Okay, let’s get someone serious to put this into the proper context for us.
Andrew Coyne at the Globe wrote this before Trump’s latest flip-flop on tariffs but even that doesn’t take away the thread here. Andrew doesn’t mince words:
🔒 Donald Trump is trying to destroy Canada Read >
Meanwhile, here’s a take on Trump’s opening weeks in office --- have they been good or bad?
It’s from our old colleague Evan Solomon, the New York-based publisher of Eurasia’s newsletter Gzero:
Is the Trump revolution off to a good or bad start? Read >
Even Doug Ford opponents had to admit the other day that the Ontario premier was pretty good in reacting to Trump’s tariffs.
He was angry, he was to the point, and he didn’t hide it. He went right after Trump, hitting on all the marks.
He also said something that surprised me. He said no one buys as much American liquor as the LCBO, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. No one. Anywhere in the world. Now I don’t know what that says about American liquor, or about Ontarians’ drinking habits, but I do know that’s a lot of booze.
And it makes you wonder why liquor is such a target in a trade war. Well, trust The Buzz to find the answer for you:
Shots over the bow: Why provinces are using liquor leverage in trade war with U.S. Read >
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After an election result is clear, how much time do you spend going over the stats?
Turnout, percentage of vote, individual ridings? Probably not a whole lot. You want the top-line result and then it’s time to move on. Well pollsters, not surprisingly, spend a lot of time studying the numbers, trying to determine what really happened beyond the headlines.
Perhaps no one more so than my old friend Allan Gregg. I first met Allan in the mid-seventies when he was the new, young pollster of the future. He was different than the old guard of pollsters – he talked different, dressed different, even wore an earring before any guy you knew wore an earring.
Well, Allan is still top of his game and had an interesting piece in the Toronto Star this week going behind the numbers of the Ontario election. And he found some gems. Check it out:
🔒 We Pollsters Missed Something Big in the Ontario Election—The Federal Liberals Should Pay Attention Read >
What now in the trade war?
Well, after all the bluster from the south, one thing is clear. It’s not a phoney war anymore. So, what to do? John M. Weekes has the cred to talk about this – he was Canada’s chief negotiator for the original NAFTA deal, and he penned this for Policy this week:
From Phoney War to Trade War: Canada’s Next Steps Read >
You’ve heard a lot about the Arctic lately.
A lot of the world’s most important leaders have been talking about it. It’s important to Canada and it’s important to the big picture. Have you been paying attention? If not perhaps it’s time you did, especially if you’ve heard about “critical minerals” and the role they are going to play in the world of tomorrow.
You can start with this piece from R.J. Simpson. Who, you say? Well, he’s the premier of the Northwest Territories, and he knows what he’s talking about:
R.J. Simpson: The Northwest Territories is key to securing Canada’s critical minerals future Read >
Okay, I really don’t like this next story at all.
There’s lots to be upset about in some of the other stories I’ve already mentioned above but this one strikes at the heart of what in life are moments we cherish. The Washington Post makes us ponder what kind of world we would be living in if we didn’t have the beauty, the symmetry, the wonder of ….. butterflies:
Butterflies in the U.S. are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate Read >
