A debate over fighting tax evasion versus protecting personal privacy looms large for Canada as it prepares to announce a deal with the United States to share banking information. The arrangement would allow Ottawa to soften the blow for Canada – and the roughly one million Americans who live here – when it begins complying with the more controversial aspects […]
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Canada protected from U.S. snooping thanks to cozy intelligence relationship
Canada’s close intelligence-sharing relationship with U.S. spy agencies appears to have spared it from the type of intrusive surveillance that has prompted outrage in Germany, France and other European Union nations. But the bigger question, says one leading intelligence expert, is whether Canada is snooping on its supposed friends and allies as well. European leaders have expressed indignation after media […]
How aboot that Obamacare! Why health reform won’t turn us into Canada
My job at the Washington Post is to write about health policy, which on most days is fantastic. Except for today: It’s Canada Day! I mostly just want to write about our neighbors to the North (and my home and native land). Consider this piece a bit of a compromise. It’s a chance to explore a burning question I’m sure […]
When the U.S. doesn’t need Canadian oil – The Globe and Mail
Could it be that a keystone belief and a bedrock of prosperity in Canada might disappear over the next two decades?For a long time, it has been assumed that whatever surplus oil and natural gas Canadians could produce would be gladly purchased by the United States. “Pump it and they will come” has been an underpinning reality for Canada’s economy. […]
Canada and America – true BFFs | Avenida América
Canada and the U.S. are friends. Not just NAFTA friends with mutual Bieber Fever but true BFFs these days (Border Friends Forever). So much so that they’re sharing intimate secrets in ways they never did before. They tell one another absolutely everything these days and are always by each other’s side. They’re not quite besties like Europe, but they’re close. […]
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