Section: Macleans (Canada)
Will America recover from Donald Trump and the Reign of Lies?
True? Not true? Does it matter? (Win McNamee/Getty Images) The great American cavalcade of liars and lawyers slithers into Courtroom 2. Just outside the chamber, high above us as we enter, there are red stains in the plaster, reminiscent of the scene in Tess of the d’Urbervilles in which Mrs. Brooks looks up to see “The oblong white...
Can the world recover from Trump, Putin and the collapse of optimism?
In a disorderly world, it only takes a small spark to ignite a conflict that can engulf entire nations. So it was last week that world leaders held their collective breaths after the Russian coastguard attacked and detained three Ukrainian navy vessels in the Kerch Strait separating Russia from Crimea. It was the first open conflict between...
Chief of Defence Staff Jonathan Vance on what China is doing to Canada
“This was an interesting forum,” Gen. Jonathan Vance said as I took a seat in the second-floor suite that had been set aside for him as a meeting room at the Westin Nova Scotian hotel. This was a couple of weeks ago, on the last day of the annual Halifax International Security Forum, a global gathering of soldiers, politicians, diplomats and...
How to save NAFTA in one day
(Photo Illustration by Heshmat Saberi) The NAFTA talks do not appear to be going well. In recent days, President Donald Trump has been complaining about “spoiled” Canadians, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been struggling to solve an impasse on auto production. Negotiations have dragged on for 10 months, and there is a fear that until...
Donald Trump’s diplomatic treason
U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has included so many self-inflicted wounds, it transcends the descriptions we would normally use. Words like “clumsy” or “ineffective” simply won’t do. Those are terms you could have used for previous presidents, like Bush or Obama. But Trump’s choices on Russia, Paris, TPP and now...
Brandon University: student advice for surviving life on campus
(Milana Paddock/Brandon University) Unofficial school motto: ‘Be You at BU’Best place for a nap: The music loungeBest cheap lunch: Soup at Forbidden FlavoursFavourite campus food: Pizza at Forbidden FlavoursPerks of living in this town: Short commutesBest place to study: North Stacks at the John E. Robbins Library or Down UnderWorst place...
A letter to a grandmother: ‘I love you the way someone loves their home country’
Anna Maxymiw with her grandmother. Anna Maxymiw lives in Toronto. Her first book, The Lodge, is out with McClelland & Stewart in spring 2019. To my baba: You told me when I was younger that you wanted to be called Babcia, because Baba sounded too reminiscent of Baba Yaga, that ferocious witch of Slavic folklore who lives in the forest in a...
Parliament’s secret briefing from CSIS: beware of Russian spies
As allegations arose of outside meddling in the past U.S. election, Canadian spies prepared to warn their politicians that the north of the border is not immune to external interference, and in their hallways of power, too, the smell of foreign spooks lurk. Russia and China could be trying to influence you, to use you and your staff to advance...
If only Stéphane Dion had saved Canada’s foreign policy
“In Geneva and New York, in March, June and September 2016, I attend several bilateral meetings between Dion and about 30 foreign ministers from other countries,” Jocelyn Coulon writes in his curious new book about Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy, Un selfie avec Justin Trudeau (published last week in French only by Québec-Amérique). Dion,...
Mark Zuckerberg’s second day of testimony at Congress: Live video
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington, where he’s testifying at the House energy and commerce committee. You can watch a livestream of Zuckerberg’s testimony here at 10 a.m ET. Watch a replay of Zuckerberg’s testimony at a joint meeting of two Senate committees. MORE ABOUT FACEBOOK: Mark Zuckerberg didn’t lie to...
