We got US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra on the Playbook Canada pod.
We talk Trump & which Canadian needs to pick up the phone to get trade talks going again
Hint: It's not who you think! 🤣
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This week's episode of the Playbook Canada podcast is out! We talk:
— Mark Miller tests Carney’s rules
— Pipeline/MOU fallout
— And 200-seconds with NWT Premier R.J. Simpson
🎧 or subscribe on Apple/Spotify. Or listen below:
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
On this week's episode of the Playbook Canada podcast:
— The blooming alliance between Mark Carney and Danielle Smith.
— Poilievre's new campaign manager.
— And 200-seconds with @ryanjespersen.bsky.social
🎧 pod.link/1848760192 or subscribe on Apple/Spotify
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
🎧The second episode of the Playbook Canada podcast is out!
🎙️ We talk: Budget, betrayal and bird flu
And a 200-second interview with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne who tells us about his favorite rapper.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
🚨Secret’s out.
Starting this week, you can hear “Playbook Canada” — not just read it.
I’ll be co-hosting alongside @TaylorVaisey
🎙️ The news podcast drops every Thursday morning starting Oct. 30.
🎧 Listen to the trailer + subscribe
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🇨🇦 Today, Ottawa Playbook newsletter relaunched as Canada Playbook.
We’ll deliver newsbreaking, urgent reporting both on Ottawa's political bubble and on the larger crisis in Canadian and North American politics.
👉 Subscribe: ow.ly/KM1l50VNHtZ
White House officials:
“Just another world leader coming to visit. One of many”
“No bells and whistles for the new guy”
“It’s really just to check a box”
Today’s Ottawa Playbook:
→ Why Trump hearts Carney.
→ Premiers vs. Poilievre.
→ Ralph Goodale on diplomatic dignity and the 51st state.
→ A career update from Jonathan Pedneault.
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In February when Pierre Poilievre was holding a rally in downtown Ottawa, Bruce Fanjoy was door-knocking in Carleton.
I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.
Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.
Today's Ottawa Playbook:
→ Donald Trump picks an ambassador to Canada.
→ Randy Boissonnault loses his seat at the Cabinet table.
→ An emerging parliamentary detente between the Liberals and NDP
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
The UN's COP29 climate summit is slowly beginning to wrap up.
Negotiating texts began to drop overnight, but there’s a long way to go, Global Playbook's Suzanne Lynch reports from Baku.
Read today's newsletter for more: www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...
Now outside the paywall:
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
POLITICO's Suzanne Lynch is reporting from Baku, where the second week of the UN COP climate negotiations is in full swing.
Read today's Global Playbook for the full rundown: www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...
I spent a long time writing, and living through, this story about my dad's healthcare journey. It's the most widely read, and consequential, piece I have ever written. Posting it here for anyone interested who may not have seen it. ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-...
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I am now here. Get at me if you are, too.
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Trump’s pick for DOE puts an oil CEO hostile to climate science who favors more fossil fuel production in charge of major energy research programs — and gobs of money from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
You’d be forgiven if what’s going on in Baku at COP29 felt like an alternate reality from the full-steam-ahead nature of Trump’s transition in DC. Karl Mathiesen, Sara Schonhardt, @ziaweise.bsky.social and I break down the split screen on two divergent climate paths.
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
A COP host’s main job is to smooth things over. Ilham Aliyev has other ideas.
The latest from POLITICO’s Zia Weise + Karl Mathiesen in Baku.
www.politico.eu/article/azer...
POLITICO’s Karl Mathiesen on the COP29 split screen between Baku and D.C.
With @zcolman.bsky.social @ziaweise.bsky.social + Sara Schonhardt
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
