Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada can no longer be overly reliant on the U-S as a trading partner, after President Donald Trump lashed out with tariffs at levels not seen since the Great Depression.

Carney warned the bilateral relationship “will never be the same as it was,” in a speech at the University of Ottawa.

He says the upcoming budget will see an “ambitious” goal to double Canada’s non-U-S exports in the next decade to generate 300-billion-dollars more in trade.

While the economy is holding up for the moment despite Trump’s tariff barrages, Carney says –quote– “if we don’t act now, the pressures will only grow.”

 

The Town of New Glasgow is taking action to protect residents and infrastructure from the impacts of climate change.  It’s participating in the provincial Community Climate Capacity Program.  With that support, the Town of New Glasgow will implement its corporate climate action plan, integrate policy and land-use planning into a new community climate action plan.   The announcement was made by Environment and Climate Change Minister Timothy Halman at the Community Climate Capacity Summit in Truro.

 

Unionized part-time faculty at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax are hitting the picket lines this morning.

The striking employees are joining their colleagues at Mount Saint Vincent University, who walked off the job yesterday.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3912 says the Saint Mary’s strike begins at 8:30 a.m., after contract talks broke down Wednesday night.

The union says key issues at both schools include job security and fair compensation.

 

The Nova Scotia government has approved plans for the construction of North America’s first coastal refuge for whales and dolphins retired from marine theme parks.

The Whale Sanctuary Project is keen to offer a long-term home to 10 of the 30 belugas owned by Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

In 2021, the now shuttered theme park produced two studies accusing the Whale Sanctuary Project of failing to deal with pollution at the proposed site.

The project C-E-O dismissed the concerns, saying his group has spent the past three years drafting environmental studies and remediation plans — all of which have received provincial approval.

 

In sports,

In the Maritime Junior Hockey League, the Crushers host the Valley Wildcats tonight.