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National Newswatch@nationalnewswatch.com · 2d ago

There’s nothing funny about Canada’s political predicament with Trump’s America, Michael Harris writes www.hilltimes.com/2026/08/03/t... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

There's nothing funny about Canada’s political predicament with Trump’s America - The Hill Times

The nation that was once this country’s best friend and closest ally has become its biggest potential threat. Hyperbole? Not at all. Neither Russia nor China have threatened to annex Canada. Only pred...

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London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Deception, warmongering, extramarital sex, cruelty to animals, abusing women and yearning for honour – all perfectly fine in the world of Homer – are, in this version, very bad.’ @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social reviews Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · last wk.

Yes! I wrote this in July of last year talking about the inevitable self-defeating nature of being a massive tool. www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...

Deals with the Devil A devastatingly handsome and disarmingly humble trade geek recently wrote a book about how often trade policy tends to be politics first, economics a distant seventh. You should buy two copies for each of your pets. One aspect of trade policy becoming political is that the popularity of a country and its national leader abroad can give those they are negotiating with more or less political space to do deals with them. Any trade deal requires making concessions that are going to piss some people in your country off. If I lower a tariff, the companies who enjoyed tariff protection are going to complain loudly about it. The less the average voter in your country trusts or likes a foreign leader, the less patience they have for tolerating your making politically painful concessions to them in order to get a deal across the line. The Trump administration’s rather bellicose America-first rhetoric and general posture is actively limiting the political space other leaders have to make deals. The most obvious example of this is of course Canada, where proximity to Trump cost the opposition leader a double digit lead in the polls and propelled Mark Carney into power on the back of an ‘elbows up’ message. As a general rule, you want to avoid making fighting you a political slam dunk for foreign politicians - and unfortunately for Trump’s trade policy goals, in many places it is.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · last wk.

"Trump has spent most of the last 18 months alienating America’s oldest and closest allies, in a bid to court a new international coalition of his own making. "Now he's finding even they don’t want to pick up the phone. Trump’s remaining days in the Oval Office could become very lonely indeed."

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last mo.

‘In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico and imposed American law and the English language – a reminder that most of what is now the United States of America was not part of it in 1776, and would not be for many decades.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...

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London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4w ago

John Lanchester reviewed George Cottrell’s book, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺: 𝘈 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘌𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴,in the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 in May. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · last mo.

My latest: Mark Carney knows the biggest impediment to a new west coast pipeline is basic economics, and he's not going to let his government or country take the inevitable blame. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/03/o...

Mark Carney keeps giving Danielle Smith everything she wants — and depriving her of the one thing she really needs

Danielle Smith needs an enemy in Ottawa. Mark Carney keeps refusing to play that role.

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Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · last mo.

The whole point of the USMCA’s renegotiation clause was to allow the US to continue to extract concessions from Cda and Mx. To borrow Adam Serwer’s point about MAGA and cruelty, the uncertainty *is* the point. Yet the Carney government and way too many business groups continue to act otherwise.

Canada, U.S. and Mexico will not renew free trade agreement ‘in its current form.’ Deal will be subject to annual reviews

In the immediate term, the move changes little, but will contribute to ongoing investment and business uncertainty as the North American free trade pact becomes subject to annual reviews.

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