Trump issues final Aug. 1 tariff rates, ups duties on Canada  | InsideTrade.com 🤔 we got the same rate as Serbia but less than Switzerland (39%) Meanwhile Brazil gets 10% 😖 insidetrade.com/daily-news/tru…

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugma… I'm more convinced countries are ragging the puck - small (significant) concessions while stalling on deeper/wider negotiations in hope of tariff reversal in courts. After 1st first day hearings, I see reversal of global, but not fentanyl tariffs

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New coffee shop in Maple Creek, Sask!!! 😻😲🤯

These Are the Voters Who Should Scare Democrats Most nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/… “Stop being friggin’ old,” said Cinnamon Boffa, 57, from Langhorne, Pa....she supported Mr. Biden in 2020 but voted only down-ballot last year, lamenting that “our choices suck.”

bbc.com/news/articles/… Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons Packed up and ready to go Heard of some grave sites out by the highway A place where nobody knows

Jeffery who? 😒 Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/…

I’m with him on this, kicked more than a few myself. Stone Stacks Litter Pristine Trails. A Grumpy Hiker Is Kicking Back. nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/…

Thin margins? CD$12 mil/yr for CEO? Bottom line, if u can pay competitive salary for CEO u can pay workers. If not, shouldn’t be in biz. & Warren Buffett begs to differ about investing in airlines cbc.ca/news/canada/wh…

cbc.ca/news/world/app… Yep, near-sighted, farsighted, everyone saw this coming at 1st hearing. School of Public Policy has brief written by Tim Meyer on what IEEPA case means for Canada. Should be out in a week or so.

⁦School of Public Policy⁩ ⁦Alberta U.S. Office⁩ ⁦Canada in Denver⁩ ⁦U Calgary⁩ ⁩ ⁦LeedsBusinessSchool⁩ ⁦Martha Hall Findlay⁩ ⁦Kelly Geraldine Malone⁩ ⁦Neil Moss⁩ ⁦ChrisVarcoe⁩ ⁦Danielle Smith⁩ linkedin.com/posts/christop…

William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize Charlie Kirk as a kindred spirit No. He would not. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… Carney's Mexico trip: what's success look like? It looks like having as good a trip as Danielle Smith, repairing damage from having thrown Mexico under the Trump bus & shoring up cooperation w/out alarming the Americans that we're shoring up cooperation

Trump announces new tariffs on trucks,furniture, pharmaceuticals Gave talk 2 ⁦United Conservative Party of Alberta⁩ caucus & ⁦Danielle Smith⁩ on 232 tariffs *yesterday*. preparing modelling ⁦School of Public Policy⁩. Hit for AB on most 232 tariffs will be small washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

One review done well and done right but not done forever. One set of changes and modifications. Then build. Period cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Hundreds gather on ⁦UVA⁩ Lawn to insist that the Board and interim president not sign onto Trump’s corrupt ‘Contract’ for colleges. Unfettered free speech matters at Jefferson’s University.

University of Virginia declines Trump deal for priority federal funding washingtonpost.com/education/2025…

First note on Substack, the new Milk in bags, blog substack.com/profile/386837…