Paul Vieira
@paulvieira
Canada correspondent for @WSJ in Ottawa. News tips to [email protected] or WhatsApp/Signal, 613-698-6490. RTs/Likes ≠ endorsement.
"Heroes and Villains," by Brian Wilson. open.spotify.com/track/2TuHSCf1…
"If Poilievre is going to project his populist disdain for big business types onto 🇨🇦 PM Carney by making baseless accusations about his integrity, Conservatives will do well short-selling Poilievre’s political stock." theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…
Trump said the tariff deal with Japan, clinched Tuesday night, involves Tokyo entering a “joint venture” for LNG exportation in Alaska. The Trump administration and the gas industry have sought to secure partners for a proposed export project in Alaska. wsj.com/economy/trade/…
Inflation
Hershey to increase candy prices by double digits amid rising cocoa costs. cbsn.ws/4o3hURH
From ~2 weeks ago:
Ottawa in talks with automakers over EV sales targets, Joly says theglobeandmail.com/business/econo…
Japan did not retaliate against Trump tariffs and has reportedly now accepted a 15% auto tariff in a trade deal. No wonder why Carney is finding US trade negotiations to be “complex”.
From the same Statistics Canada report:
New Stats Can numbers show murder rates are up by 29% across the country since 2015. Bring back consecutive life sentences for multiple murderers. And give our police the tools they need to stop these monsters from taking innocent lives. End the chaos and bring back safety to…
Trump says he has agreed a trade deal with Japan that imposes 15% tariffs, involves $550 billion of investment into the US and involves Japan "opening" its market to US cars and trucks (which it already is)
Thank You Academic Alliance In Dermatology! I’m Now Cancer Free! WOOOOO!
Sen. Mike Lee tweeted (and appears to have deleted) what he appears to believe is a resignation letter (??) from Powell
Ozzy Osbourne, a founding father of British heavy metal, a latter-day solo star and a new-millennium reality TV luminary, died Tuesday after a yearslong struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 76. variety.com/2025/music/obi…
BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76. trib.al/NRGiXel 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
At the “Happy Gilmore 2” premiere, Rob Schneider said he believes late night shows were destined to fade as audiences turned to their phones. He said comedy survives by staying funny, not political. His comments come after CBS canceled “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
Alberta Premier Smith asked by @l_stone regarding her ties to X account that had role in targeting Globe reporter Carrie Tait. Smith says she's issued a statement and did an interview to CTV, and has nothing more to add on the subject.
"The era of the late-night host as a broadly acceptable cultural focal point is as dead as Blockbuster Video." open.substack.com/pub/natesilver…
"A CBC managers appears to equate a CBC journalist reporting something critical about the CBC with a potential breach of journalistic conflict of interest ethics, on the grounds that a CBC journalist has a personal stake in the broadcaster’s success." nationalpost.com/news/canada/cb…
JC Tretter is another "pelt on the wall" for @PabloTorre & @ProFootballTalk open.spotify.com/episode/2PRIB8…
Does the same fate await Canada in its EU defense deal? Via @FT:
Trying times for Canada's auto-assembly factories. Canada's share of North American vehicle production falls to 3-decade low. On WSJ wires:
