Category: Canada
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Read more: Carney speaks to Trump after president erupts over Gordie Howe BridgeThe amount of time and energy that must be spent correcting the late night rantings of the U.S. President. Incredible… Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to his U.S. counterpart early Tuesday morning about the Gordie…
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Read more: Trump threatens to block opening of new bridge between Windsor and DetroitA new day…a new shit-show. The Moroun family has been an incredible irritant in the completion of this project. But this… this is the real-time implementation of Trump’s National Security Strategy… he will bully anybody over anything…
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Read more: Report on Canada’s 2025 CUSMA Consultations releasedI can’t find a date on this release…I just blundered into it on the Global Affairs website. I either missed it from earlier…or it is just out. Either way, this is so high level that it is…
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Read more: Foreign interference… “good for me…but not for you”It seems like only yesterday, that President Trump and his cabal of cabinet enablers, had a hissy fit and cancelled trade negotiations with Canada. This followed the release of a TV commercial that quoted Ronald Reagan’s thoughts…
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Read more: A needless distraction for CanadaThis has been the “elbows up” year for Canada. In the face of a Trump Administration that has shattered bilateral economic and security relations, the Carney government has launched a national effort to: i) diversify Canadian trade…
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Read more: USTR Greer on CUSMA Review
Several stories on the remarks from USTR Greer to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees … In them he gives a preliminary understanding of what the U.S. Administration took away from the recent USMCA…
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Read more: A Fertilizer Case StudyI don’t spend a lot of time thinking about fertilizer but this week fertilizer came into focus for me with three inter-related developments. Taken together they illustrate the many, and inconsistent, ways that President Trump’s “approach” to…
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Read more: Harmonies of Hope: $2.3 Million for Hurricane Relief in JamaicaMy friend Donette Chin-Loy Chang, who is Chancellor of Toronto Metropolitan University along with Wes Hall, Chancellor the University of Toronto collaborated to stage a Benefit Concert for post-hurricane relief in Jamaica. Both have Jamaican roots. One…
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Read more: U.S. congressional report finds Trump tariffs hurting American businesses along Canadian borderThere has been a lot of talk about the impact that the U.S. trade disruption on Canada is having. Great to find a U.S. source report that tells it like it is. By Madeline Mazak Dec 12, 2025…
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Read more: Like Trump, Benjamin Franklin Sought to Annex CanadaMadelaine Drohan has written a book that I’m putting on my Christmas list. The New York Times gives it some coverage in their “Canada Letter” this morning. By Ian Austen New York Times “Canada Letter” December 6, 2025…