said in a statement, reports Reuters.
Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Frederiksen discussed the close and growing partnership between Canada and Denmark, bolstered by shared values, strong transatlantic ties, and a shared commitment to security and prosperity.
Mr. Carney seems all alone in the trade world, tilting at Mr. Trump’s tariffs fortress. But appearances can be deceptive. Even though EU leaders will not publicly join his anti-Trump crusade, they are endorsing him in more subtle ways. Evidence came on Wednesday, when the prime minister’s office said that he will attend the EU’s State of the Union address to be given by EU President Ursula von der Leyen on Sept. 16 in Strasbourg, reports Eric Reguly in the Globe and Mail.
The next day, he will address the EU parliament. It’s impossible to imagine that Mr. Trump would receive the same invitation (the last U.S. president to address the parliament was Ronald Reagan, in 1985). Canada’s attempted pivot to Europe is building momentum, doubly so after Mr. Trump hit Canada with 50 per cent tariffs on a broad range of goods on Saturday. “My sense is that there is a lot of international respect for Carney standing up to Trump even if there is reluctance of foreign leaders to come out with full-voice support for him,” said Canadian international trade lawyer Lawrence Herman.
Richard Branson: “I tend to agree with those who have described this dreadful conflict as “America’s Suez moment,” comparing the Hormuz crisis to Britain’s failed intervention to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian control in 1956. The Suez Crisis had many layers, but it was widely seen as symbolic of a fading empire no longer able to secure its interests by the means it was most familiar with. The US is at risk of meeting a similar fate. As Trump and his administration stumble from one poorly planned tactic to the next, it’s perhaps time to refocus on what is really needed – listening to allies and not alienating them, and building relationships based on trust and respect. If not, I’m afraid America will face a long and painful decline, leaving a vacuum others are just too eager to fill.“
“We’re both looking for aircraft that are fairly similar, fairly small,” the French official said, speaking ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the Nordic country Monday.
“In response to the question: Are there any avenues for cooperation? Of course, there are many: we have aircraft engine production capacity that Sweden doesn’t have — that’s something we could cooperate on,” they added.
Saab makes its own fourth-generation Gripen fighter — although the warplane’s engine uses core technology from American company GE Aerospace. Engines for France’s Rafale fighter jets are locally made by Safran.
Report by Laura Kayali at Politico
NATO officials must strengthen military contact with Russia to reduce the growing risk of all-out war caused by miscalculation, Moscow’s envoy to Norway told Politico.
“The risks and danger of the military confrontation significantly are [rising] due to lack of dialogue,” Nikolay Korchunov said in an interview in his office in central Oslo. “Confidence building … [and] dialogue now is much more important on all echelons.”
NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe, U.S. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, “remains ready to engage in military-to-military dialogue with the chief of the general staff of the Russian Federation [Valery Gerasimov] to avoid miscalculation and to provide a means for avoiding unintended escalation by either side,” O’Donnell added, but declined to say whether the two have spoken.
“Today, I join the people of Norway and others around the world in mourning the passing of His Majesty King Harald V.
King Harald devoted his life to Norway. Forced into exile as a young child during the Second World War, he returned to Norway in 1945, became Crown Prince in 1957, and acceded to the throne in 1991. For over three decades, he served with a deep sense of duty and guided the monarchy through decades of change, balancing tradition with a more open and modern institution. In moments of national tragedy, he helped bring Norwegians together and remained a steady presence in the life of his country.
The notably reduced U.S. military presence in the Pacific and in Europe — and Trump’s conciliatory approach to traditional foes such as Russia and North Korea — has threatened the Pentagon’s influence around the world, according to five former defence officials and a person familiar with Defence Department planning, reports Politico.
“The obvious question that nobody seems to want to overly press the administration on right now is: Do we still have a credible deterrent?” said one of the officials. “Given where the resources are at, there’s a pretty big gap.”
The Pentagon’s inability to subdue Tehran, coupled with drastically reduced stockpiles of missile interceptors and other key munitions, has fuelled an increasing consensus that the U.S. military is losing the clout it once held with allies.
“There’s just a real hollowing out of confidence,” said a second former defence official, who, like others, was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive military issues.
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