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Chris Selley: Keep Canadians’ pensions out of the Trump wars

“'Buy Canada' pressure builds on US$1.6 trillion in pension pot,” was the chilling headline to a Bloomberg News article this week, detailing the push to demand our public pension plans invest more in Canadian projects simply because they’re Canadian. That’s not a new argument by any means, and it doesn’t spell certain doom. Quebec’s Caisse de Dépôt has a mandate to invest in Quebec, and in the long term its returns reliably beat the “benchmark portfolio” — i.e., an index fund. (That said, in 2024 the Caisse lost more than $10 billion relative to that benchmark portfolio.) Read More
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Mystery author’s book signing was dangerously close to wildfires, and fans still showed up

Los Angeles was still under assault from wildfires the week that an eagerly awaited new thriller from Robert Crais saw publication. The Big Empty was the 20th novel featuring the exploits of wisecracking L.A. private eye Elvis Cole and his formidable but introspective partner Joe Pike — but there would be no big sendoff, no big book-signing tour. The real world was now intruding horrifically. Read More
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Terry Glavin: Who is this Mark Carney guy, anyway?

It’s heartening that Canadians across the spectrum have summoned from themselves a stout pride in their country and a like-minded fury about the mania for trade-relations vandalism and sabotage that has gripped the degenerate belligerent in the White House. Necessarily throwing ourselves into a federal election in the middle of the crippling trade war Donald Trump has decided to wage against us is just whatever the opposite of serendipity is. Read More
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Brazil is building a highway in the rainforest to service a climate conference

The next instalment in a series of United Nations climate change conferences will be COP30, taking place in Bélem, Brazil, in November. The city of 1.3 million people, known as the gateway to the Amazon River, is building a new central square that includes a metal walkway with a lookout, kiosks, rain gardens, a picnic area, an event space, a pet space, a playground and an outdoor gym. Read More
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Adam Zivo: Vladimir Putin is a warmonger. Why is anyone surprised?

Ukraine’s newly-announced openness to a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, along with the United States’ immediate resumption of military and intelligence support for Kyiv, is undoubtedly a victory for the West. Not only has Ukraine proven to its allies that it is serious about ending the war, Russia’s resistance to a reasonable truce underlines, yet again, its status as a predatory aggressor. Read More
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Judge temporarily blocks parts of ‘chilling’ Executive Order aimed at punishing Washington law firm

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration Wednesday from enforcing portions of an Executive Order designed to punish a prominent law firm linked to Democratic-funded opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into ties between the Republican candidate and Russia. Read More
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Trump administration can’t deport anti-Israel Columbia grad yet, judge says

(March 12, 2025 / JNS) -- Jesse Furman, a U.S. district judge in Manhattan, said on Wednesday that the government must allow Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers to speak to him privately on the phone and gave prosecutors and lawyers for the anti-Israel former Columbia University graduates until Friday to tell him in writing when they plan to file written arguments, the Associated Press reported. Read More
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Ross McKitrick: Carney to lead Canada after trying for years to defund it

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest that new Liberal leader (and our next prime minister) Mark Carney may be hiding. But I’m far more concerned about the one out in the open: Carney is now supposed to act for the good of the country after lobbying to defund and drive out of existence Canada’s oil and gas companies, steel companies, car companies and any other sector dependent on fossil fuels. He’s done this through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he founded in 2021. Read More
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Derek Burney: Retaliate and rebuild, Canada. We’ll be better for it

Canada faces a seismic shift in world affairs where the U.S., under Donald Trump, is no longer a reliable alliance or trade partner, prompting disarray in the West and posing an existential threat to Canada’s well-being. Stock markets have plunged, inflation is ticking up, and consumer confidence is sagging in the U.S. There is even talk of recession — not the change Trump promised for America. Read More
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J.D. Tuccille: Trump protects Americans from low prices

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to have an impact on the economy, and he’s certainly living up to his promises. With a double whammy of high tariffs and uncertainty about the administration’s policies and intentions, the Trump administration is hammering trade relations between the U.S. and its neighbours to the north and south, as well as across the world. Recently imposed 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum are bound to make everybody a little poorer. The only good that could possibly come out of it is a reminder that we all benefit from free trade, even if it’s unilateral. Read More
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