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National Column: Trudeau talks progressive but lacks needed action
by Thomas Walkom Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government talks a good game – particularly in the areas of human rights and […]
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National Column: Reworked TPP could be trade deal of the future
In Canada, all eyes are on Donald Trump and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Will the mercurial U.S. president sandbag the deal? Or is his hard line just a negotiating ploy?
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National Column: Canada has options if Trump kills NAFTA
If U.S. President Donald Trump deep-sixes the North American Free Trade Agreement, there are essentially three things that Canada can do.
It can try to salvage a bilateral deal with the U.S.
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National Column: Trump’s NAFTA hatred may help Canada
by Thomas Walkom In a strange way, Donald Trump’s disdain for the North American Free Trade Agreement may do Canada […]
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National Column: Canada should not be satisfied with just tweaking NAFTA
Canada’s Liberal government says it wants only minor changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks of “modernizing” the 23-year-old pact while leaving the fundamentals intact. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has said her government’s aim in NAFTA renegotiation talks is to make “what is already a good deal even better.” […]
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National Column: Trump’s flawed recipe for victory in war
As he committed America and its allies to years more of war in Afghanistan, Donald Trump made a stark confession Monday.
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National Column: The truth is out there. The problem is that we don’t believe it
We like to think our beliefs are influenced by facts and logic. But that isn’t quite true – and perhaps has never been less true than now. We delve into the science, politics and reality of The Age of Unreason, today in Insight. […]
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National Column: Social conservatives just love a ‘real man’
This week we learned that the White House isn’t really the white house. It’s a frat house with a manicured lawn. How else can you describe a place where a guy who goes by the nickname “The Mooch” (a.k.a. recently appointed and sacked White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci) reportedly misses the birth of his child so that he can hang with his buddy, a guy called “The Donald”? (a.k.a. the President of the United States, Donald Trump.)
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National Column: President Trump, Paris and the melodrama of climate change
by Thomas Walkom In practical terms, U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to formally withdraw from the Paris climate accord doesn’t […]
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National Column: The competing storylines to explain Donald Trump
by Thomas Walkom Canadians looking at Donald Trump may ask how the embattled U.S. president survives. A special counsel has […]
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National Column: Trump aping Nixon’s ‘madman theory’
Is Donald Trump crazy like a fox or just crazy? I pick the former. His abrupt reversals on policy and his Twitter rants probably reflect his personality. But they also seem deliberately designed to keep everyone guessing as to what he might do. […]
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National Column: Macron’s rise is Trudeau’s win too
It is a sign of the times that a Canadian prime minister and an American president are cheering for different candidates in the upcoming second round of France’s presidential election – and that their contrary preferences are so transparent.
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National Column: What Donald Trump’s anti-Canada rant means
by Thomas Walkom Donald Trump has discovered reasons not to like Canada. He is sure to find more. The U.S. […]
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National Column: Canada wears velvet glove to shake hands with U.S.
Ever since last fall’s American presidential election campaign, Justin Trudeau has played nice with Donald Trump, routinely bending over backward to avoid taking the new administration head-on.
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National Column: Why Trump reversed himself and attacked Syria
How to explain Donald Trump’s radical about-face on Syria, Russia and China? Analysts are at a loss.
Leaders do change their views. But the U.S. president’s sudden transformation from isolationist America Firster to big-time global policeman boggles even the most jaded of minds.
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National Column: Trudeau following Trump’s dangerous path on Syria
In his approach to the Syrian civil war, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is consistent in at least one respect. He consistently supports the dangerously inconsistent approach of Donald Trump.
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