Robert Wolfe

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

🧵 ⬇️ on claimed benefits of Brexit

It's a new era for reckless adventurism. Not less of it, just in a different location.

Why Jared Polis Wants Democrats to Campaign on Free Trade After years of trying to have it all ways on tariffs, Democrats are uniting in opposition to Trump’s global trade war.

If this story about Democrats is right, suggests that the domestic politics of trade in the US are so scrambled that Congress might be unlikely to agree… 2/2
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Why Jared Polis Wants Democrats to Campaign on Free Trade After years of trying to have it all ways on tariffs, Democrats are uniting in opposition to Trump’s global trade war.

general assumption is that forthcoming USMCA “review” will be painful for Canada and Mexico. But does that imply that the treaty will be amended? and does that imply a need for Congressional action? 1/2

Yay! My book chapter ("Emerging into the Light: Fossil Fuel Subsidies at the WTO") — which explores the pathways that have brought fossil fuel subsidies to the WTO, progress made by the forty-eight WTO Members of the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform (FFSR) Initiative through March 2025, ...

I was in 🇨🇦 OECD delegation for 4 years, later wrote a study on it for the department, then book chapters... and I learned never to assume that even government people knew what it was, or why it was important. Force fed it to my policy analysis students for years.

Pushed by Trump, Canada enters a new era of economic nationalism The U.S. President’s ‘America First’ economic vision is pushing Ottawa to reach for a Canada First toolkit – one that would have been inconceivable a year ago

Trump's America First economic vision is pushing Canada to follow suit, reviving a kind of economic nationalism not seen since the 1980s. I unpack the risks, trade-offs and opportunities of #Carney's new 'comprehensive industrial strategy' #cdnpoli #cdnecon
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Respected economist Ammar Siamwalla passes away at 86 Ammar Siamwalla, one of the country’s most prominent and respected economists, who specialised in agricultural and development economics, passed away today at the age of 86.

Sad, sad news. Dr Ammar was not well-known outside Thailand except among specialists eg @ifpri.org, but he was a major influence on my career: ag and rice economics, even GATT and the Uruguay Round, and much more. I owe him so much.

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Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

@coppetainpu.bsky.social @vaaranpa.um.fi you'd first have to explain what it is

Carney to meet with Trump in Washington next week as Canada seeks tariff relief This will be the Prime Minister’s second trip to the White House since taking office this year

Carney to meet with Trump in Washington next week as Canada seeks tariff relief

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Balfour Mount, who revolutionized end-of-life care, died at palliative unit named in his honour | CBC News Mount devoted his life to caring for others and alleviating suffering. In interviews, his family and colleagues remembered him as both deeply compassionate and as a fierce advocate for the humanity of...

Dr. Balfour Mount, who coined the term "palliative care" and whose profound empathy helped revolutionize health-care in North America, died peacefully at the palliative care unit that bears his name. He was 86. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

Look, I have my criticisms of Obamacare. But you can't say this stuff for 10 years now and, whenever you're asked what your concrete alternative is, keep saying "oh, we'll announce that two weeks from now, and you'll really love it". Either you have a plan or you don't. (They don't).

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

Yes. I mean, Hegseth *has his job* because of preferential treatment by identity.
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Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

Canada’s industrial carbon pricing system is a mess. Here’s how Carney can fix it It was barely a system at all when he took office, but since then, the nationwide patchwork has only gotten patchier

@aradwanski.bsky.social correctly identifies one of the key probs w/ Canada’s industrial carbon pricing: too many credits. This is not just a Canada problem, its endemic to cap and trade. “Fixing” carbon pricing is a lot harder than it seems. 🧵

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Members advised to suspend WTO fish subsidy talks, as a handful hold out Despite overwhelming support for his draft, departing chair Gunnarsson sees little chance of quick agreement as a few members drag the talks backwards

On Sep 30, the US repeated its objection to the current draft in the @wto.org fisheries subsidies talks known as Fish 2. It did not say what its objections are, but the US is understood to be seeking an outright ban on distant-sea fishing.

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Thousands of jobs at risk in Africa as US trade deal expires A major US-Africa trade deal, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), will terminate as scheduled on Tuesday, ending duty-free access to U.S. markets for thousands of African products

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), established by US President Clinton in 2000, expired yesterday at midnight. For 32 African countries, (even more) uncertainty now looms over #tariffs, exports, and jobs.

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Once again, Trump is threatening tariffs on films made outside the US, claiming that other countries have "stolen" business from the US movie industry. Yet, how would these tariffs work? Ingo Borchert explains: www.uktpo.org/2025/05/07/b...

#InternationalTrade #US #TrumpTariffs

I think you have the wrong spin here. First, the story merely says that the government might change the way it allocates EXISTING access for US dairy. Second, dairy is a small part of our domestic food supply. Canadians would not want to eat only Canadian food, especially in winter.

I was just amplifying/endorsing your obvious sarcasm

don't think so

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals!

Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

and not in a good way