The Secret Sauce in ‘Heated Rivalry’? Canada.
The global television phenomenon is full of Canadian iconography and subsidized by Canadian taxpayers. On Thursday, it came home to celebrate. More
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The US drew up a plan to invade Canada in 1930. Now Trump is reviving old fears
Now the US is vying regional dominance, experts point to War Plan Red as proof its Canadian allyship has always been flimsyFirst, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines to paralyze infrastructure. Major cities on the shores of lakes and rivers would be captured in order to blunt any civilian resistance.The multipronged invasion would rely on ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass internments. According to the architects of the plan, the attack would be short-lived and the besieged country would fall within days. Continue reading… More
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Winter Storm Pummels Toronto With Near-Record Snowfall
Toronto Pearson International Airport had received about 18 inches by 10 p.m. on Sunday, the airport said, and snow was still falling. More
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Trump Rescinds Canada’s Invitation to Join His ‘Board of Peace’
The president appeared to be lashing out in response to stark, high-profile remarks by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada that rejected Mr. Trump’s efforts to dismantle the international order. More
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Trump withdraws invitation for Canada to join his global ‘board of peace’
While leaders of many liberal democracies declined to sign on, Mark Carney had, before Davos, accepted in principleDonald Trump withdrew on Thursday an invitation for Canada to join his “board of peace” initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts.“Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post directed at the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney. Continue reading… More
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‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international normsFor much of Mark Carney’s career as an economist and central banker, he existed at the nexus of global thinkers and multilateral institutions. The “rockstar banker” was a fixture at summits, where he spoke beside business leaders and the political elite, espousing the values of international cooperation and the need for open economies and shared rules.But after less than a year as prime minister of Canada, Carney offered a blunter assessment of the world on Tuesday: “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” Continue reading… More
