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President-elect Donald Trump attends the 2024 Senior Club Championship award ceremony at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, back in March.

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Don’t Panic: 4 Rules for Responding to Trump Threats

Amid all the geopolitical chaos, the best advice of the year: Don’t panic.

As they dined at Mar-a-Lago on a main course of tough, over-cooked tariff talk, President-elect Donald Trump suggested to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — in what the Canadians present later called a joking manner — that Canada might make a good 51st state. Naturally, people freaked out. First, Trump threatens to destroy the Canadian economy with 25% tariffs on everything, and now this? An invasion?

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Jess Frampton

Trudeau’s former right-hand man thinks Trump 2.0 ‘will be harder’

When Donald Trump shocked the world by getting himself elected in 2016, Gerald Butts was the principal secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was also a key member of the Canadian team that managed the tumultuous but ultimately successful negotiation of the USMCA, sitting across the table from Trump, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, and Robert Lighthizer. He is now vice chairman and a senior advisor at Eurasia Group, which is the parent company of GZERO Media.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises to speak during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 18, 2024.

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Will Canadians head to the polls early?

Rumblings of an early election are growing in Canada. Earlier this week, the Liberal government lost a byelection in Montreal, dropping a safe seat to the Bloc Québécois that they won by 20 points in 2021. Meanwhile, the New Democratic Party held on to a seat in Winnipeg, a contest in which the Liberals — never particularly popular in the riding — managed to grab less than 5% of the vote.

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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh take part in the federal election English-language Leaders debate in Gatineau, Canada, September 9, 2021.

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Conscious Uncouplings: Why Political Alliances Don’t Last

Breakup alert, breakup alert!

No, this is not another report on Bennifer — the perpetually entropic relationship between Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.

And no, it is not another story about the Democrats-Biden breakup, though that still resonates as the blockbuster Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump debate tilt gets going next week.

No, this is about the big breakup in Canada that sets the clock ticking on the next federal election, which by law has to take place before Oct. 20, 2025. The only question is, how soon will it come?

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President of the United States Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau during welcome ceremony of the NATO Summit in Washington DC, United States on July 10, 2024.

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US escalates opposition to Canada’s digital services tax

Last April, Canada confirmed that it was going ahead with a digital services tax, retroactive to 2022, on big tech firms with annual revenues above CA$20 million. A tax had been in the works for years as a multilateral effort among OECD countries, but it’s been stalled time and time again by the US. In the face of US opposition, Canada decided to go it alone.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pose for a family photo during Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023.

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Waiting for Beijing to lash out

Canadian trade officials are anxiously waiting to see how China reacts to Canada’s decision to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the measure during a cabinet retreat in Halifax on Monday. In a briefing in Beijing on Tuesday, a Chinese foreign affairs spokesman said Canada must “correct this wrong decision at once,” or China will respond.

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Jess Frampton

Harris breathes new life into Democratic Party. Could someone do the same for Canada’s Liberals?

When President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would not seek reelection, his decision, albeit a little late, was quickly applauded by Democrats as a service to his country — and party.

In the higher-minded rhetoric, Biden was cast as a modern Cincinnatus, putting duty above personal interest. Perhaps the writing was already on the wall, with Biden unlikely to resist the growing calls for him to step aside. But the immediate effects of his decision are the same either way: Vice President Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, an energetic change candidate, and the party has enjoyed an immediate reenergizing.

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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew shake hands as they meet at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada February 15, 2024.

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Left-leaning premier calls for increased military spending

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced new pressure Wednesday from an unusual source to increase defense spending, when Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Canada should boost spending to preserve its trade relationship with the United States.

Kinew, a member of the left-leaning New Democrats – a party that is traditionally opposed to increased military spending – said, “If we’re not meeting our responsibility to our NATO allies, it is going to have an impact on [the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement] renewal.”

The trade agreement is set to be reviewed in 2026, which will create the opportunity for the United States to push for changes, which seems likely no matter who is in the White House, since the pressure from the U.S. dairy industry, among others, is likely to persist.

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