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O Canada! Time to Talk Tariffs February 04, 2025
Note: The tariff news is breaking by the hour. As I prepared to hit publish, the Trump administration announced that tariffs on Mexico were paused for a month. Further developments with Canada are expected this afternoon. Thus, while the specifics wi...
Does Canada Exist? January 10, 2025
One of the original proposed names for Monty Python’s Flying Circus was supposedly “Whither Canada?” This once comical question is now being asked sincerely and with increasing urgency — and not just by Canadians. For the declining fortunes of the Un...
Canada’s National Identity Crisis December 12, 2024
Soon after becoming prime minister of Canada in 2015, Justin Trudeau confidently told New York Times Magazine that the country had no core national identity, and that was a good thing....
England’s Real-Life Quietus December 11, 2024
Two weeks ago, the British House of Commons voted in favor of a bill that, according to the BBC, “would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life.” The final vote was 330 to 275.This news immedia...
A Resilience Paradigm for Trade December 09, 2024
After several decades during which tariffs were discarded by the bipartisan establishment, trade protectionism is back at the center of American politics. Donald Trump ran and won on tariffs in 2016, put them at the heart of his triumphant 2024 campa...
Canada’s Assault on Free Speech May 24, 2024
In late February, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party introduced in the Canadian Parliament the long-awaited Online Harms Act, which provides the government with extensive and explicit authority to regulate “content that foments hatred.” With the stated g...
What’s in a Naomi? May 01, 2024
Montréal-born Naomi Klein is a prominent international voice of the left, an author of influential and often insightful books about capitalism and climate change. She has spent decades linking capitalism with an alphabet of other -isms, from ableism ...
