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

May 19, 2025

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 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg93nn1e6go), and although Canada was not mentioned at all in the annual threat assessment of the US intelligence agencies (https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf), there has been a persistent drumbeat of claims from … More Die große Lüge: The Trump administration’s drumbeat of claims that Canada is a major source of fentanyl

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

April 25, 2025

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, in interviews, and in speeches. He has posted a bizarre AI-generated image of himself on a mountain range with a Canadian … More Dreaming in Technicolor™? Donald J. Trump and the annexation of Canada

Donald Trump et la désintégration de l’Occident

April 4, 2024

À bien des égards, le rassemblement d’une heure vingt de Donald Trump qui s’est tenu à Conway, en Caroline du Sud, le 10 février 2024, ressemblait à ses évènements précédents. Trump a débuté en félicitant les dignitaires républicains locaux présents dans l’assistance. Il a ensuite saisi l’occasion de réciter son poème préféré, « Le Serpent », sa parabole « signature » … More Donald Trump et la désintégration de l’Occident

Are Canadians ready for the return of America First?

November 22, 2023

Donald J. Trump is the leading contender for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. There are six other candidates who are also seeking the Republican nomination at the party’s convention in Milwaukee next July, but Trump leads the field by margins of up to 50 points. Only three of the other candidates can poll between 5 and … More Are Canadians ready for the return of America First?

Back to the past? Canada and a not-so-new world

November 16, 2019

Keynote address to the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), Montréal, 14 November 2019 Let me begin by thanking Chris Kirkey and the Centre for the Study of Canada at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, the sponsors of this ACSUS lunch, for asking me to speak to you today on Canada … More Back to the past? Canada and a not-so-new world

The organic nature of Trudeau’s feminist foreign policy

January 31, 2019

When Justin Trudeau and his ministry was sworn in on 4 November 2015, considerable attention was paid to the gender equality of his first cabinet: fifteen men and fifteen women, the first gender-equal cabinet in Canada’s history. Trudeau’s pithy response when asked why he had taken this step — “because it’s 2015” — drew equal … More The organic nature of Trudeau’s feminist foreign policy

Playing the hostage card: Meng Wanzhou & Michael Kovrig

December 13, 2018

On 1 December, as President Donald J. Trump and President Xi Jinping were meeting in Buenos Aires to discuss a mounting trade dispute between the United States and China, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, deputy chairwoman and chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. of Shenzen, was on her way from Hong Kong to Mexico City. … More Playing the hostage card: Meng Wanzhou & Michael Kovrig

The “Trump cession” and the dismantling of American hegemony

November 12, 2018

President Donald J. Trump has radically disrupted America’s place and role in global politics, accurately fulfilling the compelling characterization by The Economist of the 45th president as an “insurgent” inspired by a “demolition theory of foreign policy.” Some of the disruption has come from Trump’s bizarre and never-before-seen personal diplomacy. After all, we just don’t … More The “Trump cession” and the dismantling of American hegemony