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National Post
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- National Post
Raymond J. de Souza: Lessons for Trump from Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not only is President Donald Trump attempting to revive the American steel industry with tariffs — raised to 50 per cent last week — but he is personally (with taxpayer funds) increasing demand. Article content This Saturday, for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army — happily coinciding with his 79th birthday — Trump has ordered up a Soviet-style military parade. Will the old politburo rules apply, where the first cabinet secretary to stop applauding the leader will be exiled to the outer ring of Elon? Article content Article content Article content As Washington's roads were not built to accommodate the tonnage of massive M1A1 Abrams tanks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been laying down steel plates to mitigate the damage. Should there be an 80th birthday politburo parade next year, those steel plates will be more expensive, as the army will be paying steel tariffs to the federal government for its equipment. Trump taxes the military to enrich the Treasury. Article content Article content In Trumpworld, where 'tariff' is the 'most beautiful word in the dictionary,' steel and aluminum tariffs have pride of place. Those tariffs date back to the first Trump term, though this time around they are more bigly. The 2018 steel tariffs increased employment in the U.S. steel industry by a thousand jobs; manufacturing job losses due to higher steel costs were estimated at 75,000. Article content Trump remarkably believes that America should have a large steel industry again. While the U.S. does import steel, as other countries make certain kinds of higher quality steel, American domestic steel production over decades has largely tracked domestic consumption. The U.S. makes less steel now because it builds fewer things needing steel. That has been the case for 50 years. If the largest employer is General Motors, steel production will be much higher than if the largest employer is Walmart. Article content Article content Leave aside economic data. Listen to the laments. Literal laments. Billy Joel, who recently withdrew from his current concert tour due to ill health, grew up in Hicksville on Long Island, N.Y., less than 50 kilometres from Trump Tower. His song Allentown was released in 1982, the year Trump Tower's construction was completed. It told the tale of Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania steel towns that were already dying as U.S. steel production slowed down. That was 43 years ago. Article content Article content The song opens with a factory whistle and the lyric that 'they're closing all the factories down.' Article content 'We're living here in Allentown, but it's getting very hard to stay,' sang Joel. 'Every child had a pretty good shot to get at least as far as their old man got, but something happened on the way to that place — they threw an American flag in our face.' Article content That might summarize the Trump appeal to working-class voters in Pennsylvania and other similar places. But Billy Joel sang that long before NAFTA, long before the rise of China, long before the financial crisis. He sang it when Trump was less than half the age he is now. Trump is wrong on the problem and thus wrong on the remedy.
CTV News
an hour ago
- CTV News
Austria falls silent for a minute as questions remain about the motive for a deadly school shooting
People light candles for victims of a former student who opened fire at a school, fatally wounding 10 people and injuring many others before taking his own life, in Graz, Austria, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) GRAZ, Austria — Austria fell silent for a minute on Wednesday in memory of the 10 people killed in a school shooting in Graz, which ended with the gunman taking his own life. The man's motive remained unclear. Austria has declared three days of national mourning following what appears to be the deadliest attack in its post-World War II history. At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, marking the moment a day earlier when police were alerted to shots at the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school, the country stopped for a minute of silence. Hundreds of people lined the central square in Graz, Austria's second-biggest city. Some laid more candles and flowers in front of the city hall, adding to a growing memorial to the victims. The first candles were laid on Tuesday evening as a crowd gathered on the square, some people hugging each other as they tried to come to terms with the tragedy. Hundreds of people joined Austrian officials at a service Tuesday evening in the Graz cathedral. Among those on the square Wednesday was Chiara Komlenic, a 28-year-old art history student who finished her exams at the school there. 'I always felt very protected there. The teachers were also very supportive,' she said. 'I made lifelong friendships there. It just hurts to see that young girls and boys will never come back, that they experienced the worst day of their lives where I had the best time of my life. I still know a few teachers, it just hurts a lot.' In the capital, Vienna, the local transport authority had trams, subway trains and buses stop for a minute. Police said they found a farewell letter and a non-functional pipe bomb when they searched the home of the assailant. The 21-year-old Austrian man lived near Graz and was a former student at the school who hadn't completed his studies. Police have said that he used two weapons, a shotgun and a handgun, which he appeared to have owned legally. Police didn't elaborate on investigators' findings in a brief post on social network X. But a senior official who acknowledged that the letter had been found on Tuesday night said it hadn't allowed them to draw conclusions. 'A farewell letter in analog and digital form was found,' Franz Ruf, the public security director at Austria's Interior Ministry, told ORF public television. 'He says goodbye to his parents. But no motive can be inferred from the farewell letter, and that is a matter for further investigations.' Asked whether the assailant had attacked victims randomly or targeted them specifically, Ruf said that is also under investigation and he didn't want to speculate. He said that wounded people were found on various levels of the school and, in one case, in front of the building. By Wednesday morning, the authority that runs hospitals in Graz said that all patients were in stable condition. Nine were still in intensive care units, with one needing a further operation on a facial wound and a second on a knee injury, while another two had been moved to regular wards. 'Graz is the second-largest city in Austria, but we still say that Graz is a village,' said Fabian Enzi, a university student among those on the main square of the city of about 300,000 people Wednesday. 'Every time you are out you meet people you know. There is a high chance that with such an attack you know people which are affected,' the 22-year-old said. 'There are a lot of desperate faces.' ___ Philipp Jenne, The Associated Press Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
CBC
an hour ago
- CBC
Charges stayed against Winnipeg man accused in sextortion case police said involved victims in 4 provinces
Charges have been stayed against a man accused of threatening to post intimate images online unless he was paid money by victims across four provinces, after prosecutors decided not to proceed with the case because of victims' "unwillingness to relive the experience by testifying." Tongun Justin Tongun was charged with 10 counts of extortion in June 2023, following an investigation that began in January of that year, when a man in his 20s reported he'd shared intimate images with someone online who presented themselves as a young woman, Winnipeg police said at the time. The man said the person he sent the photos to threatened to share them online unless he sent money, which he did, according to police. The following month, police identified three more victims and charged Tongun with four counts of extortion. A subsequent investigation allegedly linked Tongun to similar crimes across Canada, and six more male victims were identified across Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Prince Edward Island, leading to Tongun's additional charges in June 2023, police said previously. Manitoba court records show all 10 counts of extortion against Tongun, who was 21 at the time he was charged, were stayed on May 7. A provincial spokesperson said in an email Tuesday that decision was made after victims in the case didn't want to testify in court. "In preparation for this matter the Crown contacted a number of victims," the email said. "After reviewing the matter and taking into consideration the impact to the victims [and] their unwillingness to relive the experience by testifying, the Crown determined not to proceed but did seek restitution for all the victims as per their wishes." A stay means while the charges are not formally withdrawn, they are not proceeding through court at this time. The province has a year from the date charges were stayed to reinstate them.
