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Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney must show force in the Arctic to ward off Trump’s designs

If there was any doubt that U.S. President Donald Trump is operating outside all norms of law and common sense, he put it to rest this week with a letter to the prime minister of Norway. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump wrote. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.” Read More
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Raymond J. de Souza: The big, not-at-all-beautiful first year of Trump 2.0

President Bill Clinton is a Democratic establishment figure now, but he rose in the 1980s as a kind of insurgent “new Democrat.” In 1990 he became, while governor of Arkansas, president of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of partisans promoting a more centrist, less liberal approach, the Democrats having lost five of the previous six presidential elections. Clinton himself won in 1992, a new Democrat from a new generation, and began reshaping his party in his image. Read More
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Chris Selley: Carney will regret embracing the gun buyback

If the Liberal government in Ottawa is proud of its “Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program”— the long-discussed gun buyback program — then it has a very odd way of showing it. Governments often dump news they’re not happy with late on a Friday, the Friday of a long weekend, if it's really bad, in hopes of attaining minimum media coverage. The Liberals went one better this time around and announced the buyback program’s official launch in Montreal on Saturday, and while Prime Minister Mark Carney was occupying most available reporters with his unabashed supplications to China and Qatar. Read More
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J.D. Tuccille: Greenland is an economic basket case that Trump doesn’t need to ‘own’

President Trump insists America’s strategic security depends on bringing the icy island of Greenland under the American flag.There are a few problems with his plan. First, treaties with Denmark already allow a U.S. military presence in Greenland. Second, acquiring Greenland would burden the U.S. with political and economic obligations to a welfare-dependent basket case of a territory. Third, Greenlanders want to be American even less than they want to be Danish. And then there’s the stress placed by Trump’s latest tantrums on already frayed relationships with our allies.  Read More
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