U.S. Correspondent @globeandmail. Email: amorrow (at) globeandmail or adrianmorrow (at) protonmail. Also https://teapawt.net/t.co/npnk12c2i6.
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Whether you think he would have made a great PM or not, it's notable that far more Canadians know who Tommy Douglas was than know who about 3/4 of our former PMs were. Maybe it's so in most countries, but Canada has had a significant share of benchwarmers in its highest office.
This is a great illustration of a thing that political campaigns understand that popular narratives about election campaigns often miss: swing voters tend to matter less to outcomes than motivation
The @Conservative_BC actually received 50,000 fewer votes than in 2024 (but won 20 more seats) because the @bcndp vote dropped by 275.000 (29%) while the @BCGreens got 23,000 more votes than last time (+13%) - still some ballots to be counted.
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The battle Carney is referring to, Queenston Heights, is one of the most insane episodes in Canadian history. Among other things: 1. Half the U.S. force refused to cross the Niagara to take part, and the boatmen eventually stranded their own commander on the U.S. side.
This is literally the only good tweet about the TO mayoral race so far. Where's @shawnmicallef impersonating William Lyon Mackenzie when you need him?
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Doug Ford: Who wants to bet I can pull the plug on my own government with a year and four months left to go in my mandate, blame it on vaguely Trump-related reasons, and pay no political price?
David Eby: Hold my beer.
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In the Skin of a Lion. Set in the 1910s to 1930s, written in the 1980s, but describes a Toronto that feels pretty much exactly the same today, where immigration and construction are the perpetual defining features.
Canada-U.S. trade talks have collapsed tonight. Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs will come into effect at 12.01 am. Mark Carney says he will retaliate "dollar-for-dollar." If he does that, a U.S. official says Trump will be presented with options for more retaliation.
If you want some idea of what today/tonight's deadline negotiating could look like, here's an anecdote from Bob Lighthizer about admonishing Justin Trudeau's advisors for "sneaky" changes to the wording of USMCA in the final hours of talks in 2018 theglobeandmail.com/world/us…
In those talks, Lighthizer held out on Canada's redline demand, preserving a specific type of dispute resolution, until the final day. Conceding it closed the deal. To be seen if something similar happens on autos today, on either side. theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Less than 48 hours from Trump's latest tariffs on Canada, sources point to two holdups in talks: autos, with disagreement over tariff level and whether only U.S. or all USMCA content is exempted; and lumber, which the U.S. wants excluded from this deal
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I'm also told that critical minerals, oil and gas, Golden Dome and F-35s are a bigger factor in the talks than Canada is letting on theglobeandmail.com/world/us…
These photos of a U.S. senator looking confused at a briefing on the Gordie Howe Bridge are amazing. "Sorry, we failed to build a second span for *how long* because of a single billionaire family?"
Michiganders have a special relationship with our Canadian neighbors, despite the drama of the last year—and both sides are committed to ensuring that the first few months go smoothly. I met with Customs and Border Protection to get an update on what they’ve been seeing since the bridge opened back in July.
About 8,000 vehicles crossed the bridge on opening day, and thousands more have made the trip since. The multi-use path also saw about 3,400 walkers, runners, and cyclists.
As with any major undertaking, it will take some time to understand traffic patterns and determine the staffing needed. Opening an international border bridge is a big deal, and everyone on both sides is committed to making it work.
I'm not of the view that politicians need to performatively drop everything for every major event, but it is pretty funny that Mark Carney will be sipping Campari in Cinque Terre next week while his trade negotiators are in Washington tearing their hair out
Mark Carney is set to take a vacation in Italy until August 17th, according to a statement from his office.
They say he’s going to be updated on Canada-US trade, with the new tariff deadline August 19th and that the ethics commissioner said there were no issues with the trip #cdnpoli
Mark Carney's teleprompter breaks down during a housing announcement in Toronto. "Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy," he says.
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The party in South Detroit has been noted by Donald Trump. With him, "it's fine" is a common tell for when something is definitively not fine and is in fact bothering him significantly.
What's going on in this CNBC interview? The hosts seem to be struggling to think of questions for Greer the day after he rolled out a major trade action against Canada. cnbc.com/2026/07/21/trump-tr…
Inadvertently funny American complaint in today's tariff extravaganza: USMCA is a worse deal on dairy than CETA. So Trump is punishing Canada because the U.S. settled for less than the EU. By that logic, shouldn't he be tariffing Bob Lighthizer? whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
By the Alberta separatists' logic, Stephen Harper would not have Alberta citizenship because he was born in Ontario
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Separatists are *shocked* by my suggestion that Canada could revoke Canadian citizenship from Albertans following a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI.)
They believe that Alberta would get to determine how Canada would respond to a UDI, and that Albertans would have a right to hold and transmit Canadian citizenship to the nth generation.
But at the same time, they would not grant Alberta citizenship to the ~50% or Albertans born outside the province, i.e. people who are Albertans by choice, not chance.
So half the Alberta population (myself included) would be ineligible for Alberta citizenship, but the separatists would get to keep their Canadian passport to travel and work in the rest of Canada visa-free.
How crazy is that?
I suspect nothing would make Trump drop his 51st state ideations faster than someone sitting him down and explaining in detail what it would be like to have to deal with the Bloc québécois
Huge congrats to Carrie Tait for two (!) National Newspaper Award nominations for blowing the lid on Canada's current most fascinating political scandal
SCOOP: RCMP search accounting firm owned by appointee of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, police attend home of former AHS procurement official theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… w @tom_cardoso @mattscace67 @jana_pruden @alanna_smithh
The independently-owned Winnipeg Free Press has the same number of National Newspaper Award nominations this year (five) as the entire hedge-fund owned Postmedia chain combined nna-ccj.ca/national-newspape…
