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This Week's Round-Up: June 29, 2026 |
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Know your leverage, stay patient, don’t fold too early
BY FEN OSLER HAMPSON |
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The memorandum of understanding United States president Donald Trump cobbled together with Iran’s leadership may seem far removed from Canada’s negotiations over the future of the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement, or CUSMA.
However, the Iran deal, hastily concluded under intense economic pressure, offers clear lessons for Ottawa.
For Iran, its Trump card was its control over the Strait of Hormuz. Canada’s leverage in the CUSMA negotiations is different but no less substantial. It lies in our critical role as a supplier of intermediate goods and commodities to the US economy. Canadian steel and aluminum are embedded in American cars, airplanes, missiles, beer cans, and nearly everything else that requires these inputs.
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Submit Your Pitch for the Mansbridge Essay |
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The Walrus is partnering with Peter Mansbridge to launch a new $5,000 essay program supporting emerging writers in Canada. Writers in the first five years of their career are invited to pitch original reported essays for publication in The Walrus. |
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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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The Art and Evolution of Arabic Typography |
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When Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès moved from Beirut to the United States, she found herself explaining a visual culture that many people had never encountered. That experience sparked a lifelong exploration of Arabic typography and design.
In this episode of This Being Human, host Mai Habib speaks with Dr. Smitshuijzen AbiFarès about her exhibition Inner Structures, Outer Rhythms, the history of Arabic letterforms, and how contemporary graphic design in the SWANA region carries forward a rich artistic legacy. |
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A History of Violence
On the same day that my letter carrier delivered the March/April issue of The Walrus with its blazing cover, “The Untold Story of the Deadliest Mass Shooting in Canadian History” by Lisa Banfield, a young woman in Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia shot her mother and half-brother, went to the nearby high school, and shot an educational assistant and five students before turning the gun on herself. Over 100 Americans are killed by bullets every day. The United States’ fascination with firearms and its normalization of gun violence, which shows little sign of abating, must not spread here.
Michael Cox
Vancouver, BC
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