Robin MacNab @RobinMacNab

Canadian Foreign Service Officer 1971 - 2015. RTs of news on international affairs, technology and other subjects. Waterloo Region, Canada Joined March 2009

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Gabriel Miller 🇨🇦 @gabrielbmiller

12 hours ago

Without homegrown leadership in #AI and quantum innovation, Canada risks delays, disruptions and dependence on foreign solutions. In my @TheHillTimes op-ed, I explain how Canadian universities are already driving breakthroughs, and why stable research funding and stronger…

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Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot

8 hours ago

Canadian gold production has doubled since 2010, which is pretty great given record high prices are being hit every week. I believe at least the last five mines that started production in Canada were for gold, which is not considered a critical mineral.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing

2 days ago

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk,…

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Peter MacArthur @AmbMacArthur

3 days ago

“Strained U.S.-Canada relations have led to falling Canadian interest in buying American properties, a trend that is intersecting with a cooling U.S. housing market.” Especially in Florida & Arizona…

National Post @nationalpost

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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋 @emjanerothwell

2 days ago

‘Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.’ —F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs

2 weeks ago

“The darkest scenario is that we end up back in sort of a Hobbesian state of nature where every country is doing their own thing at the expense of the others, driven by domestic pressures and politics.” foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/world…

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David Mulroney @David_Mulroney

22 hours ago

The decline of the UN spectator.co.uk/article/the-de… "Guterres presents himself as a statesman, but in truth he is an old-fashioned European socialist with all the expected traits: endless preaching, no moral courage, and a fondness for rewarding loyal friends with plum jobs..."

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Chatham House Africa @AfricaProg

2 weeks ago

🇸🇩 If pro-democracy civilians are to prevail over men with guns, various civic groups must do more to unite in a broad civilian front anchored in shared principles, writes Rosalind Marsden on the war in #Sudan ahead of the #UNGA for @ChathamHouse chathamhouse.org/2025/09/why-en…

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Nicholas Coghlan @NicholasCoghlan

2 days ago

Cautiously impressed, after only two days of proceedings, by the trial of ex-VP Riek Machar et al in #SouthSudan on treason charges; and the defence appears much better prepared than the prosecution.

Ezekial Garang Arol @ezekialgarang

2 days ago

Cautiously impressed, after only two days of proceedings, by the trial of ex-VP Riek Machar et al in #SouthSudan on treason charges; and the defence appears much better prepared than the prosecution.

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Nicholas Coghlan @NicholasCoghlan

2 days ago

"There's a broad civilian front - it just doesn't look like what we expected." An important perspective on the war in #Sudan by a 🇨🇦 who knows both Sudans better than most @mishmishjuba sudantransparency.org/a-broad-civili…

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Robin MacNab @RobinMacNab

8 hours ago

A superb piece (gift article) from David French: Why MAGA Evangelicals Can Cheer Love and Hate at the Same Time nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opi…

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Alan Watson @DietHeartNews

17 hours ago

@alexstubb Finnish President Alexander Stubb is pushing to send European “peacekeepers” to #Ukraine. Stubb said, “It doesn’t matter if Russia is against the proposed security guarantees - because Russia has no say in the sovereign decisions of an independent nation state.” If that had been…

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Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen

a day ago

BREAKING: Oklahoma State Superintendent @RyanWalters_ just announced that every single high school in the state will now be required to have a Turning Point USA chapter. Ask yourself: how would the right react if a Democratic superintendent forced every school to host a Black…

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Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot

2 days ago

All they had to do was express support! The bar was so low. Now do oil! “The game changer has been the change in tone from the Canadian government. It's been read internationally, and we've really seen a ton of interest on the LNG side.” energyintel.com/00000199-6257-…

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

2 days ago

ABC says Jimmy Kimmel will return to its airwaves tomorrow, ending an impasse that began last week and touched off a furor over the Trump administration's attacks on media institutions. @koblin nytimes.com/2025/09/22/bus…

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Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot

3 days ago

Don’t let anyone tell you BC LNG doesn’t create new jobs, boost GDP, increase revenues or support Indigenous development ✔️$1064/hour productivity 👀 ✔️$6.1B spend with 2,250 B.C.-based companies ✔️13.6% with Indigenous suppliers ✔️$14B BC GDP in 2024 capp.ca/en/media/b-c-n…

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Thread Reader App @threadreaderapp

3 days ago

@MilesTaylorUSA Your thread is going viral! #TopUnroll threadreaderapp.com/thread/1970150… 🙏🏼@PatrickDowns for 🥇unroll

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Dr. Vin Gupta @VinGuptaMD

3 days ago

Ahead of tomorrow’s big “medical breakthrough” announcement tomorrow on Tylenol use during pregnancy causing Autism, it’s not true. Another example of this admin cherry picking data from years ago, ignoring the best research, and then claiming they are white knights.

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Rick Petree @RickPetree

3 days ago

Reading between the lines: the implication is that @CarolLeonnig may have been working on the Homan story while still at WaPo and that she left because WaPo management didn’t want to publish and risk blowback from Trump regime. If so, more evidence that Bezos kowtows.

Ryan Grim @ryangrim

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Acyn @Acyn

4 days ago

Angus: Now, the other thing that’s concerning me is you’re freaked out that we’ve politely talked about a trade war. Well, here’s the thing: your president, Your president, Donald Trump, says lumber from Canadian mills represents a national security threat. Now, I looked up the…