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Freedom of the Press is in big trouble if Trump's choice of Kash Patel for the FBI is confirmed:

Kash Patel Has Plan to Remake the F.B.I. Into a Tool of Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/u...
Kash Patel Has Plan to Remake the F.B.I. Into a Tool of Trump (Gift Article)
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. has called for firing the agency’s top officials, shutting down its Washington headquarters and prosecuting journalists.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:54 AM
I don't always agree with Andrew Coyne of the Globe and Mail, but I do agree with this column about how Canada should respond to the Trump tariff threat:

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4838c32...
This is how Canada should deal with Donald Trump, irrational actor
We cannot fall into the trap of believing the president-elect is rational – so we must not cave into his blackmail or immediately retaliate with self-destructive tariffs
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:57 PM


No one wins a trade war.

From the Globe and Mail:

For Canada, the tariffs would represent an economic blow and threaten a recession....

For U.S. consumers, who would pay the cost of the tariffs, they would mean punishing price increases.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4838c32...
Five things we know so far as Trump threatens tariffs
On social media Monday, the U.S. president-elect fired an opening salvo on trade that he has long promised in his second term
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:08 AM
This is how the end of democracy begins:

wapo.st/3V4zgAE
Opinion | Four ways Trump will undermine the authority of Congress
The president-elect is setting the stage for a vast, dangerous and unconstitutional expansion of presidential power
wapo.st
November 25, 2024 at 6:19 AM
From a comment on X by Christopher Robichaud,
Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard

"America, culturally, has completely abandoned a politics of decency and respect and has embraced instead a politics of resentment, revenge, false nostalgia, and bullying."
November 25, 2024 at 6:12 AM