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Consider a Common Market With Canada March 29, 2025

As President Donald Trump continues to toy (troll?) with the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state, he should consider a better option: Build a common market with our neighbors to the north. ...

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Mark Carney's Trump Strategy Comes Into View March 28, 2025

Most heads of state have treaded carefully around President Donald Trump since he returned to power, but Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken a more aggressive approach — and there are indications that it may be working, at least for now...

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What Elections Mean for Canada and the Future of North America March 26, 2025

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How Trump Broke the Canadian Right March 25, 2025

Pierre Poilievre has lost his shine ...

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Trump Looms Over Canada’s Election as Campaign Begins March 24, 2025

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When Canada Expanded March 24, 2025

President Trump has been talking up Canada as the 51st state and, in the ensuing outrage, people have lost track of historical events. ...

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Three Myths That Shape Canadian Politics March 24, 2025

Changing political tides in Canada mean fierce competition between competing visions for the Arctic nation’s future. ...

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NATO to Ask Europe and Canada for 30% Boost in Military Capacity March 21, 2025

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Canada’s Elites Are Exploiting Trump’s Trade War March 20, 2025

The ruling Liberal Party has cynically reinvented itself as a patriotic protector of the people....

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Canada Should Call Trump’s Bluff and Drop All of Its Tariffs March 20, 2025

We now appear to be in a full-fledged trade war with our closest ally and neighbor. ...

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Trump Calls Canada to Action March 19, 2025

The U.S. is beating up on Canada.The friendship between the U.S. and Canada is historic but has fallen into an inexplicable confrontation. Bizarrely, President Trump has proposed that a fellow member of the powerful Group of Seven major economic powe...

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Canada Is Limited in Matching Further U.S. Tariffs, Carney Says March 18, 2025

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Trade Turmoil Forecast To Slash Growth in Canada and Mexico March 17, 2025

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Canada’s False New Nationalism March 17, 2025

During his 1969 visit to the United States, Canada’s then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau held a news conference at which he described his American hosts in a memorable analogy. “Living next to you”, he said, “is in some ways like sleeping with an elep...

Canada’s New PM Is a Technocratic Banker Who’s Never Been Elected March 14, 2025

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America’s Retreat Leaves a Leadership Void March 14, 2025

A shouting match with the Ukrainian president on live TV; tariffs hammering allies; talk of annexing Canada; NATO, once a pillar of stability, now caught in a storm of doubt; the U.S. standing with Belarus and North Korea in refusing to condemn Mosco...

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Is Canada Doing Enough To Stop the U.S. Trade War? March 14, 2025

There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and the US is beginning to look like a case in point. ...

Canada's Alberta Under Strain March 13, 2025

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Mark Carney To Be Sworn in as Canada’s PM on Friday March 13, 2025

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Toward a North American Economic Union March 13, 2025

To resolve their current tensions, Canada, Mexico, and the United States should start drafting plans for a North American Economic Union. A single market in goods, services, capital, labor, technology, data, and information would benefit all three co...

Divide and Con March 12, 2025

Some thoughts on Justin Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and the USA-Canada alliance....

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Mark Carney Is Wrong About Everything March 11, 2025

Canadians have a new prime minister. After a leadership election in the ruling Liberal Party, it’s out with the woke globalist, Justin Trudeau, and in with the woke globalist, Mark Carney. ...

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Canada Will Stand Firm Despite Trump’s Disastrous Tariffs March 11, 2025

Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Just a day after President Donald Trump imposed long-awaited tariffs on Canada, his administration swiftly granted exemptions for the auto industry until April 2 and effectively removed goods shipped ...

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Make Canada boring again March 11, 2025

Almost 40 years ago, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Flora Lewis wrote a piece titled “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.” Upon seeing it, the New Republic’s Michael Kinsley challenged his readers to come up with a more boring headline. And alt...

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New PM: Canada Will Never, Ever Be Part of America March 10, 2025

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