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Derek DeCloet

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Executive editor for Canada at Bloomberg News. Opinions are mine; likes are often bookmarks. Facts matter. Work email: ddecloet@bloomberg.net Also: decloet@protonmail.com

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Just like every Wednesday

03.12.2025 23:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really? Wow

01.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The 2025 news cycle

01.12.2025 23:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Secret US-Russia Talks Led to Peace Plan That Blindsided Ukraine The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind...

Here’s the full story

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

23.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Remarkable sentence in a remarkable story

23.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

You are not alone in this!

20.11.2025 01:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Saskatchewan with the ball on its 54-yard line!

17.11.2025 01:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Go Riders!!!

17.11.2025 01:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ha! I didn’t know that

17.11.2025 01:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was very disappointing that Ottawa didn’t stick with that name

17.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Americans tuning into the Canadian football championship game are so confused right now. #GreyCup

17.11.2025 00:14 — 👍 116    🔁 10    💬 17    📌 3
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The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.

16.11.2025 23:53 — 👍 698    🔁 163    💬 42    📌 26
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Trump: I can’t take a ranting lunatic’s call every day.

15.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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"Short days ago..." #LestWeForget

11.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 56    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
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A World Series game was played here nine days ago

10.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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63% of Americans believe tariffs are making inflation worse; 58% believe they’re hurting the US economy

09.11.2025 20:33 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Same tree, three photos. Oct 13, Oct 26, Nov 8. 🇨🇦

08.11.2025 14:19 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

And what about if that occurs at the same time as the job market for young people turns sour?

07.11.2025 00:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Over/under was 83.5 on Bet365, I believe

06.11.2025 22:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am watching a TV documentary about sports gambling addiction. The show went to commercial, and during the break there were two ads from online betting apps.

06.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 152    🔁 27    💬 11    📌 4

This 👇

02.11.2025 04:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It turns out there is crying in baseball

02.11.2025 04:34 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who else is stress-cleaning their homes right now? #BlueJays

01.11.2025 23:06 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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One more game. Let’s go Blue Jays.

#WorldSeries

01.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m going to guess that’s the first time ol’ Ross had a tweet viewed by 500,000 people

30.10.2025 03:55 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

All I want for christmas is for Max Scherzer to come out on the field tonight, unhinge his jaw like a python, and physically consume the Los Angeles Dodgers. please baby jesus, i'm not asking for much

27.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 312    🔁 29    💬 14    📌 1
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Trump’s Ballroom Fundraising Taps Cash from Crypto, Tech Allies President Donald Trump is constructing a $300 million White House ballroom with the force of a political campaign, tapping his former campaign finance director to raise money for the high-profile but ...

“This is the pay-to-play room,” said Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer under former President George W. Bush. “These companies want government contracts and regulatory concessions.”

Gift link

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

26.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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An important point about trade expectations: Even if Carney and Trump negotiate a trade deal, 80% of Canadians don’t believe Trump would stick to it. That’s what public opinion looks like in Canada.

25.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Trump’s No. 1 Canadian Enemy: Doug Ford Relishes Antagonist Role The premier of Canada’s most powerful province — and arguably the country’s most successful politician today — has gotten under Donald Trump’s skin again.

There’s the Ontario ad on the FOX World Series broadcast. Mid-7th inning.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

25.10.2025 02:53 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

How on earth could the government of Ontario get ad time on the World Series broadcast with all the airtime devoted to selling GLP-1s?

25.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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