Canada
2025 March
2025-03-10 Canadian visitors boycotted tourism in the U.S., which by 2026 news outlets reported a possible long-term loss in the U.S. economy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/03/10/canada-travel-boycott-4-billion-loss/
2025-03-13 Trump fixated on making Canada the 51st state.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-talking-making-canada-51st-state/story?id=119767909
2025-03-21 The Trump administration blocked access to the historical US-Canadian border library to “counter illicit cross-border activities”.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/trump-ends-canada-access-at-shared-border-library/
2026 January
2026-01-21 During the Davos summit in Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney urged other countries to unite against bullying from the U.S.
https://www.globaldispatches.org/p/mark-carneys-jaw-dropping-davos-speech
2026 February
2026-02-22 In the wake of the men’s hockey team victory, conservative commentators on Fox referred to the Canadian team as “communists”, with one saying, “Gotta go all the way back to 1980 when we defeated the Soviets. This felt just as sweet because I guess since we don’t have Russia to kick around anymore, Canada will do” and another saying, “They’re practically communists, and they’re cozying up to the Chinese.
Also out of left field, one conservative commentator praised the win as a show of masculinity. Benny Johnson stated, quote, “Masculinity and celebration – these are things that, like, have been completely and totally sanitized from our arch-feminist culture, our estrogen-etic culture”. By the way, neither one of those are words.
2026 April
2026-04-19 Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said economic ties with the U.S. are a weakness that must be corrected. He stated, “We have to take care of ourselves because we can’t rely on one foreign partner…we can’t control the disruption coming from our neighbors”.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trump-trade-u-s-negotiations-weaknesses-9.7169671
https://www.dw.com/en/canadas-us-ties-have-become-a-weakness-says-carney/a-76852129
2026 May
2026-05-26 There is a movement to have oil-rich Alberta separate from Canada.
https://www.sierraclub.ca/alberta-separatism-oil-gas/