Northern Reflections: An Unreliable Partner

Margaret MacMillan — one of our finest minds — writes in today’s Guardian that Canadians are bewildered: “Bewilderment. Fear. Anger. Hurt. Canadians today are struggling to understand what Donald Trump has just done to us.” Canadians and Americans, MacMillan writes, are cousins: Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the

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Northern Reflections: He Cannot Be Coddled

After Charlottesville, Michael Harris writes, Donald Trump becomes the touchstone by which we judge our own politicians: The Trump White House isn’t the only North American political institution that has lost touch with the real world. The Conservative Party of Canada must now confront a hard fact: Their current leader

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