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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A new face for our good neighbor Canada [1]

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Date: 2025-03-10

New York Times:

Banker Mark Carney Wins Race to Lead Liberal Party, and Canada The prominent central banker and investor was chosen in a crucial leadership race amid threats from President Trump. He is expected to quickly call a federal election. “America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Mr. Carney said in his acceptance speech on Sunday evening to an electric crowd of party faithful, directly addressing Mr. Trump’s constant threat that he wants to make Canada the 51st state. “We didn’t ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.’’

That’s a hockey reference, eh?

Globe and Mail:

Mark Carney elected Liberal Leader in landslide victory The former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England won the Liberal Party leadership race handily, with 85.9 per cent of the vote, followed by 8 per cent for Chrystia Freeland, 3.2 per cent for Karina Gould and 3 per cent for Frank Baylis. “The Liberal Party is united and strong and ready to fight to build an even better country,” the 59-year-old said in his acceptance speech.

x Trump says U.S. is close to lifting pause on intel sharing with Ukraine https://t.co/SmZubdkL6c — Axios (@axios) March 10, 2025

CNN:

House Republicans could face a major obstacle if they cut Medicaid: Their own districts’ health needs The House GOP is advancing a budget that could impose major cuts in the Medicaid program that now provides health services to more than 72 million Americans. But dozens of House Republicans represent districts where the share of residents receiving health coverage through Medicaid is greater than in the average district nationwide. And far more House Republicans than House Democrats now hold seats in districts where the share of residents confronting serious health challenges — including diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, breast cancer deaths, cardiovascular problems and a lack of health insurance of any kind — exceeds the average. Those are among the major findings of an exclusive CNN analysis of data collected by the Congressional District Health Dashboard, a partnership between the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

x 💥 BREAKING: A spokesperson from Perkins Coie, the law firm that President Trump targeted yesterday in an Executive Order, messaged me today: “We have reviewed the Executive Order. It is patently unlawful, and we intend to challenge it.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... — Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) 2025-03-07T17:12:01.124Z

Mujtaba Rahman/Twitter via Threadreader:

Some thoughts on the European response to the chaos now emanating from the White House - on Ukraine and more broadly, based on chats with senior European policymakers directly or indirectly involved in formulating the bloc's response 1/ It's clear to me that EU leaders & their most senior officials are clearly seized of this moment. They aren't under any illusions about the risks to Ukraine or European security. US alignment with Russia can do two things: result in panic or focus. Right now we're seeing focus 2/ Making €bn available for Ukraine & the EU's own security & defence is not a sufficient response. But it is a necessary one. So the EU has unleashed national budgets, the EU budget, the EU's borrowing capacity & private capital via the EIB, to enable much more defence spending 3/ Germany has proposed the same thing (no more borrowing constraints for defence, and a €500bn facility for infrastructure). This is in response to risks that *might* transpire in Ukraine & wrt NATO. If those risks actually manifest, an even more forceful response is likely 4/

Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic:

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change. No one should be surprised or insulted by this phrase, because this is exactly what Trump and many who support him have long desired. During his 2024 campaign, Trump spoke of Election Day as “Liberation Day,” a moment when, in his words, “vermin” and “radical left lunatics” would be eliminated from public life. J. D. Vance has said that Trump should “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” Steve Bannon prefers to talk about the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” but that amounts to the same thing.

x This was always the risk with Gabbard and Patel at the head of our intelligence gathering.



We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies.



This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely. https://t.co/KCY5WcDe0q — Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) March 10, 2025

Perry Bacon, Jr/Washington Post:

FiveThirtyEight is gone. Its legacy will endure. Nate Silver’s website suffered because of Trump and changes in political news coverage. FiveThirtyEight became famous for its “forecasts” from founder Nate Silver. But the website (where I worked from 2017 to 2021) was trying to do much more than predict presidential election results. FiveThirtyEight was an attempt to improve and reimagine journalism. I think it succeeded — even though the website is now defunct. ABC News, which owned FiveThirtyEight, this week laid off the site’s 15 remaining staffers. The network had already made drastic cutbacks two years ago, with Silver himself departing back then. We are in the midst of staff reductions throughout the journalism industry. That said, ABC News is not a newspaper in a declining city in the Midwest. If the network wanted to keep the site going, it could have. This decision probably wasn’t just about money.

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