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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 25/09/2026

“Atlantic nation,” “Pacific nation,” “Arctic nation”—Ottawa has long used these labels to signal its foreign policy ambitions and reduce Canada’s dependence on the US. What do they mean today amid fractured US trade relations? ow.ly/4mMF50ZRjxf

On the left: Photo of Prime Minister Mark Carney standing before a screen showing the EU flag and concentric rings of light. On the right: text that reads “Bullied by the US, Canada has a history of reaching out to Europe. The strategy hasn’t always paid off. Will it for Carney? ”

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is why it makes little sense for Canadians to hope that a comprehensive “deal” is possible with the US as long as Trump is president

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Kash Patel's "get to stepping" criticism of Canada is just the latest in an organized campaign by the Trump administration to convince Americans that Canadians are responsible for the fentanyl crisis afflicting the US. For a sample: nossalk.org/2025/05/19/d...

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Die große Lüge: The Trump administration’s drumbeat of claims that Canada is a major source of fentanyl

Although US Customs and Border Patrol data reveal that only about 0.2% of all seizures of fentanyl entering the US are made at the Canadian border ( and although Canada was not mentioned at all in …

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is the latest in a concerted campaign since November to convince Americans that Canada is a major contributor to their fentanyl crisis. Trump, Vance, Navarro, Hassett and now Patel have all “blamed Canada.” Time to start calling it out for the Nazi-style große Lüge that it is.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Trump on the purpose of the PM's visit: “I don’t know. He’s coming to see me. I’m not sure what he wants to see me about, but I guess he wants to make a deal.” A month ago Trump was bragging that leaders were "kissing my ass" in order to make a trade deal. (www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...) /2

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’They are kissing my ass’: Trump says countries are pleading to negotiate tariffs – video

US president says countries are ’calling up and kissing my ass’ over tariff rates

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Trump's interview with Time shows his Inaugural Address promise that the US would again be a "growing nation," one that "expands our territory" and "carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons" is still on the agenda. See my opinion piece in the latest Round Table: nossalk.org/2025/04/25/d...

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Dreaming in Technicolor™? Donald J. Trump and the Annexation of Canada

Just days after he won the 2024 election, Donald J. Trump began talking about Canada becoming America’s 51st state. He has been pressing the case for annexation ever since — in social media posts, …

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

From a negotiating perspective, racing to the White House to offer concessions is not the best strategy. That’s what Trump is counting on, but domestic pressure on him to compromise will continue to intensify, particularly if major US trade partners use this moment to match his tariffs.

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Dear countries hit by Trump's tariffs: Now is the time to retaliate. If you instead start with concessions, Trump will simply pocket them, claim victory, and demand more. He will bend in the face of the economic and political costs at home - and they are now mounting.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Canada’s travel advisory for the US needs to go well beyond the present highly ambiguous “Take normal security precautions.”

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Chief Penguin of Heard and McDonald in the “humiliation chair” (h/t @kevinmilligan.bsky.social)

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Why would Canada want to ‘reward’ the Trump administration with even the perception of acquiescence in continuing through with these purchases? Not a commentary on whether CAF or DND needs these F-35. The perception in DC would be a win. Why would Ottawa ‘give’ them that?

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This Substack needs to go to every Liberal and CPC candidate. Ask why their leaders are making tax cuts the most important campaign issue instead of the annexationist threat — which will require huge tax *increases* to deal with effectively. Make this make sense.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For those who think the way out of the annexationist threat is a renegotiated trade agreement, this by @bhaggart.bsky.social is a reminder that we should just skip this bit of psychodrama, since we won’t be able to trust any “treaty” signed by this admin. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Opinion: Canada’s free-trade agreement with the U.S. has no free trade, nor is it an agreement

Withdrawing from the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement may sound like a radical proposal. It is not. It simply acknowledges reality

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 24/03/2025

At a time when Canada needs MASSIVE investment to transition away from the US, to build new facilities and transpo towards our ports, to rebuild our military, to build HOMES, to rebuild science and post-sec ed... to see the two main parties jump on *tax cuts* for their campaigns is depressing.

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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The UK Germany, Denmark and Finland have issued advisories warning about travel to the US, and Canada should too. We often go to the US in the summer but this year? Forget it, not worth it.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is *exactly* what is needed given the existential threat posed by the Trump annexationist agenda. But our governors need to begin leveling with us: stop pretending that facing down Trump can be done on the cheap. We need to spend seriously on defence; we will need to be taxed seriously…

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

and all those partners in these new negotiations will have confidence that the US will abide by the results, said nobody

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“The specific association of Canada with fentanyl is a big lie that allows Americans to shift responsibility away to a chosen enemy and enter a world of geopolitical fantasy.”

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Blame Canada

Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory

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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Canada, alone. (That is not a lamentation, just a statement of fact).

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Agree 100%. NATO Sec-Gen Mark Rutte surely must be regretting his decision to appear on the “Oval Show” in order to suck up to Trump and have a good laugh — and then have to sit there silently while Trump babbled on about two NATO members: annexing Canada and seizing territory from Denmark.

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 14/03/2025

Piece on F-35 fighter and the dependencies that come with it. ioplus.nl/en/posts/can...

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The real Achilles heel of the F-35 lies in the Mission Data Files (MDF), which are essential to the aircraft's combat capabilities. A 90-strong team at the American Air Force base Eglin manages these electronic combat manuals. Without regular MDF updates, the aircraft becomes vulnerable to new threats. These files contain crucial information about enemy radars and anti-aircraft systems and are indispensable for planning flight paths that are difficult to detect. The lack of a European capacity to produce and update these files makes the F-35 fleet potentially vulnerable to American policy decisions.

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I am seeing the same thing in my time in Berlin and last week's visit to Stockholm. Europe is taking defense more seriously not because they are giving into Trump but because they see the Russian threat more clearly and they can't trust the US to show up if needed.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The reported decision of the Trump administration to cut off upgrades for the jamming systems used in Ukraine's F-16s adds weight to the concern of @bhaggart.bsky.social that the F-35s Canada is purchasing could too easily be "bricked" by an administration that is increasingly hostile to Canada.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So well-deserved! Congratulations, Phil!

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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hard truths that Canadians and the rest of the world have yet to fully register: Trump is waging economic war against Canada and is serious about using economic force to "break" and hopes to eventually annex it. Either we react forcefully to this aggression or fade away as a country.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Exactly right: there is no negotiating with the US — because Trump “doesn’t believe that Canada should exist as a country separate from the United States.”

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

An excellent discussion of Canadian foreign and defence policy options. That is why we need a Royal Commission — to take this kind of discussion to the national level.

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

By continuing to insult Canadians and threaten Canada’s sovereignty and economy, Trump is simply reinforcing the determination of Canadians and their leaders to stand up to him. Also, notice what’s not in this message: anything about fentanyl, the stated reason for these tariffs.

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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"Canada alone" by @kimnossal.bsky.social was rather prescient.

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The anger in this country right now is intense and widespread. Canadians are experiencing Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement as an unprovoked assault and hostile act, which it was.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

And when turning off the taps, remind Americans that their president has said on numerous occasions that the United States needs *nothing* from Canada…

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Srdjan Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Willy-nilly, #ThirdOption is back: “Canada can pursue a comprehensive, long-term strategy to develop and strengthen the Canadian economy and other aspects of its national life and in the process to reduce the present Canadian vulnerability” reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

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Lax Americana | Literary Review of Canada

Barring a massive surprise, the upcoming United States presidential election will be a rematch of sorts: eighty-one-year-old Joe Biden, this time as the Democratic incumbent, versus seventy-eight-year...

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Trump’s economic assault on Colombia is meant as a demonstration project to intimidate. What it’s actually demonstrating is that the United States represents a clear and present danger to every country in this hemisphere. A hostile power. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/w...

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Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights

Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

In this piece, @radiofreetom.bsky.social recalls a 1965 novel about a US president who wants to make America greater than it has ever been; Canada and Scandinavia feature prominently in his plans. Like the fictional President Mark Hollenbach, Trump also has plans to expand the US. ...2

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is @radiofreetom.bsky.social’s advice to his fellow Americans. But it is just as useful for Canadians. For if we Canadians react to “every piece bait he throws in front of [us]” by panicking, we indeed “will lose our bearings.” We shouldn’t fall for the trollery of America First.

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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Some quick trade facts: Canada buys more from the US than China, Japan, France and the UK combined 1/5 of the oil used in the US is from Canada. 25% tariffs could mean a jump of 50 to 80 cents a gallon. US Trade with Canada supports approx 8 million U.S. jobs. That's ten times more than China.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Now is not the time to indulge the fantasy that we will be better off dealing with an America First administration on our own. There is a reason that “safety in numbers” is such a common guiding precept for smaller states in global politics.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Unorthodox times call for unorthodox measures. The threat from the incoming America First administration is profound enough to warrant our political leaders securing a mandate now to deal with that threat rather than waiting until some time next year.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I was hoping that this 2023 speculation on the impact of the return of Trump would become an historical curiosity in November. Instead, American voters have plunged us all into the post-American era.

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