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EDITORIAL: Washington invites Putin to Miami, and Canada must not sit there in silence
Editorial· No. 5428

EDITORIAL: Washington invites Putin to Miami, and Canada must not sit there in silence

Washington is inviting Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Miami in December. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced it on Wednesday, September 23.

COLUMN: Trump renames a lake by decree, and Ottawa asks a street for permission
Column· No. 5427

COLUMN: Trump renames a lake by decree, and Ottawa asks a street for permission

On Wednesday, September 23, Ottawa city council voted unanimously to take Donald Trump’s name off a residential street.

NARRATIVE: Trump speaks 37 minutes without saying Canada, Carney leaves the UN without a Washington meeting
Reportage· No. 5426

NARRATIVE: Trump speaks 37 minutes without saying Canada, Carney leaves the UN without a Washington meeting

On Tuesday, September 22, Donald Trump spoke for 37 minutes before the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.

EXPLAINER: Trump bans 0.3% of Canadian imports, the weight of a warning
Analysis· No. 5425

EXPLAINER: Trump bans 0.3% of Canadian imports, the weight of a warning

The United States will not add a tariff to Canadian whisky, whey or molasses: it will exclude them from its territory on Tuesday, September…

ANALYSIS: Trump shuts Greenland to Beijing and Moscow, and opens it to his planes up to Canada’s border
Analysis· No. 5424

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
Editorial· No. 5423

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
Opinion· No. 5422

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
Analysis· No. 5421

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
Commentary· No. 5420

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.

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