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Trump Threatens Canada With Tariffs as Post-Davos Fallout Continues

✇NYT
Par :Matina Stevis-Gridneff
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President Trump said he would impose tariffs if Canada made “a deal with China,” though there is no sign that those countries are discussing a broad trade agreement.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

President Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, after returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariff over possible deal with China

✇The Guardian
Par :Guardian staff and Reuters
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President also claims US refineries will process seized Venezuelan oil, saying ‘we take the oil’

Donald Trump on Saturday said he would impose a 100% tariff on all Canadian imports if the North American country makes a trade deal with China.

Beside that tariff threat, another Trump foreign policy maneuver to make news on Saturday involved the president announcing the US had taken the oil that was on recently seized Venezuelan tankers.

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© Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

© Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

© Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

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How Trudeau Liberals’ DEI obsession helped kill Canadian culture

✇National Post
Par :Special to National Post
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Set for release Jan. 27, Lament for a Literature is the new book from Richard Stursberg, in which he laments the decline of Canadian literature, for which he blames multiple factors. In this excerpt, he addresses the impact of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, arguing they took over a badly weakened cultural sector from the Harper Conservatives and threw money at it without addressing the difficult structural issues affecting it, only making things worse. The government, he said, did not understand "that as Canadian media eroded and Canadians embraced the new foreign digital platforms, they walked away from Canada itself. They no longer consumed Canadian news, laughed at Canadian comedies, read Canadian books, watched Canadian documentaries, or heard the opinions of Canadian experts on domestic social, cultural, political, economic, or historical issues. They effectively left the national conversation and moved to another amorphous, filter-bubbling virtual country." Read More
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Ryan Wedding’s journey from Olympic snowboarder to alleged cocaine kingpin

✇The Guardian
Par :Leyland Cecco in Toronto · Harriet Barber in Medellín and Thomas Graham in Tijuana
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The native of Thunder Bay, Canada, has been compared to Pablo Escobar and El Chapo – but is he really as big a figure as US prosecutors have claimed?

To compete at the highest levels of snowboarding, racers must master carving, edging and balance at speeds stretching the limits of imagination. They can fluently read the nuances of snow and fine-tune their bodies to cross the finish line faster than anyone else.

The Canadian snowboarder Ryan Wedding had these skills – but also the quality that catapults amateurs to an elite level: a highly competitive instinct to succeed that can at times manifest in a desire to crush fellow competitors.

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© Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

© Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

© Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

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How Ryan Wedding, a Canadian Olympic Snowboarder, Turned into a Drug Lord

✇NYT
Par :Norimitsu Onishi and Vjosa Isai
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Ryan Wedding rose to fame as a Canadian Olympic athlete, but the authorities say he became one of the world’s biggest drug lords, who ordered an informant executed.

© Federico Rios for The New York Times

Ryan Wedding, the police said, ordered the murder of an associate who became an informant. The man was shot and killed while dining in Medellín, Colombia.
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