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A regime elected on the premise that it might have to do some unpleasant things but all in the service of low prices and a roaring stock market is now saying that we may have to bear high prices and low stock prices but all in the service of doing unpleasant things.

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My new live show on Substack, the cleverly-named “The Andy Borowitz Show,” premieres this Tuesday at 11 AM Eastern, with my special guest Paul Krugman. Watch via the Substack app or on your desktop.

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Nervous Googling: Searches for 'recession' and 'tariff' surge as U.S. mood sours Americans rarely pay much attention to trade. They are now www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...

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Bold arguments from Kristen Hopewell (gift link). "We must expand the scope of our retaliation beyond traditional goods trade to target American services, intellectual property and technology" www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

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Canadians used to complain about never getting any attention in Washington.

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Every detail of this story is insane www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

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Diary : At CPAC #AntoniaHitchens @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dear Donald: A history lesson on why American carmakers came to Canada - Prof. Dimitry Anastakis of Rotman / @uoftartsci.bsky.social writes for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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My latest: Tariffs are only the start: we must buckle down for years of conflict with the U.S.

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30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 @aatishb.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Investors, consumers and companies are showing the first signs of souring on Donald Trump’s vision. With his aggressive and erratic protectionism, he is playing with fire econ.st/41tx87X

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Anyway, whether our pet topic today is a Canadian guerilla insurgency or ICBM silos in Regina, I think we can agree that it is, north of the border, neither the Mudd Club nor CBGB youtu.be/jLwZvg46jms?...

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"During a Rust Belt road trip this week across Michigan and Ohio – swing states that voted for Mr. Trump last November – a mood of ambivalence and paranoia was palpable in the early days of the trade war." @jasonkirby.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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"Each strike brings fresh misery to a war-weary population. And, latterly, they fan something else: anger at Donald Trump..."

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Podcast : How Trump’s imperialism is reshaping global alliances @dougsaunders.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

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Toilet paper giant Kruger, hit by tariff uncertainty, delays expansion decision and withholds guidance. @seansilcoff.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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Claude Cormier was one of our great landscape architects. How can we preserve his work? And what can it teach us about public space? www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5208e12...

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Cracking the Code One man’s quest to fix the way we build. @henrygrabar.bsky.social @slate slate.com/business/202...

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@dougsaunders.bsky.social: "Let me propose that we respond to President Donald Trump and his supporters in a more direct fashion: by wiping them out. No, not with violent force, or vain attempts at economic annihilation, but in a way that is more, shall we say, fundamental." Policy & wit combined!

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In which HIV and TB treatment, food aid projects get asked: do you stop illegal immigration? Are you securing rare earth minerals? "Protecting women from gender ideology"?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/health/usaid-freeze-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.104.Ogv3.35H7I2MmcZ9V&smid=url-share

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Gift article. No paywall with link : www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/30a4f28...

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"Cities are books that you read with your feet." —Quintín Cabrera, Uruguayan poet, 1944-2009.

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The Pritzker Prize winner: Liu Jiakun, whose work appears to be a flexible, regionally specific and urbanistically sensitive. Azure's piece: www.azuremagazine.com/article/liu-...

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this week’s economist:

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Bear with me. I use the phrase "TP-bomb the Americans back to the corn-cob age" not (only) as a puerile taunt but as the basis for a more serious multi-ply argument about trade-war tactics www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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My bit about the economic sea change in #Germany www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Meet Liu Jiakun, 2025 #Pritzker #Architecture Prize Laureate @elliesta.bsky.social @wallpapermag.bsky.social www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice. @leylandcecco.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ukraine has firepower to fight on without US support – for now

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A truly masterful thread of A+ @wired.com reporting this week so far, from the best social team in the biz!

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Today’s @theglobeandmail.com front page.

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America: scenes from your Canadian cousins today

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If the Dems had half a clue they'd put up a big stock market ticker somewhere near the White House.

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"I'm a loonie. Let me tell you about the tough few months I’ve had." Had fun making this explainer with @mingwong.bsky.social and @apricotjoy.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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Pink Gold : Canada’s secret weapon in a trade war. Canadian potash fuels American agriculture. #KateHelmore @theglobeandmail.com (Terrific reporting) Gift article. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/30a4f28...

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Pink Gold : Canada’s secret weapon in a trade war. Canadian potash fuels American agriculture. #KateHelmore @theglobeandmail.com (Terrific reporting) Gift article. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/30a4f28...

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"We are now in the realm of worst-case scenario, in which it is possible to imagine Putin launching a renewed offensive against Ukraine, aimed at total domination, with the active assistance of the United States." Gift article. @mashagessen.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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“Putin doesn’t just want a return to the 20th century. He already resides there, and that is where anyone looking for what could happen next should turn.”

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"We are now in the realm of worst-case scenario, in which it is possible to imagine Putin launching a renewed offensive against Ukraine, aimed at total domination, with the active assistance of the United States." Gift article. @mashagessen.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Meanwhile, in Ukraine… Air Alert map just now…

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🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! In the wake of the awful, shocking, embarrassing fuckshow just now in the Oval Office, my conversation yesterday with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social is all the more enlightening, bracing, and ominous abt what lies ahead for Ukraine ... and the world. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

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