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Derek Burney: Trump fuels chaos in an already precarious world

In a fit of blatant intimidation, Donald Trump abruptly announced on June 27 that he was suspending trade talks with Canada immediately. The U.S. president also threatened to impose additional tariffs within seven days. In an interview with Fox News, he explained his decision saying, “People don’t realize Canada’s very nasty to deal with … There’s been things going on that we don’t like and things where they took advantage.” Read More
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Chris Selley: We’ll thank Travis Dhanraj for ‘pulling back the curtain’ on CBC News

One of the results of the Liberals’ long-unexpected election win earlier this year is that the issue of CBC’s future immediately came off the boil — and it wasn’t even all that big of an issue during the campaign, despite Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s unambiguous promise to defund CBC’s English-language operations entirely. Travis Dhanraj, a balanced and energetic reporter and until recently host of CBC's Canada Tonight, who mysteriously vanished from CBC’s airwaves earlier this year, dropped a bomb this week that could bring the issue back to life very quickly, and perhaps very usefully. Read More
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Tasha Kheiriddin: A Carney pipeline means an angry Liberal base

For months, Prime Minister Mark Carney has spoken about making Canada an energy superpower. He said it on the campaign trail, mentioned it again in an interview with CTV news in May, and dropped it again last weekend at the Calgary Stampede. While he usually inserts the qualifier of “both clean and conventional energy,” in an interview Saturday he stated that it’s “highly, highly likely” that at least one oil pipeline will make the government’s list of national strategic infrastructure projects. Read More
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