Canada needs to stay cool and wait for March 2027.
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Canada → need → March
The Democratic Party is on track to win majorities in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives this November, and the swearing-in ceremony will take place in January.
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ceremony → win → January
Trump will surely try to stop this; he will say the elections were rigged.
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elections → try → this
But if he fails, then he will be a lame-duck president.
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he → fail → ?
The Democrats will declare his tariffs illegal, and things will eventually return to normal.
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things → declare → ?
The idea that the economic bruising Canada has been subjected to is purely a Trump problem ignores decades of reality.
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Canada → subject → reality
Democratic and Republican administrations have both consistently waged economic war against Canadian industry.
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administrations → wag → industry
From “Buy American” policies, to endless disputes over softwood lumber, to tearing up trade agreements, Washington always puts America first, regardless of who occupies the White House.
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who → buy → House
Remembering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and recognizing of our nations’ shared geography is an emotional distraction that belies a hard truth: the United States treats Canada as a convenient resource pool, not an equal economic partner.
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States → remember → pool
Some may preach “balance” and hope for the arrival of a friendlier face to the Oval Office, but Canada is still getting economically pummelled.
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Canada → preach → Office
Passivity masked as diplomacy isn’t an effective strategy but a recipe for continued U.S. exploitation.
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Passivity → mask → exploitation
We cannot afford to romanticize a relationship that our “neighbour” views as purely transactional.
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neighbour → afford → that
It’s time we stopped waiting for things to change in Washington and started aggressively decoupling our economic future from a protectionist American empire.
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things → ’ → empire
William Perry, Victoria, B.C.
Doubling down on dumb decisions
The Canadian Climate Institute’s report should shock no one.
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report → double → one
By dismantling consumer carbon pricing, abandoning oil and gas emission caps and weakening industrial carbon targets, Ottawa has surrendered Canada’s climate future to the fossil fuel companies.
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Ottawa → dismantle → companies
Spending public funds on pipelines while gambling on carbon capture amounts to doubling down on a dying economic model.
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Spending → spend → model
If we continue down this path, we will be exposed to the unmitigated effects of climate change, even as global trade increasingly rewards decarbonization.
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trade → continue → decarbonization
Canada needs to wind down its reliance on fossil fuels, build a renewable grid with battery storage and accelerate electrification across the country.
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Canada → need → country
We can’t trade long-term survival for short-term political convenience.
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We → trade → convenience
Ray Nakano, Toronto
Make Canada independent again
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Canada → make → ?
The sentiments expressed by Eugene Lang and Bob Rae are unquestionably sincere, but they ignore a bitter truth: America is a superpower, and Canada is not.
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Canada → express → truth
Superpowers don’t have friends; they have interests.
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they → have → interests
Our relationship with the U.S. will be “friendly” until Washington decides such a relationship is no longer in its best interest.
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relationship → decide → interest
U.S. President Donald Trump is unusual only in that he says aloud what previous presidents have been too politic to reveal.
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presidents → say → ?
Small and midsize countries like Canada cozy up to superpowers at their peril, because any deal you make with them — military, economic, political — is a step toward total dependence.
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you → cozy → dependence
This country thrived for 121 years absent free trade with the U.S., and it can do so again.
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it → thrive → U.S.
What happened to “Buy Canadian?”
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What → happen → Canadian
The $750 allocated to every Ontario teacher for the purchase of classroom supplies can be spent only at Staples, a large American retailer with high prices — and this is happening at a time when Canadians are being encouraged to buy local.
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Canadians → allocate → local
How could Premier Doug Ford have made this hypocritical policy decision?
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Ford → make → decision
I understand how Shellene Drakes-Tull feels, and I became misty-eyed reading her opinion piece.
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I → understand → piece
Grieving a loved one is a journey that never ends.
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that → grieve → one
Yet over time, people transition from being overwhelmed by grief toward reconciliation and restoration.
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people → transition → reconciliation
I lost my wife of more than 50 years to lung cancer.
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I → lose → cancer
Our journey through grief began before she died, when we realized that recovery would not be possible.
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recovery → begin → grief
My grief was centred on the prospect of facing an uncertain future without her.
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grief → centre → her
Hers was centred on concern for how I would get by without her, as well as on the fact that she wouldn’t get to see our grandchildren grow up.
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grandchildren → centre → fact
After my wife passed away, I enrolled in a support program in Etobicoke.
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I → pass → Etobicoke
Through this program, I learned that everyone grieves differently, and there is no right or wrong way to go about it.
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everyone → learn → it
I also found that what I was feeling — sadness, fatigue, loneliness, lethargy, indecision, etc. — was quite normal.
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feeling → find → what
I was alive, but I wasn’t living.
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I → live → ?
…and 21 more, not listed.
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