Maxime Marquette
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FACT CHECK: Greer’s “last hour” doesn’t hold up, and the constraint Carney decried has no text
Jamieson Greer repeated on CNBC on September 25 that Canada had asked for relief on heavy trucks in the final hours of the August…
REVIEW: The MEI is right on Section 338, wrong to tell us to shelve our counter-tariffs
The Montreal Economic Institute published a paper on September 23, 2026, that gives Canada two opposite pieces of advice. Trump will probably lose in…
QUICK TAKE: Eby puts Trump on the October 24 ballot, and Trump isn’t running
David Eby called an election in British Columbia on Tuesday, September 22, and asked voters to say no to Donald Trump.
SPECIAL REPORT: Carney wants less reliance on Starlink, and the Canadian rival will fly on SpaceX rockets
Mark Carney promised the New York Times on September 23, 2026 that Canada would reduce its reliance on Starlink, even as the Canadian rival…
OPINION: Carney courts India and Manila; he is buying insurance, not a spare America
Mark Carney set a deadline in New York on September 22, 2026. Trade negotiations with India should wrap up by the G20 summit on…
INVESTIGATION: Boegman watches for foreign influence on Alberta’s vote, with two names on the registry
The federal foreign influence registry listed just two names publicly on September 23, according to Global News, less than a month before Alberta’s referendum…
COLUMN: Trump rejects Iran’s plan and renames Hormuz; the Pentagon took nine months to see its breach
“I reject their proposal.” Four words. Donald Trump spoke them on September 26, 2026, as he left the White House by the South Lawn,…
ANALYSIS: Five of nine key Senate races border Canada, and Trump’s tariffs weigh on them
Stacks of Canadian lumber in a lumberyard in Livonia, Michigan. The photo was taken in August. The Los Angeles Times ran it on September…
FACT CHECK: No Cuba war order is signed, but Trump’s blockade is already measured in hours
“REVEALED: Trump Wants to Start Another War This Year.” That is the headline AlterNet America ran on September 26, 2026, under the byline of…