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National Column: How Canada can break its dependence on the U.S.
How can Canada break its dependence on the United States? This question has bedeviled both the left and the right since 1945. […]
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National Column: Trump has a point about NATO reliance on Russia
Donald Trump has confounded his NATO partners and is now on his way to make nice with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. […]
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National Column: What is the point of NATO?
Donald Trump says too many NATO countries, including Canada, don’t pay their fair share of defence costs. The U.S. president is right about that. But the real question facing the 29-member alliance is far more fundamental. […]
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National Column: Preparing national policy for the era post-NAFTA
When countries erect tariff barriers, companies move their production. That’s a reality that Canada once used to its advantage.
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National Column: NAFTA deal to reveal how far Canada, Mexico surrendered
There are reports that an agreement-in-principle is near in the fraught negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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National Column: National Column: The terrible part of NAFTA that Canada wants to keep – for now
Canada is going all-out to save the North American Free Trade Agreement. The ruling Liberal government has even enlisted the help of the opposition Conservatives in this crusade.
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National Column: Japan debates about U.S. reliability in Korea crisis
by Thomas Walkom How does an officially pacifist country like Japan protect itself from a nuclear-armed North Korea? The short […]
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National Column: U.S. and Russia come close to the brink in Syria
by Thomas Walkom Civil wars are complicated and dangerous. As Canada was reminded this week in Syria, outsiders who choose […]
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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: Trouble and opportunities in the new Trump world
Is Dion the best pitchman for Canada-U.S. affairs? A connected Freeland gets a second look
Count back from known events. Late this month the Trudeau cabinet will hold a two-day retreat outside Ottawa. The last time the prime minister summoned his colleagues for one of these occasional getaways, in Sudbury at the end of August, he gave a few ministers new jobs and shook up the committees that organize their work. […]