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Robert Ready

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Retired Cdn dip/trade negotiator. Currently Exec Director https://canadacaribbeaninstitute.org/ Posting about Canada's international relations, politics and the Caribbean. Posts mine. Curate Flipboard Mags @ Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@notready?from=s

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BREAKING: U.S. to Ask Grenada for Permission to Deploy “Military Assets” — Diplomatic Sources Reveal Strategic Manoeuvre Just 100 Miles from Venezuela St. George’s, Grenada — In a development that could redefine security dynamics across the Eastern Caribbean, multiple diplomatic insiders have told Times Caribbean that the United States is preparing ...

This will be a huge mistake if Grenada complies with this request.
timescaribbeanonline.com/breaking-u-s...

09.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

07.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 965    🔁 362    💬 62    📌 46
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Great Lakes governors stand with Canada ahead of Carney's high-stakes meeting with Trump | CBC News Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro blasted U.S. President Donald Trump for his "tough-guy" approach to Canada after a meeting Monday with some provincial premiers in Quebec City.
06.10.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump close to deal that would spare U.S.-assembled vehicles from tariff costs WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is considering a modification to expensive automotive tariffs th...
04.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Marineland says it needs money from Ottawa or its belugas will be euthanized | CBC News Marineland, the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont., says it is rapidly running out of money and it urgently needs financial support from the federal government or it will have no choice but...

Bad news just keeps coming...

03.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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
03.10.2025 22:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Carney to return to Washington to meet Trump on trade talks — The Canadian Press Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in
03.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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U.S. ambassador says Washington has to 'take a look' at airport pre-clearance, citing drop in Canadian tourism | CBC News U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said Washington may need to reassess airport pre-clearance as part of an at-times tense exchange during a forum with Canadian business leaders in Banff, Alta., ...

I am sure that taking away pre-clearance for Canadians flying to the US will do WONDERS for the 25% drop in tourism. So much genius at work here.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

26.09.2025 01:23 — 👍 252    🔁 65    💬 33    📌 6
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U.S. ambassador says Washington has to 'take a look' at airport pre-clearance, citing drop in Canadian tourism | CBC News U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said Washington may need to reassess airport pre-clearance as part of an at-times tense exchange during a forum with Canadian business leaders in Banff, Alta., ...
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Prime Minister Carney announces new trade agreement with Indonesia – Canada’s first-ever bilateral trade agreement with an ASEAN country To that end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, welcomed the President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, to Ottawa today to announce the new Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (...
24.09.2025 23:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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China to forego Special and Differential Treatment in future WTO negotiations The move was hailed by the WTO's director-general. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
24.09.2025 01:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big Aspirin must be behind all this.

22.09.2025 22:29 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Canadian politicians, experts push back against U.S. ambassador's anti-Americanism concerns | CBC News Canadian politicians and experts are pushing back against U.S. ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s frustration over the anti-American sentiment he’s seen in Canada after U.S. President Donald Trump hit the wor...

Well said Flavio Volpe

20.09.2025 20:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Data investigation: Childhood vaccination rates are backsliding across the U.S. A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of deadly diseases. St. Louis is a window into the problem communities face nationwide.

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

15.09.2025 22:07 — 👍 1223    🔁 690    💬 74    📌 128
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Forgotten Toronto: How the city's founding dog almost got eaten by his owner — and led to the birth of Yonge Street — Toronto Star How a near-death adventure for Toronto's founding dog paved the way for the city's most iconic street.

If you need an interesting dog story to distract from the doom scrolling…

19.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with anti-American sentiment in Canada | CBC News The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country, including from politicians, after U.S. President Donald Trump hit most of the world wi...

The fake crocodile tears of this guy is amazing…like his master, he has no shame.
The only other option is he knows little or nothing about Canada and Canadians.

19.09.2025 00:45 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief I came across a long read article in The New Yorker (a bit dated...it's from July) that paints a vivid picture of Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce. I have to say it confirms many of my previously held views of the man, and of the administration he serves. ... In “The Art of the Deal,” Trump’s ghostwritten business-advice memoir from 1987, he observes, “Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry.

Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief

I came across a long read article in The New Yorker (a bit dated...it's from July) that paints a vivid picture of Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce. I have to say it confirms many of my previously held views of the man, and of the administration he…

18.09.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canada to launch CUSMA consultations after U.S. ambassador says bigger deal not in the cards | CBC News Canada is expected to announce it's launching formal consultations on the CUSMA trade pact within the next week, after the Trump administration kicked off its own review.
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U.S. to begin public consultations on USMCA trade pact The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is up for review next year
16.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the Rings
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U.S. targets China’s grip on global ports in sweeping maritime mission By Reuters U.S. targets China’s grip on global ports in sweeping maritime mission
16.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Venezuela Gamble Could Devastate Regional Security As US President Donald Trump reportedly weighs military strikes in Venezuela, his administration is risking heightened regional tensions.
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USTR has opened the comment period for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report re: foreign trade barriers, deadline October 30 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17782.pdf

15.09.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Mexico trip kicks off globe-hopping travel season for PM Carney National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

Mexico trip kicks off globe-hopping travel season for PM Carney nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/15/m...

15.09.2025 19:15 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Channel 4 to Mark Trump’s U.K. Visit With “Longest Uninterrupted Reel of Untruths Ever Broadcast on Television” 'Trump v the Truth' will run for several hours on Sept. 17 and is set to be punctuated by "brief text-based fact-checks."

how britain will be welcoming trump this week
“trump loves making history, so on wednesday channel 4 will do just that.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

15.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 131    🔁 31    💬 8    📌 3

Reichstagsbrand 2025

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White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.

Top Trump officials used Charlie Kirk’s death to threaten liberal groups, making unsubstantiated claims about a “domestic terror” movement.

15.09.2025 19:43 — 👍 478    🔁 247    💬 168    📌 91

Stephen Miller was directly involved in one of the largest acts of organized domestic political violence the United States has seen in modern times, the Jan 6 insurrection. Any news org that doesn't make this fact central is helping Miller deceive its customers.

15.09.2025 19:54 — 👍 2958    🔁 1011    💬 135    📌 39
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Trump says U.S. has struck another alleged drug boat from Venezuela | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. military has carried out another strike against a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel that had been on its way to the United States.
15.09.2025 20:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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