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'I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks. 'Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.'

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American pharma companies are attacking Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which makes about 930 prescription medicines cheaper for Australians. They want Trump to target it when he slaps supposed "reciprocal tariffs" on other countries.

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Canada's partnering with Australia on an early warning detection system in the Arctic. PM Carney spoke with PM Albanese this morning Canada time

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You know it's going well when ads for hotels in Florida targeting Canadians in late winter have mostly laugh or angry reactions, and the advertiser has turned the comments off.

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A gang has been convicted over the theft of a £4.8-million gold toilet––titled "America"–from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace.

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Cross-border trips to the U.S. from Canada reach COVID lows with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers in February

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EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum, may need to update this graphic after last week (pic taken last year)

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We have a prime minister again

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Updating this to note Carney's party leader-to-PM gap was only five days.

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An American influencer took a wild baby wombat from its mother for content. The video shows the clearly distressed mother behind her while the joey struggles and screeches in the woman's arms.

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"Dog act" is about as bad a statement as you can get from an Australian politician, except maybe with a stern "mate" or "champ" added to the end.

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Former head of Canadian intelligence says he worries more about Elon Musk and Twitter/X being used to destabilize Canada than covert CIA tactics:

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Australia was hopeful it would be granted an exemption on Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium, given the country has a long-running trade deficit with the U.S. One [big] problem: Australia just recorded its first trade surplus with the U.S. in decades.

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"Trump is a bully – that is like saying the Pope’s a Catholic – and if you suck up to him, you will just get more bullying." Former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull in the SMH today (paywalled)

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Photo du jour. Crédit : Reuters.

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Canadian lobby shop Wellington Advocacy has added ex-Australian PM Scott Morrison as a strategic advisory board member. wellingtonadvocacy.com/company-news...

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And with 85 per cent of the vote in the first round, former Central Banker Mark Carney becomes the new leader of the Liberal Party and the next Prime Minister. #LiberalLeadership #cdnpoli

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Listening to radio ads right now is like "Canadians are strong. Canadians are tough. Canadians never back down. Canadians deserve the best. That's why at Bob's Lube Garage, we know your tire lube should smell like poutine and Lake Erie fish,"

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Gatineau erasure in the SMH travel quiz

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So we're just going to do this every month?

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NZ's high commissioner to the UK has been sacked over comments about Trump. "President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?"

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Premier Cook told the ABC in an interview just now that "I think it was an extremely poor choice of words and an extremely popular choice of words."

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Four million people live in the path of a cyclone due to hit Australia's third-largest city on Friday morning (Thursday afternoon Ottawa-time). Cyclones usually hit much, much further north than this.

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Bad news and good news this morning. The bad news: the Rideau Canal is closed The good news: there are plenty of skating rinks on downtown sidewalks

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"Alright, fair enough." ...

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Meanwhile, the Premier of Western Australia called JD Vance a "knob"

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So for the Australians waking up wondering about this tariff business: - Canada's retaliating with 25% tariffs on $30b worth of U.S. goods, with $125b more coming in 3 weeks' time - Trump is then threatening equivalent tariffs in response to those retaliatory tariffs - We're all really tired

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REPORT: Committee defeats motion to get City of Ottawa off Elon Musk’s X A motion at the City of Ottawa’s Finance and Corporate Services Committee that would lead to the city suspending its accounts on X, formerly Twitter, failed to pass after a lengthy debate.

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Trudeau was asked about how soon after March 9 his successor as Liberal leader will become PM. Some past gaps between becoming party leader and being sworn in as PM: Paul Martin: 28 days Kim Campbell: 12 days John Turner: 14 days Pierre Trudeau: 14 days Louis St-Laurent: 100 days

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