Donald Trump’s nonsensical threats are an attempt to distract from his own country’s self-destruction
At first, Trump’s comments threatening to turn Canada into the 51st state seemed like a cruel joke. Surely, calling Trudeau the “governor” of “the great state of Canada” was just a bullying tactic. But Trump’s bizarre barking has started to feel legitimately menacing. What if he does want to annex Canada? The incoming U.S. president appears to be in an imperial mood, with all his talk of buying Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal. At Maclean’s, we had two questions: could Trump actually invade? And if yes, what would that look like? So we asked Stephen Marche, a Canadian writer and the author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future,to map it out. His spirited essay on the topic is somewhat reassuring: Marche argues that the U.S. is too weak and divided to conquer anything. “America has come off of 70 years of failed imperialist adventures,” says Marche, “in which it discovered it couldn’t hold on to Afghanistan or Iraq or Vietnam or anywhere else.” But his essay is also chilling. Marche warns of four more years of wacky, scary rhetoric from Trump, whom he calls “a rage-attention machine.” He reminds readers that destabilizing outbursts is how Trump rose to power—and how he’ll keep it once he’s president again. “He has to keep the world afraid of him, because the moment that stops, his power collapses. He is attempting to spread loathsome anarchy everywhere, not just here.” Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Emily Landau, executive editor, Maclean’s |
In malls, restaurants and factories, a robotics revolution is sweeping the world—but Canada is struggling to integrate the tech into its own economy. “Canada already has the talent in technology and AI to build robots that can navigate city streets and the wilderness and interact with people in stores and restaurants,” writes McGill University robotics educator Ajung Moon. She believes this is the moment for our country to embrace those talents and show the world what responsible robotics looks like. |
In the coming months, the Liberals will struggle to rebuild their reputation and voter base, while Pierre Poilievre will likely take over the PMO and grapple with a disillusioned electorate. In the midst of all this turnover? A new Trump presidency. Here’s everything you need to know about the state of politics in Canada this year. |
Canada’s cannabis industry, once a jackpot of potential, has come crashing down. Seven years after Justin Trudeau legalized recreational pot, investors have lost some $131 billion amid regulatory snags and bloated valuations. To find out what went wrong—and how a few got lucky—Toronto journalist Ben Kaplan gets into the weeds of the industry, spotlighting figures like “patient zero” Terrance Parker, who fought to legalize medical marijuana; Stephen Harper, who fervently opposed recreational cannabis use; and Bruce Linton, who co-founded Canopy Growth, North America’s first federally regulated cannabis producer. (It traded on the TSX as WEED.) |
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