Maxime Marquette
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ANALYSIS: Trump shuts Greenland to Beijing and Moscow, and opens it to his planes up to Canada’s border
A gully runs across Tartupaluk from north to south, and the agreement signed on June 14, 2022, made it the land border between Canada…
EDITORIAL: Trump spares our oil and taxes our hockey sticks, but we will not be his well
Jamieson Greer summed up in three words, on September 25, what Washington still gets out of Canada.
OPINION: Trump waves Lukashenko’s potash at Canada, then backs off beside Zelensky
Donald Trump announced on September 21 that the United States was negotiating a huge deal to buy potash from Belarus, at a price “substantially…
ANALYSIS: Under tariffs, the boycott cracks on the road, planes win back only 3,581 returns
Statistics Canada released a number on September 22, 2026, that the industry had been awaiting for almost three years. In July, Canadians’ return trips…
COMMENTARY: Ottawa mutes its first F-35 flight, and the pictures come from two photographers
Nobody announced anything when Canada’s first F-35 took off from Fort Worth, Texas, on September 23, 2026, around noon.
ESSAY: Nine seconds of silence, then Carney admits he prepared for an attack by his ally
It was not a declaration of war that Mark Carney delivered on September 23, 2026, at The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan.
FACT CHECK: Trump’s “millions” are false, and StatCan counts 154,614 fewer temporary residents
Donald Trump wrote on September 23, 2026, that Canada is “destroying itself.” In his telling, “millions” of people are getting in without checks.
REVIEW: Carney’s “less than 3%” hides more than a quarter of the EV market opened to Beijing
On September 25 at 3 p.m., the federal permit registry counted 15,763 Chinese electric cars brought into Canada under an annual quota of 49,000.
PROFILE: Lana Payne lets the contract expire rather than sign away Brampton
On September 20 at 11:59 p.m., the collective agreement between Unifor and Stellantis expired. Not one of the laid-off workers from the Brampton plant…