Here’s the latest on the impact of the call and Carney’s handling of Trump from the Wall Street Journal:

🔒 Canada’s Carney Is Betting on a Tough Posture With Trump. So Far It’s Working. Read >

So, let’s continue our look at week one with a different take on each of the two main national leaders

First up, here’s Lawrence Martin in the Globe on Pierre Poilievre:

🔒 The book on Pierre Poilievre: He’s ‘an angry teenager in the body of a grown man Read >

Okay, now try this. 

It’s Lorrie Goldstein from the Toronto Sun on Mark Carney:

GOLDSTEIN: Flip-flopping Carney wrong choice to lead fight against Trump Read >

So you're probably asking, “Couldn’t you find a neutral piece on either of those two guys?” 

Actually, not really. But I’ll try harder next week.

Meanwhile here’s something all the leaders talked about this week including the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh. It’s the whole corporate controversy around Mark Carney and Brookfield Asset Management. What are we supposed to believe? Is there something smelly about this?

The Toronto Star decided to put its Ottawa bureau on the story and here’s what they found out:

🔒 Does Mark Carney have a Brookfield problem? Here's what we know about criticism linking him to a former employer Read >

Outside our borders now.

That’s some White House team they’ve assembled down there in Crazytown. And quite the week they’ve had. First, someone decided to add one of the country’s top journalists, known and respected worldwide, to what was clearly a top-secret group chat on a detailed bombing plan for Yemen. Now, they say it was an accident, an inadvertent slip-up. Right. Because that’s what you do with top-secret bombing plans. Either that or someone inside the loop is trying to warn the outside world that inside the loop, there are a lot of incompetents playing real-time war games.

But this week had even more Crazytown stuff than just that. Like, let’s send the Vice President’s wife to Greenland to, supposedly, watch a dog sled race. This after the President had suggested maybe it’s time to invade and conquer Greenland. Makes sense. But just in case they don’t get the point maybe let’s now have the VP husband tag along himself to Greenland. He could spend time going door to door to meet those who wanted to spend a few moments with him. But that didn’t work because no one was interested. So, cancel the door knocking, cancel the viewing of the dog sled race and just visit a remote US Air Force base. All this of course, without being invited. Why not? It’s just Greenland, after all.

Well, here’s why.  Check this out:

Greenlanders unite to fend off the US as Trump seeks control of the Arctic island Read >

It’s become common to hear people say that all we have to do is figure out how to get through things until Trump is gone in four years. 

Well, set aside that he may not be gone in four years no matter what the US Constitution says, worry about something else. Worry that Trump and Trumpism may have changed the world as we know it by then no matter whether he’s there or not. That’s what has Europe worried. Check this out from the BBC:

Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling Read >

Final word this week comes from Bill Gates.  

I’ve interviewed Gates at least three times over the years. In Seattle, Ottawa and Toronto. Always memorable, after all he’s Bill Gates, and no matter what you may think of him, he is one of those people who has changed our world and helped us look into the future.

And that’s why it’s interesting to see what he’s saying now. Like this: there will be little need for humans in ten years. Jim Huddleston Jr of CNBC has that story:

Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’ Read >

Ten years, eh? Hope I’m around to see that!