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President Zelenskiy said he would happily trade his presidency for Ukraine’s NATO membership if such an offer was made.

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Not the most relevant line affecting Canada-US relations but: “President Trump reminded the Prime Minister that the war should never have started and would not have had he been President at the time. The Prime Minister agreed.”

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Split screen life: Canada at risk of a national panic attack, and I’m in New Orleans where the 🇨🇦- 🇺🇸 game is on every screen in a number of establishments and the only people who’ve noticed or reacted to the last 3 goals are me and my brother

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The singer of Canada‘s national anthem tonight switched the lyrics. “A representative confirmed in an email to CBC News that the switch was intentional in response to the annexation rhetoric coming from the U.S.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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The TLDR from Canada’s last Conservative PM, if Trump starts a trade war 1) Retaliate? Obviously 2) Making concessions now? Don’t. Keep everything on the table. 3) Canada needs to up its economic game at home — internal trade, energy infrastructure, less red tape nationalpost.com/opinion/step...

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“Ukraine has lost. It’s as simple as that… A Ukrainian victory would have required the US and Europe to have taken different policy decisions early on… Ukraine needed brave supporters. It got cheerleaders instead” “The end of the transatlantic alliance” unherd.com/2025/02/the-...

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A Quebec shipping giant is looking at moving its headquarters to the United States

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An 'Iron Dome' for North America? Talk heats up about Canada joining U.S. missile defence Despite historic cross-border tension, there’s talk in DC that after decades of ‘No,’ Canada may finally be getting to ‘Yes’ on BMD www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

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Mostly decent numbers for Trump in this poll, albeit with a slight dip since January. One clear and overwhelming result: the vast majority of Americans — 81% to just 9% — do not want their leaders trusting Vladimir Putin poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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From Canadian pollster Angus Reid. Something must have happened, somewhere in the world, say, around Jan 20 of this year, to knock Canadian politics off-kilter and put the governing Liberal party back in the game angusreid.org/liberal-lead...

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My streak of not seeing anti-Canadian graffiti during the entirety of my time living in the United States has snapped — at 11 years. Been a good run!

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Trump tariff threats already pulling corporate investment out of Canada. The threat of tariffs is doing much of the job that actual tariffs would. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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Brady Tkachuk gave a gracious postgame interview on ESPN. Called Montreal his favourite place to visit in the NHL including tonight, with the, ahem, energy in the building. Hockey players are a special breed. You get punched in the face then celebrate it as a great time had by all.

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The Canadian national team has won 26 straight games with Sidney Crosby in the lineup. This would be a less than ideal evening to interrupt that streak.

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Never heard this sort of reaction to the Canadian anthem in Quebec. Donald Trump is a miracle worker

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My kids decided to troll dad tonight by cheering for the USA (their allegiances waver). And dad returned the favour with merciless trash-talk after the McDavid goal. 🇨🇦 🏒 🇺🇸

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REUTERS, from the Oval Office: "Trump says auto tariffs coming around April 2" Running out of fingers to count all these post-March tariff threats

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Multiple lawmakers in Munich told the Washington Post’s @joshrogin.bsky.social that the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves. Zelensky politely declined to sign it.

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NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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Great quotes here from a Canadian official — viewing the provincial premiers as rubes who went to DC, learned it’s not actually that easy dealing with Trump, paid $85,000 for a meeting with senior-mid-level staff, got publicly ridiculed after by that Trump staff ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

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This US Senate hearing on acquiring Greenland did actually happen: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/nuuk-...

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How a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. led Canada's premiers to an $85,000-a-month lobbying firm www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...

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Where the U.S. abortion fight is going. Texas court sanctions NY doctor for sending pills across state lines, setting up a battle that probably goes to the Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/h...

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Trump complains about Canada — but new data also shows spike in U.S. drugs and guns coming north Quantity of drugs seized by Canadian officials at U.S. border has doubled in 2 years www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Trump vs. the last democratic guardrail: the courts After tearing through other checks, the U.S. president is bumping into the judiciary www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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