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This Week's Round-Up: August 24, 2026 |
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The White House keeps threatening consequences and moving the goalposts. That may be the point
SAMIA MADWAR IN CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA LAWLOR |
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We should expect that this is a start to a new era of trade politics. And I don’t think it ends with the Trump administration. Whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican following Trump in office, I don’t think we should expect to return in full force to that type of stabilized agreement and multilateral trade policy that we have become used to since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
And that is why the conversation around broadening our trade relationships with other countries is so important. Will it ever be a replacement for what has been lost in the departure of our decades of free trade with the US?
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The world’s twelve richest billionaires hold more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined. The forty richest billionaires increased their fortunes by nearly $95 billion in one year, while millions face rising costs and growing economic pressures. At The Walrus Talks The Billionaire Problem, leading thinkers will explore the forces driving the concentration of economic power in Canada and beyond. |
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FROM THE WALRUS LAB IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AGA KHAN MUSEUM. THE MUSEUM WISHES TO THANK NADIR AND SHABIN MOHAMED FOR THEIR FOUNDING SUPPORT OF THIS BEING HUMAN. |
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Finding Belonging Through Sport |
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What started as a single Facebook post became Hijabi Ballers, a multi-sport community reaching thousands of Muslim women across the GTA and beyond.
In the latest episode of This Being Human, Amreen Kadwa shares her journey from Toronto rugby pitches to creating a space where Muslim women athletes can feel seen and supported. She discusses belonging in sport, the unexpected turning point of an injury, and the importance of asking Muslim women athletes what they need rather than making assumptions. |
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Dome Doom
In “The Emperor’s New Dome” (May), why does Peter Jones even consider Trump’s demand for Canadian participation in his proposed ballistic missile defence system? Why relinquish our sovereignty to a country that regularly rejects multilateralism when the chips are down, from the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to the UN—a country that bullies us economically and threatens annexation? Banning ballistic missile defence is foundational to arms control because it allows nuclear antagonists to establish deterrence at the lowest mutually acceptable number of offensive weapons. The alternative is a perpetual race to overcome opposing defences, a catastrophic acceleration of hair-trigger instability that endangers us all.
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Bruce Dodds
Benito, MB
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