You don’t get onto the front page of the most influential newspaper on the planet by being the West Wing janitor

The New York Times' leak has helped Canada, big time.

Ten days ago, Donald Trump was promising to exclude Canada from a trade deal, and mocking us. Ten days later—and after the revelation in Woodward’s book, and The Times’ account of the resister’s palace coup—Trump cannot afford to lose the few Republican allies he has left in Congress. The moment that leak was published, Canada’s trade ambitions were rescued.Screen capture courtesy of The New York Times

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

September 10, 2018

TORONTO—There’s leaks, and there’s leaks. And then there’s the leak The New York Times got. It was splashed across last Wednesday’s paper, to the extent that the Old Gray Lady “splashes” anything on its front page: “I am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Admi...

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