Forward Guidance: PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a ‘weakness’ in address to Canadians
It is pretty rare to see Prime Ministers of Canada make this kind of direct appeal...and the sentiment expressed is one that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. Today, however, many Canadians, including…
Epstein’s buddy right here. And our Ambassador from the U.S. keeps saying he can’t understand why Canada has turned away from them.
@petchary.bsky.social
Threats, corruption and intimidation: Is the Bishnoi gang calling shots at Cricket Canada?
When I lived in Jamaica I had the good fortune of learning a bit about cricket. Great times were had at Sabina Park watching the West Indies team play. Canada has some cricket going on...in my town it seems…
LeBlanc says Canada ‘won’t be the source of any delay’ in renewing CUSMA
By Sean Boynton & David Akin Global News April 16, 2026 Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says his side “certainly won’t be the source of any delay” in resolving negotiations on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on…
Canada’s Foreign Policy in an Interregnum: From Comfortable Ally to Strategic Middle Power
A timely and thought provoking blog post from Prof. Andy Knight of the University of Alberta from a platform I had not been aware of before...The McLeod Group. by Prof. Andy Knight, University of Alberta…
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
This is certifiable…. and yet U.S. Congressional and other leadership still do nothing to rein in this mad king.
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
Ukraine’s White Book: should be required reading
by Julian Knysh | April 6, 2026, In wartime Kyiv, books are rarely just books. They can be testimony, warning, field manual, and act of resistance all at once. That is the atmosphere in which Media Center Ukraine launched “The White Book: Navigating…
My kids used to do this with their mum and grandmother. I hope Ukraine can have something of a happy Easter this year.
Imagine… a U.S. that is hostile to Canada’s interests…?
April 2, 2026 Canada should expect 'hostility' with U.S. trade talks less than three months away, trade analysts say Greer told Fox Business that Canada was behind Mexico on discussions, citing provincial bans on U.S. alcohol as a non-starter…
Who the hell do they think they are? They’ll whine about a Canadian tariff ad and then, with no sense of shame do this…over and over again in any country they feel like.
Perhaps the only positive is that Vance is such a bully that the good people of Hungary will be put off by the attempt.
2026 US National Trade Estimate Report
The US National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers comes out every year and details what the US Administration views as foreign country barriers to US trade. This year's report on Canada has a number of new issues, related to the trade disruption…
Does Congress know that 🤔
At least they didn’t blow them up
How many more chances will the world get at saving the WTO?
I spent some time working for Canada on WTO negotiations. My first Ministerial Meeting was the "Battle in Seattle". I have some understanding of how difficult it is to land consensus in the organization. While many had already declared…
A global agreement on e-commerce just 30 years after the founding of eBay, and at a time countries are trying to discourage online shopping by scrapping their de minimis exemptions, but progress of a sort I guess... www.wto.org/english/news...
On the left: an illustration of President Donald Trump with his finger on a red button and flames in the background. On the right: text that reads “Trump’s foreign policy is all fury, no strategy. Even the most powerful predator should know there are limits to how far its military can stretch.”
What if the greatest global threat isn’t conflict itself but the refusal to prevent it?
Writer Michael Ignatieff asks whether or not superpowers can still define limits before “the nemesis of power” consumes them all: thewalrus.ca/trumps-foreign-policy-is...
