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International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, Maximum Canada, etc

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    22 Aug 2019

    New edition! New cover! New content! New low price! Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make

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  2. 22 minutes ago

    As much as we enjoy watching the withering humiliation of Trump today, remember: It is important that the entire world see every detail of it, and laugh at him, and see the laughter. In Brazil, Philippines, Hungary, Russia, this little man’s impotence is a democratic instrument

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  3. 3 hours ago

    I mean “on this date in 2000”! I don’t actually know what decade it is

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  4. 4 hours ago

    You know, on this date in 2020, the great majority of Democrats were certain Bush had lost the election, even though Gore had conceded on Dec. 13th. They were more correct than the Trumpites are now—Gore got more votes and arguably won—but by Jan. 21 most had come around to it

    Is Joe Biden the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election via new CBS/YouGov poll: Biden voters: 100% yes, legitimate 0% no, not legitimate Trump voters: 18% yes, legitimate 82% no, not legitimate
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  5. 5 hours ago

    What's also formidable about this is that there has not, by any informed account, been anything rushed or emergency-corner-cutting about any of this -- it's as thoroughly and comprehensively developed and tested as any major vaccine, possibly more so.

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  6. 5 hours ago

    There's really a triple accomplishment: - We got a vaccine within a few weeks (the science part was finished in March, after the virus was sequenced in January) - They thoroughly tested it in a few months - Countries are mobilizing to deliver it to a majority over a few months

    We got a vaccine within about a year Thank you science. Thank you scientists.
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  7. 6 hours ago

    I really want this to be the last time a foreigner like me feels compelled to wake up on Dec. 14 and google “when do the electors vote?”

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    20 hours ago

    “One year ago, I couldn’t even imagine I would have a life like this” - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the most unlikely of revolutionaries. But the face of Belarus’s uprising believes she can topple Alexander Lukashenko in 2021. My report from Vilnius

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  9. 18 hours ago

    This is the greatest ending of one of the four or five best movies of the 2010s

    Finally, the wrenching ending of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A gutpunch set to Julio Iglesias
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  10. 18 hours ago

    Thread re splitting a couple bottles of champagne with Le Carre on the Cornish cliffside and talking daggers and cloaks

    I was lucky enough to interview David Cornwell once at his house in Cornwall. He was magnificent, angry, indiscreet
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  11. 23 hours ago

    Yeah, same deal with mountain cities!

    Replying to @DougSaunders
    Mountains to the west of Calgary have a similar effect
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  12. 23 hours ago

    So if you’re from Toronto or Mumbai or Shanghai or NYC you tend always to know where you are, compass-wise, in that city. But in Berlin or London or Beijing you’re often unsure. Does that correspond to your experience?

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  13. 23 hours ago

    An unproven theory of mine is that people from a city on a large body of water have an innate sense of direction because you always know where North, East etc are with reference to that thing, whereas places on eg meandering rivers (London!) don’t confer that sense of direction

    Okay, survey question: do you remember the cardinal direction or orientation associated with your memories or moments from the past that you can recall?
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  14. 23 hours ago

    It should not surprise you that two countries led by men known for cruel intolerance toward newcomers have managed together to do something awful to hundreds of already traumatized people

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  15. Dec 13

    Actual producer of ICE ROAD TRUCKERS:

    Replying to @DougSaunders @scottalyoung
    It was a pleasure having drive the northern roads on for so many seasons! He's a mensch of the frozen highway.
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  16. Dec 13

    The fact that residential streets generally don’t have shops on them — only on adjoining main streets — is a huge flaw that people have become acutely aware of during the pandemic. This lone one’s at the end of my street. In 1940 there were a dozen on the block

    So much demand for small businesses located in neighbourhoods. Would love to see an expansion of zoning to permit them much more widely as part of covid recovery measures.
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    Dec 13

    The Pfizer vaccine has to be stirred, not shaken.

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  18. Dec 13

    I live in one of those parts of the world where the words marry, Mary and merry are pronounced exactly the same. This makes Christmas music slightly confusing

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  19. Dec 13

    The German COVID restrictions in March-April, in most places other than Bavaria, basically turned every restaurant, shop, convenience store and newsstand into a sidewalk cocktail bar, and walking around drinking became a form of public health. So this will be a big change

    First time in post-war Germany, there will be an alcohol public consumption prohibition between December 16 and January 10 because of .
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  20. Dec 13

    Few people know about my TV show ICE ROAD TRUCKERS

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  21. Dec 13

    2016 is finally coming to an end, but it’s a messy end. The more they disgrace themselves in the final period, the less likely their kind will ever return

    It seems fitting that Brexit and the Trump presidency will end within a month of each other with the same vibe of exhausted nerve-wracking omnishambles.
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