Robert Ready
@rready.bsky.social
Retired Cdn dip/trade negotiator. Currently Exec Director https://canadacaribbeaninstitute.org/ Posting about Canada's international relations, politics and the Caribbean. Posts mine. Curate Flipboard Mags @ Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@notready?from=s
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Robert Ready
@rready.bsky.social
· Aug 22
Trade Policy 2.0 | @notready | Flipboard
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I think most of us have ways of archiving stories for future reference. This is mine for trade-related stories...Trade Policy 2.0...a curated magazine on FlipBoard. Please feel free to browse...and its always free to subscribe.
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“Only this time, we’re on the other side!”
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Only this time, we’re on the other side!”
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The Kingston Whig Standard’s @GeoffyPJohnston.bsky.social interviews Bob Rae on his departure as Canada’s Ambassador to the UN. Would that all diplomats were such mavericks! Hats off to Bob for a job well done.
www.thewhig.com/opinion/a-da...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/a-da...
‘A dangerous time in global affairs,’ Bob Rae says
For the past five years, Bob Rae has served as the ambassador and permanent representative of Canada to the United Nations.
www.thewhig.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The Kingston Whig Standard’s @GeoffyPJohnston.bsky.social interviews Bob Rae on his departure as Canada’s Ambassador to the UN. Would that all diplomats were such mavericks! Hats off to Bob for a job well done.
www.thewhig.com/opinion/a-da...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/a-da...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
flip.it
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It is an interesting case study of the rationale claimed for Trump tariffs. Hope the US Supreme Court has a look. But I had no confidence in their impartiality. The majority had proven themselves to be Trump enablers
childish petulance.
BREAM: How do trade talks get back on with Canada?
BESSENT: We'll see. This is very serious. The prime minister of Ontario, who I imagine is smarting quite a bit from the Blue Jays loss, spent $75 million interfering in US public policy. A price has got to be paid for this.
BESSENT: We'll see. This is very serious. The prime minister of Ontario, who I imagine is smarting quite a bit from the Blue Jays loss, spent $75 million interfering in US public policy. A price has got to be paid for this.
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It is an interesting case study of the rationale claimed for Trump tariffs. Hope the US Supreme Court has a look. But I had no confidence in their impartiality. The majority had proven themselves to be Trump enablers
Look how many masked thugs go wild here! Absolutely disgusting
I hope people hold on to this footage of inhumane ICE brutes. At some point, this could be used as evidence in court cases against ICE operatives.
For inspirational purposes.
The #Oregon #DepartmentofJustice submitted MULTIPLE VIDEO #exhibits showing federal officers using EXTREME force against seemingly NONVIOLENT protesters outside the #ICE Building, as part of its effort to block the federal deployment of #NationalGuard troops to #Portland
The #Oregon #DepartmentofJustice submitted MULTIPLE VIDEO #exhibits showing federal officers using EXTREME force against seemingly NONVIOLENT protesters outside the #ICE Building, as part of its effort to block the federal deployment of #NationalGuard troops to #Portland
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Look how many masked thugs go wild here! Absolutely disgusting
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childish petulance.
BREAM: How do trade talks get back on with Canada?
BESSENT: We'll see. This is very serious. The prime minister of Ontario, who I imagine is smarting quite a bit from the Blue Jays loss, spent $75 million interfering in US public policy. A price has got to be paid for this.
BESSENT: We'll see. This is very serious. The prime minister of Ontario, who I imagine is smarting quite a bit from the Blue Jays loss, spent $75 million interfering in US public policy. A price has got to be paid for this.
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
childish petulance.
You have represented Canada very well, Ambassador. Thank you!
'Hurricane Bob' Rae says he's leaving the United Nations with no regrets — The Canadian Press
Bob Rae knows that as Canada's ambassador to the United Nations he had a habi
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November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You have represented Canada very well, Ambassador. Thank you!
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“The Dominion Society of Canada celebrated the coverage. Their goal is to normalize the concept of mass deportations of non-Europeans, and Tyrie says he wants to make Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre use their word for it (remigration) by the end of the year.”
NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.
White Nationalism in Canada: Organized, Emboldened, and Growing
Canada’s white nationalist movement has consolidated into a network that includes three key branches: Diagolon, the propaganda arm; the Dominion Society of Canada, an incorporated political arm; and S...
www.antihate.ca
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“The Dominion Society of Canada celebrated the coverage. Their goal is to normalize the concept of mass deportations of non-Europeans, and Tyrie says he wants to make Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre use their word for it (remigration) by the end of the year.”
This guy... like his boss... trying to push people around. But I guess he is representing the U.S. right now.
U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News
The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News
www.cbc.ca
October 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This guy... like his boss... trying to push people around. But I guess he is representing the U.S. right now.
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Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.” @matteowong.bsky.social on how Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his image:
What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid
The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.” @matteowong.bsky.social on how Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his image:
What is it about baseball players? Never seen so many spits (formed and unformed), dribbles, pistachio shells into the dugout. Crazy
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
What is it about baseball players? Never seen so many spits (formed and unformed), dribbles, pistachio shells into the dugout. Crazy
@torontosun.bsky.social and Lilley continue to parrot Trump Administration comms lines. It’s not Carney who needs to get his act together… it’s the crazy town down south that is messed up
LILLEY: Yelling, F-bombs, threats and the breakdown of Canada-U.S. relations
An event Monday night in Ottawa shows how off the rails things have become.
flip.it
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
@torontosun.bsky.social and Lilley continue to parrot Trump Administration comms lines. It’s not Carney who needs to get his act together… it’s the crazy town down south that is messed up
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"Seoul is bridling over Trump’s insistence that South Korea pony up $350 billion in an “upfront” payment to the U.S. government as part of the investments it promised in July" w/
@arihawkins.bsky.social @ddesrochers.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@arihawkins.bsky.social @ddesrochers.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump's cash demands continue to bedevil deal with South Korea
The White House and South Korean government continue to haggle over the details of Seoul's $350 billion investment commitment.
www.politico.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Seoul is bridling over Trump’s insistence that South Korea pony up $350 billion in an “upfront” payment to the U.S. government as part of the investments it promised in July" w/
@arihawkins.bsky.social @ddesrochers.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@arihawkins.bsky.social @ddesrochers.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Hats off to @justinling.ca: “If Canada cares enough about the rest of the world to join it, then Ottawa needs to switch its broadcaster back on.” Time to reinvent and invigorate Radio Canada International @RCI-Action.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: Canada needs to make its voice heard around the world. Here’s one clear way to do that
To create stronger connections internationally, Canada can’t rely on the United States. We need to use our own soft diplomacy tools
www.thestar.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hats off to @justinling.ca: “If Canada cares enough about the rest of the world to join it, then Ottawa needs to switch its broadcaster back on.” Time to reinvent and invigorate Radio Canada International @RCI-Action.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
This is laughable by Bessent, needs to be called out. “Interference in U.S. sovereign affairs”… in just past month we are reading about… bribing the Argentina electorate, tariffs on Spain for their defence budget, threatening Brazil over the trial of coup plotter, gunboat killings in the Caribbean
Shouldn't the Trump administration, which hates the US trade deficit, be excited that Canadians are spending money in the US market, thereby reducing the US trade deficit?
Bessent: "I've read that Ontario is spending up to $75 million on these advertisements and it's propaganda coming across our border to decry the tariffs. The premiere of Ontario seems to have come off the rails a little ... this is interference in US sovereign matters."
October 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is laughable by Bessent, needs to be called out. “Interference in U.S. sovereign affairs”… in just past month we are reading about… bribing the Argentina electorate, tariffs on Spain for their defence budget, threatening Brazil over the trial of coup plotter, gunboat killings in the Caribbean
It’s his job I know… but it doesn’t seem to phase him that he is defending a narcissistic cry-baby.
‘Canada burned the bridges’: U.S. ambassador doubts tariff deal feasible before new year
The U.S. ambassador to Canada doesn’t foresee a new security and economic deal between Canada and the United States — which could see the reduction or full removal of tariffs amid an ongoing trade dis...
flip.it
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It’s his job I know… but it doesn’t seem to phase him that he is defending a narcissistic cry-baby.
I guess 10% is the reciprocal tariff for when the lunatic next door is offended by the truth
Trump says he's increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% 'over and above what they are paying now' | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced on social media he will be increasing tariffs on Canada by "10 per cent over and above what they are paying now" because of an advertisement by the Ontario go...
www.cbc.ca
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I guess 10% is the reciprocal tariff for when the lunatic next door is offended by the truth
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Toronto Blue Jays 🇨🇦 take game one of the World Series beating the Dodgers 11-4. We want it all!!!
October 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Toronto Blue Jays 🇨🇦 take game one of the World Series beating the Dodgers 11-4. We want it all!!!