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@justinling.ca
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Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@JustinLing Signal: JustinLing.42

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27m
From the team that brought you AI John Cena Who Sexts Your Kids comes a profoundly bad new way to hoover up your data.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 28/09/2026
NEW DISPATCH: When the going gets tough, legitimate opposition is needed more than ever. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/good-leade...
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Good Leaders Need Candid Friends
Legitimate opposition spurs innovation, even if it irks
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From @justinling.ca who sat in on some of the foreign policy focus groups, a similar caution If anything, Canadians want to engage more with the world now. They don’t want to hunker down and focus on ourselves www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: Mark Carney may appeal to vast swathes of the country, but there are some things about Canadians he doesn’t seem to get
Rather than merely address global policymakers and CEOs, the prime minister needs to talk to more everyday voters.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
The Bulwark community has raised more than $100,000 for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, which is helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs. If you’re able, please consider donating.
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The Bulwark Community Stands With Springfield
Over the past year, we’ve been telling you about what is happening to Springfield’s Haitian community, and about the extraordinary people there who have stepped up to help their friends and neighbors through an incredibly difficult time. Now we’re asking the Bulwark community to step up with them. We’re raising money for the Haitian Support Center, which is on the ground in Springfield helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 25/09/2026
The deal over Greenland shows that Europe is still trying to placate Trump, even as readies for a world without America. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: Europe has to choose: Bend the knee to Trump, or join Carney’s new world order
The decision should be pretty clear. Unfortunately, Europe doesn't seem ready to make it.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/09/2026
Israel has banned two major Arab parties from running in the upcoming elections. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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Election panel bars Arab party Ra'am from running in October elections | The Jerusalem Post
The CEC's decision is temporary pending a ruling from the Supreme Court.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/09/2026
Macron says Russia is getting ready for a significant mobilization, and may launch more (semi-)clandestine strikes on Europe. www.lefigaro.fr/politique/en...
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EN DIRECT - Emmanuel Macron estime qu’il est «possible» que la France soit ciblée par une tentative d’attaque russe comme celle à l’aéroport de Leipzig
Le président de la République est interrogé ce jeudi soir au journal télévisé de TF1 et France 2. Il a déclaré que la Russie est «en train de s’organiser» pour mobiliser 300.000 hommes dans la guerre ...
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/09/2026
Le Pen got a $10 million Russian loan, which was instrumental in getting her party to where it is now.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 23/09/2026
Sometimes you come across a paragraph which you wish could be an entire book. (From "The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg: Poet, Philanderer, Legislator and Outlaw" by Francis Wheen)
Two months later, on 13 September, Tom was transferred to a corner of the paper where his social contacts could be exploited more often - as assistant to Colonel Percy Sewell, author of a daily column of social chit-chat called "The Talk of London'. He was at last given a proper contract of employment. His salary was raised to seven guineas a week.
Sewell was a lonely, mysterious, melancholy figure. He believed that every man is born with a fixed number of orgasms in his body and that when you've come this number of times you're finished sexually'. In spite of their differences of opinion on such matters, Tom and the colonel liked each other. (According to Tom, one rumour advanced to explain Sewell's hangdog demeanour was that he had fallen irrevocably but unrequitedly in love with a lesbian.) Sewell would spend most of his afternoons on the golf course or at the races, leaving Tom to fill whatever space was left.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 23/09/2026
Canada's employment rate is up 1 point over last year. The unemployment rate (graph below) is pretty static. Below the toplines, Canada is seeing a surprising boom in manufacturing.
Trump Truth Social post: "Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the Country, essentially unchecked and unvetted, and who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle. It is a Liberal takeover that will end very badly. Already showing up in their numbers. Big unemployment. ‘Oh Canada! President DJT"Chart showing ~23,000 new jobs added in manufacturing in AugustChart showing unemployment remaining statistic through 2026, but trending down
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 22/09/2026
Trump, at the UN, just thanked the proud nation of Cassakistan.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 21/09/2026
The Donald Trump: The U.S. is working on a “major deal” to buy Belarusian potash! Eat shit, Canada! Lukashenko, hours earlier: Belarus has no potash to spare for Western markets, “even if we wanted to.” news.zerkalo.io/economics/13...
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Лукашенко заявил, что Беларусь не смогла бы поставить на западные рынки калий, «даже если бы захотела»
«Насколько я информирован премьер-министром и правительством, нам удалось переориентироваться на восток. Свидетельством тому являются переговоры с американцами».
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 21/09/2026
The AI doomerism being pushed by the tech oligarchs is meant to reinforce the idea that AI is inevitable, unstoppable, and impossible to regulate. But it's not. It's just going to require that we go back to global cooperation, hard as it may sound. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: It’s the nuclear bomb of the 21st century. This is how we can control it
Reining in AI will take international co-operation.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 20/09/2026
Oh, this is a big deal. www.vanguarddefence.ca/p/canada-for...
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Canada formally applies to join UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force
Canada is moving from observer status to membership in a rapid-reaction defence pact built around the North Atlantic, Baltic and High North
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The worst place ever I've been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali immigrant, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week.
Sakariye is a 22 year old asylum seeker who had work authorization. He was driving a truck for work when he was
arrested in Alabama last year."I TOLD HIM AT THE TIME TO STOP WORKING, BECAUSE ICE WAS ARRESTING EVERYONE," SAKARIYE'S COUSIN TOLD ME.
BUT SAKARIYE REFUSED.
"HE BELIEVED ICE WAS LOOKING FOR CRIMINALS."
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 17/09/2026
Over the last two weeks in Europe, I heard lots of solidarity around Trump's threats against Canada — and painfully little recognition that the American president is an existential threat to Europe, too. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: On his latest trip abroad, Carney needs to warn Europe: Trump is coming for you next
During my own recent Euro trip, I kept meeting people terrified by the U.S. president's autocratic turn yet blithe to the threat he poses to them.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“European leaders have utterly failed to explain to the voting public just what is at stake. Irate voters, meanwhile, are turning to Trumpian figures and their magic-bean promises…” Lots worth reading in this from @justinling.ca in @thestar.com.
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Justin Ling: On his latest trip overseas, Carney should warn Europe: Trump is coming for you next
During my own recent Euro trip, I kept meeting people terrified by the U.S. president's autocratic turn yet blithe to the threat he poses to them.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 15/09/2026
The MAGA line continues to be that America needs to seize Greenland to protect against Russia. But listen to the actual advocates for the neo-colonial plan, and it's clear that they want to take Greenland *in order to better cooperate with Russia.* www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"How would you describe the vibes when it comes to the United States?" Bad Vibes: 79% Good Vibes: 13% Pollara / Aug 13, 2026
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"How would you describe the vibes when it comes to Canada?" Good Vibes: 62% Bad Vibes: 28% Pollara / Aug 13, 2026
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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 08/09/2026
@justinling.ca on the trade war as an information war and what Canada might hope to accomplish is worth your time.
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The Game Theory of a Trade War
How do you win a trade war? Let’s find out
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Day 1658 of this terrorism being inflicted on an innocent country. Ukraine is fighting for its life & the lives of every one of its inhabitants. Just hours ago, this happened in Kyiv, a western-looking, freedom loving, European capital city. This may come to you soon. Today's🧵
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 08/09/2026
Absolutely damning reporting here, from @haaretzcom.bsky.social. Worth reading the entire thing. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 07/09/2026
"Witkoff and Kushner essentially said that after Russia's State Duma elections, Russia would allegedly become more willing to negotiate, and that in this context preparations should be made for a fresh start to the negotiations." You rubes. You Russian assets.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 06/09/2026
❗️The Kremlin signaled it has no intention of abandoning its military goals in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. Kremlin-linked sources said Putin is ready to end the war only on his terms and that Moscow's demands are getting tougher because it believes it holds a military advantage over Ukraine. #Ukraine
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 04/09/2026
Today, at the Dutch Resistance Musuem, I learned about Freida Belinfante — all around badass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_...
After the liberation, resistance fighter Frieda Belinfante returned from Switzerland, to which she had fled. She was a self-assured lesbian woman, but now she felt lost. "You didn't hear a word about the resistance fighters who had risked their lives. People iust did their thing: earned money, built a life for themselves. It was a harsh wake-up call."
Like many members of the resistance, Frieda had hoped for a greater sense of community after the war. "We thought everything would be better, including politically, but nothing had changed at all." Disappointed, Frieda emigrated to the United States, where she achieved success as one of the few female orchestra conductorsPhoto of a woman I'm a suit and tie, smoking a cigarette
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 03/09/2026
nigel farage's keyboard
Its a keyboard missing most of its keys, but there's a big red BREXIT button
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/09/2026
the full quote from which the headline was drawn… “You’re going to have crazy things happening, like men in women’s sports will never end. None of this stuff—transgender will never end, open borders, they’ll open the borders” … even by the conventions of Trump’s patter, this is chilling
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Donald Trump says transgender people will "end" if GOP keeps Congress in midterms - LGBTQ Nation
The Fox host he was talking to didn't push him to explain what he meant.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Guys stop dooming they definitely won't send ICE to polling locations. That won't happen. Stop talking crazy
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 02/09/2026
We need to keep shouting this from the rooftops: Trump's trade war are backfiring spectacularly. There is no reason for any country to capitulate. Europe: Lookin' at you, because you're next. Fs, Fs, Fs across the board from @justinwolfers.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/platypus...
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Did Trump’s Tariffs Achieve Trump’s Goals?
I didn’t grade the trade war against an economist’s ideal. I graded it against Trump’s own promises.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 31/08/2026
Quitting Twitter and Facebook has to become an imparative for Canada. (and, obviously, everyone else.) www.thestar.com/opinion/star... Gift link: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: It’s time Canada logged out of tech platforms owned by Donald Trump toadies
If our institutions acted, they could hasten the ongoing exodus from services peddled by allies of the Trump administration.
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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Did not think I’d be reading about the Hanseatic League over breakfast but there you go. @justinling.ca
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The Game Theory of a Trade War
How do you win a trade war? Let’s find out
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 01/09/2026
What can economic theory tell us about winning a trade war? It tells us that solidarity means more than GDP. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-game-t...
bugeyedandshameless.com
The Game Theory of a Trade War
How do you win a trade war? Let’s find out
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 31/08/2026
Quitting Twitter and Facebook has to become an imparative for Canada. (and, obviously, everyone else.) www.thestar.com/opinion/star... Gift link: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: It’s time Canada logged out of tech platforms owned by Donald Trump toadies
If our institutions acted, they could hasten the ongoing exodus from services peddled by allies of the Trump administration.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 28/08/2026
I had a real fun time talking to @rte.ie's Behind the Story podcast about the state of our deeply stupid trade war. www.rte.ie/news/2026/08...
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Podcast: Canada goes 'elbows up' over Lake Ontario
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged that Lake Ontario will continue to be called by that name, after US President Donald Trump said he was renaming it as 'Lake America'.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
I'm off on vacation for the next 2.5 weeks. I'll be flying across the American Ocean to Old America to visit French America, NATO-America, America (With Canals & Pot), Wienerschnitzel America, and (the temporarily occupied) Viktor Orban America. I'll be back in America Loft in mid-September. Bye!
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
donald trump just posted a video of him writing "LAKE AMERICA" on a map of Lake Ontario, and he he didn't even end the video with "Lake America Great Again" tbh i think he may be slipping
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My latest on yesterday’s order in the mail-in ballot/voter list case is up! sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...
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Conservative Majority Shows Its Hand Again in Mail-In Ballot Case
Civil Rights & American Democracy
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 25/08/2026
Dril tweet that says: and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 25/08/2026
Donald Trump has been bragging about the big, beautiful icebreakers America is building — but he's getting them thanks to a Canadian company. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: Mark Carney just showed Trump why, actually, the U.S. does need Canada
Canadian icebreakers are just one example of the U.S. needs not just Canadian know-how but also manufacturing and materials.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 25/08/2026
Peter Navarro, Trump's trade ghoul: "They're running an Iranian 'hate the Americans, death to American alcohol.' They just keep it out of their stores and that's not right....So this is a dangerous game I think Canada's playing." oh no, whaddyagonna do, lose a war against us?
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/08/2026
I'm glad I got to nerd out about icebreakers.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 22/08/2026
Donald Trump overplayed his hand. The cost of this trade war is going to be brutal — and he can't count on the solidarity needed to get through it. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: Donald Trump’s war on Canada will fail — just like last time
The clarity around Donald Trump’s true intentions is a strategic asset for Canada, Justin Ling writes. We know now, with no ambiguity, that he wants our capitulation.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/08/2026
I'm in Lévis, Quebec this morning, where Prime Minister Mark Carney is announcing six new icebreakers, part of a major new project to equip the Canadian navy to patrol the Arctic. (This is genuinely very exciting.)
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Our people are tired of being afraid, of hiding in bathrooms and corridors, waiting for the worst. So today, we celebrate life, our flag, our city, and our freedom. ​These are our people, who live and work under constant threat of death, the never-ending drone buzz, and regular explosions.
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