Happy Fourth of July, America! We’re in this hostage drama together

History has made us friends. Geography has made us conjoined twins. And Donald Trump has made us co-captives.

While U.S. President Donald Trump has made the Canada-U.S. relationship status complicated now, maybe one day both sides will look back on this and not laugh but at least smirk ruefully, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

July 4, 2018

Dear America, Happy Fourth of July! I just want to start by apologizing for all those passive aggressive #CanadaDay tweets implying that being Canadian is better this year because we’re not being held hostage by a madman. First of all, that sort of unseemly schadenfreude goes against ev...

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