🎧The second episode of the Playbook Canada podcast is out!

🎙️ We talk: Budget, betrayal and bird flu

And a 200-second interview with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne who tells us about his favorite rapper.

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🚨Secret’s out.

Starting this week, you can hear “Playbook Canada” — not just read it.

I’ll be co-hosting alongside @TaylorVaisey

🎙️ The news podcast drops every Thursday morning starting Oct. 30.

🎧 Listen to the trailer + subscribe

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🇨🇦 Today, Ottawa Playbook newsletter relaunched as Canada Playbook.

We’ll deliver newsbreaking, urgent reporting both on Ottawa's political bubble and on the larger crisis in Canadian and North American politics.

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White House officials:

“Just another world leader coming to visit. One of many”

“No bells and whistles for the new guy”

“It’s really just to check a box”

Today’s Ottawa Playbook:

→ Why Trump hearts Carney.

→ Premiers vs. Poilievre.

→ Ralph Goodale on diplomatic dignity and the 51st state.

→ A career update from Jonathan Pedneault.

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In February when Pierre Poilievre was holding a rally in downtown Ottawa, Bruce Fanjoy was door-knocking in Carleton.

I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.

Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.

Today's Ottawa Playbook:

→ Donald Trump picks an ambassador to Canada.
→ Randy Boissonnault loses his seat at the Cabinet table.
→ An emerging parliamentary detente between the Liberals and NDP

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The UN's COP29 climate summit is slowly beginning to wrap up.

Negotiating texts began to drop overnight, but there’s a long way to go, Global Playbook's Suzanne Lynch reports from Baku.

Read today's newsletter for more: www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...

Now outside the paywall:

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POLITICO's Suzanne Lynch is reporting from Baku, where the second week of the UN COP climate negotiations is in full swing.

Read today's Global Playbook for the full rundown: www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...

I spent a long time writing, and living through, this story about my dad's healthcare journey. It's the most widely read, and consequential, piece I have ever written. Posting it here for anyone interested who may not have seen it. ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-...

I am now here. Get at me if you are, too.

Trump’s pick for DOE puts an oil CEO hostile to climate science who favors more fossil fuel production in charge of major energy research programs — and gobs of money from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

You’d be forgiven if what’s going on in Baku at COP29 felt like an alternate reality from the full-steam-ahead nature of Trump’s transition in DC. Karl Mathiesen, Sara Schonhardt, @ziaweise.bsky.social and I break down the split screen on two divergent climate paths.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

A COP host’s main job is to smooth things over. Ilham Aliyev has other ideas.

The latest from POLITICO’s Zia Weise + Karl Mathiesen in Baku.

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POLITICO’s Karl Mathiesen on the COP29 split screen between Baku and D.C.

With @zcolman.bsky.social @ziaweise.bsky.social + Sara Schonhardt

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