Canada will match the latest U.S. tariffs on a dollar-for-dollar basis and expand financial support for businesses reeling from the trade war, the federal government announced Tuesday.

The government said that Canada will introduce tariffs on over 700 American products starting on Sept. 8, covering an estimated $27.6 billion in imports from the U.S. The tariff rate per product will vary and match those imposed by the Trump administration, ranging from 15 to 50 per cent.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday the counter tariffs are “designed primarily to provide protection for Canadian industry from the impact of U.S. tariffs, and allow them to compete against U.S. products in the Canadian market.”

“It’s all about fairness. It’s all about levelling the playing field. It’s all about supporting Canadian workers and Canadian businesses,” he said at a press conference at a local roofing business, where several cabinet ministers were also in attendance.

Marco Vigliotti reports. 

President Donald Trump continued his war of words on Canada Tuesday, first insisting the United States is “giving serious consideration” to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America and then accusing Prime Minister Mark Carney of lying.

In a post on social media today, Trump says the U.S. does not expect to continue doing business with Ontario “much longer.”

The president followed it up with another post that he would never interfere with Canadians speaking French and never tried to weaken language protections as part of trade talks, calling Carney weak and unpopular.

Carney’s approval rating has been between 50 and 60 per cent over the summer, according to several different polls, while Trump’s approval rating in the U.S. is around 33 per cent, the lowest it has been across both his terms as president.

The Canadian Press has more. 

The federal government has announced more than $50 million in contracts for the construction of three separate hatcheries in British Columbia aimed at salmon conservation.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the projects will be on traditional First Nations territory or operated by a local nation.

The largest contract is worth $38 million for construction of the Upper Fraser River Salmon Conservation Hatchery near the confluence of the Nechako and Fraser rivers in Prince George, B.C., within the territory of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation.

Ottawa has also committed two contracts of about $7.5 million each for construction of a hatchery near Hanceville, B.C. in the central Interior and for the next phase of the Wilp’Ho Dix Hatchery in the Skeena River system in northwestern B.C.

CP’s got this one too. 

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Meanwhile, a series of firings and feuds initiated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has left the Army essentially rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded U.S. bases in the Middle East.

The Army has not had a chief of staff, the service’s top officer, since Mr. Hegseth fired Gen. Randy George without explanation in April, and there are no signs that he is close to filling the position, said current and former officials speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

Mr. Hegseth has forced out at least three senior officers who had been viewed as potential successors to General George.

Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, the service’s top civilian leader, is also expected to leave the administration in the next few months and has already moved out of the large family house that he was renting in Fort Myer, outside Washington, officials said.

The New York Times has more. 

China has denounced the threat of US sanctions for its trade with Iran, saying any such measures would be illegal, and warned it would take “all necessary measures” to protect its national interests.

Beijing’s rejection of the US threat of secondary sanctions for any country or entity continuing to trade with Tehran had been predicted. China buys an estimated 80% of Iran’s oil exports and has defied previous US efforts to limit the flow of revenue to the Tehran regime.

Its statement of opposition raises the question of how far the Trump administration would be prepared to go in confronting China and its financial system in the drive to isolate Iran.

In making the sanctions threat on Monday, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, announced an initial set of sanctions on 60 individuals, entities and vessels for alleged involvement in trade with Iran, but there were no Chinese financial institutions on the list, despite their involvement in financing the Iranian oil trade. The omission reflected US caution.

Read more from The Guardian. 

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The Kicker

All these rumbling from our neighbour down south about changing Lake Ontario’s name to ‘Lake America’ got the internet into a little discourse.

Funnily enough, the province happens to have a “Trump Lake” in Sudbury.

A user on X ominously posted saying Ontario Premier Doug Ford could do the funniest thing ever.